Xbox One: Focus On Games Not The Key To Winning

Though the Xbox One’s reveal event itself wasn't the most entertaining or impressive, there is one area that could have Microsoft’s Xbox One come out a winner this generation.

[dedicatedtogamers]

If the focus on games isn't the key to winning, then does any gamer want Xbone to win?

Say what you will about the 7th gen's winner (the Wii), but it did focus on GAMES. Granted, the library on the Wii was not everyone's cup of tea; I can respect that. But the focus was on games nonetheless.

[Prophet-Gamer]

People will buy it because all they want is Sports and CoD and they know Xbox. That's what MS is counting on. The real core gamers looking for games will move to PS4, unless they're fanboys of course. Outside of that, banking on the casual audience is a pretty big risk imo. They could buy or they could just as likely grow and brain and not fall for MS' trap.

[Ausbo]

Hahaha. why do you put such general statements out there saying "The real core gamers looking for games will move to the Ps4, unless they're fanboys of course". Do we all have to like the same console as you? Are we not real gamers if we choose xbox and aren't fanboys?

Bottom line is i prefer the xbox cause i love the controller and xbox live and they have satisfied me with enough games in the past. However, how could you say that xbox won't have "real gamer" games 6 months before launch and before we have seen what they have to offer at e3?

You sound more of a fanboy with these stupid comments.

Why should we be forced to like the same console as you?

Oh and by the way, I hate COD and the only sports game i like is the nhl series

[MikeMyers]

You can still have a console that focuses on games and other things too. The Xbox 360 had over 900 games, I would tend to think it's main function was a game platform. I doubt the Xbox One won't have tons of games as well. Just because they are getting partnership deals with cable companies doesn't mean it won't be a game console. Games reach into the hundreds of millions of people, cable reaches into the billions. So does Facebook and Skype. It's no wonder they are branching out. Why market games to just a hundred million people when you can try and get a billion people to play games?

Why don't people just wait before over-reacting? You have months before you decide whether to buy one or not.

[HammadTheBeast]

Sigh.

It's not even the games that I care about.

Its the huge anti consumer focus. Basically **** your fanbase, and go arms wide open for this massive audience of idiots.

Football loving, TV watching, too lazy to pick up a remoting, dudebro's is the audience of the Xbox One.

So they can stop pretending to be a games console, and start speaking the truth.

[S2Killinit]

I think you are misunderstanding. I don't think anybody in their right mind is arguing that Xboxone wont have games. The problem is the focus of the company. They are turning this ship away from gamers and focusing more and more to casuals, kinect players (that's arguable, since what if they can actually make AAA core gaming w kinect? I doubt it but we will see) and basically everybody's uncle who don't particularly play games. Then they will have to cater to this larger audience, leaving gamers with remakes of a few AAA games and a bunch of applications instead of new games. Look at what happened with 360, they pretty much stopped catering to core gamers from the second half of the generation to focus on casuals. When the xbox one was revealed, they inadvertently showed their hands (not thinking about exactly how dissapointed the core gamers had been) regarding the future of the console's focus. These core gamers were expecting Microsoft to excite them again, to tell them everything was fine and xbox hadn't lost it's focus. Instead they got the company's future plans. So dont get me wrong, MS will come out guns blazing with games at E3. But they have pulled this stunt before, when the 360 was launched. They will have games only so long as they need gamers to adopt their machine, and then they will go back to their game plan: casuals (where MS believes the money is)

[Tacklebait]

I agree. People are over reacting. The features of the xbox one shown so far may be trivial to some but will appeal to a large audience.

I'm praying that on June 10th microsoft will shine in the gaming department. Then I will be more open to the bashing of the xbox one if they fail to deliver.

I'll be buying a ps4, I just want a good reason to buy the xbox as well.

[MysticStrummer]

"Why don't people just wait before over-reacting?"

8GB of DDR3 with a 3GB OS footprint

vs

8GB of GDDR5 with a 1 GB OS footprint

3 guesses which of these is better for games, then another 3 guesses about which console has the better GPU.

http://forums.gametrailers....

[MikeMyers]

@MysticStrummer

Since when did the better specs matter on consoles? If you want the best specs for gaming get a PC. Another thing, why must it be one or the other? People with money can actually buy multiple systems if they choose. You don't have to put one system down to make the other more appealing.

@HammadTheBeast

Wait for the whole story. You have months to decide.

@S2Killinit

That's like saying because Nintendo has the 3DS they will ignore the console division. Or Sony will ignore the PS4 if the Vita takes off. Microsoft can strike a balance of games aimed at different types of genres. They pushed Kinect in order for it to be successful. It's a new era with a new system. Again, wait and see. You have months or even years to decide. Nobody is forcing you to buy one today and nobody is forcing you to buy one when it launches. You as a consumer can see from a distance instead what games come out instead of telling me or everyone else what's going to happen. You don't know, I don't know. So if you want to write it off now go ahead, buy bye. Then I guess it doesn't make sense to keep talking about it if you have already determined it's not for you.

[Lou-Cipher]

"Xbox One: Focus On Games Not The Key To Winning"

Yeah, if Xbox One was a cell phone. (but since it's not)

Games are the #1 most important thing for Game Consoles, and unless MS shows us that they can do gaming better than Sony, Nintendo, and PC, they are going to wind up in last place for the 3rd gen in a row.

[BadboyCivic]

Well said...its not a mobile device

[BobbyMcCOOL]

I think games will be great on both devices, Microsoft will have good games, but it's the experience that makes the difference.

[TXIDarkAvenger]

If games isn't the key to winning, than MS is clearly doing the right thing with Xbox One.

