few sites like this cropping up recently, exactly same layout. The content is broken up by adverts that seem to shift every time you visit the page.

Mobile pro tip: if you're using an iOS device use Reader View and it removes all of the junk and puts all of the pages into one.

I can't stand the sites that say top ten and then every number has it's own page. Really? Two sentences then click to the next page with a million ads.

Sorry to say but websites lost the public's good will long ago. My adblock is on by default and I've turned it off for websites I want to support, but, invariably they end up running some hyper-annoying autorun ad/banner/popup and I have to block them again.

This has been happening not just on N4G but all the newboiler sites. More often than not these people are creating shell accounts to push through their own material.

Loopholes in the algorithm temperature ensure these articles reach 600-700 degrees with barely any comments here and on the hosted site too! Its time to get aggressive with these 'users' because they are really ruining what N4G is supposed to be about.

Honestly I wouldn't lose any sleep if I never saw another herp derp list on this site ever again.

Side note take a look at how many times this has been tweeted. Because this effects the algorithm as well. The author has retweeted their article 8 times in 24 hours. Not to display their story to their audience one / two times is more than enough. But simply to manipulate the algorithm into raising the temperature artificially.

Another tip for you is to maybe shhh.

Microsoft bought all of Zenimax Media for 7 billion, while Sony paid 4 billion for Bungie. I think Microsoft got the better deal due to acquiring Fallout, ElderScrolls and Doom.

@anast
Should've thought that one out buddy, lol.

Yea, but they're still 100 times more wealthy than Sony. I would say it worked out well.

Plus turning down Marvel too. Spiderman is only exclusive to Playstation because of that

More in the 1.000 million now.

Honestly, with that kind of track record, you can't convince me Spencer hasn't eaten it from the back in the name of self preservation. Probably unwashed...and at least twice.

That aside, my interpretation of everything here is Xbox has been mismanaged a bit too much and Nadella came down from his throne. The way it is now, I don't believe for a minute the multiplatform move was Spencer's idea. I don't even think the acquisitions was Spencer's work. At this point, I reckon he's got as much power in his role as Hunter Biden at a Ukrainian energy company.

You can never tell how things will turn out if he had said yes to those games. Xbox already has access to some great IPs, however, they hardly do anything with them or fail to deliver. It's also possible their presentation wasn't good at the time, and they made sure the next presentation was better.

I believe that part of being successful is releasing things in the right place at the right time.

Many major corporations have a story similar to passing on successful business ideas. Let us look at Sony Pictures for example. Back when Marvel went bankrupt, they had the opportunity to buy the entire Marvel for only $25 Million but turned them down. An unnamed big shot at Sony reportedly claimed that “nobody gives a shit about any of the other Marvel characters,”. They ended up taking Spiderman for $10 Million instead.

https://www.avclub.com/sony...

Fast forward to today, we can see what the Marvel brand has done for Disney. Is it possible the same success would have been possible had Sony acquired those IPs. We can't say that for sure and it is possible most of those IPs that are successful today may not have been used.