I bought the map pack for BLOPS 2 and have been playing all weekend with a few friends, double xp weekend! Iwent through a whole prestige and a half. Up to prestige 3 now.

Anyone see the Oscars? Kind of crappy this year. Argo won, ehh.

Archangel3371 said:

Lots of great nominations for Oscars but the show itself seemed a little disappointing. Perhaps I was just expecting too much from Seth McFarlane. Hugh Jackman should have won best actor.

The show was a mess but I dont blame McFarlane. How do you make a boring Bond tribute, that takes effort.

I have been playing:

and

BioWare: Next-Gen, and the costs of the AAA

If the Next Gen consoles are guaranteed to offer a certain technical leap, Neil Thompson (artistic director at BioWare) warns that players will be time to see the result on the screen, and for good reason: making graphically impeccable blockbusters will become a financial risk much greater than at the present time.

So yes, known, the PlayStation 4 and probably the Xbox 3 propose an architecture similar to the PC, to make some nice savings but beyond the cost of development, it is especially the workforce that may be difficult.

"The last jump technology (2005/06 on 360 and PS3) took everyone aback, especially with regard to the amount of people required to produce what people were expecting. At the time, players were expecting to see something at least ten times more beautiful than before. For the next generation, we will take a big step, but it will be not so obvious. We will do things in a much smarter way. I think that we are better prepared, but we cannot yet to multiply the size of our teams by ten. This is ridiculous and we would have to sell 20 to 30 million games before returning to our cost. »

So graphics limited by budget and team sizes.

Glad I didn't buy Monster Hunter 3 after playing the demo. The camera is ass, I hate that you cannot run without sheathing your weapon yet the bad guys can move at the speed of light at the drop of a hat. And I really don't want to play a game where every enemy is a really hard boss. Graphics are nice though, Wii games look fantastic in 1080p.

Didn't like the NBA 2K12 demo but I only played it for 60 seconds before turning it off. Graphics are ass, controls weren't explained and I couldn't be arsed reading the manual or playing it more. Meh, sports games.

gamingeek said:

PS4's cloud services are aspirational, not dated reality

Jack Tretton said:

Sony Computer Entertainment America president and CEO Jack Tretton has warned gamers not to expect all of the features outlined in Sony’s PS4 press to be available at launch.

That includes things such as streaming games, sharing gameplay video or remote play.

“I think it’s aspirational on the device, as opposed to us standing up there, pounding the floor and saying the day this thing ships all this stuff will be there,” Tretton told Forbes.

“I think it’ll absolutely be there for the device, but I don’t know whether it will be there for day one on the device. I think a lot of these are things that we’re gonna do over time. And with that said, I think there will be a tangible example of all the things that we showed. It’s just a question of how deep it will go, how many games it will involve.”

Casting further doubt on the situation, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida also admitted that streaming PS4 games to Vita could miss the console’s holiday 2013 arrival – although he clearly remains hopeful.

It sounds like they were just floating ideas that they might eventually get to work. Calling them aspirational. He "thinks" it'll be there for the device but has no idea when? Specualtes that "there are things we're gonna do over time"?

Eventually..... "I think there will be a tangible example of all the things that we showed. "

What the hell is this?

Now this:

Sony halves list of studios developing for PS4 :

The original list of 53 developers was released shortly after console's official announcement and included big names such as Namco Bandai, Bethesda, Rockstar, Disney and numerous others.

A spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has told Joystiq the initial list was wrong. A number of high-profile studios have been removed, including Mojang, Rovio, Criterion Games, City Interactive and Frozenbyte.

However, new studios have also been added to the roster.

Many of the studios removed from the original list, such as Mojang, 17-Bit and Vlambeer, haven't outright ruled out supporting Sony's next console, and have simply stated they either have nothing currently in development for the console, or haven't decided on anything yet.

I'm sure they will get great support, but the conference itself is starting to sound a little fishy. Firstly their features,  in their own words are "aspirational" not reality, then the big picture of support they show is only half true and "wrong".

And this:

Sony: Dual Shock 4 Will be limited compared to Move :

The PlayStation 4 should be delivered with a dual camera that will follow the light placed above the Dual Shock 4 controller. But Michael Denny, vice-president of Sony Worldwide Studios Europe, warns: this ability should not be confused with the PlayStation Move-specific features.

Indeed, with regard to the detection of movement, the PS Move will have more fluid, complex movements, while the famous light on the DS4 is just a simple addition that will add more features on some games and directly operate the PS Eye with for example with augmented reality - (tracking for instance - GG)

I spotted a problem with that light days ago but deleted my post because I didn't see Media Molecules portion. The light on the front of the DS4 is much like the Wii 1 IR port, it's flat and small and will only be seen when the controller is directly facing the tv screen which limits your range of movement unlike the PSMove ball which can always be visible. So at best the DS4 is going to have maybe, IR like features but two handed. It probably has accurate magnometres in it for Wii Motion Plus style movement. Probably not as accurate as Wii U's because the company who did the Wii U magnometres said that the size of the U controller let them put in very large sensors that could detect the absolution position. The DS4 is too small for that but it will still be comparable IMO with some drift.

Dvader said:

The show was a mess but I dont blame McFarlane. How do you make a boring Bond tribute, that takes effort.