Miles Quaritch
Member
You won't find anyone who disagrees with any of that.
They might also want to boot the walking curse out with Mattrick as well.
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Military personnel on Xbox One; Microsoft responds
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You won't find anyone who disagrees with any of that.
They might also want to boot the walking curse out with Mattrick as well.
I can't give everyone a $5 gift certificate if everyone is going to bet against me.
Okay, here's the bet.
NPD data combined for November and December, whichever console is higher. Period.
I'll wear any avatar you guys want.
razgriz417
Member
Last night's Giantbomb live show, the link below should start right before Adam Boyes takes out the PS4
http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/b/416674255?t=204m40s
edit: beaten
pretty sure 360 surpassed Wii last year. there was a thread about it.
If you want that then just go all digital.
Every game is obviously going to be day and date digital on PS4/Xbone regardless.
Beautiful. I lol'd.
Paper Sparrow
Member
First college students, now the military. It's like they are committing suicide.
MorisUkunRasik
Member
MS will have a hard time even manufacturing enough Xbone to match Sony that soon after launch. Sony could easily sell 2-3 times as many console in the first 2 months if they launch within a week or so of each other.
You're crazy.
Duane Cunningham
Member
Heh, coincidentally, I was just thinking about how odd it was that later today I plan to leave work where I'm a designer for a clothing company, go home and drop the mortgage payment in the mail, do a little yard work... then play some Animal Crossing in which I'll do the exact same tasks.
gaming_noob
Member
I know brah..not aiming it at you. I just feel like ranting. I supported them for so long...
Xplatformer
Member
Me. 6 month self ban on this site. I'll ask a mod to enforce.
You seem pretty confident. The loser gets banned from posting for six months.
I will. Any bet you want, and I'm even OK with NPD as long as the launch prices don't change.
razgriz417
Member
Has this been posted? Michael Pachter on CNBC talking about the winners of E3 but the interesting thing is that the hosts of the show are highlighting MS' restrictions, looks like the messaging is spreading
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100816846
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100816846
College Students? What did they do to them now!? lol
NullPointer
Member
Its better in video form.Oh my god if it's true!
WoW !
If I were American, I would be more concerned about counterfeit parts in my equipment than not being able to play my favourite video game during off-time. Then again, the average US soldier probably spends a lot more time playing video games than fighting (which I hope is the case, combat destroys people) so it's understandable.
Yes, this is an incendinary argument. I feel obliged to point it out anyway.
Yes, this is an incendinary argument. I feel obliged to point it out anyway.
Wow MS must be drunk at the wheel. Seriously, I wonder how the fuck they decided this was a good idea. I would love to hear that pitch, lol.
When I was in college I had to register the MAC address of my router rather than my computer so I could play on their network, but I wasn't actually allowed to do that. Most people I knew didn't have their consoles connected to the internet, they didn't know how to get around it or didn't bother.
fart town usa
Member
I did read your post.
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Don't take this as a personal attack but you sound like a Sony fanboy back in 2006 or a Nintendo fanboy when the PSX was released.
Before most Americans owned a 360 they owned a ps2 and I'm guessing in a year that most Americans who own a ps4 also owned a 360...
How about the Wii? Most people didn't jump on board with the wiiU... Console dominance isn't set in stone.
SolarPowered
Member
Man, Sony needs to have their manufacturing process up and running in a serious way. At this point every day the PS4 isn't out is a day missed to bury Microsoft for the remainder of this generation.
Once people get a taste of regular good old fashioned console gaming without crazy DRM and kinect spy cameras they'll never even consider Microsoft's ultra tight ecosystem. PS4 needs to be out by early October at the latest to bury the hatchet.
Once people get a taste of regular good old fashioned console gaming without crazy DRM and kinect spy cameras they'll never even consider Microsoft's ultra tight ecosystem. PS4 needs to be out by early October at the latest to bury the hatchet.
I think there's quite a few colleges that don't allow the Xbox to communicate to LIVE in the dorm rooms. Not sure how prevalent this is.
famousmortimer
Banned
Evidently alot colleges block xbox live and the psn on their networks.
I'm too old to know that first hand
Offline, small, lightweight, no large required accessories, no powerbrick.
Sony should just donate a ton to the military.
Wh... this is just the shell, right? The actual PS4 can't be THAT light, right?!
From what I understand America is very military focused. For headlines to say "This company does not care about the military" is probably huge.
Probably every extended family has an uncle or cousin somehow involved in military, doesn't have to be active deployment. And those families then wont get an XOne because they dont support the military = they dont support their family
I know it sounds absurd but thats my take from this.
