@UltimateOtaku91 Ugh ... First off: It's "would've" not "would of" - because it comes from "would have" and you shorten "have" as " 've ". Fix that! ... Before you ask yourself: Yes, feel free to correct me as well, if you catch a mistake. I'm always thankful for it.
Secondly, I don't believe that anyone here bashed Sony or claimed that Game Pass was first. You just lashed out reflexively. People like the Game Pass. You claim to like the Game Pass. So, you should understand positive comments about it. You should also understand if and why people are criticising Sony's offerings. These are legit concerns anyone can voice. We don't need Sony fanboys to play this down. Heck, not even Sony or Playstation gamers need Sony fanboys to play this down! Sony has to move its ass, otherwise this exclusive-is-all-approach will break the neck of the company in the long run. It already seems to dawn on them, seeing how they relax their stance towards PC releases. This article here just touches on one other indicator.
Thirdly: You need to understand something. When MS said, they don't compete with Sony, that wasn't a joke. When you refer to Xbox, you still mean the plastic boxes we put in our homes. However, that's Sony centric thinking. It's actually the platform MS is selling. An ecosystem. The plastic boxes are just meant to be access points to said platform. Same as the PC, the smartphone, and whatever comes next. All of them are access points. Would Sony allow Game Pass on their consoles, MS would stop building plastic boxes. So, your statement is somewhat wrong. Xbox would not be dead without the Game Pass - the Game Pass IS Xbox! ... For the largest part at least.
@UltimateOtaku91 Most of the PS4 games, yes, and that was a reaction to Game Pass. Game Pass exists since mid 2017, PlayStation Now downloads since late 2018. Might be, that they plan on merging Now and Plus in the long run. In any case, it really doesn't matter who was first.
I DO know however, that you seem to be wrong in here. You were actually the one promoting console wars. You're trying to defend Sony in the typical shady way. I guess, people talking about Game Pass instead of PlayStation Now and Plus, even though the PS4 was sold around 100% times more often, is just a clever ploy on behalf of MS, an elaborate conspiracy, right? There is actually nothing to it, eh? Except, ... you know better! And somehow that annoys the crap out of you. It makes you afraid. Could you please take your suppressed frustration and move back to Pushsquare, where you belong?
And yes, I DO know, that you said "good things" about Game Pass. But that's just a distraction you can point at, after you squeezed that badly concealed spite and disgust right through your gritted teeth.
Now, go ahead and deflect my words back at me. Come on, you know you want to ... Let me help you out: "Dude, you're all wrong. I'm not mad. You are! lol"
Tell you what: Yes I am mad, mad at people like you, trying to shiftily take a dump all over good things ...
PlayStation Now is a cloud gaming service, raised because of backwards compatibility reasons. Comparing it to Microsoft Game Pass thus is futile. If you want to compare it, compare it to xCloud. If you want to compare something to Game Pass, you have to take PlayStation Plus instead.
PS: People who compare last gen sales numbers and state any stupidity along the lines of "Xbox dead", "Xbox failed" and so on, need to get their heads checked. If any device is sold ~50 million times over several years, it most certainly isn't a fail by any stretch of the imagination. Stop measuring against Sony. Gamers who buy an Xbox know exactly why they do it.
@InterceptorAlpha I would argue, that the first one wasn't as deep. Simultaneously it was a child of its time. Gameplay wise expectations were more easily exceeded back then.
What exactly did you not like about Nier Automata? Have you finished it - several times, as you're supposed to? Did you understand 2B's dilemma regarding 9s? Did you understand the tragedy of robots and androids? Maybe it's just the future setting you don't like, because you expected a direct continuation of your beloved game?
I guess, in the end it boils down to pure taste. Same as how you can enjoy one book, and don't enjoy the other, although they're of the same genre.
In any case, my point was, if a player doesn't hold story in higher regards than gameplay, Nier Automata will never be much of an enjoyment. Personal taste aside.
Nier Automata will never click with players that don't place thought-provoking/inducing stories a bit above gameplay. The gameplay is mediocre, but a perfectly serviceable addition to a great philosophical topic. Nier is liked because of the world, fluff, lore ... and the outstanding OST. If you cannot enjoy that, it's simply the wrong game for you.
@gollumb82 Exactly. I think, what Remedy is saying there is misleading. This kind of "problem" exists for decades now, and it always has been solved by different presets or different levels of various graphics variables. It also was the same with Xbox One -> Xbox One X and PS4 -> PS4 Pro. Not to speak of what Switch ports have shown us to be possible. So, why not port from the X to the S later on?
Anyways, ... if Remedy is using engines, that are rigidly locked to either tax the CPU or tax the GPU more, they're doing something wrong. Inside a good engine it should be possible to shove certain graphics effects to either one of the components, whenever need be. Same as you can easily tell your PC to calculate PhysX on the CPU or GPU, since ... forever.
In the end, if they think this is somehow to expensive - which I'm having a hard time to believe - they could always choose to not release their games on the Series S. Let's see how expensive this turns out to be in comparison.
