Console Wars Thread! PS4 vs. Xbox One vs. Wii U Fight!

Regardless of how many were sold, a 96% up-tick is about as good as you can get. I think it is also clearly proof that Titanfall is a big enough title to push consoles... and Microsoft brilliantly bundled it to do so.

They don't currently have Azure hosting availability in Australia that I am aware of, they are working on it though.

They didn't go with a 3rd party provider, they are hosting on their own servers with a non-public facing Azure cloud... from what I've been told. I imagine it is early Australian Azure infrastructure.

 

This bolded part is wrong (unless you have a weird definition of "as good as you can get"). I'm going to ask that you try to figure out why I think it's wrong.

Hint:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/06/17/nearly-500000-for-metal-gear-solid-4-in-japan

That's not to say TF didn't sell a ton of consoles or whatever. I do agree it is big enough to push consoles (though you get into the argument of "if one person bought a XBO for TF, does that mean TF is a console seller?"). It is just unclear to me how large that effect is. With the specific numbers we have, it is hard to know how impressive this number is. Doubling sales in one week is really impressive, but if it was just selling 10K a week previous, 20K isn't exactly great either.

On top of that, we do have some "contamination" in that there were other things that affected XBO sales as well (like the price cuts). Plus on the flipside, many people have been buying XBOs for Titanfall since the console was released, so even these numbers likely don't accurately depict how much of an impact that game has had.

 

More fun with percentages:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Xbox One sales jumped 96% last week. But according to my retail source, PS4 sales also rose by 72.4%. That'll be because some stock came in</p>&mdash; Christopher Dring (@Chris_Dring) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chris_Dring/statuses/445577622475788288">March 17, 2014</a></blockquote>
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I missed this earlier, but I think NeoGAF is putting estimates of TF at over 125K last week in the region:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=104700519&postcount=83

 

MS has announced 26 more regions they'll launch in for September:
http://majornelson.com/2014/03/18/xbox-one-coming-to-26-new-markets-in-september/

Giving Sony a big headstart in these countries (though not sure how well XBO would have sold anyway).

 

I've been playing Infamous: Second Son. I'm having a blast playing it. Graphics, Story line and controls are really good. It's better fun than what I've experienced from the previous installments .(1&2) The only con I've experienced so far... Is the sound behind the powers of the main character Delsin. If feel like they could have added more "oomph" to it. It's an overall great game ,and if anybody is getting the game next week . You won't regret it .

 

FIxed! Having a hard time using my phone . Lol

 

How did you get a copy early? Ebay?

 

Yes. I found out about on reddit. ( r/ps4) Some guy sold up to 300+ copies. I don't how he got a hold of them but I said "what the hell..if it's a scam then eBay will refund my money." They are usually very good about that. Anyway, just got mine yesterday and played about 4 hours . Very solid game.

 

Cool, I'm glad you like it. I'm getting my copy on Friday. I'm very excited that everyone is saying it's so good. I'm not excited about the length of the game, but I'm sure it's a keeper anyway. Would you say it's the best looking game on the PS4 right now? Over Killzone?

 

It's hard to say now because I haven't played Killzone since the first month of the ps4 launch. I can say this much... The game is visually awesome and I was impressed by the first few minutes of gameplay. Its eye-candy I tell ya! Take the experience as a whole; acting , graphics etc. and you would find that it's better than Killone. IMO

 

Just a reminder that Sony's "Driving the Future of Innovation at Sony Computer Entertainment" talk at GDC starts in a little under 2 hours I believe (5:45 PDT). Presumably, if they're going to announce VR or something, it would be here. Though I wouldn't get too hyped about it (never get too hyped about things like this).

No livestream I believe, but the usual gaming sites should have blogs covering it live.

 

Well I should hope so, I returned Killzone because it made me want to fall asleep. The facial animation updates remind me of what they did with LA Noire, I'm excited to see that.

Yeah, I'll get excited when they prove it doesn't suck and I've actually used it. Same thing with Oculus (I hear amazing things, and I'm sure it's nice...but again I'm forever skeptical).

 

In case anyone is curious, yeah the conference was about VR. And no, you don't need to get hyped about it yet.

They showed off their prototype, and the specs sounds good (I guess?). Think it requires PS Camera and probably PS Move.

It is definitely too early to think about the consumer version. This is clearly about getting the info out to developers, and seeing how they take to the device. When asked about a release date and price, "as soon as possible for as little as possible."

It seems neat sure, and they seem to have some good ideas. But yeah, I say wait until 2015 or later before really getting too excited by thisi. By then, we'll see some good demos and get a better idea of what this can do. They do have some demos at the conference, which people will try out.


edit: Details and pics:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=787094

 

I guess by needing external cameras to track your head movement it allows them to take out sensors from the headset itself...making it lighter. That has to be one big advantage they have over the OR.

Until they come out with some games that make these VR headsets worthwhile I'm not getting too excited about them. They still haven't made the cameras a must have device yet.

 

New Oculus Rift DK2 unveiled:
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Seems similar (yet a bit better I think) than what Sony showed. Consumer version still a ways off, but this will apparently sell for $350. I think it will always likely be a bit better than Sony's VR (plus PCs have the ability to create better looking games). But with Sony entering into the fray, it seems like VR will get a big push. It now has me following it anyway.

 

Other GDC stories...


http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/03/19/gdc-new-tools-middleware-coming-ps4/
Basically developing on PS (including PS4) is much easier (and cheaper) now. Expect even more indie game announcements (some already announced recently).

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/03/19/new-ps4-update-add-share-enhancements-hdcp/
Thanks MS for shaming Sony with your Twitch streams.

And since we were talking about The Division recently:
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I'll try to post other relevant stuff here later I guess. Too lazy to create a GDC thread.

 

OMFG STOP SHOWING US ENGINE VIDEOS AND SHOW US ACTUAL GAMEPLAY. Division is coming out in 2016.
At this point they're starting to show me that they're not worried about the game so much as they are selling their engine to third parties.

That video literally did not have a single drop (pun intended) of new information. Way to show us **** that you showed us in your last promo video for your engine. Wait there's a game too?

 

To be fair, this is a trailer for GDC. That video is quite appropriate for that event. GDC is not for consumers (although there is overlap).

 

I don't care for your rationality or sense-making. K?

 

This is in line with the rumor that COD is switching to PS4 as the primary platform. PS4 was already the primary platform for NBA2K I believe.

http://www.worldsfactory.net/2014/03/18/thuway-infinity-ward-visual-concepts-not-fans-x1