Forbes - Sony was smart to get the head start on Microsoft in a next gen console battle that figures to be a two-company race, as Nintendo struggles to build momentum for Wii U. According to Jen Handley, COO and co-creator of Fizziology, PlayStation is currently seeing almost twice as much social chatter as the next gen Xbox.
“Microsoft will have the upper hand after its official showcase next Tuesday IF they also present the design, but it’s rumored that they will wait until their E3 press conference,” said Handley.
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.
Microsoft will lose the battle before the first fight if they go always-on.
PS4 hype train is intense.No other console comes close.
And all they did was talk some specs and show a controller.
Can you imagine when they show the console itself? Brilliant on their art.
An announced console has more hype than one that has no official announcement except an announcement date?
Heck I'm suprised the Xbox hype is even half of that of the PS4 at the moment.
too many bad rumors I think. if they would have cleared it up people would be more excited. but since they didnt people are believing it or are unsure. all will be clear on the 21st but its hype has suffered. ill be watching for sure but I was more excited and counting the days for ps4's conferance.
put it this way....people want to see if the bad rumors are true or not , more than wanting to see its games or features. just because they may not buy it if the rumors are true. I say they should clear these rumors before the conference so people will come in with their heads clear of negative bs....but they havent so we really dont know if this is true or not...I mean whats so bad about officially stateing the rumors are false? plus you have a guy saying deal with it n shit. yeah you fired him but still didnt state that he was lying or clear the air on tge subject of always online no used games and such.....so less hype, more negative rumors and speculation.
really good read they broke the data down to a couple of key point and while statistical data should not be used as proof it is still interesting to see how people have reacted to next gen consoles. i'm surprised that social media is mostly neutral it certainly doesn't feel that way on other internet sites but that may be caused by the varying amount of information about the next gen console. like she said in the article, comparisons can only be drawn as we are heading into E3 and then a few weeks after that.