Galaxy Next Door writes: Nintendo opened the motion gaming Pandora's Box with the Wii, bringing gaming to the masses and, in the process, cementing itself as top dog this generation. Never one to be left out of oodles of money, Sony and Microsoft have decided to dive into the motion gaming pool and try not only to expand their audiences, but also extend the life span of their HD consoles. We've already had a hands-on with Sony's take on motion gaming, and now it's Microsoft's turn with Kinect.
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.
https://www.playstationlife...
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.
"Voice recognition, facial ID and 3D depth all work, just like Microsoft promised… well almost."
it seems that he is impressed with the novelty of it rather than the actual product...
before you press disagrees, please read the review...
the guy makes so many speculations.... Kinect+Bullet Storm or software enhancement of glitch issues and such.
Yeah there is an abundance of speculation in this piece but I like it. I really like the fact that there is no score just a pretty well written play by play review. Still not buying Kinect though, lol
That all those tv commercials are extremely misleading ......someone should file a lawsuit to make em show the actual space needed to play.
First of all, for a "hands on" article, this piece is almost ALL speculation. It's like "this is what it MIGHT be like someday", rather than a discussion as to what it is NOW.
Secondly, seriously incompetent writing. Stop writing as if we're all in grade school.