[url=#user_comment_258559]@Bindal[/url]: "I got caught being retarded. Noone can ever know so i'll pretend it was someone else stealing my name" You are not fooling anyone.

For the young ones who "felt" yours days changing while the SNES left his place for the PSX.

http://youtu.be/923fVDDwaHo

Older Engie-tan needs to cosplay as her younger self. Delish

PS4 requires some games stat.

I think a lot of why the 'WOW' factor in the PS4 is lost might just be from the fact Sony's forgetting it's greatest strength. It's colossal game library dating back to the PS1. Without backwards compatibility, what is the point of getting the PS4?

[url=#user_comment_258508]@Beretta[/url] Isnt that also their own damn fault though? As in, they went crazy with anti-piracy and now its biting them in the ass?

Look, seems to me you're perfectly fine with DOTA or whatever that's called.
You keep playing that. :)

And (like many ppl already said) they need to come up with new stuff.
The Wii was great to revive lightgun shooters and the Wii U pad now can serve as inventory or map
PS2 had Eyetoy (pretty casual but w/e)
PS3 has Playstation Move.
xbox 360 has Kinect.
But what's next?

[url=#user_comment_258574]@Shadow12000[/url] I feel with you. They need games that: Tell stories (Heavy Rain, Alan Wake) Deliver real Horror, instead of just gore (Amnesia for example) Enhence the RPG feeling by more freedom for both JRPG and RPGs similar to Fallout/Elder Scrolls

In the end gameplay and design are what matter the most. It is not like board games are dying out because their graphics are too bad. People's imagination fills the holes anyway.

As I see it, the more interesting possibility will be what kind of creativity all these ponies will allow game creators, now that they're, essentially, becoming multimillion movie shoots with a truckload of programmers trying to deliver the next summer sensation

Well the trouble is you can only get so real with your graphics before you achieve photorealism, and suddenly realize you have nothing else up your sleeve. PS2 was getting close, PS3 got even closer, and now the next is getting to the point where high def graphics will no longer be a saving grade

No, it's not just you, Jo. A friend and I both felt the same way, the entire show was full of buzz words rather than showing off what it can do. The old man? One company. Where's something beyond just graphics and how to socialize? Where's my fucking VR console? I want my dotHack and SAO, dammit!

With slightly better graphics and able to put a few more NPCs on the screen. I also want to see either complete games or cheaper games. Shouldn't have to buy DLCs to fill out a game that I've already paid $60 for because they wanted to release it before it was actually done.

[url=#user_comment_258414]@Delevion[/url]: Yes, but the issue becomes will they actually advance? Or will they just make more and more generic games where they just focus on the graphics as opposed to the gameplay? I'm all for advancing technologies in consoles as long as they don't basically rerelease the current games cont.

[url=#user_comment_258345]@Salty[/url]: of course. But as members of the glorious PC master race (tm) if both the PS4 and the durango XBox are multi-core PC's architecturally it will mean better games on the PC .

[url=#user_comment_258462]@Bindal[/url]: Way to steal my name, a-hole. Just one problem - I USE AN ACCOUNT AND DON'T BE A GUEST!

@Minato Arisato: Not likely.

Con't
That problem was why the PS3 decided to go the hardware route. Cost more per unit, but solved the issue directly -and imagine the $ tag on a PS4&3 bundle.
I'm very disappointed as well but I get that it can be a lose-lose proposition at the point we're all at.

[url=#user_comment_258503]@Querzis[/url] Looking at the Xbox-to-360 compatibility issues, very. Sony uses direct hardware emulation -a PS3 has a PS2 and a PS1 in it. That's expensive. However, the XBox problem was that each game had to have it's developer code in the patch to make it playable on the 360. Didn't work.

[url=#user_comment_258461]@Beretta[/url] wait wait wait, no backward compatibility? Is that true? Thats retarded, I didnt even know that. You can play gamecube games on the Wii U and its not even the same discs, how hard could it be really?

