Microsoft's invasion of the living room is going into overdrive.
Comcast's Xfinity on-demand service, HBO Go and MLB.tv are now available through Xbox Live -- and they're arriving right as the console undergoes a major transition in how people use it.
While the Xbox is still very much a gaming machine, it's now being used more for watching TV and movies and listening to music than it is for blasting opponents in Halo or Call of Duty.
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
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.
I play mostly battlefield 3 but when im not playing i use it to watch tv. I don't have cable to i watch tv shows there :D
That would be a great multipurpose machine for the TV lovers too! Just like me!
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See, you can't say "xbox haz no gamez". It's a set-top box with a gaming option.
I could be wrong, but other articles have reported that Comcast and HBO Go are not working on the 360 as of now, so that's one thing.
Additionally, I think it speaks more of the audience the Xbox has than the popularity of online entertainment versus gaming. No offense, but the PS3 crowd seems to be, generally, more geared towards playing games on their PS3, though I will say that I note a number of people on my friend list watching Netflix at the end of the night. Simply put, though, I think the crowd the 360 caters to is more likely to use their gaming system for things other than games.
Edit: What I mean by audience is their shift to a casual focus. Netflix is one of, according to the article, more than 30 such apps on the 360. I suppose I could make the argument that there are likely more WORKING PS3s than 360s and so it's expected that it would thus have higher Netflix usage, but that would probably be dismissed as fanboyism or some sort of conspiracy theory about the RROD and Microsoft's numbers. Or you could think of it the way many PS3 supporters think of exclusives: with so many to choose from, the usage gets spread out among many, instead of being concentrated on a few.
In any case, the audience Microsoft has set its sights on in recent years is one that is more likely to use social and entertainment apps than play games. This isn't, inherently, a bad thing, but the fact that Microsoft itself has put gaming on the backburner in favor of virtually anything else on the system IS.