CDP, did you accept hush money from MS?

[username_3581677]

Hardware can be bland if the design is uninteresting. The software is always limited by the hardware; even if you come up with highly efficient code, there is only so much you can do, so much physical parallelism, so much memory bandwidth, so much CPU bus, etc. And then there is the whole deal of what codecs, APIs and protocols the hardware implements natively. The X360 for instance does not support OpenGL *on purpose*, as a cheap tactic to strengthen DirectX. Every other device supports OpenGL.

So yes, a device can be boring, uncreative and limiting if it is not properly designed, or gimped on purpose. But this generation, it seems the Xbox and the Playstation are very close. Still, there are these seemingly minute details that might just make a difference.

Yeah what he said!!!

This is your answer Agent Blue

 

[Ploutonas]

I havent read the whole topic, but I will give you, the impression it left me.

1st of all, Microsoft played the demos through a high end pc, 5tflops with Titan gpus... x1 doesn't even can close to what we've seen.. It was pc demos, not x1 graphics.

Secondly, the reports said : microsoft paid the devs, NOT TO present their games for other consoles in their show, but after the microsoft show as well.

We all noticed, that NOT EVEN A SINGLE dev who appeared on microsoft stage, said ANYTHING about other versions of the game. So microsoft wanted to confuse people, that most of them are exclusives..

anyway.. whats the overall verdict from all that?

ps: It was not only about cdpr, but every single dev who appeared there. The news who reported that, hours before the microsoft conference, was NOT about cdpr.. But for all the devs who will appear at microsoft stage. We didnt knew, which devs will appear in microsoft show.
We learn this, before microsoft conference begins, so everybody expected that and we knew about it. And I am afraid E3 lost its essence, of fun and video games.. Microsoft proved us, that e3 is a fake show. There is a rule at E3, that no competitors must bully the others... Why nobody banned microsoft? Because someone baptised them as a "leader"? They did twice during the e3 period.

You know what they say? If you hear about lots of cherries, just hold a small basket with u.. Microsoft was filled with cherries. And our money makes someone a lead.. Just look at them how they will fall now.

 

[dragonbird]

It was a MICROSOFT-HOSTED presentation. They ask developers to appear on the stage with them. I've no idea if money changes hands or not, personally I would doubt it, but the developer gets the opportunity to show off their game to a large audience, Microsoft get to show a game that they think is going to help sell their console, and there's a general expectation that any vendor guest-presenting in someone else's show doesn't talk about the competition.

I really don't see why this is considered unusual, unethical or in any way sinister. I've attended hundreds of these kinds of presentation in the past, as "host" partner, "guest" partner or in the audience, and I would be shocked if a guest-presenter were ever so discourteous as to start talking positively about the competition. I would also expect that guest never to get invited to be a guest again. By anyone.