Gameranx: "It's been a highly competitive summer for hardware, and that can only be a good thing for EA."
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
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
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.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
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.
No doubt MS ran into troubles.. as of now those troubles are really nonexistant..just look at the preorder numbers.
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Microsoft ran into troubles because the community did not see their vision. There is nothing wrong with a digital machine they offered many pros to going all digital. They wanted to make a machine that was actually something new and innovative but we as consumers were to ignorant to see past things due to all the trolls brain washing people. Personally i paid my xbox one off when they first announced it i would go back to that X1 tomorrow if they asked, i dont want discs anyway, nor do i trade them in or sell them.
MS has seemed to get it together as of late and Sony has been cool, calm, and collected since the ps4 announcement.
This is the full quote:
"“I think the Sony team has executed exceptionally well – and they did not execute particularly well on PS3, whereas last time around Microsoft executed perfectly,” he told Edge in a recent interview. “This time, Microsoft has run into some challenges, some leadership changes, but they’re a very resilient organization, and if you look at their counter punches on any setbacks, they’ve done a pretty good job of getting back on track.”
Nice way to cut his comment so you can get hits.
I say the Xbox One is the talk of the town right now for the right reasons too. Even though the gaming media may not wan't to flip flop on the company/console they backed due to the DRM smear campaign, MSFT and XB1 are on fire with hardcore gamers and casuals.
MSFT is "Executing Exceptionally Well" right now. If you disagree it's because you're sheltered being in echo chamber blogs and forums that censors news.
I can't believe MSFT turned this thing around without the help of the gaming media. MSFT wen't straight to the gamers.
Sony sits back rides the smear campaign wave with a free pass/ride and only says *me too* *I can do that too* without having to show how their console works and no real details about anything, only having to repeat one meaningless spec talking point.
MSFT is putting in work and it's paying off. Next year will be crazy with Titanfall, Black Tusk, Fable, Halo 5, Quantum Break, Crack Down etc. etc. If one of XB1's AAA's were delayed there would of been 100 doom and gloom articles of many flavors posted, media would not let that go.
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