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PS4 memory allocation debate rages on
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or you don’t care (kinda like us, to be honest) you’ll have seen the shitstorm brewing online over how much RAM in the PS4 is reserved for the operating system, and therefore how much is available for use by games. With the Xbox One, it is believed that […]
New survey says PS4 has a 50% potential sales lead over Xbox One
Sales of the PS4 could be 50% greater than sales of the Xbox One. This is according to Strategy Analytics (SA), a market intelligence firm that commissioned a survey on the matter and is now selling an accompanying report – “Games Consoles: Purchase Intention Index Q2 2013”. According to SA’s survey, which was carried out […]
PC games could be ported to PS4 in two months
Mark Cerny, lead system architect for the Playstation 4, has come out and said that some AAA games are taking only two months to be ported from PC to the PS4 system. Speaking to Playstation Life, Cerny had the following to say: Anecdotally for the indie titles I’ve been hearing 4 weeks to bring a game […]
October, November or later for PS4 launch?
Microsoft has already confirmed that the Xbox One will launch later this year in November. Meanwhile Sony on the other hand has remained silent on when the PS4 will launch, saying only sometime this year. Could they pull off a “coup de grâce” of sorts and launch before the Xbox One in October though? Practical […]
Analyst: PS4 to outsell Xbox One by 33%
We all know that the Playstation 4 is killing it in terms of preorders. GameStop has said it would buy every single PS4 off Sony to satisfy the demand if it could (albeit jokingly) and the console has also been dominating the Amazon video games sales charts (although has now dropped out of first place […]
Microsoft reverses DRM and internet policies for Xbox One
Microsoft has reversed it’s DRM policies for the PS4’s direct competitor, the Xbox One. Today it announced disc-based games will now be tradable without restriction (just like today with the Xbox 360) and that an internet connection will not be required to play offline games (with no corresponding requirement to “check-in” every 24 hours). Wow. Good […]
Microsoft 180s on DRM policy for Xbox One
Microsoft has just completed a stunning 180 on its digital rights management (DRM) policy for the Xbox One. You will no longer need a connection to the internet to play offline games and there is no requirement at all to connect to Microsoft servers every 24 hours. In addition, all disc-based games will be used […]
Side by side: PS4 and Xbox One
The immediate comment when a lot of people see the PS4 for the first time is “it’s so small”, while the first comment when the same people see the Xbox One is “it’s so big”. Here’s some size comparison images so you can get a proper sense of the design differences between the PS4 and […]
