Often called a 'launch disaster', you only need to look at the Xbox ecosystem now to understand the Xbox One's vision was actually ahead of its time.
"Nothing is off the table right now."
BioWare's multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for people to play the game on, and without them, no one can play the game. But the former executive producer of Anthem has revealed that BioWare had technology working, close to the game's release, that would enable us to host our own servers to play the game on.
I'd be fine just playing it as a localhost and dumb as rocks AI bots. Just give me the choice.
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "When you think about it, the essence of every game is problem-solving in one way or another. For the puzzle genre, that's expressed through a series of brainteasers. A challenge is placed at your feet and you're pushed to understand it with limited contextual clues. From industry veterans to relative newbies, familiar franchises to brand-new IPs, 2025 saw a deluge of impressive puzzlers. Among our finalists are not merely well-designed templates based on familiar staples; a couple move the genre forward in interesting directions."
I would argue that it goes even further than the consoles themselves. I recall the fearmongering that people had with the Kinect camera spying on them because it was always connected to the internet. Now? We have more than 500 million Alexa-enabled devices worldwide constantly listening to us and our families.
Everyone uses their console as a cable box and tries to control games with their bodies instead of controllers?
Xbox one deserves criticism for their launch disaster
This article is one of the biggest Xbox apologist fluff pieces ive ever read.
The articles mentions many minor nuances as if they are some revolutionary thing. What MS tried to do in 2013 was not good then and is not good now, trying to play all this up while not so subtlety bashing the PS platform for being 'the same' is laughable.
Clearly the majority of gamers didn't disagree, Series console sales are plummeting and somehow selling worse than the X1, which is imo is one of the most underwhelming consoles ever. Also stagnating gamepass numbers, which MS won't give out any real data on are a further indication that MS are obviously not giving us the grand gaming future that everyone wants, a ridiculous article honestly lol.
Lmao this headline is a gross overstatement.