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Specs are a game of compromise. I trust ND to make the right decisions.

Microsoft are absolutely killing Sony strategically. Project Morpheus is just going to be another flop that drives users to the competition. We need to start seeing what Sonys doing that is actually BETTER than it's comp. The games coming out on the PS4 might be better currently, but that won't matter in a year or so. If I was the editor of this website I would seriously consider my long term plans. Won't be much to write about when PlayStation is the small player.

@ShogunRok Agreed that it's all a bit... Hmmmm.

@LordBagardo I have a couple of mates who recently moved to the UK and lame is not the description they gave of a few of the concerts they have been to haha! I do know what you mean though. I don't want to give NZ a bad image but it's certainly true that this behavior happens.

@LordBagardo Im from NZ but currently live in Brazil. I may have gone a little overboard by saying I see it at every festival I go to but its far from an uncommon sight. I do probably go to more concerts/festivals than the norm though. I can think of two times off the top of my head in the last couple years where this exact thing happened. Issues with sound right from the start and the crowd didn't want a bar of it. I guess the difference was that I didn't think it was out of place at all in the video whereas you thought it was.

@themcnoisy In case you haven't noticed, home consoles have required increasing amounts of patches, downloads, firmware updates, server fixes etc. Sounds a bit like a PC to me...

I think you will find that there is an ever increasing thirst for change for how we purchase and consume entertainment media, including gaming. Sony knows this, that's why they are pumping so many resources into streaming. However it seems that EA have the same idea, and NVIDIA, and Steam, and Apple, and Google, and MS, and everyone else in the market. Sony's brand name will only hold them so far until consumers realise that they can get their favourite games elsewhere. Who do you think will win in the digital age?... Hang on.... brb.... just going to check if PSN is online.

@LordBagardo. Definitely lucky. This happens at almost every festival I go to. Change of set, next band, crowd is agitated and ready to let their emotions fly.

This is the future and im sorry if you can't see/accept that. All EA is doing is cutting out the middleman. Eventually we will either be streaming all our games or they will be run on PC console boxes under our TV's. Both of these scenarios see EA not reliant on one particular hardware manufacturer (e.g Sony). Playstation is becoming irrelevant (rah rah rah 10 billions PS4s sold rah rah) and they are just slowing down the inevitable. Yes, this needs to be on PS4. Yes, I hate where the gaming industry is going.

@Jaz007 There is a normal mode for multiplayer.

I think this first person video mode is a great idea. I think it will surprisingly make you feel more like a rock star as you progress through the career mode. Better than the same old same old all over again anyway.

And @LordBagardo you haven't been to many concerts have you? I have seen crowds change moods as quickly as that many many times.

Not entirely sure how it all works but maybe this memory was reserved for Near integration, similar to how StreetPass has CPU reserved specifically for it. Now that Near is out of the picture its not an issue.

Haha! That online gaming part really gave me a chuckle! In all seriousness though, I do understand the appeal of these games. Never played one myself mind you.

I absolutely love dying in games. It means that my skill needs to improve to proceed. Nothing worse than games that I can play through first time or only die here and there for silly reasons. Unfortunately many modern games are like this. Bloodborne sounds like a fantastic game. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

@Pipr As much as I love THPS I would also prefer a new SSX. Some of my fav PS2 games and I feel the PS4 could really use a good game like that.

This is just another example of why Sony are going to be left behind in the digital era of gaming. Their strenghts simply dont lie in the areas where gaming is moving.

@get2sammyb Friendly heads up, amiibo is never capitalised. I think you made that mistake in a previous article too.

Im curious about other peoples experience.
My father-in-law just purchased a PS4 (don't ask me why. He wasn't even aware he had to pay for online play. PS4 is selling very well, very strangely) so I now have far more frequent access to use one.

I played around with The Playroom for a good amount of time last night and was incredibly disappointed. It's recognition seemed pretty archaic and it most certainly had lag between my movements and on screen. It may have been my set up... couch, lighting etc.

Is this the experience most people have? How on earth can the Project Morpheus be any close to good if its using this technology? The reaction from people who have used it seem to be fairly positive so im genuinely confused.

@JLPick Yea, servers shutting down so soon is a disgrace. It currently more or less is a subscription service by forcing players to upgrade but by formally making it a subscription model it would create better consumer expectations.

Why not just set up a subscription service? It's already heading in that direction.

Jumped the shark?

@ztpayne7 My comment was in response to Gamer83 talking about the current gaming industry. Consumers hold the power in any given market. People stop purchasing this crap and the industry will change. The gaming consumers are demanding top of the line graphics, online services additional features year in year out that are pressuring these developers to do what they are doing. Yet when the inevitable downsides to this happen e.g delays, bugs, dropped frames, closed servers etc the same people have an outcry. If you are dead sick of all this crap stop purchasing the crap products. Play an older version of NBA and enjoy it until the developers realise that these current issues arn't good enough. There are currently many games out there that have none of these issues that desperately need support yet many people are turning a blind eye to them because they don't have RAWR POWAH. This current generation of candy crap consumers is the issue. True gamers are suffering. Rant over.