Sorry, Remedy, I like your games, but these are just excuses.
To be honest, if they officially had brought these trailers, I would have been very underwhelmed. Looks like just another Souls game to me. Oh, well, guess that horse is not dead enough already ...
It seems to me, Phil wearing the impractical jacket inside the house is a purposeful placement as well. It's refering to the Game Pass. So, I'm just assuming the items in the background are related to this topic. Kojima's (future) games on the Game Pass? Neat! xCloud on the Switch would be a huge thing. I could see both companies profit from this, big time.
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Oh, yeah, and then there is Ubisoft ... Who cares, right? But, a deal with Ubisoft, like the one with EA would be nice for some people, I guess.
Well, what do you know? ... Put on some fake illumination (instead of physical correct lighting) like last gen, and the gen before that, and the one before that, and suddenly people think it looks good ... Not to mention the beautiful next gen aliasing ...
@Bdbrady Look, I'm not disputing, that you see differences, but if someone claims "all swans are white", the statement immediately becomes untrue as soon as a black swan enters the stage.
Do you really believe (e.g.) Carck's, Albino's and my devices are faulty, and thus perform the exact same or even better than the PS? Does that make sense to you? I'm telling you, that something is amiss for everyone who experiences Xbox being slower than PS. Question is "What exactly?" That could be any number of things, really.
@Snake_V5
The hell ...? You cannot say Xbox download speed is slower than PS when there are people who have no problems at all. The download speed of ... YOUR ... Xbox is slower, and that must have very specific reasons.
It doesn't matter if others chime in. They then just have specific problems as well. There is a significant difference between "general" and "individual".
You telling us everything is fine on your end, because you have "gigabit speeds", just shows how narrow your view on the network topic is. It convinces me that you did not have a closer look and just brush everything off. MS won't cast a spell to fix your porblems.
@Snake_V5 No. What you're saying is, you chose to ignore that other people like Carck and me report that for us the download speeds on Xbox are perfectly fine. That means, that for people like you, there is something wrong with your device, settings, or connection setup/route. Could have dozens of causes. You would have to check in depth. But it's easier to just blame MS, I guess.
All I'm saying is, that your initial comment was wrong ...
@dmcc0 It's more likely, that MS's approach is different than Sony's. I guess MS wants to make sure, that the game which is running always has enough bandwidth to function without hiccups - while the system does not really look at actual network metrics. Additionally, big network activities can subtract from the CPU's performance. I think, they just prioritise the general performance of running games.
@Snake_V5
Go to your dashboard or better games section, highlight the game, hit the menu button, chose "quit". Do this for every game running, check again. If that doesn't help, something else is wrong with your system/connection ... and the system/connection of "THAT guy".
@Jacko11 Hmkay, I indulge you a bit further. There is so much to unpack here ... Where to start?
We both have two different mindsets about this topic. You seem to think everyone should speak his mind, especially when asked. I on the other hand believe, everyone should think before speaking or answering - and if there is nothing of value to add, or because of heavy bias only crap talk would come out - they should just not throw anything out and maybe just point out they are probably the wrong person to ask right now. This comes down to self knowledge, self-awareness, which is a skill most people lack dearly. This fact is something that ticks me off, and this guy is just a reminder to it. So, if I have any beef then it is with a quirk of the human species.
Again, I hold myself to this standard. In real life I really refrain from giving opinions or answering questions, if I know nothing good can come out of this. This way I'm not only avoiding to embarass myself, but also don't force other people to react and open up a spiral that could very well lead to anger at some point down the discussion.
Want an example that proves my point? Just look at us here. There is already such a spiral pointing towards an abyss. I tried to disrupt this, to no avail. Now, I am aware, that I basically opened this possibility up in the first place. But as I mentioned, I hold internet forums and comment sections as a kind of landfill everyone can and will use to dump nonsense once in a while. Maybe like a playground, to work something off, or a laboratory to experiment in.
That's the way I read peoples opinions on the net, and that's the way I use it myself. So, naturally my advice would be to be careful in real life, while you can be lax on the interwebz. I don't need some random guy's garbage in the news. That's not the fault of PureXbox, and not the fault of the original interviewer, but the fault of this developer, for not thinking things through in real life. Of course something can slip any time, but I for one would own up to this and clarify after, possibly even apologise for not thinking first. You probably won't see this with guys of this caliber, which is just another thing that drives me bananas about humans ...
It's really hard to live with so many of your kind on the same planet, y'know? ...
@Jacko11 I think you're reading a bit much into this. I don't have any beef with this guy. He wasn't even on my radar before his Xbox naming rant. It is MY OPINION, that this guy spouts some nonsense in any mic hold under his nose, which is why I THINK (must be the third time I use this), he should refrain from it. You do realize, this "freedom of speech" thingy works in both directions?
