As we reported earlier, Xbox Wire (the news outlet for Xbox) has recently revealed new details about the Xbox One. And they’re not pretty.
The signs are pretty clear that Microsoft are trying to move away from building a good reputation with its most loyal fans, and are mostly looking towards the large, short-term profits coming from the mainstream. Will it pay off in the long run, though?
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
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.
Microsoft's business model is the same as it has always been: draw blood from the stone. Instead of expanding their market with brand-new IPs (okay, they did have Kinect) or offering their customers more value, they try to get more money out of the same customers (Xbox Live Gold, DLC, increasing XBLG price, advertisements on the dash, etc).
Xbox One's business model is the logical extension of what 360 has been doing for YEARS. Draw blood from the stone.
They will never touch my money.
Microsoft may WANT it, but they never get it off me.
I DON'T WANT A PAY WALLED CABLE BOX.
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I always felt like Microsoft's Xbox One reveal was meant to be shown to its shareholders only.
They want your soul too.