“PC quality gaming for half the price.”
How does that sound? It may not be entirely accurate, but it certainly gets to the point and sounds a lot more appealing than pushing the agenda of “True 4K Gaming” and “Six Teraflops”. The biggest problem with Microsoft’s messaging for the Xbox One X has been that they’ve marketed the system with unfamiliar metrics and non-standardized resolutions which only seem suitable to a very niche audience. This has routinely left both gamers and press alike scratching their heads wondering what the point is to pick up “the world's most powerful console”.
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.
One modder produced an unofficial, modern-day take on the Game Gear.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful
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.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.
Totally ridiculous comment.
The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.
Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.
Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.
And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.
You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.
"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."
Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.
"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.
They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.
They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.
From the sound of how preorders are going, that doesn't seem to be an issue.
Lol....yeah ok another desperate article by some hater.....I guess all those preorders never happened either right??? GTFOH!
It'll be a console for the casuals
Everyone seems to forget preorders were only for scorpio edition and there were a very small amount for preorder. Until i get real numbers noone knows...it could of only been A 1000 we dont know
I actually disagree.
I think MS is doing a good job marketing XONEX. They are marketing it exactly the way it should be marketed and them selling out very much shows something is working.
"“True 4K Gaming” and “Six Teraflops”. The biggest problem with Microsoft’s messaging for the Xbox One X has been that they’ve marketed the system with unfamiliar metrics and non-standardized resolutions "
Thats nice....
The vast majority don't care though.
They will hear 4K, they will buy a 4K TV and buy XONEX for their 4K XB needs.
Most people don't really care about that stuff, we can look at this with a microscope all day, but your normal gamer is not on N4G or NeoGaf etc reading game news and putting 8 hours of gaming a day etc, its just not really the norm. Many might think it makes sense based on what they see.......most don't know this, don't care and simply want 4K, most likely can't even see the difference from checkerboard to native etc. MS will be fine.