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Mad Box Final Design Chosen by Ian Bell

Today the company’s CEO seems to have decided what the final look of the platform will be.

Crazyglues1968d ago

Ok this just got really interesting, that design looks amazing, I'm not even going to lie.... wow

darthv721968d ago

I mean... it's a neat mock-up but they couldn't even pencil in where they think the ports and connections are going to be? External power brick perhaps?

Elwenil1968d ago

Are you kidding? It looks like it was designed by the same asshole that designs those triple-decker wings for import cars.

KickSpinFilter1968d ago

Are you referring to rice burners?

Elwenil1968d ago

@KickSpinFilter,

Well, some people refer to imports with that name, but having built pretty much everything automotive except a street rod or a motorcycle, I prefer to just leave it at import since I like just about all types of vehicles. But that said, anything can be taken too far and some of the wings and body kits that were designed at the height of the import craze were beyond stupid, but I have seen things just as ugly for Mustangs and similar domestic cars.

jelloaceomega1968d ago (Edited 1968d ago )

Who knows people bought in to the DXracer gaming chairs fad, and the ergonomics is not even really design for long hours, and its just fancier office chair.

Elwenil1968d ago

@jelloaceomega,

I actually own a DXRacer chair, but it's a Classic Series, which is an actual desk chair and not one of the Sparco knock-offs mounted on casters.

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Christopher1968d ago

You guys are giving way too much attention to what could come out like the Ouya.

King_Noctis1967d ago

Fail or succeed, I think most people are just happy that we might see the emergence of a fourth alternative.

Fanboys on the other hand...

porkChop1967d ago

It's definitely going to fail. All it has going for it is apparently power. It won't have much first party support, and it won't be cheap.

kneon1967d ago

@King_Noctis

Adding yet another platform isn't really beneficial. If the big developers really do support it then that just makes games even more expensive to produce, every platform added increases the costs, and we know who ends up paying for that. If a new platform could broaden the market so that they could sell more then those costs would be covered, but I doubt that adding yet another platform is going to do that in any meaningful way, if it sells it's just going to sell to the same group of people that already play on one or more of the other platforms.

rainslacker1967d ago

That just makes the failure all the more impressive.

Although, I'm still not sure what this "console" is supposed to be. Would be interesting if they actually make it into a viable, competitive console. But knowing most things like this with such ambition, it'll be too niche, and likely not go anywhere.

If it ends up being like the PC-Engine was though, it could be a nice little system with some decent support you don't see elsewhere, but so far, this dev hasn't seem to really be in tune with how to make a consumer level product that can be mainstream enough to be successful.

anonymousfan1967d ago (Edited 1967d ago )

That box is gonna need one hell of a secret sauce to e even get mediocre sales once it hits the market but I am intrigued. I wish them success and in the meantime I'll sit back pull out a long chair and a cold one.

whothedog1967d ago

Remember Steam Machines, it is going to go that route.

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Relientk771968d ago

I like the design, looks cool.

kneon1967d ago

I think it looks cheesy. But more importantly, this is all just marketing, you don't design the case until you know what's going in it.

neocores80551967d ago

But how.. When xbox X dev kits were shown people freaked seeing the LED screen on front lol. Now its a problem because its not from a main company

Vits1968d ago

That is a far better design than the other one.
But, I'm still skeptical about the console overall.

Neonridr1968d ago (Edited 1968d ago )

Pretty sleek looking machine. Love that the front of the unit is a screen that displays what you are currently doing.

staticall1968d ago

What is the official currency of Mad Box - Madbux?

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Every PlayStation Studios game available now on Windows PC

Windows Central writes: "Many PlayStation Studios games that are ported to PC get dedicated PS5 DualSense support, which allows users to experience haptic feedback and adaptive trigger support without actually having to own a PS5.

According to Hermen Hulst, head of PlayStation Studios, it's still the company's intent to launch the bigger single-player games on PS5 first, before later bringing the games to PC. This might not be the case for multiplayer games however, which are considered okay to launch simultaneously on console and PC."

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ocelot0714h ago

My guess is after god of war. Probably last of us 2 that's a almost 4 year old game now and by the time it's released on pc it will be more than 4 years old or close to 5.

Elda8h ago

Every old Playstation game that is now on PC.

XiNatsuDragnel7h ago

Good at least they can sell hardware

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Days Gone Director Says Bend's Project Costs Over $250M; Says PS Co-CEO Doesn't Want 2 Zombies Games

Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.

shinoff21831d 3h ago

Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player

MrNinosan12h ago

What online trash games did PS Studios release last 10 years?

Notellin10h ago

The past has nothing to do with the future. This is such a terrible argument. Everyone knows about their current live service push.

_SilverHawk_9h ago

It's so tragic what happened to days gone. It is such an amazing game but bandwagoners trashed it and it underperformed in it's launch year. Days gone is the best open world zombie game released in the past five years. I was recently playing it on pc and I'm still amazed by it.

