Xbox Live director of programming Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb has recently said that the company is listening to feedback given by the users, and it’s basing that same feedback to create future features that will arrive on Xbox One.
For far too long Xbox have created a serious messaging problem for themselves, in losing Larry Hyrb they discarded the solution.
No no they didn’t major nelson knows nothing about how to succeed in the console business and did nothing trustworthy.
Major Nelson was full of shit, for sure... I remember all the lies he was spewing during the 360 years, and on into the Xbox One years. He lied about Xbox DRM, for instance. Pretty much everything he said here turned out to be a lie. Also, let's call him who he is, not the cheesy "character" he tried to portray. Larry Hryb is his name. I guess the suits didn't think a middle aged guy named Larry would resonate "with the kids", so they had to spice it up with a "cool" nickname.
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This is some major revisionism as ‘Major Nelson’ was a corporate face for a corporation who was regarded as soulless and insincere. He was part of Xbox’s image problem outside of the US. There were videos of him fake smiling for fans who wanted photos, then his expression turning into a scowl! I saw him at E3 2013 outside the expo centre with a team of young staff and he just looked so pissed off - but then he and Xbox were under a lot of pressure that year! I’m not saying he is a bad person, just that you shouldn’t hold him up as an example of great PR because he wasn’t.
@mandf: “ No no they didn’t major nelson knows nothing about how to succeed in the console business and did nothing trustworthy.”
I totally agree with you and when I read the headline I 🤣
Everyone in gaming made fun of the guy. Nothing he said was ever taken seriously by the community. He was never a gamer and everyone knew it.
Are Microsoft in that bad of shape we're doing the "Perhaps I treated you too harshly" shtick on Major Nelson...
Yeah the first thing I thought was 'Holy cow that is some serious rose-tinted glasses'. Maybe it was written by someone who was 5 when the 360 was around and doesn't actually have a real memory of Larry.
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In a Reddit post, Xbox's Larry Major Nelson Hyrb said that mixer won't just change to Facebook Gaming on Console.
If I was Facebook I would drop the branding as it is now associated with a failed streaming service.
What do you think, why would Facebook partner up? They must be failing badly too lol
While Mixer failed and didn't see any growth (or better, their traffic was going down), Facebook's gaming division (or whatever) was going up due to Oculus or chat or mobile gaming. More traffic on service, more ad revenue.
Increasing traffic also means that you have to go where there is traffic or where people are.
Since Facebook has money, and Mixer has money they went together to see potential growth.
Facebook goes for gaming because they have billions of people, who some of them are gamers, but they game on other platforms.
At this stage what ever they do they will se growth, but not from hc gamers or gamers in general, but from every day Joes who heard that fifa, gta and cod exists.
In other words, who cares :p
Two companies that have been scrutinized for data collection practices, Facebook being the worst of the two. This is a partnership MS should have stayed away from.
That was really the only option. Couldn’t have gone to YouTube because stadia would conflict with xcloud plans. Couldn’t go with twitch because amazon will be releasing their own answer to the streaming Wars.
The only other option was to not partner with anyone. If they did that, they’d be leaving their streamers high and dry. At least with Facebook they are offering partner status to those who had it in mixer and sign on bonuses
It would have been way cheaper to just buy out people with sign on bonuses. The partnership with Facebook was probably expensive and will further tarnish their branding in the streaming space. Especially with so many companies boycotting Facebook right now.
And the likelihood of Facebook being integrated into the XSX at some point is super high now. Not sure anyone would want that.
MS can’t catch a break this gen when it comes to partnerships.
The partnership is more about a gateway to xcloud. They want to push that to as many people as possible. They wanted mixer to be that, but it failed to gain traction.
This was more about xcloud than anything
I don’t know. His wording was cleverly typed. It feels like he’s saying it won’t be integrated for now.... Or get built into the OS someway or another.
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Sounds like this was all just a way to kill off Mixer and endorse an alternative that isn't Twitch or Youtube.
I think you are right. Amazon seems to have a game streaming service up their sleave and want it to go along with Twitch (click-and-play stuff). The same is true for Google with their Stadia streaming service.
If this is true then there should be a Kinect-less Sku out any time now.
Title "Xbox One to get new features based on user’s feedback" I read this news on purenews.net and IGN too. But didn't get which feature XBox got or I am missing something. Are they talking about future, if yes then first bring cloud....
OFC new features are coming, we will get them at least every 6 months
Kool, new features on XB1 based on users feedback... does that mean we will actually get 1080p!!!
Microsoft has been looking into user's feedbacks for quite some while not only on the Xbox One.
Most of the problems and complains of the user base during the Windows 8 testing, got fixed in Windows 8.1
Most comaplins regarding the original Surface got those problems fixed on the Surface 2.
The last 2 years of the 360 also shown that.
It's great to see MS doing this and hope they keep at it.