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@shaneoh maybe because this is ridiculous? can you people over in europe really not manage without your gov telling you every thing to do? this law stops preorders with no set date, it just stopped legitimate business. maybe that’s why us “yanks” (nice douchebag word there) got away from that crap

@BlueOcean obviously i can use it whenever i want, my speech isn’t controlled. so i’m guessing we should also not use any other words that have anything to do with anything that has harmed a person before? like say, pillow? you’re being ridiculous, grow thicker skin and quit trying to control speech like a dictator

@BlueOcean really? we can’t say cancer now? why don’t we just stop speaking all together, it’s easier than removing every word that offends some group. These restrictions on language have gone too far these days, apparently lots of people have forgotten the oppression caused by controlled speech and would rather instead not offend someone thin skinned by saying “cancer”. And yes both of my parents had cancer at one point.

@GKO900 in games like splatoon you’re going to be second to players with joycons, as it’s faster to move a single paddle for looking than moving the pro controller or using the stick. the pro controller is great for platformers or non-motion control games, the joycons are great for motion control games so i switch between them. if they are too small then buy silicon covers to thicken them up. having used both for some time now i actually prefer joycons even though i don’t like the sticks and think the buttons are a bit on the small size, however theyre lightweight and increase my accuracy substantially over the pro controller. imo you’re missing the main feature of the switch when you write off joycons in favor of traditional controllers. in short, it if weren’t for the joycons my switch would be doomed to the life my xbox lives, which hasn’t been even plugged in or powered on except for maybe 3 times in its life, it makes it too much like the other consoles just with different games.

@Rayquaza2510 the consoles are not region locked, you could import one if you wanted a physical copy of the game.

what about the other companies they’re suing? did they just realize they don’t have enough money to be successful suing Epic but do have enough to strangle the smaller players? Or did they just receive the cease and desist letter from Epic revoking their UE license?

@Yasume it can have photoreal gfx, 7.1 surround sound, the best story in any game ever, do my laundry, feed the dog, clean the house and i’m still not touching it. if i want to rent games other companies exist. this is bad precedence that will be abused real quick.

@Stocksy so then how do you test stages on production systems then? release it unfinished?

@Agramonte yea it only takes spending $200 once on a game, then having that game locked to a platform to piss off your customers, kinda like you’re seeing now. not to mention the ps4 is not innovative. you seem like you’ll be surprised by sony’s eventual position. this will not continue, mark my words. game devs already finding ways to bring this to court for monopolistic pratices.

@rjejr flip that around. it’s not the company’s responsibility to withhold their game from a platform. instead it’s up to the consumers to just not buy ps4. plus the amount of resources dumped into fortnite they need a return otherwise why continue to make games?

@DarthFoxMcCloud most of this legalese is just them saying “no you don’t own the models, textures, code etc of these assets, that’s not what we’re selling you, we’re in fact selling you only access to these items.” unfortunately game companies have to cover there arses in a lot of stupid ways these days to keep people from suing them

its almost as if sony doesn’t think the PS4 will sell well on its own...hmmm...they should reflect on that

@Rayquaza2510 also I’m a dev and what you said about compressing system exclusives doesn’t make sense. unreal uses the same model to generate the LODs reguardless of the platform, so no, making a game multi platform doesn’t increase the size.

@Rayquaza2510 i’ll still complain. it’s a game i purchased and there’s still crap to buy after the fact. instead of adding stuff that makes the game more interesting they just add visuals.

@R4z0rGr1nd3r you’re clearly the one that needs to calm down.

@Nincompoop actually i’m faster and more accurate with gyros.

@greengecko007 again, who cares what they want? it’s a free market and we all get screwed by crap like this. i’m definitely not spending my money to give a company what they want, they should earn it. and since sony is the only one doing this, it’s hard to not point the finger and it’s also easy for them to stop the finger pointing. i have a ps4, xbox and switch. of the 3 the ps4 is definitely my least favorite, what is different about it over the ps3? a touchpad? wooo..... same with the xbox one. all either console manufacturer did was add more power. graphics don’t make the game more fun, this has always been true and always will.

@greengecko007 except there’s no technical reason for this, especially in the case of fortnite since unreal engine makes multi platform easy. so “it just doesn’t work this way” is some business puke saying “no”. and as consumers we don’t have to accept it if we don’t like it. sony should focus on making the console innovative so people want to buy it, not because they have to in order to stay socially relevant in the gaming communities.

