gamingeek said:

Ugh that VR story. People complain about the cost of Kinect or motion controllers and then get excited for shit like this:

Sony already has their HMD and the new one wont exactly be cheap. Making most of these VR jobbies addtions to next gen consoles only for Richie Rich. Most of us still don't own 3DTV for f***s sake. Unless it's packed in for free with every system there is no point to this stuff, exciting as it may be.

It will cost less than a console, who is that not cheap????

Ryse is getting destroyed by the press, from GI:

spent two hours with the Xbox One title, but it felt like I was entering random numbers into a computer rather than actually playing a video game.

After a painfully generic story intro, the game began teaching me similarly uninspired combat mechanics. While it tries to sound like an in-depth action game with familiar elements like perfectly-timed blocks and focus meters, the actual experience is anything but deep.

With my left hand completely off the controller, I was able to slice and dice through tons of enemies simply by inputting the same sequence ad nauseum. On a couple of occasions, the game would shift to sequences that involved me defending an area with crossbow stations or ordering my men to block arrows with their shields. These were somehow even less exciting than the tedious swordplay.

aspro said:

^Keep in mind the Sony one is not related to the gaming group.  It's not a Playstation Product.

I know, but I'm looking at the cost, the phenomenal cost. If they can do one for £50 call me. £350 to 400? Jesus.

aspro said:

I count 25.  And keep in mind some of them will be receptionist/ IT Help desk etc...  I dunno -- that sounds like a lot of people for a port.  Not enough people to individually craft a game fitted to the U and it's controller, but plenty enough for a quickee port.

From the treyarch forums we heard that COD3 Wii version only had about 10-15 people then after it's success Activision expanded the team to like 20-something. And from that pic it seems the U team is about the same size, indicating that they haven't scaled up or done anything special at all for U versions. Also keep in mind that it's this small part of Treyarch that has to do Nintendo versions of all COD games, Infinity Ward ports too as Infinity Ward wont work on Nintendo.

From what we know about other games for instance Splinter Cell Blacklist all the versions of the game were done by Ubisoft Toronto except for the U version which was farmed out to Ubisoft Shanghai. AC4 all versions were done by Ubisoft Montreal while the U version was farmed out to another dev, think it was Ubisoft Bucharest but I can't remember for sure. There's a pattern going on here, Arkham City, ME3, Deus ex etc etc.

Even Criterions NFS U port was done by a small team of we heard, 15ish people, thankfully at Criterion. Yet now EA is on the backfoot from NFans they've changed there story saying a large team, pretty much lying PR junk in interviews. There are less resources and it's being outsourced, that's the story for most multiplatform games on U. Even Arkham Origins was Human Head studios for the U version and even the cancelled Aliens Colonial Marines was by another dev. The main teams are not cutting their teeth on U multiplatform development so how are we ever supposed to see them improve through experience?

Obvious priorities are being made here at these publishers. You would think they would have PS4/X1/U versions by the main developer and outsource current gen, that's not how it is. They would rather do 4 versions at once and farm out the 1 on Wii U.

Dvader said:

It will cost less than a console, who is that not cheap????

Who is not cheap? Paris Hilton? I guess.

Dvader said:

Ryse is getting destroyed by the press, from GI:

spent two hours with the Xbox One title, but it felt like I was entering random numbers into a computer rather than actually playing a video game.

After a painfully generic story intro, the game began teaching me similarly uninspired combat mechanics. While it tries to sound like an in-depth action game with familiar elements like perfectly-timed blocks and focus meters, the actual experience is anything but deep.

With my left hand completely off the controller, I was able to slice and dice through tons of enemies simply by inputting the same sequence ad nauseum. On a couple of occasions, the game would shift to sequences that involved me defending an area with crossbow stations or ordering my men to block arrows with their shields. These were somehow even less exciting than the tedious swordplay.

Well, it was a Kinect game initially so I guess it was on rails and then adapted?

So Titanfall and project spark are both coming to 360. Yay no need for One.

Dvader said:

How...

It will probably cost like $300-$500 for a VR machine, full HD virtual reality.

That's like buying a whole new console.

Rich asshole.

I now actually paid attention to the book cover.

aspro said:

But reviews for xb1 still embargoed until ps4 launch right?

Yes.

Taiko Drum Master Wii U - overview trailer

And this makes me mad that the Wii U is region locked. I would have bought a new Taiko Drum Master. I don't need 5 each gen, but 1 would make me happy.