Maybe Microsoft has finally found the ominous lever in their basement and can now deliver one of their initial promise they made back in 2013 : http://imgur.com/kW3OnDu
;-)
Has nothing to do with the topic or only partially ...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
Xbone Owners Games
4º Destiny
9º Halo 5
We know that H5 had the best Halo launch ever with $400mill. Let´s assume those came from sold copies, 400 : 60 = 6.66mill. copies. According to that neogaf post, about 30% own a copy of Halo ...
If 500mill. hours of 360 titles equals 50% user base (XB), that means 1% of them have played roughly 1mill hours. If we apply cheap internet logic+math and divide that by avg. playtime we should get an estimate how many xbone user there are (2017).
AVG. playtime ø
1hour = 1,000,000 ppl. = 1% x 100 = 100,000,000 (100%) xbone users
2.5hours = 400,000 ppl. = 1% x 100 = 40,000,000 (100%) xbone users
3hours = 333,333 ppl. = 1% x 100 = 33,333,333 ...
... and that is why Microsoft waited "patiently" for over 2 years before releasing this feature onto the XBone, rite? Ybarra? Why didn´t ya have BackwardComp. since 2013? Maybe because NO one gave a wet hoot about it back then?
But now over 2 years later (current console cycle is 3.5year old), it suddenly is the most important thing to have ... all about choice, like the Kinect promese. Even after dropping it and essentially giving the middle finger to early...
At Kewb
Valve made $3.5bill in 2015 with 7,000 games
Valve made $3.7bill in 2016 with 14,000 games
Sony made (software alone) nearly $6bill.
MS made (software alone) nearly $4bill.
At imalwright
I was talking about the big 3, these are the ones that make games you actually play from the Division to Battlefield ... these are not made be shitty chinese Tecent moneyscammer.
But you P...
While you´re right, it does not seem to affect EA, Activision nor Ubisoft that much ;)
2016 revenue
Ubisoft http://imgur.com/C2T3pA6
EA http://imgur.com/gsxXpGI
Activion/Blizzard/King http://imgur.com/X5AfaVK
Russia, India and in Chinasia PC "Free to play" dominates with mobile second, emphasis on "F2P Online GaaS" cr_p. Check my lengthy post, how EA, Ubisoft and Co. make their income. Even Activision makes more dough by selling console copies than Blizzard´s games or King´s games.
PC F2P is an entirely different market than what you get on consoles, besides China alone makes up $20bill. next year to those "PC market" shares out of the 30bill....
Why is it that former PC exclusive are making the jump? Like X-com2 (not finding enough on the pc, due Civ5?) or the latest one to join the list Kingdom Come: Deliverance all coming to the console. If the pc was dominating in software sales (which matters to every gamemaker), why are they numbers not reflecting that in their annual reports (EA, UBI, Acti.)
What if out of those 8mill. sold GTA5 PC copies, let say up to <50% came from PS360 users or PS4XB1 gamers? who like...
The big 3 publisher made and are still making more revenue thanks to the console copies. EA made nearly as much revenue similar to the PC sales, with older/newer? PS360 titles. Even Activison (with Blizzard and King) has a higher income thanks to the consoles.
This puts everything in perspective : We can say that Blizzard with Hearthstone and WoW or King (mobile) still make less revenue than their console division, even though they have a looooot more people playing these g...
The PS4 pro launches tomorrow in China for $450. Sony is not going to drop the price elsewhere and sell the Pro for $450 in China ...
June 7th Sony will start to sell the PS4Pro for $450 (China) ... 5 days before their e3 Press Show. Don´t see any price cut incoming at least not for the PS4Pro.
What a shitty website ... had to enable like 40 scripts to drop a comment ... and even then i coulndt (catpcha missing). Anyway ... if they had actually played the game, they would have not submitted "the article" ... replay the Epilogue on the Pro with HDR .... that DOG will blow the #### off of you.
MS past e3s have been full of pre-hype tweets early in every year, followed up by more hype and claims of "this gonna be best xbox line up" etc.. for 3 years now. Add the 2010 to 2013 e3 Kinect showings and ...
Does not look like we´re getting a price cut around pre-e3 or post e3 ... the PS4Pro launches the 7th of june in China for $460 and their e3 P.C is the 12th of june of this year 5 days after the launch in China. That would piss off a lot of those getting one in China only to find out, Sony has dropped the price within 5 days during their e3 Show.
http://imgur.com/T5GjSnq
At Kionic ...
The fact that you/all like us to believe that, that particular forza picture is ULTRA like you said .. it isnt ... have a looksy : http://imgur.com/NgiFriy
Ultra settings and low polycar models? With 2D Crowd and a broken or unfinished reflection .. where some car have it (rear mirror) while others dont ... or that one car has partially the fence reflected but the adj. car does not...
The funny thing is, that there are sites reporting that due Sony´s Restriction or Limitation the scorpio will be locked too at 30fps. But everyone seems to forget one and most likely the most important one : the lowest common denominator
... and that would be the Xbone. This machine can not render it at 1080p 60 nor at 900p 60 (usually reserved for PS4)... that would mean that Destiny 2 would have to run in 720p Mode to reach 60fps on the xb1 and for a 2017 title that&...
GTA 5 was made by 1,000 people, they sold up to 80mill. copies ... the game was and is with Vice City prolly the best GTA in a very long time. 1,000 people and those that oursourced/helped with got paid and are getting paid ...
Star Citizen has shown nothing remotely worth the $150mill. investment imho.
Few Ships?
One or two cutscenes with Mark "The Star Wars Hater" .. and some flyby/throught empty landscapes with a station randomly p...
edit: gotcha, thanks for the answer. :)
Like having Backward Compatibility since the PS2 days? and/or PS3 days? and noone even the Sony base gave two wet farts about it?
And what are you talking about having less features, if not mistaken PS Now launched a whole YEAR prior the most favorite XB1 app, which for some reason NOW ... close to 3 years into the console cycle a NEXT Gen might add, is suddenly THE option everyone craves for.
C´mon stop the hypocrisy ... stop that fallacy once and ...