Nah from playing all the other NFS titles, yeah it's blaring police sirens all the time. I noticed it while playing NFS: Hot Pursuit. I love the games, Rivals just seems like a small tweak on the NFS Criterion games.
Gotta add tax to the $500 as well.
Interesting video when set to mute as that host was too annoying. How can that guy review games and yet not know how to follow highlight targets? Game companies literally design those to make it easy for people to follow, and this guy couldn't follow them twice...
is the Microsoft produced wireless headset? Was the 360's out at launch?
Really? That sucks. I bought my 360 September 2007 so I didn't know.
Okay, can we stop calling for people's jobs every ten minutes? Losing a job is a big deal for anyone. A few PR snafus are not worth firing someone over. Going right to calling for someone to be fired is a bit much for an exaggeration, especially in this economy. Yes, it's a shame when a little mis-information gets spread. But its not nearly enough to warrant anyone getting fired.
That's his job though and he's doing a terrible job at it. Hence he should not being doing the job since he can't even get facts straight about something that he should be well versed on 2 weeks out from launch. It looks amateurish and unprofessional. Add to that the fact that he's probably making a lot of money and its even worse looking. It's not like he's some low level scrub living paycheck to paycheck. Don Mattrick was fired/pushed out because of how bad he looked during and post E3 and he was hired as Zynga's CEO. There was plenty of fallout from the PS3's disastrous launch and pre launch. The difference in marketing and decision making between the Xbox/Xbox 360 and Xbox One is pretty apparent. These guys simply aren't getting the job done. It would be one thing if the Xbox One wasn't having mud thrown at them every five minutes from every direction but they are and people like Penello who is the LEAD XBOX ONE/KINECT PLANNER isn't making it any better. He constantly tweets things that turn out to be wrong information or gives interviews and can't give an answer about something. Add to that the horrible E3 MS had and things start to add up. It's not just oh he posted some wrong information this one time lets give him a pass. It's man how does this guy know so little about a system he's supposed to be head of.
I won't argue that they could be doing a better job. That's pretty evident. I just think it's a little reactionary to be calling for a corporate lynching every time something goes awry. A major console launch like this is a huge organizational mess one way or another. And Microsoft are still the least experienced competitors when it comes to this sort of thing. It doesn't surprise me that they are having difficulty handling the messaging. They are still unpracticed at this kind of operation, there have been a lot of shake-ups recently in their management, a lot of the people who would have been experienced are no longer working in that division, and the expansion of internet coverage since the launch of the 360 has grossly inflated the oversight. As long as they can avoid a red-ring scenario, I'm going to chalk this one up as a win, mess or no.
Honestly, I couldn't say. The controller issue is very much up-in-the-air. I've felt the XBox One controller, and it feels good. But I've heard great things about the PS4 controller as well. I don't think the controller disparity is going to be nearly as great this time around.
All about the games for me. The controller and online service are bonuses, but not what will sell me on the system.
i just played ps4 at best buy and even if they made ps4 game pad bigger it still seems small for me. I got pretty big hands and i always get craps with ps3 controller and played ps4 for like 30 mins and near the end i had to stop playing the demos because i was getting cramps
. x 360 and x1 are perfect when it comes to size.I have yet to use the X1 controller but I've spent the better part of a week playing around with DS4 and absolutely love what they have done with it. That said, it's still a lousy controller for FPS games. I prefer offset analog sticks and that's not going to change.
That's a smart idea, almost required. Otherwise, think of all the millions (compared to thousands of people who actually paid) of Jago you'll have to fight before finding anyone else. For awhile I was thinking it would just be Killer Jago.
Not wanting Kinect, preferring Sony's first party games to MS's and the X1 being $100 more are what have me planning in going PS4 when I eventually take the next gen plunge, unless something major changes before then
For me it's like, at this point my whole "gamer identity" or whatever you want to call it is completely bound up with Microsoft. My tag, my gamerscore, my friends, and though it might be a little hokey, even stuff like my avatar. I want to keep going with all of that stuff.
And that the PS4 seems to be more powerful and running more games in 1080p vs 720-900p on X1. I'm not a videophile so I don't really care about all this resolution up roar. But it does seem like a real issue and suggests the PS4 will get the better running versions of multiplatform games this time around.
have you used it or just seen photos? it might look same size but the shape is still the typical ds which makes it feel small and not comfy in my hands like the 360 and x1 controller feels that is all my opinion you might feel dif. i will say this i kind of liked the 360 controller little better then x1 because of the battery pack gave nice slots on each side to put your fingers in that is gone now on x1.
