Recent content by phil-t

Not a bad E3, certainly a ton of games for the core gamer.. I am semi-OK with most of the DRM, apart from the 24 hour check-in, but £429?? The one game I might have forgiven it all for me is Forza 5, but so far it's looking really arcade-esque and the slight OTT atmosphere is just not...

I also note: Secondhand games in the new DRM model have offer exactly the same 'service' as a new one, so by their model, that seems to say that increase in second hand sales has a large effect on demand for new goods. I think that unfortunately, we'll probably have to wait and see how...

I believe the ESRAM serves two purposes, It helps with augment the DDR3's lower bandwidth, and also helps keep the CU's more efficiently utilised. Thus whilst it certainly can't make up for the whole deficit, it can be put to good use in making what looks like a chasm between the two look more...

MS haven't explicitly laid out the policies yet, you know this, you know the myriad of contradictory (and still vague) post reveal interviews, so no one can give you a credible post that lays out all the possibilities, since there are so many hypothetical situations to cover. The only sensible...

You might want to read this.. http://kotaku.com/sony-wont-answer-these-questions-about-ps4-drm-and-use-510477281 Basically all they've said is you can play Used Games on the PS4.. As have MS about the XB1. What they are deliberately not answering (as the article proves) is if they are...

I never heard any definitive statement on consoles in the same house, I saw this article http://awildpodcastappears.com/2013/05/more-details-on-xbox-one-game-ownership/ I'm not putting too much hope on this, but if I can link our family accounts together (I already am linked to my childrens...

I must have missed that, I watched conference and all the aftermath, but only talks of a 'fee' of which the amount was not disclosed is payed for by the retailer.. Since the media is used *disk case and disk would not be sealed), like today, the retailer can't sell that physical item as new...

We don't know yet, MS haven't given all the details, as I said above, I think there is a possible use case where they could allow normal disk presence checking for that. But assuming worse case, it would only need the console connecting to the internet, it would likely not need an online Xbox...

Just thought I'd point out that you can play used games on the Xbox One, and you can trade them in at retail like you can today, they've said it many times, but I guess you mean the ability to sell privately? Well, I think the days of that are getting more limited.. Steam, IOS and Android...

Yeah, I heard that too.. I don't know about all this, I find it incredible if the One is 33-50% less powerful then PS4, I get the sense they've really got more of a custom architecture then we know about, but that's getting into special sauce territory.. Be good to get some developer...

MS seen to have massively dropped the ball with regards to high fidelity gaming.. I can now see why 3Gb and 2 CPU Cores are allegedly reserved.. assuming EDRAM offsets any other RAM bandwidth issues, what is left is substantially below the competition.. and from the DF article, I can't see...

??? It has been for the last few pages.. Seems your late to the party. Discuss please...

I personally never did agree with your interpretation of your video, I did some testing myself, as it never felt like I was being overly nannied in the way people were describing. I did an appraisal over on GTPlanet, http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=4238725#post4238725 It...

And when it invalidates any times you set using it, it's worth deminishes in anything other then single player grinding where most people would probably welcome it anyway..

Despite some initial disappointment over the in-game car models, as soon as I started hotlapping in Bumper-cam, I have been very very impressed with the track/scenery detail, it's quite impressive indeed. I know it's hard to swallow the innacuracies (being kind) that T10's PR have put out...