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How cool was that Project Scorpio chip (SOC) Microsoft gave to Rich of Digital Foundry?

For a number of years Phil Spencer has fronted Xbox – Don Mattrick his predecessor was quickly shown the door (with a rather grand payout) when the Xbox One original plan fell flat on it face…

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bunt-custardly2606d ago

Bribes...no sorry did I say that aloud, I meant cool...really cool.

BLKxSEPTEMBER2606d ago

But if it was Sony instead of MS you wouldn't make such unproven ridiculous comments...oops sorry did I just say that out loud? Oops I meant you're absolutely right.

Mr Pumblechook2606d ago

A cool bribe that should deliver some favourable coverage from Digital Foundry.

bunt-custardly2606d ago

@BlkxSeptember insecure much? This article and my comment has nothing to do with Sony. This is an Xbox article so take that nonsense elsewhere. For the record, if Sony did give DF the exclusive just like this on the PS5 and a little memento for their effort then yes I'd make a similar remark. I found the whole DF video thing more like an infomercial than their usual informative/objective critique style.

FITgamer2606d ago

It would make for an awesome coaster.

Gazondaily2606d ago

They are getting their excuses in early come the inevitable merkage when it comes to digital foundry comparison vids 😂🤣

ZeroX98762606d ago

We've known for months that no matter what MS revealed as the Scorpio's final hardware specs, it would be better than the PS4 Pro up to a point that some games can run at native 4K.

It's weird how some are pissed about the Scorpio being more powerful than PS4 Pro when we knew a year in advance that it would be.

If people are so concerned about specs, just buy a PC and be done with it! A console is a low cost/lower performance product, expect a quality in-line with what you paid for.

URNightmare2606d ago

A Microsoft exec even said sometime ago. They have some partnerships with devs, Gamestop, and other media related ppl for Scorpio marketing. This is not "unproven" comments, it's what it is.

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Rude-ro2606d ago

Reminds me of Tuco Salamanacas teeth from breaking bad.

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ninsigma2606d ago

Just appreciate the cool memorabilia please.

yarbie10002606d ago

Was it bribery when Sony flew Digital Foundry out and paid for their stay when they covered the PS4?

ninsigma2606d ago

Neither of your scenario nor this articles scenario bribery. Companies want to make visits like this as comfortable and easy for the visitors so that they'll go away with a good frame of mind and hopefully give a more positive outlook on things. Even if it's a negative piece in the end, having at least a positive experience outside what they're reviewing could avoid them from really going to town lol. Sony paying for the trip makes things easy for them and MS giving him the chip will make him fondly remember the trip. two ways of doing the same thing. I wouldn't call either bribery. That's more money in a brown envelope kind of thing imo.

rainslacker2605d ago

Bribery implies that they were offered these things with the sole intent on receiving favorable coverage, with the intent of that offering either being explicitly stipulated or implied.

Somehow, I doubt that MS gave him this, or sony flew them out in your example, on the stated or implied condition that they give positive coverage.

Its as ninsigma says, if they go away with positive feelings, they're more likely to feel positive about the experience and thus the product itself. It's pretty typical really. It's why press kits for game sent to reviewers always have little extras in the packages.

Vames2606d ago

Bribe a man with a useless chip? I mean, you do realize it's merely a memento, right?

TheUndertaker852606d ago (Edited 2606d ago )

So when Sony or Nintendo allow outlets to review their game with a free copy is it also a bribe? Cause ya know you can use those same games anytime after unlike the Project Scorpio chip.

Or is it somehow better to hide your hardware until after launch while releasing ballpark figures that don't equal actual launch specs along with premise videos using "similar hardware" or even better, top of the line PC components?

Also this does apply as both are similar practices from all companies involved with consoles which Scorpio is. The huge difference being one is a lot more shady and bribe worthy compared to the other seeing as one can actually be used.

TheUndertaker852606d ago

Oh, and lets also not forget about practices in the console industry such as this. But yes. A single chip from the device is such a bribe. /s

http://gameranx.com/updates...

PlayableGamez-2606d ago

DF are the last people I would expect to take a bribe...

Krysis2606d ago

Even after your rebuttle you still sound like a fanboy

Phill-Spencer2606d ago (Edited 2606d ago )

Not really, it's more like a free advertisement. Ms gives digital foundry the chip and all the info about scorpio hardware, DF reveals it and earns revenue of clicks and views while MS gets peoples attention on scorpio because it gets presented by an well known ( and respected) site. There is nothing wrong with this behaviour and it's a common practise, not only in the videogame industry.

mwjw6962606d ago

You mean like the "bribe" Sony gave out thousands of Ingraved PS4s. Maybe the PS3s they gave EVERYSINGLE manager at Gamestop when PSN crashed, or PS4s the year it launched? Hell maybe the 5 games a year they give to every GS manager/ assistant manager?

stuna12606d ago

Lmao!!!

This is one of those situation where it'll probably never be known! Considering out of nowhere DF comes across not only exclusive coverage of Scorpio, but also given ownership of the actual chip powering Scorpio!? Who knows??

LackTrue4K2606d ago (Edited 2606d ago )

Doritos cool Ranch chips are better.

Prince_TFK2605d ago

If it was sony, he would have said "a generous gift from sony to show their kindness and respect to gamers and gaming journalists in general. If this was put on sale, i would have bought it in a heartbeat".

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Raiden2604d ago

I wish I had bookmark one of my comments I made when MS revealed new laptop, that thing is a beast too, I said if you look at what there have done with the surface and now this laptop I expect there next console to be a beast, now look at it, a mid gen console with no real update tech is now the most advanced gaming console soon to be released on the market, now the games really begin, how long was the 360/PS3 gen again, can Sony continue to hold back year after year for the next 4 years as MS add more studios and ip's to there gaming stable, I could be wrong but I don't think MS will ever release a console in the same year as Sony, like what they are doing right now, the PSPRO came out, Scorpio is announced if I'm correct this is how its going to be, Sony maybe be technical company with great R&D but MS is learning you just have to look at there other hardware.

headblackman2604d ago

i look forward to new dev groups and the new games that they will bring exclusively to the ms xb ecosystem, but what i would love even more is if ms would let the currently existing dev groups that hey own to create more/different ip's. at least 3 ip's per dev group would be nice and it would provide verity. this will stop the bunie issue from happening again. bungie left because they felt restricted and wanted to do allow their creativity to flow. if ms allow this, imagine turn 10 creating something other than forza and 343 industries doing something other than halo? or all top people in every ms owned dev group coming together to make a game or a few. wow!!! that would be amazing :-)

christocolus2606d ago

I wonder how much this thing will cost on ebay.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken3d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty3d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken3d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty2d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken2d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0072d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken2d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot2d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto2d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer2d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek2d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken2d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie2d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12083d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast3d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit3d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export3d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2033d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai5d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H94d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1014d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H94d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_924d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19724d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing694d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard4d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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The Witcher 3 REDkit Q&A - CDPR & Yigsoft Confirm Steam Workshop Support; Further Changes Planned

CD Projekt RED and Yigsoft have launched The Witcher 3 REDkit on PC. We interviewed both studios to discuss the release of these mod tools.

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