Microsoft from day one should have announced the xbox one day one patch was to come on game disks sold for the console. Not everyone has the internet that wants an xbox one, I do my ps3 system updates via game disks all the time... thoughtless on their part
Steambox for sure narrows the gap between consoles and pc's but I'm unsre as to whether they Will become direct competition, for a while at least
With this and steam os it seems the pc gaming industry wants to pull away from microsoft
I am having trouble remembering the name of the game but it was an action rpg that got a lot of buzz for its overly sexified portrayal of women... something crown?
It says pretty clearly that his kid snuck onto the game while he was asleep and he didn't do anything particularly violent except for accidently hit someone with a car and felt badly for sneaking onto an adult game. Your comment unfairly judges the writer of a good article, ive enjoyed all the (both) of the my wife the casual gamer articles I've read.
You should give praise that this guy gives a little of his personal life away in his unique review style rather than g...
I think the point in the article is that if the xbox is gonna be a success then its going to need to be able to sell good games instead of just AAA blockbusters. It needs to atract a wide enough audience that it can sustain an environment of a vast variety of game genre's and not just call of duty and titanfall
If microsoft really wanted to own the living room they would strive to make themselves indispensable in the cable, tv side of things. I think that if they came up with a tv streaming service with a la carte channels where costomers didn't have to pay a subscription for a bunch of channels they don't want they could give cable companies a huge run for their money. Instead they decided to work with cable companies and have the cable box plug into the console. Considering how many people...
Pretty soon they will be loosing TO steam lol
I would love a gaming pc free from windows or apple I think this is a terrific idea
I think the intent is to lure gamers away from windows so they can use an OS that is better suited for gaming. It will likely free up more juice to be used in the games themselves but will lack all the fluff people use windows for. Considering the popuparity of tablet pc's and smart phones I think its not a bad move for gaming pc's
I think if valve can get gaming pc's to ship with their os installed instead of windows then it will be a success
I loved the balders gate 1&2 battle system (pc not console)
If it becomes popular enough I see it being the software that ships with gaming pc's instead of windows, considering that casual pc users now use tablets I'm assuming this could effect most pc sales.
Microsofts major market is in trouble
I can hear the bell tolling in the distance for microsoft if this takes off...
This would be fantastic. The worse part of buying a pc is the forced windows and shovelware software.
This is why I see them doing something similar to psvita tv. Steam as a gaming streaming service similar to gaikai would have a massive library of games to offer and a monthly fee would guarantee cash flow for future games.
I've been following xbox stories since the reveal of one and the way the coments seem in them and for a little while there I thought things were turning around for microsoft popularity wise. Not with me but with many others, then something lile this comes l out and its almost all negative again.
I honestly don't know what public perseption is of ms lately but it doesn't look good for them if they don't learn to sit down and shut up.
Streaming media and games may have the intention, like microsofts old drm plans, to change gaming to an all digital medium but there is one hugely important difference. Microsoft wanted you to pay full retail for a game and then pay a service fee to be able to play it, hoping that customers would forget any sense of ownership the original likely premium retail cost of the game comes with. Gaiki is just a game streaming service, one monthly fee and you play away at a very extensive library. <...
I don't agree with this sentiment at all, you can't sell someone something and expect them not to feel they own it (physical game disks) however... a game and tv streaming service like gikai that is fully understood to be a service on a device like psvtv may very well be the future and may eliminate physical disks and downloads all together.
Its because the policy reversals due to the outrage over people without the net not being able to play was an after thought and not a well thought out one. They flat out don't care if offline people can't play they make all there money on xbox live anyways.
The always online removal was just a PR move, you still need it. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if you needed to buy gold just to download the day one patch