From a Bethesda developer’s point of view, they are asking why they have to lock their titles to Xbox and lose 2/3 mindshare of the home console market if Call of Duty could remain multi-platform. (If I worked at Bethesda, I’d ask about Mojang and Minecraft. The series is a money maker on all platforms and got my kid to make a Microsoft account.) But the reality is that some Bethesda titles did remain multi-platform because they were subject to existing deals with Sony. And some Activision/Bl...
Back in 2013, I decided not to upgrade my Xbox 360 to Xbox One because Xbox One looked like a loser and PS4 looked like a winner. Unbelievably, Microsoft saw it that way too. The console wars were over before they begun.
The Xbox faithful think Microsoft is their friend. In the phase of building a monopoly, everything looks great. The richer company is cutting prices and buying up all the assets to run the competition out of business. When the monopoly is set in place and the monopolist has free rein over prices, then things get ugly for consumers. Microsoft customers have been here before.
According to Microsoft’s docs, Sony was (and still is) the only other viable cloud competitor. Sony doesn’t have a lot of profit and cash on hand, so all Microsoft needs to do to set up its long term cloud monopoly is outspend Sony. It’s just like railroads in the 1890s.
They don’t. I’m still backlogged on the prior months games. If anything, Sony should “give” me a couple of small indie games I can finish in 2 to 3 hours.
Yes. The Xbox One launch was a disaster for the history books. With the Xbox 360, Microsoft finally matched PlayStation in marketshare. The Xbox was number 1 with the hard core gamers. The Wii-360 was a thing whereas Wii-PS3 wasn’t. Then Microsoft blew it all for 24 hour game checkins and a parasitic relationship with your cable box. Then Microsoft spent an entire generation without any compelling exclusives. Microsoft even put ads on the Xbox Home Screen. Just a total failure in software, ha...
Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart in performance RT mode at 40fps is also the right choice.
I once played a 3D game on my Commodore 128 that didn’t even run at 1 frame per second. If we only compare Starfield to very old games, 30fps is impressive.
Just a friendly reminder that Microsoft said in court that Xbox lost the console wars and that for the last 20 years didn’t have good enough exclusives to compete with Sony and Nintendo. I’m sure this will turn things around.
Feel like pointing out that Microsoft admitted it lost the console wars, which means the Xbox isn’t a trust own console for anything.
Microsoft has been taking a loss on Game Pass for a long time. Day one exclusives like Outriders aren’t cheap. But I think the price increase is a mistake. Bandwidth and storage only get cheaper with time. Processing power for for XCloud servers only gets cheaper. I feel this way about price increases on all of these streaming services. The service will max out the number of users and then the only way toward profit is higher prices.
Yeah but Microsoft knows it has a dedicated 3rd place audience. If you didn’t switch during the last 20 years of Microsoft losing the console war, you won’t switch now.
You may be right about Microsoft having bigger and more profitable wars. Could be that Microsoft wants to spend $70B on Activision so they can move away from Xbox as a platform and instead leverage their power as a publisher. In the FTC trial, Microsoft said Activision negotiated a better deal on Xbox by threatening to pull Call of Duty. With games like Call of Duty, Microsoft could shove Game Pass down a platform’s throat. This is basically the same play that Epic is making with Fortnite and...
Uh, Microsoft in court today said Xbox lost the console wars. Maybe they are post war Japan right now.
There will be constant comparisons to “No Man’s Sky”, but “Starfield” is looking more like Fallout with better graphics than “No Man’s Sky” with more story. If you keep your expectations in check, you won’t be disappointed.
I thought this was hyperbole but there it is in Microsoft’s filing. Microsoft says “Xbox has lost the console wars”. Damn. What will CtrlAltDel make of this?
This sounds a lot like Destiny, and the problems created by monetization and player engagement. The big publishers can’t just make a fun game. They have to manipulate players to keep playing and spending money.
Microsoft should drop Xbox Live Gold. It’s an embarrassment.
I support publications that are willing to give out “bad” review scores. Review score inflation is still a big problem with games. 7/10 is good score. It’s only because most publications score every game at 8/10 and above that we think 7/10 looks bad.
You Diablo hard with this one. Must have been Diablo time.