One of the biggest challenges that 3D faced during its years as a viable consumer technology was the varying formats and standards that were available. Though not the sole reason for the format’s demise in consumer technology, the divide between active shutter glasses and passive made it hard for consumers to buy into it all. Making matters even worse was the lack of compatibility between glasses from one set to another. Even Sony, who helped push the technology aggressively all the way from the studio side down to their electronics division, didn’t help matters by offering active and passive 3D glasses, depending on the TV set you purchased from them on top of the 3D stint they did with the PlayStation 3D TV which had its own standard that didn’t play nicely with other Sony TVs.
To help avoid some of the headaches of 3D, Sony and others, as Jeff Grubb from Venture Beats writes, have formed a VR advocacy group in order to set in place some common standards and practices.
As far as I’m concerned, PS4 Pro and the normal PS4 are in two totally different leagues. If you happen to own a 4K TV, what PS4 Pro can bring to older games like Uncharted 4 or Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is worthy of the upgrade, but newer games that were built with the additional power in mind like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Gran Turismo Sport are something else entirely.
If you couldn’t guess the theme of the past 24 hours, it’s apparently RPG – and it makes sense. After all, even when SquareSoft was firing on all cylinders, we only would get a Final Fantasy game every few years, let alone a version that’s been in development for a decade – so in keeping with the RPG theme, here is The Last Guardian Collector’s Edition video unboxing by Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida and head of PlayStation Blog Sid Shuman. Collector’s Editions can be hit or miss for me, but for anyone who is looking forward to The Last Guardian, this one sure seems worthy and designed with thought.
File this under shocking but deliver a good piece of hardware at a fair price and it will sell. In the case of Sony, starting with PS4, there was a clear shift in thinking – deliver what consumers want. PS4 Pro, though received quite well by the press and reviewers alike, was never meant to please them, nor was it meant to check off everything a techie would want, hence the omission of a 4K Blu-ray drive. Instead what the PS4 Pro delivers is what consumers will want – better gameplay and enriched graphics.
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