The Xbox one, upon its unveiling, set the bar high for a gaming console. So, high in fact that it no longer is a gaming console, it is a media hub; much like your cell phone is more of a mini computer with a phone application. Don't misunderstand this point as the Xbox One is still a fine gaming beast capable and intent on delivering some of the best gaming experiences of this generation. It’s just that at this early stage in the Xbox One Lifecycle, the focus is clearly on the other functionality offered by the Xbox one. So, what exactly is the Xbox one trying to accomplish and how does it fare trying to be so many things while attempting to earn the title All-In One Entertainment System?
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.
The full Skewedcast crew back for this episode and Gareth, Justin, Michael, and JoeyZ at Skewed and Reviewed break down the latest entertainment news qith a focus at 40:00 on the Microsoft Studio Closures and how it impacts the game community and what can be done to help offset this negative trend.
Loving my ONE, looking forward to the future...
The One changed how I use my Home Theater and most likely what the masses will expect of electronics in general, forever.
The cloud stuff and the way the XB1 was built from the ground up for cloud compute will be a even bigger jump than the XB1 and Kinect 2.0 was.
Loving mine aswell
Love bf4 and NFS and DR3 is really fun also
The true next gen console with awesome features.
Is anyone else's home screen navigation super choppy? I swear it wasn't like that at first and now it feels clunky.