Jeremy Conrad (former IGN): BF4 and CoD: Ghosts are 720p on Xbone
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Iacobellis
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Wii was also cheaper than the other consoles and had actual games that used the motion control gimmick.
dragonbane
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Not only that, but the last minute DRM decision probably screwed the entire engineering team over. No time to finish the main OS, because they need to remove the DRM first they spend years on implementing.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Pixelated post makes this so meta.
They thought Sony's hardware was going to be weaker.
Chobel
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The taunt tweets made to Microsoft? That's not journalism.
Had to look the name up, but I do remember the incident.
CosmicGroinPull
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Clever. I thought the pic didn't load completely.... that's a nice touch.
I'm 20 feet away from my monitor right now and I totally can't tell.
I'd rather him act like a child and keep it real with us, than be a pr head giving us bs runarounds.
LMAO...EPIC
The Wii cost $250 and its best launch game was packed in for free.
hospitaldriver
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All the talk of 720p vs 1080p doesn't concern me but the issue of buying a console which could break down or have serious issues with it does, especially when I'll be paying upwards of £500 for the bundle I've pre ordered. Surely the right thing would be a nod or a wink if there is something seriously wrong with the hardware they are planning on releasing
Should it be Xbone, Xbox 180 or Xbox 720p now? So much choice...
DoubleTake
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reading through this thread shall be GLORIOUS.
Opus Angelorum
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How they thought that after the PS3 is astonishing.
I would argue strongly against that. I had a 32 inch 1080p LCD TV up until this year when I upgraded, and even at that size the difference between my PC rendering a game at 1080p vs the PS3/360 at 720 was absolutely clear as day.
qa_engineer
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Lol. I'm still on twitter face palming the shit out of my face.
SEGAvangelist
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I'm hoping cboat is waiting for Penello to post then just dumps every secret he/she has and blows him off the map.
Any of the above.
Too much money in the video game industry for that to ever happen. When/if MS leaves someone else will step in to fill the void. The industry is too prone to power shifts for anyone to leave someone alone atop a very slippery sloped mountain for long.
Also, you act like Nintendo is non-existent. I'd argue that the Sony/MS arms race is what chased them away from being hardware competitive in the first place. Without MS the arms race would slow down, development costs would plateau, and Ninendo likely would step back into the void immediately as the first legitimate challenger to Sony. That opening might even make Nintendo get with the times in terms of network infrastructure and marketplace as they'd then have a legitimate chance at competing profitably in a two format war.
Sony v. Nintendo with a new comer other than MS and we've got ourselves a far healthier games industry. Microsoft have shit on consumer good will faster than any company I've ever seen and the 180s are all thinly veiled "for now" promises that make it incredibly clear the original plan is still the end goal here.
cebri.one
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Actually, if you think about it, it could have been way worse. ONE launching in 2014, or in 2013 but with almost no games because they were not ready, that's the nightmare situation for MS. But they have reacted better than expected and they have tons of software available at launch even if it doesn't match PS4 quality
BS. Sony became the most arrogant company, and everyone in the company acted like that. Search for Phil Harrison's and Jack Tretton comments about competition for example at the time. Kutaragi was behind PS1 and PS2 too. It's easy to blame one person for everything.
I don't get why people keep saying this. That would only make sense if Kinect cost more than $100 to produce and ship since the console is priced $100 more.
The price/performance situation Xbone sees itself in is due to the combination of poor hardware design decisions and the business decision to seek higher margins versus Sony.
Maninthemirror
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Maybe this is why they removed the mandatory kinect use and upped the cpu and removed the mandatory OS use while gaming as MS must have been told by developers they cant freaking match multiplatform titles unless max resources are given to them. This probably will remove the ability to use kinect in some games and instant switching to OS. I am
Willing to bet the instant game to tv switching is gone too
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Mean look at their ads they dont even mention tv or kinect anymore
Willing to bet the instant game to tv switching is gone too
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Mean look at their ads they dont even mention tv or kinect anymore
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thepotatoman
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I don't get it either. If 720p is good enough, why even bother upping the PS4 version to 1080p instead of putting that power elsewhere? If it's because they can't put development time into anything but 1080p, shouldn't they be mad that Xbox One is holding multi-platform games back?
legacyzero
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Sword Of Doom
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Yes. Definitely
something fishy
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ah right cheers.
it's genuine but I don't want to invest a lot of money in a costly xmas present if it's going to be an absolute mess.
I need to find out more.
That's a separate issue. He is likely frustrated that he has to do this in the first place, and is aware of the consequences. But he had to do it, because it's the right thing to do. Not all of us have sold our souls to our corporate employers. You can still make a difference in this world as a journo by simply reporting the truth. Games are small potatoes compared to bigger issues in life, but it's a good gesture on his part.
I don't condone the trolling but it doesn't make what he did any less important. It's likely that the people he was trolling have disrespected him in a similar manner many times over. Asking a journalist to sit on information that would surely save consumers a lot of heartache is insulting enough.
WrenchNinja
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The PS2 was pretty great.
Jesus. What the hell is going on?
Geez.
All of this stuff is coming at once...it can't be that bad. Or can it? I don't even know anymore.
BronsonLee
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I can't fucking believe that Microsoft
A: Let Sony get the drop on them with the 2013 release
B: Let Sony get the drop on them with the specs
They basically did what Sony did with the start of the PS3, but I don't know if they can turn it around. That took Sony -years-.
That February conference (& to a lesser extent the E3 one) are going to be the stuff of legend soon
A: Let Sony get the drop on them with the 2013 release
B: Let Sony get the drop on them with the specs
They basically did what Sony did with the start of the PS3, but I don't know if they can turn it around. That took Sony -years-.
That February conference (& to a lesser extent the E3 one) are going to be the stuff of legend soon
Where does trolling twitter fit in with the tenets of journalism?
dark_prinny
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Link me, I haven't actually. I fully admit im Pro-Sony.
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For the first 4 years of the generation I played all my PS360 games on a SDTV. I dealt with a complete inability to read writing on my games for 4 years. I think I can deal with 720p.
Getting a PS4 not an Xbone.
The funniest thing about this is that it does immediately look better when quoted.
Did you miss the entire DRM debacle? It's likely worse.
Gaming journalism is in a pretty pathetic state of being right about now. I can't believe that reviewers who sign NDAs even exist. Agreeing not to talk about certain elements of the product you are reviewing defeats the entire purpose of an honest review and turns reviewers into nothing more than PR newswire pawns for the big corporations.
Telephoto999
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It's almost exactly like Sony. Even the 25% higher price point.
That would be nice, but we can't have everything we want in life. I'll take what I can get.
mullet2000
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I'm using a 32 inch TV and let me tell you: You're dead wrong.
Indeed. It's called The King for a reason.
he is getting xbone no matter what isn't he
Iacobellis
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