"The DualShock 4 has one advantage that I didn't anticipate: The controller's built-in trackpad. (I know! The trackpad!) I play a lot of games with my PC plugged into the TV in my living room, especially around this time of year. While I can navigate some things using Steam's big picture mode, I still need to do a fair amount of mouse-clicking in between games: Checking for new graphics drivers, switching my sound output options, tweaking something in Nvidia control panel, etc. Fortunately, most of those things are single-mouse-click operations, and I can take care of them without putting down my controller."
Xbox employees are bracing for what follows more layoffs.
They really seem to believe every gamer cares about Call of Duty games, while so many gamers flocked to a service like Gamepass because they cared about all kinds of different fun genres to try out and enjoy.
Call of Duty holds absolutely zero value to me and many others.
These decisions about the gaming industry these past few years have been made by suits who just look at spreadsheets and buzzwords, and have absolutely no clue about what kind of industry they're in, and what ('classic') gamers want (from a console) ... which is a wide variety of games across different genres.
These suits just want everyone to stick to 2-3 genres they can sell to you as a service or subscription so they can keep monetizing the exact same thing over a longer period of time, and that simply is just never going to work, at all.
The industry is truly in a depressing era right now. Just look at a game like Forza Motorsport (full-scale SP career mode with plenty of tracks and cars) to see what was and what is now left of it (Always Online, barebones minimum of tracks, focus on online MP, etc) a hollow glossy shell of former greatness, because instead of releasing a game, they want to sell you a service and add stuff over the years to come ...)
Unless these studio-execs wise up about what a game console is, and what it should offer to most of us gamers, our hopes is now on indie-devs, as well as devs from emerging markets to pick up on these opportunities.
Yikes this is just keep getting worse ppl who Said Activision being bought under Microsoft was good for gaming where that at huh?
Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 4 remake sales are now at over 7 million units, Street Fighter 6 is at 3.3 million and more.
Warner Bros Discovery has revealed that sales of its action adventure game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, have been "disappointing".
No one to blame but themselves
Are they now getting it or they still going to push GaaS
The main thing I hate about this garbage, is that they gamble the livelihood of these studios by forcing them to do this when they don't want to. Then when it underperforms they shut them down for something they didn't even want to do in the first place.
Aside from my PS4, I also use my DS4's to game on my PC which I have connected to my TV. Works flawlessly.
xb1 controller is better.
It's the best controller I ever touched! Everything about that controller is amazing!
I've just bought an Xbone controller online for my PC about an hour ago. Managed to get a pad including play & charge kit for £32 (had to use my £12 ShopTo points before I lost them at the end of the month).
Really cant be arsed with the whole faff of using my DS4 with installing all the crap to fool drivers & programs that are needed to run in the background. Plus it gives my DS4's another excuse to tear the thumsticks & I'm waiting for a replacement for my 4th from ShopTo now so I'm trying every method possible to not use the pad if possible.
It also works fairly well with the ps3, even wirelessly.