GamingVice.net writes: "Earlier today, Microsoft formally announced the pricing for the upcoming Kinect peripheral and much to the chagrin of all parties involved – it hasn’t been well received thus far. The main complaint that seems to be going around is the fact that, well – it costs $150; which is quite the premium to ride the casual gaming/motion control train. It would appear that the pricing structure is a bit flawed, especially when the new Xbox 360 Arcade that is set to come out on August 3rd will be priced at $199."
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Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
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.
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.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
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"
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
Before no, but since it comes with a game (even if its a stupid one) $150 isn't bad for including a $50 game. Kinect is basically $100 but your forced to pay $150 because it includes a game, if you planned on buying Kinect your obviously going to buy games for it, so why not price it at $99 and let us choose the $50 game we want to buy.
agree with it? I don't even agree with its creation
Wallet says no
No. To make up for it, the games should be a lot cheaper due to lower development costs and that is IF there is any actual intention for REAL GAMES to come out of Kinect.
To me Kinect needed to be around $75 with a game and some good games using Kinect