{"id":1194,"date":"2013-12-01T17:42:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2015-06-27T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T09:56:16","slug":"big-picture-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/2013\/12\/01\/big-picture-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatnick&#8217;s Next Gen Choice &#8211; Big Picture Mode!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How exciting! Two brand new next gen consoles to choose from &#8211; but what do you go for? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craveonline.com\/gaming\/articles\/608441-ps4-failure-rate-climbs-to-1\">The Sony Brick Station 4<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/gaming\/news\/a533677\/xbox-one-tv-integration-suffers-50hz-issue.html\">Microsoft Underpowered TV Box<\/a>? Hmm. Sorry folks, but for the moment I&#8217;m going to have to plump for neither. This is a weird feeling for me. \u00a0It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;ve ever had a problem with PC Gaming (in fact, some of my favourite Retro Games originate on the PC,) but I&#8217;ve always just had a little more affinity for consoles. From the convenience of being able to drop straight into a game within 30 seconds of pressing the power button, to the prevalence of &#8220;Pick Up &#8216;N Play&#8221; titles, I&#8217;ve just always felt more in tune with the box under the tele.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 472px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"Big Picture Mode\" src=\"http:\/\/s1.ibtimes.com\/sites\/www.ibtimes.com\/files\/styles\/v2_article_large\/public\/2013\/11\/23\/microsoft-xbox-one-console.png\" width=\"462\" height=\"319\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Xbone! Does the disk drive work?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the last generation though things have gotten a bit strange: While Consoles have spent the last view years becoming increasingly pc-like (mainly thanks to all of those long installation times and patch downloads,) the growth of steam has effortlessly streamlined the PC game buying\/running process. Even more confusingly, game libraries are merging too. Strategy games and hardcore simulations are less prevalent no the PC, while consoles are becoming a relatively platformed and arcade-free zone (aside from Sonic and Mario, of course.)\u00a0You can even use a 360 controller on the PC. Blimey. Still though, with all\u00a0that said, I&#8217;m still essentially a console gamer. Chances are that, even with this merging of worlds, I would have turned up and paid my money If someone had produced a half-decent offering. Sadly, Microsoft and Sony both decided to take the mick.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"Big Picture Mode\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2.ubergizmo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ps4-blue-light-of-death.jpg\" width=\"379\" height=\"203\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Ps4 showing the blue light of death.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft are, of course, the obvious target. Ridiculous <a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/2013\/05\/22\/future-retro\/\">DRM nonsense\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0aside, its incomprehensible that they have essentially crippled their console as a game machine in order to include a load of pointless media functions that no one actually asked for. Especially when they haven&#8217;t even got them to work. Sorry guys, taking 2 seconds to press my TV&#8217;s &#8220;source&#8221; button was not a problem I wanted anyone to fix. In fact, not only do I not \u00a0consider it a problem, but I consider it much less of a problem then having to blurt out ridiculous titles like &#8220;play Batman Arkham Origins: Game of the Year Edition&#8221; every time I wanted to play a sodding game.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft were out of the running months ago then, but sadly Sony decided to let us down to. You see, the problem with letting the convenience genie out of the bottle is that it&#8217;s very hard to force it back in again. The PS3 is a fantastic media streaming device and &#8211; in any household where the demand for Peppa Pig is strong &#8211; an essential piece of kit. If you&#8217;re trying to sell me a \u00a3400 replacement which doesn&#8217;t really offer anything new, you should at least replicate everything I already have. I really don&#8217;t care that you have movie and music stores to entice me to. So then, with the two big players out the of the way, where next? Wii U?<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--> No, don&#8217;t be silly. The Wii:U isn&#8217;t a serious option at all. When it&#8217;s \u00a3100 it&#8217;ll be worth it for multiplayer Mario, but the inevitable lack of third party support inevitably kills off any potential Nintendo&#8217;s platform had for taking centre stage. Blimey, Ouya aside, it looks like we&#8217;re out of options then. Or are we? As I said further up, \u00a0the PC experience seems to be merging ever closer to that of a console. Valve have taken this to an extreme with Steam Big Picture Mode, a feature which reskins your desktop with a controller-friendly and extremely consolesque User Interface. Plug in an HDMI lead and you have an instant console. Hurrah!<\/p>\n<p>But surely a buggy, interface which is barely out of beta can&#8217;t compete with a custom user interface designed for a particular console, right? No. Surprisingly, it competes. In fact, it excels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1205\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/interface.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1205\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1205 \" alt=\"Big Picture Mode\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/interface-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/interface-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/interface-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/interface-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/interface-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/interface.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interface is looks elegant and is incredibly easy to use.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of overall design, you wouldn&#8217;t imagine you were looking at a skin for a pc. The whole interface is subtle, elegant and incredibly easy to navigate using a controller. In fact, In some respect it&#8217;s actually easier to use than the 360 or Ps3. The software keyboard, in particular, is a master stroke. \u00a0Overall, the cleanliness is refreshing. I love the fact that it&#8217;s fully focussed on my gaming library and profile, without any extraneous monetised clutter.