I think the industry has known for quite some time that the 'hardest' of the hardcore gamers are individuals whom are day 1 buyers of both hardware and software. Likely the same subset of gamers whom preordered a new generation console are the same who purchase new games day one or have preordered.
I believe that is the primary reason Next gen sales are often higher for the first month of a multiplat game(s).
True story Willio
"Seriously, this console, the hardware, and the vision of the direction they wanted to go was so ill conceived. "
Nothing but the truth in that statement. Touche sir, touche
"We can’t say for sure who is correct yet, unfortunately, as Microsoft has yet to respond definitively to us. Phil Harrison has a history of misspeaking, taking another crack at explaining Xbox policies to Eurogamer last year, and providing erroneous information to Kotaku before Microsoft corrected the error with another site."
Holy $*&^
Are you kidding me. It was feeling more and more like Microsoft had polished and refined it's strategies and sinc...
We clearly arrive from the same school of though :)
It would be a huge advantage in the sales department!
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I already own several set-top boxes. Each with somewhat unique (at present) advantages IMO. But I'd happily dump most of them if this was offered by Sony. I really hope they are considering this
I'm not convinced either way to be honest. Tough to predict.
Having said that, one hugely popular differentiator that would surely propel the Sony TV hardware would be to include Multimedia Codec support. Matstroka (MKV,MP4,FLAC). They'd be offering what isn't readily available from it's competitors.
I know many people whom would be very very happy about such an offering
I think November & December will be Microsoft's strongest months too.
Side note, May NDP numbers are quite staggering.
http://i.imgur.com/EYGWXlJ....
PS4 managed to outsell with every single multiplat game!
Avi support would be nice, but full Matroska would be a whole lot nicer ;)
IMO it's only going to boost fondness towards Sony if they provide this functionality. With the internal 500Gb HDD PLEASE allow us to store our own music collection on the PS4. Codec support (mkv,flv,mp4) would be incredibly appreciated too! DLNA perhaps?
PLEASE!
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You'd be trumping AppleTv and XB1 with codec support, catch my drift. That would only help moving units
"price cut being announced hurt ms this month..
June should be MS best month "
Fair assumption with respect to line 1.
In theory, it really should be a solid month. Near a month and change of interested buyers that (assuming they knew about the price drop) likely would have delayed purchase until the price drop began.
It will be 'telling' one way or the other. It shouldn't be underestimated how much those particular res...
"Yeah I'd imagine that a lot that were going to purchase may have held off to wait for the new X1 SKU"
That is a reasonable assumption. Makes perfect sense to me that individuals wanting to purchase an XboxOne would do exactly that.
However, if a 'significant' sales bump fails to materialize for June then I believe Microsoft really will start to panic. In the business media, since release of the XboxOne it's always been stated by ...
"Seems like GameStop has been trying real hard to get rid of their Xbox units,"
If GameStop is to be believed XboxOne is flying off the shelves :)
"It's a great tech and I'm seeing the future of gaming becoming cloud based like Netflix but with gaming, streamed data. "
To me, the realization of 'cloud' tech in gaming isn't so much in question. That time will positively arrive.
The bigger lurking question is will the masses embrace it. Judging by the original XboxOne reveal, I think there is a strong case to be made against mass market adoption. I say that because I don&#...
@aerisbueller
When the cloud is ready for reveal in world time situations via the internet, I fail to see how 'canned physics' will be a thing of the past. Are you able to explain how Crackdown 3 utilizing the cloud wouldn't still be utilizing 'canned physics' via the cloud
"Actually no. If you read the article, the focus on the term 'the cloud' might have changed but what it's planned to do hasn't: "
I agree with you 100% Septic.
I'm of the opinion Microsoft hasn't abandoned it's original vision for the Xbox division and gaming industry as a whole. Rather, they have just revised their approach towards achieving that goal. Toned down their aggressiveness. As I recall reading several months ago, Mi...
I can't say I'm surprised when individuals state they can't see a difference between 720p,900p,1080p.
Fanboys are the dominate force and 'evangelism' runs rampant. On both sides of the fence.
In fairness to the non 'evangelist' types though (they exist after all) it doesn't help diminish the merits of the debate when the biggest gamer site (IGN) spreads (dis)information like this.
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Valid tangent zero-gamer!
But I'll point out, it's also terribly depressing to look to at the music industry (pretty much from front to back) and realize the most successful & famous 'artists' are such because of image above all else.
No different in hollywood either. There is an unfortunate 'harmony' to be found in those parallels.
Much as I wish it wasn't so with graphics and the forementioned
It absolutely does not make any game terrible, being 720p.
But, why would anyone with a 1080p Tele not hope for as high as a resolution as possible. I realize not nearly everyone has a 1080p capable TV, though I hesitate to guess (speculation I realize) well over half of gamers likely do. A great game is a great game any day of the week at any resolution. But, greater native resolution does make any great game an even better game for a lot of people
The time will arrive (debatable when that may be) when cloud compute will offer tangible benefits to gaming.
I imagine, many Xbox gamers (Only stating Xbox gamers bc Microsoft is the primary company behind computes 'push') will see the day it's development efforts reach a sound degree of fruition. I'm pretty confident about that.
Online only games (a la Titanfall variety) clearly target multi-player fans. Many MP hardcore gamers are already ...
@AngelicIceDiamond
"You are right Xbots can stop talking about massive change but the console will benefit from it regardless still. Can't deny that."
The primary party whom can't deny the gains of DX12 are developers. It's them who are to benefit the most. DX12 makes their jobs a lot easier in many situations. Xbox gamers aren't going to play a game developed with DX12 and think to themselves, WOW look at the fruits of DX12. ...