PS4 Release Date & Little confusion

[avijeetmohanty]

Hi all,
Sorry if such trade is already there or if this question has already been asked or answered ....

All the game review sites are showing DBC'14 on PS4 platform .... but i guess game is yet to released in PS4 platform ... when is it going to get released in PS4 ...
further is it going to come on Xbox one or not ....

Now the 'CONFUSION'

I am not into console gaming yet ... but seriously after playing this game on my laptop (plugged to 60" tv and Xbox 360 wireless controller for windows) m just blown ....

now m looking to buy a console ...
thats why in another trade i did ask "Graphics Comparison across all consoles" but just with one reply that trade got closed.

I even thought of buying Xbox / PS3 but have decided to go for the new one ....
but putting double the money will be a waste if the graphics is equivalent to PS3 or PC ....

i am playing with Lenovo Ideapad Z510 (i7, 8GB RAM, 2 GB Nvidia GT740M) ....
won't even buy console if the graphics and gameplay experience is not better than my current laptop.

So guys please suggest .....

 

[UnknownSoul]

It's not coming out on ps4 or xbox 1 yet & maybe not at all, Maybe possibly the next instalment will be. Who knows.... PC is the way to go with DBC14 Much better!

 

[cricket_online]

Hold on for the time being as there might be more info regarding release on next gen consoles near the end of the year. You already have the game on PC so no point getting it on old gen console.

 

[inertSpark]

It was originally stated that BAS were looking into the possibility of a next gen release, but the last concrete info I've seen on this was roughly a year ago. It may still happen, but don't get your hopes up, just in case.

At the moment they have enough on their plate working on getting the bug fixes done for the existing versions. Even if PS4/XB1 does happen, I wouldn't expect it til the game is running consistently for all, and probably not this year anyway.

 

[avijeetmohanty]

Thanks guys ....

 

[sohail]

I think if BA were to do a next gen version it should be for the world cup next year or maybe the next ashes series.

 

[SpitfiresKent]

I don't think Ross would touch the Ashes license with a barge pole.

 

[Chief]

I don't think Ross would touch the Ashes license with a barge pole.

I don't think that license would be a possibility, but in terms of the timing of release it would be the best time IMO.

 

[Alberts]

I wonder if they who shall not be named will try another "Ashes Cricket" game, though I think that licence holders will be very reluctant to licence it to them ever again. Hopefully Big Ant can grow the series and slowly pick up the licences themselves, and keep it all under the banner of "Don Bradman Cricket". I seriously doubt they'd ever want the change the name though, "Ashes Cricket" as a title for a game may well be tainted for ever, may as well call it "Swastika Cricket".

The next gen consoles really don't see a great option at this point. The PS4 is still selling quite well, so I wouldn't rule it out in the future, but it's adoption rate is still quite low. The Xbone is having troubles though, the last estimates I heard was that at this time it was being outsold 3-1 and had about 5 million sold as compared to around 9 million for the PS4. Add this to the lower power than the PS4 and there is a significant argument for simply not bothering to support it.

To be completely honest, in a straight race right now the question is becoming more Xbone v Wii U (which the Wii U appears to be winning at this point) rather than Xbone v PS4, a battle that seems pretty decisive at this point.

 

[IceAgeComing]

I'd imagine that the ECB/CA will have a get out clause which pretty much says that if the game is so awful that it makes them or the brand of the Ashes look bad; then they can withdraw. They also didn't deliver a product (well they did; but four months late and a Steam-only release rather than a physical and digital release on all consoles; and what they sold was literally unplayable) so I guess that would mean in any decent contract that the licence would revert to the ECB/CA. I don't think that we'll see a game sold solely on the Ashes licence again: but hopefully everyone can agree that in the long-term, if DBC becomes a long-term franchise, the possibilities that exist with the Ashes licence as part on a non-Ashes branded game are immense. It goes far beyond the real player names stuff: you could go right back into historic series and have challenges and stuff based off of all-time great games and series. Things like the Edgebaston Test in 2005 (hell, that whole series had a bunch of stuff you could use); Headingley in 1981; I'm sure our more historical-experty people could think of a fair few more; would be great for challenges and other similar stuff. It'd need effort put into it; but if it worked then it would be fantastic.

If you also had the ICC licence (which is apparently held by EA, so you're never getting that) then on non-Ashes years you could have stuff based on other classic tests based on the other teams. What I'm pretty much saying is that there is a lot more that could be done with the various cricket licences that are available than has been done in the past. BLIC/C07 had things which were good starts (the historical challenges in the former, the 05 Ashes content in the latter) but since the base games aren't very good then I won't play it. The DBC engine, with a few tweaks, plus that sort of thing would make for a genuinely fantastic wee game, and its really the sort of stuff that should have been done in the past, especially for the Ashes licence!

 

[Biggs]

Add this to the lower power than the PS4 and there is a significant argument for simply not bothering to support it.

That's the weird thing to me, it's a cheaper system but I have zero desire to own it over the eventual PS4 purchase. All that early press and the rollbacks of half the "innovations" (and the cutting-off the balls of the TV show stuff) has made the XBONE a pretty boring purchase now, not that it was terribly exciting but there's something about Playstation they seem to get right more often than not.

...and on the "Ashes" topic, I doubt you'll see a cricket game ever again branded that, I imagine games might feature something like an "History of the Ashes" mode or something of that ilk, where you can replay moments in match scenarios, beat the clock type stuff to earn awards. I'd eat that shit up. I think the World Cup and any ICC stuff is being squatted on by EA with zero desire to do anything with it, because; money. BA's stuff is the last, best hope right now. I think they may be able to go down the route of licensing individual countries given the investment was worth it. I imagine smaller nations like West Indies, New Zealand and Maybe a South Africa might see the benefit in that stuff for their brand. NZ Cricket right now being co-host of the World Cup is all about "being one with the fans". Officially licensed game stuff, for them, would be up their alley for sure. While the irons hot....

 

[IceAgeComing]

Tim Southee Cricket 15

 

[Biggs]

Press Y X X X Y to bang a bird on a jet plane....

you could go right back into historic series and have challenges and stuff based off of all-time great games and series.

That's the way I'd do it, licence "World Series Cricket" or something like, all those years of classic kits, bats, uniforms and players. Surely some of that stuff is in the public domain by now?

...where's a Hotmale Lawyer when I need one?

 

[IceAgeComing]

If I had a mini-fortune and was designing a cricket game: then if I got licences to WSC or the Ashes I'd get Richie Benaud not to do commentary, but to record little bits on the side about the history of the thing. Like if you had an Ashes challenge based on an old game: record a little two minute audio thing giving the background to the scenario. With anyone else that would be awful: but I'd personally think that if you got Ritchie to do it then it would become something genuinely fascinating. I'll be honest: little side-presentational things like that add a little polish to a game. Looking at GT6 (which I'm well aware is a ridiculously high-budget game) and the Senna content they have: they made a little slideshow with text giving a little history of Senna's career up to the time that you are playing the scenario of (his karting career; then getting into British F3, and then driving for Team Lotus in F1). Its not a fancy, highly produced video, merely a photo slideshow: but its done so well and its something that I'd watch again a bunch of times.

We're now throwing out ideas for our dream cricket game: but to get these sort of things done right you need to get the fundamentals down.

 

[Biggs]

100% Agree. Commentary is 50% whats happening and 50% those awesome little stories, opinions and wacky-banter that makes it worth listening to. Something that only Ashes 09 seemed to grasp, or at least, got close to replicating.