And maybe Nintendo agreed to do it because they're still establishing their Switch base.
Article states powered by a PS4 Pro, but it's worth noting Driveclub is not Pro enhanced - those are base PS4 visuals.
I think the thing is that PS4 has a base of 60M customers that can upgrade to VR. Currently less than 2% do and, well, let's just say it's not self sustaining YET. In a year how many xb1x's will there be? 5M is a generous estimate. 2% of that is 100k potential customers which is nothing. It doesn't even make $ sense unless they make it work on OG XB1 as well imo...
Arguing over whether XB1x will never support VR or if MS doesn't currently have plans to support VR is pointless. It'll be a long time if ever before you see VR on XB1.
The real reason is that they painted themselves in a corner. The OG XB1 won't support VR and the XB1x is priced to be a niche product. They won't have the customer base to make VR viable. After dropping $500 on an xb1x how much more for a premium headset? Sony has multiple years of planning and innovation behind their product, specifically designed to leverage the entire 60M PS4 user base, OG PS4 included, and it's still an uphill battle. This has nothing to do with computers bein...
If I were Sony I'd be breathing a lot easier after that presentation. Hardly any exclusives and the xb1x is priced out of reach for now. And no competition in the VR space. MS appears to be out of the game at this point. Filling time showing a new car and lots of indie games. For every indie game MS shows, PS will have 2-3 of them...
Maybe just me, but he seemed different during this e3. Didn't seem as genuinely optimistic and excited. I think he may be feeling defeated at this point.
Almost all new games I play are Pro enhanced somehow. Big games like BF1, Titanfall 2, and Horizon Zero Dawn look glorious on a Pro, even with a 1080p display. I also tried them on a 60" 4k TV, and holy crap! Just because some games don't have a patch out or they don't have a lot of config options doesn't warrant calling developer support lackluster as a whole IMO...
Sony is acting more and more like Apple imo.
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On BF1, going from 1440p to 2160p is 125% more pixels. Scorpio has a 44% TFLOP advantage over the Pro. That's just not enough to go native 4k on that particular game - it's not even close...
You're right, driving games could very well hit native 4k... They're typically not as resource intensive as other types of games. But I'd be very surprised if a game like BF1 ran at native 4k on Scorpio.
Marketing is great, I've just feel during this generation MS has taken it too far to the point of being purposely misleading at times. I really don't think they believed in the power of the cloud or that holo lens would be a marketable gaming device but they were tools to take the wind out of other companies' sails. Scorpio VR ready? What's that even mean? They're very clever, I'll give them that. But I find it disingenuous.
I think it's a testament to some effective marketing that folks feel Scorpio is "far beyond" the Pro (about 44% more TFLOPS) but the OG PS4 was only marginally more powerful than the OG Xbox (40% more TFLOPS). If you thought 900p was indistinguishable from 1080p you'll have an even harder time distinguishing between 1440p and something like 1800p...
What happened to this guy?
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"Play the game not the resolution" unless of course our resolution is better...
I personally like the rollercoaster feeling you get sometimes for the same reason I like rollercoaster. I took all the "safeties" off of Riggs and have a permanent grin when running around. It's awesome
Remember when the X1 and PS4 versions of Destiny were at nearly exact parity even though PS4 is at least 30% more powerful? Maybe the shoe will be on the other foot now...
Now that we know they really are expanding PS now, you can bet a mobile PS Now app is on the way.
I'm betting that's how it will be marketed. I'm sure there will be some incremental improvements due to technical advances over time. But this is just marketing speak to avoid the perception that they're late to the party.
And next year their VR solution will be the first TRUE VR experience
I bet they'll patch it to at least PS4 Pro levels. They never went back and patched Destiny for the Pro, but by that time Destiny had been out for quite some time.