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EA PS4 Meeting Recap: 8-10x Power, 1080p, 60FPS, “Unprecedented” Gameplay, Games Shown Before E3

The EA investor’s meeting focused on the PS4 is now over, here’s the highlights.
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Sev4073d ago

8-10x more power? All these developers are contradicting each other. Oh well. It's more powerful, that much is a fact.

Jobesy4073d ago

2 things I find contradictory:

1. If what took months to do previously now takes days, why would dev costs rise and games cost more?

2. Consumers love microtransactions...wtf?!?

sypher4073d ago (Edited 4073d ago )

Yep the whole point of things like the Unreal Engine, Unity etc is that it makes everything easier. But the cost is never in tech, that's the thing the cost is always in labour. Paying hundreds of wages for the complete dev cycle is the cost of a game.

If you are selling a million copies of a game and not making a profit there is something fundamentally wrong with the cost in producing your game and you need to figure out how to reduce that cost.

bangshi4073d ago

More work to be done - takes less time to do the bits and pieces but there are more bits and pieces to do.

@sypher - you are right in a large amount of cost is in staffing, but this is calculated in man hours so Jobesy is right in his initial confusion over taking less time, but not costing less.

And Jobesy, on microtransations - Ultimate Team for FIFA is a huge, huge seller of microtransactions.

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4073d ago (Edited 4073d ago )

"“What used to take months in the past will now take days to do” [due to consoles being more like PCs]."

From the article.

I wonder if most multi plats will lead on pc?? Just make sense to me. It's all pc x86 anyway.

TheGamerDood4073d ago

But if they still have to develop for current gen systems then I guess we shouldn't expect BF2 sized maps. So more of the same but with better FPS and graphics? Good lord. I just hope their netcode is up to par.

dcbronco4073d ago (Edited 4073d ago )

@bangshi

It's pure greed. If what you say was the real reason then cost would never go back down. This is an excuse to raise prices while people are distracted by new graphics and physics. They're trying to pad their pockets. And most games will not have larger worlds. Madden, Fifa NBA. Most EA games will be different in physics and graphics if that.

InMyOpinion4073d ago

“[PS4 and next Xbox are] between 8 and 10 times the power [of previous gen]“

Full quote from the article.

showtimefolks4073d ago

Jobesy

your 1st question, answer is greed. They want us to think it costs more so they can charge more. sooner or later these publishers are gonna jack up the price to $65-70. i totally agree with you if these newer consoles take less to develop than why are developing costs going up?

your second question's answer is the casuals,

you have too look at all the facebook and other casual games where your have micro transactions do very well. i think think MT is targeted towards us the core gamers. its for those who don't want to do the work of find stuff within the game world and would much rather spend extra $20 to have full access to everything from start.

that's what i never understood the hate on dead space 3, did EA forced anyone to buy anything to be able to play the game besides the game itself? micro transactions are here to stay there i said it. We the core gamers make everything about ourself when its not. MT isn't targeted towards us the core games yes i am saying it twice

people will complain about online passes well guess what get ready for offline single player passes like kingdoms of reckoning had, where if you buy the game used you won't get the 100% single player missions

and now Micro Transactions are here to stay, yopu never have to buy anything just play the game as normal and get everything you need within the game world while playing the game.

what was over looked in dead space 3 was how good the game actually was. The single player was lengthy, the combat was fun,the world was fun to travel through. but all anyone said or talked about was the micro transactions

stop complaining

NewMonday4073d ago

"If what took months to do previously now takes days, why would dev costs rise and games cost more?"

*re-coding for platforms with different architecture takes the most time, things need to be taken apart and put back together again. With similar architecture it could be as simple as re-scaling and testing.

* dev prices rise because presumably games will have bigger scale/longer draw distance/ higher resolution textures/better physics, all that needs more manpower, and that means more salaries. an extra 10 people with a salary of 50$ on a 2 year development cost 1m$

Autodidactdystopia4073d ago

they will certainly blow our minds.

think about it when the 360 came out some time ago call of duty 2 looked way nice, but look at the titles now.

Imagine kz shadowfall as call of duty back then and imagine what they will pull from these systems in about 5 years.

It will be spectacular to say the least.

rainslacker4072d ago

The rise in dev costs will come from asset creation more than anything else. In the next gen asset creation will be more time consuming because it has to be better, although this gen most things were made at high res then down scaled.

Games could theoretically get bigger and more complex, so while when one thing taken individually could now be done in a few days, as a whole it could take just as long or longer for the whole project. Inflation in general will mean that dev costs will always rise.

This is all theory of course, because quite honestly I don't see a whole lot of longer games being made. More complex maybe, and the worlds could certainly become bigger, and more assets required to populate them(which is probable). Overall though games have struck a pretty decent balance on length and content vs price...outside some glaring exceptions.