[theWB27]

By releasing 15 exclusives and 8 of them new IP's within the first year...you can argue they're Kinect and I can say you don't know that so for now...15 new exclusives with 8 new IP's in the first year issss a good thing.

[HammadTheBeast]

Last time they said "10 NEW GAMES" at the E3 2010 conference, it turned out that 8 were Kinect games.

8 new IP's isn't great considering its almost guaranteed that at least 3 are Kinect (Ryze and 2 leaked ones) and a few more are XBL games.

[tracyllrkn]

When they say 15 exclusives within the first year, i'm pretty sure they don't mean big time games. That would be stupid, you would just have these exclusives competing for consumer's money.

[Ult iMate]

You know, Sony has 12 or 13 exclusives just for PS3 this year. And they are solid core games like Last of Us, GT6, Beyound, Sly 4 - not some Kinect games.
And there's also PSV and PS4.

[theWB27]

@HammadTheBeast
8 new IP'S is great considering you don't know what any of them are. (see what I did there?)

Provide a link where your assumptions are concrete info.

[ArnoldSchwarzenigra]

Yeah, as a gamer I know I'll be buying the Xbox One to make use of all of the features that already exist in my household without the use of the Xbox One. Totally worth the huge price tag of a next generation console, especially since it won't focus on games, which definitely isn't my reason for buying a gaming console.

[HammadTheBeast]

lol.

Write /s to initiate sarcasm.

[ArnoldSchwarzenigra]

If people are too stupid to recognize obvious sarcasm, let them disagree with their click happy little fingers.

[Silly gameAr]

Well, I can't speak for the world, but Smartglass, or MS courting Hollywood, or buying their way into TV land isn't going to win jack in my house. I've always went where the games are, so show me something Microsoft. Games btw, not stuff I can already do on my laptop or get with my cablebox.

[Godmars290]

Showing a balance is. Allowing for diversity in games rather than just trying to appeal the lowest/largest group which the shiniest/high production bobble.

Its the difference between Atlus and Square Enix.

[Software_Lover]

What?

[FITgamer]

For M$ the key to winning is taking advantage of the uneducated consumer that will only know about the "cool" features on the Xbox One and not the negatives. Im sure we won't be seeing commercials that end with "DRM only on Xbox".

[Soldierone]

"You see the trick is this. You take a gaming console and toss the gaming part out the door, but still pretend to support it. Then shove all kinds of other features people don't like in it, and keep shoving it in their face till they except it. Of course let your advertising department brain wash people like Apple, and you are good to go! "

[Clover904]

accept, not except

[Agent_hitman]

MS already stated that they are no longer competing with Sony or Ninty. They named Google, Apple and Samsung as a threat for all-in-one entertainment.

[S2Killinit]

Yeah as if they won the competition against Sony and Nintendo, that they now are competing with the top dogs. lol. But reality is, they are competing against Apple and Google, and they will ruin gaming because of it. I would hate to see a day when Sony is forced out of gaming because Microsoft will milk gaming for what its worth and leave a corps of what it used to be.

[GreenRanger]

Microsoft don't give a crap about gamers.

All they care about is earning ad revenue when anyone mentions the name of a product and the Xbox One shows an ad of it because Kinect heard you talking.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Well now I've heard it all.

[FrigidDARKNESS]

Yes games and cloud computing will revolutionize gaming.
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[Clover904]

The sad fact is that Microsoft is 100% correct. Nintendo proved that the casual market is a gold mine. I think we can all agree that with Microsoft's Xbox One reveal Microsoft has their sights on capturing that market as much as possible.

The casual market isn't going to differentiate what games Xbox has compared to what games PlayStation has. All they're going to care about is whether or not they play new games. "Check. Now what else do they do?" This is where Xbox has a leg up on PlayStation in a casual fan's eyes.

I love games, and undoubtable Sony has the larger and more diverse first party lineup. I'll be buying a PS4 day one. I can see many core gamers siding with Sony as well. However, we are a very niche group. It will be the casual market that will ultimately decide who sells more units this holiday season.

[oxcar1]

Games are not the key on a videogame console? STFU stupid xbox fanboy...

[outsider1624]

ok guys as a core gamer, one question- do u think M$ will succeed from a casual gamers point of view?

i just had a debate with my core/casual gamer friend who thought the xbox1 will beat ps4 in sales.
why? because he thinks the kinect2 is brilliant( ive only seen kinect on youtube).
he says it will attract the casuals more. the ps4 might have to catch up with the x1.

[fOrlOnhOpe57]

Without doubt one of the worst pieces I have read. Pointless and confusing.

[Sketchy_Galore]

This argument will always be pointless until we can find a solid definition for 'winning'. Some judge it by sales, some judge it by number of exclusives, some judge it by technical innovation. I personally care who provides me with the best experience as a relatively hardcore gamer next console generation.

The Xbox one being an 'entertainment hub' may 'win' for Microsoft in terms of money made but so would writing it into the small print of their contract that I have to give them all the money in my bank account every time I lose a Halo deathmatch. That doesn't mean their 'winning' helps me any. Strangely enough, a focus on games is what I'm looking for from a videogame console, outside of that I don't care who 'wins' or how they do it.

[strigoi814]

But that is how they gonna win thru games..

[cyhm3112]

anyone who buy xbone is stupid. And it is not just their own suffer, this is a detriment to the industry.

[Vinc360]

If my coffee machine can play movies but isn't the best at making coffee, I'll be pissed. Xbox One is supposed to be an "All in One" box, so I guess it's only fair to assume it'll be the best at everything, right? Considering my priority is games, it better be damn good at that!