It doesn't change my opinion that he was asked a question. AND YES, if I am being asked a question and know, I cannot provide a meaningful answer or am biased heavily, I will tell the interviewer, that I shouldn't answer his questions, because of aforementioned reasons.
As for the forum/comment section angle, ... you don't seem to understand irony, and criticism between lines. Okay! ... Let's just leave it at that, because it's starting to eat up a lot more time than I originally planned to invest in this topic.
@Jacko11 Don't give me that. Just because you can and are allowed to do something, doesn't mean you should always do it. If he wants to talk rubbish all day and throw around unsolicited opinions, he can do this like any other decent person and use forums ... or comment sections ... You know, ... like we both do ...
I swear, every time this guy pops up in media, he's making himself look like a fool, by blabbering imprudent garbage. I think, he should just keep his mouth shut ...
Played A Way Out, only because it was on the Game Pass. Would never have bought it, even though it sounded somewhat interesting. With Game Pass I simply don't have to make so many blind bargains any longer. On several occassions I even bought a game after playing it on GP, because I then knew what I was in for. Not to mention, payed DLCs are much more bearable, without a noteworthy "entry fee".
Btw. this whole thing influences other platforms as well. E.g. some games I try on GP and then feel like it would play great on my Switch in handheld mode - so, I buy it there, after I'm certain.
@Reverandjames
I will never understand why some people think exclusives are everything. I explicitly decided against a PS5 even though I guess they will have a lot of exclusives again. It's not important to me, because in the end, these exclusives are just more of the same.
The new Spiderman games are celebrated even though they do the exact same thing as multi-platform Spiderman games from several years back. I guess these have just been forgotten? Horizon Zero Dawn is now out on PC, and I'm still not interested. Same goes for Death Stranding. Why would I explicitly want to play a Remake of Demon's Souls? If I wanted to play something like that, I'd have plenty of other choices.
I fail to see the appeal in exclusivity. I mean, compare the sales numbers of the PS4 with the sales numbers of Sony exclusives. Only a minority seem to really buy into this.
In the end, for most, it's nothing more than a gamble. Sony brings out more exclusives, so the assumption is, chances are higher to get what they want on Sony's platform. Reality however is, you do not know that. Especially not with MS going on shopping tours lately. Enter the Sony fanboy that vigorously tries to defend his decision to buy a PS5, making up things left, right and center, and cherry picking little distorted things to proclaim: "SEE WE WERE RIGHT! WE SO GOOD. CERNY'S MAGIC SAUCE!" ... For some people this all really seems to be some kind of magic. A religion that ignores simple physical and mathematical facts.
I digressed. What I actually wanted to say was: Exclusives are not everything. There are people like me, who - for example - decide to go for a specific console, because it's the more powerful. So I can expect to have the best results when playing games, especially in the long run - plus, Game Pass ... It's a simple monetary consideration. If it had been the PS5, I would have bought that. But it wasn't.
I know, a Sony fanboy will now be quick to point out that current cross gen games mostly run better on the PS5, but that's just eyewash born out of ignorance. I won't deny current differences in FPS or graphics, but in order to interpret this correctly you have to understand WHY this is happening at the moment. Because it's simpler to just throw more MHz at a last gen game, than to rip open its code and make it work well with more cores. That was just one example, don't get tied up on it ... Most loudmouthed Sony fanboys don't understand, and they don't even bother to. Why would they? For them it's something to easily point at. A glittering magical prove. Even though more and more counter examples creep up, they just close their eyes, pretending there is nothing or claiming, something fishy is going on. Conspiracy theories work the same way ...
PS: Disclaimer. There are stupid people on Xbox's side as well, yes.
@BrilliantBill In the case of the Xbox Series that's not true. Aside from that, specs can and most likely will change over the course of the initial phase. It's more like they get a PC with roughly the specs console companies aim for, and with software that is not final at all. It misses feature sets and easy to use methods for implementation.
Come on, guys, this is nothing new, really. Every console generation had this phase where the first games do not fully support the new possibilities and just compromise - because development started earlier than the new console's release. Only difference now is, that game developers actually deliver these new features afterwards. So, we have a better situation than ever before. Problem here is, people are not happy, if they cannot complain about ... well, something, I guess ...
@Dezzy70 It's almost as if development of these games started before there were any "next gen" consoles out. But that's just my stupid brain, I guess ...
@UltimateOtaku91
"10 million ps5 players paying £60 just for that one Bethesda game vs 20 million gamepass subscribers paying £10 for a sub which is shared between all the games on gamepass? (not fully sure how it works)"
That's because you don't try to see the bigger picture. The idea of subscriptions is: money in the long run. People stick to the Game Pass, because they know they will get something in return, even though they have to wait a bit for it. That's opposed to the tactic of putting all your HOPES on large sales numbers when a game comes out. Game Pass makes money income somewhat predictable for MS, so they can adjust tactics and expenses accordingly.
Other than that, the more people play games, the more advertising these games get (low entry barrier), the bigger the chances people will buy games outside of Game Pass as well. GoG, Steam, Epic, maybe Switch ...
