Although the current console generation is not all that old yet, Microsoft Corporation will already be looking towards the release of the Xbox Two. The shelf life of the existing Xbox One is predicted to be much shorter than previous consoles which have been released, and thus we may see an Xbox Two coming to market much more quickly than many gamers perhaps envisage.
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.
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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.
At least the opinion part is right. Some of the points are valid but are taken so far out of context that even as an opinion the integrity of the whole article is compromised.
With the Xbox One apparently going to have Windows 10 and DX12 etc. What need is there for a separate home games console for next-gen? Won't it just be a PC or PC/games console hybrid?
It won't be the Xbox 2, Based on MS arithmetic, it will probably be the Xbox 5.
A life cycle of 10 years is based on support after the next console is already released for 2-4 years. Even if a new one comes out in 5 years it wouldn't be really that much shorter. Last gen was one of the longer generations.
The current consoles aren't that low on power and have plenty of untapped power left.
I wouldn't trust Analysts with forcasting how the weather will be in 1 minute.
It's kinda early to even be discussing this. Let's support the XB1 first.