bonzobanana's Posts

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PS5 will far outsell Xbox Series X, predicts analyst - what's yours ?

in Sales Discussion on 14 June 2020

I can see the Xbox X and the budget version limited to 1080p doing well. Personally I have both Xbox One and PS4 and this new generation I will be concentrating more on PC and perhaps buying a PS5 with optical drive when it hits a low price point. I stopped my psn and xbox live subscriptions as I just didn't see the point anymore. I find I'm only interested in a few exclusive console games and...

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Capcom just released a game on Nintendo Switch on a 16 GB Game Cart for $30 MSRP

in Nintendo Discussion on 15 May 2019

I haven't been following gaming recently so apologies if I'm out of touch but how are Nintendo rom sizes calculated purely by saying they will be the same size as the download up to the nearest cartridge size or is there some sort of site that lists actual rom sizes? I had a quick google but couldn't find such a site. For some of the older formats the download size was larger than the rom...

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Reggie on why Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't on Switch

in Nintendo Discussion on 12 December 2018

Even if the game was cut to shreds to work on the Switch the resulting port would be so poor in comparison to PS4/Xbone that no one would want it and it would do damage to the Switch as a viable platform. Much better to keep to games that can achieve pretty much all the essential ingredients and benefit from portability. Such open world games have so much background processing to simulate the...

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PS3 to PS4 graphical leap

in Sony Discussion on 13 June 2018

I'm perfectly happy with ps3 graphics, yes ps4 looks better especially when you are trying to do realistic graphics but I think the ps3 gets the job done quite well. The PS4 always had a big jump in graphic power it was the cpu power that was quite a low jump from ps3 infact with all the cell processor's working efficiently it actually has more computing power than ps4 if you don't factor in the...

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Team Sonic Racing gameplay footage

in Gaming Discussion on 09 June 2018

I loved Sonic Racing Transformed especially due to the nostalgia of the course settings. This looks very similar but the course shown while attractive doesn't look very inspired. I guess I'll need to see reviews to see what new gameplay ideas and courses this brings to the table. It looks a bit uninspired at the moment to be honest. First game I bought for my wii u....

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Which of these dormant Nintendo series would you most like to see rebooted?

in Gaming Discussion on 15 May 2018

Voted for waverace. So many great games on the N64, something about the analogue controller feeling really precise and the splash of the waves, sounds of the dolphins etc. Incredible aquatic atmosphere. I'd like to see that done even better today. ...

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Uh oh... Switch can now run backups via CFW.

in Nintendo Discussion on 15 May 2018

It might increase hardware sales of the Switch and Nintendo makes very good profits on hardware compared to Sony and Microsoft and perhaps those who buy a Switch to mainly use pirate games will buy the occasional retail title. Besides ongoing with the next revision the problem will likely be sorted with a new custom version of Tegra without this exploit so future consoles may be ok. I must admit...

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Prediction: Labo is going to flop

in Nintendo Discussion on 09 May 2018

Don't see why people are putting numbers to this. It's a commercial success if they make a profit and its just some cardboard and a low capacity games cartridge. It could cost $4 to produce and sell to wholesale at $30 or more even if the sell through was only 60% of what was made it could still be hugely profitable with the final stock being discounted. Cardboard is incredibly cheap to produce....

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Labo is a huge ripoff and a waste of a great concept (so far)

in Nintendo Discussion on 02 May 2018

If Nintendo had made the apps included worth using for 10s of hours then surely that would be to the detriment of the light duty cardboard used? The cardboard would wear out quickly and people would complain they couldn't use the apps anymore. I suspect the apps were designed to be a short lived experience for that reason. They could have used corrugated plastic card instead of normal...

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Theory/Prediction: Sony is about to reveal a Portable PS4

in Gaming Discussion on 01 May 2018

I've written previously I believe a new portable playstation system and PS5 could be incoming and would compliment each other especially if the portable system doubles up as the VR headset for the PS5. The portable won't be PS4 power though, it would likely be in the same ballpark for CPU performance but GPU performance could be sub 800 gflops quite easily. Lower quality graphic assets and lower...

