You again stop with this cloud nonsense. Satya is not about the exclusivity of the cloud but getting parties to use their infrastructure and services. That is the difference, Satya sees value in providing data services to everyone, not a singling out. growth for just Xbox (with this imaginary virtual console you keep talking about) but, growth externally. The growth of Azure is dependent on third-party users not growing internal usage. Microsoft doesn't dominate the enterprise cloud usag...
@MorpheusX More PS4 fanboy fiction. First I think you are confused what XBox Live is. It is a networking service. The same way PSPlus is. It has always been run on Microsoft networks Azure or otherwise. I Is that your evidence? Well that PSPlus using Sony networks is pretty damning evidence that they are going to dump the console as well. /s
think you mean Xbox itself not the Live part. If so then you really should learn what a fact is? Are you deducing something depende...
"AMD has a GPU, equivalent to the GTX 1080/ti coming out early 2019, which will retail for $250, CPU tech already exists for a next gen console. "
The whole APU must be $140 for a console priced around $399. It must also be tapped out and ready for heavy production before May 2019 to be put in a console by October 2019 release. That $250 you speak of implies Navi chip and that is not an APU but the standalone GPU chipset. AMD is not go...
Profits on software decline as well. First, late adopters (fourth year and beyond) do not have the same attachment rates as earlier adopters. So even though they are selling more consoles they are selling less software relative to those sales. AS an example, where a sale of console earlier meant 4 games a year those late adopters could mean only 2 games a year. And later adoptes are more likely to wait for game to go on sale rather than purchasing a game when it is first released. Secondly, ...
“We need to depart from the traditional way of looking at the console life cycle,” he said. “We’re no longer in a time when you can think just about the console or just about the network like they’re two different things.”
Doesn't anybody worry about that statement? This is Kodera, the person behind PSNow. I worry when he says they are the same thing. I get the PSPLus reference but, still, Kodera does like services and that worries me when equates a console and a netw...
Creative list. Props to you. But if you are going to make a list you should make sure you get it right. Office 365 Home comes with 5 installs of Office and 5TB (1TB per install account). Office Personal comes with 1 install and 1TB.
Sony's going to compete as well.
With the Yoshida Golden Shower package ($399 + a digital shipping and handling charge of $19.99):
* 1 Year...
Funny, seems Sony is all about engagement too! Kodera said as much in his corporate strategy presentation the other day:
"Sony is aiming to grow the subscriber base of PlayStation Plus and increase >>> user engagement <<< for the PlayStation Network measured by login frequency and time spent on the platform"
"In a mid-term corporate-strategy report, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida laid out the company's expectations for the PS4 and the overall Game & Network Services division from now until March 31, 2021. During this time, services and software are expected to drive revenue, not hardware sales."
All he said is exactly what 90 million consoles are supposed to do, drive revenue. If you have a PS5 released in 2021 it ...
I will look for the exact quote from an interview with the CFO Yoshida in a financial magazine about Sony focusing on selling services now (well actually the article was late 2017).
But here is something about how like Sony is transitioning to selling services for users over (keeping them involved by selling PSPlus, digital content, MT's and streaming options - PSVue, PSMusic, PSNow, etc..h).
First, they have been saying that about Moore's law since the late 90's. But, they seem have kept up and even surpassed that logic several times in the last 20 years.
Secondly, Moores Law is not what is often quoted by people. It is not power doubles every two years. but the density of integrated circuitry doubles every two years. Now that packing more circuitry at one time meant doubling o...
I think people are reading this wrong. This does not mean a PS5 is not coming out until 2021. Far from it. It just reinforces the obvious, in fact implying the importance of PS4 revenue till 2021 makes me believe a PS5 is a lot closer and will be released by 2019 or possibly 2020. The consoles hardware are not / nor have they ever been large profit makers. It is software and services that make the bulk of the money for console makers. For Sony, a large amount of their revenue will be from ...
How are they screwnig me? I own both the Pro and X. I feel my money on the X has been a much better investment. And since both were designed (according to both Sony and Microsoft not fanboys trying to up each other) for the more affluent gamer then spending another $399-$499 a few years later really doesn't screw me over because I have the money (like most people buying these consoles over their base). Now if Microsoft transitions the X down to a base unit (remember no more generations...
@Reaprr Because of the direction in game development the processing is becoming more dependent on CPU resources than in the past that means any new console APU will definitely be a much more powerful on the CPU end then consoles from both Sony or Microsoft have used comparatively in their previous generations. Sure, it won't be the current top of the line Ryzen. Probably because consoles, even with the growing needed increase in power, still won't need to run the greatest and late...
Not going to be Navi. Stop with that. Navi isn't even being released to OEM's being used in card development until the end of this year. Which means $500+ cards where AMD wants to make a profit not the chump change they make off of APUs. Those cards GPU based cards won't even be out until Spring 2019. The pricing for an Navi APU will not be on target for 2020 $399 console. Just the GPU chip alone (no CPU) would be closer to the price of a console in 2019. A $399 console needs ...
As long as the content is not major, e.g. pretty gun that has no special purpose or function that can't be replicated with other items, a map that has a couple of months of exclusivity are all fine with me (not my favorite move but, it is a level I personally believe is acceptable in a marketing agreement.) But, if thi (actually exclusive agreement) is anything like that relationship Sony has with Destiny where they actually hold back game features for a year or more (it was like 18 mont...
@Kun_ADR If the shoe was on the other foot Microsoft would fire him. Case in point, remember Adam Orth? He was a Creative Director at Xbox that made some tweets about those complaining about "always on" rumors with the Xbox One. Not even really insulting more telling people to join the 21st-century type of tweets. However, Microsoft was smart to distance themselves by removing him from the company because he was both a negative distraction and insulting possible future Xbox One ...
Still looks as good as it does on PSNow (even with the fps issues it has now). If the developers keep up with the big gains RPCS3 has made recently it may not be long before it can outdo that scam service PSNow and maybe it will run as well as PS3 soon as well. Definitely, a better option than the $9.99/month downgrade service Sony provides now.
Personally, I have no interest in replacing my PS3 that died a few years ago. I also much rather use an option that does not c...
You are a bonehead. "Xbox funnels money into stuff nobody asked for" That just shows you a bigot and consider people with disabilities nobodies. I don't know anybody that watched the reveal videos and just seeing the joy in peoples faces as they used the device get a little-choked up. That alone to me would make it worth the investment. Again you are a bonehead.
I bet you are that person we all have grudgingly around us that never does anything for other peop...
I don't know about heroes. Usage of that word is little on the heavy side in this case and way overused. I would say knowing how much work went into this and with the input from various communities integrated I would say Microsoft deserves kudos and respect for doing it. But, heroes? It is not like they a risking their lives (or even the company fortune on it) so heroes may be a little strong.
