Sony have announced the sale of the 7 millionth Playstation 4. Impressive stuff - but how does that stack up against the Xbox One?
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Although the late 2000s Turok wasn't my favorite, I would love a new entry. Open world survival with shotguns and dinosaurs. Not sure how we'd get the fusion cannon, but that would be pretty sweet too.
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All of these games are pretty much universally praised. Outside of Timeshift I literally own all of these.
XIII, The Darkness 2, Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Timesplitters: future perfect, Bulletstorm are awesome games
Windows Central: "Titanfall 1 is being sunset, taken off storefronts by EA. While the servers remain live for now, one has to wonder just how much time it has left. I look back and pay tribute to the last "twitch"-styled shooter I ever truly loved."
Sales for the original Titanfall are being discontinued.
It will be pulled from subscription services on March 1, 2022.
Physical media. Unfortunately the way games are going these days game servers will eventually be shut down and you can stare at the menu and wish you could play the game again.
This is why reading is so important. Nothing to do with digital or physical media. The game, which is online only, is being delisted because of DDOS and other hacker attacks. The case got so bad that only six players in the world log on. For PC. Rather than fix it, they continued to sell the game, broken as it is, and only now just decided to call it quits. But please, go on thinking what you will.
I'm aware of the DDOS attacks and that this case is not typical. This game would eventually have it's servers shutdown regardless of the current situation so that is a moot point. My comment was in a general sense and that there are instances in which games can be preserved physically when official support ends.
Let's recap your first sentence. I said, "the way GAMES are going these days" indicating a broader stroke than just this game. I agree, reading IS important. I was simply stating the obvious downsides of the digital marketplaces and online only trends in games these days. I could even make the argument that the online only offering which has allowed hacker manipulation has impacted the preservation of this great game. My comment is valid in the general sense and thank you for your permission to continue to think what I will.
Sony. PlayStation is winning the console war. Microsoft doesn't have any offical numbers beyond the 3 million in January so by default, Sony is winning. Its not even because it sold more (even though it did). Its winning because there is nothing official to compare it to.
Essentially its Sony because they have clawed back the market share they lost with the last generation. The US now has a small difference between the two and this is a huge victory for Sony especially since it managed to keep Europe with a healthy proportion of the market. The US (and in part the UK) were a key region for Microsoft with the 360 (in the US the 360 sold roughly double what the PS3 did)
Pretty lame article, also funny how he thinks "...the Xbox One has narrowed the gap..". Maybe they put a tiny dent in the US gap for March, but WW the gap is still steadily growing.
The winner is and always will be the multi-console owner, you know the one that has no hate towards any of the companies and gets to experience all the games. <sigh> This is N4G and sadly I know how it goes here.
Seriously this is a question.... Sales wise it's not even a debate but we will see in a few hours if MS has reached/pasted their shipped numbers (3.9m) from march.
"so slightly less (but interestingly, they say that Microsoft still ended up with more cash because of the higher price of their console)." - At this point they're not making as much as they would due to XB1 costing more to make without including kinect in the equation and adding the bundles MS have been doing for a while now.
"According to The Graun, in the UK the release of the game led to an increase in Xbox One sales by a huge 96%. But this is for the UK." - Yh according the mcvuk the PS4 also increased by 74% just for being in stock in the same time frame. Add increased 106% thanks to I:SS. But without the previous data for all the above cases the percentages a bit useless.
http://www.dualshockers.com...
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/r...
"Personally, I'd wager that the PS4 is still slightly head, but the Xbox One has narrowed the gap" - The PS4 is ahead by about 4m units when talking sold through numbers obviously that number will be closer to 3m thanks to TF.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/...
The only way they are catching PS4 at this point is with a price drop, some major megatons and selling very well in China because Europe as a whole doesn't benefit them that much.