Gucci Messiah
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I had no idea PS4 and XBO were out yet
Microsoft cancels post-E3 media roundtable
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I had no idea PS4 and XBO were out yet
famousmortimer
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Competition is a good thing.
We all have our preferences and mine is Sony (though i do spend an absurd amount of money on the 360 and wii/wiiu) but there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Sony as of this moment is WORLDS better than Sony of six years ago and that's because Nintendo and MS ate their lunch. They came off the ps2, the most popular console ever, and thought they could do no wrong. Turns out they could.
MS will learn from this as well and be a better company for it. It's just a matter of when. Doesn't seem to be happening soon.
Waldo Lydecker
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My paintshop skills are bad but this pic just cries for cernyfication of kazification....
Fushichou187
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The problem with no.2 is if Sony comes out and all their answers are pretty much everything we want to hear or somewhat close, Microsoft will be dead in the water. How can they spin it back in their favor? I think they are in a lot of trouble. Maybe Bill Gates needs to come out of retirement and tell Norman Osborn to take it back to formula.
Yoda
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With the amount of bad PR swirling around Microsoft it's actually kind of hard to pinpoint what pushed them over the edge to where they didn't want to take questions from the media. Sure one on one interviews haven't been cancelled yet, but what happens when they are with journalists like Geoff or Ryan from GT? They will get softball questions which they can basically give pseudo advertisement responses too.
Just my opinion but I feel this is going to do more harm then good for them, even if they are holding strong on the DRM front.
Just my opinion but I feel this is going to do more harm then good for them, even if they are holding strong on the DRM front.
something fishy
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TheClimaxan
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This. Their PR department apparently is run by a bunch of drunk farm animals
There would be plenty of companies willing to step into the breach.
That green screen in background. Makes so much sense lol.
Rogue_Ledr
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This is clearly being done so they can avoid questions about things like "always online, uswed games, etc.". M$ clearly wants to keep the truth concealed about this console.
something fishy
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Yu really think a cancelled meeting means nerd rage defeated a company worth billions?
semiconscious
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...Sony could just flip the script and out Microsoft for pulling these shenanigans.
Sarcasm, I believe.
Fox Mulder
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who? I don't think there's a line of companies eager to jump in to the industry.
MS worked their asses off to compete with the playstation brand, and their presence really whipped Sony's arrogant asses in shape this gen. MS has lost their focus, and there's going to be a strong gaming focused ps4 to capitalize.
MS will not come back if Xbone flops. It's the only prediction I am almost certain about.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
The latter seems more likely since Sony has already said that you can use the PS4 "old school" style without an internet connection. Which seems like the opposite design decision that Microsoft has taken with the Xbox One.
But I guess we'll know soon enough. I still think Microsoft is going to avoid talking about it at all, since it can only be perceived as a negative to the consumer. There is no positive way or reason to talk about it during the actual conference, unless it's to say "And you can play used games just like you did with your 360, free of charge." Anything else looks bad, no matter what. Consumers don't give a shit about stopping piracy, we're not going to see cheaper games DRM or not.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Disgusting if publishers actively took money to not even have their games on the show floor.
Rogue_Ledr
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Sadly, M$ has enough monet to survive 10 Xbox flops and more.
IdiotMyshkin
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God I wish they would
DoDonGouki
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ask ask!!
Jack Random
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Nailed it, people seem to forget this is what happened
Ofcourse they could easily continue after several flops, but it's Microsoft, they would much rather just give up with it if it failed.
Huggers
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what the fuck are they playing at!!?
Don't be so melodramatic. The XBO is not going to flop. And if it does, MS will not give up on owning the living room.
flamingotripod
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Sony came back from their horrible PS3 debut, why won't Microsoft in the future?
While that may be true, there was already talk of selling off the Xbox division before the thought of the Xbone. I don't think the Xbox brand stays under the Microsoft umbrella if the Xbone flops.
Rogue_Ledr
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Xbox has never made them money; unlike Sony with PlayStation, they do not need Xbox to survive. If Xbone bombs they will not try again, they'll just cut their losses and consolidate the business to their core products. There's already internal pressure to do it.
Not as a full-blown gaming console, maybe. They won't give up the fight for the living room though.
DC1
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HERE HERE!!
ignoring bad net/ gamer press. by ignoring gamers and game related media, and that..
I think this is right. The Xbone is the make or break moment for the program.
Miles Quaritch
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I'm repeating myself, but do we know who they'll be inviting to these one on one interviews?
If not, when are we likely to find out? After the interview or what?
If not, when are we likely to find out? After the interview or what?
It's not melodrama, it's a pretty obvious extrapolation from the way they've treated their previous market failures. They tried with Zune for a while and killed it when it became clear it wasn't working.
And I'm talking about if Xbone WiiU's here, not if they're as successful as, say, 360.
Fonz72
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Perhaps the parent company, but not the gaming division. The success of the 360 really may prove to have been a fluke. Look how poorly they handled GFWL and gaming in Windows 8. There are obviously some very poor decision makers in that company when it comes to DRM.
Fox Mulder
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that just feels like a sign of the poor health of industry. Sure, we'll take your free money to not show off our games at an expo dedicated to just that.
Regardless of what happens, there's still plenty of time until launch to show off demos and trailers of games for both consoles. Might as well take the money.
Looks like they've lost it. Sadly.
Unless the interviewers choose to announce it somewhere beforehand I doubt we will know.
With a week away from E3, they have to have those interviews set in stone already. The mayhem usually starts 4 weeks prior to the show.
I wonder why Kotaku, Polygon and so on are so quiet about the cancelled post-E3 round table? Haven't read a thing on their pages yet.