Kotaku-"I am incredibly tired of this generation. And sadly, it's not this generations games...It's the gamers themselves. Every other post I see is someone bashing a game or genre of games; or stating how the industry has grown stale and we need a "crash" so that new and exciting games can come out.
Well I hate to break it to you, but do you remember last generation? The PS2/GCN Generation? (Don't even bring Dreamcast into this, because that console lasted a whole six months) How about every game was a platformer or RPG. Every damn game had either jumping or some androgenous boy/girl trying to save the world from another androgynous boy/girl.
We finally get a powerfull set of consoles (and to PC gamers, no one cares about your rig btw) that really push forward on gaming. We get amazing new IP's (Assasins Creed, Uncharted, Red Dead, LA Noire, Bioshock, Demons Souls, Mass Effect, Gears of War, this is all off the top of my head btw) We even get some of our old favorite games brought back...
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
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"
When the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S first launched all the way back in 2020, console sales were not what either platform manufacturer wanted them to be. The pandemic slowed things down more than ever before, even though in the case of each next-gen console, all the units that were manufactured, sold.
Of course that didn’t last, and soon manufacturing limitations on the consoles were a thing of the past, and sales started to leap forward. For one next-gen console platform, at least.
I can see why Microsoft is putting their games on PlayStation with these numbers
Imagine how many copies of future games like Elder Scrolls VI, Blade, Indiana Jones and more they could sell if they went fully multiplatform.
Sony would probably be selling more if they stopped sending mixed signals about their future. Putting games on PC because you are taking data analytic advice from Microsoft about the future of consoles is folly and has limited their potential sales. Microsoft want Sony and the world to believe that consoles are done as a business so companies like Sony and Nintendo etc can end up serving Microsoft's platform. Remember when it comes to Microsoft "It is us or no one and the three E's" Don't fall for it.
lol this guy complains about gamers and he hates on DC and PC gaming. Sorry guy, the DC had more good games then the GC did.
LOL calling last gen the PS2/GC gen because those are the only platforms you played on maybe, makes you a noob. It was called 6th gen.
last gen I dont remember every game being a "platformer or an RPG," but then again I didnt call it the PS2/GC gen. I played on PC, DC, XboX, and PS2. All the types of games we have today, we had back then too. The one thing we have this gen that we didnt last gen was awesome smaller DL titles like the VC/XBLA/PSN games.
"Gaming journalism" has gone down the crapper too this gen. As you can see this guy says gamers complain too much and writes a whinny article about gamers to prove his point I guess.