Originally Posted by Warsaw
It doesn't look like I'll be getting this thing. There were a couple of things I was looking for in the next console.
- BluRay - I never bought a dedicated DVD player. I used the PS2 to watch my DVDs. Back then, dedicated DVD players ranged from 100 to 200 USD. The PS2 controller was a superior remote control as well. When I got my xbox to increase our Halo LAN player pool size, I used it for DVDs to keep from switching inputs all the time. The 360 replaced it when I got that since it upres'd better. I didn't get a PS3, and my OEM BR drive in my PC requires me to purchase a license in the form of any third party BR player software to have the codecs for me to watch the one bluray movie I got (Kill Bill I/II for 5 bucks). Fuck that. I'm glad I didn't dump money into a more expensive title first. The next console I buy will need to fill in where my DVD consoles did for BR.
- Do something I don't already do. Sadly, this is pretty much what it comes to for games. I'm very picky when it comes to games, and if a game is cross platform to PC I'll wind up buying it there. The only exception I've made for this would be Mirror's Edge. For some reason I feel that game is made more for console than PC. Origin games from EA are also something I'll buy on console over PC, but that's for the sake of fuck origin. Netflixbox is pretty much what my 360 turned into. Eventually I gave that up and hooked it into my Ultrasharp, so it's not even that anymore. TV.in is cool and all, but I don't watch TV anymore. It's all commercials and reality TV shows. History channel is no longer history, et all.
- Work how I want it to work when I want it to work. If I want to play at my desk with the thing hooked up to one of my ultrasharps passing audio through my PC, I don't want to be riddled with having to do special things with Kinect/Move. I want to be able to sit at arms length from my screen leaning back with my feet up on the desk. If I go to a LAN, I dont want some random fucker passing by to say, "Xbox off". I've already laughed at Microsoft on this one because it takes the console away from esports. A year or two ago, I went without home internet for about seven or eight months. Fortunately, I was in school and was able to make use of a connection there. I played the Reach beta in the labs while rendering across six workstations. I played the Reach SP enough that when I finally signed into Live to play multiplayer, I lost rank and suddenly go no more experience from SP missions (pretty much killed any desire for me to play the game anymore right there). I dont want to be bogged down with online requirements and right now the VP over xbox has said that the console needs auth at least once a day to work.
- Do something to make me look cool. Owning the thing won't cut it here since I'm not in <strike>high</strike>middle school anymore. Pretty much all that's left in this regard is to push my CryEngine stuff to the console. For the current gen, that involves a stupid amount of paperwork, an office phone line (for some reason), and an upfront licensing fee for good measure. That's after the approval process is finished :\. Sony talked about the PS4 being friendlier to indies. On the surface it means they don't inject themselves into your iterations to make sure you know how to make a game, but the benefit to this is easier platform licensing. If you've got confirmation on platform licensing with a console dev, Crytek hands you the folder for synching to the console. Should that happen to the PS4, instabuy for me.
Doesn't VLC play Blu-Rays now, removing the need for premium decoder software?
Yep, PC gaming is sounding really good about now.
I thought they did, but I've yet to get it working.
The most important thing from the release is that 343 and Steven Spielberg are teaming up to make a live action Halo TV show.
I am viewing that with copious amounts of salt. If it's as cornball as the Forward Unto Dawn miniseries was, his reputation could be sullied forever...like the next M. Night Shyamalan.
I'm on the fence about that entire thing, we'll see how it turns out.
I'm not very knowledgable about this kind of stuff, but I will admit that the inclusion of Bluray might be convincing enough for me to stick with Microsoft. There's no real difference between the consoles nowadays anyways.
Looks like junk, based on what they showed yesterday. The controller looks uncomfortable. The X360 controller looks better for ergonomics. The new controller's dark tones are nicer, but the XYBA buttons are ugly as hell. Put them back to the signature jewel design.
Lol, good job M$.
They definitely need to unfuck themselves for E3 because this is pretty much all I got out of it:
Hell, even Sony's stock value went up after the reveal today.
And let me just say this before a new thread gets dedicated to it: CoD Ghosts is a steaming pile of crap. "Pushing the genre forward" but they showed nothing new. The engine looks like the next iteration of the engine they used for all previous CoD games. Really, you'd think with the amount of money Activision rake in they'd be able to get someone to actually create something that presents itself as next-gen.
BC1 looked fucking better than this:
Last edited by Amit; May 22nd, 2013 at 01:20 AM.
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