Playeressence's Furious Francis delves into why Sony and MS need powerful systems, and how the Wii U games will be more than enough for gamers.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.
How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.
It's just backwards.
What your talking about is called block list
In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback
Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.
But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".
"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)
I think Microsoft and other game publishers are letting people go because they think ai will replace them. Doesn’t matter how much profit they make. They were always going to be let go.
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
What this author needs to understand is no matter what you say Nintendo are going Hardcore so they made a powerful affordable console in the WiiU,just because games are colourful doesn't mean you don't need powerful hardware ? in the gamecube era Nintendo calaborated with 3rd partys and made them version superior that's what's happening again so all this talk of Nintendo don't need powerful hardware doesn't take away the fact the WiiU is a powerful powerful hardware Randy Pitchfords words and considering the games ive seen and with Gearbox making an UE4 FPS on wiiu,and AMD confirming a modified E6760,it sure looks like all 3 will have dx11 comparable graphics or you wouldn't be seing Xenoblade or Beyonetta looking that good.
The Wii U isn't meant to compete against the PS4/720. Like the Wii - it'll be a system where consumers might consider to buy it alongside another system.
thats absolutely true cause nintendo is about selling uniqueness and new ideas while sony and microsoft are more into selling prettier images and pixels to satisfy fanboys
The Wii U does need to be Powerful.
Its like If someone ask you for something to drink.
There 2 ways one can approach it.
You can Give me what you think would quench my thirst
or you can ask me what would quench my thirst.
In this case, Nintendo didn't even bother to ask us what we wanted gaming wise, instead they gave us what they wanted which isn't satisfactory.
Basically what he said was, Nintendo fans care more about games and not as much about graphics, thus don't need a 'powerful' system.
Sony/MS fans care about games, but also hold graphics at a very high level, thus need a 'powerful' system.
In this sense he is sort of correct. The Wii U isn't as powerful as the PS4/720, but the PS4/720 aren't that powerful either. Not when the PS4 rumored specs top out at 1.8 TFlops, something achieved by midrange cards of 2011, and a CPU far worse than a $269 i7 920 from 2008.
I think all three will be fine, but I also suspect there's going to be some whining, and most will come from the PS4/720 crowd. Some really want the PS4/720 to actually be powerful, but they simply won't be, and when some figure that out they are going to rage.
There is going to be a huge gap between the strongest console and a mid range PC, whereas there was a small gap between the consoles and a top end pc when the 360 launched.
The midrange GPU card in 2013 should be 4-6 TFlops. That blows the PS4's 1.8 and the 720's 1.2 TFlops out of the water. When you consider dual gpu's and SLI/Crossfire, the 720 already might be only 1/10th-1/12th the power of a ultra top end PC. Since an ultra top end might push 15 TFlops.
Then take these numbers and realize they'll grow by 60-100 percent every year, and the numbers get absolutely crazy by 2015-2016, even for mid range GPU's.
All the systems will be good, but there's a segment of the PS4/720 crew that want to buy power, and that thirst will not be quenched.
Hopefully they grow up a bit, but seeing all the 'wii u' is dead articles and everyone thrashing it while knowing very little I don't see it as very likely. They have the biggest surprise when the so called 'real next gen' systems are only 2-3x what a Wii U is. 720 2x, and PS4 3x.