The Xbox One isn't having the most successful of launches. It launched at a higher price than its competitors, but it's becoming clear that it isn't as powerful as Sony's less expensive PlayStation 4. Recent sales data seem to show the PlayStation 4 outselling the Xbox One at a brisk pace. January's NPD data (as reported by Engadget) looks particularly troublesome for Microsoft's new console. This makes it no surprise that Microsoft recently announced a price cut for the new TitanFall Xbox One console bundle. It amounts to a $50 price cut for the console, with the game as a free digital download.
A third game in the Falconeer series has been announced as the second, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles, launches.
While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.
It's been a problem with pretty much every modern AAA game all through last gen and this gen. God forbid you point it out tho because all these big games are masterpieces and people lose their minds if you criticize them. Death Stranding is a fetch quest fest, but people will die defending it cause it's a "masterpiece".
Is Capcom justified in releasing the game with 21 downloadable items?
all which you can earn IN THE GAME BY PLAYING.. sheesh.. people need to chill and stop trippin'.
capcom has done this with every resi game since 2, with devil may cry 4 and 5.
we should be complaining about the poor Performance
I'll be handing out homework In the form of research on the essence of the boiling frog syndrome because the comments already are afflicted with this.
*Performance comment Is spot on 5+ points.
Accepting that these publishers have these types of mtx In games Is tiring, "well, they've done it with their other IP" so should we accept it? Your acceptance of it happening is ruining gaming, just to make it clear.
But it's okay though, you can earn the stuff ingame. 🙃
Having not actually played the game, but only heard about what microtransactions are on offer, no. Dragon's Dogma 2 has not taken microtransactions too far. I think a game would have to go to extraordinary lengths to qualify for the statement 'taken microtransactions too far.'
I mean, I remember a rant from yonks ago (Dungeon Keeper mobile) which, just from memory, went WAY further than Dragon's Dogma 2, with literal days of waiting to mine a single block, and a huge price mark-up to advance.
So, no, Dragon's Dogma 2 hasn't gone 'too far.'
Microsoft has been trying to justify the Kinect for years, this is what was produced after 4 years
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Still Microsoft tries to ride this device not many gamers even care about to the death.
Not to mention this.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Reminds me out the cloud hype. Microsoft has quite an imagination.
Yes, they sure need to justify the device that set a Guinness Book of World record for The fastest selling consumer electronic device.
http://readwrite.com/2011/0...
24m is such a failure, how did MOVE do??? lol
Speaking of Cloud hype, exactly how much money is Sony and Nvidia throwing into the Cloud:
http://www.bloomberg.com/ne...
http://www.vg247.com/2013/0...
Listen to the fanboy responce, too bad they forget that BF4 and The Order 1886 are not 1080p.
Too bad they forget that no PS4 retail exclusive runs at 1080p 60fps like Forza 5
Too bad they forget the list of X1 games running at 1080p or 900p:
X1 native 1080p
Forza
Stryder
NFS
UFC
FIFA
Halo CA
Dying Light
Kinect Sports Rivals
NBA
TombRaider
Rayman
Wolfenstein
Murdered Soul Suspect
900p or close
AC
Ryse
TitanFall
Thief
Watch Dogs
what?
skype, better navigation in menus,"xbox record that","xbox broadcast" Gesture control, some interesting games like kinect sports, and D4, and extra few games with command.
Not enough?
gamers today complain about everything, want everything given with little money,
Also one must justify why a car has a radio, the focus of the car is to walk?
why a plane has wheels, it is to fly? : D
Xbox was taken to give all in one, to have a gaming machine with kinect to stream, skype, and voice and gestus controls, and multi functions, and for some more casual games.
stop crying, and I accepted, whoever buys, who does not want to not purchase.
I miss gaming there 15 years old ago, where there were these ridiculous issues, and accept any console, and it was super praised, was at any price and with what.
nowadays just complain until the price of games complain, they want everything free lool
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Believe it or not there are people who love the xbox brand but hate having to pay extra for kinect and are holding off on the system until they don't have to pay extra for it anymore.
It's not them expecting free things it's them expecting value for money and at $500 the xbox one though they have much love of xbox isn't good value of money to then simply because the kinect is worthless to them and many gamers.
The article is correct in so far as saying that Microsoft have to prove kinect because if it becomes worth it's perceived value to the consumer base people will want to pay for it. Until either thay happens, a price drop or the removal of kinect, xbox one will struggle to sell as meaningfully as the competition.
Pre Xbox One reveal and launch: "Hahaha, every new ms game is going to be a kinect game"...fast forward to present day: "hahaha Kinect has no games!"
-__- pick a side internet. Kinect does what it is intended to do for the Xbox One.
We complained about the Kinect focus that MS had (I know I did) and now that they are very focused on core games, people want to moan about the lack of content? Do people really want to play more Fable Journey and Fighter Within?
I'd prefer Kinect remain a peripheral controller alongside the regular controller. Fully Kinect games should be left to Harmonix.
What MS need to do is keep improving app integration with Kinect, voice commands to support more languages and use Kinect in every 1st party game as an optional control method, but please no more Kinect exclusives unless they are sports or dancing games.