I like the sound of the suspend and resume gameplay stuff.
PS4 does this as well. They announced it first even, way back at the Feb event, though really they are both just chasing the phones there.
instant0
4112
Should we assume that upwards of 8GB of disk space is assigned for this purpose, as I assume they do a memory dump?
The Game Boy Advance had suspend and resume functionality back in 2001, long before the rise of phone games as a thing people care about.
JD
4115
That’s pretty much the same way PS Plus works on PS4. Anyone can log in with their own account on your home console and take advantage of the Plus benefits, e.g. online multiplayer and playing the games you get as part of the subscription.
And Vita had game suspend with multitasking in 2011.
Murbella
4118
They just had to add the line about the power of the cloud maybe saving the xbox…
This piece shows why I want the cord cutting change to happen even more. I just can’t stand the way cable, and satellite providers can hang to outdated shit because they have a stranglehold on the home. When the writer says how the overlay is the best MS can do because of the limitations imposed by said monopolies it makes me so happy I flipped the bird to them several years ago.
What jumped out at me was the CableCARD initiative. I didn’t even know that was a thing. More importantly, it bugs me that the companies have been out of compliance for months and are doing nothing about.
Murbella
4121
It is the best Microsoft can do because better solutions would not be global (location and connection wise) and would cost more.
The xbone spares every expense when it comes to being “part media center.” It is basically just a crappy tv guide app from what I’ve seen.
Yes the big cable companies suck, but even if they didn’t do everything possible to keep cable card use down, the xbone would still suck at tv.
I don’t get this. If gaming power is what you care about most then the best option is a PC, especially for games like Skyrim. It’s not even close. That’s why I have very little interest in the PS4 right now. Once it has a big enough selection of exclusives that I care about I’ll pick one up; until then it’s just a less capable version of my PC. At least the XBox is trying to do something different. It won’t live up to their hype and it may well just outright suck, but I’m still more interested in playing around with the new kinect and a/v integration than in anything Sony has talked about. (Although if that rumor about a VR headset is true then I’m Day 1) Of course, I may be a little biased because I have kids in the house and they love the kinect, so even if it’s just another round of dancing games and a next-gen version of Happy Action Theater then I’ll have gotten my money’s worth.
Telefrog
4123
You do understand that most people don’t hook their gaming PCs up to their family room TVs, right?
Yes, it’s easy to do. Blah blah blah. It doesn’t matter. Most people won’t/don’t do it for a number of reasons.
Yep. But that doesn’t relate directly to James’ quote.
The PS4 is more powerful? Big deal. It doesn’t have the launch games I care about and it doesn’t anything my PC won’t do, at least at launch.
So I’ll get the XBox ONE and play those launch games and enjoy the Kinect stuff with my daughter (or when watching media). If a game really requires high performance, then I’ll play it on my PC (on my 24" monitor. How retro). Right now, I’m thinking AC4 and Watch Dogs will look plenty good enough on the XBox and essentially comparable to the PS4 and close to the PC. So that will be played on my TV. But maybe another multiplatform game in a year or so will make me switch to the PC.
Later, when the PS4 has built a library of games I want, I’ll consider getting one. The fact that it’s more powerful on paper but that it doesn’t have the launch games or the next gen development lead time to take advantage of it at the start (we’ll see a lot more of that with the 2nd wave of first party titles and later multi platform ones, I bet) makes me wonder why I would want to lead with that console.
Whether I do or do not connect my PC to a TV has no relevance to the above.
Wendelius
PS: Disclaimer. I still have a PS4 on preorder just in case something I must absolutely play jumps at me between now and November. So I might change my mind yet. But my “next gen purchase strategy” is as above right now.
Sure I do, but that’s pretty much by definition not who I’m talking about I think if you’re posting on a gaming forum about how graphics performance is your highest priority then you should at least consider looking into how far living-room-friendly-form-factor PCs have come since 2005.
There are reasons to buy a PS4 over an XBOX: price, vita integration, you just like Sony more than MS, whatever. Graphics power just isn’t one of them. It’s like saying that your most important criterion for buying a car is performance so you’re buying the Honda minivan instead of the Toyota minivan because it has 10 more horsepower.
Bottom line is that if you’re able to play current-gen consoles without your eyes bleeding, then either one of the next-gen consoles will work just fine for you. If you’re the kind of person that just can’t stand the thought that somebody somewhere might be enjoying slightly better anti-aliasing or whatever then you’re wasting your money buying a console because the XBOX->PS4 delta is a rounding error compared to (XBOX/PS4)->PC
I care more about framerate than resolution, and if PS4 can keep a consistent 60fps when Xbox One is barely doing 30fps in the same game, that’s a big deal, especially since a significant number of games are going to stay console-exclusive despite everyone’s constant preaching on the Internet about the wonders of consistent architecture. Or did everyone already forget the original Xbox was also x86 and still ended up with a lot of games that didn’t come to PC?
Quaro
4127
It is really strange to me that Microsoft isn’t showcasing the hell out of some Kinect stuff. One mind blowing app, even if it’s only fun for parties, could get me to buy.
wumpus
4128
Probably the software (by that I mean the games, though to some extent the OS and interfaces) is taking up until the last minute to get just right.
