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Black Ops III is current gen only (PS4/XB1/PC)
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Petrae
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Can != will. For ATVI to leave potentially six figures' worth of potential sales on the table on a calculated risk that last-gen players will finally eat the cost of a $400 box to play this game is a bit scary for the bottom line.
There are still plenty of 360/PS3 owners out there and it's not a bad financial move to continue to placate that group for at least one more holiday season while monitoring Gen8 adoption rates and seeing how the transition continues.
Something CoD-- whether it's BlOps3 or something else, or whether it's developed by Treyarch or some other team, probably happens this year, I think.
nowifenolife
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are we just going to get a trailer at the reveal or is it like a 2hour show giving lots of info?
Bornstellar
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Titanfall clone cometh
Presumably they would like to not have to wait to get the DLC.
miDnIghtEr20C
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This part excites me the most about the new COD. I can't wait.
WickedLaharl
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"To be fair"
lol come the fuck on now. that is obviously just an extremely poor quality screencap.
OrbitalBeard
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That really doesn't benefit Activision at this point, only Sony and MS. Advanced Warfare sold the most on Xbox 360 at launch, so, as of now, Activision gains nothing by going current gen only.
Yeeeaaaaah...
I want to trust in Treyarch, but this sounds terrible. Sounds like potentially the first CoD in years I'll be skipping, AW's exo stuff left such a bad taste in my mouth.
Guess we'll see.
Thanks for stopping by.
SliChillax
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Doesn't look like a next gen only game to me.
Yeah but that was a new studio. And Treyarch has always made de Wii and Wii U version
We got BO1 and B02, would love to get 3
I just really wish I can play cod on my console of choice, a man can dream. I still play B02 on wii u to this day
Yaphett Kotto
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Yea, people get caught up in their wording and the screenshots and believe their shit about a "built from ground up" engine. lol
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Caca Doody better deliver.
No it didn't it was "updated" but its still the very same core engine. Thats why PC versions lately have been capped at 90. Because the devs are two lazy and tied some of the weapon fire rates to the FPS.
Based on AC Unity, MS marketing deal seems to mean 90% of development efforts go into that version and PS4 version comes out running shitty frame rates.
They're still using the old Quake engine?!?!? Fucking hell that is beyond ancient at this point. You'd figure all the money they are making would be enough to fund development of a new engine for crying out loud.
Just to reiterate:
SmokedMeat
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No loss.
How's the online community these days? I haven't fired it up in a while, and at that time it was around the 3,000 mark.
Yep! They just tack on new graphics tech but as you can see in the screenshots its not doing much these days.
Then every game after didn't
Newtype-001
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#dead
Lloyd Christmas
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Ghost Slayer
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Damn
TheDarkTriforce
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Where can I watch the World Premiere of the Gameplay today? Thanks 
Duxxy3
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Eh. When your emphasis is on framerate above everything else, I don't blame them for keeping that core. New engines are always built on top of old cores.
edit: Christ, Windows is still built upon DOS.
blacklabel93
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Looks like I'll be skipping cods till they do away with the awful jetpack gimmick
It's not the "old quake engine" it's absolutely silly and incorrect when people say that. Having some legacy code does not mean it's the same engine.
Advanced Warfare on PS360 was not the same engine as current gen versions and it was in no way being held back by technology...as evident by the fact that it was using advanced rendering features.
That's a bullshit excuse. You can build an engine from the ground up to support 60fps (like Idtech5) and better support current rendering/shading techniques with less overhead. The Quake engine was made in 1996 when 256mb of ram and 800mhz processor was top of the line. The shit is OLD.
WHAT?!?!? I didn't know there was anyone actually claiming CoD was "technically advanced" with a straight face. That's funny.
Zombegoast
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I'm sure the Wii U version of Blops 2 hell maybe even Ghost would have sold more if they bothered to release them on the Eshop.
Its the same engine. They just stub on new graphics technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IW_engine
Agreed. BO2 also did better than ghosts. So crossing my fingers for BO3
Well you can't really fake jaggies even with compression, you can still see tons of aliasing
I guess you never know. CoD4 skipped PS2, but it got a version of WaW.
^ What qualifies as 'next gen'?
You can basically say the same thing for basically almost every engine out there, they all use legacy code to varying degrees. It means absolutely nothing
You can basically say the same thing for basically almost every engine out there, they all use legacy code to varying degrees. It means absolutely nothing
It's not the "same engine". Jesus.
It's like saying Far cry 1 and Ryse run the same engine as they are both iterations of the same engine with one having new graphics tech stubbed upon...see how silly that sounds?
Game engines dont work like that,the notion of naming an engine is purely arbitrary and is used only for licecing purpose. Just because they didn't name it different does not mean it's the same engine.
That's because it's current gen
Yeah, but the new Cry engine looks much better than the old one, where IW engine looks like butt.
I'm sorry but that's just bullocks. Advanced Warfare looks might fine, it uses almost every modern renderi g techniqie seen in games these days. And if you think it looks similar to last gen COD then you are factually wrong. The simple fact that it uses physically based rendering is enough to make it a legit current gen engine.
you know what I mean and I put the "next gen" in annotations
just a lot of prebaked lighting in single Player does not make the COD a very advanced technical show piece. The multiplayer ( that is what I mostly talk about) looks nowhere near good and has the same flaws every other CoD had.
Edit: I saw your stealth edit
.... Comparing AW to other games indicates that it is not a good current gen example of good graphics. Please watch the new BO III Trailer and then reconsider your statement
cripterion
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That's a great decision. Don't limit the scope of your game with old gen consoles shortcomings.
Screens look good, looks like AW but I didn't like the designs of the exo suits, so this already looks better.
Screens look good, looks like AW but I didn't like the designs of the exo suits, so this already looks better.
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