The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !
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Borzak
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Seems like they'd have an adapter for it. All I know is the port on the 360 controllers was god awful so this is probably a good thing. I'm assuming the bluetooth headsets will still work.
They decided to one up fucking Apple, who at least are smart enough not to mess with the 3.5mm minijack.
Supposedly there is a new standard/interface/input they are going to be using. I am ok with connection changes as long as they can justify the change with some sort of tangible difference/benefit/upgrade. I am not ok with changes like this if the answer is "because:megahurtz!!!"
They really should not have done this reveal in the way they did... They had to have known that these questions were coming, and to not have a coherent response just comes off as unprepared. A simple "we are not talking about that feature at this time and will have full details at E3" would be a million times better than the conflicting responses that are coming up now. And they have completely taken the heat off of Sony in the process. When you really think about it, we don't know much about the PS4 other than what's in the box right now. Soooo many unanswered questions.
I do enjoy seeing people from both sides completely losing their shit right now though.
They really should not have done this reveal in the way they did... They had to have known that these questions were coming, and to not have a coherent response just comes off as unprepared. A simple "we are not talking about that feature at this time and will have full details at E3" would be a million times better than the conflicting responses that are coming up now. And they have completely taken the heat off of Sony in the process. When you really think about it, we don't know much about the PS4 other than what's in the box right now. Soooo many unanswered questions.
I do enjoy seeing people from both sides completely losing their shit right now though.
Vaclav
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I don't care about headsets so mine are all cheap pieces of crap - but it's pretty easy to understand someone who invested in a $200+ headset deal would be upset about not being able to use it because of an input change when fidelity is already basically perfect on the expensive ones.
Xexx
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I guess being a PC gamer since the 80's makes all this online only/used games/drm crap easier to take. I still remember playing old micro prose flight sims (F-19 stealth fighter!!!) for hours and hours! The hell of "memory managers" and trying to figure out the difference between extended and expanded memory on my 8088 so I could play wing commander!!!
At least all of this console negativity has motivated me to finally upgrade my gaming rig and turn it into a htpc/big screen gamy thing. I wonder if we will see more games developed with the PC as the lead? Probably not considering the spec gap between off the shelf pc's and a enthusiast build. Maybe Haswell will change that.
At least all of this console negativity has motivated me to finally upgrade my gaming rig and turn it into a htpc/big screen gamy thing. I wonder if we will see more games developed with the PC as the lead? Probably not considering the spec gap between off the shelf pc's and a enthusiast build. Maybe Haswell will change that.
http://au.gamespot.com/news/microsof...-games-6408992
MS will invest 1 Billion dollars into Xbox one games.
I was pretty impressed when I first read that but then I realised. That's only 20 triple A games, maybe less..
MS will invest 1 Billion dollars into Xbox one games.
I was pretty impressed when I first read that but then I realised. That's only 20 triple A games, maybe less..
http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/27/anal...es-to-succeed/
http://www.develop-online.net/news/3...as-high-as-28m
http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2012...all-of-gaming/
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3078404/ns.../#.UaXXkkA0VBk
http://au.gamespot.com/news/star-war...evelop-6348959!
I did all the hard work for you! Most of that info is a few years old and shows the steady increase in game development cost and of course we are including marketing. Which is probably more important then making the actual game.
By the way I usedwww.google.comif you were wondering.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/3...as-high-as-28m
http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2012...all-of-gaming/
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3078404/ns.../#.UaXXkkA0VBk
http://au.gamespot.com/news/star-war...evelop-6348959!
I did all the hard work for you! Most of that info is a few years old and shows the steady increase in game development cost and of course we are including marketing. Which is probably more important then making the actual game.
By the way I usedwww.google.comif you were wondering.
Grimmlokk
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Yeah, that was the idea. DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE!
And yeah, that shit is crazy. Though the 28m number for an avg on multi-platform titles is not quite the 50 that's being tossed about as normal. 200m on Old Republic is crazy.
Eomer
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I don't see why it's so crazy. Even if you have say 50 staff working on a game for 3 years at an average salary of 100k/year, that's 15m before you've paid for any office space, hardware, software, voice over or motion capture and so on. The only way to get around that is to develop it in some Eastern European hellhole where you can pay people a fraction of that. The days of a handful of people making a AAA game are long gone.
Hopefully the development tools will get better this generation. It seems the big guys are going to be sticking with 1 in house engine for each studio, so I can only assume that the tools to develop on said engine are going to get pretty good. The industry cant support 500 person teams for every game in development. Hopefully we see studios scaling back team sizes and moving into more projects. But since that makes sense and seems logical it will never happen!
Joeboo
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Hey look, Sony can still make stupid decisions too:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...-for-ps4-games
I guess it's nice for the small amount of people that actually have a Vita, but that has to be a pain in the ass for developers that don't want anything to do with the Vita
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...-for-ps4-games
I guess it's nice for the small amount of people that actually have a Vita, but that has to be a pain in the ass for developers that don't want anything to do with the Vita
Xalara
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The teams will be more efficient by virtue of repeatedly using the same engine. You sortof see that now with Unreal. What is really needed is a revolutionary improvement in tools and who knows if/when that'll happen.
meStevo
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Vita just taking another step closer to just being an expensive PS4 accessory. Was hoping for remote play through any Windows 8 device for X1 but that doesn't seem to be happening (though, could still be announced via Skype).