This, more than anything else is why I rant about Xbox One online! They are essentially feeding us "Pink Slime" and calling it STEAK!
They released a flawed, underpowered console, designed around multi-media, NOT games. The FACT is that every single multiplatform game looks better and PLAYS better on the competing PS4...EVERY SINGLE ONE. This is due to Microsoft's decision to cut costs and include an underpowered GPU and slower memory in their console. THAT ...
Newsflash! It's going to beat up Microsoft pretty badly in the rest of the world too!
Yeah, I can't imagine why MS would drop a division that has lost money for over a decade and is still bleeding! It makes no sense whatsoever!
Not at all. Sony has won every single month this year in every market they are selling in. If they outsold Xbox for 2 or 3 months, it would be different...but when Xbox can't even outsell Sony for ONE MONTH in their strongest territory, even AFTER bundling in their top game for free, and even after that bundle sells for $450, even after the new $399 sku is released, and even after they offer 360 owners an ADDITIONAL $75 bribe to "upgrade"...yeah, that qualifies as "consis...
Remember, WAAAAY back in 2008, when MS said in a press release that "The first console to 10 million sold, wins the generation"?
It's all over except for the crying.
It's not "trolling" to point out that these are consoles shipped to other retailers that failed to sell. Nor is it "trolling" to state the FACT that the Xbox is not getting as much developer support as the competition, due to Microsoft's poor communication and their abhorrent policies (parity clause, among others). Nor is it "trolling" to point out that the Xbox is not a good value for customers, compared to the better selling, higher performing competi...
This was MUCH needed! This is actually the first piece of news that I have seen that gives me any hope of MS surviving into the next decade!
Ballmer put FAR too much effort into "devices and services" that no one asked for and no one was buying. If Nadella was smart, he would kill off Windows Phone and Surface (not Pro) completely, go back and redesign Windows 9 to be much more like Windows 7, and spin off Xbox into it's own company (to live or die by it's...
Given Microsoft's anti-dev policies and parity clauses, you will probably have to wait a LOOOOONG time for it.
It doesn't matter what devs add to a new version of a game...some people will gripe regardless.
Yup, still has an EA logo, and still has free to play mechanics in a retail game. No thanks, guys...I'll get my soccer fix elsewhere.
Simple solution guys, if you want the DLC THAT MUCH, trade in your Xbox and get a PS4! If you don't like exclusivity agreements (either timed or not), then don't buy the game! As long as developers and publishers can make additional money by pitting Sony against Microsoft, this practice will continue. Remember as well, that these types of agreements DID NOT EXIST before Microsoft started the practice...the hypocrisy is THICK with these complaints! It was all well and good when YOU...
"Super Creator" (in his best Roy Scheider voice) "We're gonna need a bigger GPU!"
What's going on? Simple, Microsoft doesn't know WHAT they are doing! One person says one thing, another says another thing...the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing!
Note that the "denial" didn't really clarify ANYTHING. It was just more mealy mouthed PR spin!
The "interview" was WORSE..."I can't comment on policies" Non-answers, avoiding questions, blah blah blah. Not ONE shred of additional i...
Because, aside from some VERY vocal early adopters who keep defending the Xbox, most gamers can see (in multiple comparisons, on multiple games) which console is more powerful. They can consult a number of lists and see which console has DOUBLE the number of games available. They hear, almost daily, that MS has the inferior hardware.
Add to that the HORRIBLE PR that MS had last year, the HORRIBLE communication issues that persist to this day with developers, the unfriendl...
Sunset Overdrive says hi, too!
I am VERY tired of seeing sensational news articles trying to link video games to every perceived evil in the world. EVERY time there is some wacko with a gun shooting up the place, SOMEONE tries to pin it on games!
Now we have some fool who is trying to show that weed and video games are linked? PLEASE!
Yes, a lot of people, including myself, smoke weed, and also happen to play games...but to make a link between the two is disingenuous at BEST, and outrigh...
Not jealous in the SLIGHTEST. I have plenty of games to keep me occupied this fall. Evolve, Destiny, LBP 3, The Last of Us, Assasins Creed....my wallet is going to be hurting enough as it is!
@Hanuman I already have Halo 1,3, and 4 on my 360. If I feel the urge to play Halo, I don't have to spend another $60 to do it.
The industry did just fine before MS launched the Xbox and it will do just fine when they leave the industry. We still have Nintendo, Google, Apple, Amazon, PCs and others for "competition". All we got from this "competition" are exclusivity deals and "parity" clauses...and those don't exactly benefit gamers.
"conveys respect"??? BWA HA HA HA HA HA <gasp!> BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Yeah, that's a good one, best laugh I had all day!
My PS4 is currently in my bedroom....so, what then?
I think the thing people are forgetting is that the PS4 is a small, relatively lightweight item that could easily be moved from the living room to another room...you don't even need a TV in that room with Morpheus.
Personally, I will probably use Morpheus in my bedroom, and probably use a Playstation TV to remote play my PS4 in the living room.