From Toasty Controller...
"The original announcement of the PS3 was partnered up with a public statement by Sony regarding the shelf life of the PS3. They called it the "ten year plan", which obviously means they have full intention on supporting the PS3 for the next decade. At first thought, this wasn't taken with a grain of salt; if you're like me, you thought that would mean another ten years before the next Sony console. Once everyone calmed down after the original unveiling, it was understood that we're already in the middle of that same ten year plan with the PS2, which was actually outselling the PS3 six months after the initial launch. You could likely attribute that to the outrageous price of the PS3 at launch, which happened to correlate with the price drop of the PS2 around the same time."
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
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.
it goes a little something like this: release new consoles already!! i enjoy the buzz of new tech
"A Playstation 4 and Xbox 720 are not a necessity" speak for yourself. Different people want different things. I want next-gen in 2013. I personally believe that current gen consoles are beginning to show their age i.e. majority of games stuck at 720p 30fps etc.
However, this article does make a good point i.e. HD, HDDs, system updates; they hve definately added a few more years to this gen.
Even though this gen feels quite young, it is actually quite old. At the end of this year the 360 will be 7 years old - in 2013 I personally think it would be the best time for next-gen to start; but there are those who are quite fine with current gen consoles for the next few years - and I respect that; but me - I want the next gen to start next year at least.
this gen is on it final stages.
New ips are trilogies now! (Mass effect, uncharted, gears of war, resistance etc.)
Developers have little power to make better games: is it possible to make a better uncharted,or forza,or gears,or grand turismo? I don't think so.
At the same time, if we could have 200 new games, until 2013-2014, of the same quality as an uncharted game, or god of war 3, or gears, it would be great, no need to update hardware.
When we think about our 3.2 GHz CPU on our consoles, and they're almost 7 yo, its incredible how time flies. Man, we are 6 years older then the time we bought our new console.
But hardware needs to evolve, we get new generations of tv's every year, the same for AV amplifiers, beamers,etc. 10 years, its quite a long time,in electronics world.
In 2 years, we will be able to buy an ultra slim ps3, for 99, fanless, and play a god of war 4, uncharted 3, killzone 3, motorstorm apocalypse, on our 75" 3d LCD.coool :)
WiiU= Watson technology/Custom gpu using the very best most current tech/cpu with 1gig EDRAM unheard of in PC or console basically IBM Watson technology this Console WiiU can get alot more powerful over time you wont get any better graphics than what you will get with WiiU off ps4 even if it landed in 3 years.
Reggie said Graphics on Garden/Zelda demos were 10% of WiiU power and them tech demo's were already twice the best we see on ps3 resolution/graphics/framerate you name it.