Because people would like to see Nintendo at their best for a change.
Being real BoTW - outside of allowing players to climb practically anything - offered literally nothing new. The story was also basically non-existent the world empty and quiet outside of some small battles with a few AI at a time. The world wasn't really even THAT large, but it was pretty big for their first real foray into a 3D open-world game (unless there's something I'm forgetting).
@Doink
And @T1125P
While it's true that 3D audio is not new. Raytraced audio is new. Most games already have simulated sound distortions for various things as well as multi-channel surround or stereo surround sound that works by treating one object as a specific sound source and applying audio filters to specific sounds around the player and in fact simple ray casting techniques may be deployed to check for obstructions between the player avatar and sound objec...
Raytraced audio may allow for as many channels as your hardware can support.
On consoles that might have will undoubtedly have an upper limit, but when PC gets its head in the game that can literally translate into infinite upgradeability...
Or you can just use a great pair of stereo headsets and the game will dynamically pump sound into those two channels based on player position, direction, speed relative to any given array of sound sources and distance to any s...
Headsets can't tell you where things are in a 3D space if the software pumping sound to the set doesn't know where things are.
Seriously how do you think this stuff works? PS5 raytraced audio is something developers typically already implement in their games but is never really able to be experienced due to limited audio channels and support for dynamic audio mixing. Many sounds you hear in most games are prerecorded or synthetic sounds playing back at preset volume...
I remember playing WipEout Pure on PSP and was utterly stunned by Studio Liverpool's epic use of that systems admittedly weak speakers... Then I put on headphones!
Now imagine a system that actually treats individual facets of the virtual space like real world objects... I'm pretty sure Sony will deliver exceptional results.
Oh and I tried Dolby Atmos on PC using headsets... I was not impressed by it. I was really expecting to be but I just didn't hear ...
Really some decent internal SSDs still set end users back about $200USD on Amazon right now!
So I'm very skeptical of your ability to buy a new run of the mill SATA SSD. 2TB NVMe drives still cost over $350USD on Amazon right now.
Again NVMe or a potentially even faster possibly proprietary solution is what the article is talking about. If the rumors of such proprietary solutions turn out to be true your new SATA III SSD might be too slow to load in game assets...
I can agree with the outcome but I don't agree with the cause at all. Humans didn't jack the climate up in fact while our emissions rose 720% since 1968 the world's CO2 concentration rose only 299%. Anthropogenic CO2 seems to make up about 3% of the 400-ish PPM of CO2 in any given sample (which is determined by measuring carbon 14 concentration). Yeah we can't do anything to stop any potential climate shift because we didn't start it. Remember when the ice caps started to ...
Polygon already wrote a PS4 is destroying the world article about a month ago...
Some gamers care about the environment but most gamers seem to recognize that climate change the way The IPCC and Greta Thunberg see it just isn't happening. The observational data backs us up which is why NASA spent years and probably a few hundred thousand dollars to bend those figures to show a noticeable warming trend. It's not just the US every country with few notable exceptions are targeted to cut carbon emissions sharply... Not China or India or The Middle East or African nati...
My microwave uses more energy in five minutes than a base model PS4 and my monitor use in roughly 3 hours time and Microwaves are pretty energy efficient or so I've read.
@Prince-Ali
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/d ata/uscrn/products/monthly01
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/...
The data is manipulated to show warming by NASA their paper on the homogenization process for GHCNv4 data is here: https://journals.ametsoc.or...
It's all garbage trying ...
Oh, how I wish I could say the same.
These progressive types will stop when the world has been sucked completely dry of that little known thing known as "Fun."
The only thing that is better is image quality. Most effects and LoD are all paired back and the overall resolution is also much lower.
The game looks cleaner, but overall it still looks worse.
@rainslacker
What are you talking about?
Enthusiast PC gamers are a tiny fraction of the PC gaming market and knowing the history of Microsoft's flight simulators this software will likely still run on some pretty weak sauce PCs. The game is slated for release on Xbox One that means my PC will likely be able to run it at 60FPS even if it's 30hz on the base Xbox One machine. My PC isn't exactly top tier given I picked it up 2 years ago and there've been major ...
Being real I don't think either company would be ok with that. Especially if PlayStation is thinking about reentering the mobile handheld space at some point in the future.
Also it's not like PS4 Remote Play would be a selling feature for Switch though PlayStation also wouldn't want to encourage Switch sales. PlayStation and Nintendo might not have hardware in the same competitive space but the company's are still in competition and for that reason I don't think ...
@Xavi4K
Yeah all the other PS Network features hit Android before iOS. Though as a whole Android usually gets stuff after iOS.
Hm... maybe it was in some Sony TVs?
Then again my parents have a Sony Smart TV and the feature never existed in that device it did have PS Now and I was there when they updated it which removed PS Now.
What phone?
Honestly have to agree it was their most memorable and cherished in my book and it was actually competitive in the hardware arena, sales arena, and software library even though at this point Nintendo was probably still fixing the market.