Legendary_W said:
XO multiplayer games feel dead next to PS4? What does that even mean? That makes no sense. CoD:AW just released last november and sold 4M until date. It is absolutely impossible for a game that sold so much to suddenly become inactive. You can find a match easily on both games. I simply can't even imagine who told you that nonsense. I won't even discuss the iPhone thing. You DO know there are more things other than raw hardware right? Besides, Apple does both hardware AND software, that surely increases the R+D costs, and also they take the most out of their components, even if the specs are inferior to direct competence they end up achieving the same performance. That's some top-quality engineering right there. The price tag is high because that's Apple policies but even then, they're not getting a $450 profit. About profit or not, only MS can tell. Remember, the console itself may be sold at a loss or whatever but they make up for that with the games :) |
It means there aren't enough people on Xbox LIVE. CoD: AW on Xbone is already starting to bleed active players. Had to wait 20 minutes for a lobby to fill up when it took just 3 seconds on the PS4.
And Microsoft did both hardware and software on the Xbone. Total R&D expenditure for the Xbone project exceeded $3 billion according to a former AMD employee who worked on the Xbone project. I doubt the PS4 R&D exceeded $1 million.
Apple does not spend much on R&D. They actually spend the least on R&D compared to other big tech companies. The myth that consumer electronics companies push tech needs to end. The manufacturers are the ones pushing tech. Everyone else just buys the tech from manufacturers. Apple "engineers" their components in the same way that you "engineer" a pizza from dominos when you're ordering from them. Manufacturers design the tools needed to make components and give their customers options, albeit very limited, as to how they want their components. The only big thing Apple does is decide how big they want their cores much like how you decide whether you want a small, medium or large pizza.
Also, the iPhone achieves the "same performance" as better speced phones because most apps only utilize 2 cores (And we have iPhone's popularity to thank for that). Since every smartphone is about the same in size and volume, using less cores allows you to make each core BIGGER. Bigger cores mean more transistors and nodes per core, meaning faster performance per core than a 4 or 8-core processor. A lot of Apple fans are making this per-core performance look like some magic Apple engineering when it's just basic computer engineering knowledge.
The point of multicore processors is not to get each individual core equal or superior to each core of a processor with less cores. It's to get superior TOTAL power, which the better spec Android phones give. Apple, however, can not engineer a 4 or 8-core processor that's decent, so they hold tech back by using only 2 cores and scream about how their processor has better per-core performance. What's disgusting is how Apple fans fall for it.
