"Rather than collaborate on the next standard for high capacity DVD they chose to fight a commercial war, which Toshiba lost last week when BlockBuster video decided to carry Blu-Ray only and ditch HD-DVD. The immediate aftermath of that decision was a large number of cancellations of HD-DVD player orders. It now remains for Sony to send in its troops to bayonette the wounded."
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
"Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware."
It's for the best.
Quit stringing along xbox fans and screwing over PlayStation owners.
An Xbox game on a Playstation. Never in my years of gaming did i ever thought this was gonna happen.
No way can they get rid of the hardware as probably 90% of game pass subscribers are hardware users.
Highly doubtful those users will move to PC or Cloud to subscribe there and the competition (Sony and Nin) will never have gamepass on their system.
If they want to keep the current subscribers, they need to keep releasing new hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
They wont kill it, but they will go fully PC while keeping xbox as a brand, and go multiplatform for the most part. They will also work tirelessly to diminish console gaming’s importance.
It would be best if Xbox goes the way of Sega, just make and publish games. I know I myself will not support them at all with buying games from them, you all can. 🙃
The Xbox brand will live for the games. I don’t expect Microsoft to entirely drop out of gaming hardware. They make Surface tablets and laptops. They’ll make Xbox branded hardware for those that want it.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
Starfield would be no surprise and there's the rumor that it will come to Playstation after the Shattered Space DLC, Forza (along with Halo and Gears of War) I find less likely but I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually end up on PlayStation too, especially if Xbox give up on hardware and go the Sega route.
Not to worried about forza. I'd rather see others like what inxile and obsidian are working on. Starfield sounds like it needs more time in the oven so let it cook first imo. If starfield and it's a small if does release on ps it'll be in the fall around the time for dlc or right at the dlc and come packaged with it.
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
100%!!
I wonder what happened to that dude that was always here posting those court articles with cartoons about MS spending all those billions in studios. He suddenly disappeared, I guess he doesn't like bad news when the green brand is in trouble. No new articles from him as of late...
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I have an honest, legitimate question:
Should blogs be deemed as newsworthy?
I'm always hesitant to approve such stories, because I have a hard time deciding whether they should be deemed a legitimate article or not.
If the majority believes that blogs are indeed worthy of publication, then so be it, and I'll proceed accordingly.
One thing that is interesting though, is the enormous wave of opinion that Blu-Ray has officially won the 'war' since Blockbuster's announcement. Because even if Blockbuster's decision has very little practical impact on HD formats, the resulting opinions and perceptions alone are enough to drive a stake through the heart of HD-DVD.
...Sort of like the how the media has the potential to single-handedly cause the stock market to crash by simply releasing unsubstantiated negative press, whereas in reality, the stock market's health may have have been just fine.
hddvd is dead
so I'm ready to buy a hd player now
blu-ray because i am now about 90% sure that will be the victor...
finally lol.
now we will see the flames about the hd dvd loosing and blu-ray winning and the x360 vs ps3 blah blah blah
but before anything let me state something, this does not affect the x360 in any way, this is something alot of ps3 fans fail to realize
except that HD-DvD has already said they don't care
This is not news, this is opinion. HD DVD didn’t lose anything. Fact: Blockbuster rentals count for less than 1% of the business. Fact: HD DVD players are outselling Blu-Ray Players (excluding PS3). Look on Amazon.com’s best sellers, there are 2 HD DVD players ahead of the $499 Sony Blu-Ray player.
Also, Toshiba is the lead company, just like Sony is with Blu-ray, but there are hundreds of companies in the HD DVD camp, including the group that is responsible for the original DVD format.