Weekend Reading - PS5 manufacturing costs $450 - briefly
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- The Division 2 is available in US and Europe for only $3 on
UPLAY and Epic Games Store - A few days ago, Ubisoft was offering
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 for only $3 to all US PC gamers. However,
today the publisher is also offering the game at that low price to all
European PC gamers. You can purchase The Division 2 for only 3 euros on
both UPLAY and Epic Games Store. Do
also note that this offering will end on February 17th. As such, you
should purchase it - if you are interested in it - while you still can.
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is a looter shooter that came out almost a
year ago. The game has enough content, especially for that price.
Furthermore, and since it’s an online title, the game has not been
cracked yet.
- WARRIORS OROCHI 4 Ultimate Released - WARRIORS
OROCHI 4 Ultimate is now available for Windows, and consoles, which
KOEI TECMO calls the "supreme" experience in the action sequel. The
standalone version
on
Steam is now updated to be the Ultimate edition, and they also have
an
Ultimate
Upgrade Pack for those who already own the original
- PUBG Update 6.2 is now available - PUBG Corporation has
released a brand new update for PlayerUnknown's
Battlegrounds. This patch adds a brand new way to experience PUBG -
Arcade Mode. Through Arcade mode, players will be able to enjoy new
ways to play the game outside of the traditional Battle Royale format.
- Lost Souls V2.0 is an overhaul mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow
of Chernobyl - DimitriShumski has released a brand new version of
his Lost Souls overhaul mod for the first STALKER game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. Lost Souls Version
2.0 aims to improve the game visually and also make it slightly
more hardcore. However, the mod also tries to keep the essential
STALKER experience intact.
- Panzer Corps 2 Beta Access with Field Marshal Edition
Preorders - Slitherine announces they are giving 48 hours of exclusive beta access
to those who preorder the Panzer Corps 2 Field Marshal Edition on
Steam.
- Five New Google Stadia Games Announced - The
Google Stadia Website announces five new games coming to Stadia,
including three games that will debut on the cloud streaming service
before they are released anywhere else. The three exclusives are Lost
Words: Beyond the Page, Stacks On Stacks (On Stacks), and Spitlings.
The other two releases are a Panzer Dragoon remake and the Serious Sam
Collection. Also, since the three month free trial of the service is
now coming to an end,
The
Verge has details on how to cancel your Google Stadia Pro
subscription if you so choose, as well as word on now you can still
play any games you purchased there after you cancel.
- GameSnacks are Google's new HTML5 games designed for bad
internet connections - According to Google's announcement, GameSnacks games
are designed to load 'within a few seconds' even in network
conditions as poor as 1Mbps (typical 3G speeds), and play smoothly with
as little as 1GB of RAM. Since the games are entirely HTML5-based,
they'll work equally well in a web browser, on a tablet, or on a
smartphone.
- More VR Owners Than Linux Users on Steam - This
tweet highlights a factoid from the
Steam
Hardware & Software Survey, noting that 1.31% of respondents
report owning VR headsets, with Oculus Rift in the top spot at 0.4%..
This is contrasted with the 0.9% of Linux users in the survey. It will
be interesting to see how much next month's release of Half-Life: Alyx
influences the stats in the survey.
- Blizzard moves previously canceled Overwatch League games from
China to Korea - Last month, Blizzard announced that all of its
scheduled Overwatch
League games in China during February and March were canceled in the
wake of the coronavirus. Now the publisher has revealed
its plan to reschedule the games
- and it involves moving them out of the country altogether. According
to Blizzard, all of the canceled matches - which were set to take place
in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou - will now take place in a studio
in Seoul.
- IRS backtracks on whether video game currencies are taxable -
The IRS finally made it clear on Friday that you don't have report
video game currencies that don't leave the game (or become
'convertible').
- PS5 manufacturing costs pushed to $450 per unit, Sony facing
pricing difficulty due to competition and scarce parts - Scarce
components have increased manufacturing costs for PlayStation 5 to
around $450 per unit, according to a Bloomberg report citing
“people with knowledge of the matter.” Whereas Sony Interactive
Entertainment typically finalizes a console’s price in February of the
release year, followed by mass production in the spring, Bloomberg
reports the company is taking a wait-and-see approach with PlayStation
5. PlayStation 4, which was released in November 2013 for $399, is
estimated to have cost $381 to manufacture. If PlayStation 5 has a
similar gross margin, its retail price would have to be at least $470.
According to Bloomberg, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s biggest
struggle is securing a reliable supply of DRAM and NAND flash memory,
as both are high in demand.
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