Piixl Jetpack SteamOS PC announced, straps to the back of your TV so you don’t know it’s there
It worked for every Xbox game I bought
The $700 version yes. It did. And when they stopped doing that there was zero compatibility
No, it does not.
Sony was the primary company behind the tech. That is why the PS3 was so important, a flagship device. the point is, the latest game released for both, GTA5, looked exactly the same on both devices. Microsoftie made piles of money on the 360. Sony made ZIP. Sony was almost humble at the PS4 reveal, in stark contrast to microsoftie.
All PS3s can play PS1 games. It’s only the PS2 BC that was dropped.
Not a perfect substitute, no. But seeing as M$ and Sony are trying to drive their aging first party franchises into the ground (especially see Halo), the AAA console exclusives are becoming less and less relevant. And PC exclusive titles are becoming more and more relevant. The vast majority of my favorite games from 2013 came in the 15-30 dollar price range with either no console port or a shitty/later console port.
Sony actually made money with the PS3, it just took them until last year for the PS3 to start overtaking the 360 in lifetime sales.
Also, don’t forget that MS lost tons of money with the RROD malarkey. In fact, the Xbox division is one of MS’s least profitable divisions. The only reason it hasn’t tanked yet is because they’re insanely rich anyway.
More and more I’m starting to think you actually shape your “facts” about the industry around your own personal beliefs.
I don’t have any illusions about some console exclusives being awesome, that’s why I’ll be patiently waiting for a PS3 emulator. I don’t care about xbox exclusives.
Or just get your hands on a PS3, since you’ll be waiting a long time before even basic emulation gets done let alone a full fledged emulator with high compatibility rate. If the cell was super difficult to program for in the first place, I imagine it’s even harder to emulate.
It is what it is, franchises like Halo are old and stale. The vast majority of innovation and quality coming from the market is coming from sub AAA devs. That won’t change brand loyalty of fanboys, but it still makes PC a better and better (and in fact more superior) substitute. And being a brand loyal fanboy is going to cost more and more as irrationality struggles in the face of actual costs and benefits.
AAA isn’t becoming less relevant, it’s the indies that are becoming more relevant.
While I won’t argue that certain franchises are indeed stale and overmilked, and also becoming increasingly more broken and unfinished with every release, we do need these big juggernauts to keep the industry financed.
Besides, big AAA games like The Last of Us remind us that innovation and great craftsmanship is still not totally divorced from the expensive blockbuster games.
I believe the direction the industry is taking right now with rushed games and over reliance on DLC/microtransactions might lead to a mini-crash of the “Big Videogame” industry with indies taking over for a while, while the big publishers (whichever ones remain alive) rethink their position and strategies.
AAA titles got relevant like late 6th gen. Prior to that most games had like current indie studio (see a lot of the currently launched 30$ games on steam). Indies smaller than that scale fucking exploded in 7th gen though. What I hate about the industry right now is the despair of a middle ground. There is a fucking million garage devs and publishers almost always want to make the next CoD, the next Skyrim the biggest shit they can shoot for.
A lot of my favorite games have been mid budget games, they are interesting and exploration while at the same time being more refined than most garage games.
Relating to that last part. People always talk about this next “crash” but what you guys seem to not get, is the past isn’t the future. '83 is a different time than now. Video games where in their infancy in the 70s and people still thought it’d be a fad. It didn’t have an audience of people who have had video games as long as they have been alive. It didn’t have a solid foundation. No matter how hard the games industry still fucks up there will still be gamers who buy games. At most we might see economic loss to go back to 6th/5th gen budgets. Since the 30s and the origin of the movie industry its had ups and downs but it hasn’t come remotely close to what the games industry faced in 83.
Speaking of AAA games, what are the top exclusive games of the last console that you wished we had on PC?
OT: Do you think that, after the PS4 and Xbox One 's life cycle, both manufacturers might join the living room PC bandwagon? I mean, Sony can release their PSN store on a steam machine which means they wouldn’t have to lose money on the console hardware.
It’s not very likely to happen but it does not seem impossible.
SteamOS comes out on Friday. Huh.
You need an Nvidia card? Sheesh.
Edit: What’s the equivalent Nvidia card to a 7850?
SteamOS Compositor Details, Kernel Patches, Screenshots
Edited:
And the first look at SteamOS
I would say GTX660 according to this forum website I found.
I guess they only optimized the beta for the prototype machine seeing as there’s only nvidia support.
Article by ArsTechnica:
“Everything you need to know to install SteamOS on your very own computer.”
“Valve’s Linux-based gaming OS isn’t hard to get going, if you mind the pitfalls.”
Ah, right, but a 650 TI boost was actually was I looking at for my new rig. I actually picked the Radeon card at first because it came with two free games. 
Heavy Rain, Red dead Redemption, The Last of Us, Uncharted, God of War, Metal Gear Solid, etc
DUST 514!
It was a PS3 exclusive, even though the EVE community is entirely PC players. So unfair.