SEGAvangelist
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He posts positive stuff sometimes of course, but I think people get annoyed with his teasing attitude toward negative info. I get the feeling he doesn't like his company very much (assuming he works for MS).
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He posts positive stuff sometimes of course, but I think people get annoyed with his teasing attitude toward negative info. I get the feeling he doesn't like his company very much (assuming he works for MS).
Obviously were not around prior to gamescom. Leaked some good news then =P
ElTorro has a great post on it somewhere, but I cba to find it right now lol. Here's one that briefly answers it below.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Trying to dismiss his information as false when he gets things wrong very... very rarely, and works for Microsoft using a "rumor" about Sony (a company he doesn't work for) isn't going to work very well.
How many games are actually gonna be 1080 on both consoles? Do we know of any 1080 titles that are 100% 1080? Both consoles seem to be having a problem doing 1080 easily. Seems like the only way to get 1080 is to go PC route but what can we expect from such cheap consoles though?
Neutralfanboy
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Why didn't he know about Kinect not being mandatory anymore?
Or CPU and GPU Upclock?
Or about their Indie Policy which he blatantly got wrong?
Too many questions that need answers
AC IV review will be on PS4, PS3 and 360.
You realize he leaked a ton of information about the 360 in 2005. I believe it was all accurate. Look at his post history. He's been doing this for awhile.
That is the whole point of a leak. You dont 'leak' good news. That is the job of marketing.
That hardware issue was caused by too much heat production melting the solder on the motherboard.
Overclocking increases heat production.
BronsonLee
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...Because CBoaT probably doesn't know everything, and Microsoft kept things close to the chest?
Didn't he call one of those btw?
Isn't every confirmed game on PS4 running at 1080p except The Order?
Every single PS4 game is going to be 1080p minus about 5-10% if the trend continues. I don't know how people can even be asking this question since GAF is overrun by the articles day in day out.
He doesn't leak every single detail and policy about the Xbox One lol. He rarely ever even posts. We're fortunate to get a single post from him every few months.
And if I was to hazard a guess as to why he didn't mention the above, it's probably because they were very last minute reactionary decisions from Microsoft that happened extremely late in the game, and were decided straight from the top.
Microsoft should've designed the Xbox One as a pure gaming machine first, & media second like Sony did with PS4.
If it's hard for them to get Native 1080p out of Xbox One due to lower specs right now, then it's gonna get worse for the console in later games years down the road from now.
Hate to break it to you, but most developers are gonna wind up developing games for either PC or PS4 first more so than Xbox One due to very easy architecture development, not because of "lower power."
If it's hard for them to get Native 1080p out of Xbox One due to lower specs right now, then it's gonna get worse for the console in later games years down the road from now.
Hate to break it to you, but most developers are gonna wind up developing games for either PC or PS4 first more so than Xbox One due to very easy architecture development, not because of "lower power."
Well put actually.
That Microsoft bought a game from Platinum, I think?
What does this even mean? The ps4 has more confirmed 1080p titles at this point.
Nightengale
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A development team is different from a product team.
There are things you don't tell 3rd-parties, ( like costing, budget, crazy-sensitive stuff that would cause significant damages, etc ), but generally, they know a lot, by virtue of crazy deadlines and the internal teams having to rely on 3rd-parties a lot to be able to meet product launch.
And having a strong reliance/constant working-together with 3rd parties means a ton of stuff gets shared that is more truthful than lies.
Truth, in this situation is because there are no other choice but to facilitate better teamwork. It's not a privilege.
Aquamarine
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People receive different information at different times.
Let's suppose CBOAT is a Microsoft employee. This doesn't mean he magically knows every single order that comes from management.
If he's part of the development staff, he just works on his own game / the system independently and hears things floating around once in a while from the developer community.
If he's not related to actual development, the capacity for him to know things is even less.
The only way that CBOAT would know absolutely everything is if he was in some kind of management position.
