The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !
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Don't you dare say Sony is doing pretty much all the wrong things Microsoft is doing aswell!!!
Haven't you realised? It's cool to hate on Microsoft at the moment. Especially before they even talk about games when they specifically said we will be talking about all our games at that massive gaming convention E3!!
Haven't you realised? It's cool to hate on Microsoft at the moment. Especially before they even talk about games when they specifically said we will be talking about all our games at that massive gaming convention E3!!
Dyvim
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Ritley
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I dont think they have really explained how this is going to work. I think the answer they gave is "eventually".
Borzak
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Kind of throws out the entire marketing strategy of calling in the One Box for needing only one box.
Xarpolis
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What type of patching? Game publishers check that you have the latest version of the game client when you first start a game. Even if it isn't an online game.. they correct bugs and such and have it patch the moment you load your game.
As for the PS3 operating system, it does scheduled updates as well. If you sign into the store, it'll tell you that you need to patch, or sometimes it won't connect at all to anything until you patch to the latest version.
I've never had a patching problem with my PS3.
As for the PS3 operating system, it does scheduled updates as well. If you sign into the store, it'll tell you that you need to patch, or sometimes it won't connect at all to anything until you patch to the latest version.
I've never had a patching problem with my PS3.
Wombat
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Again, it doesn't matter if the file is on a disc or on your hard drive.
Original Xbox to 360 was x86 to PowerPC. To get BC, they had to basically recompile them on a game by game basis, it worked for crap, and they only got through a couple dozen before they gave up.
360 to Xbone is PowerPC to x86. To get any BC to work, whether disc or XBLA, would take the same game by game recompiling. (There's also the sticky issue that the CPUs on the Xbone are slower than the 360's - there are just more of them.)
(It's not like Steam is even perfect either - some of the oldest games won't work on modern versions of Windows, and that's the same CPU.)
Microsoft charges you $40,000 to patch and you have to go through a ton of cert shit, regardless of who you are. Even publishing a game on there is a bitch though, you have to be "slotted in" for a release date for XBLA titles (which can be a massive pain) and Indie devs aren't allowed to self publish.
Sony is waving patch fees for indie/small and streamlining their processes for all of it. There's no retarded release slotting and Indies can self-publish games. Same goes for Nintendo.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/a...r-indie-develo
Grimmlokk
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I remember this number being tossed around a lot when the Dungeon Defenders devs were not having any luck getting their game patched on 360 and eventually someone came out and mentioned it was more like $10,000.
Still silly, and the rest of the pain in the ass stuff is accurate, but the 40k number is wrong. Or at least not standard.
http://penny-arcade.com/report/artic...ly-half-the-st
40k. You do get the first patch free though, or something.
This was even a Microsoft exclusive title at that (though there's now a PC version).
See THERE is a legitimate reason to want a PS4 over Xbox one.. Not all the other false bullshit people are spewing.
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Vaclav
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Just like the PS3 was a 'stronger' system? Funny how most games ran worse on the ps 3 then 360. Give me evidence that games run better on PS4 then Xbox one.. Oh you can't.
Mist it's funny how that article has absolutely zero quotes of them saying that... Real reliable source. Once again can we please start using HARD facts. Until both companies announce FACTS on these topics you have no idea and all you do is look like a fan boy/girl.
Seriously I simply can't understand how a bunch of grown ups can't simply wait for the facts. For instance Sean said something that was a fact. The truth. Something that was real. Therefore he has a REAL reason to want a PS4 that isn't based around taste/exclusives. I really don't care what console people like. What does frustrates me is when people make things up to justify one over the other. I personally just like the xbox controller and the console as a whole I simply prefer for superficial reasons. At the moment is it any better then the Ps4? No it's not. It's simply a matter of taste.
Mist it's funny how that article has absolutely zero quotes of them saying that... Real reliable source. Once again can we please start using HARD facts. Until both companies announce FACTS on these topics you have no idea and all you do is look like a fan boy/girl.
Seriously I simply can't understand how a bunch of grown ups can't simply wait for the facts. For instance Sean said something that was a fact. The truth. Something that was real. Therefore he has a REAL reason to want a PS4 that isn't based around taste/exclusives. I really don't care what console people like. What does frustrates me is when people make things up to justify one over the other. I personally just like the xbox controller and the console as a whole I simply prefer for superficial reasons. At the moment is it any better then the Ps4? No it's not. It's simply a matter of taste.
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