While the Xbox One may not have had the best start to this generation, Microsoft has certainly learned from its less wise decisions and made the necessary changes. Currently, the Xbox One is a console that has received some of the most consistent, quality exclusive content between it and the PS4, and that has helped the console gain a major step up on the latter.
Kudo Tsunoda has assumed a new role at Microsoft, leaving behind his Xbox role after just eight months.
Kudos Tsunoda is an important fella to Microsoft. His 'departure' to a new role within the same company demonstrates Microsoft value him enough to retain him. Does this move signify a winding down of the Xbox division before an offer to sell it to a third-party?
ohhhh Mr Pumblechook,...don't be so silly.
I can understand having ones opinion, but please, stop with the "concern" about xbox division.
its pretty apparent that MS are in it for the long haul.
Ohhh mr Pumblechook some would think you are trying to incite a "fanboy" war,..but not me,..I understand that you are just expressing your hopes and dreams.
back to reality,..all the best to him, sure Micro have an idea about whats the future holds for them and him
has this guy ever did smthing successful in his carreer ...jumps from a division to a division wiht only one super failure in his record ...also if you have ever saw him how he speaks (like he s a retard that reads an auto cue) ...u understand why all the jobs he has taken have failed
That's a bit of a stretch for sure. Sure he played an integral role in peripheral designs such as Kinect, Hololens, etc..., but I wouldn't say that he's integral to the Xbox brand as a whole. As someone recently pointed out to me, Panos Panay, the designer and architect of the Surface line has been named as the designer for the next generation of Xbox hardware. Microsoft as a whole has without a doubt shown their desire and blueprint for moving towards one unified ecosystem, wherein Windows will be the platform, but I believe that the Xbox brand is still a major component of that roadmap, and they've made enough moves and investments as of late that have centered around the Xbox division to show that Satya's public commitment to the Xbox division including future hardware weren't just hollow words.
@frankdrebin77 said "some would think you are trying to incite a "fanboy" war,..but not me,..I understand that you are just expressing your hopes and dreams."
Er... Overreaction much? Nobody should let an overwhelming brand loyalty prevent them from discussing the future of gaming.
Back on the subject. The gaming landscape is constantly changing. It is naive to think that everything will remain the same. Once upon a time Sega ruled the worldwide console market, now they are no longer in the business of making hardware. At the start of the 360/PS3 generation there was no such thing as iOS/Android now mobile gaming generates billions. Sony have released PlayStation Now which enables people to play PS3 games without even owning a console -who knows if this will be a dead end or become something...
Now Microsoft have a new boss, Satya Nadella. His business strategy is to take Microsoft software and make it available on as many platforms as possible. In recent interviews he doesn't talk about Xbox One as a platform, he talks about Xbox LIVE as a platform. Whether you agree with the opinion or not it is a fair and logical to speculate that Nadella might want to make Xbox platform agnostic.
So off he goes to make sure Window has 10,0000 apps that no uses , like them other sites cause just having the essential is not good enough. What a waste of time.
If you want to check out some of the top European Xbox studios from the inside, you have a come to the right place, as Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg and Kudo Tsunoda have been touring them, and have been in a sharing mood.
Lmao all black. I bet its low security. Be careful though, the feds watching the internet! :p
Make sure to push for a Perfect Dark sequel, a new Conker, and a new Jet Force Gemini
MS needs a Kart racer. Banjo Kart? Like Nuts n' Bolts style creation meets Diddy Kong Racing presentation.
I just want to know one thing................where the hell are the kinect games?
Rare so far has kicked off this generation with Kinect Rivals, KillerInstinct, Rare Replay and now Sea of thieves. They are well on there way to being a solid MS studio. I have a feeling BattleToads comes after and then a Perfect Dark game.
Yesterday Microsoft held a Xbox One fanfest in Tokyo, and the event was quite successful, with a rather packed venue of Japanese gamers trying out part of the upcoming line-up.
On the show floor DualShockers took the chance to get a few comments from Microsoft Game Studios Corporate Vice President Kudo Tsunoda.
Good to see they are having a great reception.
Also glad to hear that there will be "hundreds and hundreds" of Backwards Compatibility games.
The Holiday games are all rolling in and have either been reviewed or previewed very positively.
I just want the JRPG that came out at the beginning of the Xbox One life Cycle. Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery, Lost Odyssey...
Great work abriael. You're really pulling off some wicked stuff these days. Well done.
@Septic: thanks. I'm not even done :D Got more interviews in the camera, and then all the previews. Unfortunately being a one-man team in Japan means that the content is rolling out slower than what I'd like :(
@Hoffmann: I've had a PS4 since day one. I do get a big selection of JRPG, but I don't get *those,* which I didn't manage to finish, and my Xbox 360 is busted.
not a fan of kudo, he spends too much time acting like nobody can touch what microsoft is doing. he needs to humble himself a bit and act more sincere.
Every big company in the world feels as if they have the best products in the world. What other way are they supposed to feel?
Before I start, I really hate making stupid lists like some people do so I thought i'd go a bit more in depth cus I'm so hyped about Xbox games right now.
Great exclusives this holiday. Glad they're spreading them all throughout next year cus I know the spacing of the game releases bothered a lot of people this year. Having a game like quantum break in April is great. I also expect inside and cuphead to be early year. Scalebound and halo wars 2, along with gears of war 4, Q4/Q3. Then we have recore, Crackdown 3, presumably another Forza and Sea of thieves (so hyped for that) early year-Q3 year. I think that's a great lineup.
That's 10 'exclusives'. I estimate 5 of those will be full exclusives, with inside being timed and Forza(?), Sea of thieves halo wars and cuphead being 'console exlusives'. Interpret that as exclusive or not as you will.
Out of those 10, 6 are new IPs (or 3 of the 5 full exclusives)
On top of all the third party games next year, that's gonna be insane.
And to top it off, we have Gears, Rare replay, Halo 5, Tomb raider(not rly exclusive), Forza 6, Fable (apparently) and the likes of fallout 4 and battlefront to top this year off
God that's gonna cost so much, but it really shows they're improving the spacing of their games and focusing on new IPs like the original Xbox did. I wouldn't be surprised if they're releasing some new IPs on PC to see if they work only to make the sequels fully exclusive if the game does well
Sorry for going on, game on!
Thats a whole lot of level headed, unbiased facts right there. No one can doubt that's an amazing line up, this year and into the next, and hopefully a pattern for Microsoft moving forward into the future.
We know you listen. The amount of AAA exclusive ip on xbox one is amazing and sets it apart from the rest imo.
Listen to gamers because they have no other choice since they started off bad when they tried pitching the Xbox one. There is a difference from doing things because you HAVE to than doing things because you're genuine. Give them props for beign "for the player" and if these actions that they've made are genuine then we should see them throughout the Xbox one life cycle. Just out of curiosity why wasn't BC part of the Xbox one to begin with? I mean seeing how they knew that many people wanted it to begin with.
Microsoft does seem to be listening to their fans more than Sony has as of late in terms of features.
I mean, why do we have to wait 6 months for updates? Where's the updates? Where's the backwards compatibility? Where's EA Access? Where's the ability to change our usernames? Where's the features we've been asking for since the PS4's launch?
One has to wonder if this feature would exist if the Xbox was the console leading the generation..?
That said we will never know and I like Microsoft on its heels because we saw what a generation leading Microsoft does, they get complacent and focus on casuals like they did from 2009 - 2013.