Inaba made the comments in an interview with UK site NowGamer.Inaba said: "Japan is not as influential as it once was. When you compare Japanese developers with European developers, I am sure there are many different opinions, but I personally think that in many ways, European developers are starting to grab the lead in the industry."
8K UUHD with path tracing at 5000 FPS is great, but what if you only have $300?
So the BG3 guys found an optimization for all other platforms by way of the little engine that could... interesting.
Read the article headline and think “this sound like a Microsoft own site “ click on it read windowscentral and almost spayed my boss with water 🤣
Now about the article I’m not going to read it🤷🏿
"[...]but what if you only have $300?"
Apparently you would have to keep saving money. LOL no seriously. The console they show for this article cost $350. The irony...
I didnt know you could spay using water. That's such a common procedure so maybe they can now?
But why your boss though?
A mid-mid-gen upgrade will never be called a new gen console, no matter how you put it or how many excuses you try to make up.
In this case why bother cause they could have started with XSX, which was out only 1 or 2 years..
We need proper experiences worthy of new gen of consoles. XSS is a laughable attempt..
Y'all can add Lords of the fallen to the list of titles that PS5 outperforms series x.
Yup. Way too much advanced asset management for the Xbox to handle with that one.
The typical "it's holding us back" argument aside, from a sales perspective, the S is selling way more than the X (wasn't it like 75% of total?), so you could make the case that if it wasn't for the S, Xbox would have like 25% of the sales they have now...
Not necessarily. If the S wasn’t there, maybe the X would have sold more units as there was no option?
In the end it’s anybody’s guess with the “if’s” and “but’s” imo.
Crazy that they're only around 5 million Series Xs out there compared to PS5's 40 million.
Xbox has shown they couldn't give a shit about hardware, which is a shame and one of the reasons I feel like if you own a PC there is 0 point in having an Xbox. They want game pass on everyone's phone, PC, TV, fridge, you name it. They are a software company first and foremost.
Eventually the end goal will be game pass on Playstation and they can sack off consoles altogether, whether Sony would be up for that, highly doubt it, but that's their end game in my opinion.
Yah highly doubt playstation would ever allow that. It's like Mcdonalds allowing their big macs to be sold at burger king. Kind of like their intent to buy nintendo, nice thought but never going to happen.
Exactly why i didn't get a series console, it was time for a new pc i just needed a reason to bite the bullet. Im always putting off buying a new pc and just upgrade and upgrade but it was time and GPU came with gamepass so win win i guess. I was going to get a series x but ps5 seemed like a better option when i considered my pc.
I seriously doubt we will see gamepass on PS5. Things have been getting crazy lately so its not a definite but i just cant compute Sony going along with the idea.
I personally think CoD is the start.. they'll buy up IP to back Sony into a corner and give them no choice. Want Call of duty and Elder scrolls on your platform? Along side Halo, gears Forza and all the other shit tonne of IP we own? Brill, we will leave the console business, but you put game pass on Playstation like you've done with EA play.
Makes perfect business sense to me. I wouldn't want that to happen, I'd rather they focus on making games that compete with Sony, but Phil already said they will never outsell Sony, similar to how they'll never outsell Apple when it comes to hardware. They'll go down the windows route and get all of their software on any available platform. Steam Deck, playstation, switch 2, whatever.
Mark my words that shits coming.
From now on then that's what I'll see it as...just an option.
In other words ..all mainline PS5 consoles are much more powerful than the mainline Xbox series console...
So yet again PlayStation holds the most powerful console and gamer share.
Wait, how does that make PS5 more powerful than Series X? Please explain that logic?
I have both systems, but that makes zero sense
@GamerRN
No point trying to reason with fanboy logic. By extension, they're implying that the Switch was the most powerful console last gen.
This is what happens when you have people jumping the gun for some quick doom and gloom headlines. Not to mention getting opinions from devs that were possibly frustrated that they would have to do some extra tinkering for the S. And to an extent, rightly so. But the optimization and trades are there to make a game play on the S. It's a budget console and it should be treated as such.
But I have to laugh at the rest of the crowd who actually told people that the S was holding back this gen and pretended to be shocked that the S wouldn't have the bells and whistles that the X or PS5 would.
It's almost as if they were reaching, hard.
@attilayavuzer
they look a lot better while having a weaker console than the X, that alone should tell you everything
Did you forget the original pr blurbs for the s? What about the original announce video that ms then privated after launch? You know ms over promised on the s and it has caused problems, too many devs have claimed it for it to be a lie.
https://youtu.be/u6ftY7t8bJ...
"This means that the xbox series s delivers the same next gen experiance and features as series x, just at a reduced resolution"
All you need is a handful of games to do that for the statement to be true. It's like sony putting 8k on their box.
@Hole "All you need is a handful of games to do that for the statement to be true". Bullshit....it should ve EVERY game because that's what was promised.
Seriously fox? How many times have we seen the series s version with more than just a resolution cut? Almost every single release has way more than that done to it.
Isn't 8k printed on the xbox chip and it's box? hasn't had a single 8k piece of content though has it? So it's more like that, no 🤔
The S means there will never be a current gen. game built specifically for the SX. Most devs and publishers don't have the talent to optimize like BG3.
BTW, I only game at 30,000 fps...This article is a stupid take. The only thing good about the S is that it kept MSXbox way below 2nd place.
We already know 2023 has been a banger year for video games, but we now have the stats to back it up.
author could have mentioned final fantasy 16 but instead mentions hi fi rush as a below 90 game that's decent. although i agree with the main sentiment that the industry is volatile and there are a lot of layoffs. The author of this article only talks about recent events when it suits him or her.
Completely disagree. Tbh the best game of the year comes out tomorrow. Star ocean 2 remake, to this day one of the best jrpg, and the best space rpg
Nah, 2007-2008 was legendary, but it's been a pretty good year. I'm hoping for good announcements too at the VGAs
There is a generation of low paid game “journalists” that weren’t cognizant of the gaming industry in 2007-2008.
I promise I'm not TRYING to.be contrarion with this comment bit I bought FF16 and couldn't finish it. To me the story seemed boring compared to classic FFs and seemed as though it was more interested in being a game of thrones clone than a true final fantasy. Just my opinion.
Interesting. I've played/tried every FF and its the only one since 7 with a good story to me, mainly because its finally devoid of any weaby cheesy dialogue.
The creator of the Bayonetta franchise Hideki Kamiya appeared in an interview and discussed the plans for the future of the series.
I would say the western world in general is taking hold of the industry. There aren't enough games being made this gen by the east. Who cares about originality if a game is great.
The Leader in graphics. not every thing else. people must know what makes the game is graphics music presentation gameplay story etc.
It's great that each territory is coming out with different types of games.
I may be a little bias, but I do think the most creativity is coming from Europe.
Most of the innovative, impressive (western) games tend to be coming out of Europe, though Canadian developers aren't doing half bad, either. In general, I think it's just that the gaming industries in Japan and the United States have become too big, too profit-driven, to really be able to think outside the box, or bring much of anything new to the table.
Conversely, there are developers in Japan and the United States that are pushing the boundaries. Games like Fl0wer, World of Goo, Uncharted, Valkyria Chronicles, Persona, RoF and more are taking gaming in exciting new directions, while certain European developers are able to package up so much drivel, and call it innovative--Heavy Rain, Fable II. It's really a bit of a mixed bag. There's no superiority in any one area--just superior individuals here and there, drowning in a sea of mediocrity.