The next generation of systems might be very different; do you intend to own more than one? Or are you going to stick to a side to save money?
EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
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If I buy multiple, it would be for the exclusives. I'll stick with PS4 and Wii U until I see more Xbox exclusives. I'm not a big FPS fan so Halo is out of the question.
Why wouldn't someone want to own all the newest consoles, if money wasn't a factor?
You would never miss out on an exclusive, and like this gen, each system has its own unique strengths and features. I don't prescribe to a logic that prevents me from enjoying a system just because I owned another first. From PCs, to consoles to portables, it seems that every system is my favorite at one point or another. As long as a system can provide me with an engaging experience that I enjoy, then sure why wouldn't I allow for that experience. Life is short, unfortunately so is money. I pride myself on getting all of whats available for me to enjoy as time and money afford.
If I can afford more than one, then of course I'll get more. At the moment a combination of PS4 and PSV is the most plausible scenario for my next gen gaming but I'm open to other consoles too.
In the past I've always got them all, right at launch, like a sucker!
xbox360 $400
quake $60
perfect dark zero $60
Kameo $60
controller $50
$630 +tax
ps3 $600
untold legends $60
resistance $60
controller $50
$770 +tax
thats $1200 on two consoles and a few games that were medocre games at best.
now, besides a small time with uncharted 3, gears 3 and dark souls, they collected dust all 2009, 2010, 2011 and i gamed on pc 95% of the time.
think I'll wait a year or two into next gen before i buy another console, i doubt they will have anything at launch as good as the games i'm playing on pc right now, launch games always suck. I know none of the games will look as good as the games I'm playing on PC.
The problem is the money to buy the games, not the machine. 2011 has been a nightmare for the true gamers.
Exclusives can be considered dead and Sony has the game studios.
I don't think Epic will repeat the Gear "mistake" again.
Times have a changed.
Also, even if the ports have been bad, PS3 offered always a good experience anyway.
Most of the times the difference between versions was just nitpicking.
So...I'll stick with Sony once again.
360 had only 4 exclusives I was interested about, Mass Effect 1 and the 3 Gears (2 of which can be bought on PC)