Games are very expensive to make and it seems like it's normal for a AAA game to cost over a quarter billion to make so if a quality game like days gone greatly underperforms then people shouldn't be upset when they see a lot of GAAS. I still remember a lot of bandwagoners calling days gone trash but years later it's now amazing when it's considered a failure by sony.

If a game isn't the best thing seen since hats with pockets then a lot of gamers who haven't played it automatically calls it rubbish and whoever made it should be incarcerated

Cacabunga8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Co CEO prefers gamers to boycott.. so be it. I’ll never buy a gaas.
Just imagine buying a game you cannot replay in some years.. this shit must stop.

Days Gone did zombies in a very original way. The story was also so engaging. You actually only meet Zombie hordes later in the game. There are many more enemy groups to deal with.

MrNinosan6h ago

@Notelin
I am one of the few who bought Days Gone on release day and loved it completely.
However, "more online trash" is phrased like Sony has put out alot of trash online games.
We got what, 2 games? Helldivers 2 and GT7, 2 of the most sold Playstation games where both is loved by millions.

You, me and especially shinoff has no idea if Fairgames, Marathon and Concord will be trash.

Just because we (as in you and me) don't love or support online games, doesn't mean millions of other do.

And we don't know what Bend Studio is working with? We don't know if they're forced to make a online game or another amazing single player experience.

The only thing we do know is that it's not Days Gone, sadly due to poor sales the first 6 months.

shinoff21834h ago(Edited 4h ago)

More online trash wasmt meant how insee it comes across. I should've worded it different I was meaning the focus they currently have on it.

Anything online is online trash to me. How long did naughty dog spend on that dumba last of us multiplayer, how about Concord, or even the other couple we hear about. I fk with Sony because rpgs and their 1st party single player games. Been like that for years. I hate seeing them waste time, money, and talent on trash. I understand bot every game is gonna be for me but this focus they've seem to had on multiplayer is extremely disheartening. Even at the state of play the only things I was really feeling were Astrobot and silent hill 2 and I'm content with that, not everything is for me. It's just the online focus I hate. Ms bought up 3 to 4 wrpgs developers, Sony just ignores rpgs 1st party wise.

And a days gone 2 would've been much better then whatever online sht bend is working on. I do know sometimes I get very idk emotional. I do need to work on toning that down a bit lol

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-Foxtrot1d 3h ago

It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.

NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.

ThinkThink19h ago

Here's where xbox steps in and releases state of decay 3 day and date on ps5.

shinoff21834h ago

I mean it's not out of the realm of possibility at this point.

Grilla12h ago

Days gone 2 was canceled before Herman was in charge. That happened like 4 years ago.

vfl52311h ago

4 years ago he was head of Playstation Studios. He would've probably had a hand in the cancelation.

Notellin10h ago

Man two seconds of research could have saved you from this comment. Amazing work Grilla you fit in with the uniformed N4G community who speaks before verifying anything that they say.

Redemption-649h ago

Maybe encourage people to buy the game at full price and not when it's heavily discounted or go on plus. If this game had sold well when it was full priced a sequel would have been in the works. They made a single-player game that most people didn't support until they dropped the price.

Cacabunga7h ago

The guy’s just a moron.. he should have stayed within game development. His choices will have a terrible impact on the brand in the long run.

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excaliburps13h ago

Yep. Kind of weird since it wasn't a sales flop, no?

I know we have to take what Ross says with a grain of salt since we're hearing just one side of the story, but even so, the game wasn't bad at all. Heck, it's my brother's favorite last-gen game from what I recall.

The amount of zombies on screen, imagine that with the PS5 and SSD? That would be insanely fun!

Grilla12h ago

Most copies were sold on sale. Not enough ppl bought it at full price. I paid 20$ for it 6 -7 months after release.

Notellin10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

Yeah we should never believe the creators side until we hear the corporate/big business side as history has shown we should always believe billion dollar corporations.

What a bootlicker statement.

derek6h ago

@Notellin, of course you'll believe an embittered ex-employee with an axe to grind because it's evil Sony he's complaining about. You guys act like days gone was this huge success and somehow Sony hates easy money a sequel would have generated. The game was mid and so was the response to it. They're still supporting the developer who is making a new ip that could be great.

shinoff21834h ago

Days gone was fantastic. I bought day one but didn't get around to it for months. When I finally did I was pissed at myself for waiting so long lol

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P_Bomb12h ago

Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.

CrimsonWing6912h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!

rippermcrip9h ago

Well consider they know the sales... they do know what the consumer wants.

It sold shit.

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

But if it’s true what this guy says it sold better than Death Stranding

Yet that got a sequel and Kojima aside out of them both DS didn’t really NEED a sequel compared to Days Gone which ended on such a cliff hanger twist.

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Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie

Former Activision studio Toys for Bob partners with Xbox to publish its first game as an indie. This is something of a homecoming, as Microsoft owns Activision.

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Obscure_Observer1d 1h ago

Very very early in development. Still, fantastic news!

Let´s GO!!!

Lightning7723h ago

I guess.

