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Round XXX - FIGHT! [The Upcoming Console Wars]
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No, I meant my 360 gamerscore. I want that to be recognised by all the next gen consoles, because goddamn it I worked hard at that.
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April sometime for Microsoft.
I heard a rumor that it's going to spit fire at my loved ones so I'm in the same boat.
This is why the console digital distribution model is such broken crap, and not a draw for me at all. If I bought Half-Life off Steam when the service launched in 2003, any computer I install Steam on today, I can still load and play Half-Life. It'll be that way until the Steam servers go offline, for every game I buy through Steam. Any games I've bought through the 360 and PS3 stores, though, are locked to those consoles, and unplayable anywhere else, unless I re-buy them on the newer console, even though it's the exact same game.
DS is pretty funny, though. Lifting the whole thing around on a pinky or whatever. The wriststrap is solid confidence.
That's not how the 360 store works. I can load up my profile wherever and redownload my games and play them.
I can even put my saves in a cloud and resume my progress.
I doubt they'd go back on this for the nextbox
On a 360, yes. On any 360 even. But they're not going to play on the Nextbox, because the Nextbox is entirely different hardware. If you want to play games you bought through your live account on a 360, you need a 360. If I want to play games I bought through Steam on an old Dell from 2003, I just need a PC. Any PC.
This is pretty speculative at best. The games are tied to your gamertag which by all accounts will be the same gamertag for the NextBox.
1. Backwards compatability: I know it's a bitch for you guys to make your system able to process older systems, but It's pretty hard to ask someone to drop down $300+ for a system and not neccesarily have any games to play on it asude from whatever your launch title is. I've heard that the PS4 is going to suck in this regard, and that's deffinitley a knock against it.
2. Motion control: I'm willing to admit that there are some good motion control games, but I'm given to understand that the overwhelming majority of the Kinect required ones are shovelware. Besides that, If I wanted to ride a bike or play hockey or run a marathon, I could do that for free. In short, If a system is designed to incorporate it more so after the last 2 years, I'm gonna be less then impressed.
3. Library: Obviously, the company that has the best library of games is going to intrigue me the most.
4. Re-used games: I can't always afford to get games brand spankin' new and may not think think they're worth $60, so that means digging through the bargin bin from time to time. I've heard rumors from some folks that some companies are looking to cut out the used games industry and If someone is doing that, then I'm less then thrilled.
5. Hardware stability: There is nothing worse then having your console fucking die on you and the company trying to gouge you on repairs for it; Microsoft wanted me to shell out $150 for repairs on mine, before the cost of shipping and handling (I wound up purchasing a used one from a guy at film school with a pile of used games and a Wi-fi cable for 200 instead).
Something like Xbox Live just makes it more obvious by having faster hardware revisions.
It doesn't matter what's tied to your gamertag. What matters is the hardware in the system. Unless they make the Nextbox hardware completely backwards compatible with the 360, the 360 Marketplace games won't work. And seeing as Sony has stated the PS4 won't be backwards compatible with any physical or downloaded games from the PS3 or earlier, it's a pretty safe bet Microsoft will be doing the same.
Or Microsoft could do it for any games available to be downloaded from xbl. We don't know yet.
I thought the ps4 used weird hardware structure which is why it was so hard for it to work with backwards compatibility.
*Not the WiiU
I mean, Sony was pretty much screwed because they bet on the Cell (just like everyone else who bet on the Cell, but that's not me being bitter or anything, no) but the 360 was a pretty straightforward three-core PPC chip and it shouldn't be impossible to emulate, at least for some popular subset of games the way Xbox emulation worked on the 360.
It'll be interesting to see if they bother with the effort in over to provide some sort of continuity of experience for their online account system.
The problem is actually the PS3's weird architecture.
Back in ye olden days, if you wanted to keep playing your last-gen games, you kept your last-gen system plugged in. In reality, there are never more than one or two games I want to play on an old system once I have the new one, so BC is nice but not a big deal to me.
*Okay, technically that was the Atari 7800, which I'm not counting because nobody remembers that system. I am also not counting systems that were BC with the purchase of an adapter. I am also not counting portable systems because shut up.
At least now everything uses HDMI and a PC power cable which will cost you about 5 bucks total for both. I used to transfer the 360 to different rooms every few days and it was always nice to just grab the box and the power brick and leave all the cables plugged into their respective TV/outlet. Took all of 20 seconds to set things up.
I can't imagine having to dig out component cables or the little weird proprietary dongles that Nintendo used to use for all it's connections.
I'll probably buy one a launch and one within a year of launch. The PS4 had some good points on the presentation but I'm used to the brobox.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
Also if Kinect2 isn't better in smaller rooms that could actually win it for PS4. I don't want to have to design my living space around something I don't even want to use.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
It all changes when digital distribution comes into play though, especially if user accounts follow you from PS3 to PS4, 360 to Nextbox etc. If 360 matthasaproblem has a dozen games bought through Marketplace, I buy my Nextbox and can log in with 360 matthasaproblem still, I'm going to want my Marketplace games to still be playable on the Nextbox, the same way I want my Steam games to be playable when I build a new PC. They're the ones pushing the PC digital distribution model on consoles.
I'd expect there to be backwards compatibility on the 720 for Arcade games. The architecture change is much smaller and Arcade games tend to be much less taxing so I'd be surprised if they didn't offer it there. Plus they know XBL is probably their biggest draw
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
It also wouldn't surprise me if popular 360 games ended up popping up on XBLA as $10 dollar purchases and whatnot. From their point of view a flat-out port of the software is probably easier than maintaining true hardware backwards compatibility.
The Slims are fine. The original ones had to be like that or they would have melted the chips (well, melted them faster anyway). A good chunk of the noise people complained about was actually the DVD drive, too.
Yeah, I sometimes forget how loud the DVD drive is because I install all my games. Then I start watching a DVD and have to turn the volume way up.
The consensus I take from what we know so far is that the manufacturers are sort of "over" the idea of hyper-custom architecture. Everything is just x86. The PS3 already used standard parts, which I ended up really liking about it, including HDD swapping. No weird chargers for the controllers, either -- just plain ol' USB. Microsoft will ideally pick up at least that from Sony. Just use standards! Keep your costs down and stop reinventing the wheel for a mere 5 years!
Still, I'm very firmly tied to consoles essentially because of the controller. I hate gaming with a mouse & keyboard.
And if the 360 dash is any indication, I would like to minimize contact with a console OS.
They offer standarization and a lower cost. So 5 years from now you know that any releases will work just as well as the first games for the system.
But in return for that you do give up power of the system itself, and you have to live with whatever interface they give you.
But seriously, by giving me cross platform (PC, Mac Laptop, and console) access to all my games, and the bestest sales, and the bestest Newell; the Steambox seems most attractive out of the coming consoles to me. I also like the idea of being able to build my own console in addition to buying premade ones.
I wonder if this might be the last console generation - or, at least, the last one produced by dedicated video game manufacturers.