It's amusing that the only people who are seriously supporting the whole new motion control thing are fanboys who only have one console, and are actually supporting a company and not a product, choosing either Microsoft's Kinnect ( Or whatever it's called ) and Sony's Playstation Move. It is truly sad when young and impressionable minds are brainwashed by games coperations to blindly support their products with a sort of religious devotion when really REAL gamers don't give a shit about who the products are coming from, all that matters to them is the products themselves. It's why Activision have managed to get away with selling the same game three times, and possibly a fourth with Black Ops on its way. Anyway getting back to the "point", motion control is a gimmick. Will hardcore gamers, whom are the majority of people playing the 360 and PS3 want to frail around their rooms like retards getting no where as close as accurate results as simply playing with controllers? Of course not, so after the motion controllers get over their gimmick stage in which the only people buying them are casual gamers, ( who buy the way all have wiis now anyway ) they will lost popularity, if they even have any at the begining and fall into the dark depths of obscurity.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Good point
It's interesting that your the only person who has commented on any of my posts yet, I suppose that's down to the general lack of interest in blogs. Hell even the approved ones struggle to reach ten comments.
I don't give a shit either.
And ya, no one seems to care about blogs on N4G, which is why I stopped after making my first. Maybe in the future I'll do one again.
i've been playing for almost 25 years so i'd consider myself a hardcore REAL gamer (casuals didn't buy 3DO, jaguar, virtual boy, 32x and saturn at lauch like i did :P).
the brand loyalty is as predictable as the day is long, it's to be expected. considering how many titles are bombing and studios are closing these days, the concept of "real" gamers is frankly bullshit. you're all buying the same exact games all the casuals are. not everybody who bought RDR or bad company is a "hardcore" gamer. i see the boards, every freakin excuse under the sun is made to not support "hardcore" games-"no online=no buy, too short, no replay, not AAA" etc. i take the concept of 'core gamers keeping the industry alive with a grain of salt.
know who buys games? the casuals. they think AAA is the automotive service but they buy games. who can blame them for going where the $ is? the "omfg hardcore" gamers certainly aren't spending any money.
these motion controllers are the industries life-support because you guys just ain't payin' the bills anymore. aiming everything at us is a dead end. this is the future of gaming so either accept it find another hobby. you don't get something for nothing. you demand cutting edge graphics, physics, online play etc but the $ for it doesn't come from thin air yet people bitch about $60 price tags and dlc. you want bigger, faster, better and frankly keeping up with your demands is bankrupting the industry.
if you don't like casuals infecting the industry the only people you have to blame for it are yourselves. stop putting unreasonable demands on developers to cater to your every graphics whoring whim, then maybe development costs could come down and they'd actually make a profit from hardcore gamers.
When it comes down to business I think the majority of people who are in here defending Kinect or Move won't be getting either one. I know I won't be getting Kinect(360 owner). There are too many games coming out that I'd rather spend my money on. At the same time it doesn't make any sense to rule them out completely when neither of them have been released.