IGN- Microsoft should be afraid of Sony. Before the PlayStation publisher’s pre-Gamescom press conference this week, Sony’s foreseeable software future seemed weak. The PlayStation Vita seemed only to have a handful of promising titles for the remainder of 2012 – LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, a Call of Duty game we knew next to nothing about, a Persona 4 remake, and a poorly timed Assassin’s Creed tie-in were the PlayStation brand’s best and brightest.
But after displaying a strong lineup of exclusive games on both PlayStation platforms, a brilliant new business strategy, and confidence in risky game ideas, Sony’s future couldn’t look better than it does now.
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
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
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.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
The funny/ironic thing is, MS and Sony have semi-changed roles. Where Sony introduced the PS3 as a media hub, MS have pretty much stolen the title away from them. It doesn't matter that the PS3 has more access to content in general, better presentation and organization has put the 360 in the lead as far as the news sites and the US market is concerned.
And yet where Sony appears to be playing catchup on one front, more and more they're dominating as far as games go. Though again MS makes the better show with Halo, Gears and COD. They in fact didn't go to Gamescon because they didn't have anything to show, but that is still hardly going to matter when Halo 4 launches.
i dont care, Sony did their thing they showed games and that's what it's all about.
If MS was the only one attending Gamescom and they showed real hardcore games i'll be happy as well.
i'm a gamer i buy gaming machines to PLAY GAMES and Sony prove once again that they are the ones who care about us.
It is crazy that Sony is losing so much money yet they can pump out games and new IPs. Makes me wonder how many games they would be churning out if they were making a profit.
It isn't funny except what the article is trying to claim as if MS is Ina dire situation when Sony is the one that is. They just had an E3 show 3 months ago. Multiplatform games are still going to be released for the 360. Sony is the one that is in a situation. If they can't get Vita to perform better than it is now they will have issues with the PS4 when it releases. Either it will be dropped or the bigger question will be how they support the PS3, Vita and PS4 and I gurantee Vita will lose even more support than it currently has.