Mobile & Apps: "Internet Explorer 9 is finally usable by everyone who owns an Xbox 360. The recent Dashboard update brought quite a few things to the table, but the most apparent feature, is that of Microsoft's long running Web browser."
The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.
Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)
Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke
Really good video.
I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.
Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.
Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue
I found this video painful to watch. Can someone list them out?
Top 10 for me from are:
1. 2013 reveal presentation
2. Bundling Kinect 2 with Xbox One
3. RRoD or why rushing to market with hardware is always a bad idea.
4. Buying studios only to close them.
5. Ads on the Home Screen
6. Letting Halo die.
7. Letting Geard of War die.
8. Every console name
9. Charging for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 when Sony let PS3 players play online for free.
10. Cancelling release of OG Xbox games after the Xbox 360 launched.
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
"There are quite a few good things about this browser, but compared to say, the PlayStation 3's Internet browser, Internet Explorer 9 falls a bit short."
It took MS all this time to implement a simple and common feature among all electronic devices and this is what they come up with? The PS3 browser isn't the best but I thought a software giant like MS would do better but obviously I was wrong.
Also, what's the point of using Kinect if you have to pick up the controller to type any text to go to websites and whatnot?
The thing about the Xbox browser is that it is extremely limited. Literally, it's only use is to browse a standard web page. This may be enough for some people but the PS3's 6 year old browser still beats it.
On IE you cannot:
1. View any type of flash content e.g video or games
2. Download any type of media e.g videos, music, themes etc
3. No Dropbox support
The PS3's browser can do all these things. In my opinion I would have to say this is a very poor imitation of a browser that is designed just so the new dashboard update can be seen as "worth while".
As an option, Internet Explorer on Xbox 360 succeeds, but I question how often people will use it? Owning all three current generation consoles, I don't think I've used a console based browser the entire time. Still, how can one fault something that is an added option?
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