Cube Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Virgin Media's prices seem to be much more reasonable than a year an a bit ago. I think I may move to 30Mbps fibre. BT Infinity doesn't even have a date for my area.
Debug Mode Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Virgin speeds are good and pretty much at the speed advertised, but fuck man, that awful latency.
Cube Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 (edited) Virgin speeds are good and pretty much at the speed advertised, but fuck man, that awful latency. Actually. That's one problem with BT. The advertised speed for my workplace was just under 20Mbps (it was personalised to us - something like 19.83Mbps). The maximum speed is actually 12Mbps - the advertised 20Mbps was the exchange speed. Still, until a month ago, my mum got a maximum speed of 0.3Mbps (now it's 1Mbps). It just seem unfair to have big features that cut people out like that (then again, you could say that they're already pretty much cut out from digital downloads and online gaming - and they're paying the BBC which puts money into iPlayer). Edited February 19, 2013 by Cube
Sheikah Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 are you refering to their FAST internet or infinity as only getting 8mb? because i have infinity and get around 37-39mb download speeds No I meant when Cube said all people with 'fast' broadband are getting fibre he must have meant people currently without fibre (which most of the case means people with speeds 'up to' 8Mb from my experience).
Cube Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 No I meant when Cube said all people with 'fast' broadband are getting fibre he must have meant people currently without fibre (which most of the case means people with speeds 'up to' 8Mb from my experience). Yes - I was basing it on around 7-8Mbps broadband. Although I take it back slightly - upon seeing that they have no plans for my area, it's good to see that they're not focusing on Virgin Media Fibre areas.
Cube Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 31 hours to go. "Hello everyone, thanks for turning up. We would like to announced that the next PlayStation... ...will be revealed at E3".
Debug Mode Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 "Hello everyone, thanks for turning up. We would like to announced that the next PlayStation... ...will be revealed at E3". "And would like you all to smile for the camera, as you've just broken the world record for collective groaning!"
Daft Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 "And would like you all to smile for the camera, as you've just broken the world record for collective groaning!" But that's a Kinect exclusive feature...
Sheikah Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Yeah, I'm definitely switching to Infinity this year. BT seems to have sorted their shit out. Oh also I'll say that once BT have laid down the fibre it's not necessary to go with infinity, if you want to check out other providers (as is the case with current broadband).
drahkon Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Ack too late for me, I'll just watch the interet fallout on the Thursday morning Have to do the same. Maybe I'll do that directly after coming home from partying and getting drunk. Hopefully I won't write shit here when I'm wasted...
Sheikah Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Really hope the console has an SSD integrated. Once you've had an SSD you never go back.
Sheikah Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Even if it was just used to load the OS and in game menu it'd make everything so much faster. Windows 7 boots in about 8 seconds for me, Adobe Photoshop in 1-2.
Cube Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Yes its worth getting fibre. As speeds increase your pings will fall. I think BT/Virgin offer higher top speeds(and good routers?) We got BT Infinity at work. The router kept cutting out. The solution: the newest BT hub can't handle more than a couple wireless connections. So we had to buy a new router. And you can use a SSD in the PS3. The smaller slimline (12GB) is a SSD.
Sheikah Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 We got BT Infinity at work. The router kept cutting out. The solution: the newest BT hub can't handle more than a couple wireless connections. So we had to buy a new router. And you can use a SSD in the PS3. The smaller slimline (12GB) is a SSD. Yeah but it doesn't use it effectively, game loading times aren't always cut by much and as far as I know the general OS and interface isn't really as fast as it could be (I'm not sure what tech the internal memory uses). On our new computers we connect our SSDs via SATA3, maybe the interface isn't the same on the PS3.
