What kind of company could make Kinect 2.0 mandatory (not in itself a bad thing if it was put to good use) and then not have any major Kinect games?
It is not good for interfaces let alone gaming.
Don't get me wrong, it can be slightly enjoyed as a gimmick. But gimmicks should not be so costly - for Microsoft or consumers.
What'll hurt them personally is when not enough people give a damn about buying an Xbox One because all their essential needs are catered for by Sony and Nintendo combined.
They get a few exclusives but they just never quite live up to the longevity of the competition. Titanfall excepted of course but to have so much hype about one game to the exclusion of nearly all else is not healthy.
Here's one example from last gen:
Remedy releas...
Wow. That's a lot of money to spend on something I care not the tinest bit about.
I'd rather that they spend it on gold houses for each executive than spend it on a sport that I couldn't give a damn about.
You sound like a Microsoft employee.
It's an update, not a game. It's not supposed to be all that exciting.
There are so many unknowns about the Xbox One as a gaming machine though.
Rare were coy about talking to the media even during the N64 days.
Insomniac and Remedy haven't said any more on Sunset Overdrive and Quantum Break respectively.
Sony are far more consistent with both the number of AAAs and indie games.
Microsoft do just enough to hook in a buyer but after that they hardly satisfy much further. From past form, don&#...
I also started off with a ZX Spectrum.
Every single generation has had unique facets compared to other ones. There's literally never a 100% good reason to get rid of your old consoles. Unless it's an Atari- I hate those. But you'll never beat playing Lemmings with an Amiga mouse. Or playing N64 games on - an N64 instead of an emulator (or on an Xbox360!). And the Dreamcast was the most beautiful looking console ever made.
Even the breeze block that was the...
I think that the game is very replayable actually.
It gives you an illusion of choice and when you play it next time you'll try a different strategy to what you last tried even though there might only be 1 way that's most likely to end in success. The thickness of the atmosphere , like Resident Evil or Silent Hill, is so well done (including sound effects and music) that I want to enjoy its quality again.
But the fine multiplayer is so endlessly replayable that it migh...
If Nintendo ever decide to stop making major consoles and only concentrate on their handhelds , and if either Sony or Microsoft got exclusive rights to publish the games that Nintendo would have previously published on their own major console, then that would be a huge deal for either company.
It could be game over for Microsoft if Sony got the deal.
Whereas if MS got the deal Sony could still survive on its own great exclusives.
However, like Sega, ...
I still feel a bit awkward about how the Dreamcast got killed off and then the Xbox steps in to the ring not long after.
Let's put it this way- not as much as could have been done was done to keep Sega as a hardware manufacturer.
I suppose that Sega was just seen as too niche by a lot of people and it was easier to let it end there. Despite some of the acclaim that the DC got it did tend to overkill some genres such as fighting games and underdelivered on...
Xbox Con
A game cannot be insane. That's how it was programmed without any choice of its own. Technically , an accountancy spreadsheet is just as insane as this game. More so than this game perhaps as this game doesn't make claims to be real life.
You have to ride that train while it's still in full motion. I can't blame them for wanting to make a PS4 version. It's particularly of use for people who only had an Xbox360 last gen and now have a PS4.
What we don't need are so many 'gaming journalists'.
The thing about April's Fools is that it's charming when an individual tries one on you in private.
When you run one like this on the INTERNET , broadcastable potentially to the entire world's population, you can actually potentially create monetary harm to a company and you don't get out of that by just saying 'It's just a joke' because a) it's not even funny enough to be worth it and b) not everyone will read it as a joke and c) you're su...
I'd say the port of the original Bioshock on to the PS3.
It was so well done on the Xbox360.
On the PS3 it looked far too bright and too sharp as if they'd traced the Xbox360 version.
I think they got it right with Bioshock 2 and certainly with Infinite though. I'd rather play Infinite on the PS3- the brightness of it suits the PS3.
The PS3 version of The Orange Box used to be criticised as well. But early days f...
It' all very well talking about something that excites you like videogames themselves where you've intimately experienced the product.
But to speculate intimately about a company or employees perhaps many miles from a place that you will never have close to the ability nor qualifications nor luck to work for? To think that you should try to dictate who should get hired, who should remain etc at a company? Something that you've never been intimate with?
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Probably because he's thinking that he can never do anything in his life without up to 6 BILLION people commenting on him online like you just did.
Please get Gone Home and many more PC ports for the Xbox One Phil.
The Xbox One needs to become more like the original Xbox was.
Some irreverent, quirky games.
Please get Rare on the case.
I just want to add - it's good to see someone you can see as a cool, mature, experienced, older brother getting such a position. He doesn't come across as a suit (although he does sometimes wear one with a T Shirt and it looks good). Althoug...
EVERYTHING is a distraction.
Existence itself is a distraction from non-existence.
There's nothing peculiar about videogames in that sense other than that they can present very abstract worlds that provide a logical consistency often missing from the real world.
In what game, for instance, can you play a clever child neglected for years on end by their parents, giving sub-par schooling, few friends, a bad choice of jobs, few adult figures...
Hey John - one of my textures is still loading on Rage. Can you fix it?
To properly do that though they'd have to invest in more exclusive games including properly supporting indies like Sony has been doing for many years. And they'd have to give Xbox Live free for a few years. Just to get them on an even keel with Sony.
All these things cost time and money whereas MS would just prefer the money income part from huge cash cows like Titanfall.
With Microsoft, it's like asking a feudal king to be nice to the peasants. T...