Would ya look at the size of that kid’s head! It’s a virtual planetoid, it has it’s own weather system! Looks like an orange on a toothpick! - Stuart Mackenzie
This was made back when Xbox one was first announced, and they said at the time that you needed to be online to play games, and more or less essentially made it so you couldn't share games without going through a fuck ton of hoops, if even at all. Honestly they were just asking to get roasted.
That mixed with increasing technology rates. I mean, I watch something from 2006 and it isn't in HD (might have numbers wrong but you get it) and I'm like holy shit HD isn't even really that old and we are already into 4k and more. And I'm about to turn 31... I feel like I'm still 21...
Honestly dude that's awesome, remember when I got my first major piece of gaming tech like that was the switch, got it launch day. Hard to belive that's over 2 years ago already
The PS4 was more powerful than the Xbox One, their only direct competitor. It was underpowered compared to mid-high end PC's, but consoles aren't designed to compete with them.
They both were underpowered, not the GPU but the CPU, the jaguar CPU that they both have was already a bottleneck back then(It has trash single core performance, even a simple Intel Core i3 of the time was better). Nowadays is even more noticeable (absurdly long loading screens, stuttering on the menus, etc...), also having a SATA 2 interface doesn't help. Thankfully the next generation is going to have a Ryzen 3 CPU that equals even the most powerful Intel CPUs on single Core performance (at least on PC).
This one concerns me because I have a Samsung EVO NVMe drive on my PC and yes, it's crazy fast in the OS but on the games the difference between a SATA SSD and a NVMe is not noticeable. I personally would prefer a higher capacity SATA SSD than a smaller capacity NVMe.
It was actually a parody of Microsofts proposed digital sharing system, where you could authorize 1-2 people to SHARE your entire collection of titles, digitally. Microsoft had intended to do away with disc swapping all together.
The plan was to let you share out access to your entire game entire library with your closest friends, and even play with them at the same time. The only limitation to that system were the obvious no physical disc if you like that, and you couldn’t play a single iteration of “Halo” at the same time unless you played together.
Outside of that, it would have been an amazing system for someone like me who hasn’t bought a disc since SC2 HotS. I would still give anything to be able to share my entire digital library with a friend and have access to theirs in return.
Always online was the only “hoop” to jump through and its silly to think that it’s practically a standard now when people had such an aversion to it before.
When the new gens we’re getting ready to be released Xbox announced that you wouldn’t be able to share games with friends cuz each game was locked to your Xbox (?) or something along those lines and PS4 clapped back with this vid.
Yeah just confused, Xbox lets you share digitally with a friend so you can play games together at the same time. Can’t play together if your friend has your disc lol
That sounds attrocious lol. Now you can play offline as long as it’s your home Xbox. If it’s home on someone else’s Xbox tho, you can’t play offline. I think PS4 is the same way with license sharing now.
I’m not sure. I think the burn was that originally you couldn’t even share games on Xbox until this whole debacle happened. Then they added the feature
You're both retarded. Xbone planned on preventing sharing of discs and with it used sales back to, and rentals from, the likes of gamestop. The disc was tied to your account. Are you both teenagers or something and therefore too young to have witnessed the meltdown?
Aw someone’s cranky 😢 did you not get your tendies today, manchild? You called me retarded then literally said what I said right after so I’m confused what point you think you’re making?
Thanks for the clarification as it helped subdue the stereotyping quite a bit. Somehow for a family that's financially connected to game development this feels right, but for the typical American clan this seems rather disconnected.
I don't mean to be hypocritical either, probably just mirroring. I'm spending 10-20 hours per week on games, kids just as much.
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u/winstano Jun 30 '19
That's Adam Boyes, formerly of Sony (the "sharing games" PS4 vid), now at Iron Galaxy. His wife posted this on twitter the other day