Posts by wowfood

So

Where its the government taking them to court, how many times can Apple appeal the decision?

I've settled on PS4

Microsoft are acting far too much like pancakes with the current console

You always need to be online

No you don't

Yes you do

No you don't

Okay you have to connect once every 24 hours, and when you first install the game

No you don't

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Same sequence of events elsewhere. PS4 may cut out a few features a few years down the line, but at least I know what's coming now.

That and I'm not paying an extra £80 for a peripheral I have no intention of using.

And lets face it, by the end of things, the two consoles have very similar hardware specs, with sony edging in front, very similar price points (if you buy move with your ps4) and pretty much the same architecture.

If memory serves me from the devs I spoke to, generally for multiplatform games they design / test their games / engines with the console which was either first / most powerful / easiest to code for.

However there's almost no difference between the two, PS4 edging ahead in power, ease of coding I can't comment but they're the same architecture so I'd imagine they're on similar ground here, and which one launches first which again, we don't have a definitive date for ps4. Q4 vs November, so who knows.

Basically what I'm getting at is there's going to be little to no difference on third party games, and I imagine outside of existing licenses there will be fewer third party devs making exclusives since there's almost no benefit anymore (with different architectures it's easier to make a better game for a single platform, when they're all the same the only real reason is if the first party is paying you for it)

The second deciding factor, online is also pretty level now. PS4 is a little cheaper, but we don't know what the quality will be like vs xOne.

They both have a 3d camera peripheral with motion detection. Microsoft forces you to have it, sony doesn't. So if you want this that could be a deciding factor for you

And of course the final point, first party titles. Which cnosole has the first party stuff you want to get the most? For me it's PS4, I love the look of beyond two souls, and kingdom hearts 3 (one of my fave game series) are PS4 exclusive, hence why it wins for me.

Personally I don't get the whole fanboy arguement of "your console is shit, mines better" then again I'll happily admit I'm a bit of a sony enthusiast, I use that word to differentiate between fanboys since the fanboys tend to rant and rave about how they're so much better.

Summary note, third party titles will be pretty much identical per system, ps3 is cheaper and a bit more powerful, but the same price when you include the camera, buy the console with the first party titles you want the most, perhaps the console most of your friends are buying so you can share games since, y'know, you can now.

Also sorry if this rambles from point to point, people keep talking to me.

Genuine question.

it brings together two key areas of science - manufacturing and entomology,”

Isn't that one area of science and one area of engineering?

I don't see why

the whole "ermahgerd it don't suppert legacy" thing is such a big deal. Up until ps2, no console supported legacy.

Can I play my nes games on my snes? nope, snes on my n64? nope, n64 on lamecube? nope. I honestly don't mind the whole lack of legacy thing and it's not really a deal breaker for me.

I mean lets face it, most legacy games are only played for the purpose of nostalgia (I still play ff7 every now and then) or because the new console doesn't have enough games yet.

As for the 'no used games' bit, that irks me slightly but at the same time I think it might actually be better for consumers. In the last few years we've had games that come with DLC, whether it be online mode, multiplayer mode, or key parts to the game itself (robin in arkham city) those DLC are being sold between £15 and £12.99 and yet you're still getting stores like GAME selling these games pre-owned for about £2 less then the game would be brand new, and people are buying it while losing out on the DLC so are technically paying more if they want the full game.

Now if the pre-owned market wasn't such a rip off it wouldn't be quite so bad. (I walked out of GAME with a large stack of games once, 7 games and they offered me £2.50 for them, most of these games were on sale pre-owned for £20 each) but as it is right now, I'm almost in support of blocking off pre-owned games.

Besides, if microsoft block pre-owned but sony don't, all that'll happen is these companies will continue to put in built in DLC for £10 or however much, and then customers will be ripped off even worse with the pre-owned section. End result is (hopefully) people realize that pre-owned is not the way to go anymore and they buy new anyway.

As a final note, kinda bored of all the comparisons of used games to used cars. You buy a games console and that's it, you have th console and the games and the car companies have their money. You buy a used car, you still (with a lot of them) need to buy tha tspecial toyota crank shaft which is the only one that fits your car without modifications. Used cars still make money for the manufacturer, used games do not. Y'know unless you buy a lot of DLC

Would be good if the iWatch wasn't a watch at all, bu a portale blu-ray player.

Compared to others

The BE unlimited policy is pretty darn fair. And it's not like they're the only company who advertises unlimited + fair use policy.

I'd rather see the ASA ban advertising "unlimited" altogether and force ISPs to advertise honestly, such as Uncapped broadband, or to reveal their traffic shaping policies if they have any.

Brain controlled Arms, brain controlled Helicopters, what next? Brain controlled lawyers.

I've said it before, I think when it comes to digital media the agency model is quite possibly the best approach so far as a fair deal to the publisher and the storefront. However I still wish that this agency model took the steps to deliver the ebook items at below cost, while giving the 'agency' the option to lower their cut, and pass that amount on as savings to the end user. That way although every seller might ship the book at £10, making £7 for themselves, the storefront can choose to sell it at below that value down to £7.

Noel Fielding

The guy would make a damn fine Doctor if you ask me.

I can't

really see why anyone is commenting on either side at the moment without facts. It's all well and good saying in England it was slave labour, or they're getting paid too little / too much. But we don't know how much they're getting paid, or what their overtime / nightshift pay is like so how can we comment on it for either side?

All I'll say is that minimum wage should be raised to a 'living wage' level so people can actually survive off what they earn. If the germans are getting below the living wage for their area then more power to them, let them barter for better basic pay and a decent bonus for overtime etc. If they're getting a living wage, then it's unskilled labour and in my view they should be happy, although they may still have a case on nightshifts / overtime if it's at a basic pay rate rather than time and a bit.

Of course this is all conjecture, so anyone here work for Amazon germany who can enlighten us to the working conditions and pay rates?

So as well as spending large amounts of money to bring in relatively profitless companies under the Yahoo name, they're also losing areas of their income from business, which will no doubt increase since this kind of thing is normally a rolling rock situation.

Place your bets on who's buying Yahoo!, facebook, microsoft or google.