GamerVet Hockey Glory says his piece about Xbox One rumours:
"Well, it’s been days since the Xbox One reveal and there seems to be a boatload of negativity. As an Xbox fan (I believe I’m the only one who writes for this site who DOES NOT have a PS3), I agree and disagree with various aspects."
Wardens Rising is looking like a promising new take on the ARPG genre, especially when played with friends.
"The Bristol-based (the UK) indie games publisher Auroch Digital and indie games developer Positech Games, today announced with great happiness and thrill that their hit-political title "Democracy 4: Console Edition", is coming to consoles (PS4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch) via digital stores on June 5th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Set to bring action adventuring to PC and console, Mark of the Deep is a narrative rich game which mixes in some decent ideas
...Better performing, don’t have many mandatory installs, better online...."
Now you will have mandatory install for a whole game from Blu-Ray!!! Yeah!!!
I stopped reading here:
"It’s not like we are comparing two systems with a huge disparity in specs."
The PS4 GPU looks to be significantly better both in terms of fillrate (16 v 32 ROP's) and shader power (768 v 1152), those aren't small differences which will go unnoticed in games.
Add to that all of the other gamer orientated improvements Sony have made to their architecture (and unified GDDR5).
excellent article hockeyglory. Very unbias and straight to the point. You did your homework well and backed it up with some good points. I will be looking forward of seeing more from you.
"Xbox 360 games using ancient DVD discs holding a fraction of storage space seem better as a whole"
More like: Xbox 360 games using ANCIENT DVD DISCS HOLDING DEVELOPERS AND THE PS3 BACK FROM MAKING/GETTING BETTER GAMES.
Just take a look at the PS3 exclusives.