<\/p>\n<p>Now how does it score on Compatibility? I thought I&#8217;d test it out with 3 different games. My first experiment was with a game you would expect to work perfectly: The recent port of console title Arkham City.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1203\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2531.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1203 \" alt=\"Big Picture Mode\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2531-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2531-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2531-320x200.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2531-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2531-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batman! On My TV! From a PC!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, it worked without issue: Launching from Steam took me straight into the game exactly as it would on a console. The only difference, of course, was that it looked a lot better! I may only have a relatively humble GTX 660, but the game runs at full speed with detail settings that would probably be comparable to an Xbone\/PS4 version. The only hiccup was Windows itself, which decided to butt in to suggest switching to the basic Windows 7 theme halfway through my session, for some reason. A quick alt-tab got me straight back into the action though. Hurrah!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1198\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-26_00006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1198\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1198 \" alt=\"Big Picture Mode\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-26_00006-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-26_00006-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-26_00006-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-26_00006-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-26_00006-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2013-11-26_00006.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ability to take screenshots straight from Steam is a real plus<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My next test was good old rogue-like strategy title FTL. Unsurprisingly, this didn&#8217;t turn out quite so well. There was slight clipping at the borders of the image (which could definitely be resolved from the options screen) but the game features no controller support as it stands. If i had a wireless\/bluetooth mouse it would have been fully playable, mind you.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1201\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2529.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1201\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1201 \" alt=\"Big Picture Mode\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2529-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2529-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2529-320x207.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2529-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2529-1024x661.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shame, FTL looks lovely up on the TV<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So then, my final test: There are hundreds of boxed PC titles which are available for pennies. and can be added to your Steam library by creating a short-cut, but how nicely do they play with Big Picture Mode? For this test I opted for an old favourite of mine: Outrun 2006.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1200\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2528.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1200 \" alt=\"Big Picture Mode\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2528-300x191.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2528-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2528-320x204.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2528-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_2528-1024x654.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outrun both up on the TV and looking better than ever!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thankfully, it seems that even older titles are fully compatible. Not only did Outrun take to the controller perfectly, but it looks absolutely\u00a0stunning when running at max &#8211; far better, in fact, then the cut-down Arcade versions that used to be available on PSN and Xbox Live stores. Hurrah!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1206\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Outrun.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1206\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1206 \" alt=\"Big Picture Mode\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Outrun-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Outrun-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Outrun-320x200.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Outrun-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Outrun-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Outrun.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Did i mention you can take screenshots straight from Steam?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So then, I can&#8217;t really think of a single reason to take a &#8216;proper&#8217; console over big picture mode. Not only does Steam have a massive library of cheap, classic titles that can easily be made to look better than their console counterparts, but it needn&#8217;t work out that expensive. You can pick up a decent processor, 8gb of RAM and a reasonable graphics card for the price of a PS4, so if you only needed one or two of these components it should work out a bit cheaper cheaper. Sure you may lose out on one or two of the &#8216;exclusive&#8217; titles, but it isn&#8217;t as if the PC world is lacking for FPSs or Racing Games. I&#8217;m sure that, eventually, the new consoles will gain decent libraries and sort themselves out &#8211; but why wait? As much as it pains me to say it, the PC can give you better, more reliable hardware at a cheaper price today.<\/p>\n<p>Now all i need is a cheap, less power-hungry box to stream media stuff from. About that Ouya. . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How exciting! 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