There is a reason why VoD and music streaming work well.
@AJDarkstar The XSX is basically running the One X version and uses it's power for FPS and indirectly more resolution. That is however just a brute force method, no actual refinement. We will see much better looking versions for XSX and PS5 down the road. Maybe even before the next gen patch.
@AJDarkstar Believe me, it's just a sharpening filter. Even the PC version got it. And it really does "provide" more fine details. Reason is, the details are already there, but they are lying beneath the blurr of the TAA. If they would simply deactivate TAA you would see a difference like day and night - even on the original PS4. You can test this yourself on a PC with MK11 for example. Sharpening the picture up counteracts TAA's blurriness, which is why some games already give you the option to activate a sharpening post processing effect (again MK11 as an example, it's hidden under PC Features -> FidelityFX CAS). Some players also like to use shader suites like reshade to sharpen up TAA and FXAA results.
As for the perceived res bump in the new video you mentioned: These results are pretty miniscule. It's not that easy. This game uses dynamic resolution on all console versions. The resolution depends on the current workload of the system. If there is not much to process, it can boost the resolution. If there is a lot to do, it will down the res. Since there are a lot of dynamic elements in this game, you will have a hard time seeing the same results on two tests, even if you try to measure the same scenes. Meaning, DF's results can differ from other tester's results at any given time.
@AJDarkstar The “res bumb“ is actually a simple but effective sharpening filter, that counteracts the blurring caused by TAA. The XSX got it too with patch 1.04, and it is applied to every mode. What the “PS5 version“ is still missing is actual higher resolution and SSAO, which provides better shadows. They could add that (a quality mode) before the next gen patch, but I think quirks with Sony’s back compat programme prevents them from doing so.
@carlos82 Which still is a lot better than Menchi wants to make people believe. Dunno why people do this. It's as if they must fight a personal war, and obsessively have to use every dirty trick in the book. Disturbing.
There seem to be a lot of people who don't understand, that cross gen does not hold back anything. Otherwise all these old PCs would hold back games as well.
Different consoles get different graphical presets - with some options turned on and others turned off or tuned down. Simplified: Like as if you were on a PC and turned ray tracing on, ray tracing off ... "Next gen" on, "next gen" off ...
Whether these presets work well is a question of optimization. As a developer, you approach the sweet spot (balance between FPS and graphical quality) in incremental steps, which is why you WILL see Cyberpunk running at much more stable 30 FPS on last gen consoles, as new patches come out.
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Re: PlayStation Now Offers $1 Month Trial To Rival Xbox Game Pass
@UltimateOtaku91
Ugh ... First off: It's "would've" not "would of" - because it comes from "would have" and you shorten "have" as " 've ". Fix that! ... Before you ask yourself: Yes, feel free to correct me as well, if you catch a mistake. I'm always thankful for it.
Secondly, I don't believe that anyone here bashed Sony or claimed that Game Pass was first. You just lashed out reflexively. People like the Game Pass. You claim to like the Game Pass. So, you should understand positive comments about it. You should also understand if and why people are criticising Sony's offerings. These are legit concerns anyone can voice. We don't need Sony fanboys to play this down. Heck, not even Sony or Playstation gamers need Sony fanboys to play this down! Sony has to move its ass, otherwise this exclusive-is-all-approach will break the neck of the company in the long run. It already seems to dawn on them, seeing how they relax their stance towards PC releases. This article here just touches on one other indicator.
Thirdly: You need to understand something. When MS said, they don't compete with Sony, that wasn't a joke. When you refer to Xbox, you still mean the plastic boxes we put in our homes. However, that's Sony centric thinking. It's actually the platform MS is selling. An ecosystem. The plastic boxes are just meant to be access points to said platform. Same as the PC, the smartphone, and whatever comes next. All of them are access points. Would Sony allow Game Pass on their consoles, MS would stop building plastic boxes. So, your statement is somewhat wrong. Xbox would not be dead without the Game Pass - the Game Pass IS Xbox! ... For the largest part at least.
Re: PlayStation Now Offers $1 Month Trial To Rival Xbox Game Pass
@UltimateOtaku91
Most of the PS4 games, yes, and that was a reaction to Game Pass. Game Pass exists since mid 2017, PlayStation Now downloads since late 2018. Might be, that they plan on merging Now and Plus in the long run. In any case, it really doesn't matter who was first.
I DO know however, that you seem to be wrong in here. You were actually the one promoting console wars. You're trying to defend Sony in the typical shady way. I guess, people talking about Game Pass instead of PlayStation Now and Plus, even though the PS4 was sold around 100% times more often, is just a clever ploy on behalf of MS, an elaborate conspiracy, right? There is actually nothing to it, eh? Except, ... you know better! And somehow that annoys the crap out of you. It makes you afraid. Could you please take your suppressed frustration and move back to Pushsquare, where you belong?
And yes, I DO know, that you said "good things" about Game Pass. But that's just a distraction you can point at, after you squeezed that badly concealed spite and disgust right through your gritted teeth.
