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My mum can use an iPhone, and she's completely computer illiterate. They're very easy to use. Personally, I'd go for the HTC One Mini which will come out in the next month or two. The S4 mini isn't too great of a phone, while the HTC One Mini looks great (on paper). 4.3" 720p screen, 1.4ghz...

Yes and no. If they choose to stick with the h.264 codec, then yes, 4k movies will be around 200gb in size, but they'll most likely make the switchover to h.265 which is twice as efficient as h.264, meaning 4k movies would be around 100gb in size. Edit - Apparently, triple layer BDXL...

RE: 4k. This post is rather informative -- http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...3&postcount=47

In terms of the CPU, I'll quote Anandtech -- http://www.anandtech.com/show/6972/x...laystation-4/2 So, basically, an Intel Atom. In terms of the GPU, the PS4s GPU is roughly equivalent to a Radeon 7790 on paper. Since consoles are more efficient than PCs, we generally need to double the...

CPU wise, even on average gaming computers, PCs are significantly ahead of both consoles. Intel's CPU performance is just too good - AMD can't match it. GPU wise, I believe the Radeon 7790, a $150usd graphics card, performs as well as the PS4's GPU on paper. Of course, consoles use their...

Current Intel CPUs are, at the very least, 2-3x more powerful than the AMD CPUs used in the PS4/Xbox One, and the Geforce Titan is between 2-3x more powerful than the GPU in the PS4. In a few years time, the difference in computational power between a midrange pc and the PS4/Xbox One will be...

This. Youtube compression is so awful that it makes textures and games look far worse than they are. High res videos from sites likehttp://gamersyde.com/index_en.htmldo a much better job of showing the difference between the current gen consoles and PS4/Xbox One.

Cracked - '5 things game company gets wrong about gamers' http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things...-about-gamers/ Good article. --- Guardian - 'Xbox One and Microsoft's shocking discovery: gamers aren't data' http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...e-microsoft-e3 Another good...

Apologies if this is a repost: The PS4 is tiny compared to the Xbox One.

Ah, shit. I can't find it anymore. I believe it was on Anand's personal twitter. He might have deleted it. In this thread -http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1595082- some people seem to be saying that the performance is improved while others are saying they've noticed no...

This is retarded. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/p...one/disclaimer ^ Look how few countries are supported by the Xbox One. What the hell are they doing?

I can't remember the last time I bought a game from a shop. It must have been a few years back. Here in the UK, if I buy a game, it usually arrives in the morning post on release day, if not the day before, which is fine for me. My internet tops out at 4mbps, unfortunately, so downloading...

No, Sony are saying that they're not blocking used games or allowing publishers to apply DRM to block used games, but publishers are free to implement online passes if they want to. Basically, it's the same as the 360/ps3. Check the article I linked above inpost #4222. ^

http://www.gamefront.com/sony-third-...s-online-only/ I never had a problem with online passes, to be honest, so I'm ok with this.

http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/11/441...-own-drm-terms

The housewives and the casual gamers have moved on. They ditched their Wiis years ago and started playing casual games on their smartphones and tablets instead. A small percentage of them will buy in on the Wii U, but not enough to matter. The Gamecube proved that a Nintendo console will not...

I just want them to fix that ridiculous downloading/installing nonsense. It's such a pain in the ass.

Well, Airdrop is better than NFC file sharing, and there is still no Android equivalent of Airplay (Miracast is terrible compared to Airplay - don't even mention it). Apart from those two features, I don't think ios has anything over Android.

I agree that Gamecube level sales are out of reach for the Wii U, barring some miraculous turnaround for the Wii U's fortunes, of course. According to Nintendo's last financial results, the Wii U has sold 3.45 million units as of the end of March, which is fairly respectable. The problem is that...

Except they're not selling well. The 3ds is down yoy in sales worldwide, must likely due to the ever increasing popularity of iOS and android gaming, and the Wii U is not selling anywhere. Nintendo needed something really special for this Nintendo direct, and they had nothing. They failed to...

