"Microsoft blew minds and won hearts when they announced backwards compatibility for the Xbox One. This is a huge victory for players and has undoubtedly helped sales. It is a big step towards closing the market gap and puts the Xbox One in position to make the comeback of a lifetime. It also has the fringe benefit of blowing up the Xbox One library. In terms of size, the PS4 and Xbox One libraries were neck and neck until a couple weeks ago but now Xbox stands on the cusp of pulling far, far ahead. So what does all of this mean for Sony? Will it affect them and can they compete with it? -- PlayStation Now
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Microsoft's future in the video game space is murky right now, so let's break it all down.
Not anytime soon. But they're on that path.
One thing not mentioned in the article is Microsoft's money bags. If Sega had Microsoft's money, they would have still been around as a hardware manufacturer. Xbox as a platform only survives because of the money bags. They can continue making consoles for the core and port to PC.
The multiplatform strategy is only the result of arrogance and misguided leadership that blew up in their face. They thought gamers would jump on Xbox in droves if they knew that many of their favorite games would be only on Xbox. But that's not happening at all. Sales didn't increase. They decreased. Why? Because the dumb asses thought giving away these expensively made games in a cheap service would also turn the tide.
Gamers on other platforms are willing to buy quality. They don't need to be handed nearly free games in a service that aren't even finished and sometimes average in their development. Gamers buy Nintendo games. They buy Sony games. Microsoft groomed their base to not buy games. Even the quality ones. It has always been their plan to go digital. But most gamers still like single player gaming. Still like physical releases.
Microsoft's problem has always been that they don't produce high quality games at the same output as Nintendo and Sony. Actually, they should be producing quite a lot more because they're worth over 2 TRILLION. How they don't have more is ridiculous and no excuse. Buying publishers to take away from competition only backfired. Because it still takes millions of dollars to continue to make those games from the publishers they snatched. Their only choice was to crawl back to their competitors to help sustain those developers because Nintendo and Sony platforms were the ones buying games.
Am I sorry for Microsoft? Hell no! They deserved last place for putting in the least effort. They deserved the fallout for buying up the industry and didn't make a single blip on the radar against their competitors where they now need those same gamers they took away games from to support them. Part of it may have been to cash in on their competition. But the result is the slow death of their platform. They may go 3rd party. They may keep making hardware. I don't give a shit about them to worry about it. I only give a shit about the destructive nature of their industry moves that only negatively affect gamers. They could sell and drop out of the industry and I wouldn't blink. Probably laugh. But not blink. They deserve whatever comes to them. At least Sega put in the effort when it came to games. They just had poor leadership. Microsoft has poor leadership and barely makes memorable games. That's a killer combination. And not in a good way.
Not sure about that. It's been two decades and I still think about Power Stone, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Seaman and others, but I'm not sure I'll remember Xbox Series X/S games in a few years from now... Maybe I'll remember about the franchises that the Xbox brand spawned, but I don't believe that the Xbox Series lives up to the late Dreamcast or even to the Xbox name itself. I do have great memories about the 360 with Blue Dragon, Gears 2 and Lost Odyssey though
No, Dreamcast was ahead of it's time and most still have very fond memories of it that had one. It also had some good games on it even in it's short lifespan. Xbox has none of these qualities.
beating a dead horse..read several articles on this already...but both services are targeted to different markets. ps now is mostly appealing to those without a console and may not really want to invest in one but try out games since the device they use supports it. backwards compatibility is purely towards gamers. its adding an entire library of xbox 360 games to xbox one, so its a totally different beast. its something ms needs now to compete against sony. its a really good move but nothing that will shake sony up. because its the new games that people will prefer over older games. that being said, older games will be valued in the long run because it never hurts to be able to play more games on one console than less.
This again. When PS Now allows you to stream games you own for free it can be considered comparable to BC. As it is right now, they are in 2 different leagues.
I have no interest in either one - give me NEW games.
PS Now is not even a BC solution, its a streaming service. Also Xbox1 BC is not really all its cracked up to be since it works on a game to game basis that MS themselves would need to support rather than a full fledged emulator.
Why are we still getting these articles?
Xbox BC won, end of story.
One you get:
1. Play the game you owned for free without a fee.
2. All digital X360 games that are made compatible will just show up on your XB1 dashboard for you to D/L.
3. All saves, DLCs, and achievements will be carried over (it is like you never left the x360)
4. Allow user to use XB1 features like snap, DVR, screenshots, Twitch streaming, etc..
5. Once the game has been D/L and installed on the HDD or external HDD, you can play locally without having to connect to the internet.
6. Ability to play online games against both XB1 players and X360 players.
Vs
1. Have to pay a monthly fee to pay, even if you already own the a copy of a PS3 game.
2. The PS Now games are the bare bone vanilla version, which doesn't have DLC, can't carry your tropies, saves, etc over to the PS4.
3. Can't take advantage of any PS4 features Like broadcasting, Shareplay, etc if someone want to play a PS now game on that console.
4. Streaming quality depends on your Internet speed and and is PS now network dependent (if the network is down, you are S.O.L).
It is like the Golden State Warriors playing against the New York Knicks. Ie...no contest. I don't want to see another article about this comparison again as it is a lopsided argument.