@Octane
With X and Pro just releasing, I'm not seeing new consoles even announced for another 3 years. 2 years at the absolute earliest, and then another year to release.
It took 4 years of technology advancing enough just for them to make a resolution increase with consoles at the same $500/$400 price they were at launch. The amount of ground that will be gained over the course of the next 2 years will not be nearly enough for the jump expected with a new generation.
I suspect this is the last console generation... we're already there. We see it with the mid gen upgrades. Starting over from scratch costs a lot of money and sales on the platform are significantly less for the first several years. And they always support previous generations as well for the first several years and they've already got 4 different iterations of those, not to mention PC and now, in some cases Switch too. New generation would mean 6 different PS/X1 consoles + PC + Switch...
And with only a 2 year technological leap, we'd be lucky if PS5 even matched the X1X. Because that's really all that 2 years is really going to bring with it. 4 years just to increase resolution. 2 years would barely be enough to even see a noticeable different at all. And that's the corner they've back to themselves into by releasing mid generation upgrades. They can't go releasing a next gen console that only brings half the technological leap people saw with the mid generation upgrades...
And with diminishing returns, it's going to take even longer this generation for technology to reach a point that we can see the same jump we saw last time. And last time it took 8 years. We'd need 12 years just to see that same jump again, and with a mid gen upgrade already released, it's going to be even longer, or, it's going to be that much more of a negligible increase. And if very few customers were willing to shell out $400-$500 for a resolution increase, how many are going to shell out for an increase half that amount? Especially one with the "next generation" moniker?
I think we either continue to see mid generation refreshes indefinitely, or, they figure out a way to bring something new to the table that hasn't been done before. Like Nintendo did.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@Nintendoforlife There is definitely improvement with CA off. I compared since screenshots on and off, and everything is sharper with it off, just like Fast RMX. In motion it makes a big difference, as the brain isn't processing through the slight out of focus haze as though waking through the base with the wrong eyeglasses. . I'll definitely be leaving it off. I really don't know why any game adds it at all let alone defaulting to nearsightedness. Maybe it is so shareholders can see the game naturally?
My copy was due to arrive today. Looks like the mailman was running behind schedule, though, as he didn't deliver to my neighborhood today. So envious of those playing this already. Looks like I won't get mine until tomorrow. Guess I'll have to buy Rocket League to tide me over until Doom gets here. Then what to play?!?
Finally had a go at this in docked mode and turned CA off and reduced the blur before I started. It looks superb! I must admit when I played it briefly yesterday on the handheld I thought it looks so blurry and wasn't overly impressed but what a difference once the settings are changed. Feeling well happy now. Rocket League, Doom and Odyssey to get stuck into.
@NEStalgia@OorWullie Wow you guys seem to really be benefiting from this change. That's crazy they would put such a game changing setting on by default, particularly when it's negatively affecting the res.
Yeah definitely improves the visuals turning CA right off. Looks even better docked and undocked now and still runs perfectly well. LA Noire turned up this morning. I can't keep up haha, so much choice.
@Nintendoforlife Yeah, I really don't get it. FAST RMX had it on by default as well, and I'm sure it's common on a lot of other games that I have in shrink-wrap for PS4. I think it's one of those engine features that focus groups of non-gamers say "wow it looks so real!" so they turn it on so the game is Marketing Enhanced(TM) for the masses.
@Hyrule Enjoy that 14GB download. Don't worry, you can keep up, by the time it downloads, you can play, like 4 properly distributed games (And, yes, I did download the <8GB Doom patch, in part BECAUSE it was fully optional and I wasn't being strongarmed into it I wanted to explore what it had to offer. And because it wasn't prohibitively huge.)
To resolve the blurryness issue completely you have to go to the Controller Options and reduce the "Look Smoothing" all the way down to 0%, then in Graphic Options set "Motion Blur" to 'OFF'. Now try to tell me the game is still blurry. I'm playing it on the best tv setting possible (1080p, no lag)... and NO BLUR. Was a huge mistake by the devs to have all the blurry effects on by default. At least it's easily fixed.
Has anyone noticed Amazon US's search for Switch games is 100% broken? I have never been able to find L.A. Noire on there and took it as a sign coupled with the rediculous download requirement it just wasn't meant to be.
However, I also just noticed that Doom for Switch does not show up either. Searches for "Doom switch" "Doom nintendo" etc. do not turn up the listing for Doom (at one time it did....I pre-ordered that way.) I end up seeing UK imports for, like $90, and every other platform, but not Switch. I thought maybe they're sold out so it doesn't show up anymore, So I went through my order history and clicked through and it takes me to the page...and it's still in stock for sale. I'm betting somewhere hidden is an L.A. Noire page as well that I can't locate no matter how much I search (Anyone that has it in their history, I'd appreciate a link, though I'm likely to not buy or buy on PS4 due to the download mess.)
But this is a disturbing trend that it seems that even though Amazon has pages and inventory for 3rd party Switch games, they can not be located via search at ALL as though they do not exist. This is certainly going to hurt 3rd party Switch sales massively in NA.
DOOM Switch wasn't hard to find, though. It was the second listing when you type those words into Amazon's search bar (Skyrim was the first result for some reason).
@NEStalgia I just had a look on Amazon.com from the UK to see if my IP would bring up different results but nope,neither show up on main listings, just the UK import versions. At the very bottom of the page though , a US Doom appears under 'inspired by your views'. When I click on 'customers who viewed this also viewed' though its nowhere to be seen again. That is certainly going to result in lost sales.
@Ralizah Doom is the second listing underneath Skyrim for me too but it's a UK import for $74.99 with a 1 star review.
@JaxonH I've just got the plasma gun, is that stage 3?
But your so right, what a fantastic port, I have not tried docked mode yet.
Yes sometime the graphics in the back are a little blurry so I understand a little when purists get upset it's not crisp, but wow this is a must buy. So much fun, loving the multiplayer too. Loading times are not as long as I thought they would be so pleasantly surprised.
@OorWullie Yeah, it's a sales disaster for third parties.
@Ralizah it wasn't that way back in September when Doom was announced. I searched for it and it came up immediately after the Direct within a day or two and I pre-ordered. I'm guessing they massively broke something in their search engine when they redesigned the site for their annual pre-Black Friday mandatory redesign (which I loathe that they do that, they always break the site), but I wonder if it's limited to these Switch games, or if it's a broader problem across everything from linens to automotive? Come to think of it, L.A.Noire for PS4 isn't showing up either. But Doom for PS4 is (because it's a year old.)
@Deathwalka it's a lot less blurry if you turn CA off in the video settings. Looks more like classsic id games, to me that way. Of course I also turned on the classic Doom pose: Gun in the middle. Where it's MEANT to be!
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