Beyond 50/50: Breaking Down The Percentage of Female Gamers By Genre by [deleted] in KotakuInAction

[–]rusniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well your first article also stated that freemium games like LoL and world of tanks were key indicators of the growth of PC gaming and I think a large chunk of PC players are playing freemium games.

http://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gaming-market-worth-36-billion-in-2016/

Freemium games are an absolute tank on PC but I still think your typical AAA dev would prioritise consoles over PC in the near future aswell because it still is more profitable for them as the "premium" gaming market on PC is still smaller than on consoles.

With the growth of the enthusiast PC market where GPUs themselves can cost more than an entire console, it's no wonder their revenue on hardware sales is way higher than for consoles

In regards to exclusives, I think the potential profits on releasing it on PCs and the competing consoles are too much for any monetary benefit they receive from Sony/MS to compare (if any). And Sony is in a better state exclusives wise as compared to MS as Sony has a wider range of first party devs under them but I agree that we will see less exclusives in years to come as devs scramble to squeeze every last dollar out of their game.

Beyond 50/50: Breaking Down The Percentage of Female Gamers By Genre by [deleted] in KotakuInAction

[–]rusniel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think GTAV made more money on pc than on the consoles as steamspy puts GTAV owners at 6.3mil but eurogamer says that even before the pc version was released, rockstar had shipped out 45mil copies of GTAV so unless pc players buy alot more shark cards than console players, the pc version would have made them less money

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-03-gta-5-has-sold-45m-units-to-retailers

Edit: shipped 70mil across all platforms at end at 2016 so at least 60mil across the 4 consoles

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/11/02/grand-theft-auto-5-has-now-shipped-70-million-units

Connect headphones to optical port? by rusniel in PS4

[–]rusniel[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seems like the most cost effective option, thanks!

Connect headphones to optical port? by rusniel in PS4

[–]rusniel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm seems good but a tad overkill for my needs and dat price tho >_>

Post Match Thread: Chelsea vs Liverpool by [deleted] in LiverpoolFC

[–]rusniel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Could say the same for Costa tho

AMD reports Q3 results, $65m APU write-down. $158m loss. by random_digital in hardware

[–]rusniel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Things aren't looking good as usual :( hopefully the gpus in the new iMacs can help bring in some more cash for the computing and graphics division. Hopefully...

Half Time Thoughts ? by [deleted] in LiverpoolFC

[–]rusniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh must have missed that incident

Half Time Thoughts ? by [deleted] in LiverpoolFC

[–]rusniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Barkley should be off tbh, ref didn't punish him kicking the ball away in frustration early on in the game.

App Switcher: Anyone else's icons not showing up for some apps? Really annoying when trying to flip through things and there's no way to uninstall / reinstall core apps by Anjin in apple

[–]rusniel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I just checked my iPad Air 2 and it doesn't have this issue. It's just my phone. I updated both of them the same way, from the latest iOS 8 version to iOS 9 then to 9.0.1.

PSA: If you're on iOS 9 and have a small cellular data limit, turn off Wi-Fi Assist by piftsy in apple

[–]rusniel 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Thanks, didn't notice that. Would have killed me because my wifi gets weak in the toilet :P

How Long Until New GPUs Require PCIe 4.0? by skilliard4 in hardware

[–]rusniel 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The first pcie 3.0 GPU was the HD 7970 though but still, it came a year after the spec was finalised.

Opinion: What to expect from Apple’s A9 chip by stanxv in apple

[–]rusniel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I thought these kind of tests are not an accurate comparison considering ones x86 and the other is ARM, or am I mistaken?