WILL PERSONA 5 BE ON XBOX360
IT BETTER BE

Nope. Just get a PC.

Nope. Just get a PC.

So much MINES..

It's a MINEfield.

at least not as bad as shitbox

On the plus side lots of retailers are dumping PS3 titles for 50% off, and that's fantastic. Time to pad out my collections.

The many ages of Engie. Charming!
Every other PSX had some compelling draw (Motorstorm, Tekken and Heavenly Sword for me), and the PS4 has thus far 1) a sadly sorry PC title and 2) no backwards compatibility. Sure PS3 hardware emulation would probably be cripplingly expensive, but still.

My reaction to the PS4 boils down to basically 'Is there any incentive whatsoever to getting this, rather than playing the exact same thing on my PC?'

Rumours going around GT6 is gonna be released on the PS3... Apparantly a Sony spokesperson accidentally confirmed it.

I kinda think it's sad that a console that used to be heavy on good (exclusive) RPG titles (PS2) got a rather mixed/FPS heavy successor (at least I think so) and now PS4?
It'll probably be like the Wii U and have less than 20 titles (mostly ports) 3 months after launch.

Don't worry, Jo, you'll be saying "wow" about the price soon enough.

Consoles? Who needs consoles if there is PC?

Where are all those comics about Hermaeus Mora?

Sorry, Joe, you're just getting old. It has only ever been wow factor.

Engie looks like ResEvil3's Jill Valentine in the last panel ^_^ me gusta

I am torn, I love redheads but ravenhaired engie is just awesome.

Really Joe, I don't get yout point. It's more powerfull, can run games better, industry would move on.
Why else should they make new consoles, or you think we should stay with this generation?

Engie has a brunnet years?

Jo has a point, but I thought most of us made the right choice earlier and stopped feeding consolefaggotry? ;)

Whait, engie had a black hair phase?!

Meh totally uninterested in new AAA consoles, it's all about the steambox, Ouya and Game stick now pals. At least they focus on games instead of shitty faebook and social junk, I buy a console to play games, not as an extension for facebook.

Almost every game has less Game in it now more than ever. You've got DLC, hats, social shit etc. instead - it's about consumption and hyping consumers to chase the next gimmick. Support the good ones, give up the bad ones, however difficult it might be.
Could always replay FF3/4/7...

Oddly enough, the only thing that's truly excited me about any of the new console details is how PC-like the architecture is, which in turn means much easier porting of games to PC. I'm happy with my current crop of consoles and haven't seen a killer game yet announced for the new gen of consoles.

I just really like PS2-era Engy. Call it grunge or emo or whatever, I call it AWESOME. The more I look at her, the better she looks.

[url=#user_comment_258348]@Stravagante[/url] I like the way you think and I approve of those goods and/or services.

..Engie has less and less clothing as time goes on..
So.. if the PS5 is released...

Sony, I have an idea to pitch to you.

[url=#user_comment_258304]@Nullcast[/url]: I suppose what I'm trying to say is that there will be no emulation needed to play PS4 games on the PC. So why buy a PS4?

Too much graphic in modern games and not enough play. Bioware, Square Enix, a few others, should really just give up making games and just make movies.

That awkward moment when you realize that the hot redhead engie is nothing more than Jo crossdressed

i don't have any modern consoles but everytime i buy a new pc i always have a "wow" effect cause HEY I CAN DO SHIT I COULDN"T DO(not always gaming related)

I find it funny that something with a simple name is such a huge thing. At this point, it's not about the name, it's about what can be played on it. I mean, when the Play Station first came out, how appealing was that name? It's like a plane being called, flying machine. (It is in German)

I was over the Playstation consoles when PS3 came out, I loved my PS2 but I couldn't get into PS3.

Five Hundred and Ninety-nine US Dollars!

