Bafflingly, Respawn's Rob challenges his OWN OPINION, and manages to scrape together a fruitlessly compelling argument regarding the future of the Xbox One. In the process though, he seems to come across some recurring evidence that points toward virtual reality glasses being released for the console in 2014 - would this gimmick change your mind about the Xbox One?
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Idk. Great games have still been releasing. Mcsft is still no different than after the 360 era. PS, you just have to wait many years for. Nintendo is readying next gen and will definitely have many games. 3rd party and indies have been the highlight so far this year.
Yeah but the games coming out have been in development for many years so they're not affected by this issue.
This is more about the future.
I would say that indies will continue to put out interesting games at least. They need to avoid buyouts though or they're in danger of ending up like Roll7.
Part of the issue is that CEOs created projections based on the Covid years. Now that the line/Growth™ isn't going up, they're overcorrecting for stakeholders despite good profits. There's a certain mindlessness to it.
Hopefully with inflation down and more realistic projections, things will level out.
It's a bit mad that we've been hearing so much about game budgets getting too big and then they decide to kill off all these small to mid-sized studios though.
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no. no gimmick will change my mind about xbox1. ms has to change for.me to change my mind.
The cloud is what makes it future-proof.
Gues what? Ps4 can do the same thing.
Gimmicks have never really sold a system, And the Wii/Wii-u do not count as the whole system was based on the motion controls, thus removing it from gimmick status.
However, things like HD-DVD players and 3D TV really were just gimmicks. And it seems to be that the X1 is going to attempt to rely on a whole slew of different things instead of just focusing on one.
Not more of this stupid cloud crap. That isn't real. Microsoft just threw that out there to make the Xbox One look more powerful than it is. It won't do anything to make the Xbone more powerful.