Cube Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Not to say the PS3 hasnt been awesome. Its a 2007 device packing a Gigabit ethernet port for example lol. And equipping all models with a HDMI port (luckily my old-style 360 was a standard model with one).
dazzybee Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 I haven't been keeping bang up to date with rumours, but is there a general consensus as to what. We can expect? - how powerful will it be? - what new console features will it have? - what games are expected to be announced? Didn't Sony say its more about changing the way we play games than technical power? Or have I made that up?
dwarf Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 (edited) Because it's fun - what would make the ideal conference/system? (Orange font fuck yeah) <= £300 Slightly chunkier controller with the rumoured move functionality built in (scrapping the wand altogether), implement a universal share feature, give it a touch-screen keyboard and keep the damn charge cable. PS+ same price as it is currently but with added Gakai service thrown in. The Last Guardian, Dark Souls 2, Uncharted 4, new Eidos racer and new Sucker Punch game released in launch window. Keep the XMB but streamline it further. Not too bothered about this, but make Home something worthwhile - give the avatars the pace/freedom of Cole in Infamous and flesh out those projects like Xi, remove load times and have background downloads for new in-world locations. Cram in more text adventures and weird indie stuff. Maybe integrate it into a chat room when Friends are waiting in an online lobby. I don't know, but make it interesting and not shit. Offer a reasonable backwards compatibility work-around e.g. PS3 disc recognition and download option (one use only). Make a pledge to back more developers that produce games like Journey, and take more risks. Pedant's desire - Make the PSN tag more customisable and allow people to flesh it out with a profile (roughly 2% of this will actually happen) Edited February 19, 2013 by dwarf
Cube Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 My thoughts: Power I don't think it will be that much more powerful. For the first few years I think we'll get third parties taking advantage of the current generation (and Wii U), and releasing ones with better textures/models/effects for the PS3/neXtbox. Then, as people learn the hardware (and sales increase), it will slowly drift into stuff that simply can't be done. It will be impressive, just not absolutely amazing. Features - Gaikai for PS3 backwards compatibility. Plus users will get either demos of the "first hour free" playtest of some games though Gaikai (they had a similar thing for Plus in the past, but it was old games and you needed to download the entire game). - The controller will be as previously shown in this thread (but nicer) - Integration for Tweet/Facebook/Google+ (not just for trophies, but also screenshots) as well as YouTube for the "last 15 minutes" as well as simple APIs for developers to link the service to in-game replay features. Games - New Media Molecule game. First they'll introduce LBP3, but developed by Sumo (as rumoured) then reveal their new project. No idea what it could be. - New Sucker Punch game. It will be a "spiritual" sequel to InFamous, but not directly related. - Killzone 4. Some kind of Vita link-up with Mercenaries. - Mentions of Destiny and Watch_Dogs. - As both Sony and Microsoft are both rumoured to be working on similar projects, Sony will announce their PGR-esque game. May not have footage. - I think Uncharted will be announced at E3, along with a new FPS from t
dwarf Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 OK I'd add two small things that Sony should do/should've done: Kill Killzone franchise, lay off the boring/talentless people at Guerilla and tell them to make something that isn't dull. Don't let David Cage talk on stage. I don't need him to tell me that videogames don't need guns. Again.
Retro_Link Posted February 19, 2013 Author Posted February 19, 2013 - New Sucker Punch game. It will be a "spiritual" sequel to InFamous, but not directly related.Can't see that. Infamous was a 'spiritual successor' to Sly Cooper... I know they don't look after that franchise anymore, but they're not gonna do a third variation. It'll be Infamous 3 or something entirely different.
Daft Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 I'm going to throw out some crazy ones - Gran Turismo 6 and full remote play integration of PS4 on the Vita.
dazzybee Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 £300 would be nice. Adding gakai to plus woud be great too, though I wouldn't actually mind paying a little more for plus, it's an a bargain, but it better let me play all my current games. That touch panel is weird, personally, I'd actually like them to go the whole hog and just whack a full screen in there, I think the potential of that kind of gameplay is great so it'd be good to see Sony do it. As for games. Uncharted 4, starwars 1313 would be my main 2 I'd want this year!
Cube Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 I'm going to throw out some crazy ones - Gran Turismo 6 and full remote play integration of PS4 on the Vita. Plus we can use the Vita as a rear view mirror.
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