Askherserenity
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Microsoft pretty much had no indie policy in place until just recently. I mean, it would make sense since there are you know, barely any indie games at launch or announced.
Every PS4 game that has a confirmed reolution is 1920 x 1080. No game has a confirmed resolution below this except for the order which is 1920 x 800, which maintains 1:1 pixel mapping on a 1080p display.
Their damage control probably isn't planned. It wouldnt surprise me if developers didnt even know about the small clock upgrades until the press release.
SolidSnakeUS
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If you look at some of the smaller publishers and Kickstarters, they will all be making copies for the PC, PS3, PS4, Vita and Wii U, and pretty much NONE are on anything from MS.
I can't get into detail without giving up what I do, which I can't do. So I'll just concede. I honestly should have never brought that up if I could not reliably defend it. For that I apologize
Ok every Ps4 game roger that. Minus the 5-10% dont really make it my point to worry about all that shit is why I didnt know that. 1080 is the last thing im worried about shit people are playing and have been playing lower res games and still had an awesome experience. To me thats all that really matters.
SEGAvangelist
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Voltage increases create much more heat than a small overclock but provide more stability to the overclock. The overclocks are small, therefore we assume there isn't a change in voltage and not much of a heat increase.
professor_t
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Sigh...it's so difficult right now to be an Xbox fan. Really, I'm more of a Halo fan than anything. But as stalwart as I have been up until this point, I'm really thinking of at least canceling my pre-order and waiting things out for a bit to see how things shake out. I kind of don't have the money for it anyway.
Sad panda.
It's mostly discouraging news for anyone who has enough money to easily buy both consoles.
On the one hand, I think it's good that MS is getting burned for bad business and design choices (what better way to forestall similar decisions in the future?), but I certainly can't be happy about it like a lot of the Sony sychophants on this forum.
I wish it hadn't happened at all because a) competition almost always is a good thing and b) I like several of Microsoft's exclusives. The whole thing is a bummer, but I'm definitely leaning in the direction of dropping my Xbox One preorder. Sony's launch lineup seems underwhelming, but Killzone and a few 3rd party titles should do the trick.
NullPointer
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How are we to interpret this? Up-clocks risking hardware failure?cboat said:
I can understand that risk but risk everywhere?
I'm on a development team.
My pet theory is the MS gave the approval for the Xbox 720 program late, and only with some serious strings attached.
What we know:
What we know:
- We know Microsoft is planning a cookie-alternative to track users across PCs, mobile and notable the Xbox
- Yusuf Mehdi let it slip that the goal is advertising unified across those devices
- This thing is built for apps, really gaming is almost just another app, like TV
- Kinect is mandatory, many of us have speculated that Kinect is the input to control these apps. It may even run modified Windows 8, or Windows Phone apps, using Kinect for controls of course
- On the flip side, Kinect for Business is being pitched as serious commercial product that can do everything from a glorified camera to a complete input device
- It expands the Windows 8/Windows Phone/Surface ecosystem (probably meant to save the latter two).
- It is an advertising goldmine and execs can't conceal their glee. Microsoft has been watching Google and Apple's advances here with palpable envy. 80M users (or 49M gold) would be a nice advantage.
- It is a new means of interacting with computers, using Kinect everywhere. So of course it is mandatory here. Dat business/consumer synergy. MS seriously believes your next computer might have Kinect as an alternate control scheme.
BronsonLee
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Ahhhh yes. I think it wasn't outright said Platinum, right? Just big Japanese dev? And that it wasn't DR3?
Also I vote Gonff admits who he is and then immediately does a hurricanrana to someone for no reason
Companies don't hold back good news from the public. Use some common sense.
He has praised whatever black tusk is working if you care so much.
Zatoichi's Cane
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Luuuucy, you got some 'splainin to doo..
Neutralfanboy
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The thing is he vehemently denied these upclock rumors which is proof that he wasn't privy to the information and his tone in this post is so sour. He definitely dislikes who he works for.
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