How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )

At least it wouldn't be MS of all ppl destroying them.

MS really should let go Tango go like they did TFB here.

darthv7223h ago(Edited 23h ago)

one was under Bethesda (Tango) the other under Activision (TFB). Clearly each one handled the separations of their subordinates differently.

Obscure_Observer22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

"How come they didnt either let them go or sell Tango and others to another publisher? Not saying Ubisoft, EA would be any better. (Capcome would of treated them right )"

Perhaps because Zenimax and ABK handles such matters differently based on their own internal policies as "independent" publishers.

Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future. Which could also be the reason why they ensured an exclusive partnership with TFB and its new game, before anyone else.

Sad and disgusting. But it is what it is.

Lightning7718h ago(Edited 18h ago)

"Whoever, chances are it´s simply because MS didn´t wanted Tango or Austin to be acquired by competitors and develop new bangers for them, giving MS a bad rep in a possible future."

MS has a bad rep now because those studios are no more. I rather them sell the studio continue to make multiplatform releases, while MS continues to focus on whatever they're doing. If they didn't want Tango around they should separated from them or sell them to, like they did TFB.

It's inexcusable, they have options on how to handle studios they don't want anymore with killing jobs. Not just MS but the rest of the industry also.

Sad and disgusting sure how many will get shut down next year or this year even?

I don't trust MS decisions and motivations at this point. You have to admit they make one dumb move after another.

Obscure_Observer11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

"MS has a bad rep now because those studios are no more. I rather them sell the studio continue to make multiplatform releases, while MS continues to focus on whatever they're doing. If they didn't want Tango around they should separated from them or sell them to, like they did TFB."

Imo, MS separated from TFB because they didn´t had a game associated with Xbox yet, unlike Tango.

"I don't trust MS decisions and motivations at this point. You have to admit they make one dumb move after another."

Fair enough. It was indeed an epic dumb move from them to close Tango.

Still, all to be forgotten, like always have. This is not the first time a big publisher shuts down a beloved and/or successful studio out of nowhere and certainly won´t be the last. Do you remember Lionhead? Do you remember Evolution Studios? Yeah... both were beloved studios and yet, those companies kill those studios in q blink of an eye and got away with it.

anast8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

The studio boss made some money from this transaction. Once the game releases, the studio will get chopped up.

-Foxtrot1d 1h ago

Manages to buy their freedom especially after all the shit Microsoft has been doing with its studios lately

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Goes right back to them as partners.

Okaaaaaay...

darthv7223h ago

Id venture a guess that TFB working directly with MS was a better outcome than working through Activision to get to MS.

VersusDMC21h ago

From the article...

"Toys for Bob spun out as an indie back in February after Microsoft instituted sweeping layoffs that impacted 86 employees, which was more than half of the staff"

I doubt those 86 employees enjoyed the Microsoft experience over Activisions.

Inverno20h ago

MS shuts down studios because of lack of resources and then helps these guys by giving em resources. Also MS is what forced them to buy their freedom in the first place? What kind of logic 😂

Chevalier17h ago

The best thing is that the company that is worth $3 trillion and owns the company instead of Xbox lacks resources. How the hell does a company worth $3 trillion making a measly $70 billion purchase they 'can't' support. Lol

Sciurus_vulgaris23h ago(Edited 23h ago)

Xbox’s gaming division seems to still function as 3 semi-autonomous sub-divisions, Xbox Studios, Bethesda and ABK. The three main sub-divisions can seemingly shut down or build studios and set up partnerships independently. This would explain why Bethesda can recently shutdown studios, while ABK spins off one studio, while building a new one. Plus, Toys for Bob could be spun off by ABK, only to immediately re-partner with Microsoft.

Chevalier17h ago

That's absolutely 💯 BS. Any sane 'autonomous' company would NOT put their games on Gamepass day 1 like COD will lose probably billions.

Also they're all under Xbox game studios so any autonomy is an illusion.

PhillyDonJawn5h ago

No, I'm sure MS can and does step in when they want something done specifically but I'm also sure they let them also work independently

Elda17h ago

Either a kiddie game or something uninteresting.

Obscure_Observer11h ago

Don´t worry. You won´t be playing it anyway since their next game will possible be a next gen Xbox console game.

PhillyDonJawn5h ago

Right probably something like astrobot

romulus234h ago

Nah he said "uninteresting", lots of people are interested in Astro Bot.

Elda2h ago

Never Astro Bot. Astro Bot looks better than any exclusive released on XB this entire generation & believe there hasn't been much.

Asplundh2h ago

Crash 4 was good, so I'm hopeful.

PhillyDonJawn53m ago

Hey you said that about SOT and looks like many ppl on PS is playing it. You also found bugsnax interesting ffs your opinion hold no weight lol.

Elda28m ago(Edited 23m ago)

Bugsnax is BS, tried it & quickly deleted it. It's a game that fits right on Gamepass. PS5 owners that are probably playing the boring SOT you could count on one hand. LMAO!!...don't try to come for me.

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