“exciting” might be overstating things but I still prefer even the dumbest nintendo gimmick to literally anything sony or microsoft has really ever floated
sometimes sony does something that is kind of cool but they can’t fully commit to it so it just becomes this weird sort of regrettable footnote
I’m with you but my brain goes all stupid when I think about playing Daytona USA and a bunch of other Xbox 360 games on the XseX.
yeah at least xboxen has full BC. but, the problem with that is that I can just buy an xbox one x for cheap when the new one releases and still enjoy the benefits of that. any newer games I’ll just play on PC.
this post is calling me out
gonna play more f2p western battle royales to atone for my sins
I think it’s a bit weird that no-one has mentioned PSVR when considering the PS4. Perhaps it’s too much of a niche, but i think Sony should get some credit for producing a fairly high quality entry level VR system. (i think there are some exclusives there, too?)
At least they are still willing to try new stuff and try to make it decent quality.
No-one has mentioned Dreams either, which i have to say i bounced off but is a more interesting idea that lots of exclusive stuff.
Gone past it but until the UI became bloated and slow for unknown reasons I have really enjoyed my ps4 as a no-fuss box.
Also every thing not nailed down has said they will continue to release games for the ps4/bone so this transition change is more screwed than the last (remember Phantom Pain/Persona5/yakuza-kiwami/etcetc)
It seriously should not take 10 seconds to load the menu to see the icon to launch youtube because you want to show me The Boys is on amazon prime and bob’s burgers is on netflix when I am in Japan and can’t even do that.
they did the same thing to the PS3, it’s honestly a pretty lousy form of forced obsolesence
Oh god you are right they pulled this same ps store shit during the ps3.
also it is just html boxes why the fuck is it so slow.
javascript isn’t usually multithreaded unless you really really want it to be and the PS4’s single threaded performance was atrocious even when it launched, I’m guessing that’s what’s going on here
big mood except at all of the web
browsers, html, css, and javascript have evolved to become a monstrous multimedia platform that can easily use a lot more memory and processing power than you might intuit. people use web apps like twitch and facebook everyday and act like webpages are basically glorified word documents. especially when you introduce any kind of framework, library, or middleware, it can be a challenge to optimize even relatively static wordpress sites to not load slowly.
that said you’d think every console manufacturer would have talented enough UI engineers to keep things smooth
really the rise of wordpress and even worse shit like squarespace basically guarantees the web will be incredibly inefficient forever
it’s possible to have performant fast webpages but you have to code them from scratch or have very talented/experience teams who know how to use these tools efficiently. slapping together a bunch of wordpress plugins or whatever will always be cheaper so like. this is why the web sux imo.
Sony has a habit of introducing new things to console like PS3 era Playstation Plus, the proto-gamepass, PS Now, cloud streaming with a Netflix-style mass library, and a lot of the PS4’s OS features that all have mostly gone unused for various reasons. But they don’t seem to have the corporate energy to make things like that big enough focuses lest it possibly interferes with the traditional console experience. Although supposedly they had pivoted all of their indie initiatives towards getting people to make PSVR games, which is why it got so much support and their non-VR indie promotion and marketing deals dried up. So I guess they’ve taken VR a bit more seriously.
I’m looking forward to seeing if the adaptive triggers are actually cool though. Nintendo’s HD Rumble didn’t do anything for me so I don’t know if the PS5’s haptic feedback will be any better.
Also, store UI is some of the hardest to write because it’s loaded to the gills with experiment/measurement features, most of the content is from third parties, it ideally should be flexible enough to do any kind of bizarro custom multimedia display as a one-off, and anything involving money needs many layers of testing and double-checking before making any architectural improvement. It’s an iceberg, and Apple and Google both have teams of at least hundreds on their mobile app stores
It’s basically the top tier of UI development, and personally no I wouldn’t expect a hardware company like Sony to be able to attract (or know how to hire) the best in that field.
I saw the spec for the Web Neural Network API last week and groaned loudly. Google is doing everything in their power to make browsers an entire operating system sitting atop an actual operating system and it’s fucking gross. It’s been at least a decade since I’ve seen a proposed web technology that was actually exciting and didn’t make me go “oh no” upon reading the spec. The browser becoming an application platform was a mistake that can never be undone (and my day job is being a web developer)
I’ve been really into Project Gemini recently
I learned HTML by viewing page sources in 1996/1997. I wrote down the HTML for Yahoo!'s front page around the time it launched by hand in a notebook. Doing that now, with how much of a bloated fucking mess the internet is, would be a lot more difficult. If you view Twitter’s source, you don’t see what’s actually being served at all. If you use the element inspector, you’re greeted with hundreds of fucking divs within divs, it’s absolutely ludicrous.
The internet post-2004 is so fucking lame.
So what does this mean multi and single threaded?
if you have 16 cores but most of them are shitty, you won’t notice if all your workloads can run across multiple cores
most engines and frameworks are multithreaded “by default” nowadays but js is an exception where you have to go out of your way
twitter is honestly prob the best engineered social media site too lol