Steven Strom provides his opinion on EA's response to PlayStation 4's used game policy at E3 2013.
With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?
Unless they are trying to kill their recently created PC business, I would advise against opening a dedicated PC store. It's an extremely hard endeavor, and people, in general, are very comfortable with Steam. Even Epic, with their billions of dollars invested, is still struggling to find a foothold, and they have Fortnite.
Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming.
It's just a known fact. The PC gaming community prefer Steam and Steam alone. They don't like different launchers. I personally don't mind them. But majority just stick with steam. Hence why EA and Ubisoft went back to on releasing on steam and why Microsoft release games on steam as people hated buying from the windows store.
The only other launchers that I imagine are doing ok is GOG due to being drm free and epic games due to the free games every week. Sony shouldn't release any sort of pc launcher n
This is just another ridiculous double standard article.
It's like how Microsoft can spend 20 years of making nothing but gaas and live service style games to sell microtransactions, dlc and subscriptions and get praise for doing it, but if Sony wants to make a single game like that every website under the sun is writing articles saying how Sony is anti-consumer or whatever.
"Driver was a technical achievement for PS1, a pioneer in cinematic gaming, and an often brutal challenge - TechStomper asks if its brand of 70s car chase antics still holds up."
Sadly youd be hard pressed to find any driving game with better physics these days. But the draw distance really kills it for me
Gran Turismo for PlayStation launched a sub-genre and revolutionised console racing - TechStomper asks is it still worth playing in 2024.
I'm not big into sim racing, but I got sucked into the hype for this one from magazines back then. I just played arcade mode and that was enough for me to feel like I got my money's worth.
Yeah, it's definitely worth playing today. GT 2 has a few interesting fan made graphical mods when played on an emulator as well.
Cars back then had much more personality then those we see today. Modern cars all about the led lights and the tablet size screens and they all seem alike, back then they could be simpler in design but had tons more personality.
That Corvette Stingray to this day is one of the most ferocious whips ever driven. Overpowered against other cars yes. But to drive it and be that close to losing control, but being in command around those curves, just can't be duplicated.
HiFi mode is also something I miss. There should be a mode in today's GT where it's Mano o Mano and the detail and resolution jump full throttle. In today's games, Max Ray Tracing and lighting and textures to make it look even more real..
Not according to Former Playstation president Jim Ryan for he told Time that he doesn't see why anyone would play old games given the advancements in fidelity achieved today.
https://time.com/4804768/pl...
Lol, EA going with the flow, even though they would have been happier if they made more money out of our used games. No one is greedier than EA, I'm sorry
Even when microsoft didn't impose DRM EA did, and they scraped their online restrictions hoping that MS influences sony to go DRM, but thank god they didn't and they are going to reassess their stand.
Edit: @muerte I meant when it came to the 360. I don't deny ms is greedier and arrogant right now
I can see publishers moving towards x1 because they adopted their policies but consumer moving to ps4 because they selected their interests. Next-gen will be interesting!
publisher well always move to where the gamers are as they are the ones that buy the games that make them $$$
look at wiiU no one wants to make games for it because of the low install base so devs/publishers are not flocking to it.
hence they go where the ppl are as they are the ones buying what they pump out
If bf4 has DRM on Xbox one you bet
It will be on the ps4 version or there won't be a ps4 version
Another a great news for Sony and guess from who ?! Microsoft ...Microsoft Even making it WORSE !
Asian gamers will jump on PS4 !
According to Alan Bowman, Microsoft's Regional VP for Sales andMarketing in Asia, the new console will launch in Taiwan,Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and India around late 2014 , These are all regions that have been marked as gaming high-growth areas byMicrosoft -- the VP added that the Xbox 360 became the top-selling console in Asia this year.
The company's also pointed to its next-generation Kinect sensor, one that will work in "dramatically reduced" room spaces and, according Bowman, will be better attuned to Asian gamers who might not have living room space in their homes.
What !?