The Playstation 4 and Xbox One could easily fail. Sony and Microsoft have already excluded themselves from gaming evolution. Could the STEAM train bring its a-game with a recent technological advantage? This weapon called the thunderbolt maybe? Read more.
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
....you know it takes people to program the AI.... right? It isnt like it is sentient. We haven't reach skynet level of situation or anywhere close to the matrix just yet.
That's next Thursday.
It takes a people to program the AI then that AI is used for who knows how many games eliminating countless jobs which only grows as AI is used for more and more game creation functions.
What you're saying is so ridiculously short sighted and truly larking any kind of understanding and foresight.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Yes we can't wait for the work of others to be used without the need to pay them so that MS can profit even more from the people they fire.
There is no chance I'd ever use something like this, especially if it's not part of the core game design, but a layer on top of it. It's way too much handholding. Many games already feel like busy work, because they don't let the player figure things out on their own. Having a real-time interactive guide defeats the purpose of playing the game in the first place in my opinion.
If this were to become the standard like you predict, we'll see more and more video games get away with bad design, because people will just be used to ask for help from the AI companion anyway.
Well Nintendo don't need this with some of their games these days, with invincible characters, items, easy bosses etc.. they do the hand holding built in
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.
@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
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I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
Im not sure how its confusing :\
72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.
A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.
But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.
for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.
Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI
72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.
According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.
Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.
This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).
the steam box might be the next best thing but at the rumoured 1000 price tag they're going to have a hard time pushing it on consumers....i built a pretty decent gaming rig for €800 (built mainly through bday gifts and related) and that also included the cost of the OS and everything else dunno if i could justify to myself to go buy a 1000 box that would sit beside my tv when the pc could do the same jazz
top 2 lists? really?
'They make slow, or out right prevent the evolution of gaming experience by having limited hardware.'
Well, I think you're saying that now especially because of how long this gen was. But what you need to understand is that, if these next gen consoles were on the level of the highest end PCs on the market, the prices would be unbelievable. Especially if you expect them to run at like 4k @ 60 fps. I don't even think the ninth gen of consoles will be able to do that. But how long will this gen last. Ehh... I'd like to speculate but we'll have to wait and see.
Also, 1 million PS4 pre-orders beg to differ with the title.
This article looks like it was written someone who's a biased PC fan. He/she thinks that all new tech should be rapidly replaced and that the life cycle of a console should be updated every few months.
New tech has its advantages but remember every time you update/replace hardware you need to throw something else away. This is wasteful and more expensive in the long run. The developers also need to keep up with every change mid development.
One thing I've noticed is computer game technology seems advance faster then software. Why? It's because the games take years to make sometimes. By the time a game is fully completed the tech could've become 2-3 times better. At least with the 5 year console lifetime developers can maintain a standardized development pattern.
Knowing the specs are locked from the start helps the developers realize their development process from start to finish. If they had to worry about re-optimization every 6 months while still in development I would assume it would increase production cost.
Also, the customers would lose faith in console makers. Just like they did with the saga consoles. Remember the path sega took (excluding hand helds) Genesis, Saga CD, saga 32X, Sega Saturn then the Dreamcast? All these new tech updates where released so close together that it confused the customers and developers. It caused a lack of faith.
If you want the costly update path every few months GET A PC. Don't try and drag the console market into a an endless rat race. I think both developers and hardware manufactures know that keeping a standardized environment lets the customers spend more money on games software instead of displacing it on constant hardware replacements.