A History Littered with Console Corpses
It’s kind of sad and nostalgic looking back at some of the consoles we may have loved and desperately defended while arguing with friends only to later face the inevitable truth that they flat sucked.
These days though, creating a console is mega multibillion-dollar enterprise and failure is much less of an option. It takes many years in sales before breaking even is on the horizon and the Xbox One failing is probably something even ol’ Bill would feel as more than just a financial ‘hiccup’.
The Nintendo Virtual boy (extra points for anyone who remembers that thing!), Atari Lynx, N64 Add-on, Sega Mega CD and even the Sega Dreamcast (for all its cult following) sure as hell didn’t cost the same kind of revenue it’s taken to get the Xbox One off the ground. The real question is though, why did these consoles fail in the first place? Is it possible for the Xbox One to follow the same path?
The list of possible reasons is endless...
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Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?
For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.
I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.
In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one
Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.
I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.
I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.
Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.
Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.
Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.
I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.
Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.
Everyone one of those died because of no support. The XBone will have support. It will not fail. Will it lag behind, yeah. But it will not come close to failing.
I had Lynx, that thing was awesome considering it was a brick with buttons on it.
Big difference is in software support alone will guarantee Xbox One will be here for a long time. This is just a list of confirmed games avaialble in the first year on Xbox One. What is the author smoking comparing it to the N64 Add-on and Sega Mega CD? Troll bail anyone? smh
1. Human Element: 2015
2. Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6:Patriots :2013
3.Watch Dogs: 11/22/13
4.Star Wars 1313: TBC
5.Destiny: 2014
6. Beyond Good & Evil: 2014
7. Dragon Age III:Inquisistion: 2014
8. Cyberpunk 2077: 2015
9. The Witcher 3: 2014
10.Whore of the Orient: TBA
11. Thief: 2014
12. Battlefield 4: 10/25/13
13. Assassin's Creed 4 10/29/13 U.S.
14. Halo Xbox One: TBA
15. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014:9/20/13
16. Sniper Elite 3: 2014
17. Lords of the Fallen: 2014
18. Metal Gear Solid:Ground Zeroes: 2014
19.COD:Ghosts: 11/5/13
20. Wolfenstein: The New Order: 12/13
21. Forza Motorsport 5: 11/13
22. Quantum Break: 2014
23. RYSE: Son Of Rome: 11/13
24. FIFA 14: 9/13
25. Dying Light: 2014
26. Titanfall: 2014
27. Lococycle: 11/13
28. Dead Rising 3: 11/13
29. Sunset Overdrive: TBA
30. Killer Instinct: 11/13
31.Project Spark: TBA
32. Minecraft Xbox One Edition: 11/13
33. Max and the Curse of Brotherhood: 11/13
34. Crimson Dragon: TBA
35. Below: TBA
36. Kinect Sports Rivals: 11/13
37. D4: TBA
38. Tom Clancy's The Division: 2014
39. The Crew: 2014
40. Mirror's Edge: when it's ready
41. Zoo Tycoon: TBA
42. EA Sports UFC:
43. NBA Live 2014: Fall 2014
44. Madden NFL 25: Late 2013
45. Final Fantasy 15: 2014
46. Kindom Hearts 3: 2014
Xbox one will be here just as long as the ps4