Exclusives are not the issue, especially first party exclusives. Buying the exclusive rights to a direct sequel of an already multi-platform game, thats the issue.

Absolutely. It happens quite often with timed exclusives. The waiting system gets the game in better shape, with more content, then those that got it first.

I grow tired of this. At least its not a last gen only (really?) like the up coming Assassins Creed.

A big part of this one was pretending it wasn't timed, but even then, who buys a console for a Tombraider game? It might just be enough to push for someone that was on the fence about which console, but I doubt a single person will buy an Xbox One "because it has Tombraider 6 months earlier". If it were some major…

You sneak a cookie from the jar because you get away with it most of the time. Even if you get caught every now and again, its still worth it for the times when you are not caught. Its the same with exclusivity speak. I thought we (as a market) were over this though, with "first on" and "console debut" and…

This is usually what happens with timed exclusives. I loved being a PS3 owner because the 360 would get the multi-plats first, and then we would get the ultimate/complete/definitive editions with more content, all patched up, including all the DLC, etc...

Not every game that is released on one platform first is a timed exclusive. Indie developers specifically don't have the time or resources to release simultaneously so will often release on one, while they work on the release for the other. This doesnt mean that the console in question bought exclusivity, just that…

Cheating in always-online games happens quite often, including in Diablo. While it does reduce the likelihood of cheats, it does not even come close to eliminating them. It does, however, offer a heavier punishment for being caught (you are out your account, and the price of the game, since you can't play it offline…

You think it would take just a few deticated people to compeltely duplicate the entire rendering and game related OS API of the PS4? Its taken thousands of deticated developers 20 years to barely get 5% of Windows games running in Linux this way. Its not as simple as emulating a CPU its vastly more complex.

It doesnt work that way. Not only do games on use completely different sets of rendering API and system API, but the ASM that is generated by the compile toolchain gives code that is extremely specific to the hardware it is targeting. Best case scenario you develop a WINE-like API that translates calls from one API…

Interesting! I wonder if playing with a DDR pad in Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Master style games might be even better...

That is definitely a helpful service, thanks for the heads up, bookmarked for later.

You misunderstand, I dont mind that they have bricks that are not just the square and rectangle bricks, I care that if I want to build something and I lost a piece to it, that I have the choice of rebuying that same set again (assuming they still sell it), or rebuying a similar set (if they still sell it) that happens…

You say those are made from standard Legos, which makes me think our definition of standard Legos is quite a bit different. Just looking at those pictures on the link you provided, I can see quite a bit of pieces at first glance that are non standard. My definition of standard means they can be found in practically…

Its not about the price. I would buy a console for 10x what you pay for a mid-high end PC, and still feel like I made the better purchase. I don't want a PC, thats all there is to it, I want a console. Price has never, ever, entered into it. No matter how many times we tell PC gamers that its NOT about price,…

You must buy completely different sets than me, because the Starwars (and Batman, and similar), sets we buy have a very high percentage of non-standard parts. Sure some of the parts can be found in this or that other (related) set too, but that doesnt make them standard, it just makes them slightly less unique. Its…

At least 20% of the Legos in all the new boxes I buy my son, are all unique to that set. I have been buying Legos for the past 20 years, I am very familiar with what pieces are unique to a set and what ones are just uncommon pieces. It jumps up to 100% of peices being unique to that set if you include sorta-Legos…

Its getting absurd. I buy all sorts of Lego sets for my youngest son and half of the Lego peices are unique to that set and could not really by used to make much other than what they were intended for.

It was a PS2

The VRAM issue is an absolute, insurmountable deal breaker. Until (normal) RAM gets to the speeds of GDDR5 (which DDR5, the up and comer does not even measure up) so it will be another RAM generation after the one coming up before we have RAM that is capable of the speeds needed.