I just can't believe how much the Xbox One is changing. It's definitely becoming different than the system first announced. It's like the public is telling them how to have the system. And that is where MS is failing. The company is supposed to be responsible and knowledgeable for how their product is going to be ending up being, not the people in the streets who keep telling them how they should have this or that. It's shocking and it describes that the company failed with its own product; they have lacked direction, marketing and connection with the audience. Their vision was not to have DRM-free system or to have indie's easily available to develop on it, and not restrict lending, borrowing and renting, and so on. It was changed because people complained about all the restricting and lacking features, and expressed it should be changed. So, MS had to change their policies and marketing, because if not, they would of been obliterated by SONY with their PS4. After E3, the pre-orders and positive comments was much higher for the PS4, as much as 1:3 for pre-order sales. Yes, company's do ending up changing or adding features for the products before release based on public feedback anyway, but when a company keeps changing and changing them, even major ones, it just becomes disturbing.
In contrast to SONY and their vision to PS4, they haven't hardly changed a thing since their announcement. A region free console, no DRM (if the publishers decides to do it with their own games, it's their fault not SONY's), can rent, borrow and trade-in games easily, includes headset, easy indie development with the PS4, and so on. They knew how their product should be, how to market, lead, develop, and connect with the audience. Representing their wisdom and knowledge with us gamers. As people keep saying, they are leading the industry, with MS just copying them. Before people say anything, we are talking about the PS4 and Xbox One, not previous consoles.
I understand what MS was trying to first do with the Xbox One, and give them some credit for changing and adding on what they have done. But the market was not ready for how their Xbox One was going to be, and as I stated, they had to change a majority of those, or they would of had lost tremendous market share with the PS4, they basically had no choice. And we can't really trust MS yet with Xbox One. They have shown constant deceiving with their consumers. To enjoy most of the features of the Xbox One, we have to $60/yr. with Xbox Live Gold.
http://gizmodo.com/the-xbox...
What is this? We have to pay for gold to just use a free app like Skype, record in-game DVR, and pay a sub to access another sub via Netflix?
We can't trust them, and should not be associated with them for a while. An example is when the government just screws with you, then of a sudden, they stopped. You going to suddenly trust them again like that? No, you have to wait and see how they will be afterwards. The Xbox One hasn't even been released yet.
When the consumers have to keep telling you how your product should be, it's a failure in the company's part. This displays they did not know what they were doing.
A new Resident Evil Requiem graphics comparison examines Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series S, revealing performance gaps and visual trade offs.
interesting that the Switch 2 version renders at a higher internal resolution. I wonder if they dropped it down to the same as the Series S the game would hit the 60 mark more often than it does.
Solid port though, can't wait to play this tomorrow (or whenever my preorder gets to me lol)
The new cinematic trailer has arrived.
The first trailer for the pending game is here.
All they need is one killer game to stay in the game. It will have to be a must have title. SNES wasn't doing so well until Street fighter 2 hit, genesis was trailing turbo grafx until Sonic hit and Psone had mgs. Mario 64 moved the 64, Dreamcast was helped by NFL 2k and Soul Calibur, and Ps3 hit it's big one with GTA 3. Gamecube had Nintendo properties, Xbox was saved by Halo and 360 moved because of Halo 3, Gears of War, and Oblivion. Wii took off primarily from Wii sports. Ps3 got stronger with Gran Turismo and Mgs4.
History may have been different if these games weren't around. Xbox would have been a fail without halo. Sega held almost 60% of the American market until Street Fighters' exclusive deal for SNES evened things back up.
You can have all the crappy features you want and it won't matter if one console get's the must have killer app. It only takes one game to save a console.
I agree with your blog. MS should be held accountable for all the backtracking they are doing due to listening to their customer feedback.
I also find it very suspicious and cold on MS's part to have a number of its features behind a paywall. Even though the both the PS4 and X1 main strengths lies in it's multi player features which has pretty much 100% defined this generation.
We shouldn't trust MS at all because we all know that somewhere down the line they are just going to screw us.
Good blog.
A lot of people have the changes down to Sony but it really wasn't. Pre-orders were terrible. They went up when they backpedaled but the stories going around at the time say people don't just lay down and take what a company tells you to.
This is where the industry is wrong. We have more power than these corporations think we do. Sony not implementing the features just made the choice of what the majority wanted far too easy.
In comparison Xbox One still looks bad. The price is higher and they aren't in the clear about this Kinect thing yet. Plus, as others have pointed out, there is always the possibility they will bring back the features once they get deep enough into the market.
We'll see what happens when sales come. I have a feeling MS will still feel the burn by the time it comes out.