@thefourfoldroot Indeed, I agree, but they all get counted the same when people are talking about console sales figures or working out who "won" a generation.
@Col_McCafferty I didn't "speak for PS gamers." I spoke ABOUT a subsection of PS gamers. Huge difference. I also made that clear.
I was speaking of the many, many casual players who default to PlayStation because that's what they know and have grown up with, and who rarely step outside of the FIFA/COD/GTA trifecta. They account for a significant number of console sales and are not going to be swung away from their platform of choice by the outside chance that Microsoft are going to make The Elder Scrolls and DOOM into platform exclusives. Which, I would wager, they're not going to.
And no, I'm not trolling. After the last/current generation, Microsoft are the underdog in terms of branding. Even with Game Pass, Microsoft are the underdog in terms of branding. Jeez...they've been the underdog in terms of branding since Mattrick decided that all people wanted from a games console was to watch TV. And branding puts consoles in living rooms.
Buying a company that likely isn't ready to dump a dozen titles onto the market for a year or more isn't going to change that overnight.
@Iroha "The thing that worries me the most about the purchase is the way that MS seems to be forcing us into a streaming/subscription future, instead of letting us get there naturally."
In fairness, they're not forcing anything. They're offering choice. Every title they put on Game Pass is available to purchase, with larger titles being available physically in stores.
Not a single title has been "exclusive to Game Pass" or "exclusive to xCloud." They are options. People can do what they want.
To even remotely think that Sony is "the underdog" because of this acquisition is baffling, to be honest. The man in the street who buys PlayStation because that's what he knows - which is a large percentage of buyers - probably isn't remotely interested in Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, or Starfield.
Plus they'll probably still launch on PS5 anyway. Microsoft might have a bunch of cash on the hip, but they're not about to shut off half of the income stream of a chain of companies that just cost them $7.5bn.
Hines says: "But the key point is we’re still Bethesda. We’re still working on the same games we were yesterday, made by the same studios we’ve worked with for years, and those games will be published by us."
I can't imagine anybody who has been swayed either way by a FIFA demo in recent years, in honesty.
You know what you're getting. An undercooked shiny new mode that absolutely nobody wants (like The Journey or Volta.) Minor improvements to Ultimate Team gameplay and options. New shiny Ultimate Team cards. Reintroducing things to gameplay that were removed in some version in the past and EA claiming that they're "new." No changes to anything else.
This year, there's not even an undercooked shiny new mode.
@naruball He didn't. He said that they believe in "generations" and that "we want to give PlayStation fans something new, something different, that can really only be enjoyed on PS5."
At no point did he say absolutely no PS5 games will also release on PS4.
But, the person I was responding to was saying that Phil Spencer is a liar because there are no Xbox One X native VR titles, which is - as far as I'm aware (although apparently there's a video that absolutely nobody seems to be able to find) - something he never claimed would definitely happen, either. My point was that it sucks to be shouting "I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR LIES" because you've misunderstood what was being said and just don't like the person.
@Porco Ooh, what a lot of lovely assumptions. I forgot you were in all the internal development and product management meetings for Scalebound and Halo Infinite.
I should have known better than to try to converse with someone who thinks "I reckon this thing I just thought of is true, so it definitely is!" and who drops "probably" in whenever he has no proof of anything.
@Porco Didn't need to answer it, because you're right. 100%. Can't disagree with it.
But "Sony has better studios than Microsoft" isn't the point you originally made. The original point you made was "Sony bought studios and that's good because a few years later, those studios started making good games. The ones that didn't got merged into other studios or just closed outright, but we won't mention those. Microsoft bought studios and that means they're not interested in growing and nurturing studios until they have a solid 1st party lineup."
And now you're out talking about individual titles. Can't disagree with Crackdown 3 or Sea of Thieves, though I imagine more people will play SoT than will play RIGS this week. Scalebound wasn't even developed by a Microsoft studio, so that's that one shot to pieces.
