"The next generation of home consoles is tantalisingly close, we all know it, even if it hasn’t been confirmed by the likes of Sony or Microsoft. Our first official confirmation on the future of home consoles is set to be dished out in spades at The Future of Playstation meeting being held by Sony on February 20th.
While we’re all excited about the prospect of playing into a new era of gaming and marvelling at the wonderful technology that’ll be present in these next generation systems, there’s an awful lot that could go disastrously wrong.
Speaking completely as a person who enjoys an hour or two of playing video games each day, there are some features of the next-gen consoles being rumoured and leaked that worry me, and I’m sure they worry a lot of you too." - The Games Cabin
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
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.
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.
None...ps3 and 360 sold over 180 million units together already so why worry abo. Next gen
yes, lets all put ourselves through some stress and worry over videogame systems ?
in my factual opinion, we need to have an up and down vote option for articles . . articles with the most down votes get blocked from ever posting another article for 6 months, after being evaluated by a professional . . the Article with the most up votes gets nothing but fame and recognition. .
the fact that this guys starts his argument by saying this:
1. Used games
I buy a lot of games, probably too many..."
He Immediately kills his argument. You've already given the publishers areason why they wish to end the sale of secod hand games. You admitted that you 'buy too many' great for you but terrible for publishers.
What a tool. learn how to write!
It's true Nintendo do new versions of games and consoles with some individuality ect not just a simple numbered strategy ie ps1,ps2,ps3,ps4 ect there more unique in their games approach as well as their consoles it's why i think Nintendo with WiiU and 3DS and maybe even a GameBoy U sometime in the future who know's but i do know Sony and Microsoft just slightly update games slap a number 2/3/4 on the end and expect you to get excited ?