Sony never actually said that you would get backward compatibility with streaming. They talked about streaming PS4 games and were asked at (E3?) if this system could be used to play streaming PS3 games for a sort of backwards compatibility, and the reply was that its possible that it might happen. People took that,…

There are plenty of articles around the internet by fairly reputable sources (NPDT for example) that cite lowering PC game sales year over year, and its pretty obvious to anyone still waiting on many AAA titles that will never come to the PC, and ones that will come to the PC years after their console release (Halo…

If the WiiU became something closer to the PS4/XBox One HARDWARE-WISE, I would buy it (because, lets be honest, Nintendo is by far the best first party developer in the world), because I feel that hardware should just get out of the way and let you play the games, it should not hold you back or define your experience.…

I hear differently and even Sonys "How to replace your HDD" support article tells you that you need to download a copy of the OS and put it on an external drive. And they have two separate updates a 300 MB one and a 900 MB one (Kotaku linked to the 900 MB one a few weeks back), the later containing the entire OS the…

I hear differently and even Sonys "How to replace your HDD" support article tells you that you need to download a…

My point was a question. If they are the same then I would say the trolls are a bit tired after whining about it already so recently. On the otherhand I only knew about forza doing this in passing which is why I asked the question, I have heard more about gt doing it ten fold. So it all depends on what you read and…

If they moved the analog sticks to a more sane location, tossed out the tablet controller completely (or made it an optional controller that you buy separately, like how the Vita is for the PS4), and brought the hardware specs up to par with the other systems in this generation, I would honestly have seriously…

Yes, $50 is big, but its not massive. That image is absurd, it makes the invalid assumption that the DLC and "exclusive" novelty items are somehow part of the original package and not additional content like the expansion packs are. A growing sense of entitlement where users think that any content created for the…

You might define it as big, but on what scale? A million dollars is a large transaction as far as I am concerned. $50? That's a night out. It might be "large when compared to what you think digital accessories should cost" but then, $4 is large for what I think gas should cost. To be fair, micro has the same…

Its not one or the other, you could earn most of the credits and then decide you are tired of doing it manually and spend $9 to get the last bit. Its only a $140 if you have zero credits and you want the car immediately, which I am sure some will do. I figure most (that actually spend money) will probably pay for…

Are Forza 5's micro transactions required to get that content? Its NOT here. You can earn the content as well, which makes all the difference in the world as you are not forced to buy content.

Its not a $140 transaction for one, its a few smaller (micro) transactions. But macro is not typically used for something this tiny. I would think anything under a million USD would still be too small for 'macro' (too big for micro too, but we don't seem to have a middle ground word...)

Some of those games like Dust and Warthunder are Free to Play games, so the ONLY way they make money is on micro transactions, so it makes sense as a business model. It does need to stop for games that you paid full price for though, DLC is one thing, "in game virtual currency" is just absurd.

Small is relative, of course, but I dont think you could justify using a word like macro which is saved almost exclusively for "massive", with this. Although I do think we need a new word, because when a game has a single transaction that is close to the full price of a new AAA game, then it should no longer be…

There are quite a few. They tend to be the ones that balance out the whole Free to Play world, and I dont doubt for a minute that they would jump on this. Hell there are enough people that willing to pay to have someone level them up in an MMORPG to max level (rather than play the game themselves) that there is an…

You give the developers too much credit. They will not seek a middle ground, they will try and find where consumers draw the line, and then they will continue to try and push every so slightly beyond that line, until one day, you wake up, and gas is almost $4 a gallon. Wait...I got side tracked there at the end...

I doubt they did more than pic some random numbers out of a hat that were more or less in the range they wanted compared to other random numbers they picked out for other cards.

The WiiU controller? Its huge (not just in width, but in overall 'size'), has some odd analog sticks, in very bad placement (as far away from my thumb as they could be and still be on the controller!) and its as far from ergonomic as you can possibly get (its a rectangle with no accounting for the shape of human…

I am less doubtful, thats for certain, but I never suspend my disbelief. What moon landing?

Bayonetta 2, while it does look pretty impressive, is not even remotely close to the amount of on screen detail that a game like BF4 has, its not even close. Its like comparing BF4 with a racing game. Racing games do not require much to go high resolution, with a great frame rate (which is why it was pretty painless…

When a video is online, I have a hard time believing anything in it.