EDIT: Mallof summed up my comment far more succinctly than I did.

@Gamer83 No, the consumers need to wake the hell up.

@rockman29 Duke 3D almost makes me like the Vita. Almost...

@get2sammyb "Obviously we didn't know what to expect when we posted this. I certainly wasn't expecting... This." Lol! This certainly is very bizarre.

@NathanUC Interesting?? I think we may have been watching different videos...

@Shellybird27 Over the top. Not TOO over the top

That second Goro fatality is perfect. Not too over the top like some of these new ones.

@BLPs This was a job description for a senior FX artist....

Good luck Sony, you're gonna need it.

@charlesnarles Why is it so bad now? Maybe because there are two very good previous iterations in the series that arn't skins.
The only noobz here is the person who thinks that the amount of repetitive iterations of games hasn't increased in the last couple of gens. This is simply people showing their displeasure in the current attack of the clones.

@Jazzer94 For me personally, simply having a third person perspective wont be enough. COD (I don't play them so i can't remember which one) had a third person view but it was still just COD.

@BertoFlyingFox Yea, na I didn't mean you explicitly stated it was copy and paste that's why I used the hypothetical "would". I mentioned that in case that's where the convo was heading.

Oh right, so you just meant that Battlefront found inspiration in Battlefield. Not that it was actually built off the game. That's cool, 1942 is an amazing game and yea of course there are similarities between the two. I just hope that "similarities" is as far as the new Battlefront and Battlefield 4 go.

EDIT: "Inspiration" might be a bit light, but we know what each other means.

@BertoFlyingFox
Yea, FPS/TPS isn't an issue I have. To say Battlefront was a copy&paste of 1942 would be a bit of a stretch. I didn't know it was made off 1942, do you have sources for this?

Besides, DICE developed 1942 but not Battlefront. This time they are developing both - much larger risk of straight copy&paste.

People complain about Nintendo regurgitating games because Mario is on the cover of every second box. How incredibly wrong they are. Same IP does not equal same experience and when people say these comments about Nintendo they clearly demonstrate their lack of gaming knowledge. You don't have to like the games but you need to be real about it.
On the other hand, these Triple A developers are pumping out the same old experience over and over under the guise of a different hero/theme/name and people lap it up.

I for one will not be happy with Star Wars Battlefield. Why? Because I can already get that experience on two current games.
Im not hating on anyone just trying to highlight a perspective.

Yes, bit of a rant, but I loved the previous Battlefront games and of all the bollocks thats happening in the gaming industry at the moment, a Star Wars Battlefield would highlight my biggest issue.

Still, holding hope though....

This is just the type of April fools that gives me a smile. Nice one.

@BLPs Although I agree that Nintendo seem to continuously have better quality control, your comment needlessly brought up Zelda Wii U as a gloat for Nintendo. You have no idea if there will be a glitch in Zelda and to use a delay as reason to assume as much is quite simply silly in this day and age.

Your point was valid, your Nintendo reference is unneeded. That's why people might have issue with your post.

@get2sammyb That .gif is glorious

That Batmobile section looks tragically bad. Directional arrows INFRONT of the getaway car! That eliminates all immersion. Terrible decision IMO.
The rest looks expectedly good though.

@readyletsgo If you don't mind about dated graphics then FF7 is largely agreed upon as the best. I loved FF8 and FF9 personally. If you want better graphics then FF10 is probably a good place to start.

This is clearly just to make a quick buck and get old comers and new comers alike hyped on the new GOW train.

I'm guessing the moderators are either all sleeping or sobbing in England's 6Nations loss.

@Dohv To be clear, Im talking about games on the Playstation system, not necessarily developed by a Sony Studio. Anyway, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about when referencing Nintendo. I assume you have never actually played any of those games and if you are including all sequels as remasters then we are surely talking about significantly different things.

Ok @Dohv

@Dohv I think you will find that from the PS2 era onwards that Playstation has had significantly more "Collections, Remasters and Remakes" than Nintendo.
In fact, apart from console to handheld ports (which are received with just as much controversy), Nintendo vary rarely remasters games.

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Haha! There can never be enough stomping in MK.

@get2sammyb I think deep down I know.

I'm really hoping DICE use their knowledge with Battlefield to create a stellar game, and i'm optimistic they will. I really hope they don't just create Star Wars Battlefield however.

Makes sense for this to happen. So does an Uncharted collection this christmas. Would bet my house that is why U4 was delayed. More developer lies (or so i think ).

They should have had an animation of the quitting character having a sulk in the corner

It wouldn't make a lot of sense for him to become an employee of another studio. He will have no trouble securing publishing for his future work. Ironically, his future publishers will probably plaster "A Hideo Kojima Game" all over the product.

@Faruko Agreed. Absolutely ridiculous.