| @Darren that’s pretty much expected given Microsoft have a whole load more software engineers working on just Windows, whilst Sony rely a lot more on customising pre-existing open-source software. |
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Sackboy developer Sumo set to be bought by Tencent
New PS5 and DualSense controller updates makes a short list of improvements
Internal Microsoft document reveals plan to slash cut on Xbox game sales, too
| @Nion12 impossible to tell without seeing the actual numbers, but it wouldn’t be hard for them to run the store at a loss for a good few years if their other business units offset the losses. |
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| @Nion12 it really isn’t like that example at all. PCs have always been open, since you can choose what you do with it - the hardware and software are separated. That is not the case with iPhones just as it’s not the case with consoles, the hardware and software is intrinsically linked and controlled by the manufacturer. |
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Microsoft will slash its own store cut on PC game sales
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@grassyknoll technically any company making a positive net profit is by definition profitable. In this instance Microsoft are making 12% gross profit, so their costs need to be covered by whatever that 12% equates to or they risk being unprofitable. If your volume is high and your costs are low enough you can have a successful and profitable retail business. |
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Naughty Dog reportedly working on The Last of Us remake for PS5
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@JSF_Phantom Could be that they're remaking it with better assets and modern tech in preparation for a PC release? Seems that Sony are looking to make more games available on PC. I'm hoping this is just a blip from Sony though, new generation jitters perhaps. I'd love more new IPs and new editions to existing series like, Jak & Daxter, The Getaway, G-Police, Sly Cooper, Syphon Filter, Resistance, etc... |
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Sony details "next-generation" PlayStation 5 VR headset
| @Ultrasoundwave not sure how a few extra bods from product development would help with manufacturing and assembly of PS5s though... |
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Xbox All Access credit provider Klarna faces UK regulation
| @TagRed the payment provider I’ve used shows Klarna Pay Later at 2.9% + 20p per transaction, MasterCard/Visa is around 0.9 to 1.4% depending on card type and volume. |
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One of the best Black Friday laptop deals is £700 off a Razer Blade Pro
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@BustedUpBiker that comparison isn't accurate for this particular laptop as it's not showing the Max Q version of the 2070 mobile that the laptop has, you'll want this link instead: https://www.notebookcheck.net/GeForce-RTX-2070-Desktop-vs-GeForce-RTX-2070-Max-Q_9281_9611.247598.0.html Much larger gap between frame rates across the game benchmarks. |
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| @Tiel yep, you think right. Mobile GPUs don't have the power or thermal headroom to match the performance of the desktop class variant. |
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PlayStation boss says investing in new IPs is "very risky"
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@FlamesOfPower Sony would most likely own the IP rights, so they could have a different studio produce a sequel. But yes, still very unlikely to happen :( |
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| Might be an unpopular opinion, but I’d love to see a follow-up to The Order: 1886. |
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Amazon PlayStation 5 customers report receiving toys, cat food, or simply nothing at all
| @Switch-v85 Maybe there were leaves on the road and it'd be too risky to drive over them, that's an excuse the rail companies use :D |
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Sony says PS5 game price hike reflects increased development costs
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@spamdangled not necessarily, Miles Morales is £70 for the "Ultimate Edition" which includes the remastered version of Spiderman. Work would have been involved in remastering the game and the majority of buyers of that version are most likely going to be people that didn't play the original on PS4 so the dev didn't get any cash first time round. |
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There's no way to move PS5 games off the SSD
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@theonlyix they didn’t say that any drive would work. Cerny specifically said that expanded storage would come at some point once drive manufacturers were making drives that met the same performance targets as the internal drive, even then Sony would have to test and publish a list of drives that were compatible. This additional SSD storage stuff really shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anybody, it was heavily reported on at the time. As for storing PS5 games on external storage that is a bit of a miss, I can only assume it’ll come in time. Sony do seem to be a little on the back foot when it comes to the system software, perhaps COVID has really screwed with their software team more than they’d like to admit. |
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Now Apple is suing Epic Games for breach of contract
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@Pasco you’re confusing the cases: - Epic filed lawsuit after Apple removes Fortnite for anti-consumer and monopolistic rules, hearing set for September - Apple counters and is set to revoke all Epic’s developer accounts in late August - Epic files for an injunction to prevent account revocation before the trial is heard, and accuses Apple of overreaching in trying to revoke Unreal Engine accounts - Judge grants injunction for Unreal Engine accounts as it’s a separate account, denies injunction for Fortnite as any harm is deemed self-inflicted - Epic’s developer accounts not associated with Unreal Engine are revoked - Epic files a new lawsuit claiming that removal from the App Store has irreparably damaged their reputation and finances, seeks to have Fortnite reinstated on the App Store with the IAP bypass in-place - Apple counters claiming breach of contract, all harm to Epic is self-inflicted and can be easily fixed by adhering to the contract they agreed to. Apple seeks damages for harm to reputation You are saying that a quote from the article is a lie in reference to the original lawsuit (where Epic wants to be able to have it’s own store on iOS) whereas the article and quotes within it are regarding the latest lawsuit, (I.e. Epic wants Fortnite reinstated on the App Store with the IAP bypass in-place) ergo the quote is far from a lie, Epic do want Fortnite back on the App Store using their own payment system effectively paying Apple nothing until the original case is heard. |
