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I don't see how it's desperate. They're trying to sell a product they have stock of. Go into GS around any major release and all you'll see is signage and advertising of that game. The only reason you don't see them doing the same thing for the PS4 is because they never have any stock of it.
I know, I know....it involves Microsoft so it automatically has to be doom and gloom. I'm just trying to add a few seconds of reason to the thread.
Wii U Outsells Xbox One The Week Before Christmas According To VGChartz
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain...rtner=yahootix
A. It's VG Chartz and therefore made up.
B. Wii U is sold in a lot more regions than the Xbox.
C. Even with all that, stock of the Xbox One was hard to find the first few weeks before Christmas. It wasn't like it is now where you can go into any store and find one.
I also have an extremely hard time believing the PS4 sold over 300,000 systems in North America when it's been almost impossible to find. Absolutely no way.
Really CLW? Do you even read the stuff you post? When an article starts...
We’ll start with the obligatory caveat: VGChartz is a controversial website. Any sales numbers taken from the site should, for a variety of reasons, be taken with a grain of salt.
It's best to not even post it. Even the most proficient of Xbox One trolls would not even touch this.
And TGT's caveat regarding the above.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
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Originally Posted by steelerfan
I missed where I said I believed the VGChartz #s. Could someone point me to that post? I merely posted it as it was on topic and I thought was an interesting read.
Then why post it here? Why not post in the PS4 (you know, the console you actually own) and title it "according to VG, Wii U outsells PS4 in Japan"? Makes about as much sense if you don't think their numbers are legit.
I missed where you said you did not believe in the VGChartz #s. Could you point me to that post? You merely posted it as yet another in a long line of trolling Xbox threads. Similar to how Dhook trolled the Off Topic forum with a bunch of Rap threads.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
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Glad to see things are still the same around these parts! Haven't been in this thread in sometime.
Yeah, you didn't miss much. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by oweb26
Speaking of 180's
A new member to the Xbox One club! Purchased it along with Madden 25, FIFA 14, Dead Rising 3 and a $50 gift card to get Peggle 2 and the golf game. I was all set to get a PS4 which they had one left in stock at my local Gamestop and they had both demos out to play. The Xbox One controller reminded me how much more I enjoyed using it. The PS4 controller was improved but still cramped my hands. Also, the exclusive games, right now, were more to my liking. Looking forward to Sunset Overdrive and I will probably end up trying Titanfall.
Going to stick with the Xbox One for all the multi-platform games and down the road get the PS4 for exclusives in a year or two when Naughty Dog stars releasing some stuff and hopefully a Hot Shots Golf game. Will really miss not having a baseball game but I will just have to wait.
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Originally Posted by bdoughty
Awesome! Let me know if you're ever up for some FIFA or co-oping on Dead Rising 3. I'm always game for some fun times. I'm still on the fence about Madden 25 at the moment, because on reviews, reactions, posted positives and negatives and whatnot. I may look at getting it in February or March, though not sure how much time it would get once Titanfall gets released.
Already sent you a friend request. I cleaned up my friends list to start from scratch, so be the first. :D Was thrilled to see I still had an existing XBL acct good through July.Quote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
* My apologies to JB as I have removed him from my friends list on the 360 and PS3 at least 5 times. It's not you, it is my OCD.
Going to set everything up after the OU/Bama game. Surprised OU has stayed this close so far.
I haven't touched mine in quite awhile. Too disgusted with all the features that are either not there or don't work as well as on the 360.
Sweet. Just accepted it. Going through my bye week in NCAA Football right now, so I was already online and got it taken care of.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Which ones? Honestly I just use my consoles for games. I have a Roku for all the other stuff. Does the Xbox One have a play while install feature? I seem to recall them mentioning it but saw the issues with load times in the compaison with the PS4.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
OU takes the lead, wow!
The party system is an absolute mess. Having every single little thing load as an app (friend's list, achievements, everything) is a huge inconvenience. Should be a mini guide like on 360 instead of going straight to dash. No support for background music(has to be snapped and take up 1/4 of my screen). No battery indicator, controller just dies without even a warning. Game invite system is also a mess. It's not universal like on 360, you have to have the person in your party and then invite them to that specific party game. No recently met players list so I can't friend request good players. Honestly, there's too much stuff to list.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
The 360 felt like such an open console with how easily you could communicate with others. With the One, I feel as though I did with the PS3 - closed off. Not impressed at all, especially when Sony has most of these features and they work great.
EDIT: It does support playing while installing. Once it gets to a certain point, it'll tell you it's ready to play.
Also, what happened to things like Smart Match? The thing where it's supposed to match you with similar players. That definitely isn't there. How about searching for a match, doing something else, and being notified when it found you a game? I've searched in both Call of Duty and Battlefield, switched to TV, came back and the match was half over without a notification of placing me in a game.
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Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Sorry to hear that for the online guys. I am primarily offline and only play people I know so it should not be an issue for me.
I need to keep posting in this thread. OU 31 Bama 17. Not even the biggest OU fanboy could have dream this. I did not see OU scoring 31 in the whole game.
Fine, since you insist, I'll buy it for $1. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Same here.Quote:
I am primarily offline and only play people I know so it should not be an issue for me.
Even though it disgusts me, I touch mine constantly.
