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Sean_sl said:
Now people need to stop over reacting.
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Over reacting?! How the hell am I supposed to play a game on my TV when my system wobbles. Am I the only one here who like to poke at my console non stop while gaming?! Wake up you fucking sheep!
 
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Abefroman_sl said:
Honestly knack is exactly what I thought it would be, a mindless game I can play co-op with the kid. Will most likely pick up the lego one also. Knack seems to be geared to kids by the way they handle the co-op.
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Knack was always going to be a glorified tech demo, and it appears that was acutely accurate. Looked terrible from the start.
 
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LOL! Obviously the wobbling thing is being completely over blown, but for any of you OCD fuckers go by a small piece of rubber and stick it under the side with no legs! Problem solved!!!
 
Grumpus

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Juvarisx_sl said:
No, The PS4 Doesn't Have a Wobbling Problem

OH NOES
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To bad I already cut myself from stress. I cant handle this roller coaster ride.

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Frenzied Wombat

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Wobbly piece of junk, going to buy a used Nintendo GameCube instead w/ remote play enabled for my Atari Lynx. Next-Gen is sooo last year.
 
Utnayan

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Soriak_sl said:
Game Trailer reviews are awesome, because you get to see the game for yourself. I ignore entirely how many "points" they give to a game and just watch the actual review.


Seriously. Do people expect hardware revisions or price drops in the next 6 months? I'd imagine anyone considering buying a PS4 at some point is interested in at least one of the big upcoming titles (The Order, Destiny, Watch Dog). Why bother waiting until then if you end up with the same console at the same price?
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The Wii U, 3DS, and playstation 3 all had price drops within seven months. The games you are talking about probably won't even be out by then. Save fifty bucks, buy some launch titles at a fraction of a price, and if those games make it out, fantastic. Meanwhile, you gain nothing from buying a console at this point besides having a new toy which, aside from Sean, you may play one or two decent indie games. Nothing like a plat former in 1080p60!
 
Frenzied Wombat

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Utnayan_sl said:
The Wii U, 3DS, and playstation 3 all had price drops within seven months. The games you are talking about probably won't even be out by then. Save fifty bucks, buy some launch titles at a fraction of a price, and if those games make it out, fantastic. Meanwhile, you gain nothing from buying a console at this point besides having a new toy which, aside from Sean, you may play one or two decent indie games. Nothing like a plat former in 1080p60!
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The same can be said of almost any new technology. Don't try to apply logic and frugality to things people derive pleasure from. This isn't investment timing or trying to gauge when's the best time to get a deal on a new fridge, it's about immediate gratification at a small opportunity cost. Since you have little interest in the system your rationale is purely pragmatic, which is fine, but something tells me that there's *something* out there that you love that you would happily plop down extra coin to have in your hands NOW. I personally can adhere to your recommendation, as most of the release games aren't in any genres that appeal to me, but if the release games included Planescape II and BG:III you can guarantee I'd be freezing my ass in line at Best Buy on release day, happily spending an extra $50 now vs 6 months down the road so I could play them NOW.
 
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spronk_sl said:
what is flower and why is it getting such high ratings, are you a flower
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You are a gust of wind flying around, collecting petals on the way and spreading life.




Short game, but beautiful game that you come back to often to just to relax or for the elation of free flight.

Not enough brown for some though.
 
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Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
The same can be said of almost any new technology. Don't try to apply logic and frugality to things people derive pleasure from. This isn't investment timing or trying to gauge when's the best time to get a deal on a new fridge, it's about immediate gratification at a small opportunity cost. Since you have little interest in the system your rationale is purely pragmatic, which is fine, but something tells me that there's *something* out there that you love that you would happily plop down extra coin to have in your hands NOW. I personally can adhere to your recommendation, as most of the release games aren't in any genres that appeal to me, but if the release games included Planescape II and BG:III you can guarantee I'd be freezing my ass in line at Best Buy on release day, happily spending an extra $50 now vs 6 months down the road so I could play them NOW.
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Ut doesn't understand "being in the moment". You should just ignore him, he'll never "get it" and it's beyond his ability to comprehend.

None of this shit he says matters in the least to people who want to be part of the experience.
 
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Some new infos on the PS4's audio chip, which hasn't really been talked about yet:PS4 has AMD's TrueAudio DSP - Confirmed - NeoGAF

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In a nutshell, TrueAudio is a return to the concept of hardware accelerated audio processing, with AMD leveraging their position to put the necessary hardware on the GPU. Hardware accelerated audio processing in the PC space essentially died with Windows Vista, which moved most of the Windows audio stack into software. Previously the stack was significantly implemented through drivers and as such various elements could be offloaded onto the sound card itself, which in the case of 3D audio meant having the audio card process and transform DirectSound 3D calls as it saw fit. However with Vista hardware processing and hardware access to those APIs was stripped, and combined with a general "good enough" mindset of software audio + Realtek audio codecs, the matter was essentially given up on.

Now even with the loss of traditional hardware acceleration due to Vista, you can still do advanced 3D audio and other effects in software by having the game engine itself do the work. However this is generally not something that's done, as game developers are hesitant to allocate valuable CPU time to audio and other effects that are difficult to demonstrate and sell. Further complicating this is of course the current generation consoles, which dedicate a relatively small portion of what are already pretty limited resources to audio processing. As a result the baseline for audio is at times an 8 year old console, or at best a conservative fraction of one CPU core.
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Sean_sl said:
Ut doesn't understand "being in the moment". You should just ignore him, he'll never "get it" and it's beyond his ability to comprehend.

None of this shit he says matters in the least to people who want to be part of the experience.
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The guy's a troll, surely?
 
Ritley

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Yes, the wobble is a pretty insignificant problem, but why the fuck couldn't they just put another rubber foot on the glossy end? Would have cost what, a couple of cents?
 
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