Yeah, its traditionally been Xbox exclusive, but things can change. I can see Epic releasing a new Gears on both consoles to showcase UE4 and attract more developers to the engine. At the very least, I'd be surprised if the next Gears doesn't come out on the PC. Which actually reminds me - is...

EA owns the Mass Effect IP and Epic owns the Gears IP - unless Microsoft moneyhats these two games, they should get PS4 releases.

Eh, you can't really judge Killer Instinct's F2P pricing model until Microsoft announces how much characters will cost to buy. If it's $10 for 5 characters, or something like that, then that's fine. If it's $10 for 1 character, then that's fucked. Edit - Thinking about it a little more, a...

If you're going to be typing a lot, I'd buy a convertible, personally. Maybe something like the Sony Vaio Duo 13?http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/04/s...duo-13-review/ Edit - Actually, no, I changed my mind. If you're just typing simple notes and stuff, a stylus equipped tablet with a...

May as well. The refurbs are pretty damn good value at the moment, especially the October 2012 models. Anand from Anandtech has confirmed on Twitter that the UI lag has been fixed in Mavericks, too. Good stuff, Apple.

Well, this is good news to wake up to. Just grabbed a pre-order for a PS4 from Amazon. I gotta say, though - the games lineup looks pretty weak, which is rather disappointing. There's only a handful of games that interest me, and most of those are getting PC releases, anyway. Also, has...

Mirror's Edge 2 announced. Releasing on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Fucking awesome.

PVZ:GW looks great! But, more importantly.. Peggle 2! Finally. You took your time with that, Popcap.

Apologies for the double post, but.. Plants vs Zombies TPS?! What the fuck.

It's pretty standard for all electronics over here. We pay extra for everything; smartphones, tablets, televisions, mp3 players, computer hardware, audio equipment, cameras, etc. - it's all priced higher than in the States. If you take tax out of the equation, Microsoft is 'only' charging 10%...

Yeah. If you remove the 20% tax we get charged over here, it works out to be $555, or thereabouts.

Taking into tax into account, it works out to be about 10% extra for those of us in the UK, which is pretty standard for most electronics. Electronics, in general, cost more here than in the US.

Oh, it's launching at ?429, not ?425. That makes it ?4 more expensive than the infamously outrageous PS3 launch price. Hah.

Remember that the US prices are without taxes while ours are with VAT included in the price. It's still an expensive piece of kit, but it's nottooout of line with the US prices.

The Xbox One's APU costs more than the one inside the PS4, but the PS4's GDDR5 ram is more costly than the Xbox One's DDR3 ram. As such, the hardware inside the PS4 should be fairly similar in cost to that inside the Xbox One. The big differentiator will be Kinect. While the Kinect is bundled...

So the iPad 3 will get it. It looks good. I'm impressed. Not enough to ditch my Nexus 4, but it'll certainly keep me locked into the ios tablet ecosystem for the foreseeable future.

No, he said Airdrop is for the iPhone 5/iPad mini/iPad 4, not ios7. They haven't announced which devices ios7 will be released on yet.

DRM is fine, as long as its non intrusive and doesn't affect the user negatively. Blocking renting/private games sales is not. Microsoft has also added a number of other bullshit "features" that simply inconvenience us as users. It's not good.

Sadly, no Retina MBPs at Apple's WWDC event (unless they show them off at the last second, anyway). They did announce new Macbook Airs, though, and they claim that the combination of Haswell and optimisations in the new OSX release boosts battery life by as much as 80%, which is pretty damn...

Wait, did I hear him right? ?425 in the UK? That's bloody expensive. I remember paying ?425 for my launch 60gb PS3 with an extra dual shock, a copy of Motorstorm, and a copy of Resistance, and people thought that was overpriced. I don't see this thing selling too well, especially with stiff...