Yep. Online required is all but dead, so all of a sudden Microsoft is 6 months behind on a console they've been planning for years, with a plethora of lessons learned from a console generation that's lasted 8 years.
Yeah, sounds solid.
Kotaku Rumor: Microsoft 6 months behind in game production for X720 [Pastebin = Ban]
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Yep. Online required is all but dead, so all of a sudden Microsoft is 6 months behind on a console they've been planning for years, with a plethora of lessons learned from a console generation that's lasted 8 years.
Yeah, sounds solid.
statham
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MS is on track for a 2013 launch. thanks.
Insomniac still working with Sony, best news of thread.
The rumors regarding Xb3 don't seem that bad this time around. Seem like fairly routine issues at this point in the lifecycle of new hardware. Kinda doubt they'll really miss the holidays but, even if they do, shouldn't be the end of the world if they can make it to stores by Spring.
The rumors regarding Xb3 don't seem that bad this time around. Seem like fairly routine issues at this point in the lifecycle of new hardware. Kinda doubt they'll really miss the holidays but, even if they do, shouldn't be the end of the world if they can make it to stores by Spring.
You mean the guys behind the decisions to make an unreliable console with no standard storage or WiFi built in?
Those guys?
LiquidSolid
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Breaking news: GAF runs Kotaku!
Might want to take your tin foil hats off, guys. None of these leaks have come from GAF, they've come from established websites.
Ouch.
God Ensemble was good back in the day, although they made little impact in the console space. I think Sony's long term investment in building and growing their First Parties will pay off next gen. By comparison MS will be left scrambling to snatch up third party exclusives to even the playing field.
statham
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Because the Next Xbox isn't a Gaming console it's a Multimedia Computer & Sony didn't really show much that would worry them because it's Apple & Google that they are worried about getting in the way of their plans not the PS4 games looking better.
if Sony would have showed the PS4 with GoogleTV made in it that might have made them worry.
Blood Diamonds
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Fucking fuck.
I luaghed really hard.
Yes, those guys that made the console $200 cheaper than the competition, which allowed them to break through the market and in turn facilitated a bigger userbase that allowed for multiple new IPs to debut with Xbox and thus be "attached" to the brand, beating the biggest player in the US market in sales and third party exclusives.
Not to be confused with the guys that are currently making the new Xbox a family DVR waggle machine.
R3TRO
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Ooooohhh, so the guys who revitalized the brand to the point of virtually re-launching it and catapulting it the best selling console in the US for the last 2 years plus?
Mind you,its that relaunch that has kept their nose in front of their main competitor worldwide too.
So those numbskulls?
Gotcha.
Do you have better sources?
The rumor is about content, different moving parts from the team building the console itself. Which is not to say they have to delay the console itself necessarily. But continue to overreact, if you feel it helps.
Trying to have it both ways, then? MS has been planning for years but up until recently have been "numbskulls"? Why, what could possibly go wrong?!?!
I've finished already The Last Guardian, don't you miss that!
Valkyria
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Fighting the good fight as always?
I'm not completely surprised by this.
MS's next-gen box will have a greater focus on non-gaming related features than the PS4 and will likely resemble a cable box/STB/DVR more than a traditional gaming console.
Unlike this gen, MS's and Sony's next-gen boxes won't perfectly overlap with one another. Sony will push for hardcore gamers more than MS, and MS will push for casuals more than Sony.
Well I don't want to downplay how incredibly huge Kinect has been, and that was some seriously genius rebranding they did.
But I don't know how much momentum will carry over to the next Xbox. It would be hard to "resell" the idea of Kinect again, and the idea of a DVR friendly system doesn't sound instantly appealing to me, but we'll see.
Gamer @ Heart
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We wont know until the actually announce the line up and price, which i doubt is happening at e3.
Of course. Not joining the chorus of crap, rumour and innuendo while mentioning actual events MUST imply I'm a console warrior.
Thank god you're here to expose monsters like myself.
shinra-bansho
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It's a conspiracy!
This thread continues to entertain.
This thread continues to entertain.
You may be 100% right.
But why assume they will continue on the exact same path with a new generation? Surely Microsoft would be aware casuals aren't early adopters.
I'd be shocked if the new Xbox was geared towards them at launch.
They will share 99% of the same games so I think they will overlap just like this gen.
Maximilian Kolbe
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Well it's more expensive for just bought a studio,so they choose build new studios because it's cheaper,even it's bigger bet than bought a studio
Captain Tuttle
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Man that is embarrassing.
Not good about the hot durango's though, smh MS, didn't you learn?
Uno Venova
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It's hilarious.
LowEndTorque
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I remember reading reports a while back that Durango was having some big problems with production/manufacturing yields and that those problems were setting their planned launch back by months. I don't know if there was actually anything to those rumors, but its not unfathomable to me that the launch could be delayed. Unlikely, but not unfathomable.
I was just thinking the same thing but I bet for different reasons than you.
Maximilian Kolbe
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Well the report said they were expect a September launch and i'm not so sure will they launch that early
And i remember they report they fixed the problem or something like few months later
They will still overlap to a great degree, but next-gen I'm expecting that overlap to diminish to some extent.
antiquegamer
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Leave Windows Phone alone, we are 3rd place now and at 5% marketshare!
Seriously though, I am glad they didn't follow the market like Google did and just clone Apple iOS for their mobile. Their misstep with Windows Phone is the relaunch of Windows Phone 8 that is less than stellar. Features that should have been there already after the 3rd iteration are still not in and features that are good were gutted and left in shamble because of the "redo". The problem with Windows Phone is that they are so late to the party and then try to play catch up but they are moving so slow that whatever they do still put them behind competitor. Also chicken and egg things, no marketshare, no apps, no apps no marketshare etc.
FWIW, I've heard similar things.
Napalm_Frank
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Spencer hinted at it not being a Kinect only game like a year ago.
dukeoflegs
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Not sure if that is completely true.
People I've worked with and are friends with at MSFT said they were scrambling and stressed afterwards. And when the Orth twitter thing went around, a lot of people that were stressed and in panic mode lost their shit.
Aquamarine
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James Sawyer Ford
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Maximilian Kolbe
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Why suddenly so many gaffer have friends working for MS/Sony/Gamestop/3rd party etc
iceatcs
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Aquamarine
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For the 6,000 users currently online right now, if around 25 are insiders......
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
I heard Mattrick was legit shook.
This is what I meant with my first post.
Kotaku brings this up out of nowhere and suddenly "insiders" come out of the woodwork to "confirm" the rumour that they have been sitting on for...what, 3-6 months?
Ugh.
The shitting is on both sides. It's a collective shit-fest.
Smart move on their part, better to have higher quality 3rd party than shitty 1st party. I guess we'll see, this is still a rumor and more importantly its kotaku..