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The E3 Press Conference That Won PS4 the Generation

The PlayStation 4 has hit its 5th anniversary, so let’s look back on how it started with a bang.

ApocalypseShadow1985d ago (Edited 1985d ago )

E3 2013 in a nutshell
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
https://m.youtube.com/watch...

Dat Samurai Jack killed it. Trent was a show stealer and mic dropper.
https://m.youtube.com/watch...

By the way,good article.

darthv721984d ago

that was pretty funny and MS certainly deserved to get knocked down a peg or two. but in all seriousness, all the xbo was guilty of, when it came to used games, was you having to buy them from an authorized retailer (like gamestop). So it didnt really stop you from buying and playing used games, just from passing them around in the open market. I buy a lot of used games and mostly through GS so it wouldnt have bothered me but i didnt like their not giving the consumer the choice to pass them around in the open market.

I did like their game sharing idea though. I buy a copy and then digitally share it with others. I liked doing that on the PS3 and was keen on MS supporting the same idea but that was nixed as well when they "flipped the switch"

yomfweeee1984d ago (Edited 1984d ago )

Being forced to buy/sell used through Gamestop would be worse than going full digital.

Instead of trying to sell a used game for $55 like they do now you'd only get a $2 discount if they cornered the market.

Instead of them offering $20 for a brand new game, they'd offer you $10.

rainslacker1984d ago (Edited 1984d ago )

Oh...is that all?

Not the required internet connection? Or the Kinect used to gauge your reactions to ads so it knew what kinds of ads to target towards you, which they actually promoted as a feature? Not a included Kinect that no one wanted? Not the potential for them to charge you per viewer for a streamed rental....which again they talked about as a selling point?

And sure...the used game restrictions were really only preventing you from passing around games. not taking a cut of the sale if you decided to trade them in, or sell them to another person...essentially making it over-complicated, and restricting the market.

Yeah, i can see your point. Nothing wrong with any of that stuff except the used games.

"not giving the consumer the choice to pass them around in the open market. "

Even if that is all they were guilty of, that's more than enough. And their game sharing wasn't part of E3. That was a scramble attempt to try and justify their DRM policies, and it was never explained well, and seemed impractical considering that publishers wouldn't even allow Sony to allow game sharing with 5 games. It actually seemed like they hadn't even intended to do that, or at least didn't have that finalized.

During that time, I hardly saw a single person defend MS over what they were doing. Even the media was all over them for all those slights above. It's cool you want to rewrite history, but you are in the extreme minority of thinking on what they did wrong. It cost them the generation, and people aren't going to forget because a few people on the internet try to make it seem like it wasn't such a big deal.

DevilHunterDante1984d ago (Edited 1984d ago )

Aah I remember this press conference with Jack Tretton. It was epic. The crowd were literally chanting SONY SONY SONY at the end. I think KH3 got announced too.

rainslacker1984d ago

It was a tear jerking moment really. Jack looked so humbled and happy the people were happy. Kind of a shame it was his last E3.

MWH1984d ago

I think that was the moment that cemented Sony's momentum, and of course the tsunami of great games that came after.

The 360 was an amazing console, in my opinion it was last gen's best and to see how MS managed to shoot itself in the foot like this is disheartening but they deserve it, maybe they learn how not to let idiots lead the way.

PhoenixUp1984d ago

PS4 would’ve won the generation regardless

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Make your next GPU upgrade AMD as these latest-gen Radeon cards receive a special promotion

AMD has long been the best value option if you're looking for a new GPU. Now even their latest Radeon RX 7000 series is getting cheaper.

Father__Merrin16h ago

Best for the money is the Arc cards

just_looken15h ago

In the past yes but last gen amd has gotten cheaper and there new cards are on the horizon making 6k even cheaper.

The arc cards are no longer made by intel but asus/asrock has some the next line battlemage is coming out prices tbd.

Do to the longer software development its always best to go amd over intel if its not to much more money even though intel is a strong gpu i own 2/4 card versions.

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PlayStation Doesn't Need a Dedicated PC Store Launcher

With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?

thorstein2d ago

No, and they already solved any need with the overlay that's coming.

Vits2d ago

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.

just_looken1d 4h ago (Edited 1d 4h ago )

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.

ocelot071d 20h ago

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

Nitrowolf21d 18h ago (Edited 1d 18h ago )

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

Tacoboto1d 15h ago

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...

ocelot071d 12h ago

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.

Giblet_Head1d 4h ago (Edited 1d 4h ago )

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.

Einhander19721d 18h ago (Edited 1d 18h ago )

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.

derek1d 11h ago

Yep, huge double standard look at the tortured reaction to the ps5pro, websites hyperventilating like Sony is forcing people to buy it.

just_looken1d 4h ago

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

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