@KingdomHeartsFan dude do 2 seconds of googling on how to price a company. in fact start here: http://guides.wsj.com/personal-finance/investing/how-to-evaluate-a-stock/

also shut up with the fanboy crap, i’m a gamedev, i literally own all modern platforms atm

@GumbyX84 what mode needs to be created? I am an unreal engine dev, none of this makes sense. networking in unreal is called replication. you run the unreal server and connect a client to it, flag your variables and functions as replicated and call things correctly. that’s the extent of things on unreal’s side. if they’re complaining about having to run servers then welcome to game dev

@roadrunner343 except their engine of choice does support network on the switch: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/launch-your-game-on-the-nintendo-switch-with-unreal-engine-4-16

“After launching early support for Nintendo Switch development in February’s Unreal Engine 4.15 release, Epic is proud to announce fully-featured native support for the popular platform in Unreal Engine 4.16.”

something doesn’t make sense here. they don’t really give a reason why except “no switch ue4 titles use the net”. ue4 definitely has network support for the switch, it’s a full featured platform as per epic. also given their first blurb, about having to write in the multiplayer support after launch, this means they screwed up. you always always always start with multiplayer when writing an unreal game. if not, you end up in a situation where it’s “rewrite all the things” because now you have to make all your functions call the server instead of the local client. this sounds like their screw up and not epics. also if fortnite rumors are true then it has network support

@Ryu_Niiyama i live in a large city, still the best i get in my apt complex is 50mbps down and 10mbps up. getting 1gbps requires me moving to a “cox neighborhood” and forking over like $300/mo

@mateq coming from a small indie shop (2 peeps) we can’t afford to rent amazon gpu instances to run the game for users. will this get cheaper? maybe but i still doubt an indie shop will be able to charge a flat $15-$20 for a game, those gpu instances cost 10x this per month. i can see the large companies lining this, they can afford a data center to host their games and it will give them more control. instead of owning games you’ll now rent them on a monthly basis so they can control the supply better. refunds? no more. steam is also dead, why would i pay them 30% and still have to host my game? i see this being a win for big studios and a huge loss for everybody else

@KingdomHeartsFan actually depending on where you get the readings from will depend on the number you get, and some most definitely say 15mil on the low side. i chose to give you the benefit of the doubt and post a more trusted source. but let’s not forget in both cases you were wrong. also i could really care less if you believe me, you’re obviously not an investor and those that are will do exactly what i said because it’s the standard.

@KingdomHeartsFan The estimate on xbox one sales is 30 mil in the high side, so not 30-40 mil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles if the wiki is wrong update but that number stands as the current acceptable quantity sold. also if you don’t care about the switch being on pace to outsell the ps4 then you don’t know how stock analysis works, it’s very important to recognize potential sales when trying to predict the future price of an asset. if you want to chose to keep your little anti-nintendo attitude then by all means go for it.

@KingdomHeartsFan really? the switch is on pace to outsell the PS4 and already has outsold the xbox one. Also the switch is only a year old and they still have a lot of IP to release on the switch. IMO they are doing just fine.

@Ralek85 4k HDR mobile gaming is a long way off still, it’s barely making it into the PC market now. I don’t think anybody is hoping for that anytime soon.

@DarthFoxMcCloud if you had an amazon rewards card or some other gift certificate to amazon you could end up saving money. in the US for instance bing gives out $5 amazon gift cards as one of their search rewards.

@MoonKnight7 not to mention it shows the scalability of a properly written unreal game. Kinda Epics way of saying if you write a game properly it can run on everything.

Until CAPCOM learns to quit prancing around telling people how underpowered the switch is, actually learns how to write a scalable game, and brings monster hunter world to the switch, they are dead to me.

I hope it has motion controls and PC cross play. I feel motion controls are more accurate and faster than a mouse and now I wanna prove it.

@Kimyonaakuma to me it doesn’t make sense. both unity and unreal scale just fine on the switch so to me it’s pretty sad that frostbite can’t be made to do the same.

@Morph not really no, you just disable all the features that aren’t supported in your engine for a specific platform. not to mention frostbite isn’t switch only. also if the engine wasn’t closed source or they were using a more public engine the devs would already have experience with it.

With 50% off the 256GB card is $100 (10,800¥) so it’s really not even worth writing an article about. Tons of 256GB cards are cheaper on Amazon

@Thisismycomment not to mention the real projector could be used for more. this is just a bad idea imo

@Octane oh absolutely, otherwise they would have ended this segregation already. My point being they will not be able to continue this forvever as multiplayer games become more cross platform they will be forced to change their minds or be left behind. Sony will not win the console war with this attitude, it just needs to become more clear to them.

@Octane from a business perspective it also doesn’t make a lot of sense, the reason I don’t have a PS4 is because Sony locks out cross platform multiplayer, so it cuts both ways. I’m definitely not alone in my boycott either.