And if Microsoft doesn't nurture studios, why is Halo Infinite delayed? Surely, if Microsoft were such cold, horrid businesspeople who don't know anything, they would have said "This game MUST ship with our new console. Covid be damned! Get to work!"
But no. They've delayed it and potentially lost a LOT of day one console sales. Why? Because the massive anti-consumer company that doesn't know a thing about development and just throws money at everything knows that the product will be better for it.
But there's no point talking when you don't even know what point you're making, other than SONY GOOD MICROSOFT BAD GRRR BLEEDBLUE!!!oneone!!11eleven! I'll have fun playing Sony's games on my PS5 and Bethesda's games on my Xbox Series X because like, there's no law against owning and liking both like a grown up.
@Porco Nah, your point is still nonsense. Mainly because it was trying to compare 800 different sets of circumstances and time periods to eventually try to spit out "Sony good, Microsoft bad."
Your point was:-
1) Sony has acquired some studios that were already making pretty decent games and then threw money at them over the next few years until they started making triple-A behemoths. That's somehow talent, as opposed to just hiring 2,000 new development team members by offering them...y'know...money.
2) Microsoft bought a bunch of studios this morning and hasn't had time to do a single thing with them yet because it literally only happened today...THAT'S NOT TALENT. TYPICAL MONEYHAT MICROSOFT.
As I say, it's nothing but your blinkered "Sony good, Microsoft bad" with a pretty hat on.
@thefourfoldroot Yes, I've seen that presentation. Where they present Xbox One streaming to the Oculus via a Windows 10 PC.
They delivered on that. The app is available. Anybody who expected to be able to plug their Oculus into the Xbox One X completely misunderstood what was being said. Even though they said Xbox One streaming was "a feature that's only possible through Windows 10" in every statement during and afterwards.
I sadly purchased this. I sadly played this. I sadly finished the campaign mode in a few very short hours.
Didn't lose a single match and the AI never even attempted a pinfall or submission during the entirety of the campaign. The biggest challenge in the game was trying to throw people out of the ring in a Royal Rumble match, because the Irish Whip command pretty much ignores your directional input.
On the upside, completing the campaign and playing one single 30-man Royal Rumble is enough to get yourself all of the trophies...so...yay?
@Porco I completely agree. It doesn't require any talent in the same way that it didn't require any talent to buy Psygnosis, Eidetic, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games, Zipper Interactive, Sigil Games Online, Gaikai, Evolution Studios, Bigbig Studios, Media Molecule, Sucker Punch, Audiokinetic, Insomnic Games, or Incognito Entertainment.
@thefourfoldroot Will you forget Jim Ryan's insistence that Sony believes in generations and no PS5 games will be releasing on PS4, though? I'll bet that you will. The long and short of it is that you're taking particular umbridge with Microsoft because they are Microsoft.
As for Oculus, I don't recall Microsoft saying that the One X would have integration with Oculus. The "industry" suggested it would because Oculus had a deal where they shipped Xbox One controllers - which are basically universal for PC players who want to use a controller - with the device. Microsoft also launched the streaming app to let folks use the Oculus like a TV and play Xbox One games on it. You can't go out and accuse somebody of lying because they didn't deliver on a rumour that they didn't even start.
I've got no dog in the race as I'll have both consoles on preorder, but come on, man.
@Jester1701one At what point has Microsoft said that all Bethesda games are now Xbox-exclusive, please? If you wanna make a return on your $7.5b investment, locking people out of purchasing the product wouldn't be the greatest of starts.
I would suggest you read the facts before you start with the name-calling.
@SLEEVExOFxWIZARD Given that Microsoft and Bethesda have clearly stated that Bethesda will still be publishing their own games - a fact that 99.9999% of people seem to have missed - I don't think it does mean that the games will definitely be exclusive.
But people are going to react first and look at facts later, as always. :/
@suikoden Ah, I see. I'll be honest and say that I don't even have to click that link. I've visited that site more than a few times in the past and am familiar.
