Pixelgate.co.uk writes:
''The Xbox One has been quite the interesting console ,but not exactly for it’s games. It’s initial DRM concepts had the masses up in arms. Stock market value took a hit in the surrounding time of the One’s reveal. Changes were made, opinions switched, yet Microsoft’s huge box is still a curious creation.''
By putting Black Ops 6 on Game Pass, Microsoft plans to gauge its growth, pricing, and monetization changes, at the cost of less game sales.
If they have follow up games that are bangers, then this strategy will work. But if it’s Call of Duty followed another dead period then it won’t last.
When the game does not hit 1 Billion in revenue in under two weeks they will wonder why and the next thing you know; Season Updates will no longer be free.
subscribers go up, execs celebrate win, get bonus, price goes up, subscribers go down,
execs dont care, got their bonus,
If it works CEOs and shareholders get a payday and if it doesn't even more studios get closed by MS so CEOs and shareholders get a payday.
It will sell on PC & PS but as long as COD is for rent on Gamepass it will not sell well on the XB platform. Most folks such as myself that like COD just for the campaign would rather rent it for that month instead of paying $70 plus tax for the game.
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.
It was a pretty good year overall and hopefully whats coming next is great.
I cant wait for Quantum Break/Gears IV/CupHead.
Started off a bit empty but Ori was great.
Forza took things to a whole new level, Tomb Raider looks excellent and Halo 5's MP is an absolute blast to play.
A great 2015,mostly at the end of the Year. 2016 looks even better.
It was a pretty good one, good enough to make me change my mind about sticking with one console this year and buy one to sit alongside my PS4. Exclusive titles like Halo 5 and Forza 6 brought me back and games such as Ryse and Tomb Raider. The new interface is excellent, the tie-in to Windows 10 and the promise of more next year. It's a good time to be a gamer on XBOX One and PS4.
I give XB1 an "A+" this year.
-Great titles, great updates with the NXE, Windows 10, streaming at up to 1080p and 60fps.
-Backward compatibility is fantastic as it is not only a great fan service, but also those digital titles are being added twice monthly now on Xbox Live Gold and freebies are being bundled with AAA games like FO4, Just Cause 3 and Gears Ultimate.
-great lineup of highly rated games from Ori, to Gears Ultimate, Forza 6, Halo 5, and Rise of the Tomb Raider.
-showed previews of exciting new games for 2016 from new IPs such as Sea of Thieves (a non-Kinect titles from Rare in years), Scalebound, Quantum Break, Cuphead, Recore. To bring back classics like Crackdown that is displaying gameplay never seen before with Live Cloud compute, to revival of favorite IPs like Gears 4.
-released the best and most customizable controller ever made. http://i1376.photobucket.co...
An awesome year and 2016 looks even better. Time to jump in and be part of the fun.