1.21Gigawatts
Banned
Microsoft will change their anti-consumer policies. They must do.
They can't. Pachter said it in an interview. They designed the Xbox so that it is dependent on that stuff.
For example if you play Halo and say "Xbox, play Fifa", it can instatntly switch to Fifa. Therefore the game has to be completely on the HDD, because it has to work without the disc inside the console.
So, if they paddle back and let you lend your games and play offline and stuff, people would just install their games on the HDD and give away the disc. Since the console isn't online MS can't do shit about it.
They would have to take away those "instant" features, but I don't think they want to do that.
A lot of dorms don't let you connect a console to the schools Internet.
spookyfish
Member
So much this.
Pretty sure that's referring to whether it will work in other countries, not disabling the 24 hour check.
Me, easily. You have been around long enough, and i know ive been around long enough to see hubris bite multiple previous gen forerunners in the ass. You are saying almost word for word similar lines about ps3 coming off of ps 2 and nintendo a couple times. I dont have much faith in gamers as a whole but bad rep and word of mouth can be a hell of a thing if snowballed. And in MS case that snowball is the size of Texas right now. Even PS 3 did not receive this level shalacking, and on an emotional level for many at that.
Oh my god if it's true!
WoW !
Yeup, that's legit.
MicroSoft's Xbone has, quite fucking literally, become a joke.
You can't even make this shit up anymore.
First Surface. Then Windows 8. Now, the Xbone.
Cornbread78
Member
even if you were joking, dat shit ain't funny...
Felix Lighter
Member
I think the next big specific angle will be telling parents that their kids won't be able lend/borrow games from their friends or relatives.
Offline, small, lightweight, no large required accessories, no powerbrick.
Sony should just donate a ton to the military.
wait, the PS4 doesnt have a powerbrick? does that mean the unit will overheat?
Cue Sony dropping 10 PS4s with an assortment of games at a bunch of US Army bases at launch.
During WW2, the then president of Coke declared that whatever it took, they were going to get Coke to the guys at the front, even when everyone else was pulling back.
Wherever the US Army went so did Coke.
Unsurprisingly, a whole bunch of guys came home from the various theaters with a loyalty to the company for being there with them.
They probably thought about that. I mean, maybe.
Off-Kilter
Banned
So did those other Microsoft PR folks really just reiterate the "sucks for you, get a 360" line?
And Maddow is in on this too?
Goddamn.
And Maddow is in on this too?
Goddamn.
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#FuckoffMicrosoft
The games they've shown are great and all, but fuck off Microsoft. Not supporting the troops and at least accommodating them is such utter shit.
The ps4 is a better fit for a larger demographic, literally, than the Xbone is. Microsoft as a company, to purposely cut off markets, is a first in my mind. It would be different if they said "we are equally supporting our 360 with content, just look at it since Gears/Halo4.. " then people would be comfortable with the knowledge that MS isn't going to just go all Xbox1, but no.. thats not the case either. The 360's dried up.
The same reasons youre saying ps4 is better for deployment, are the same reasons people are making that choice in their living rooms. Identical reasons. There are no consumer side advantages to what microsoft is offering for your gaming solution. Its like they didn't even factor in the consumer whilst coming up with these policies(Which they haven't, as they can't speak coherently about them.)
Microsoft was too stupid to realize that there would be these questions. Which just paints a picture of what they thought, the market was. I don't buy the 'buh buh' wait game. Microsoft, much like their paid shills here, thought that the thing was Identical to steam, and that gamers wouldn't care. Gigantic misstep.
They are betting on people that aren't concerned with the gaming industry/fellow opportunity for gaming(making bigger communities), that simply "Don't Care." about their policies (when the competition no where in gaming is doing so). That is pretty bold if you ask me. With the media coverage, consumers WILL be educated. MS is willing to bet that the number of people that don't care about their restrictions, in the United states and selected areas with internet, alone, are going to be enough to keep them afloat until they can expand into markets they already had.
EU's going to be PS4's, parts of the US are going to be PS4, as well as internationally, PS4. Just based on the % of available countries. This means publishers have larger numbers of customers available to the PS4. MS did so well last gen, but this is one that they just shot in the face with all their self-imposed restricted market.
Even that is a pretty bad solution. It means the Xbox One at the base can only play games that were released while the Xbox One was back in the US, so the games can be authenticated. New game comes out? Gotta fly that Xbox One back to the US, register the game, fly it back to base. Really thoughtful of them.