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@Pasco it isn’t a lie, there have been a few filings but the latest Epic suit and Apple’s counter suit is in relation to Epic wanting Fortnite to be reinstated on the App Store. The monopoly stuff is due to be heard at the end of September iirc, Epic filed for an injunction to prevent their Apple dev account being closed before the case was heard but it wasn’t granted. |
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New PS4 games must also run on PlayStation 5 from July, Sony tells devs
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@feralningen nope, I'd say it probably means the OS/software features are pretty much locked in now though. Possibly also a planned cut-over period so they can get the right staff in the right places to ensure certification isn't holding up releases for either console. |
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Inside Xbox Series X: the full specs
| @harryisme the pedant in me would like to point out that SRAM is mentioned in the article "...and with 76MB of SRAM across the entire SoC..." |
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Witcher dev CD Projekt Red already working on a new single-player game to follow Cyberpunk 2077
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Toss a coin - lead your character through the highs and lows of being the bard of a great Witcher while generating coin and avoiding death. Includes a number of mini games and instrument peripherals. |
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Could Xbox Series X's 12 teraflop GPU deliver even more power than we expected?
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@eshy76 "Now, if MS came up with a "cross-console-migration" initiative to allow PS4 owners to "convert" their third party backlog games to Xbox versions for no extra cost, THAT would set the cat among the pigeons!" Wouldn't happen in a million years. EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Rockstar, et al, don't care what console you use and they aren't going to sacrifice their profits to allow you to simply switch platforms for free, when they'd otherwise get two sales. Let alone the technical aspects, how are Microsoft going to know you have a PS4 copy of a particular game? |
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The best Dreams games we've seen so far
| @_Alan_Cartridge_ Search & Destroys :D |
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Hyperoptic's latest broadband deal gets you 500Mb fibre for just £30 per month
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@Nova_Blue in the past they only serviced large apartment blocks because it was more cost effective to install their fibre to a single building with 25, 50, 100+ customers. It would appear that they are now working with some developers to build out the network on new build estates though. I would say existing properties are shit outta luck unless they want to stump up for all the build costs. |
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BT is including a free Google Stadia with its fibre broadband deals
| @weebleman there are a few more options these days but they're highly dependant on where you live and mostly fibre only, so companies like CityFibre/Vodafone, B4RN, and Gigaclear among others. |
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CD Projekt says Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer likely won't arrive until after 2021
| @Majestic-Manatee CDPR posted some financial results that said they were working on two triple-A titles due before end of FY 2021. People speculated that it was either a Witcher sequel or a new IP, guess the phrase clears that up. |
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The next Xbox is called... Xbox Series X
| @Matthew_Hornet The question was "when is Holiday 2020" not "when exactly are Microsoft releasing this thing" ;) |
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@SheffAl it has different meanings to different people, but from a US retail perspective it generally means the day after Thanksgiving through to New Year, so late-November to January. Other western countries generally still use Christmas Holidays, festive period, or something similar. |
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DICE cancels Battlefield 5's 5v5 mode
| @Eaton_Corvinus BFV isn’t the only FPS from EA, last time I looked SW Battlefront II and Apex Legends we’re both FPS games. |
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PUBG's new PC update finally brings dynamic weather and bug fixes
| @ChrisOTR it's all cosmetic stuff, which tbh I couldn't give a shit about, so doesn't really do any harm. Same is happening in most games these days and it doesn't bother me at all, much better than pay-to-win micro-transactions. |
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We watched 50 minutes of uncut Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay and interviewed CD Projekt about it
| @xYOSSARIANx would make sense for Rebellion to give it a stab since they own the IP, but they seem to be stuck at the budget end of AAA games these days |
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The Star Citizen makers are being sued by Crytek
| @BabyBabyBabyOh it’s not just cheaper it’s free, you only pay for AWS resources if you use them. |
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A tactical shooter with 400 concurrent players on a massive map
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@d0x SpatialOS is pretty much an abstraction layer for game developers to utilise cloud resources. With a £500m investment it's become a bit of a tech unicorn, so there's a lot of fawning over it, but not really any notable games released (as in complete) using it. I've played Worlds Adrift, which uses SpatialOS but it's still in beta and had huge performance issues when I last tried it (3-6 months ago). |
