every gamer's wet dream
Hell no! I like open platforms.
every gamer's wet dream
Oh look, we're villains again because we do not want Microsoft's latest bullshit. How fucking dare we uppity consumers not bend over and take all that lovely corporate 'policy.' Meanwhile Sony looks to be offering me what I want. And if that means going down with the ship then I'll piss in Wired and all the corporate DRM supporters faces as as we do.
But what's this shit about "teh hardcorz" not wanting PCs? That's a real fucking leap there. Maybe, just maybe we already have devices that can do this other crap, and we would like our damn video game console to play actual damn video games first and foremost.
sorry
Last I checked Xbox one will play video games and should have basically the same library as the PS4 outside of exclusives. As far as DRM is concerned I digitally download most of my titles and haven't been able to trade in or share any of them and really don't see a problem with that.
PS4.
The problem is that half of those features can be done by my TV, they also probably wont work in my country. But I guess its easier for Chris "Vaporware" Kholer to blame consumers for not caring about stock, tho.
PS4.
Absolutely.
It comes across as backwards compared to PS4's focus on internet streaming.
Microsoft's anti-consumer stance and their emphasis on being a fucking TV remote have overshadowed the outcry about the machine not being high end [enough] by far.
What has he ever written to give you such high expectations?I expect more than this from Kobun. Oh well.
Great summary of why gaming is heading where it's going. As someone who already digitally downloads most new releases the whole sharing/lending games hasn't been an issue for me for a long time.
sorry? why?
It's not like I have to hook my cable box up to the x1 if I don't want to. It's not like I have to buy an x1 if I don't want it.
Things are changing and it really is necessary to adapt. I am a hardcore gamer as well as a realist. I want what everyone else here wants. But I am aware of the business side of things. It had to end sooner or later and its time to suck it up.
Anti consumer? No they are anti me having to switch discs all the damned time to play a agame.
It's partially the developing industry's own goddamn fault for aiming for the stars and the moon and suddenly realizing that they aimed too high. Who is asking for games that cost into $100 million dollars and took an entire generation to make? Would the sales be impacted if that were halved or quartered? Is there enough sales potential (realistic, actual sales potential, none of this "it might sell better than Pokemon" bullshit). We've seen good looking games made on smaller budgets. Look at the stuff coming out of Eastern Europe for god sakes.
The industry aimed too high, suddenly started ballooning budgets, and then went "oh god there aren't any sales here to cover it up." Their response to this? Homogenize, wring the AAA space of any creativity and put the advertising on full blast. But we can't have smaller budgets, oh no. We've got to have our mo-capped dogs and celebrity voice actors that nobody fucking asked for. We've got to cover the cost of letting you develop your game for five years because you have no direction.
And then, time and time again, the consumers are expected to show up at the door every time these developers come out with some new way to make the package look worse. Oh, now you get half the content. Oh, now we're going to sell you that content back to you over a period of a year. Oh, now we're placing your game's access on computers you don't control, and then those computers won't work.
If the industry was smart, they would have had a linear progression of costs, but they're run by idiots who don't understand the market. Instead, they're baking these stupid anti-consumer things into the console, and selling the console on silly TV fluff and apps that half your entertainment center already runs. Because, sure, that will get people to buy a $500 monolith instead of a $50 Roku. Who the hell comes up with this shit?
Thus we're left with the consumers having to continue putting up with shitty decisions that negatively impact their side of the transaction because the fish move out of the way. It's about time people started getting pissed off.
Last I checked Xbox one will play video games and should have basically the same library as the PS4 outside of exclusives. As far as DRM is concerned I digitally download most of my titles and haven't been able to trade in or share any of them and really don't see a problem with that.
Edit: Is everyone forgetting 15 exclusives coming and 8 are originally new IPS. Yeah, a some of them are going to be Kinect games but that is a lot of new IPS which is something everyone has been asking for.
Kohler has been prone to complete bullshit strawmen articles lately so this doesn't surprise me at all
The issue is profitability which is basically this articles point. He's saying there's simply not enough money to follow this path and expect a decent profit. Sony seems to still have not made back all the losses it made with the PS3.
This article is basically saying it's not worth it. You can do it but from a business point of view it's not logical.
the reason sony lost so much money is precisely because they're chasing that non gaming function like bluray. if Sony skip bluray, it probably won't cost as high as it is now and will probably perform much better financially
I think the last system that only played games was the Gamecube.
EXACTLY BRO, YOU HIT IT ON THE NOSE. THIS IS WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY IN MY POST.
Thank you.
I thought Bluray was a huge selling point of PS3?
We just want something that plays games as its main function, not much to ask for, is it?
Build a gaming PC. Uninstall all the bullshit programs, auto launch to steam big screen mode.
Bam! game only device.
He's right as far as the understanding that there aren't enough enthusiasts to support what types of systems and games enthusiasts typically Demand. That's been true for a long time now.
The industry knows the average consumer won't even look at a game that's more expensive than $60 (or a system above $300), which is why they've spent the last 10 years testing the enthusiast market to see what we'll accept to make up for the unsustainable model we demand.
Ms is giving us a box that they no doubt calculate will be acceptable to the enthusiast crowd who's bark is often worse than its bite.
It's a delicate balancing act. You need the enthusiast because they're revenue generators, but you can't cater exclusively to them without massive losses. Gotta get the average crowd interested too and while attempting to appeal to them it's insanely easy to alienate the enthusiasts. (Nintendo)
I will be shocked if Sony's strategy isn't near identical to MS's in the end. Maybe they'll market it better to make the enthusiasts think they actually care about them in the way enthusiasts desire, but the math will be a copy paste.
Over 150 million Xbox 360s and PS3s in the world right now and consoles are dead?
Gamefaqs posting turned into journalism.They dont want a PC because they dont want to mess with settings and deal with crashes
I thought Bluray was a huge selling point of PS3?
Last I checked Xbox one will play video games and should have basically the same library as the PS4 outside of exclusives. As far as DRM is concerned I digitally download most of my titles and haven't been able to trade in or share any of them and really don't see a problem with that.
Edit: Is everyone forgetting 15 exclusives coming and 8 are originally new IPS. Yeah, a some of them are going to be Kinect games but that is a lot of new IPS which is something everyone has been asking for.
We just want something that plays games as its main function, not much to ask for, is it?
Ya cause Ms gets all the shit they get cause the box can do other things then playing games ...
What a dumb article.
The main function of the xbox one is not games? That's probably news to Microsoft, because they can shave out the processors and extra ram and sell the Xbox one as a tv and app device for about 150 dollars. Does not compute. It's a game console. It has a fast GPU/CPU and lots of ram. It comes with a controller.
So how is it not a games console? Why does other functionality ruin the device?
We just want something that plays games as its main function, not much to ask for, is it?
No Sony looks like they learned from history. Only core gamers buy these 399.99 dollar machines. The casuals won't take a look until they get under 299.99. Sony is going after the core gamers first then will go after the casuals. It is funny and ironic that is what MS did with the 360 to great success.