[url=#user_comment_258148]@Salty[/url]: So? I'm not saying it's a workstation. What I'm saying is the architecture looks straightforward to program with relatively few bottlenecks to multithreading. It looks like it's been architected to make new things possible on consoles, not pretty pixels. I hoping for new mechanics.

PS4/PS3 will have a free game with it once you buy it... Dust514, it will be an RPG/MMO/Shooter/Multi-platform/hardcore/persistent and some other things... it is a WOW to me, take a look at youtube, i think it worth a strip :)

I like the evolution of dress over years.

At some point we can make very nice graphics, and adding polygons allow us more detail, but can be hard to see as a huge leap forward

There's actually a scientific reason behind this. We've basically been multiplying the amount of triangles (polygons) by 10 with each generation of consoles once we went 3D. So if it started at 100 on PSX, PS2 was 1,000, PS3 10,000, and ps4 100,000.

It's less that the console capabilities is getting weaker and more on the fact that the audience they're targeting has already grown up and is harder to impress now as each have their own idea on what they want to see.

[url=#user_comment_258187]@grif[/url]: Check the prices of these same games on Steam. No WOW factor at all here.

I got something for PS2 engie's mouth.

Sorry guys, but I'm with Jo on this one.

Sadly the amazing feeling for passing from SNES to the new PSX isn't something you can really explain with words. Now with all the new "improvements" in gaming consoles that are nothing more than little hardware upgrades, that Wow factor is long gone.

So, one time Engie dyed her hair black and during the PS4-Annoucement, she cosplayed as Jill from RE3?
And yet, she still has no proper name?

Just going to through this out there. You can't judge a PS4 solely by specs against a PC. You're ignoring the OS level which is pretty hefty. Consoles have an OS that runs that is specific to the console rather than generic. Generic OS always has more bloat and eats away at more system resources.

Custom "PC" hardware. Exclusive big name titles are getting rare, most big names are released on all platforms. That's why the, "Wow" factor has really disappeared from consoles. My PS3 is currently used as a video streaming device to my TV.

So AMD could develop a 20 core - it wouldnt change the fact that a console will never beat a PC in hardware (te PS4 is still a long time away)
The great thing about a console is that the developers can do their thing for only one setup thus creating a superior experience with the same hardware.

"8 GB GDDR5 RAM"
So? there is already the GeForce Titan with 6 GB of that superl33tawesomewhatever RAM on the market.
Without accounting the standard amount of RAM in the PC itself.
And AMD is really running after Intel with its CPUS at the moment.

Got to say that going from magazine > old looking PC > newish looking PC > mobile device, was really clever.
Also dark haired Engie is awesome.

[url=#user_comment_258223]@Querzis[/url]: My thoughts exactly. With valve's new toy coming out in the future, sony have to do either something different or create a miracle, and we all know that miracles dont happen.

[url=#user_comment_258222]@assmaster[/url] yeah what you're saying is generally true... i was about to call you on mount and blade and 1,000 NPCs... then notice you said mount and blade with 1,000 NPCs...

The problem here is that PS4 is just a PS3 with better hardware. At this time and age, "just" a hardware upgrade is common place, at least for people that use computers. It's just not THAT special thing anymore.

I know this won't happen, but hopefully they might just say screw it with bumping up polys and focus on getting more NPCs on screen, greater graphical effects, better AI, and huge environments with insane draw distance.

Yeah Sony really doesnt get it. Everything they say their PS4 will be able to do, my two years old PC can already do better and it can do other stuff too. To stay relevant, you have to go the Nintendo way and make your console do things a PC cant do.

Currently the amount of NPCs in screen at same time during combat in pretty much most games is generally around 10-15 max.

Ramp that up to around 500 possible NPCs during one fight and I'll buy whatever console that game is on.
Mount and blade did 1000 NPC battles, why can't they?

need more back when she was innocent engi and a lot more scene/emo/grunge engi RIGHT MEOW!

need more back when she was innocent engi and a lot more scene/emo/grunge engi RIGHT MEOW!

