Gizorama explains the top five ways the videogame industry is collapsing in on itself.
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.
"AI is not a substitute for human creativity. We position it as a technology that supports creativity. Creativity resides in people. We will continue to contribute to people's creativity through technology," the CEO said.
...not yet but 100% within the next 10 years!
..Then Sony will use it like the drop of a hat. They're no different to the others.
People that aren't software developers just don't understand the benefits of AI. People who's only exposure to A.I is the Terminator movie and other related sci fi films won't understand the benefits it provides.
It's not about replacing human labor. It's about making human labor easier.
Many years ago, I had laser eye surgery done. It was performed by a robot. The doctor took my measurements and calibrated the machine to make sure it would do what needed be done. And then the robot corrected my vision in 10 seconds.
15 years later and I still have 20/20 vision.
Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group
Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform
Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal
I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.
Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."
You can't make this crap up lol
Yeah maybe spec wise not a huge difference between the two consoles but beyond that they are very different. If one of them didn't exist that would be killing the industry because there would be no competition and no reason to further have more innovative consoles.
Telltale episodic games are some of the best games I've ever played. In no way are they garbage even if you didn't like them, they are far from being trash games. "By allowing consumers to become complacent with just watching a videogame". Well you might as well add streaming and videos to that list.
While there are some good points, specifically about some companies abusing DLC and others releasing very broken games, I can't take this article seriously when pretty much the sole reason for #3 is that he hates games from Telltale. Makes the article come off as a spoiled, petulent child crying because the industry doesn't give him exactly what he wants it to.
There have always been point-and-click and other similar styles games where they're not as interactive. Myst, Escape from Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, the list goes on... and guess what? Here we are decades in the industry's life and it's still going just fine.
One of the truly great things about gaming is that there is diversity for all the different tastes. Frankly, not everyone wants to play GTA, Halo, COD, etc. Not everyone wants to be that "busy" while playing. Sometimes I myself really love a game where I can relax and have my decisions influence the story that plays out.
On-disc FLC is inexcusable and day-1 is extremely suspicious. Microtransactions are dangerous, too. Overall, DLC should be reserved for episodic titles and true expansions, with sone exceptions. In concept, DLC is great, but devs abuse it.
Let me run down the list and tell you why the article is wrong.
5. Consoles being the same isn't the end of the industry, it's possibly the end of the console industry but not video games on the whole. If consoles go away, there's still a vibrant world of PC and mobile gaming.
4. No doubt, bad DLC is bad, but I'd point out that the author is exaggerating a lot here. If you cut out the catwoman DLC from Arkham City, you're missing...roughly five missions and some collectibles, I spent maybe three hours as Catwoman and something like thirty as Batman. The most recent study done (in 2011) on DLC found that 49% of console owners didn't buy any DLC whatsoever. Generally speaking, I've found gamers will only buy DLC for games that are good, and even then only DLC that sounds appealing to them. People aren't purchase robots.
3. Yeah, you can go fuck yourself. I'm not a huge fan of Telltale's game style, but this isn't the apocalypse; games similar in nature have been around for decades and haven't caused a collapse. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they are bad.
2. The flood of indie games is bad, but it's a fad and it will fade; even if every indie game disappeared tomorrow you've still got a very large number of publishers putting out scads of games.
1. Unity was released broken, their sales suffered for it. Chances are good the next game people will be even more wary of pre-orders. Unfinished games have been released for pretty much the entire history of the industry, it hasn't killed the industry yet.
Look, ever since the first crash people have been predicting another industry crash. Every year we hear people shouting that the industry is going to crash, every year it turns out that things worked out just fine. There will be ups and downs, but a major collapse of the industry is unlikely. And here's the thing, the initial "crash" didn't kill video games, not even close; PC games were still going strong, and video game arcades were still popular, it just killed consoles. Relax, buy the games you enjoy and things will turn out okay.
I want whatever SKUs this guy has that are pushing out 4k graphics.