The role reviews play in the video game industry today cannot be understated. Whether you’re talking about the writer, who gets to voice his/her opinion, the outlet, which gains traffic, readership and develops relationships, or the audience, which gets valuable purchasing advice, video game reviews serve many different purposes for many different people.
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Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
When the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S first launched all the way back in 2020, console sales were not what either platform manufacturer wanted them to be. The pandemic slowed things down more than ever before, even though in the case of each next-gen console, all the units that were manufactured, sold.
Of course that didn’t last, and soon manufacturing limitations on the consoles were a thing of the past, and sales started to leap forward. For one next-gen console platform, at least.
I can see why Microsoft is putting their games on PlayStation with these numbers
Imagine how many copies of future games like Elder Scrolls VI, Blade, Indiana Jones and more they could sell if they went fully multiplatform.
Sony would probably be selling more if they stopped sending mixed signals about their future. Putting games on PC because you are taking data analytic advice from Microsoft about the future of consoles is folly and has limited their potential sales. Microsoft want Sony and the world to believe that consoles are done as a business so companies like Sony and Nintendo etc can end up serving Microsoft's platform. Remember when it comes to Microsoft "It is us or no one and the three E's" Don't fall for it.
The past while I've learned that reviews, truly don't mean a thing, may as well ask a friend for his opinion on a game, which is what these people do, opinions, Aliens got slaughtered by the big three, yet people adore the game?
Aye, just make sure the game you want isn't tore to shreds with glitches and work it from there on out.
This is a serious problem.
so called "game journalism" review scoring REALLY IS BULLS#$% from the standpoint that these are normally just fanboy/haters with a blog site. Plus the fact that we seen these site give a low score, just to come back and either change it (as in the case with Dualshockers and Evil Withing) or give a low score and then slobber all over it like it's the greatest thing ever (Polygon and Destiny).. These are waayyy to subjective and waaayyy to influenced by the whiny gaming community as a whole.
Ironic that this is an IGN article.
its really a numbers/bias and preference game, which is why one review isn't enough, numbers don't matter and everyone has biases and personal preferences. There was a time, when reviews came from a group of people of different ages backgrounds and interests, these reviews are the ones i respect the most, sadly I no longer see those type of reviews.