I'm sorry: save the Xbox One from what exactly? It's outselling the 360 to a ridiculous degree. Just because it isn't the top selling console doesn't mean it's failing. Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank with the Xbox One.
Some interesting points, but, this stood out to me:
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In theory, the Xbox One was an improvement on everything fans loved about the Xbox 360: a more powerful Kinect, new hardware that merged the console with your cable box, and lots of talk about the cloud.
I am puzzled, who "loved" kinect?
no it was announced at E3 but since then there been radio silence.
Great read.
Rod Fergusson, one of the original creators behind Gears, said the name change at BlackTusk was a decision by leadership at the studio. There's no reason to believe he's lying about that.
I am puzzled, who "loved" kinect?
Make Xbox Great Again
Trump 2016
I am puzzled, who "loved" kinect?
At this point we all know it's coming Q1 2016 on PC.
I wish them luck, it's not going to be easy to convince PC gamers with a remake of an eight years old game that will in all likelyhood not look better than it does on Xbox One which released in August 2015.
I like Gears but no way I'm paying 40€ for a straight port months later. Too little too late.
The Kinect sold over 20 million or something, right? And consumers had a positive reaction to the media streaming abilities of the 360, so a logical jump was to include all of cable TV in that package. The cloud is a logical extension of the boom of online multiplayer gaming last gen.Fucking hell, do your research. None of those things were beloved.
ReCore, at its heart, harks back to a different era in gaming," Pacini says, "and trying to put a new spin on it, based on games that myself and Inafune-san have done in the past that arent really being done anymore." He name-drops games like Metroid and Zelda as possible inspirations.
On Quantum Break said:The story lives in a high-brow, low-brow greyzone, somewhere between the films of Christopher Nolan and Roland Emmerich.
Most games entering the Xbox ones are rapist, murderers and some I assume are decent games.
In theory, the Xbox One was an improvement on everything fans loved about the Xbox 360: a more powerful Kinect, new hardware that merged the console with your cable box
Considering Microsoft's overall company strategy since Nadella took the reins, this seems incongruous. I have a feeling the rest of the company might not agree with Phil on this. GaaS seems like the most likely next step for Xbox.
Multi-platform titles banned from entering Xbox ecosystem until Microsoft representatives can "figure out what's going on"
this will not be the case probably by spring, if not already. we know MS had 16M shipped up through recently.. so assuming say 1.5-2M by the end of the year, and knowing that outside of holiday XBONE is selling worse than 360, they will end this year at just about even, and 360 will have pulled ahead within the first few months of 2016 when (in 2008) 360 was selling around .5M every month outside of summer.Yes. Not ridiculously. It never was. But it's still ahead of the 360 sales curve.
Making better games is part of the equation, but there's no denying that they still have a bit of an image problem that they need to rectify. The PS3 didn't have an image problem so much as a pricing problem, so they didn't really need to tout how they've turned the ship around; just announcing price drops and hardware revisions was enough.Ok... -_-
2nd thread.. No big deal.
But like, what are they losing specifically? I just don't remember Sony being this.... Vocal constantly when they were losing one whole generation in America on how they were going to make the PS3 better again. I remember it only being talked about after the hacks.
Regardless like, ugh, this is annoying for me. Microsoft just needs to make better games and that's it. Get more color and creativity. Get abstract and weird... Tbh, Microsoft really only has America and that's who they should make sure feels right. The rest of the world doesn't care and they shouldn't waste money fighting for it... Reach out but focus on what they are strong at and it's here.
Most games entering the Xbox ones are rapist, murderers and some I assume are decent games.
This article really talks up Shannon Loftis. I hope she delivers and gets more new IPs from independent developers.
Most games entering the Xbox ones are rapist, murderers and some I assume are decent games.
Most games entering the Xbox ones are rapist, murderers and some I assume are decent games.
I am puzzled, who "loved" kinect?
Make Xbox Great Again
Trump 2016
Is this real posts? Perhaps you need to check sales thread if it is.
I'm not referring to the name. Didn't they go from developing a new IP to a Gears-only studio now?
Thats when the Microsoft Studios mothership presented it with a unique scenario and a difficult choice.
"We could continue working on the IP we were working on," Crump says. "Or we had the opportunity to take on Gears of War."
"Microsoft was in discussions with Epic," Crump says. He and other senior members of Black Tusk assembled to discuss the studio's future. "We were hugely invested in what we were working on. You dont spend a year and a half working on a game without getting attached to it. There was a lot of discussion."
The committee understood that not everyone at the studio would react positively to the change. "Id be lying if I said there werent some people on the team who were disappointed when they found out the thing theyd been working on for so long was going to be shelved," Crump says. "If youve been in the game industry long enough, youre going to go through project cancellations. People go through this period of mourning a bit. You have to give them that space and time to go through that, the sense of loss that people have around something theyre invested in."
But according to Crump, in the end, the final decision was a "no-brainer."
"We went around the table and everybody was in favor of going for Gears of War." On Friday, January 21, 2014, Crump, former General Manager Hanno Lemke and the management team announced to the studio that its in-development project would be canceled, and Black Tusk would immediately transition toward Gears of War.
I'm not referring to the name. Didn't they go from developing a new IP to a Gears-only studio now?
It's kind of random that both The Verge and Kotatu would release articles about this narrative at the same time.
I hope that as well. I guess the proof is in the pudding, and so far 2016 looks pretty good. We'll have to wait for 2017 and beyond to really gauge how well she has done.
Wow Microsoft Xbox One PR coming at full force. This and Kotaku. Anyone sense incoming damage control? I guess they got news that they lost November NPD.
They really need to let the surface team design the nextbox.
Wow Microsoft Xbox One PR coming at full force. This and Kotaku. Anyone sense incoming damage control? I guess they got news that they lost November NPD.
What? He is right, it is outselling Xbox 360 and it will ve 299$ this holiday so >20m by year´s end is doable and those are good numbers.
Wow Microsoft Xbox One PR coming at full force. This and Kotaku. Anyone sense incoming damage control? I guess they got news that they lost November NPD.
This post is all sorts of LOLWow Microsoft Xbox One PR coming at full force. This and Kotaku. Anyone sense incoming damage control? I guess they got news that they lost November NPD.
Not when there is an obvious reason behind it.
This post is all sorts of LOL
frankly we don't even know that.
I did. Use the voice commands daily and some of the functionality is great. Nephews/Nieces enjoyed playing Kinect games as well.