Sony's flashy new PS4 Pro is a great piece of hardware, especially for the price.
Yet despite some worry and speculation about it replacing base models, we were promised that PS4 games will still run fine on the base model. The Last Guardian and Final Fantasy XV have proven otherwise.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Ubisoft says they are focusing on two "core verticals," and that's to return as a leader in the open world genre, and live service games.
Calling Ubisoft a leader in open world gaming at any point in time would be like calling Dollar General a leader in retail.
I don't think they were ever the leader tbh. I've never really cared for any of their open world games. I do wanna try watch dogs 2 because it looks like it's set in San Fran. Looked interesting
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
Could be the case, although those games aren't unplayable on non-Pro models
Those two games were built with ps4 in mind, not the other way around so any issues with performance would have happened whether the pro existed or not. The difference is the pro has more power to be able to deal with those performance issues when it runs in 1080p. Let's not forget that the 4k version of tlg has been seeing some problems too so it's not just the Base model.
I can't see why OGPS4 owners can't get there own system patches like the pro is getting, make the option available to play at lower res with higher more stable fps
Nope. These games are pushing as much as they can. This is not a new issue and in fact the games are running as mixed as last gen.
But the "gaming" media has to find every negative possible and make mountains out of mole hills.
nothing new here.
I mean, 3 years in and we have had less games actually run at a rock solid frame rate on all systems... but now it is news.
Added: I mean, was the halo mcc bad because of the Scorpio? No, but look at how big of mess that collection was.
Both the last guardian and FF15 were in development for well over 5 years. They're not going to wake up one day to 'screw' people over, why would they screw 95% of the PS4 population... very dumb. It's just the case that both games were destined to not prioritize frame rate in the first place, and seeing the PS4 Pro handle the issue better simply band-aids over the issue.