It Has Begun: E3 2013 Highlights

[dylangemelli]

Most developers didn't even know much RAM PS4 was going to have until the reveal in February. That's how late the decision was made. They basically custom-built the chipset to support it and forecast that by launch it would be financially/physically viable enough to do. There aren't even PC chipsets able to support 8GB of GDDR5 on a single board yet. Initial reports say a lot of it will be idle and wasted though, since the GPU could really only handle half of that at best. It's basically there to ensure all the background functions and OS features work as instantly as possible.

Xbox One Vs Playstation 4 Hardware Performance & GPU, CPU & Memory Analysis


Of course, it won't be long before PCs outpace that amount of memory. But to have all that in a console is still pretty good leverage for the future.

Great info bro... This just further substantiates the advantage the ps4 has... Xbox has a lot of things going on that lead me to believe there are going to be ongoing issues and ps4 has everything looking on point... It seems that the ps4 is catered more to gamers than the xbox... Im really looking forward to getting it! I pre ordered the console, a second controller, nba 2k and drive club as well...

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

PlayStation 4 Games Will Cost $59.99 - IGN


*waits for Microsoft to announce XBOne games will cost $69.99*


Btw while everyone's waiting for next gen, The Last of Us should help alleviate that very nicely. I'm about 7 hours in and while it started out slow, it's like playing the a mix of No Country For Old Men, I Am Legend and 28 Days Later. New high watermark for integrating storytelling and gameplay.



http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-the-last-of-us-tech-analysis

 

[redsamurai]

Microsoft Backs Down on Controversial Xbox One Online Requirements, Used Game Disc Trading

Hansel you've got to be loving this. I never thought I'd see the day where someone made Sony look like the small local mom and pop. Holy fuck MS is full of shit. Holy holy fuck.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Actually I think it would've been better if they just stuck with it and suffered a huge loss in sales, and be forced to bow out of the console market to make way for Valve and Steambox.

What's funny is this small time youtube blogger interviewed "Major Nelson" from Xbox, and specifically called their bluff on this whole issue-

@ about 11:08 in (timestamp isn't working for some reason).

Well apparently it was pretty "simple" enough to change their policies because a day after that interview, no more drm/used game restrictions lol.


Bleszinski: Microsoft Changed DRM Due to Sony, Not Fans

What's worse is the excuse Microsoft had for the change.

In addition to Cliffy's comments it makes them look like they're full of it when their own employees seem to have been out of the loop about it too.

Excerpt-
"First is family sharing, this feature is near and dear to me and I truly felt it would have helped the industry grow and make both gamers and developers happy. The premise is simple and elegant, when you buy your games for Xbox One, you can set any of them to be part of your shared library. Anyone who you deem to be family had access to these games regardless of where they are in the world. There was never any catch to that, they didn’t have to share the same billing address or physical address it could be anyone. When your family member accesses any of your games, they’re placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to. When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game. We were toying around with a limit on the number of times members could access the shared game (as to discourage gamers from simply beating the game by doing multiple playthroughs). but we had not settled on an appropriate way of handling it."


So...that was their plan for game sharing lol?

Even when the dude's trying to be sincere he inadvertently reveals how ridiculous their family share plan actually was, which is ultimately no better than what he ripped Sony for already trying.



Anyways, their evil plans were thwarted. For now at least.

 

[mstiles87]

Did you see the article today on fam sharing it said whoevers in the family plan can play your game in demo mode for 45 mins thn are put right to the store to buy it. So it wasn't really sharing.

 

[pdaddyII]

I have a PS3 that I've used less than 10 times. What a fucking joke, anyone want to buy it

 

[IncredibleHoss]

To watch porn in blu ray?

 

[redsamurai]

Did you see the article today on fam sharing it said whoevers in the family plan can play your game in demo mode for 45 mins thn are put right to the store to buy it. So it wasn't really sharing.

that can't be true, c'mon. Holy fuck they are bailing water now.

 

[mstiles87]

that can't be true, c'mon. Holy fuck they are bailing water now.

Very true one of their developers dropped that bit of info

 

[redsamurai]

Very true one of their developers dropped that bit of info

the myopia of that company is reaching unheard of levels if that's true.