During Electronic Arts’ quarterly financial conference call, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Wilson commented about the upcoming release of PlayStation Neo and Project Scorpio.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't think AI will reduce employment or lower development costs, and calls it "stupidest thing" he's ever heard.
They already have AI trained to do coding.......
How he thinks it's stupid is beyond me, Especially since we see it happening in real time.
I think maybe sometimes we give people in these positions too much credit when it comes to intelligence.
As long as it doesn't effect his inflated executive salary or his ridiculous bonuses I'm sure he's fine with it.
As PlayStation announces its new strategy to encourage PC users to choose PS5 it is a bitter-sweet moment for PC gamers.
I mean, it's a business based on hardware market. Do we expect them to not even try? It's not like Nintendo doesn't do the same by not putting any games on PC and Microsoft until recently did the same. I don't care what they attempt, as long as they don't abuse the community or lie about their goals/requirements.
Will it work? Not likely. Should we care? No. Let them waste their time, it doesn't affect anything.
I wish them the best of luck.
But PC players are often a patient bunch, many will even wait for Epic launcher exclusivity to end until a game comes to Steam.
If they didnt buy the console when its games were exclusive, why would they do it now theyre not?
PC gamers are just too patient and loyal to their gaming set ups, something they've spent a lot of money on to perfect. They have backlogs of games which many never get round to finishing or get round to at all and will always have other multiplatform releases to keep them going.
Over the many years Sony has published so many awesome titles such as The Last of Us, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Infamous, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Dreams, Puppeteer, Resistance, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo, Motor Storm, God of War, Horizon, Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Bloodborne
If none of those games BEFORE all these PC ports convinced a hardcore PC gamer to get a PS5 console then why on Earth would porting them them to PC now make any difference? All PC gamers now know 100% is that they just have to be patient, which they are good at anyway to get a PS5 game 2 years later.
I get GaaS games or multiplayer focused titles but if people really want to play these games they'd have gotten a PS console years ago.
Who cares? Then just stay on PC and play the waiting game. No big deal. Sony wins in the end anyway.
I mean if there's any single player Sony games that I actually want that aren't on PC then I would buy said console to play them on. But the ones that I like that aren't on PC are few and far between anyway so no loss for me.
If I game, it's usually multiplayer titles, otherwise I like playing around with some other software.
ARK: Survival Ascended has introduced Premium Mods on consoles. Wccftech talked to Studio Wildcard and their partner Overwolf about the rising importance of user-generated content, especially for live service games.
EA is misunderstanding why these mid generation refreshes are happening. It isn't because Sony or Microsoft want to upgrade the power of the systems, it's because AMD is discontinuing the lines that make the processors for both of these consoles and the only way for Microsoft or Sony to keep those lines open and continue making the current processors, is to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, which would negate the ability to lower the price of the systems. So, in order for them to move up into the new fabrication, it also requires the boost in system power due to it being the minimum spec of the newer line of processors.
Microsoft making the Scorpio is just them trying to get ahead of Sony, to try to gain some ground back financially. Though, Microsoft has stated that developers cannot make games that specifically take advantage of the Scorpios hardware… Which makes absolutely no sense at all. Why make the system if you are only going to allow marginal upgrades to the games you can play on it?
I think Sony is going to give Microsoft Scorpio and then make a brand-new generational leap system, that developers can take full advantage of without limiting any aspect, in 2018.
Just my two cents, take it for what it is… Which is pure speculation.
I really don't like the idea of an "infintie hardware upgrade cycle". I don't want to be updating my consoles every 2 years. Devs also need time to develop AAA games, to iterate and to take advantage of the hardware. If consoles are being "refreshed" every 2-3 years then we'll end up with single game franchises. For example, take Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Days Gone, or even No Man's Sky. I'm hoping for sequels to these game within this console lifecycle, but if devs are having to work towards new specs every 3 years, it's harder to make the most of the hardward and iterate on a franchise. I also think it's just a little bit ridiculous from a consumer perspective to have PS4 Neo come out this year, and then in 3 years there's the PS4 Neo 2 that'll then be coming out etc etc.
wait what?
"At a macro-level we’re excited about what Sony and Microsoft have announced."
What have Sony announced?
I don't think that's what they are going for at least sony the NEO is a PS4 just a premium version. Wen the PS5 comes out in a few years It could have a premium version out along side it or none at all because the NEO will force the PS5 to massive specs EA's way just leaves game design and advancement stagnant and they will put out the same crap every year..