Microsoft has 'infinite money', but can't afford to properly polish their own games. This is self-sabotage, and I don't understand why.
No actually I do understand. The executives at Xbox are not gamers, and don't care about gaming.
I remember E3 2017 when Nintendo only showed off a logo for the trailer. I knew this game was just entering development, but diehard fans were in denial saying, "Just because they only showed the logo that doesn't mean it's all they've made for the game."
Heh, how wrong they were.
Not even the Holiday season and they're rushing out games unfinished, and they can't even use Black Friday or Christmas as an excuse. Pathetic.
This is part of the reason why I've been focusing most of my gaming time with previous generations. Tired of this crap, and tried of the eventual fake apologizes when some marketing douchebag claims they had no idea their game was released in such a bad state.
Play the Ace Attorney series, you don't commit murder, instead you figure out how to solve murders mysteries.
I also enjoy the Professor Layton series, and the quirky puzzles on offer.
He's focusing too much on mainstream junk, and ignoring all the less popular, but still awesome non-murder-simulator games.
Your autocorrect is quite curious. May want to edit that second-to-last-word. 🤣
100% my thoughts on the state of gaming these days. Many games are designed around "player retention" in order to keep shoving the micro-trash-action store in your face.
A shameful blight on this industry. I barely buy modern games these days, I'm sick of the Ubisoft-effect inflicting our industry.
"You Can't Play Today"
Really? So my old consoles and old disc copies and cartridges won't work anymore? The correct title would be "Licensed Games You Can't BUY Anymore Today" because all those games are still easily playable if you put in a tiny bit of effort. Certainly less effort than a throwaway nostalgia-filled article.
Piracy, including emulation, flashcarts, optical drive emulators, and softmodding, is the only true...
Microsoft can't make up their minds on their own UI. Feels like they change it up every 3 years or so. How many times has it changed since 2005? 360 had at least 3 different UIs.
Blades (I miss this one *sigh*)
NXE angled
NXE flattened
How many UIs had XB1 and XBS had thus far?
Good guys, heroes, scrappy, small up-and-coming underdogs, pro-consumer Microsoft taking highly desired features and choice away from players abruptly and without warning.
I can't believe the most pro-consumer company in the Universe would do such a thing.
Good post, agreed. MS purposefully gimped third party games (and their own first party) this entire generation because of sales. They had to create the S model in order to not lose even more market share against Sony and Nintendo.
And their plan didn't even work out that well. They should have just created a digital only X console like Sony and price it the same.
Reminds me of 2007 when fake pro-consumer Microsoft made it so that Xbox 360 demos required a Gold subscription, otherwise you had to wait a week before you could play what used to be free demos, they're always trying to force a subscription down your throat. What a crock of crap!
https://news.xbox.com/en-us...
As a child in 1995 I read about E3 in magazines and flew with my parents to L.A., I had no idea at the time that it was for industry employees only, then inside the hotel room we were staying at, we watched a news broadcast about the show, and that's when we learned that it would be impossible for me to go. So we just went to DisneyLand / Knott's Berry Farm instead. I was really sad at the time, because I knew it was going to be a magical place for gamers.
I lied on...
PS4 sold so well because Sony's competitors both nearly committed suicide with their pathetic offerings. I say this as a person who liked the Wii U, but it wasn't what people wanted in 2012. And only idiots wanted constant check-in DRM from Microsoft.
PS4 gained momentum so incredibly fast, it became the de-facto console to own from 2013 - 2020.
I believe PS5 will sell well, but it's facing stronger competition now, the Switch is a sales monst...
It took too long for Sony and Microsoft to go the x86 route, but now that they have, we should see continuous backwards compatibility. And that means the desire to remain within your preferred ecosystem just like you said.
This was obvious back in 2013, though.
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The GBA and DS games could be their own collection. They don't fit under classic Sonic or 'Origins' monikers. The Genesis era games are easier to port because of fan gamers turned pro developers Christian Whitehead and Simon Thomly's "Retro Engine" which Sonic Team used (poorly) for this collection.
I'm playing Watch_Dogs right now, and the NPC writing is already so bad, it feels like it was written by a very rudimentary AI program as it is.
It's only going to get worse from here when they rely upon AI even more, and their games become even more souless than ever before.
I can't be the only person who still wants True Fantasy Live Online for the original Xbox. Right?
The game looked beautiful and sounded fun. It's an MMORPG where you didn't even have to battle enemies, you could just open up a shop in town to help other gamers out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch...
There are many worse Sonic games than this one:
Sonic Labrynth
Sonic Free Riders
Sonic the Hedgehog on GBA
Sonic mobile games (too many to list)
Sonic Rivals 1 & 2
Sonic Game Gear titles
There's more I'm forgetting. But yeah, lazy low-hanging fruit, quickly shat out worthless article without substance beating a dead horse that's already been beaten for the past 17 years isn't enough.
They tried to give Microsoft credit for Psychonauts 2 as well. 🤣
Pathetic. 😂