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Super E3 2015 - General Discussion Turbo Redux Edition
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I can't really see the 4 people sharing think with VR working that well outside simple demos. The PS4 struggles with 1080p @60 fps on most games. Imagine that at 120 fps (60 is horrible for most people for VR) across 4 1080p displays. I'm sure there'll be tricks like rendering at half resolution across both screens but you still need to render a lot of the world 4 times.
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Oh don't get me wrong, caution (let's call it that for now) is totally warranted if it's based on actual facts. For instance, there's a very large difference between ones enthusiasm for the new Transformers game being dulled by the fact that it'll be the Korra team on a licensed-title budget from Activision and someone sneering at an in-engine trailer that it won't look as good at launch or will probably be "downgraded" before launch solely on the basis of the publisher involved or some of extremely few examples in recent times.johnny_ultimate wrote: »Oh, I absolutely don't mean hyperbolic, bitter cynicism either, just enough to acknowledge the show for what it is
As for the show in a more general sense, E3 has and will always be, primarily aimed at shareholders. The fact that it's opened up more in previous years to the general audience and become more of a spectacle doesn't change this fact, so if people don't want to acknowledge it for what it is then that's their problem.
It very much is and, as a follow on from what I said above, people expect it to be something it's not because of this.johnny_ultimate wrote: »I'd be the same as you, have a gander over everything once the conferences are over and done with and see if anything interesting emerged. I'm just a bit concerned the unchecked enthusiasm for the whole event is giving it all more prominence and weight than it deserves.
This is a more interesting point. Ignoring for a second what I said about who E3 is actually targeting, you still have a Summer event showing off games in a period where new releases are relatively thin on the ground. Not only that but it'll be a big reveal for many titles which will act as a spring board for marketing campaigns which, as we've seen before, are very effective (for better or for worse) regardless of people's thoughts on them.johnny_ultimate wrote: »I'd love, for example, to see a high-profile event more geared towards celebrating the great games that are finished, and by extent analyse them in more depth (GDC is closer to that I think) and flag them for a new audience - something more in-line with a film festival than a press conference.
In terms of the event you'd like to see, I think it's more difficult to do given the nature of games as a medium. Watch some of the content in the GDC Vault and try to imagine keeping a more gamer-centric audience interested for a prolonged period of time. A decent middle ground is something along the lines of Gamessom and PAX, events with a large open show floor with titles the public can get their hands on and a press given slightly more access to titles given the lower key nature of the event compared to E3.0 -
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