Microsoft has almost completed the transition to third party publisher.
Oh look, it's that thing we've been saying was going to happen for years, happening right after all those other things we said would happen for years.
Whether we like it or not, Sony has won the console race, there is no reason to buy the other box, and Nintendo has solidified their place as a handheld first gaming company. Each has carved out their niche. If recent leaks are true, it looks like MS is going full on PC next gen, and will cost a fortune compared to previous consoles. So, each company will have their own little niche... Sony will rule the "console for the average gamer" market, MS will be the "PC gamer that want...
Yes, I'm very much looking forward to taking to the skies in VR. This with a Pro and VR2 will be amazing.
If UE5 sucked as bad as you make it out to, it wouldn't be universally adopted as the most popular engine in game development. I use it all the time, it's a great tool, even though it has its flaws.
You talk about resolution as if it's a static thing that remains the same from one generation to the next, as if the complexity of the images being rendered at these resolutions has not jumped astronomically since the PS3 days... These days, we're path tracing games with many, many times more polygons per second being pushed, far higher resolution textures, and dozens of other visual tricks that PS3 could never have dreamed of.
What we do know about it is what developers are saying, and so far none of them have come out and said what PS+ is doing is killing the industry... yet many have spoken out against gamepass. So...
Sony innovations in console gaming:
Multimedia functionality (DVD/BD players, digital video players, DLNA network media players in consoles)
hard drive bays in a console
the ability to install an operating system on a console (though it was later removed)
Pressure sensitive buttons
dual analog sticks that also doubled as buttons
back of controller buttons (vita)
portables that used optical media enabling better game stor...
Yeah, this whole damn thing is a cash grab. I love the game, but by the time you've bought all the characters they're going to release for it, you've spent hundreds of dollars. It's ridiculous. This shit would have never flown 20 years ago. Look at how many characters they used to put in these games, and they all had the same depth, it's not like they're adding more to them or anything like that. If anything, they're more unbalanced now. That's why they keep ha...
Funny, I don't own a single Microsoft game, even considering the publishers they recently purchased. And I still can't even begin to touch my backlog... But keep trying to figure out ways to spin the fact that you don't have any exclusives to play on your beloved little box... It's quite hilarious watching you twist yourselves into pretzels with this cognitive dissonance.
Would be hilarious of OD ends up on PS5.
Nowhere in the report does it say that they are going multiplatform any more so than they are today. It states they are focusing on creating more content and fostering more communities. A larger push for more first party development, buying more studios to compete with MS owning so many of the game publishers out there, etc... rather than just making hardware and expecting other third party developers to make the games for it like they've been so heavily criticized for doing this generati...
people keep saying "streaming is just around the corner" while ignoring the fact that, while bandwidth has jumped orders of magnitude over the past couple decades, ping has not... and until that changes, streaming won't be a feasible replacement for local hardware. This is especially true now that 60fps is considered bare minimum (16ms per frame) and now people are starting to expect at least double that (8ms per frame, you won't find ping that is reliably that low).
@prince I missed where I said it was excusable? Or maybe you are trying to put words in my mouth in order to create an argument that you can then try to win... very intellectually dishonest. Trump ran up the national debt by 8.4 trillion during his first term. More than any other president in a single term in United States history. He still holds that record. Biden did not help things by running things up nearly $8 trillion more. Covid can be blamed for some of that, but not all of it. Neithe...
And yet another Obscure prophecy comes crumbling down. The only thing left is Halo, and MS will be fully third party.
Welcome to Donald Trump's America. Everything is getting more expensive because of his stupid tariffs. Even the projectors I use to run my business cost $1000 more now than they did when I bought them last year. The importers shouldered the burden for a little while, but it wasn't sustainable, so now those added costs are being passed directly on to the consumer... as the government brags about how many billions of dollars per month they are bringing in, and his followers cheer him on...
@Travesty, "Free Market Trade" and "Capitalism" are not the same thing. Capitalism relies on unsustainable, infinite growth, as it seeks to constantly maximize profits at any cost. Free Market Trade does not.
Regardless, the one thing I expected MS to put big money into was making games, as it's the only thing that is making them money... making consoles isn't. When they start cutting jobs from the folks making the games, the people populating Gamepass with content, that's a bad sign of Microsoft's confidence in the Xbox brand as a whole. I always expected them to get out of hardware, but now they're taking the axe to the software too... Yes, all of the big companies (expect Ni...
"Every Xbox Boss Ranked by how much they screwed up the brand" - Fixed that title for you. It's been a trainwreck since day 1. They just got lucky that Sony dropped the ball with the PS3 one time... and still managed to lose that generation, again in third place, in the end.
Graphics aside, one of these games is now owned by the prince of Saudi Arabia & Trump's son-in-law...gonna be interesting to see how that plays out, especially from a privacy perspective.