A technology and media lawyer at UK law firm Charles Russell has offered their opinion on the Xbox One debate, claiming that Microsoft's 'Big Brother' Kinect technology isn't all that much different to the functionality of "online shopping, personal video recorders and loyalty cards," but – from a legal perspective - Microsoft needs to be transparent with consumers over the data it is collecting.
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.
Yeah be honest M$ tell us what data your collecting with the kinect.
it's not always on only so you can turn the xbox on is it??
MS has a lot of questions to be answered . And they better answer them all at E3 .
No transparency should be able to protect them from this really. It's simple.. people should be able to turn on their Xbox One and play non kinect related games without kinect being switched on. You can be as transparent about your policies as you want but if it really is going to be required to be on just to use your xbox one, it could turn ugly really fast.. major security flaw, disgruntled employee.. all it will take is one incident and the hammer could come crashing down on Microsoft faster than they can say "better with kinect"
I've been wondering. If you have to tell the Xbox One to turn on via Kinect voice commends, then the hearing-impaired are kind of f*cked, right?
microsoft is taking the curse of the 3rd console to a whole new level .. what the hell are they thinking an who is running that company.. gamers havent wanted kinect since well it came out i dont care if its b etter works perfect i dont wanna be standing up jumping around my living room to play a video game ever let alone have this damm thing watching me! between the kinect allways online shit u have to connect ur xbox to internet onced a day or its a paper weight.. so ur tellin me by making it a tv console will attract new customers but ur tellin all the people with no internet we dont want ur buisness cause it wont work offline What are they thinking lets do everything everyone doesnt want an will sell our product microsoft is droppin the ball to the point i might not buy one an im a xbox fan.. so im jus waiting for the e3 kinect festival to happen an if it does not only will i not buy a xbox 1 i will take my 360 an throw it away an never buy another microsoft product again in my life an fuck ps4 unless they make a better network i wont even look at sony