Francis "Xipher" Nunez Writes:
Today has been a very eventful day for gaming. As many of you out there in the interwebs may know this week witnessed the unveiling of Sony’s new next generation console, the Playstation 4 or PS4 as we all call it. Sony brought with it a slew of new franchises, new games in popular franchises, and introduced services to their consumers. PS4 let the X-Bone (X-Box One) know who’s boss. I’ll try to cover all the bases for the new console in this article for you!
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
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.
Money is one thing security is another but again millions have 0 knowledge past 2020.
Epic store for years struggled with a shopping cart/account theft/credit card theft
Rockstar launcher/store to this day over 5 years later still has horrific user interface security flaws lost account's and stolen CC
Then you got that activision need phone number oh we lost it launcher
The crown jewel is the ea launcher/store ea app 3 yrs old still has hundreds of threads were people lost games/accounts/game access or just straight up crashes.
Edit" Oh ubi launcher were you buy a game that may or may not be there again or work and the launcher 5yrs old still has no 4K support if you launch it on a 4k screen there is a high chance it will just crash.
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
It literally says in the OP that PC gamers don't like multiple launchers lol. It even mentions Steam being the go to for gamers
Title: "PlayStation Doesn't Need a Dedicated PC Store Launcher"
N4G: "Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming"
When you don't even read the headline...
I read it and had a brain fart. As read the title then this "With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?"
So I hold my hands up on that mistake. Rest of my comment still stands.
Steam and GOG are highly preferred because of the rich feature set. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Epic etc have all set a precedent over the years for customers to instinctively expect individual publisher launchers to be so extremely half-assed that the majority simply don't want to bother dealing with what is almost an inevitable disappointment by comparison to Steam or GOG. Those publishers and their inaction or general disinterest to improve have effectively ruined any future adoption to be taken seriously.
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.
Yep, huge double standard look at the tortured reaction to the ps5pro, websites hyperventilating like Sony is forcing people to buy it.
Wait my xbox from 2004 has avengers gaas on it? wow your so smart
m$ Gaas started with the other companies like sony
Gamepass yes they are deep into that but its still a huge money saver sense you do not own your games then get a service like that.
Now there pc xbox launcher that is trash for years now
"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."
@Shane Kim
Well, I mean the driving physics hold up. The draw distance, police AI, visuals in general etc do not
One of my all time favorites on PS1. I spent a summer vacation playing this was so good
Sadly youd be hard pressed to find any driving game with better physics these days. But the draw distance really kills it for me
The physics hold up ridiculously well. And the draw distance is a real hurdle at first.
Nonsense. The physics in any modern game or any 360 game is light years beyond Driver.
My thoughts exactly. I bought it at release for full price and got frustrated and bored with it very quickly.
They didn't come to play, they came to win!
I love Sony; I have since the PS1 came out, and their games have always been the best to me. Of course this is a matter of personal opinion so please spare the nonsense.
yeah it was good... I had prices in my head where I would go to each console.. Lets just say Sony hit it right on the head, and Xbox missed badly...
thing is people are on here talking about hyporcrites becasue sony fans were all jacked about the ps3 and all its options, and now they are "flipping around" about the bared down ps4 and how Xbone is a full media device.
But its not hypocrisy, it goes something like this for me. PS3 had a bluray which I already wanted, it had free online which i wanted, it was all bluetooth and backwards compatible, which I wanted. Due to this I was willing to pay a higher price, 649 to be exact.
XBone, I didn't want the kinect camera, which they make you get, didn't want to pay to play online - no choice, and didn't want DRM (although it's not as big for me with cable internet)... and its 549 (estimated cdn) plus online fees .. above where I was willing to go. Also voice features are useless I run a full surround system with logitech remote.
PS4 - doesn't come with the eye, which I dont ever want, has slightly better specs (may not matter much), still bluetooth everything, pay online, which I don't want, but is 449 (cdn) which is BELOW where I was willing to go... so the Plus subscription is a bit of subsidy there, ok, i get that and you get free games so that's a bit better too.
It's weird but it's like Sony stole all MS good ideas and ran with it... and MS is repeating PS3 launch mistakes...That's it, my decision is pretty much done.
It's sad that the issues Sony addressed even had to be. I can't believe MS is doing all of this DRM always online BS.