As game worlds get more complex and realistic you're gonna need more realistic methods of input from the user. Controllers just won't cut it for much longer; if you want games to move forward into settings on increased virtual reality then technology such as Kinect is exactly how that's going to happen. You sound stuck in your ways in an industry that is anything but - the controller has had thirty years of success, but very nearly run its course now.
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As game worlds get more complex and realistic you're gonna need more realistic methods of input from the user. Controllers just won't cut it for much longer; if you want games to move forward into settings on increased virtual reality then technology such as Kinect is exactly how that's going to happen. You sound stuck in your ways in an industry that is anything but - the controller has had thirty years of success, but very nearly run its course now.
I may be stuck in my ways, and I'd love to be proven otherwise, but for me at least, I'd much rather do the conventional way of playing games, seated and with a controller in my hands. I personally wouldn't want to be walking around my room, doing the actual movements while playing the games. Never been much of a fan of those games that you have a gun shooting at a screen, and you're physically aiming. We'll see how they progress with the gaming industry and what new technologies they'll have 5-10 years from now when they're planning the next gen systems, but I don't think they'll scrap controllers altogether and aim at a hands free virtual reality thing.
I reckon the the new kinect will be good for the new UI. Searching for stuff on the 360 is a pain in the arse using a controller. Using your voice for that stuff sounds cool. But I can't see any practical use for it in games, that's were it comes across as a pointless gimmick. Overall they have fecked up putting it in the box. It still should be optional, having an £80 difference in price at launch is huge.
My issue with this Kinnect business is that they've started really going down that route before fully exhausting all possible options in regards to working on actual gameplay. I'd gladly accept a complete halt in the progression of graphics, technology, etc for 10 years if it meant that the quality of AI, character development, voice acting, storylines, etc were improved at a good rate. Reading over the Last of Us thread hits the point home: a great game in people's eyes with good graphics and an engaging story, but with AI that doesn't notice your companion walking right before their eyes.
Definitely not opposed to change and would never want a static gaming industry, but there are so many series out at the moment that are already declining in key areas without there being further emphasis on other things.
Definitely not opposed to change and would never want a static gaming industry, but there are so many series out at the moment that are already declining in key areas without there being further emphasis on other things.
It will just be like the voice thing on your phone, cool for a day when you first get it but you will never bother to use it long term.
Anyone know what the reason of the huge price difference between the consoles in USA/Canada and Europe/England is? The ps3 is $399 both in usa and in Canada, but in Europe its 399 euros. Always struck me as strange that, given that 1 euro is around 1.3$. Doing the math makes the ps3 in europe 525$. A bit excessive to say the least IMO. Even more so for the xbox.
No free movement of goods, so they can charge what they want. Supply and Demand. Everything is worth what the buying we pay for it. Etc.
No they are not, the system does it, developers don't need to even think about it other than providing some meta-data to map the controls to Vita (which does not have clickable sticks not L2 and R2).
Just read that Micro$hit has changed their retired policies about used games, region locked and 24 hours online check. Good move by them which seemed to be inevitable.
Anyway, I think that people should stay by their principles and personally there is no chance that I will get it. They fecked big, they should suffer big. It's not a move cause they 'listened' to us, but cause we didn't bought their console. And who knows what they will plan to do in the future. It's a big No for me.
Anyway, I think that people should stay by their principles and personally there is no chance that I will get it. They fecked big, they should suffer big. It's not a move cause they 'listened' to us, but cause we didn't bought their console. And who knows what they will plan to do in the future. It's a big No for me.
Obviously, what he says stands true for his own tweet. It's easy to say now they're not planning on going through, but the article you posted from the apparent employee did look like nothing but a troll having fun.
Obviously, what he says stands true for his own tweet. It's easy to say now they're not planning on going through, but the article you posted from the apparent employee did look like nothing but a troll having fun.
Do you really believe that publishers would allow 1 person to buy a game and 10 to play it?
yes but sony is no innocent, at least Microsoft came down from the high horse, sony in PS3 days was too arrogant to do that.
That, and i'll rather trust Microsoft's Xbox Live with my security and credit card details than Sony's PSN. I'm also intrigued by Microsoft's allocation of 3 cloud servers per Xbox, to offload computing tasks over 100m/s for free, if Sony ever did this it would cost them a fortune and bring up PSN's costs.
3 cloud servers per Xbox? So 3x as many servers as Xbox's they sell? Well that's not true. It's not exactly free as your paying for your Xbox live subscription just like you will with PSN now.
Also...
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net...-computing-to-be-more-powerful-too-says-sony/
The cloud thing was always a piece of PR bullshit, you can't use it for anything game related. Even a 30fps game updates at 33ms, a 60fps game at 16ms.
If the cloud is so good, then why are they sticking 2 million transistors onto their APU to incorporate eSRAM? Because their main RAM solution in DDR3 is dogshit!
Depends what they mean Weaste. It allows local devices to render information, only a certain distance from the player. Each player can be part of an infinite world but only rendering the data of the part that surrounds them. With fast devices and fast Internet, an almost infinite world could be created. Infinite Call of Duty maps, infinite Elder Scrolls Online. Cities that feel alive. This isn't even far away, DayZ Standalone is looking to do this, as probably all modern games do to a certain extent.
Of course thats the reality of what can happen. What they babble on about with their "calculations" and god-only knows what else, I have no idea.