I'm going to take a guess. 8,000 words. Lots of comparisons to movies/directors. Paragraphs of being insulted at how "American" the game is and how insulting it is to Japanese people (or in this case, I imagine, to real Samurai.) Words italicized for no real reason. A generous feeling of "you don't know as much about videogames or Japan as me, reader" running all the way through it.
I think I'd go crazy with this many physical copies in my house. I have one shelf of physical games and I view them as taking up too much space. Especially when I've got at least as many games as are on the shelf installed digitally on each of my PS4/Wii U drives and 200+ XO titles on an external drive that's the size of a couple DVD cases.
Hats off to Valtteri, and good luck! I could never be the man that buys a physical copy of Putty Squad or Angry Birds Star Wars. You're a better man than I.
@Neolit "I hope the enlightenment has long lasting effect of you not looking for and giving attention to minute rants on sites not in your area of responsibility."
Indeed it has had a long lasting effect. Although "don't engage with trolls" is actually what I have (re)learned.
I shall continue to reply to any posts made on a public comment forum (which would be an example of you "initiating a dialogue" with the community, as it goes) without requiring permission from anyone to do so, thanks.
@Neolit As an editor, I do care, which is why I have no problem calling it backwards compatibility. As stated before, the expectation from users is that the system allows you to play Xbox 360 games on Xbox One, which is exactly what occurs. Regardless of what's done by Microsoft/publishers to make it happen.
If we're calling things what they are, how dare anyone refer to a system update as a system update? It should be called "downloading and extracting a new version of the firmware to replace the old version in order to provide new functionality, bug fixes, and other system-level changes." After all, it can't convert a PlayStation 3 into a PlayStation 4, can it? So it isn't strictly able to "update" my system. Call it what it is!
(Also, part of my job is to not arbitrarily change the name of services provided by the company that I cover, solely to please the single person I've ever seen have a problem with that name. My job is actually make sure that my writers use the same terms as the company, in order to avoid confusion.)
Anyway, I'm out. Thanks for the conversation. It was enlightening.
@Neolit I'll ignore the childish snark (I'm the Editor of this site's sister site, PureXbox. I assure you that I don't need to read up on how backward compatibility works on Xbox One) and just ask you one simple question: Who cares?
WHY does it matter? What difference does it make to ANYONE whether Microsoft calls it "backwards compatibility", "future retro", "retro future", "software based platform emulation" or "digital monkey barrels"? You can play Xbox 360 games on Xbox One. That is what people expect when they hear "backwards compatibility." That is what they get. So you have to download the game code bundled with an optimized version of the O/S. So what?
I really don't see what difference it makes, but hey, maybe I'm not looking to poke needless holes in it all.
@Neolit Not to derail things, but the reason it's called "backward compatibility" is because Xbox One owners can play games that they owned on Xbox 360, without having to buy anything or do anything other than put the disc in the drive, or choose to install a game from the list. They may be recompiled, but they're still Xbox 360 games that work on Xbox One. To pick holes in the name is just pedantic.
Also, just because someone writes something positive about the service, doesn't mean that it has been paid for by Microsoft. I have written several positive articles about it and haven't been paid a dime. I dislike the accusation that the only thing I'm allowed to do is put my blinkers on and write negative diatribes about Microsoft, otherwise I have somehow been paid off. By accusing writers in that way, you're accusing ALL writers. Sammy writes positive articles about Sony. Does he get paid for them by Sony? Of course he doesn't. How about the Nintendo Life guys? Do they get paid to say nice things about the Wii U? Of course they don't. Please bear in mind that there are actual PEOPLE with opinions and feelings who are writing these articles, before throwing around accusations.
Back to the topic, and happy birthday, PlayStation 4! I've enjoyed using mine for sure. Resogun, DriveClub, Rocket League, The Last of Us...good times...good times. About to get cracking on the Nathan Drake Collection, too.
@BLPs It isn't to do with expectations or fixing anything, sadly. The simple fact is that no matter what Sony do to fix any problems that have persisted in the past, they can't ever totally rule out hardware failures or DDOS attacks.