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DF: Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - Switch vs Wii U

in Nintendo Discussion on 26 April 2018

curl-6 said: bonzobanana said: I thought their was at least some elements to the wii u that can beat the Switch in portable mode. The higher memory bandwidth of the 32MB of edram, higher gflops of the gpu and the simple fact the Switch relies on heavier compression due to lack of storage plus needs to consider battery runtime which often motivates the developer to run at...

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Skyrim feels so dated now.

in Gaming Discussion on 26 April 2018

Absolutely adore Skyrim, dread to think how many hundreds of hours I've put into it. Mods, VR, different versions. I seem to need a first person viewpoint to feel immersed in game worlds and love the many options and large area to explore. Didn't like Morrowind or Oblivion to be honest lost interest pretty quickly. Love the Fallout games and Skyrim is the only Elder Scrolls game I can say I have...

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DF: Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - Switch vs Wii U

in Nintendo Discussion on 25 April 2018

Miyamotoo said: DonFerrari said: So all new games on Switch should cost more than on PS4 and X1 since they get are only console mode. And the cross purchase that you can do on PS4+PSVita and Play Anywhere for X1+PC should cost over 100 USD per your logic right? And it is BS to defend Nintendo looking at ports as brand new games when they aren't, and for the case in point it's a...

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AMD fights back the NVIDIA "#1 Gaming Platform" claim.

in General Discussion on 24 April 2018

You can make the case for Nvidia being better but the reality is what with consoles, APU's in the PCs and dedicated Radeon GPU's surely AMD is far more significant in gaming. You could make the case for integrated Intel GPU's in PCs but I think typically that would be a sign of a PC not being used for gaming. I guess though with many people playing most on their mobile phones you should...

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Edge #319 - Dark Souls Remastered cover - Scores: God of War, Far Cry 5, more.

in Gaming Discussion on 21 April 2018

Barkley said: Hmmm the last 10 PlayStation exclusive (or console-exclusive) games reviewed by Edge... God of War : Meta - 95 Edge - 80Ni no Kuni 2 : Meta - 81 Edge...

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Dr. Shawn Baker challenges vegan jihadis, eats only meat for 15 months. Think he's unhealthy? Here's what happened...

in General Discussion on 18 April 2018

I see vegans as a higher form of humanity who do it for moral reasons (sadly I'm not quite on that level myself) but a balanced diet getting nutrients from many different foods is the way to go. You can healthily be vegan because that encompasses a lot of different foods but just meat surely won't ever work. Lots of non meat products have proteins. When you think about it our bodies create...

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Bethesda discusses about Switch, Possibility of bringing Ports, Exclusives and Release Timing

in Nintendo Discussion on 12 April 2018

Miyamotoo said: bonzobanana said: Can't agree with that. Truly amazing game with so much going on. Hugely ambitious. Complicated engine maybe but garbage certainly not. Many games have limited options, limited features, almost on rails where you can go and make no attempt to simulate a real world with physics and weather, in fact often have simplistic unrealistic often...

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Bethesda discusses about Switch, Possibility of bringing Ports, Exclusives and Release Timing

in Nintendo Discussion on 11 April 2018

Miyamotoo said: routsounmanman said: In fact it was. It's not just about the visuals. The scope of the world, the AI, the underlying systems and to a degree the graphics were, in fact, pretty advanced for the time (Skyrim). We can safely assume that ESVI will most probably will not be port-able (ha!) to the Switch. To be fair Oblivion already done that 5 years earlier...

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Bethesda discusses about Switch, Possibility of bringing Ports, Exclusives and Release Timing

in Nintendo Discussion on 11 April 2018

Fallout 4 is an amazing game which was hugely ambitious in all the stuff you can do and see no reason why it can't come to the Switch with a few compromises. You see PC gamers making the effort to mod it to run on low level hardware. I think 2GB memory and a gpu of about 300 gflops was achieved. It looked poor but the frame rate was 20-30. I properly optimised version designed to run on weaker...

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Red Dead Redemption is Native 4K on Xbox One X, looks stunning!

in Gaming Discussion on 11 April 2018

Super impressive. I wouldn't complain if I bought a brand new game with those graphics. Xbox One X is on my wishlist for sure but without more exclusive games it's hard to justify....