Now, go ahead and deflect my words back at me. Come on, you know you want to ... Let me help you out: "Dude, you're all wrong. I'm not mad. You are! lol"
Tell you what: Yes I am mad, mad at people like you, trying to shiftily take a dump all over good things ...
I have finished my rant ... Good night, Sir!
Re: PlayStation Now Offers $1 Month Trial To Rival Xbox Game Pass
PlayStation Now is a cloud gaming service, raised because of backwards compatibility reasons. Comparing it to Microsoft Game Pass thus is futile. If you want to compare it, compare it to xCloud. If you want to compare something to Game Pass, you have to take PlayStation Plus instead.
PS:
People who compare last gen sales numbers and state any stupidity along the lines of "Xbox dead", "Xbox failed" and so on, need to get their heads checked. If any device is sold ~50 million times over several years, it most certainly isn't a fail by any stretch of the imagination. Stop measuring against Sony. Gamers who buy an Xbox know exactly why they do it.
Re: Microsoft Unveils Two Brand-New Xbox Series X Controllers
@Krzzystuff
It's called "collecting things".
Re: Four More Games Are Now Available With Xbox Game Pass (March 18)
@InterceptorAlpha
I would argue, that the first one wasn't as deep. Simultaneously it was a child of its time. Gameplay wise expectations were more easily exceeded back then.
What exactly did you not like about Nier Automata? Have you finished it - several times, as you're supposed to? Did you understand 2B's dilemma regarding 9s? Did you understand the tragedy of robots and androids? Maybe it's just the future setting you don't like, because you expected a direct continuation of your beloved game?
I guess, in the end it boils down to pure taste. Same as how you can enjoy one book, and don't enjoy the other, although they're of the same genre.
In any case, my point was, if a player doesn't hold story in higher regards than gameplay, Nier Automata will never be much of an enjoyment. Personal taste aside.
Re: Four More Games Are Now Available With Xbox Game Pass (March 18)
Nier Automata will never click with players that don't place thought-provoking/inducing stories a bit above gameplay. The gameplay is mediocre, but a perfectly serviceable addition to a great philosophical topic. Nier is liked because of the world, fluff, lore ... and the outstanding OST. If you cannot enjoy that, it's simply the wrong game for you.
Re: Remedy Dev Explains Downsides Of Developing For Xbox Series S
@gollumb82
Exactly. I think, what Remedy is saying there is misleading. This kind of "problem" exists for decades now, and it always has been solved by different presets or different levels of various graphics variables. It also was the same with Xbox One -> Xbox One X and PS4 -> PS4 Pro. Not to speak of what Switch ports have shown us to be possible. So, why not port from the X to the S later on?
Anyways, ... if Remedy is using engines, that are rigidly locked to either tax the CPU or tax the GPU more, they're doing something wrong. Inside a good engine it should be possible to shove certain graphics effects to either one of the components, whenever need be. Same as you can easily tell your PC to calculate PhysX on the CPU or GPU, since ... forever.
In the end, if they think this is somehow to expensive - which I'm having a hard time to believe - they could always choose to not release their games on the Series S. Let's see how expensive this turns out to be in comparison.
Sorry, Remedy, I like your games, but these are just excuses.
Re: Rumour: Elden Ring's Leaked Footage Could Have Pushed Back The Official Gameplay Reveal
To be honest, if they officially had brought these trailers, I would have been very underwhelmed. Looks like just another Souls game to me. Oh, well, guess that horse is not dead enough already ...
Re: Random: Phil Spencer Has Been Playing Destiny 2 With Xbox Fans Again
@UltimateOtaku91
Oh, sweet summer child ...
Re: Hardsuit Labs Faces Layoffs Following Bloodlines 2's Change Of Developer
Seems this series is cursed ...
Re: Industry Insider Suggests Xbox Kojima Tease Is 'Probably Significant'
@Krzzystuff
That was bait, son ... I just don't like the company much, same as EA. I find some of their business practices a bit questionable.
However, I generally don't mind any additions to the Game Pass. Why would I? Just adds to the overall value of the package.
Re: Industry Insider Suggests Xbox Kojima Tease Is 'Probably Significant'
Well, why not ... ? It's fun to speculate.
It seems to me, Phil wearing the impractical jacket inside the house is a purposeful placement as well. It's refering to the Game Pass. So, I'm just assuming the items in the background are related to this topic. Kojima's (future) games on the Game Pass? Neat! xCloud on the Switch would be a huge thing. I could see both companies profit from this, big time.
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Oh, yeah, and then there is Ubisoft ... Who cares, right? But, a deal with Ubisoft, like the one with EA would be nice for some people, I guess.
Re: Gallery: 343 Industries Shows Off New 4K Screenshots Of Halo Infinite
Well, what do you know? ... Put on some fake illumination (instead of physical correct lighting) like last gen, and the gen before that, and the one before that, and suddenly people think it looks good ... Not to mention the beautiful next gen aliasing ...
