Umm.. I'd like to see my discs play?
Gamers buy consoles because they cannot afford gaming PCs. What makes you think that they are going to double their investment, for some indie PSN titles, because an expensive ($300+) accessory merely exists? Without any show-stopping experiences, it doesn't matter how many indie demos and mini-games there are.
VR is notoriously difficult to get behind without experiencing it. I honestly don't think Oculus will have an easy time of it, either -- by the time VR succ...
The hands on with Move were always very positive as well. They need good software to make it succeed.
Already Oculus has Minecraft and Elite going for it, along with the typical load of indieware. Sony has nothing other than gimmickware and a small subset of the indie titles that Oculus has.
They better bring it cheap, if they are going to succeed. People are not going to fall for the $300 headset + $100 Move controller pair trick, if there is no software ...
Okay, I believe VR will eventually succeed, but imagining that a $300 headset, with the equivalent of a GTX 750 Ti / R7 360 GPU can compete with a zillion headset options for gaming PCs with way meatier GPUs is just plain stupid.
VR will succeed on PC, first. It'll just be a gimmick on consoles, and Morpheus will tank, unless Sony allows their headset to be used on PC (which they won't).
Rendering stereo.. at 60-90 Hz.. at 1080p.. without deferred re...
Yay, 30 fps racing confirmed as "selling well". Publishers can bank on that for the future now.
Is that a good thing, really? I hope publishers *don't* take Drive Club as an example to follow, personally. If every racer comes out at 30 fps, so the publishers can cash in early, I'm gonna not bother with the genre any longer.
Sony owns a free continuous physics engine called Bullet, and have been trying to get people to use it on Sony platforms for years. I can imagine this Havok purchase will help that effort, somewhat, although I don't imagine a lot of Sony studios are super happy about it.
Bullet is good... for being free, if you get my meaning. Kinda like Eclipse is a good IDE... if you don't have Visual Studio.
I'm not sure why people feel excited about this. I still have my PS2, and I'm pretty sure I'm not paying Sony to play games I still have for it, or that I could buy used. The displayed title is obviously NOT a disc game, which means they're gonna make you buy it again.
Now if they bring PS1 support to the PS4, that's a whole different story -- I'd be stoked because I already own like 20 PS1 games on PSN. If they want to charge me again, though... no...
I think he actually got most of the money. When I say most, I think that means like 95% or more. I could be mistaken though.
Disagree with me all you like, but...
Minecraft seems better off under Microsoft control.
Yep, I said that. TBH, the creators did nothing but sit on their tails and sell Minecraft toys while they were in control. Now, at least, the game is moving forward again.
Ashes of the Singularity is nearly out -- enough to run DX12 tests on pre-release benchmark versions. AMD runs the same or better (than nVidia) under DX12, if you don't compare price points. If you compare price, AMD destroys nVidia in that game -- we're talking like 60-70% improvements here, on similarly priced cards.
There were some articles about it last week on Ars Technica, Anandtech, and Tom's Hardware, iirc.
DX12 is a "low-level" version of DX -- i.e. it strips away a lot of the driver cruft, and lets devs work in an environment closer to AMD's Mantle API. This is why the AMD cards shine in DX12 tests -- they are, and always have been, good cards. The drivers have just always sucked.
Take away 90% of the driver, via DX12, and AMD is lookin' pretty good.
...with absolutely no change in hardware, and DX12 still down the road, I'd say that's nothing but awesome.
Actually looks kinda good.
Yes, it is!
FIFA is a total ripoff of this game we call "soccer" here in the US. Even the balls and player hairstyles look the same.
Then they go all fictional with it, where soccer is some sorta popular sport all over the world, and fills entire stadiums and stuff, though. All that snazzy hair, and guys wearing shorts and sporty shirts.. yeah pretty wierd. They even have the gall to call it "football", which is clearly another, much mo...
I wonder if the price hike isn't partly to support PS3 gaming going forward?
In any case, it'll be worth it. Even if they hike the annual price to $99, I'm in.
Yep. I'd gladly pay $100/year for PS Plus (or XBL Gold).
We're paying more now, because this PS Plus experience is way better than the others? Lol.
Seriously though, be happy about paying more to Sony -- this basically means we're not going to see any more PS Plus months like this one (which sucks). They need the money to pay publishers to put up AAA games for free on PS Plus -- stop complaining about it, and enjoy the results.
Also, I can pretty much guarantee that 1&3 months in Europe won't be t...
Wow. The entitlement of the modern gamer. You only spend $40. If you really want that DLC (most people don't care), you got couple bucks left over to spend.
The PS4 has FAR less potential for a price drop than the PS2 did, due to the rapidly slowing rate, and hugely increasing size reduction expense, of semiconductor tech.
It will very likely never drop below $299.99, and that won't be until a 14nm APU can be manufactured cheaper than the 28nm version -- sometime past 2017, according to both TSMC and GF, where the chips are made.
...however, the PS4, for the very same reason, is bound to have a very enduring...
Why would they ask "which ones do you want?" if they didn't mean through PSN download?