Always nice to have a feature that tells people what the state of the network is. It reduces calls/emails/tweets to customer support, and it doesn't cost them very much to do. Surprised it took them this long!
@get2sammyb Yup, me too. Really, really enjoyed the characters and the setting all the way through, but I'd have been glad to wait two more months for them to actually finish the game.
I'm guessing that one day, Ubisoft will learn how to promote a game that releases outside of the Christmas period. Far Cry, Rogue, Unity, Shape Up, The Crew...all releasing within a four week window. It's borderline ridiculous.
I actually like this...I just don't get why the metal slime character thingamy needs to plug into a USB port, though? Is it just to keep it in place, or does it actually do anything?
I just hope its stronger than the Dreamcast and Mega Drive bags that they launched. Owned both. The DC bag's zip broke within about 3 days, and the strap on the Mega Drive bag snapped after a month despite it not being anything like overloaded. Unless you call a 500ml bottle of Pepsi and an A4 jotter pad "overloaded", that is.
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Re: Second Wave of PS5 UK Pre-Orders Are Quick to Sell Out
@phil_j Agreed. Everybody is shouting about the PS5 selling out and the demand being incredible, and the Xbox Series consoles going the same way.
But it doesn't make a bit of difference until we know if the platform holders are giving retailers hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of units.
Re: Reaction: Bethesda Acquisition Is a Kick in the Balls for PS5, But Sony's Goals Won't Change
@thefourfoldroot Indeed, I agree, but they all get counted the same when people are talking about console sales figures or working out who "won" a generation.
Re: Reaction: Bethesda Acquisition Is a Kick in the Balls for PS5, But Sony's Goals Won't Change
@Col_McCafferty I didn't "speak for PS gamers." I spoke ABOUT a subsection of PS gamers. Huge difference. I also made that clear.
I was speaking of the many, many casual players who default to PlayStation because that's what they know and have grown up with, and who rarely step outside of the FIFA/COD/GTA trifecta. They account for a significant number of console sales and are not going to be swung away from their platform of choice by the outside chance that Microsoft are going to make The Elder Scrolls and DOOM into platform exclusives. Which, I would wager, they're not going to.
And no, I'm not trolling. After the last/current generation, Microsoft are the underdog in terms of branding. Even with Game Pass, Microsoft are the underdog in terms of branding. Jeez...they've been the underdog in terms of branding since Mattrick decided that all people wanted from a games console was to watch TV. And branding puts consoles in living rooms.
Buying a company that likely isn't ready to dump a dozen titles onto the market for a year or more isn't going to change that overnight.
Re: Reaction: Bethesda Acquisition Is a Kick in the Balls for PS5, But Sony's Goals Won't Change
@Iroha "The thing that worries me the most about the purchase is the way that MS seems to be forcing us into a streaming/subscription future, instead of letting us get there naturally."
In fairness, they're not forcing anything. They're offering choice. Every title they put on Game Pass is available to purchase, with larger titles being available physically in stores.
Not a single title has been "exclusive to Game Pass" or "exclusive to xCloud." They are options. People can do what they want.
Re: Reaction: Bethesda Acquisition Is a Kick in the Balls for PS5, But Sony's Goals Won't Change
To even remotely think that Sony is "the underdog" because of this acquisition is baffling, to be honest. The man in the street who buys PlayStation because that's what he knows - which is a large percentage of buyers - probably isn't remotely interested in Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, or Starfield.
Plus they'll probably still launch on PS5 anyway. Microsoft might have a bunch of cash on the hip, but they're not about to shut off half of the income stream of a chain of companies that just cost them $7.5bn.
Microsoft is still very much the underdog.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@GilbertXI Sure thing - https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/09/21/were-still-bethesda-says-vp-pete-hines-following-news-of-microsofts-acquisition
Hines says: "But the key point is we’re still Bethesda. We’re still working on the same games we were yesterday, made by the same studios we’ve worked with for years, and those games will be published by us."