Re: These 10+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (March 2-5)
Think these games will give me stable 30 FPS on my XSX?
One can only hope ...
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I'm so happy assdivine was optimized for Series X. Would surely have struggled otherwise ... .___.
Re: Xbox Now Tells You When You're Throttling Your Download Speeds
@Bdbrady
Look, I'm not disputing, that you see differences, but if someone claims "all swans are white", the statement immediately becomes untrue as soon as a black swan enters the stage.
Do you really believe (e.g.) Carck's, Albino's and my devices are faulty, and thus perform the exact same or even better than the PS? Does that make sense to you? I'm telling you, that something is amiss for everyone who experiences Xbox being slower than PS. Question is "What exactly?" That could be any number of things, really.
Re: Xbox Now Tells You When You're Throttling Your Download Speeds
@Snake_V5
The hell ...? You cannot say Xbox download speed is slower than PS when there are people who have no problems at all. The download speed of ... YOUR ... Xbox is slower, and that must have very specific reasons.
It doesn't matter if others chime in. They then just have specific problems as well. There is a significant difference between "general" and "individual".
You telling us everything is fine on your end, because you have "gigabit speeds", just shows how narrow your view on the network topic is. It convinces me that you did not have a closer look and just brush everything off. MS won't cast a spell to fix your porblems.
Re: Xbox Now Tells You When You're Throttling Your Download Speeds
@Snake_V5
No. What you're saying is, you chose to ignore that other people like Carck and me report that for us the download speeds on Xbox are perfectly fine. That means, that for people like you, there is something wrong with your device, settings, or connection setup/route. Could have dozens of causes. You would have to check in depth. But it's easier to just blame MS, I guess.
All I'm saying is, that your initial comment was wrong ...
@dmcc0
It's more likely, that MS's approach is different than Sony's. I guess MS wants to make sure, that the game which is running always has enough bandwidth to function without hiccups - while the system does not really look at actual network metrics. Additionally, big network activities can subtract from the CPU's performance. I think, they just prioritise the general performance of running games.
Re: Xbox Now Tells You When You're Throttling Your Download Speeds
@Carck
Correct.
@Snake_V5
Go to your dashboard or better games section, highlight the game, hit the menu button, chose "quit". Do this for every game running, check again. If that doesn't help, something else is wrong with your system/connection ... and the system/connection of "THAT guy".
Re: Xbox Now Tells You When You're Throttling Your Download Speeds
@Snake_V5
It's not. Shut down your games.
Re: SEGA Is 'Really Happy' With The Results Of Xbox Game Pass
We desperately need Josef Fares to respond to this ...
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Re: A Way Out Creator Weighs In On Xbox Game Pass Again, Says He's Not Sure About The Model
Am I stuck in Groundhog Day or what?
Have to stress my opinion again then. This clown should really keep his mouth shut ...
Re: These 10+ Games Are Coming To Xbox This Week (Feb 17-19)
Finally my XSX's limits will be tested ...
Re: A Way Out Director Says He Prefers PlayStation's 'Strategy' Over Xbox
@Jacko11 You're welcome, human.
Re: A Way Out Director Says He Prefers PlayStation's 'Strategy' Over Xbox
@Jacko11 Hmkay, I indulge you a bit further. There is so much to unpack here ... Where to start?
We both have two different mindsets about this topic. You seem to think everyone should speak his mind, especially when asked. I on the other hand believe, everyone should think before speaking or answering - and if there is nothing of value to add, or because of heavy bias only crap talk would come out - they should just not throw anything out and maybe just point out they are probably the wrong person to ask right now. This comes down to self knowledge, self-awareness, which is a skill most people lack dearly. This fact is something that ticks me off, and this guy is just a reminder to it. So, if I have any beef then it is with a quirk of the human species.
Again, I hold myself to this standard. In real life I really refrain from giving opinions or answering questions, if I know nothing good can come out of this. This way I'm not only avoiding to embarass myself, but also don't force other people to react and open up a spiral that could very well lead to anger at some point down the discussion.
Want an example that proves my point? Just look at us here. There is already such a spiral pointing towards an abyss. I tried to disrupt this, to no avail. Now, I am aware, that I basically opened this possibility up in the first place. But as I mentioned, I hold internet forums and comment sections as a kind of landfill everyone can and will use to dump nonsense once in a while. Maybe like a playground, to work something off, or a laboratory to experiment in.
That's the way I read peoples opinions on the net, and that's the way I use it myself. So, naturally my advice would be to be careful in real life, while you can be lax on the interwebz. I don't need some random guy's garbage in the news. That's not the fault of PureXbox, and not the fault of the original interviewer, but the fault of this developer, for not thinking things through in real life. Of course something can slip any time, but I for one would own up to this and clarify after, possibly even apologise for not thinking first. You probably won't see this with guys of this caliber, which is just another thing that drives me bananas about humans ...