As to micro-transactions, they have become quite a money maker for publishers. I personally don't mind the ones that are purely aesthetic(costumes), or the ones that give a little boost for SP(money packs, armor/weapon packs). I never buy them though, but apparently a lot of people do. Casuals spend a lot of money on them, and they tend to be a major focus of cheaper or F2P games. In this case some companies do it respectfully, others are just hungry to withhold content to make an extra buck, and they range anywhere in between.

otherZinc4072d ago

@Jobesy,

Exactly: its going to take less time and youre going to raise the cost of said game or games. Also, with micro transactions?

I'm glad there aren't any EA games that I must have day 1!

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Foolsjoker4073d ago

Exactly, I think most of the numbers are just guesses from developers, once the kit has been out for a few years, that is when we will know the true potential.

DigitalSmoke4073d ago

It has to do with skills and creativity.
One man's blue hammer builds a house, the other one has a red one and slams a thumb, which hammer is better.

Link0794073d ago

EA are just crying over WiiU and Origin not happening so they will make us wiiu owners feel left in the dark i really dont care how powerful the ps4 is just waiting for proof in game.

stragomccloud4073d ago

They are really upset with that. However, it was stupid for them to propose it in the first place. Talk about a conflict of interest!

NobodyImportant4073d ago

EA are a business. They aren't going to leave Nintendo out out of spite. Grow up.

If they leave out the Wii U it will be for reasons that should be obvious to everyone by now.

PS4 has shown "in game". Just youtube "Shadowfall Jimmy fallon." There's your proof.

Upbeat4073d ago

I think you would have to be brain dead to buy the quick unlocks from EA for bf3, why spend money on unlocks when you can just play the game for a few hours and unlock them for free lol

Rainstorm814073d ago

You would be surprised......people run out buy the quick unlocks then still suck at the game, that's the funny part to me

jacksons984072d ago

For me it's not about the money, but why would I ruin part of the game experience? Where is the reward if you just buy the unlock?

Upbeat4070d ago

rainstorm i definitly agree with you there like, its only a matter of time before the prices for quick unlocks rise ( just like dlc ) and people will still fork out the money, if people refuse to pay more money for dlc then companies wont put the price up lol. what do u play bf3 on ?

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doctorstrange4073d ago

They basically said that the 720 will be out this year too.

doctorstrange4073d ago

I feel sorry for N4G's mods during that month...

Nevers4073d ago

^people in the waiting room think I'm crazy, cuz that made me laugh so loud.

MRMagoo1234073d ago

the fact streets of rage can even still comment proves there are no mods.

Foolsjoker4073d ago

I wonder if they will keep that name "720" or go with "infinity" or whatever was rumored.

TrendyGamers4073d ago

Or pull an Apple and just called it the 'Xbox'.

Godchild10204073d ago

Or maybe Xbox 3G. Going with the Apple Joke TrendyGames started.

mistertwoturbo4073d ago

You know this is an interesting subject, nobody knows what they will call the next xbox.

XBOX 362

Git it...? Xbox Three Sixty... Two...

Foolsjoker4073d ago

I wonder if SimCity will come to nextgen consoles?

dbjj120884073d ago

It's certainly possible! EA doesn't like to ignore a market, but SimCity is so PC-centric.

Root4073d ago (Edited 4073d ago )

Yeah but they can still change the controls to make it work with consoles. Look at Minecraft/Terraria for example

I just don't want a dumbed down version like the Sim games

If they did proper ports they could use the expansions as massive DLC packs which people would glady buy with how much an expansion would bring a game.

Look at the Sims 3 for example insted of expansions we get crappy stuff like things to unlock content early...for £7-10, just for social interaction expressions. Then look at the neighborhood, instead of a full map without load times we get three/four houses per hub....are they seriously saying consoles can't support these types of games

SoapShoes4073d ago

True but SimCity 2000 was on PS1 and it's on the PS Store too.

GribbleGrunger4073d ago

Yes it probably will. You'll just press X on your controller and your front door will open.

ThanatosDMC4073d ago (Edited 4073d ago )

If they can put it on consoles without needing to cut corners, then im all for it.

DragonKnight4072d ago

SimCity started on the SNES. No reason for it not to be on consoles.

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TrendyGamers4073d ago

BF3 DLC alone brought in $150 million?!

RememberThe3574073d ago

That actually surprised me and I have Premium. I wonder if they count the servers in that as well?

linkenski4073d ago

Oh how i hope the next generation would just stay at this principle of having games run at 60fps, but of course they are gonna try and push the boundaries, as soon as they reach some kind of limitation. I just love playing games smoothly more than i like playing games that look prettier, in most cases.

OpenGL4073d ago

Exactly, we could have had 60fps games this generation but then there wouldn't have been titles that looked like Uncharted 3 and Red Dead Redemption. The same thing will happen next-gen, 60fps does not show up in screenshots, so developers won't stick to it.

N0S3LFESTEEM4072d ago

There's a reason COD has looked the same since 2007...

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How to recruit Lam in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

Lam is among the 120 characters available for recruitment in Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. While she is one of the many straightforward recruits, a known bug may prevent players from recruiting her if certain conditions are met. Despite developers’ assurances of fixing the bug, some early access players still encounter issues with recruiting Lam despite attempting the standard method.

