What is Microsoft doing? Sony has been releasing news about the PlayStation 4 for over a month now without any competition in the next-gen arena from Microsoft.
Come on Microsoft, step your game up
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.
"What is Microsoft doing? Sony has been releasing news about the PlayStation 4 for over a month now without any competition in the next-gen arena from Microsoft.
Come on Microsoft, step your game up"
I have to agree with this 100%. Sony is stepping up and telling us more about the PS4 but we don't even know if MS will be having a 720. When E3 comes I am sure MS will come out and say something but if they decide to do what Nintendo do and announce it 1 month before launch, that would be stupid. If they do that by that time the pre-orders for the PS4 would be out, thus meaning if the 720 hasen't even been revealed yet people will have no choice to pre-order the PS4
lol why ask why the new kings dont need to rush xbox is a house hold name now days. this isnt 2005 again when we xbox is a nobody who had to rush out with a glitchy xbox360 to catch the sony ps kings off guard to make xbox a house hold again xbox just fine sony jump out fast this time cus they had 2. witch is fine i would have 2 if i was them and they made a beautiful console with their time so gj
I am upset with ms for not showing nothing about their nextbox but I hope they do come out strong at e3. The last thing we need is weak competition which we all know wont happen with ms. If they do disappoint at e3, I will be very disappointed only because we waited so long. Bring the fire ms.
Maybe it's cause they're not really into games anymore and feel they don't have to rush the new system since they're more about becoming more entertainment focused such as adding more movie and music and sports apps and services. I think that's why they're letting Sony have all the core gaming news since that's not really their interest anymore like it once was. I could be wrong but based off recent rumors, I'd say its pretty close.
This is all just strategy. Allow a competing product's noise to die down then announce yours given actual release dates are still a while away. Look at how competitors stay away from Apple's announcements as media focus is on Apple.
I'm sure if MS had announced first that people would be saying that Sony is just waiting for the right moment to trump everything that MS had announced. As I recall, wasn't it MS who moved first this gen?