It's really hard to live with so many of your kind on the same planet, y'know? ...
Re: A Way Out Director Says He Prefers PlayStation's 'Strategy' Over Xbox
@Jacko11 I think you're reading a bit much into this. I don't have any beef with this guy. He wasn't even on my radar before his Xbox naming rant. It is MY OPINION, that this guy spouts some nonsense in any mic hold under his nose, which is why I THINK (must be the third time I use this), he should refrain from it. You do realize, this "freedom of speech" thingy works in both directions?
It doesn't change my opinion that he was asked a question. AND YES, if I am being asked a question and know, I cannot provide a meaningful answer or am biased heavily, I will tell the interviewer, that I shouldn't answer his questions, because of aforementioned reasons.
As for the forum/comment section angle, ... you don't seem to understand irony, and criticism between lines. Okay! ... Let's just leave it at that, because it's starting to eat up a lot more time than I originally planned to invest in this topic.
Re: A Way Out Director Says He Prefers PlayStation's 'Strategy' Over Xbox
@Jacko11 Don't give me that. Just because you can and are allowed to do something, doesn't mean you should always do it. If he wants to talk rubbish all day and throw around unsolicited opinions, he can do this like any other decent person and use forums ... or comment sections ... You know, ... like we both do ...
Re: A Way Out Director Says He Prefers PlayStation's 'Strategy' Over Xbox
@Jacko11 Even if he is asked a question, I think, he should just keep his mouth shut ... Nothing of value seems to come out of his mouth.
The topic journalism wasn't touched.
Re: A Way Out Director Says He Prefers PlayStation's 'Strategy' Over Xbox
I swear, every time this guy pops up in media, he's making himself look like a fool, by blabbering imprudent garbage. I think, he should just keep his mouth shut ...
Played A Way Out, only because it was on the Game Pass. Would never have bought it, even though it sounded somewhat interesting. With Game Pass I simply don't have to make so many blind bargains any longer. On several occassions I even bought a game after playing it on GP, because I then knew what I was in for. Not to mention, payed DLCs are much more bearable, without a noteworthy "entry fee".
Btw. this whole thing influences other platforms as well. E.g. some games I try on GP and then feel like it would play great on my Switch in handheld mode - so, I buy it there, after I'm certain.
Re: Rumour: Microsoft Wants A New Killer Instinct, But No Developers Are Available To Make It
@Tasuki
Because they all are already in the middle of creating a game. Plus, kinda what Terrin said.
Re: Microsoft Has Reportedly Shifted Around 3.5 Million Xbox Series X|S Consoles So Far
@Reverandjames
I will never understand why some people think exclusives are everything. I explicitly decided against a PS5 even though I guess they will have a lot of exclusives again. It's not important to me, because in the end, these exclusives are just more of the same.
The new Spiderman games are celebrated even though they do the exact same thing as multi-platform Spiderman games from several years back. I guess these have just been forgotten? Horizon Zero Dawn is now out on PC, and I'm still not interested. Same goes for Death Stranding. Why would I explicitly want to play a Remake of Demon's Souls? If I wanted to play something like that, I'd have plenty of other choices.
I fail to see the appeal in exclusivity. I mean, compare the sales numbers of the PS4 with the sales numbers of Sony exclusives. Only a minority seem to really buy into this.
In the end, for most, it's nothing more than a gamble. Sony brings out more exclusives, so the assumption is, chances are higher to get what they want on Sony's platform. Reality however is, you do not know that. Especially not with MS going on shopping tours lately. Enter the Sony fanboy that vigorously tries to defend his decision to buy a PS5, making up things left, right and center, and cherry picking little distorted things to proclaim: "SEE WE WERE RIGHT! WE SO GOOD. CERNY'S MAGIC SAUCE!" ... For some people this all really seems to be some kind of magic. A religion that ignores simple physical and mathematical facts.
I digressed. What I actually wanted to say was: Exclusives are not everything. There are people like me, who - for example - decide to go for a specific console, because it's the more powerful. So I can expect to have the best results when playing games, especially in the long run - plus, Game Pass ... It's a simple monetary consideration. If it had been the PS5, I would have bought that. But it wasn't.
I know, a Sony fanboy will now be quick to point out that current cross gen games mostly run better on the PS5, but that's just eyewash born out of ignorance. I won't deny current differences in FPS or graphics, but in order to interpret this correctly you have to understand WHY this is happening at the moment. Because it's simpler to just throw more MHz at a last gen game, than to rip open its code and make it work well with more cores. That was just one example, don't get tied up on it ... Most loudmouthed Sony fanboys don't understand, and they don't even bother to. Why would they? For them it's something to easily point at. A glittering magical prove. Even though more and more counter examples creep up, they just close their eyes, pretending there is nothing or claiming, something fishy is going on. Conspiracy theories work the same way ...
PS: Disclaimer. There are stupid people on Xbox's side as well, yes.