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Oculus owner Facebook ordered to pay Zenimax $500m in virtual reality lawsuit
| @RPMcMurphy Any code or software Carmack created at work while employed by Zenimax is usually owned by Zenimax. Giving that to Oculus for them to use in a VR headset would be copyright infringement but may not be misappropriation of trade secrets, the infringing software could have been completely unrelated to VR at Zenimax. |
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Intel Kaby Lake: Core i5 7600K review
| @Rogueywon Intel have abandoned the tick-tock development cycle and are moving to a three stage cycle because it's getting harder and more costly to make improvements. Kaby Lake is the third stage in this cycle before they move onto a new cycle with 10nm fabrication. |
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Black Friday deals for Monday 21st November
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@carmagainagain some of the courses are pretty decent but the £195 down to £11/£13 is a bit of a lie - courses are very rarely that expensive, there's always a sale, offer or coupon to bring it down in price. Edit: I believe they're adding £1 each day in the run-up to Friday so the earlier you buy the cheaper it is. |
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Black Friday deals for Friday 18th November
| The new style Dualshock 4 (in Black) can be had from Amazon UK for £37.99 |
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PlayStation 4 hacked again? Linux shown running on 4.01 firmware
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@crazy-Tetsuo always makes me chuckle when people bring up that argument. Microsoft are a software, security and cloud computing company, so you'd hope they can keep their services online if your business relies on it. Sony are more reliant on third-party vendors, so if they go down there's not a huge amount Sony can do about it. |
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Amazon Prime now includes Twitch Prime subscription
| @whizzedout a lot of streamers already do things similar to Stream+ so it seems more like Twitch are adding functionality that smaller streamers (or those without the technical know how) can use on their channel rather than adding more microtransactions. |
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PlayStation Meeting 2016 live report
| Knack Pro confirmed? |
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Oculus Rift with next-day delivery spotted on Amazon UK
| @VideoGameAddict25 it's not Amazon, it's a third-party marketplace seller - it states that fact right there in the article. |
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Murky world of PC game key reselling exposed by indie developer
| @I_Am_CatButler in that case they're just as bad as the fraudsters, didn't realise they offered "insurance" on marketplace keys. |
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@arcam yep, ridiculously popular. I've tried fighting key fraud in recent times and it's a losing battle, ended up closing the site - small margins wiped out by chargebacks and refunds ain't sustainable :( |
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The problem with simply revoking keys is that you're preventing somebody that wants to play the game from actually playing it, the fraudsters don't care if you revoke keys since they've already been paid. Everyone loses out except the fraudsters, even G2A must lose out if they have to replace broken keys sold on their marketplace. |
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Apple iPhone SE review
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@frazzl opinions are just that, no right or wrong answers but if the purchaser values what they've bought then it's no more a waste of money than anything else really. Consumerism 101, if people are happy to pay the price there's no need to reduce it. |
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@frazzl "Edit: Here's an article just to give you an idea of the margin's involved. I don't think you'll ever see that in the console business." Those articles never include R&D costs, after sales support, software development or software service support/development so the true margin will never be as big as it looks based on just cost of goods. The Samsung S7 Edge is £639.00 and probably only costs $200 to build so it's not just Apple. Phones have a large upfront cost but it's then difficult to make more money out of the customer, whereas consoles are low cost upfront to build the market as most of the money comes from software sales (and now online subs). |
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Nintendo stock stolen at A14 services
| @ichi_philly and that all costs money, obviously they figured the cost outweighed the risk. What evidence is there that the thieves wouldn't have robbed the truck if it was full of nappies? These incidents are common place on the A14 corridor, even if you use solid trailers they'll just use different tools! |
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| @ichi_philly Looking at the picture the truck is pretty empty so is most likely a small load heading to a retailer, not exactly 100k units destined for a distribution hub. Also if the driver doesn't have the hours left to make it to a "secure" parking facility (of which there isn't much in the area) where would you park? |
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| @ichi_philly lol high-value load, it's a few boxes of games. Would an armed escort from Nintendo's disc press to your home be more suitable? |
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Texan gunmaker comes under fire for NES Glock
Do to the thousands of emails and messages we have receivedWhen will people stop butchering the English language? :cry: |
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Sony drops pricing information from the PlayStation Blog
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@spamdangled every eurozone country has a different VAT rate so €29.99 in Germany may be €34.99 in Hungary and €32.99 in France - which would lead to confusion if the blog had posted a single price of €29.99. I think you're trying to make out that this small change is a lot more sinister than it actually is. |
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