Heh... Jo just wants some fanservice ;)

@...: Heh, good one

PS2 is the magnum opus(google it) of Sony IMHO.

The PS4 can now do everything!!.... that steam has been doing for a few years now.

PS1 was new challenger
PS2 was brilliant
PS3 was for the good cheap blue-ray reader when released
PS4 will be a cheap optimized PC-like.

As long as they keep delivering the awesome Sony exclusives like Uncharted, Infamous, Ratchet & Clank and (hopefully) The Last Guardian, they can have my cash again. Ps3 had some awesome games that didnt make it on any other platform, and Im glad I didnt miss out.

heres a wow factor jo rumor is that the games are supposed to 100 dollars each

It's hard to compare a first gen electronic device with current technology for prices because they would have had to try to guess the sales for a brand new market to set the price. Whereas nowadays they have an idea of the number that will sell, plus feedback about prices from old gens.

Great comic Jo. Seeing Engie though the years is so cute!

[url=#user_comment_258167]@LonePaladin[/url] All electronics were more expensive, it's really not that great of a comparison.

get a pc, do it like 5 years earlier.
and more easily.

Facebook, Twitter, G+ - can't imagine that all working well with a gamepad.

[url=#user_comment_258164]@Raven[/url]: I'm the same. I only just recently bought a PS3.

Okay, just gonna say it: This comic is actually kinda adorable.

I don't buy consoles as soon as they are released because they usually end up overpricing them to start with and they have a poor starting lineup of games. I find a new console release time is a good time to go back and play some of my old games. I bought my PS just before the PS2 release.

Just keep in mind that the Atari 2600 cost $199 when it was released... in 1977. Adjusted for inflation: $590.48.

It seems Engie(1) had a "Dye my hair to rebel against the tentacle-author" phase.

[url=#user_comment_258116]@Nekomata[/url]: that's when I'll break down and get one as well

Tbh the latest Sony conference is a huge improvement from previous conference. Rather than showing gimmicks they actually show a ton of games we can expect.

In the end it's the games that sell the machine, and not the other way around.

The fact about consoles being more powerful than computers, is that halfway through the console's lifetime, low-end computers are more powerful than it anyway, thus developers have to "dumb-down" games to port them to the console. The solution: as[url=#user_comment_258148] @Salty[/url] said, be cheap, or do the Nintendo.

[url=#user_comment_258147]@Nullcast[/url]: Just FYI. I have a computer that's a year and a half old. I bought it for about $700, and it's STILL more powerful than the PS4 is supposed to be. Consoles need to either be much cheaper than an equivalently powered PC, or provide new functionality *coughNintendocough* to be relevant.

GCN and 8 cores (four modules then?) all sharing an address space and access to a largish pool of fast memory. And it's all guaranteed to be there? Yeah, I'm betting developers can do some very interesting things with that. That's a lot of potential for simulation.

@FFVII So god damn true, FFVII was ahead of its time.

super high detail graphics have never really been that much of a draw for me in the first place, the only real reason to get a PS3 was for Final Fantasy... but they kinda sorely fucked that up beyond repair when they stoped being exlusive... and non linear...

lol@laptop hardware in ps4

8 GB GDDR5 RAM

stop buying since ps2 D:

Got DotA and other games now :3

[url=#user_comment_258116]@Nekomata[/url]: that's when I'll break down and get one as well

the problem s diminishing returns. adding more polys barely makes a dent in graphical ability now. trying to go for LEET GRAPHIX isn't working anymore.

"WOW...I already have a PC."

Love brunette engie, leave it for a few comics :P

Wait two years and there will be a vastly superior PS4 Slim.

I never had a PS system until I got the PS3 over Christmas. I have missed out on some awesome console gaming this last decade.

The PS4 looks good in concept. It will basically be a clear upgrade like the PS1 to PS2 rather than what we got with the PS3.

I have no choice in the matter; I'll have to buy one when Disgaea 6 comes out for the PS4.

I'd hit it... all 4

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