Re: IO Interactive Wants To Bring Ray-Tracing To Hitman 3 On Xbox Series X
@BrilliantBill
In the case of the Xbox Series that's not true. Aside from that, specs can and most likely will change over the course of the initial phase. It's more like they get a PC with roughly the specs console companies aim for, and with software that is not final at all. It misses feature sets and easy to use methods for implementation.
Come on, guys, this is nothing new, really. Every console generation had this phase where the first games do not fully support the new possibilities and just compromise - because development started earlier than the new console's release. Only difference now is, that game developers actually deliver these new features afterwards. So, we have a better situation than ever before. Problem here is, people are not happy, if they cannot complain about ... well, something, I guess ...
Re: IO Interactive Wants To Bring Ray-Tracing To Hitman 3 On Xbox Series X
@Dezzy70
It's almost as if development of these games started before there were any "next gen" consoles out. But that's just my stupid brain, I guess ...
Re: Samurai Shodown Is Getting A 120FPS Upgrade For Xbox Series X
This is the way ...
Re: Dishonored Creative Director Says Xbox And Bethesda 'Fit Perfectly'
@UltimateOtaku91
"10 million ps5 players paying £60 just for that one Bethesda game vs 20 million gamepass subscribers paying £10 for a sub which is shared between all the games on gamepass? (not fully sure how it works)"
That's because you don't try to see the bigger picture. The idea of subscriptions is: money in the long run. People stick to the Game Pass, because they know they will get something in return, even though they have to wait a bit for it. That's opposed to the tactic of putting all your HOPES on large sales numbers when a game comes out. Game Pass makes money income somewhat predictable for MS, so they can adjust tactics and expenses accordingly.
Other than that, the more people play games, the more advertising these games get (low entry barrier), the bigger the chances people will buy games outside of Game Pass as well. GoG, Steam, Epic, maybe Switch ...
There is a reason why VoD and music streaming work well.
Re: Xbox Series X Offers The 'Best Console Experience Right Now' For Cyberpunk 2077
@AJDarkstar The XSX is basically running the One X version and uses it's power for FPS and indirectly more resolution. That is however just a brute force method, no actual refinement. We will see much better looking versions for XSX and PS5 down the road. Maybe even before the next gen patch.
Re: Xbox Series X Offers The 'Best Console Experience Right Now' For Cyberpunk 2077
@AJDarkstar Believe me, it's just a sharpening filter. Even the PC version got it. And it really does "provide" more fine details. Reason is, the details are already there, but they are lying beneath the blurr of the TAA. If they would simply deactivate TAA you would see a difference like day and night - even on the original PS4. You can test this yourself on a PC with MK11 for example. Sharpening the picture up counteracts TAA's blurriness, which is why some games already give you the option to activate a sharpening post processing effect (again MK11 as an example, it's hidden under PC Features -> FidelityFX CAS). Some players also like to use shader suites like reshade to sharpen up TAA and FXAA results.
As for the perceived res bump in the new video you mentioned: These results are pretty miniscule. It's not that easy. This game uses dynamic resolution on all console versions. The resolution depends on the current workload of the system. If there is not much to process, it can boost the resolution. If there is a lot to do, it will down the res. Since there are a lot of dynamic elements in this game, you will have a hard time seeing the same results on two tests, even if you try to measure the same scenes. Meaning, DF's results can differ from other tester's results at any given time.
Re: Xbox Series X Offers The 'Best Console Experience Right Now' For Cyberpunk 2077
@AJDarkstar The “res bumb“ is actually a simple but effective sharpening filter, that counteracts the blurring caused by TAA. The XSX got it too with patch 1.04, and it is applied to every mode. What the “PS5 version“ is still missing is actual higher resolution and SSAO, which provides better shadows. They could add that (a quality mode) before the next gen patch, but I think quirks with Sony’s back compat programme prevents them from doing so.
Re: Xbox Series X Offers The 'Best Console Experience Right Now' For Cyberpunk 2077
@carlos82
Which still is a lot better than Menchi wants to make people believe. Dunno why people do this. It's as if they must fight a personal war, and obsessively have to use every dirty trick in the book. Disturbing.
Re: Halo Infinite Fans Call For Xbox One Version To Be Cancelled Amid Cyberpunk Debacle
There seem to be a lot of people who don't understand, that cross gen does not hold back anything. Otherwise all these old PCs would hold back games as well.
Different consoles get different graphical presets - with some options turned on and others turned off or tuned down. Simplified: Like as if you were on a PC and turned ray tracing on, ray tracing off ... "Next gen" on, "next gen" off ...
Whether these presets work well is a question of optimization. As a developer, you approach the sweet spot (balance between FPS and graphical quality) in incremental steps, which is why you WILL see Cyberpunk running at much more stable 30 FPS on last gen consoles, as new patches come out.
Re: Xbox Series X Offers The 'Best Console Experience Right Now' For Cyberpunk 2077
@Menchi
This is misleading. XSX' quality mode with HDR on looks much more like the second screenshot. Wonder why you try to badmouth it.