Re: FIFA 21 Won't Have a Free Demo for the First Time This Generation
I can't imagine anybody who has been swayed either way by a FIFA demo in recent years, in honesty.
You know what you're getting. An undercooked shiny new mode that absolutely nobody wants (like The Journey or Volta.) Minor improvements to Ultimate Team gameplay and options. New shiny Ultimate Team cards. Reintroducing things to gameplay that were removed in some version in the past and EA claiming that they're "new." No changes to anything else.
This year, there's not even an undercooked shiny new mode.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@naruball He didn't. He said that they believe in "generations" and that "we want to give PlayStation fans something new, something different, that can really only be enjoyed on PS5."
At no point did he say absolutely no PS5 games will also release on PS4.
But, the person I was responding to was saying that Phil Spencer is a liar because there are no Xbox One X native VR titles, which is - as far as I'm aware (although apparently there's a video that absolutely nobody seems to be able to find) - something he never claimed would definitely happen, either. My point was that it sucks to be shouting "I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR LIES" because you've misunderstood what was being said and just don't like the person.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@Porco Ooh, what a lot of lovely assumptions. I forgot you were in all the internal development and product management meetings for Scalebound and Halo Infinite.
I should have known better than to try to converse with someone who thinks "I reckon this thing I just thought of is true, so it definitely is!" and who drops "probably" in whenever he has no proof of anything.
Enjoy your hatred, man.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@Porco Didn't need to answer it, because you're right. 100%. Can't disagree with it.
But "Sony has better studios than Microsoft" isn't the point you originally made. The original point you made was "Sony bought studios and that's good because a few years later, those studios started making good games. The ones that didn't got merged into other studios or just closed outright, but we won't mention those. Microsoft bought studios and that means they're not interested in growing and nurturing studios until they have a solid 1st party lineup."
And now you're out talking about individual titles. Can't disagree with Crackdown 3 or Sea of Thieves, though I imagine more people will play SoT than will play RIGS this week. Scalebound wasn't even developed by a Microsoft studio, so that's that one shot to pieces.
And if Microsoft doesn't nurture studios, why is Halo Infinite delayed? Surely, if Microsoft were such cold, horrid businesspeople who don't know anything, they would have said "This game MUST ship with our new console. Covid be damned! Get to work!"
But no. They've delayed it and potentially lost a LOT of day one console sales. Why? Because the massive anti-consumer company that doesn't know a thing about development and just throws money at everything knows that the product will be better for it.
But there's no point talking when you don't even know what point you're making, other than SONY GOOD MICROSOFT BAD GRRR BLEEDBLUE!!!oneone!!11eleven! I'll have fun playing Sony's games on my PS5 and Bethesda's games on my Xbox Series X because like, there's no law against owning and liking both like a grown up.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@Porco Nah, your point is still nonsense. Mainly because it was trying to compare 800 different sets of circumstances and time periods to eventually try to spit out "Sony good, Microsoft bad."
Your point was:-
1) Sony has acquired some studios that were already making pretty decent games and then threw money at them over the next few years until they started making triple-A behemoths. That's somehow talent, as opposed to just hiring 2,000 new development team members by offering them...y'know...money.
2) Microsoft bought a bunch of studios this morning and hasn't had time to do a single thing with them yet because it literally only happened today...THAT'S NOT TALENT. TYPICAL MONEYHAT MICROSOFT.
As I say, it's nothing but your blinkered "Sony good, Microsoft bad" with a pretty hat on.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@thefourfoldroot Fair play. I'd be interested to see it, as I honestly can't remember that.
Re: WWE 2K Battlegrounds - Rubbish Wrestling and Microtransactions Galore
@johncalmc Maybe not. I played it on Xbox and got the full 1000 Gamerscore, so was making an assumption.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@thefourfoldroot Yes, I've seen that presentation. Where they present Xbox One streaming to the Oculus via a Windows 10 PC.
They delivered on that. The app is available. Anybody who expected to be able to plug their Oculus into the Xbox One X completely misunderstood what was being said. Even though they said Xbox One streaming was "a feature that's only possible through Windows 10" in every statement during and afterwards.
