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Qwiss

Seems like they're about to do a u-turn on it now.

Captain

You'll take what they give you and love it, like shitty Apple products.

marv3llous

qs! wrote:
Seems like they're about to do a u-turn on it now.

They better. I use media streaming from PC to PS3 daily. Infact i spend much more time on it than playing games.

Qwiss

I'm the same. If I don't get news soon that they're gonna fix it I'll cancel my pre-order.

Burnwinter

Captain wrote:
You'll take what they give you and love it, like shitty Apple products.

So true. I feel OMITT's heading in the same direction. :egg:

Captain

😆

Gazza M

fifa 14 is officially going into the bushes, crummy POS game. wish 2k sports woul take a crack at footy games

kamikaze

Burnwinter wrote:
Thought you were into 80 stadium rock Rex? Phil and Bono are basically interchangeable …

i actually find everyone else in U2 besides bono to be pretty likeable. the edge is a great guitarist, instantly identifiable, and the rhythm section is tight, esp on their earlier stuff.

Burnwinter

I used to love U2 when I was younger, they were the first or second band I was really obsessed with (the other being Midnight Oil). There's probably some Van Persie-esque kid inside me that still does. Particularly the early albums pre Joshua Tree - at which time Bono's vocals were also vastly superior.

They pretty much jumped the shark when they went on tour in the US and tried to reinvent themselves as a rootsy sort of all-embracing gospel thing, then came back and redid themselves again as monochrome avatars of a unified Europe. You can't just sort of pillage the zeitgeist all the time without losing a lot of your identity.

Captain

Embargoes are slowly lifting and the Xbox seems to be taking a beating from enthusiasts. Launch games are always suspect, but Dead rising 3 in particular looks extremely disappointing.

That's just woeful from a big launch exclusive. Will wait for some reviews on the gameplay before passing judgement, but it looks like Microsoft really are going to be playing catch up for a year or two.

goon

Genuinely nothing about the next gen consoles that make me want to buy either of them. Will wait a few years and see what happens, both in terms of price and content, but no way I'm going to bother initially.

Klaus

Lot of talk about the Xbox being a significantly weaker console right now. Most games seem to be running at 720p as opposed to 1080p on Playstation. Microsoft have effectively silenced the developers from talking about it though. I read an interview with Mark Rubin the other day that was borderline comical:

GC: So the obvious assumption from all this is that the PlayStation 4 is definitely more powerful than the Xbox One, is that true?

MR: [acting very embarrassed] I can’t answer that.

GC: You can’t answer it on a technical level or because you’re being diplomatic?

MR: Can’t answer that.

GC: You can’t say whether you’re avoiding the question for diplomatic reasons?

MR: [embarrassed] I just can’t say anything…

[Even the attending PR guy is looking embarrassed by this point]

PR guy: It’s very hard for us to be…

GC: Are the console manufacturers leaning on you to avoid these sort of questions?

MR: [unsure - speaking to PR guy] I don’t know if that…

MR: [even more embarrassed to us] Yeah, there’s things that we… We sign NDAs with the first parties [i.e. Microsoft and Sony - GC] and there are things that we’re not allowed to talk about.

GC: So when John Carmack and Shinji Mikami say the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are almost identical, is that something you could agree with?

MR: Hmm… I would say that’s a bit inaccurate but I wouldn’t be able to tell you any detail of why that’s inaccurate.

GC: For diplomatic reasons?

MR: Yes.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/05/call-of-duty-ghosts-mark-rubin-interview-there-are-things-that-were-not-allowed-to-talk-about-4173810/

Captain

It looks like Microsoft rushed their release and it's showing badly.

Captain

PS4 reviews look a little polarized. Clearly, both companies wanted to release for this 'holiday season' but it's obvious that they needed a bit more time; the PS4 release schedule looks even bleaker than I thought (and I buy nintendo consoles).

Klaus

Yeah, I think they are both aware that the games aren't fully up to scratch. Two of the newspapers I'm doing a bit of work for were forced to sign NDA:s when they received their early PS4 consoles. The machine isn't due for another two weeks here so they can't post any reviews until then. I assume it's the same story in the rest of the world. Completely pointless from a consumer perspective of course since the American reviews are available on the Internet anyway, but it does limit the amount of criticism for now.

Irishgunner

The most hilarious NDA is in regards to the performance of both consoles, devs can't publicly compare the two (the xbox is allegedly much less powerful than the PS4). This has led to a quite a few funny interviews.

JazzG

I didn't buy consoles last time on release day so can't recall if they were as buggy then, anyone remember? The jump doesn't seem as big this time but we'll find out in the coming years. I've got both on pre-order at the moment but I'll probably keep the PS4. Things will definitely improve with firmware updates but like Cap said, they are rushing this out at the moment so still a lot of fine tuning needed.

Oh and for those getting the PS4 here is the link for the EU 1.50 update http://deu01.ps4.update.playstation.net/update/ps4/image/2013_1112/sys_df008b5601f4a214a3cc65030a02ac4a/PS4UPDATE.PUP?dest=eu Need to stick it into a FAT32 formatted USB disk and put in /PS4/UPDATE folder. On release day everyone is gonna be hammering the links so might be best to download now before the rush!

goon

Xbox had the whole RRoD fiasco last time which wasn't limited to release. Looking back I'm surprised they came away from that relatively unscathed. Had to send mine for repair twice and then eventually upgrade for the slimline.

Captain

Some reports peg the 360 failure rate as high as 50% for a big chunk of it's life. Not so much a bug as a disastrous engineering error. I've never owned one, so can't really say.

PS3 didn't have any major issues. PS2 had some widespread faults, though I don't remember them being software issues.

Nintendo never has any major issues and you could pretty much throw their older consoles out of the window and they would still work. Their build quality isn't what it was anymore.

As of right now, I'm not going with either new system but I am leaning towards a Xbox One, much to my own surprise. If it weren't for the shitty control pad, I'd have probably made that decision already.

lorddulaarsenal

Xbox controller is the best

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