in my opinion, the 3rd party games are the more important ones than the exclusives. Its true that many gauge a platforms appeal by the type of exclusive games. Those are just a small amount of the overall picture in the success of a platform.

MS can invest their money in assisting developers to finish their projects in exchange for first dibs on release. Not total IP control like sony is rumored to do. Meaning, in order for sony to publish a game, the dev basically signs over IP rights to sony from that point forward.

So wait..they still make these? I'm kidding..this won't be the last..lol

Just save time and write an article that's titled 'I hate Kinect..the end'

Because at least THAT title would have been more truthful..

Here's the newsflash, Micrsoft has released every major Core exclsive franchise for the 360 prior to and since Kinect has arrived on the shelves.

It is the NON 360 core games that scream and whine the loudest. But it doesn't change anything, the ACTUAL core gamers are still playing their favorite franchises year inm and year out.

Here the simple truth..All 3 consoles have motion controls.

All 3 have casual games as well as core

All 3 promote media options for their console

It's straight silliness to pretend that after selling 18 million Kinects and have 2 back to back great years that MS should NEVER promote or sell Kinect again.

It silly to pretend that everytime announces something new for the 360 that the retort is bu-bu-but that means they they abandoned the core.

No it means like all console makes they are trying to conitinually build upon their past success.

Evil

Another myth that PS3 had no games, was utter crap and you should really know it. 2006/2007 exclusives include Resistance: Fall of Man, Heavenly Sword, MotorStorm, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Warhawk. All pretty great games especially when you consider how they were early titles. Keep up with THAT excuse cause it never gets old!

And you know what? Microsoft might've made the 360 cheaper to afford, but that came at the expense of their consumers, millions of whom found their consoles breaking down on one or more occasions, thus making them spend more, and not to mention the online fees that have only become more expensive as time has gone on. Great for MS earnings and profit margins. For consumers, not so much. And all these problems were discovered only later on, by gamers and their parents who had to pick up the repair bill. Not so smart to avoid that $600 blu-ray player after all, eh?

I'd rather think about the future implications of spending $600 on a PS3 and never having to pay to play its games online as well as the games getting better and more numerous as time went on (as well as the PSN, that has pretty much almost matched XBL).

1-2 years wait on a launch console is always worth it. It's nice being spoiled early on, but after drumming up the money myself, I was happy when a price drop came along and as someone who actually has patience, it was amazing when I bought a PS3 and all those great games were available to dive into. It was bliss really since my hype levels were through the roof during the wait for a price drop. I played some of the older ones too cause there are some gems tucked away that people like you pretend weren't there or say weren't good.

Next gen will be the same. Why face the downsides of early adoption when there are other great things you can be doing during the wait such as living your life, working towards a fulfilling career, hanging with friends, reading books, playing your PC, PS3, 360, Wii, Dreamcast, Mega Drive or Gamecube, travelling, learning etc. Life should be busy enough that waiting for something like a price drop is not unbearable. Heck even getting a job to afford such luxuries should be something to aim towards, not against. I digress and conclude:

Millions of people have enjoyed this gen as PS3 owners, as have 360 and Wii owners. It just isn't necessary to be an early adopter to experience an enjoyable generation.

Its called building services. It seems that each company is trying to take over the living room, and Microsoft is just throwing the icing on top of the cake.

If they continue adding TV stations, its going to give people a hell of a lot of variety compared to Sony next Gen.

@MasterCornholio

Yeah, cause who wants a console that only does everything. s/

SO basically has MS abandoned gamers in general...(sigh)

I read the article and not one thing that he wrote made this title relevant. Video games are still present on my console no matter the form. As soon as MS blocks that out then yes "Houston, we have a problem."

Well, no, they haven't deserted gamers in general, but you'd have to be pretty blinkered not to notice the way they've moved resources to Kinect.

Sony fanboys need to come back with some arguments that make sense. They go on and on about exclusives and the 360 outsells the PS3 last year during which Sony releases 6 major exclusives. Then they like to go on and on about MS only concerned about casual games. Ok, MS sells a lot of casual games. Kinect and it's games sell well. Not sure how that's bad. But here's the thing, if you look back over all of 2011 and the top 10 best selling games, 7 or 8 of them are on the 360. And most of that top ten is hardcore games.

What fanboyism does is blind you to common sense. Microsoft , Sony and Nintendo are companies. Microsoft doesn't have a problem with selling a ton of casual games, selling the most consoles and sticking to selling the games that the vast majority has made it clear they want. They told them with their wallets.

Sony, under Kaz, is beginning to listen too. 16GB PS3. More casual games this year. Fewer exclusives. Sony realizes fanboys are a waste of time now. If you want them to listen again. More buying and less posting comments.

"Change the page people, Microsoft as a first party company isn't even working on a Kinect game aside from Fable The Journey."

that is because that is their whole first party basically, there is noone left to work on anything else Kinect related or otherwise.

that's a matter of opinion.
i personally believe they care more about kinect and their media partners than they do about the kind of games i like to play.
and i'd consider myself a pretty casual player.

and the current dashboard design is not built for a gamer who doesn't have kinect.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Contractual agreements are not the same as “gentlemen” agreements. If you think that they work with their distributors a month before production then their entire business model is trash. They work with companies like nvidia constantly for building the graphics cards they need. They work with companies that build motherboards years in advance. This is what proper business planning does.

They are not buying components on a whim like a consumer. So again, considering the ram isn’t a singular module and is integrated into the motherboard I highly doubt they wouldn’t have a final schematic that they are supposed to be building around.

If they are delaying production another 3 years then it’s obvious again this is an after though project and is just trying to be responsive to their bad execution they had the last 14 years.

It also isn’t far fetched to use their failure to produce first party titles the last 7 years including the highly anticipated games I mentioned all being cancelled. That they would continue to you know… lie

Yeah with FSR 5 they should be able to offer a much cheaper version of Helix.

Series S is what has killed Xbox Series so... Will they dare?

The factors are largely external. Covid and Russia-Ukraine war causing inflation led to the first price increase in 2022.

Then we get Trump's tariffs increasing hardware prices, AI boom causing a RAM crisis, war on Iran causing a worldwide fuel crisis which impacts the cost of everything.

Gaming doesn't exist in a vacuum. The last few years have been a shitshow and lot of it was definitely avoidable.

LucasRuinedChildhood,

For sure. No disagreement on the external factors doing a lot of this. Where I have to gently push back however is on two fronts:

1. The pandemic definitely caused some issues: asynchronous development was a big issue and really complicated timelines and affected game quality. At the same time, when it comes to price hikes, it's really difficult to know what was genuine necessity and what was taking consumers for a ride. The pandemic brought about "stag-flation" which was increasing prices and stagnant wages, which was a problem caused by supply chain constraints. There was also "Greed-flation", where companies that were slightly affected or had no issues took advantage of the situation and squeezed everyone citing supply chain issues when there were none.

2. It's definitely true that the tariffs, AI boom, and RAM crisis were all things enabled by tech broligarchs throwing money at this caricature of a world leader, one of them being Satya Nadella. I don't think Sony and Nintendo have contributed much to this problem if at all, but Microsoft's Nadella I feel was instrumental in causing every one of those issues. Microsoft as a company contributed to both candidates (though they gave Harris 4x as much if I recall), but Nadella was all in on letting AI run wild. He paid for unregulated AI, and got a war that's not a war (even though Trump called it that at least five times on television) that screwed up helium access. So for me, I feel that one of the players in the gaming industry is a key architect of these issues, and for that reason I struggle a bit to think of it as "external".