GP: "Sometimes mistakes happen and things don't always work out as planned. But when it comes to technological wonders that cost millions of dollars to produce, you expect at least a little bit of testing to be done to make sure the product works as intended. But as we all know, that doesn't always happen. In fact, things can fail so badly the company responsible can lose out on millions of dollars fixing it.
You would think with so much on the line companies would try harder to keep their products from having such insanely devastating flaws, but it happens way more than you think. In fact, here are five such instances that had to have left a sour taste in each company's mouths."
One of the founding members of the Xbox team has questioned Microsoft’s multiplatform gaming strategy, and said they believe the Xbox hardware business is effectively “dead"
Think that rumor that they'll still make a new console but at a profit at $1000 will be true though. The series consoles will remain their cheap alternative throughout next gen I would say. Keep in mind that game pass and pretty much going 3rd party is their main focus. They want to bring xbox everywhere.
TNS: Based on its most recent ESG data, Nintendo boasts a remarkably low staff turnover rate of just 1.9%, with virtually no reported layoffs.
Well it doesn’t surprise me. As much money as they make and how they value their employees. It’s a great company in that regard.
Well, when your games remain full price many years after release.
And you make profit off of outdated hardware.
I would be shocked if they couldn't afford to retain their staff.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
How microsoft turned a profit this gen with the 360 is a miracle(read xbox live gold) with the rrod fiasco.
xbox 360 got red ring of the death 2 times so i gave up with that.
ps3 2 of those failed and killzone 3 came out and i was very disappointed with that.
ps3 got hacked and that is when i decided to switch to pc gaming exclusively and i don't regret it.
http://us.playstation.com/p...
http://raptr.com/Farsendor/...
last game i played on a console was killzone 3
No YLOD???? 8 Playstation 3's in the first year. I gave up and tried again when the slim came out. Everyone I knew too also had a terrible problem with YLOD. They had minor RROD problems, I luckily never had one but ylod was waaaay worse than rrod even though rrod. Take note too that I prefer most of my gaming on PS.
The PShack was terrible too, luckily I don't play online all that often so I didn't fully get effected.
also I already know I'm gonna get a bunch of sony fanboys coming in and saying that my yyold problem was not true and blah blah blah but save it, it happened and Sony did absolutely nothing about it and denied it even to this day.
7 360s that either E-74, RROD, sent a PAL console from support when I needed NTSC...yeah, I think the 360 and its support is horseshit.
Next gen I'm wasting a dime on anything MS until after a year on the market. Maybe 2. I'm not going to allow them to give me a headache.
The most annoying one was the 360 being rushed out with a high percentage failure rate(which Microsoft knew all about) just to get their console out 1st!! I've never owned a 360 but it still annoys me how they blatantly ripped parents who were buying them for their kids off!! And those same kids come on here and defend them!!!