Re: WWE 2K Battlegrounds - Rubbish Wrestling and Microtransactions Galore
I sadly purchased this. I sadly played this. I sadly finished the campaign mode in a few very short hours.
Didn't lose a single match and the AI never even attempted a pinfall or submission during the entirety of the campaign. The biggest challenge in the game was trying to throw people out of the ring in a Royal Rumble match, because the Irish Whip command pretty much ignores your directional input.
On the upside, completing the campaign and playing one single 30-man Royal Rumble is enough to get yourself all of the trophies...so...yay?
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@Porco I completely agree. It doesn't require any talent in the same way that it didn't require any talent to buy Psygnosis, Eidetic, Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games, Zipper Interactive, Sigil Games Online, Gaikai, Evolution Studios, Bigbig Studios, Media Molecule, Sucker Punch, Audiokinetic, Insomnic Games, or Incognito Entertainment.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@thefourfoldroot Will you forget Jim Ryan's insistence that Sony believes in generations and no PS5 games will be releasing on PS4, though? I'll bet that you will. The long and short of it is that you're taking particular umbridge with Microsoft because they are Microsoft.
As for Oculus, I don't recall Microsoft saying that the One X would have integration with Oculus. The "industry" suggested it would because Oculus had a deal where they shipped Xbox One controllers - which are basically universal for PC players who want to use a controller - with the device. Microsoft also launched the streaming app to let folks use the Oculus like a TV and play Xbox One games on it. You can't go out and accuse somebody of lying because they didn't deliver on a rumour that they didn't even start.
I've got no dog in the race as I'll have both consoles on preorder, but come on, man.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@Jester1701one At what point has Microsoft said that all Bethesda games are now Xbox-exclusive, please? If you wanna make a return on your $7.5b investment, locking people out of purchasing the product wouldn't be the greatest of starts.
I would suggest you read the facts before you start with the name-calling.
Re: The Elder Scrolls, Fallout Developer Bethesda Bought By Microsoft
@SLEEVExOFxWIZARD Given that Microsoft and Bethesda have clearly stated that Bethesda will still be publishing their own games - a fact that 99.9999% of people seem to have missed - I don't think it does mean that the games will definitely be exclusive.
But people are going to react first and look at facts later, as always. :/
Re: Round Up: Ghost of Tsushima Reviews Are Sharp As a Samurai's Blade
@suikoden Ah, I see. I'll be honest and say that I don't even have to click that link. I've visited that site more than a few times in the past and am familiar.
I'm going to take a guess. 8,000 words. Lots of comparisons to movies/directors. Paragraphs of being insulted at how "American" the game is and how insulting it is to Japanese people (or in this case, I imagine, to real Samurai.) Words italicized for no real reason. A generous feeling of "you don't know as much about videogames or Japan as me, reader" running all the way through it.
Am I close?
Re: Round Up: Ghost of Tsushima Reviews Are Sharp As a Samurai's Blade
@Its_Carl_Y-all Yeah, doesn't it suck out loud when people have opinions?
Re: Burnout Creators Developing New Racing Game for PS4
I like how they've released screenshots that use a font that make it look like a Chinese-made mobile knockoff title.
Re: The Last of Us Remastered Readied for PS4 Pro Release
I shall be playing through this again for darned sure.
Re: DriveClub VR Races at a Reduced Rate for Seasoned Veterans
As a season pass owner, I'll be taking them up on this deal for sure.
Re: E3 2016: Dead Rising 4 Will Probably Release on PS4 Next Year
@adf86 Fair enough. Dead Rising 2 shipped 2.5 million, and the original did 1.7 million.
Re: E3 2016: Dead Rising 4 Will Probably Release on PS4 Next Year
"this is franchise no one cares about" - Not sure I'd agree with that. DR3 shifted almost 2 million units.
Re: Review: Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia (PS4)
@jmbenetti Eurogamer don't give scores, so they didn't give it a 7.
