The Playstation 4 and Xbox One could easily fail. Sony and Microsoft have already excluded themselves from gaming evolution. Could the STEAM train bring its a-game with a recent technological advantage? This weapon called the thunderbolt maybe? Read more.
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
the steam box might be the next best thing but at the rumoured 1000 price tag they're going to have a hard time pushing it on consumers....i built a pretty decent gaming rig for €800 (built mainly through bday gifts and related) and that also included the cost of the OS and everything else dunno if i could justify to myself to go buy a 1000 box that would sit beside my tv when the pc could do the same jazz
top 2 lists? really?
'They make slow, or out right prevent the evolution of gaming experience by having limited hardware.'
Well, I think you're saying that now especially because of how long this gen was. But what you need to understand is that, if these next gen consoles were on the level of the highest end PCs on the market, the prices would be unbelievable. Especially if you expect them to run at like 4k @ 60 fps. I don't even think the ninth gen of consoles will be able to do that. But how long will this gen last. Ehh... I'd like to speculate but we'll have to wait and see.
Also, 1 million PS4 pre-orders beg to differ with the title.
This article looks like it was written someone who's a biased PC fan. He/she thinks that all new tech should be rapidly replaced and that the life cycle of a console should be updated every few months.
New tech has its advantages but remember every time you update/replace hardware you need to throw something else away. This is wasteful and more expensive in the long run. The developers also need to keep up with every change mid development.
One thing I've noticed is computer game technology seems advance faster then software. Why? It's because the games take years to make sometimes. By the time a game is fully completed the tech could've become 2-3 times better. At least with the 5 year console lifetime developers can maintain a standardized development pattern.
Knowing the specs are locked from the start helps the developers realize their development process from start to finish. If they had to worry about re-optimization every 6 months while still in development I would assume it would increase production cost.
Also, the customers would lose faith in console makers. Just like they did with the saga consoles. Remember the path sega took (excluding hand helds) Genesis, Saga CD, saga 32X, Sega Saturn then the Dreamcast? All these new tech updates where released so close together that it confused the customers and developers. It caused a lack of faith.
If you want the costly update path every few months GET A PC. Don't try and drag the console market into a an endless rat race. I think both developers and hardware manufactures know that keeping a standardized environment lets the customers spend more money on games software instead of displacing it on constant hardware replacements.