Microsoft made two important announcements recently. The first was about Office 365 becoming a game changer. Today, I'll(Jeffrey Yuwono from Techspot writes) touch on the $50 price drop for the Xbox One. From November 2nd to January 2nd, you can get any Xbox One SKU for $50 off, which makes the entry level version $350. That's cheaper than the Playstation 4 at $400....
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.
Agreed, GDDR5 meant more room to fit GPU units onto the PS4 APU die. And on top of that, the PS4 gets to perform at twice the speed of Xbox One.
Xbox One's design seems to be the result of infighting amongst various departments.
He didn't say anything about a power brick in there. I can't believe I read all that. Seems to me that the DDR5 in Sony's console was always the smarter move. It has been one year already, and these articles are still being written. I guess we won't ever move on
Article basically explains the architectuarchitectual flaw in the Xbox ones architecture of including the 32mb eSRAM.
It overall explains that if the eSRAM IS useds properly by developers that the system can be on par to the PS4, if not more powerful. However, it takes extra time to utilize this unique architect to the fullest extent so devs are simply leaving a lot of the X1's power unused.
Ive said it before that the Xbox One is on the same exact road as the Playstation 3 with its marketing and architect. Trying to breeze off of the success of its predecessor and using a complex system nobody understands with a multi-billion dollar investment wasted behind it. The PS3 had the CELL CPU which Sony IBM and a buttload of companies invested in. Microsoft spent billions of their own on Kinect but Sony never decided to remove the CELL CPU from the PS3 because developers complained or consumers never benefitted from it in the early run. However Microsoft unbundled the Kinect after saying over and over that it's part of the Xbox One.
Overall Microsoft has made it's decisions but if they simply stuck to them the Xbox One wouldve succeeded in the long run like the PS3.
Yep. Don Mattrick.
'Nuff said
Looks like this author is a little late to the party. Folks had these articles for a few months after its launch.