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Originally Posted by steelerfan
While waiting for updates to install I have to ask, "Who the heck decided to move the disc to the left side of the case?" I would like to meet this person and punch them. I realize you can swap the cover around but then your logo at the top is backasswards. Always let the OCD guy in the company handle the little details. It might take a few days longer but shit like this wont happen.
Good gravy a 5gb update for Dead Rising 3? Going to be awhile before I get to play this one.
Yeah, that's one thing I hate about the new generation. Last gen on 360, I think the biggest amount on my hard drive for an installed game was somewhere between 11 and 17 GB, I can't remember the exact totals, but it was for Fable III, Grand Theft Auto IV or Final Fantasy XIII. I have no clue what GTA V may have came in at, but I wouldn't be surprised to find it up there as well. But that was the high end. Otherwise, most games only checked in at somewhere between 3 and 8 GB when installing the disc onto the drive.
When it came to updates and DLC, most updates were only in the 250 MB to 1 GB range (for major updates) and DLC were anywhere from 500 MB to 2 GB.
But now on the new generation, it seems like all of the games are averaging 25-50 GB to install the disc, with updates, not DLC, but updates ranging in the low-to-mid GBs. Absolutely ridiculous how much the sizes have jumped. If Microsoft hasn't yet set up or enabled the ability to hook up an external hard drive via USB, they need to get rolling on that. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to end up maxing out my hard drive within the next year, especially so with these larger file, install and download sizes.
From what I read some of it appears to have to do with the DLC. That part kind of sucks if you are not planning on getting it. I enjoyed Madden and FIFA but Dead Rising was the first true "Next Gen" game I have played. Driving over a few hundred zombies was my first wow moment. We definitely have to play this co-op at some time. I am even restarting my save to get some of the zombies I missed at the very first. Definitely not a fan of of the inventory system and there are probably are too many items you can pick up early on, which added to my frustration. Drove me nuts every time I had to drop and then pickup my current weapon when eating something and the inventory is full.
A few questions that are bugging me but I have not researched yet. Can you view the items you are downloading and can you go to the actual files stored on the hard drive or is the only way to delete something by hitting start while on top of the game. Same question for quitting a game with hitting the glowing logo and then hitting start of the game and quit. Seems a bit clunky if that is the case. Also can you see how much space you have left? I went into all the settings and could not find anything.
Interesting. Well, either way, I can guaranteed I'd eventually fill out my hard drive sooner or later. I ran into that issue early on the 360, even with a 500 GB hard drive. So hopefully they get things set for use of external drive, I'll get me a nice big 1 or 2 TB drive.
:D You sound like me. I actually have to restart my story. I'm about halfway through chapter 3, and I only have something like 7 hours until the clock runs out and it's game over. I spent too much time just driving around in my combo vehicles and building combo weapons and bombs and going around doing nothing but mindlessly mowing down and slaughter zombies by the thousands. I think, going by memory, I was somewhere around 40,000 or 50,000 zombies killed so far in my current play-through. :D
I do agree about the inventory slots, it can get annoying when it comes to food and stuff. Thankfully you can get a couple extra inventory slots if you upgrade the right skill early on.
One change that I love is once you pick up an item, weapon, food item, whatever, it ends up being permanently available in your weapons locker in your safe house. So as I was going through my current run through the story, I'd have my inventory full of my preferred combo weapons, but when I'd come across a new item or something, I'd do a quick swap so I at least held the new item momentarily and could access it later in my safe house. Or if I come across a blueprint for a combo weapon or come across a combo vehicle, I'd make the combo real quick (even if it meant dropping some of my current inventory) so that way I had made it at least once and would have it readily available in my weapons locker in the future.
It can feel sort of cheap, being able to just load up on combo weapons, picking and choosing what ones you want right there in your safe house, but it sure as hell beats having to run all over to hell and back like in Dead Rising 2, trying to find two damn weapons somewhere clear on the other side of the map to try and find the proper weapons needed to make a certain combo.
Liar!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Truth. Know that!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by steelerfan
Since nobody replied I had to look for myself. A whole lot of no's. I really do miss the old 360 menus and options available.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Sorry, I didn't see that in your post. You can view/pause current downloads by going into your games and apps library. There is no storage management yet, but you can delete stuff by going into the games and apps library and hitting options(start) then delete. Also, yes, that is the only way to actually close an app. You have to hit start then quit.
You can't see how much space you have left yet. It's coming in a future update.
Stupid, I know.
I really began to dislike the timers with the side missions in Dead Rising 3. They move a lot quicker than the story. I wish they would have scrapped that since this an open world and I like to explore. Also started getting a bit repetitive so I traded it to a friend who had COD Ghost (he would have also traded for BF4). I have only played one COD game but the main reason I picked COD is that you can play muliplayer offline with bots. I hate playing a FPS online and from my understanding Battlefield 4 does not have such a mode.
Microsoft: Xbox One vs PS4 Spec Difference is "Fairly Marginal"
"It comes down to the games."
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/...airly-marginal
They are minimal and it does come down to games. Pretty damn simple stuff there.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/dea.../1100-6417231/
So we already had a 5GB update and now those still with the game get a 13GB update to boot. Crazy thing is people are saying after the install it only raises the size of the file 1.5GB. MS really screwed the pooch on how they handle these updates.
Yeah, that's asinine.
I guess these big ass patches are heavily overwriting a bunch of stuff already on the disc? I feel bad for people with bandwidth caps and slow connections. I used to marvel at how the 360 would have these tiny little 10MB patches that would be 200-500gb on the PS3.