Naughty Dog is a few minutes drive from Hollywood.
They hire professional actors, screenwriters, mo-cap folks, etc.
And then, they make games that are, quite frankly... not really games, like an open world game is a game, more "interactive experiences". In other words, they design to their strengths.
It's not a surprise they make the great games that they're known for. As a counter-example, Jak & Daxter was not a...
"I figure it'll come down to whichever headset has the first truly 'killer app'"
Minecraft is coming to the Rift pretty soon. If the GearVR version is any indication, Sony better get MS to put Minecraft on PSVR sooner, rather than later, if they want to have a killer app.
Minecraft is an older game, but it's perfect for VR -- honestly its the only game on GearVR I can stand for more than 15 minutes -- I can play 'til the pho...
$5000 pays for how many people to work, for how long?
Minimum wage in California: $10/hr (because, of course, game devs get paid the same as people who work at Walmart and McDonald's)
$5000 / $10 == 500 hours of work.
...say there are 10 guys working on it (lol, at minimum wage)...
500 hours / 10 == 50 hours.
So... that's a little over a week of having 10 Walmart employees make a game. ...and of course they do...
Semantics?
Kudos to Sony for providing an option for those of us who want to get the most out of our consoles, and out of PSVR.
You don't want one, don't buy one. Your PS4 will keep running just fine. You can even PSVR on a regular PS4... I don't see what the issue is? Why should the rest of us suffer, because some folks choose to be the lowest common denominator?
Care to elaborate, with actual logic and by refuting individual points?
...said the PC elitist! ;)
I can almost guarantee the PS4k experience will be superior. Remember the PSVR supports 60 Hz + 60 Hz reprojection, or native 90 Hz, or native 120 Hz.
I can guarantee (from experience) that native 90 Hz is superior to 60 Hz + 60 Hz reprojection, and that's probably what the PS4k will provide over the normal PS4, along with possibly superior AA -- which is exactly the graphical issue the article complains about, and exactly what a bigger GPU could resolve without otherw...
I have a great PC (FX-8350, which is lame, but I do have a 980 Ti), but I don't like to use it for gaming (I use it for hobby VR development). I have a Rift, as well.
I just like livingroom console experiences better -- I would spend $1000 on a console, if it was worthy (no console is worth that, obviously). The trouble with PC gaming is kb + mouse, which I can only stand for top-down RPGs and strategy games. Controller support in PC games is just... never very good....
I am totally re-buying my PS4 (Neo) for this game, because I can afford it. That's a first-world problem I just plain don't intend to have. I needed a Blu-Ray player in another part of my home, anyway.
I wonder how most folks will feel about it, though. You could probably put together a gaming rig superior to the PS4K for less than the price of PS4 + PS4k. Kind of lame that Sony will be creating this "console middle class", in the eternal PC master rac...
Ps4.5 will be a 14nm chip. By the time it can be affordably fabricated at 10nm, and price reduced, there wont be enough hardware left to make a ps5. It stops at 7nm folks.
PSVR works with the PS4... kinda like nVidia supports the Oculus Rift on a GTX 750 Ti, right? 'cause you can run with that setup...
So um.. what games does it emulate? I'm gonna guess... a couple early Unreal titles, and some PSN games. In other words, nothing that makes use of the SPUs...
I'll tell (the author) why it wont be more powerful: Moore's Law is broken, and has been for years.
There aren't cheap chips available to make a console that would both appeal to Nintendo's prime demographics (parents, buying a console for their kids), and best the PS4/XB1, in terms of power.
Economics is the reason. A pretty damn good one.
I actually like this game a lot more than most MOBAs. It's a lot like XTrek/Netrek, which literally all MOBAs can call an ancestor, including DotA, and it's ilk.
No one can compete with the big boys, so the genre suffers from a lack of competition and innovation.
Football used to have a lot of cool competition -- Front Page Sports Football, Mike Ditka Football, etc. Then Madden took over. Now it's just Madden, and it's engine-sharing offshoot, NCAA football. No one could compete, and now the genre is a monopoly.
Call of Duty -- yep, it's a genre monopoly. No one else can make enough money to justify th...
Sony never provides AAA games on the PS4, only on the PS3, and even then less often than Microsoft does with the XBox One/360.
It's a matter of choice, not value, per se, as the AAA games are often older "diamond in the rough" types games, and the indie games are not AAA, but are usually newer, quirky, and pretty cool.
If you prefer great games made by big studios in your library... GWG is the clear winner. If you prefer a great indie selection...
The problem is that the bundle is not required. =(
What a terrible time to shutter a studio. July is when other Sony studios get their budgets for new hires.
Any talent at Evolution that Sony would want to rehire will be gone by the time any of their studios can afford to hire them. Same thing happened with Zipper and Sony Liverpool, as they were shut down (in March 2012) to make Q4 look good, rather than at a time where they could recover the talent. All that talent scattered to the winds... actually most of it went to Bu...
I use my Vita primarily for playing PSP games. I sold off my UMDs and bought digital whenever I could, back in the day -- admittedly I bought a PSP Go, and that's why I did it then, but I'm pretty happy now.
Still have my Go, too. Got the TV adapter for it -- it's still pretty awesome, frankly. Sadly, was ahead of it's time.
It still amazes me that Sony made a handheld that stands up to the 3DS, in terms of game visual quality, back in ...