It just needs a price that is competitive with PS3/360, both of which are cheaper and with a much bigger games catalogue.
82.5% of Xbones sold in Murrica, not really suprised their advertising campaign probably consists of the Xbone in front of the Stars and Stripes with the national anthem playing...
In my view 720P is performing poorly considering that the consoles which launched 7-8 years ago were targeting that very same resolution.
1080P has been the standard for a couple of years now so you would expect any 'next gen' console to be targeting it, it's difficult to even buy a 720P TV today because it is a thing of the past, much like SD before it.
They will have to pay people to use Xbox Live this generation for Xbox One to be successful.
Microsoft must be paying people to disagree whenever someone states facts about why Xbox One performs poorly.
It's either that or the fanboys are bored of playing their console already and are in denial about paying more for inferior tech.
There'd be no need for ESRAM if they had gone with GDDR5 and doing so would have left room for a GPU equivalent to that of PS4.
Still would be better off with 8GB GDDR5... oh and a better GPU.
It's too expensive... PS3 & 360 are both cheaper and with a much greater games catalogue.
That's why Wii U is selling so poorly, the people who are late to the party and would normally buy one are getting those instead.
Wii U isn't competing against PS4/Xbone even though it's priced as such.
It's not the first time, they can't even be honest to their investors!
http://www.theregister.co.u...
"A US law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Microsoft shareholders, alleging that Redmond misled investors when it failed to alert them to dismally poor sales of its ARM-based Surface RT fondleslabs....
It's meaningless without numbers.
If something is going to sell poorly it's better to limit availability and give the illusion of being sold out than to fill up shelves and have people see that nobody wants it.
Look back to last October and Microsoft were saying the same thing about Surface RT, then read this:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/ne...
I think I remember reading that a lot of them left to form Free Radicals of TimeSplitters fame.
Rare now are like an an elderly person reminiscing about the goold old days.
You're assuming pirates will buy the games if they can't download it, that's usually not the case.
If piracy hurts the industry it wouldn't have grown to the size it is today.
Not at the current price for me, it was on Amazon sale for £180 I'd be tempted at that... not £250 though.
Back in the Amiga days a lot of obscure games reached critical mass due to rampant piracy, the more people pirate, the more people talk about it, the more people BUY IT.
Big publishers who spend millions on advertising don't want small games developers muscling in on their territory, stopping piracy hurts the smaller developers as they cannot get any widespread recognition.
They did the same with 360 but it wasn't as severe, the thing is most people have **** TV's and these crushed make the contrast look higher. How many times have you seen people/reviewers describe the PS3's perfectly unmodified output as "washed out"? it's because even the 360 used to mess with the video output.
It's too expensive imo, the hardware specs are similar to last gen but price is considerably more and the games library is fewer.
It still seems like really poor value to me, I'd be willing to pay £150-180 but £250? no chance it just doesn't seem worth it for what it is.
If Nintendo are losing money at £250 then it's bad design or they're getting robbed somewhere.
It needs a big price cut...
Not so much harder but you will have to make sacrifices elsewhere in the graphics (ie. Forza 5).
16 ROP's is too little for 1080P, just as native 4K resolution will likely need 64 ROP's (or multiple 32 ROP cards) to run respectably.
Any respectable developer will look at the Xbox One hardware and target 720P.
It's only natural that programming tricks will be found over the course of the Xbones lifetime, it happens with every single console ever made... any improvements are not going to be significant enough to allow it to match PS4 though, the disparity in physical GPU capability is just too great.
Just because Wii U is newer doesn't give them a divine right to charge more, if you look at hardware specification Wii U is about as powerful as those 10 year old consoles so it should be priced as such.
360/PS3 are both much better value purchases and that's why Wii U is currently flopping.