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.
The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.
Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)
Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke
Really good video.
I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.
Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.
Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue
I found this video painful to watch. Can someone list them out?
Top 10 for me from are:
1. 2013 reveal presentation
2. Bundling Kinect 2 with Xbox One
3. RRoD or why rushing to market with hardware is always a bad idea.
4. Buying studios only to close them.
5. Ads on the Home Screen
6. Letting Halo die.
7. Letting Geard of War die.
8. Every console name
9. Charging for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 when Sony let PS3 players play online for free.
10. Cancelling release of OG Xbox games after the Xbox 360 launched.
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
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.