From now on, all Microsoft entertainment and gaming experiences will carry the Xbox branding even on Windows, says senior director Leonardo Metelli, who has also been talking about how entertainment rather than gaming is now the major growth area on Xbox Live, and how Kinect will drive whole new types of advertising on their home console – including the slightly creepy “Two-Way TV”.
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.
Microsoft's future in the video game space is murky right now, so let's break it all down.
Not anytime soon. But they're on that path.
One thing not mentioned in the article is Microsoft's money bags. If Sega had Microsoft's money, they would have still been around as a hardware manufacturer. Xbox as a platform only survives because of the money bags. They can continue making consoles for the core and port to PC.
The multiplatform strategy is only the result of arrogance and misguided leadership that blew up in their face. They thought gamers would jump on Xbox in droves if they knew that many of their favorite games would be only on Xbox. But that's not happening at all. Sales didn't increase. They decreased. Why? Because the dumb asses thought giving away these expensively made games in a cheap service would also turn the tide.
Gamers on other platforms are willing to buy quality. They don't need to be handed nearly free games in a service that aren't even finished and sometimes average in their development. Gamers buy Nintendo games. They buy Sony games. Microsoft groomed their base to not buy games. Even the quality ones. It has always been their plan to go digital. But most gamers still like single player gaming. Still like physical releases.
Microsoft's problem has always been that they don't produce high quality games at the same output as Nintendo and Sony. Actually, they should be producing quite a lot more because they're worth over 2 TRILLION. How they don't have more is ridiculous and no excuse. Buying publishers to take away from competition only backfired. Because it still takes millions of dollars to continue to make those games from the publishers they snatched. Their only choice was to crawl back to their competitors to help sustain those developers because Nintendo and Sony platforms were the ones buying games.
Am I sorry for Microsoft? Hell no! They deserved last place for putting in the least effort. They deserved the fallout for buying up the industry and didn't make a single blip on the radar against their competitors where they now need those same gamers they took away games from to support them. Part of it may have been to cash in on their competition. But the result is the slow death of their platform. They may go 3rd party. They may keep making hardware. I don't give a shit about them to worry about it. I only give a shit about the destructive nature of their industry moves that only negatively affect gamers. They could sell and drop out of the industry and I wouldn't blink. Probably laugh. But not blink. They deserve whatever comes to them. At least Sega put in the effort when it came to games. They just had poor leadership. Microsoft has poor leadership and barely makes memorable games. That's a killer combination. And not in a good way.
Not sure about that. It's been two decades and I still think about Power Stone, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Seaman and others, but I'm not sure I'll remember Xbox Series X/S games in a few years from now... Maybe I'll remember about the franchises that the Xbox brand spawned, but I don't believe that the Xbox Series lives up to the late Dreamcast or even to the Xbox name itself. I do have great memories about the 360 with Blue Dragon, Gears 2 and Lost Odyssey though
No, Dreamcast was ahead of it's time and most still have very fond memories of it that had one. It also had some good games on it even in it's short lifespan. Xbox has none of these qualities.
Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox will be discontinued in April and has confirmed that weekly streaks will also be coming to an end.
Look no offense MS but when I got my self a PS3 I enjoyed my purchase at the time because it was a games and an entertainment machine, it's what the PS3 was advertised as especialy when they were showing off how you can play Blu rays as it acts like a blu ray player aswell. Overtime that has stuck and Sony established that as much as they could because that was their plan from the start, now they are focusing on games and the core gamer...whats the point of trying to do the same so late into this gen, you should be setting up first party studios and start making exclusive games for your system with new IPs so you can continue with them into next gen without having to rely on Halo, Gears, Fable etc. You also already have estblished studios who don't seem to do anything, take Rare for example who are sitting on Conker, Perfect Dark, Killer Instinct, Banjo, Kameo rights...
Sorry but I didn't buy my 360 so it could be an entertainment system. If I want to browse the web or catch up on a missed tv show I'll use my computer, if I want to watch a blu ray film I'll use my PS3, if I want to watch a TV show I'll use my Sky box and if I want to watch a DVD then I'll use my Xbox/PS3.
Stop trying to turn the gaming industry into something it isn't, if you care that much about these features instead of games and pleasing us gamers with gaming related things instead of things we can already do on other types of systems/media then you should just leave the gaming industry because it's obvious you don't seem to care about it anymore....just the large install base you scared to leave behind.
That's what frightens your users the most Microsoft. You're essentially forgetting about those who brought you all this fame. Gamers receiving their annual fix of Halo/ Gears and Cod, it just won't suffice anymore. The tides will eventually shift, a big chunk of your fanbase will have to move on.
Not gonna lie, that Two-Way TV thing sounds pretty creepy.
Anyways, it seems like Microsoft is trying to market the Xbox as an entertainment system that can also play games. Whatever floats their boat. Obviously the approach is working for them as a whole, just at the expense of gamers.
I bought my Xbox 360 to play games, not to watch movies. It's a gaming machine, not a multimedia machine.
Way to much focus on entertainment not near of enough focus on games there Microsoft. Xbox = Game Machine not entertainment hub. Sony did the same thing at first and it came to bite them in the @ss. Now they focus mainly on games (which as GAME CONSOLE should). Now it is marketed as a Game Machine that just happens to have a really nice entertainment system built in. Do you see the difference?