Of course thats the reality of what can happen. What they babble on about with their "calculations" and god-only knows what else, I have no idea.
I believe that the US price does not include VAT/tax, they don't tend to price things up like we do because certain states don't pay tax on certain goods.
Canada and US don't put tax on the price until you're paying for it, but where I am in Ontario it's 13%, and in Michigan in the states it's only 5% so it's still about $100 price difference.
Fair enough. Should've checked your location before trying to inform you of how currency works in North America
its not just consoles, its pretty much all electronic goods that we pay premium for over here.
aside from completely different tax rates, in the UK at least, they tend to charge a bit extra for the warranty
aside from completely different tax rates, in the UK at least, they tend to charge a bit extra for the warranty
http://www.respawn.com/news/lets-talk-about-the-xbox-live-cloud/
Titanfall developer discusses the cloud. Contents of the page go over the character limit, so will continue in the post below also.
Titanfall developer discusses the cloud. Contents of the page go over the character limit, so will continue in the post below also.
Titanfall developer discusses cloud - continued..
So PS Plus.....if I buy it now for a year, do we know if it'll cross over into PS4 should I buy that on release?
All PS Plus subscriptions will carry over to the PS4.
In the mean time Sony said they have more exclusive game announcements for gamescom.
In the mean time Sony said they have more exclusive game announcements for gamescom.
The new xbox controller is smaller than the PS4 one:
http://i.imgur.com/uP4KpSg.jpg
The xbox controller also seem to need less force for its thumbsticks.
http://i.imgur.com/uP4KpSg.jpg
The xbox controller also seem to need less force for its thumbsticks.
I thought that interview was pretty underwhelming. He may as well have done a search-and-replace for "cloud" with "dedicated server", except that the server has redundancy and scalability (but we were doing redundancy and scalability anyway before "cloud" came out).
I mean, all he has said is that developers get cheaper access to Azure, which could be useful for development. Otherwise, he hasn't really explained how it directly affects the consumer - which is the really important question.
I've never noticed lag or connection times being an issue on Black Ops on 360 before anyway.
I like that the have stiffened up the DS4 thumbsticks, the one issue I have with the DS3 is the light feel of them for things like driving games where precision is needed. In games like GT5 it was sometimes a skill in itself to keep a car on a consistent line with a slight bit of turn in, particularly noticeable on the oval tracks.
I'd be worried if both of them couldn't nail the controllers this time around, both look to just be natural evolutions of the older gens.
Have to say both controllers look really ugly
Looks like a slightly less nice looking 360 controller. The 360 controller is, along with the Gamecube one, by far the comfiest controller I've played with, so I'm not surprised they don't look to have changed it too much.
does it matter? Your cock looks ugly but I bet it's always in your hands.
As long as they do the job you pay for them to do, who cares?
Doesn't matter at all, just saying compared the previous controllers they aren't the most stylish looking
Direct X 11.2 is gonna be exclusive for Xbox One and Windows 8.
And, apparently the Xbox One is going to have almost 10% more RAM than the PS4 afterall. (or 10% more esram or something)
Pretty sure quite a number of you were talking about how the PS4 is 40% more powerful and what not in terms of RAM. Well now it looks like actually the Xbox One will have almost 10% more RAM than the PS4. Sorry if I got confused earlier in the thread, that's what I took from it though.
I'll admit that there are other posters here who have a better knowledge of this sort of thing than me, but both these are pretty big news for the whole power and performances comparisons people were making early on.
Has the Xbox One got more general RAM than the PS4 or would the RAM being refered to here only matter for certain things?
From you tech geeks, what are your thoughts?
And please, don't be fan-boys else you lose all credibility as the
Expecting the response from fan boys to be simply quoting 'theoretically'
And, apparently the Xbox One is going to have almost 10% more RAM than the PS4 afterall. (or 10% more esram or something)
Pretty sure quite a number of you were talking about how the PS4 is 40% more powerful and what not in terms of RAM. Well now it looks like actually the Xbox One will have almost 10% more RAM than the PS4. Sorry if I got confused earlier in the thread, that's what I took from it though.
I'll admit that there are other posters here who have a better knowledge of this sort of thing than me, but both these are pretty big news for the whole power and performances comparisons people were making early on.
Has the Xbox One got more general RAM than the PS4 or would the RAM being refered to here only matter for certain things?
From you tech geeks, what are your thoughts?
And please, don't be fan-boys else you lose all credibility as the
Expecting the response from fan boys to be simply quoting 'theoretically'
32MB is 10% of 8GB now is it? We've always known about the ESRAM! As for the other bollocks, it's bollocks, Microsoft just found out now that their hardware is better than its design? Ok!
No, its GPU is 50% more powerful. XBone has a very slow main memory bank 8GB in size, and then some 32MB embedded SRAM that is faster to help deal with that. PS4 has a main pool of 8GB of very fast unified memory, about 3 times faster than the 8GB in the XBone.
192GB/s is 8.4% quicker than 176GB/s. It seems reasonable to assume that this is the '10%' figure sensationalised in the headline.
Even if it's true that they have magically found something (a bug?) in their design that has upped the bandwidth from 102GB/s to 192GB/s, it's apples and oranges, as it's 192GB/s to 32MB vs 176GB/s to 8GB.