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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)

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Sony have officially sold more than 18.5 million PlayStation 4’s, according to a Japanese press release. This means they’ve sold a full 5 million units since October 2014, and have 3 million more PlayStation Plus users in the same time frame, now with 10.9 million people paying that annual subscription of $50.

Of course, the Xbox One outsold the PS4 in November, alongside a solid price cut, which would’ve made things much more competitive. We don’t know how many units the Xbox One has shipped at this point, but they had shipped 10 million in November 2014. So, Sony is still willing the console wars, for sure.

Sony’s PlayStation Now subscription service is launching on January 13th in North America for the PlayStation 4, giving customers access to over 100 PS3 games that can be streamed to other devices, including smart phones and the PS Vita. The company announced that it’ll cost you $20 per month or $45 for 3 months, for full, unlimited access to the PS Now game library.

Games include Batman Arkham City, Saints Row, infamous, TellTale’s The Walking Dead, Grid 2, DarkSiders 2 and a whole lot more, though most of the games available do appear to be a few years old.

Regardless, this is, in my opinion, a giant step-up from what PlayStation Now currently offers, which is basically a rental service, charging up to $5 for a few hours of access to a single game. A limited subscription to a single game could cost up to $30, so if the new service costs $45 for all games for 3 months, uh, yeah, this is a solid improvement.

Chipmaker Nvidia spoke about a new ‘mobile super chip’, claiming that they’re making console-quality graphics available on mobile devices. The company’s chief executive, Jen-Hsun Huang, told audiences at a CES keynote that the Nvidia Tegra X1 is going to be twice as powerful as 2014’s Tegra K1, and is built on the same architecture that is used in desktop GPUs. It features a 256-core GPU on top of an 8-core ARM-based central processing unit, making a teraflop of power. If those terms mean nothing to you, it basically means that literally any application that relies on Maxwell architecture will run on the Tegra X1, and is reliably powerful and energy efficient.

Huang said that, because of this, the chip can bring PC-grade graphics to devices such as tablets, showing off and Unreal Engine 4 demo running on the X1. That’s pretty impressive. This could be part of Nvidia’s plan to dominate the mobile games hardware market, with Qualcomm snapdragon currently in the lead for androids, and Apple using their own A8 chips.

The upcoming Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U, currently colloquially called Zelda U, is apparently going to feature loads of side-quests. In a YouTube interview with iJustine, Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto said the game world will feature plenty of distractions from the main quest. He said:

“There may even be times where you forget what your goal is because you're doing other things on the side. There may be times where you go into one big, long dungeon or there may be times where you're headed to a dungeon, and you're doing other things along the side.”

That sounds like everything I’ve ever wanted in a Zelda game, seriously. The game is expected to release some time in 2015, and I personally can’t wait.

I’m Alanah, and thanks for watching Button Bash.

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