I am sure something like that will happen sometime in the future. They often bundle services at certain times of the year for very good deals. For example they have a package called WorkPlay. When they have sales on that package (at Easter or Xmas) I usually pick up a year or two. Last time in included Office 365 Home, Xbox Live, sometimes Groove or now tech support and unlimited Skype/Wireless internet) for $149. I can see them doing something call the Gamers Pack and including this serv...
Microsoft apparently made their money back in less than a 18 months after purchasing the Mojang. In 2014 Mojang (prior to Microsoft) pulled in over 2 billion in revenue and almost 400 million in profit for the year. People also forget that there is a lot, and I mean a lot of third party licensing done. I remember reading a while ago that a good percentage of their profits Mojang made prior to selling to Microsoft were from licensing alone. This deal, like Disney's purchase of Lucas Fil...
Fact. Xbox does not lose money. It makes money. Sure, not as much as PS4. But, Microsoft doesn't need to it to be one of their top profiting divisions just not be a drag.
Fact. There is no interest in selling off Xbox (pure Pony boy jerk off fantasy). Doing so would require them to most likely sell to a competitor that would have no interest in supporting their architecture (Google, Apple, Samsung). Nadella understands the importance of entering the home, the importa...
Oh my god.... I can't believe it... An airplane mode... So cutting edge. It is like Nintendo went into the future for inspiration.
That is it. I don't anybody could be on the fence about the Switch now. Everyone should just start camping out to get a Switch day one. An airplane mode... the genius of Nintendo is so evident... How can I have been so foolish to doubt them.
Damn, imagine all the man years that went into developing such an awesome pie...
@Segata
Much easier searching for delicate little snowflakes, tearing up all day long. This is how I imagine Segata looks like: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I don't know what Big means. Every company always says it is going to be the Biggest, baddest, best show ever. I be worried if Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo didn't announce that their E3 wasn't going to be BIG.
What has me intrigued is the ability of Microsoft to keep a lid so far on the actual design of the Scorpio. Now that Xbox hardware is under the prevue (since Xbox One S) of Panos Panay I look forward to great things. Panay and his team of engineers always se...
Never going to happen. Well, it might but it would be a PS4 Pro only option. Sorry, the power of the PS4 original is not nearly powerful enough to emulate the cell design of the PS3. People always seem to mock the Xbox One for being underpowered. That is true for graphics it is about 30% differential (20% in actual real world tests). However, people forget that the Xbox One is able to do virtualization of their PowerPC Xbox 360 for two reasons.
Come on that is not true at all. Sure, looking at the whole company there are several divisions that are draining the resources with no end in sight; electronics, chips and film are doing dreadful. But, gaming subsidiary is definitely not one. Quite the opposite.
Not to say it isn't true about a possible slow demise of PSNow. But, if Sony behind the scenes has decided to slowly remove the current PSNow service because it is a drag on the company that is a good thing. Su...
100% incorrect. That is not what the Magnuson-Moss Act of 1975 determines.
First it requires that the warranty be in clear English or at least not incomprehensible legal jargon. '
Second, the warranty must state it is a full or limited warranty. There is several stipulations of the Act that discuss implied versus written warranty that we can go into but, clearly not the issue here.
Third, the Act itself describes reasonable accep...
Shouldn't the title be PS4 underwhelming Ubisoft sales. I am often told by reliable sources in the comments here that the PS4 has twice as many consoles sold as Xbox One consoles. So shouldn't that translate to at least double the sales? I know my math skills are a little rusty but 46% PS4 is not double 26% Xbox One (Q3) nor does 41% vs 25% for the first 9 months equate to numbers relative to overall console sales. So either Xbox is doing better selling software relative to it'...
It isn't a lottery. I am sure they look at data patterns of people that request to be part of the beta process. You do realize they track how long you are on you machine, what you load on it, etc... Than they take that data and determine who of those that signed the agreement are the best candidates. I am sure they do let a few random people in but, it definitely isn't some random lottery - they want semi-qualified users at the very beginning and a lottery doesn't give them tha...
You probably won't get to part of this beta until it is out.
For future reference you have to register to be part of the current beta. Note: not everyone that signs the agreement gets into the program. If you get in to one beta it does not (at least in the past) give you access to the next beta. Of those that sign the beta agreement Sony selects a subsection of PS4 owners to be part of the actual testing phase. That group of actual allotted beta spots may or may not...
And you will the first person in line to complain when something goes wrong (crashes you system, games fail, etc...) Be happy it is coming sooner than later and that Sony and the beta testers are making sure everything is working as best as can be beforehand.
@Exvalos Except "boost mode" doesn't give games extra graphics,or additional features (no better rendering, etc..). It just gives non-patched games the ability essentially not to drop frames and avoid some screen tearing by slightly increasing the power GPU exposes when running non-patched games. It will not increase a games base fps (not one person I have seen describing it working on various games has said otherwise). For example, a game...
Who cares if it looks a little better. What the heck. you can only do so much with assets from early 2000. That is the stoneage of consoles. I am pissed at Phil and the MS Team. You should of had them spent the time and updated the assets. The whole reason most of us were looking forward to this was a updated look, bright and shiny (like Gears remaster). Seems, like you spent all that time on some OK features. I am not complaining that they are there - but co...
The first two months (like the first two weeks of a movie) are when the most sales are done after that sales slow drastically. So, it really only matters what those first two months on a console that has twice the number really only matter.
However, what I find more fascinating is that all these people (in these forums) that keep telling us that Xbox One doesn't have exclusives and they would just buy these Play Anywhere games on the PCs instead. Although no...
You mean games that aren't even coming out a year and a half later after those videos. Sorry, I still see that as one of the problems with Sony. They have a lot coming out but always seem to show way to many games at E3 that don't have release dates. You don't get a win by showing a trailer two years in advance. I don't even like Zelda but, it was bigger win (at least over your list) because it is actually a tangible game
Yes, but that is not the point of the article. "Why Nintendo doesn't need E3" was. Nobody says other shows like Pax, GDC, PSX, etc aren't good times to reveal as well. The point is that is like saying Comic-con (San Diego) is not needed for movie announcements. Sure, it is not. However, you get more world wide attention beyond those already entrenched into your system. You get more bang from your buck being at either E3 ...
"Professional presentation" are not the words most people watching the Switch reveal would have called it. Reveals don't turn people off from a device or delay a planned purchase like it did my friends and myself. And where is this growth in third party support? You act as if the few third party developers that have announced games to be released this year suddenly said "Oh, cool lets make a game" and it was ready. That alone show...
That is true Xbox trails in consoles by almost half. But, those numbers are reversed when you look at those that pay for multiplayer capability through PS Plus or Xbox Gold. There are over 55 million Xbox Gold members (still a lot of 360 users) and half that amount for PS Plus users. I only know one person that does not pay for Gold (he just let it expire over the Holidays and plans to reup soon.) However, I do know that many of my friends don't pay for ...
