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!
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...
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.