Re: Feature: This Man's PS4 Collection Is Bigger Than Yours
I think I'd go crazy with this many physical copies in my house. I have one shelf of physical games and I view them as taking up too much space. Especially when I've got at least as many games as are on the shelf installed digitally on each of my PS4/Wii U drives and 200+ XO titles on an external drive that's the size of a couple DVD cases.
Hats off to Valtteri, and good luck! I could never be the man that buys a physical copy of Putty Squad or Angry Birds Star Wars. You're a better man than I.
Re: Shoryuken Handle This Street Fighter V PS4 Bundle?
Just popped in to give you a round of applause for that headline.
Stellar. Just stellar.
Re: A Huge Happy Birthday to the PS4 on Its Second Birthday
@Neolit "I hope the enlightenment has long lasting effect of you not looking for and giving attention to minute rants on sites not in your area of responsibility."
Indeed it has had a long lasting effect. Although "don't engage with trolls" is actually what I have (re)learned.
I shall continue to reply to any posts made on a public comment forum (which would be an example of you "initiating a dialogue" with the community, as it goes) without requiring permission from anyone to do so, thanks.
Re: A Huge Happy Birthday to the PS4 on Its Second Birthday
@Neolit As an editor, I do care, which is why I have no problem calling it backwards compatibility. As stated before, the expectation from users is that the system allows you to play Xbox 360 games on Xbox One, which is exactly what occurs. Regardless of what's done by Microsoft/publishers to make it happen.
If we're calling things what they are, how dare anyone refer to a system update as a system update? It should be called "downloading and extracting a new version of the firmware to replace the old version in order to provide new functionality, bug fixes, and other system-level changes." After all, it can't convert a PlayStation 3 into a PlayStation 4, can it? So it isn't strictly able to "update" my system. Call it what it is!
(Also, part of my job is to not arbitrarily change the name of services provided by the company that I cover, solely to please the single person I've ever seen have a problem with that name. My job is actually make sure that my writers use the same terms as the company, in order to avoid confusion.)
Anyway, I'm out. Thanks for the conversation. It was enlightening.
Re: A Huge Happy Birthday to the PS4 on Its Second Birthday
@Neolit I'll ignore the childish snark (I'm the Editor of this site's sister site, PureXbox. I assure you that I don't need to read up on how backward compatibility works on Xbox One) and just ask you one simple question: Who cares?
WHY does it matter? What difference does it make to ANYONE whether Microsoft calls it "backwards compatibility", "future retro", "retro future", "software based platform emulation" or "digital monkey barrels"? You can play Xbox 360 games on Xbox One. That is what people expect when they hear "backwards compatibility." That is what they get. So you have to download the game code bundled with an optimized version of the O/S. So what?
I really don't see what difference it makes, but hey, maybe I'm not looking to poke needless holes in it all.
Re: A Huge Happy Birthday to the PS4 on Its Second Birthday
@Neolit Not to derail things, but the reason it's called "backward compatibility" is because Xbox One owners can play games that they owned on Xbox 360, without having to buy anything or do anything other than put the disc in the drive, or choose to install a game from the list. They may be recompiled, but they're still Xbox 360 games that work on Xbox One. To pick holes in the name is just pedantic.
Also, just because someone writes something positive about the service, doesn't mean that it has been paid for by Microsoft. I have written several positive articles about it and haven't been paid a dime. I dislike the accusation that the only thing I'm allowed to do is put my blinkers on and write negative diatribes about Microsoft, otherwise I have somehow been paid off. By accusing writers in that way, you're accusing ALL writers. Sammy writes positive articles about Sony. Does he get paid for them by Sony? Of course he doesn't. How about the Nintendo Life guys? Do they get paid to say nice things about the Wii U? Of course they don't. Please bear in mind that there are actual PEOPLE with opinions and feelings who are writing these articles, before throwing around accusations.
Back to the topic, and happy birthday, PlayStation 4! I've enjoyed using mine for sure. Resogun, DriveClub, Rocket League, The Last of Us...good times...good times. About to get cracking on the Nathan Drake Collection, too.
