An editorial about the possibility of this console generation lasting till 2014.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Console Gens always linger into the following one. However, I feel console manufacturers are in no rush to leave this last gen. Simply because of the tons of money that has yet to be recouped.
Additionally, releasing a new console is a huge gamble during economic good times, imagine the gamble during an economy in the shitter.
This is risky business. I honestly don't know where the next gen is headed, but I do know that many dev studios have closed down last gen due to rising dev costs among other factors. And going into a next gen in this economic climate will find more dev studios closing and rising dev costs..Console gaming is really at a crossroads.
Well, there's a lot of games coming out next year for the current-gen systems and they're looking a really good so yeah I don't see anything wrong with that. It would be cool though to at least get some kinda concrete news about next-gen systems next year (2013) during an event like E3. Not really thinking about next-gen stuff. I'm having a good time with what's out now.
yes
to me it would seem that the ps3 still has at least 2 more good years ahead of it.
I think Sony/MS need new consoles asap, their current ones are showing their age terribly. The "current generation" (I put that in quotation marks as the article is about the last gen not the current gen, the current gen only began this year.) shouldn't have another year left but unfortunately the most likely scenario is there will be no consoles released in 2013 but they will be announced.