It will likely outsell it by a wide margin and continue to outsell it.
-cheaper
-more focused on gaming
-more "free" options (like free to play games actually being...you know...free)
-more games coming down the pipeline, both retail and downloadable games
-better reputation, both as a console and for the company behind it
-better versions of multiplats (remember how a certain group of gamers have been shouting for the last se...
It likely helps with cacheing or otherwise suspending the various system processes and whatnot.
Either way, it'll help take a load off the main processing hardware.
Exactly. What about it?
It's pretty clear that PS4 is the hot item among gamers right now.
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Launch numbers have far more to do with supply than demand. I can't remember a time when a console DIDN'T sell out at launch. The Wii sold out at launch (duh). So did the Wii-U. So did the 3DS. So did PS3. So did 360. Heck, I'm pretty sure even the Gamecube was a bit hard to find its first week. It mostly boils down to the supply.
With that said, we know that Xbox One is hav...
Seems like a reasonable way to go about it. Let everyone try the game out to see if they like it. They can buy more chararcters if they want, or they can just buy the Ultra Edition (which is pretty much like buying a normal game, right?) to get everything.
WAAAAAAY better compared to how CAPCOM and SNK sell you a new fighter for $50-$60 and then a month later turn around to nickel and dime you for color changes and a few extra fighters here or there.
After the Dualshock 4 was revealed, a lot of people had the realization that it wasn't the symmetrical sticks that was the problem (sooo many silly asymmetrical vs symmetrical articles over the last few years)
People realized the sloppy sticks, not the position of the sticks, are what they didn't like about the DUalshock 3.
I would be happy if Microsoft sold the Xbox brand.
Just stop and think for a moment.
Instead of Xbox being shackled to the bloated beast known as Microsoft, instead of having endless non-gaming features crammed in, instead of the Xbox brand being co-opted in favor of non-gaming visions (TV, advertising revenue, Bing) a company could take the Xbox brand and make it a gaming brand again.
I'd love to see that.
Let me reiter...
Depends on what you consider "impressive".
At retail, XBox One has more games. More. More impressive? That's up to you. PS4 does have the superior version of multiplats, and for the longest time (*cough*360*cough*) best multiplats was ALL that mattered to a lot of people. Surely, surely I am not the only one who remembers this type of conversation:
Gamer: "But there are hardly any new exclusives coming out for 360"
360...
For real. And this is announced after Sony revealed PS4 has native support for DTS-HD 7.1 Dolby?
Way to be the best media center on the planet, Xbox One...
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It really depends on why it can't support Dobly 5.1 on the optical port. It could be a driver issue (which can be patched and therefore support can be added) or it could be a hardware issue (if Microsoft used a cheaper/older type of optical port that does not support newer...
1 minute boot? Not a bad thing since most people are going to run it in standby mode.
But runs hotter? THAT is something to worry about, not only because of Xbox's poor hardware track record, but also because the system is going to be always on, always running (unless you want a 60 second boot up prior to every game session).
Possible hardware failures? We'll see.
Agreed. The last 3 years of the 360's lifecycle had months and months of "gaps" between worthwhile titles, especially after MS shifted focus toward Kinect. Hopefully Microsoft realizes that it was their behavior in the first 4 years - not the last 3 years - that allowed the 360 to become such a popular console.
Interesting stat tracking. Looks like PS4 is leading the pack by a sizeable margin. The two most anticipated games are coincidentally going to have "definitive" versions on the PS4. Twice as many people want to own the PS4 compared to the Xbox One.
And mind you, this is IGN, primarily focused on North America (not IGN.uk or IGN.aus). It will be interesting to see how these sorts of polls are in Europe, Japan, etc.
I've noticed just the opposite.
Known sites praising the PS4.
Smaller sites churning out endless "15 things broken on the PS4" articles.
A better response would be to stop caring about review scores so much.
So pumped to jump into this again. Played the main campaign on PS3, but I decided to wait for the Vita version before I explored all of the mountains of extra stuff.
Oh yeah. So many excellent indie games available and coming soon. Currently rocking out Spelunky. Waiting for Hotline Miami 2.
With the advent of cheap games and cheap consoles (Wii), I think there's definitely a market for a straightforward, inexpensive console platform. Sony needs to bring this to the West but they need to advertise it properly (Vita TV? No. Change the name, please).
Yo dawg, I herd you like Xbox One, so I put...
Yep. Vita keeps chugging along. I get so much playtime out of the thing. Currently waiting for Vita versions of Terraria and Minecraft.
Who is to blame?
Microsoft, for building a console incapable of handling higher resolutions (at least until better optimization is achieved)
Journalists like Sessler, for a ridiculous double standard.
That's about it. Gamers have a right to expect a jump from 720p (last gen) up to 1080p (this gen) if they're gonna drop $500 on a new system.