GameFront: "By now, you’ve heard that Microsoft has relented on the absurd prohibition against Indie developers who lack a major publisher. After a growing number of complaints about the restriction that led more than one high profile indie developer to angrily denounce Xbox One (never mind constantly looking bad compared to Sony, its chief console rival), the company has finally seen reason. Xbox One will be a home for indie developers after all."
The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.
Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)
Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke
Really good video.
I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.
Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.
Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue
I found this video painful to watch. Can someone list them out?
Top 10 for me from are:
1. 2013 reveal presentation
2. Bundling Kinect 2 with Xbox One
3. RRoD or why rushing to market with hardware is always a bad idea.
4. Buying studios only to close them.
5. Ads on the Home Screen
6. Letting Halo die.
7. Letting Geard of War die.
8. Every console name
9. Charging for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 when Sony let PS3 players play online for free.
10. Cancelling release of OG Xbox games after the Xbox 360 launched.
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
I love the changes. I also love the tears from the n4g experts here. Bitter, but delicious.
Loving these changes. But more importantly, these changes will benefit gamers the most. Gotta love competition.
There is also a rumor going on that the original family share plan with up to 10 people will return with digital game purchase. We will find out more at Gamescon.
Its great that the X1 can actually handle all these changes as a system, but Microsoft has to get their act together to be honest.
Separate the machine from the company for a moment and you realize that Microsoft isn't sure what to focus on with it, despite all its capabilites. Sure it can do X, Y, and Z, but Microsoft approaches it like this:
"The X1 can do X!"
(A few months and upset gamers later) "And Y!"
"Did we mention that it can also do Z?"
Its just sloppy from such a big company. I'll admit its hard to please gamers when our wants are so diverse, and our expectations are through the roof, but they should be unified on their approach to this console.
Didn't know that it needed saving... ya know considering it's not even out yet.
Its an exciting time in the industry for sure. MS whether you hate them or love them have been so entertaining to watch. The entire history of the Xbox One so far is like a crazy 'gaming' version of Inception. I hope to God someone writes a book on this time period in MS and the Xbox team.
More importantly the direction of Microsoft is one on the right course. Yes they stumbled badly out of the gates... but they have shown an ability to change course quickly in a way we have never seen before from a company their size on a product not released yet. It truly is amazing to watch them right now.