Re: October 2015 NPD: PS4's Halo Slips as System Slumps to Second Defeat of the Year
@Carl-G 1 million physical copies. In one country. Digital purchases not counted.
Re: PlayStation Dominates EDGE's Greatest Ever Games
@get2sammyb So do I. Vanquish is a fine, fine game and absolutely deserves its place on this list.
Re: Weirdness: This DriveClub Razor Needs to Be Seen to Be Believed
I can't help but feel there's a missed opportunity for a pun about shaving seconds off your laptimes...
Re: Blitzball in Final Fantasy XIV Online? It May Be Considered
Well, they've got my interest for sure! LOVED Blitzball
Re: DriveClub's Getting a Free Tour as Part of a New PS4 Update
Nice! Free content is always good
Re: Is PSN Down in Europe? You'll Be Able to Find Out for Yourself Soon
@BLPs It isn't to do with expectations or fixing anything, sadly. The simple fact is that no matter what Sony do to fix any problems that have persisted in the past, they can't ever totally rule out hardware failures or DDOS attacks.
Always nice to have a feature that tells people what the state of the network is. It reduces calls/emails/tweets to customer support, and it doesn't cost them very much to do. Surprised it took them this long!
Re: Sony, Why the Heck Have You Moved the PS4's PlayStation Store Icon?
That's crazy. Was absolutely fine where it was!
Re: What a Load of Rubbish: BioWare Can't Say When PS4, PS3 will Get the Dragon Age: Inquisiton DLC
Same guy Tweeted that it will be out in May a little while after tweeting this.
Re: Talking Point: How Important Is Game Length?
@Radbot42 I respectfully disagree.
That's sort of like saying that because it takes just as long to drink, a bottle of champagne should cost the same amount as a bottle of water.
A short game can be well worth the money. Look at Journey as an example. Then compare it to pretty much any other title that costs the same amount.
Re: 1942 Inspired Shooter Aces of the Luftwaffe Rated for PS4
You had me at "1942 inspired."
I'm sold.
Re: Weirdness: Don't Pimp Your 20th Anniversary PS4 Like This
Proof positive that people shouldn't be allowed to have things.
Re: Feature: Four of Assassin's Creed Unity's Most Gloriously Ghastly PS4 Glitches
@get2sammyb Yup, me too. Really, really enjoyed the characters and the setting all the way through, but I'd have been glad to wait two more months for them to actually finish the game.
I'm guessing that one day, Ubisoft will learn how to promote a game that releases outside of the Christmas period. Far Cry, Rogue, Unity, Shape Up, The Crew...all releasing within a four week window. It's borderline ridiculous.
Re: Sony's Wackiest PS4 Hardware Bundle Scores a Wackier Trailer
I actually like this...I just don't get why the metal slime character thingamy needs to plug into a USB port, though? Is it just to keep it in place, or does it actually do anything?
Re: Weirdness: You're Going to Want This Nifty PSone Bag
I just hope its stronger than the Dreamcast and Mega Drive bags that they launched. Owned both. The DC bag's zip broke within about 3 days, and the strap on the Mega Drive bag snapped after a month despite it not being anything like overloaded. Unless you call a 500ml bottle of Pepsi and an A4 jotter pad "overloaded", that is.
It's a shame - I really like the design of this.
Re: Sorry! PlayStation Plus Will Play Host to Plenty More PS4 Indie Games Yet
Wow - Binding of Isaac is a fantastic game! Genuinely surprised it will be part of PS+ in November. Looking forward to that.
Re: Feature: What Are September 2014's Free PlayStation Plus Games?
Easy now, everyone. Let's keep this civil all up in here.
Re: Poll: What Did You Think of the Sony PlayStation Gamescom 2014 Press Conference?
@Demi_God "Again, sorry for Tomb Raider fans, but Tomb Raider never has nor will it ever sell consoles."
I seem to remember it shifted a HECK of a lot of PSOnes in Europe.