ZoyosJD

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SteamOS. Shaving $100 off that gaming pc while improving perfomance.

Sweet.

4532d ago 18 agree11 disagreeView comment

Wii Sports was bundled with 80 mil wii consoles. GTAV is (will be?) the highest selling individual game ever.

4532d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

@DragonKnight

It's dependent on the game. It seems to work more often with SP games that aren't graphically or HDD intensive. With games like Dark Souls that have persistent online I wouldn't expect to be able to use the feature.

4535d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

The 4k blueray format hasn't been defined for consumer grade equipment yet. We may need entirely different hardware for 4k blue rays when finalized.

Both Xbone and PS4 support HDMI 1.4 which is good for 4k at 30hz. Neither has confirmed HDMI 2.0 support yet, but Sony already has a 4k digital movie downloading service.

It may be biased, but not without reason.

4542d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

What's wrong. Where to begin?

price/perfomance ratio is half that of dektops

terrible heat dissipation

pain in the *** to replace anything

I had one and the cpu fried, replaced that and the HDD failed. Had to disasemble the whole thing the second time and the hinge on the screen bent. Biggest pain in the *** i ever had with a piece of tech.

Haven't spent more than $500 on a laptop since.

4546d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

Gaming laptops...ugg.

You'd best keep those settings on very low.

4546d ago 3 agree3 disagreeView comment

I paid $180 for mine new last November and it came with AC liberations.

The official MSRP is $200 right now.

These new ones will be cheaper and add a gig of internal storage, but lose "dat OLED screen".

The additional gig of memory is meh as you will use more and need a card anyway. The OLED screen is beautiful.

I'd say that is a good price particularly if the memory card is of decent size.

Th...

4546d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

The GTX 880 and Radeon HD 9970 (October release likely) are expected to have ~40-45% power increase over a GTX TITAN due to the shift to 20nm production.

In other words BF4 maxed out @4k ~45-50fps on a single GPU for those that want to avoid micro-stutter.

4550d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

The connectors and cables remain the same, so essentially any HDMI 1.4 device that can handle the bandwidth only requires a firmware upgrade to use 2.0.

http://www.hdmi.org/manufac...

Still, don't expect everyone to be putting it to use anytime soon, as the only TV currently announced to use it is $6000, and the majority of the better known brands will still be priced o...

4550d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

About time. I'll finally be able to get a tv with a standardized port for my PC and future consumer electronic devices. Been waiting for what feels like forever. Now for a quality TV to hit the sweet spot in price.

4551d ago 2 agree1 disagreeView comment

You're exactly right. There was a custom university developed liquid cooling solution developed for stacked chips of this comparable wattage.

The result of stacking two chips of that size and only air cooling them would result in an approximate five fold increase of heat retention.

4553d ago 11 agree4 disagreeView comment

"3D platformer with 20 worlds that takes 30-40 hours to beat."

Knack?

"Something similar to Pokemon, but obviously with original ideas"

Try Ni No Kuni if you haven't. I still have to pick up my copy and I'm already hoping for a second.

"Creative games - Like Little Big planet, but much much better"

A 3D LBP would suffice.

"Games with colorful, clean ...

4553d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

The Hawaii card (9970) specs were rumored as practically double a 7970

"20nm chip has 4,096 Stream Processors, four geometry engines, 16 SPUs, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs and a GDDR5 interface of 512 bits"

I expect the GTX 880 to be along the same lines.

If these cards really are on the 20nm process expect ~40% improvements over a Titan on both sides

The rest is down to release date, slight differences in power, price, and...

4553d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

I was thinking vita version, but even then it still looks a little under par.

4586d ago 0 agree1 disagreeView comment

A decent HDD would hardly be a limiting factor and with optional backgroud installs the disks will never really have to be in use. Of course they do have worse preformace as they fill, becoming very noticable around the last few gb.

Load times should be non-existant with any decent dev. We are talking more data avalible on RAM than numerous entire 7th gen games.

4591d ago 0 agree1 disagreeView comment

The 8000 series was just a rebrand. Essentially all OEM in fact. The 9000 series on the other hand is extpected to intoduce the 9970 as a ~8.2 tflop single gpu card with a timeframe set for october.

If you are only playing at 1080p a card like that would be overkill.

4593d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

Kettle black much.

The numbers you referenced are outdated, and just as much speculation.

I don't need to pull figures out of my ass to see that Sony made a business move to remain competitive.

If they were really making as much revenue as XLG do you really think they would add the paywall when their competitor has this exact same measure implemented while providing fewer games(which some have noted as temporary)?

It...

4594d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

It is a decent point, but no one can entirely predict what will be on PS+.

This creates a deturance for many, especially those who are regularly interested in what it offers.

If it didn't offer anything of interest, people wouldn't invest in it.

Regardless of some of the positions taken by members like yourself, there will be subscribers on that tight budget accepting everything that is thrown at them willingly.

4599d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Those figues are largely besides the point. It's the difference in revenue that matters.

"23" million by $60 is a whole lot more than whatever profit Sony has managed to squeeze out of PS+.

4599d ago 0 agree3 disagreeView comment

Thanks for the feedback.

I thought about expanding upon this, but it gets nuanced and opinionated fairly quickly. My general point was there, so I just stuck with that.

BTW, the Vita example is great, as I am practically in the same boat, except I do have some games that interest me, particularly a few RPGs.

Do you think that, in any way, the vested interest you have in physical games on the PS3 compared to your Vita might have had an impact ...

4600d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment