Thank you for the info, but since it won't include any of the games actually worth using this feature for I now understand why Microsoft are going ahead with it.
But they are involved in the console wars, and no amount of mental gymnastics is going to change that. Saying Sony’s two biggest competitors don’t count because of some arbitrary requirement that only affects them only shows that you’re either massively autistic or so much of a fanboy that you can’t comprehend another platform beating Sony at their own game. If Helix ends up being a PC hybrid and completely mogs the PS6, you can bet Sony fans will find another excuse to say that doesn’t count, either.
I didn’t say that. I said with a focus on specs and being able to play modern games more effectively (that includes third party games) as opposed to new unique “Nintendo-like” gimmicks, Nintendo is the most ideologically aligned they’ve been with their competition since the Gamecube.
Killzone was trying to compete with Halo, not Call of Duty. I hate how people simplify first person shooters into one umbrella. I’m sure Killzone is more methodical or slower than Call of Duty.
A hypothetical Switch 3 will probably just do what the Switch 2 did - stick to the format that works, just upgrade the specs once they’ve started hitting their limits after a near decade on the market.
I've only finished Killzone 2 but I remember it feeling much 'heavier' than CoD, at least that's the best way I can think to describe it. Halo was clearly its competition but in terms of feel, tone and pacing it was a lot more like Gears.
Probably, but that feels like a plan with severe diminishing returns since nobody who favours the Switch cares about specs or they'd be gaming on a PC.
Put yourself in a 2000s mindset. Halo 2 was the hottest FPS yet, on a console no less. Sony thought, hey, we can do that too.
A delusion so nice they had it twice. Remember Haze?
Nah, emulating modern consoles is actually even easier than emulating old ones. Modern systems use well-documented commodity hardware and all software runs in a hypervisor using exclusively high-level APIs. There's no emulating specific hardware quirks or accounting for baroque architectural rules - it's basically a wrapper API to translate Sony or Nintendo special sauce 3D APIs into vulkan and maybe a dynarec if you're dealing with different ISAs.
Was Haze conceived before Killzone 2? Oh no, that wasn’t Sony directly, that was Ubisoft.
And I agree, but I'd at least argue the specs matter more for what developers can get to run on it without completely tanking performance than the kind of "PC Master Race" crowd that isn't really Nintendo's market anyway.
It was Ubi yeah, but also a PS3 exclusive for god knows what reason, and repeatedly touted as the 'Halo killer' despite Free Radical's objections. Ended up bombing so hard even the exclusive song Korn wrote for the game couldn't save it.
Your positioning made it seem like Sony had a hand in Haze being a console exclusive, when that was completely on Ubisoft’s meddling. Killzone was more successful, in spite of their deceptive marketing from E3 2009.
You have never played Killzone then, because it is a blatant Call of Duty rip off. It was only "competing" with Halo in the same sense that both games are FPS exclusive to one system, everything else from how the campaign is structured to how the weapons look came from COD(which was the style at the time).
Halo 2 was released in 2004, Killzone 1 was released around that time too so maybe the first one was competing with Halo. By the time Killzone 2 and 3 released in 2009-2011, COD usurped Halo in popularity and so the devs tried ripping that off. By the time the fourth one for PS4 came out, open world stealth games were more common so the game jumped on that bandwagon too, Killzone died out since it never, ever had an identity of it's own.
It doesn't matter what it is, what matters is what it tried to imitate you fucking retard. Almost every shooter back then tried to copy COD, you clearly weren't around for it.
It seems all ____-killers end up failing and the only thing that actually kills ____ is the thing itself (e.g., Halo, WoW, CoD)
I only know it exists because copies of New Vegas came with the game being advertised inside the box. Also, I looked up some Fallout trivia and apparently there is Vault 101 and Vault Boy tattoos for cosmetics, otherwise it's yet another forgotten TF2 clone.