One of the key Xbox One executives in the UK believes the company needs to overcome the perception that Sony's PS4 displays certain games at superior resolutions and frame rates.
"Unless you are using a screen that's more than 60 inches big, I defy you to really see the difference"
Microsoft has promoted Harvey Eagle to director for Xbox Live product marketing.
"It's important parents take an active role in managing their children's access to online content and gaming," says director Harvey Eagle.
Really wish companies would do this more. Just about every system has such great controls for parents that anytime something with video games and kid's happens; the blame falls completely on the parent's for not implementing the controls. I mean you can even make a setting for how long they can play each day.
Xbox UK has warned consumers over week one shortages of its new X console as it kicks off its marketing campaign. "The Scorpio edition sold out in record time," UK boss Harvey Eagle tells GamesIndustry.biz.
Definitely hoping that this is a good sign for Microsoft and a possible resurgence of the Xbox family. I know I plan on getting one eventually, but just not sure when.
The pre-order edition yes but I doubt the regular XB1X will be limited in supply.
So psvr, the pro, switch and now the Xbox one x will have experience launch shortages. Interesting.
The Pro didn’t have launch shortages. I walked right into Best Buy a week after launch and picked one up. There was at least 4-5 in a stack.
Depends on your location. Europe had PS4 Pro shortages, much like what UK is projecting.
http://www.pushsquare.com/n...
Hardware shortages at launch are hardly a rare event.
And the X1X will be just as easy to find. $500 this far into the generation? It won't have any serious shortage issue. An outlet, here or there, with shortages? Probably, but that's nothing new for any new hardware launch.
You live in the UK? Because that's where most of the shortages took place, as it seems it will be the case this time around.
$500 this far into the generation? The X One launched at the same several years ago. Inflation means the value of the dollar goes down over time, hence why prices go up.
This is technically cheaper than the X One was at launch.
The pro had some spotty shortages. It was sold out on Amazon for short periods of time over the first two months, and GS didn't have them around me regularly. Wal-mart never seemed to have them, but wal-mart kind of sucks for that kind of thing. Not sure about best buy because I was never really looking.
It wasn't impossible to find one, but it wasn't always as easy as just walking in and getting one.
This is simple common place business. It’s past the days of conspiracy theories. It’s now a fully known & used business marketing strategy. Discussed openly in business seminars globally. It’s just that gamers generally aren’t to bright about these kind of things.
Just a cheap tactic to trick people into buying the console I suspect. If you dont hurry they will all be gone........yeah, I'll take my chances chief.
So does it mean the same when Sony does it because they been that tactic since the PS2 days
Difference is sonys consoles do the numbers to back up the claims, ms consoles....not so much...
Um the PS consoles has always sold a lot. The Xbone would never outsell the PS. You should worry about the Switch catching the Xbone by the end of next year.
You guys are retarded I don't play sales I own all consoles except for the Switch but I will be buying it soon
I play sales because whoever sells more gets the best content and more support.
PS1 sold out because it was insanely hyped and had high demand. It was never a supply problem as Sony was meeting their manufacturing expectations. This was mostly just in the Japanese market, and they remedied it for the North American and European releases, although some spotty shortages existed across the US, although short lived.
PS2 sold out because it had huge demand on launch, and not sure what Sony's manufacturing capabilities were for it.
PS3 sold out because Sony couldn't make enough to meet demand due to the problem with sourcing the Blu-Ray Drive and CELL chip early on....both of which didn't have high enough output at the production level.
PS4 sold out because despite Sony making enough to meet what they expected to sell, actual demand was much higher than anyone would have guessed...kind of like what happened with the Wii. however, Sony recovered fairly quickly compared to some other instances in history.
Switch sold out because of the sourcing issues with the screen itself, which was in high demand due to Apple also using the same product. Nintendo can't keep them in stock because there is a higher demand than I think most would have anticipated. Not a dissimilar situation to the Wii, however it's different due to the sourcing issue.
MS said the OGX1 was going to be in short supply, and later said it was sold out after it launched, despite there being plentiful evidence it wasn't true. The OGXbox was never sold out. The 360 sold out at launch, but was quickly replenished, and didn't see any extended shortages at stores. MS has never had a long term sell out problem, and with the OGX1 they flooded the distribution channels to get shipped numbers up. Soon after, they stopped reporting sales numbers.
Really, again with this "you can't tell teh difference between 1080 and 720p" crap?!
you can't make a weaker hardware on par with the stronger hardware
10% free for GPU because no more kinect, DX12, Teh Powh of teh cloud, Secret sauce .etc would fix that
you can't change hardware.
but what i noticed this gen it's not about res or fps or GFx
it's all about "Having Fun" now,Xbox owners... right guys?!
when was the "it's all about having fun"
last gen when DF articles show one better pixel or better blade of grass .etc on xbox360 version ?!
you guys don't care about res,Fps,Textuers etc this gen but you cared so much about it last gen
http://n4g.com/news/530227/...
http://n4g.com/news/143298/...
should i list more ?!
what changed ?!
if you guys last gen were as cool as you are now this gen with fps and res
PS4 owners would not treat you the same...(it's wrong though )
i hate console warz
but what i hate more is hypocrisy
and i keep see it in NPD articles, Face off articles,Tech articles alot this gen.
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Amazing how something factually running at higher resolution or framerate becomes 'perception' just because you can't notice the difference.
High class spinning right there. Very so slightly trolling.
"It's important, certainly. It's something the media has certainly picked up on. If that leads to the perception that one machine is more powerful than another, then it's important" - Guys did you know that the 780 Ti having better hardware than the 760 is just perception and not factual information that leads to differences in perfromance.... /s
perception ???? Lol!!!!!!!
Microsoft screwed up their consoles specs, being stingy on the gpu... now they will suffer the consequences.
Yeah , whatever , Sony still has the studios that produce some amazing titles , regardless of pixels being pushed.