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Tomb Raider Remastered just quietly censored one in-game detail

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered players are ticked off by the game’s most recent patch, which censors in-game pin-up posters of Lara Croft.

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rlow18h ago

This is why gaming is screwed. When people change things to fit someone’s agenda, it’s a slippery slope downhill.

Christopher8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Even if that agenda is of the developer? Way to remove developer rights.

***One player called it a “huge problem with modern games,” saying they can now be “ruined AFTER people buy them”.***

The level of drama. Yes, I recall sitting there for more hours than I did anything else in the game. These two pinups are the core of the game, after all!

coolbeans6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

rlow1's cringe catastrophizing aside, I do think developers *ought* to strive to maintain an original work to the best of their ability. The language of a "remaster" tacitly implies that - for good or ill - what's being resold is what fans remember but better.

Profchaos6h ago

Games can be ruined after purchasing them yeah we know this not from this but from GTA IV which had half it's radio content patched out due to licensing expirations and to me that was a huge deal.

This pin up poster is a bit of nonsense but the whole argument of modern games can be ruined post launch is Absol true.

DedicatedDark5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

It's not their work to censor. They are incharge of restoration & remastering the work, not overwriting it.

Barlos4h ago

It's not the agenda of the developer though, they're pandering and trying to increase their ESG score.

Way to support censorship...

victorMaje4h ago

It’s not the end of the world for sure, but I understand the hate towards this kind of change. I believe it’s also a matter of principle.

Imagine a Picasso painting being restored & the restorer deciding there aren’t enough strokes, or some lines aren’t straight enough or curved enough…not sure it would/should sit well with people.

Have all original devs signed off on this change? Even if it’s the case, are we saying older gamers are better mentally equipped to process what was there than current gamers, hence the change?

Enough time ago the case was made that games are an art form. We’re supposed to have won that case.
So which is it? Are games art or not?

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Eidolon4h ago

Hasn't this been happened for over a decade since remasters? I can't see that it's any worse now. Maybe if Sweet Baby starts getting their hands on remasters we will definitely have a problem.

Rebel_Scum7h ago

tbh I dont see something like this as censorship. Does anyone else not find it strange for someone to stick pin ups of themsleves in a locker room?

Now of it was a pin up of some half naked firefighters it might make sense as Lara might like that, and if they removed that I would cry censorship. But removing pin ups of the main character, yeah I get it.

Barlos4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

It's a game, and they were placed there for the audience. It's not real life. If it was, she wouldn't have fought a T-Rex now would she?

Yes, it's censorship but it's a bit less in your face. If they were in the original game, then they should have been in the remasters. It's bad enough that they have that ridiculous unnecessary warning at the start, but then they start removing things post launch. I don't care how small the change, they shouldn't be doing it. It's nothing but ESG pandering but in a subtle way.

Rebel_Scum3h ago

Look bro, if you have pictures of yourself naked on a bear skin rug up in your house let me tell you, its not normal.

jambola2h ago

I wasn't aware censorship was based on what made sense to you

Rebel_Scum1h ago

Likewise, what a stupid comment.

jambola1h ago

I agree
Your comment was pretty stupid

Rebel_Scum1h ago

I never said censorship is based on what I say dumbass. Just because I dont see this as censorship doesnt mean I’m saying others cant.

How about you come at me with your opinion rather than snarky comments with no thought on the matter.

SimpleDad4h ago

By the year 2030, this remaster collection will totally be changed and censored. Probably will remove Lara as a playable character. It's ridiculous. Glad that my family didn't buy this.
I still have Tomb Raider 2 PS1 as a memory.

jambola2h ago

Those shorts are a little revealing
Should probably make them snow pants

Barlos1h ago

They'll probably make her trans

CobraKai3h ago

It’s mentioned in the article, and it’s a point i 100% agree with, it’s the fact that they can censor a game after you buy it. That’s total bullshit.

Killer2020UK3h ago

Whilst it's an overreaction to say this has "ruined" the game, it's still problematic that this has happened post launch and for many, post-purchase.

I don't want someone to change a product for the worse after I've bought it. The same goes for implementing micro transactions after reviews.

I wonder why they did this? Nobody was kicking up a fuss as far as I'm aware.

maykhausonninh3h ago

Nobody was kicking up a fuss as far as I'm aware.

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Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster Review – You Are Your Job, Apparently

Gary Green said: In a time where an enhanced, 3D remake of Final Fantasy III already exists, it’s hard to argue that Final Fantasy III Pixel Remaster is the definitive version we were expecting. With Final Fantasy III already being the last in the series to be translated and make its way west, this is something of a slap in the face for the fans. Still, let’s not be disheartened. There may be many shortfalls in this edition of Final Fantasy III, however there’s no denying that this classic JRPG still holds some nostalgic value, even if it struggles to break away from its original hardware limitations.

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FACTUAL evidence8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

It’s funny I’m seeing these articles about pixel remaster, and I just platinumed 1-4 within 8 days lol. I’ve been on FF5 for about a week now. Let’s just say 5 was the start of FF having content like crazy. I should have the plat within 2-3 days.