Microsoft's emergence as one of the big three video console makers has been a technological achievement. Yet the company has never made a penny of profit on the business, even though it's been selling consoles for six years. Now the software giant admits missing its already lowered sales targets for its Xbox 360. And it will take a $1 billion (Rs4,050 crore) charge to recall defective units. It's time for the group to stop pumping quarters into this project.
"While the 20 year anniversary edition of Nordic Game, NG24 Spring's homepage on 21-24 May in Malmö, Sweden, is getting closer, the organizers announced that more than 150 speakers are now lined up for the show." - Nordic Game.
The gaming industry has drifted away from offering full-fledged games to putting unfinished titles that are jam-packed with microtransactions on the market.
It's not the fault of the gaming industry. Gamers were told what was happening, were warned about where this would lead, did nothing, and now are acting like it's the fault of publishers that they kept buying these games and investing in MTX. If only those gamers at that time felt as strongly about these things as they do Helldivers 2.
This is what amazed me the most when playing hours upon hours of stellar Blade version 1.00.00 no bugs, no crashes, no sudden drops in frames, no screen tear, no falling from the world, just a complete package on a game under 50GB.
I think Korea will play a major role in gaming in the long run , because they're releasing banger after banger.
Still pretty common to find if you stay away from the AAA publishers, in the last 10yrs ive probably only bought like 3 games combined from EA/ACTIVISION/UBISOFT. Even now i still buy games that work right out the box perfectly fine. Just recently got like 6hrs into Alone in the Dark, and not a single sign of any of that bs, really enjoying my time with it.
And we as gamers have to accept our role in that. Constantly never being satisfied. Constantly demanding more while paying less. Constantly demanding better frame rates, better graphics, more modes and faster faster faster…. Then review bombing the product when a demand isn’t met. Meanwhile those same demands are making games more difficult, complex and more expensive to create than ever before, on shrinking timelines that burn out employees and make their lives miserable.
You wanna know why so many games get delayed? Cuz the original release dates weren’t realistic to begin with, but you can’t tell a gamer their game is further away than they want to hear. Some dev or game designer will be threatened physically. That builds even more pressure and rushing. We are officially squeezing water out of rocks and still complaining about that how hard you have to squeeze the rock be just waiting for rain. Most of the time we take it out on the developing studio, when it’s the publisher making the calls.
All you need to do is read the comments on most websites and social media to see how toxic, entitled and petty the gaming community at large is, and realize how that transforms into impossible expectations on the parts of game makers.
This is one battle that gamers have never won, hahaha. They were parading recently for their "win" against Sony. Where's the energy for this one, guys? LMAO!
With the Perfect Dark reboot set to launch later this year, it's time to look back at Perfect Dark Zero, nearly 20 years later.
At the rate xbox is going you'll have another 20 years to play the original before the reboot arrives
Is this article really trying to say they should just give up and drop Xbox for good? Yeah like that will make them money.
The 1 billion isn't for a recall its an extension to the warranty that is for 3 years so in all truthfulness thats 1 billion spread across 3 years.
You think Sony has made money on the PS3 yet? Maybe Sony should just give up on the PS3. Thats the philosophy this article is trying to give off. Sony and Microsoft use a strategy that this article doesn't understand and thats to first gather a fanbase and then make money from the fanbase.
If MS didn't wanted to build xbox with quality components, just shows no respectt for customers, now it's time to pay for that "smart" decisions and bad quality control. The cheap becames very expensive.
Who says that defective units recall will be enough to fix the "bug" ?
Tis a stupid article really...doesn't really think forward like a business, but pragmatically like an individual
Its also for the re-design to eliminate the problem altogether its not just writing checks and replacing 360's the Sony fanboys would have the world believe.
#2 what bug?. lol the problem is heat related has nothing to do with the brains of the 360 being sh*t lol.
People that have torn apart the 360 have found out why the 360 breaks despite what MS want to admit.
Its actaully won't be that hard for MS to re-design the inside of the 360 allowing it to run cooler and to reinforce the conections that work aloose when the board is warping is if ever does after the update which i doubt will happen. Just STFU no one wants to hear your ape minded logic.
1.5 Billion is for paying people back, Warrenty & redesign(probably with more advanced components that any of the consoles).
This is only fair and the media etc do write this sh*t to gain traffic etc, the PS3 will fail posts are no different.
Microsoft makes practically free money on xbox-live alone and advertisement.