uhmm, where is this nonsense about AMD being bad at ray tracing coming from. According to your own benchmarks, and outsiders, the 6800XT ray tracing performance is on par with the 2080ti. Its raw performance is on par with the 3080. Lets not be dishonest gamespot.
@timthegem: Both of them were the last of the older staff I knew back when I first visited the site around 2009. I didn't know till recently that Mike Mahardy and Peter Brown left earlier this year. Lucy is alright but I can't stand the rest and I only visit for the comments nowadays. The current written reviews are somehow even worse than that of IGN.
i was here from before, like 2002 or so and I remember a reviewer, he was a nintendo basher, but was one of the top reviewers on gamespot. He eventually got laid off and started his own site. I forget his name though...
@blaznwiipspman1: it is incredibly difficult to get accurate total marketing, development and advertising costs and budgets out of AAA publishers and developers. That said I would wager a ton of money that not a single major PS4 first party title came in under $50,000,000.
8-10 years ago budgets were already in that range for PS3 and 360 era titles. Take-Two would say that they would have Rockstar titles that cost at least that much just to develop - engineer the code base itself. It is probably more often that marketing and advertising budgets are in excess of that for your average AAA title.
AAA titles??? Why even bring that up, i'm talking about the average developer. The AAA developers tend to sell millions of copies. For example, Nintendo sold almost 20 million copies of mario kart. Their labor cost is fixed, its not going to be anywhere near the amount of profit they raked in from that game alone. Same story with most AAA developers, although they might not sell as much as a first party nintendo game, they will still sell in the millions of copies. Their profit is guaranteed. Budget for marketing isn't a fixed number, it can be scaled up and down as needed.
honestly I don't believe that its all development costs that contribute to a games cost. Lets say3 an average game sells 250,000 copies at $70, thats around $17.5 million in revenue. Did the developer spend that much to make the game? If theres 30 developers and each one makes $100,000 an year in salary, then thats $3 million per year development costs. If it took 3 years to build, thats $10 million. Lets say operation costs, distribution, marketing, etc etc all costs another $10 million, bringing the price to $20 million. Do they lose money?? Nope, they reduce the price, and now they sell another 250,00 copies at the reduced price of $40. You can see where I'm going with this.
It looks to me like the executives are trying to milk their customers dry, so they can afford their next golden parachute, or yacht.
@mooglestar: that's a little bit archaic, having to download/install, then transfer over, and possibly transfer over back if you want to revisit the game. I'd almost prefer they just give us a super huge HDD instead.
SSD's install games super fast, faster than regular HDD's anyway. So thats less of a drawback.
One downside of Gamepass is the Games with Gold selection has become very poor. They should just discontinue it and focus on making Gamepass an even better deal.
PlayStation just got Shadow of War and Hollow Knight. It’s just embarrassing at this point.
hollow knight has been on xbox game pass for the last few months. In fact I have it on my library. Playstation is embarrasing itself and so are you. Shadow of War was available on game pass last year july. Im not sure of its current status.
@Zetler: I feel like there might be some AMD cards available. Considering AMD hasn't really released a stellar card in a minute. Mostly due to bootleg quality drivers that are official.
nonsense probably from someone who never owned an AMD card. Their drivers are shaky at launch, but round out real good in 3 months time.
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