Jason Stettner of Gamerheadquarters writes: "Games; games, games is all that seems to matter in the new direction that Xbox is taking moving further away from its initial media hub focus and alienating Day 1 supporters."
Stevivor -- "Finishing up our recent conversation with Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, we put him through a lightning round-style series of questions we affectionately dubbed, 'What would it take?'"
Most likely another lie like when they said xbox one cant work without kinect. That they cant reverse drm policies. That xbox one exclusives wont be on pc and other lies. Probably its just a ruse to encroach on gamers freedom to own their games and a way to start to slowly implement drm again
It would be really cool If they could get it to work offline. It worked really well with kinect v2 and my friends and I enjoyed doing many of the workout routines.
You'd think MS would throw some money to these license holders so they could keep this game going, they've plenty money, so why didn't they? Might have been a simple business decision that it wasn't making enough money for them, nah, can't be, MS isn't like that, they are consumer friendly and not all about the money!
Nicholas Simonovski and Andy Gray, both of Stevivor -- "I can say with 100% certainty now that I will not be going digital anytime soon. The reason for me no longer considering digital game purchases is the decision Microsoft made last week concerning Xbox Fitness. For those who didn’t see it, Microsoft announced that it would be ceasing support for the application. On June 27th they removed it from the Xbox Store, not a huge deal as those who have purchased games in the past were still able to play them if they were de-listed."
Stevivor -- "Xbox Fitness fans have taken to Microsoft’s Xbox Voice website in an effort to keep the app alive."
This is one reason to like MS, they give users a voice and they actually listen to their customers. If they see people want a service they can keep it going or add it in. That's why we got BC and background music. Maybe they can release it as a download/retail disc?
MS can't be trusted. By getting rid of the Kinect port on the new Xbone S and shutting down Xbox fitness is all you need to know. It is broken promises after broken promises.
What is there to stop them from abandoning console gamers completely once all their games are migrated to PC?
But there is one thing that will be brought back, DRM. All their PC games are digital only and is only sold in their own Windows store. This is a trap. When uninformed gamers are tempted to buy more digital games due to the promise of getting a free PC version with the Xbone version, they will once again bring back DRM and always online. That is their plan all along. People, don't fall for the trap and just don't support MS and all their gaming products.
Good thing they put Don and his policies into the garbage.
#neveragain