In an interview with The New York Times, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the naming of Microsoft's Xbox and Zune products:
"When it came time to name Xbox, there was certainly a class of people who wanted to have Microsoft and/or Windows more prominent. They all lost. And it was a wise choice."
The new unit comprises over 500 developers representing the entire World of Warcraft development team.
I used to be anti-union, it kills productivity, investment and turns product mediocre. Their games suck anyways though so what was lost? Might as well get their people paid until they are dissolved.
Unions are necessary regardless of how you feel. You know how fked the working class would be without them. As if we're not already.
No they aren’t, regardless of how you feel. Unions make zero sense for skill based labor. They are for people who press a button every 10 seconds on an assembly line. “working class” is a made up term. I don’t care about corporations or developers, I just want good games lol. Killing your incentives to appease the lowest common denominator doesn’t lead to great games imo
I wasn’t trying to be offensive if I came off that way. The Union is an old mentality and I can see their usefulness but also the danger. We’re in the age of AI and robots and skill based labor. Unions can be dangerous these days. You could replace your entire workforce in one move. Checkmate. Look to the kiosk replacing workers in the 20 dollar minimum wage era.
Well run businesses don’t need unions. If you need a Union that business won’t survive anyway. Unless it’s propped up by the government with corporate welfare (which is the real issue). If you’re not going to spend some on your workers (Amazon, Google) then your welfare is cut off. No tax breaks. All you put together don’t match their wealth and resources, the union is a traditional memory at this point and counterproductive with this new enemy we face. They need a flying elbow from the top ropes. And by “working class is a made up term” I just mean we’re not a class system and even CEO Bobby Kotick puts in a days work lol. Or did.. It’s just a vague term that doesn’t mean anything no offense lol. People say “middle class” but that can change quick right? Up or down. That’s not a “class system”.
Modders have cooked up something pretty special – a Wii console which is small enough to fit on your keys. A wee Wii.
Another studio has held layoffs, this time its Humble Games letting go of its entire QA team according to social media posts.
They will rehire cheaper labor during the restructuring. The stupid thing is that they are struggling and the first thing they do is lower the quality.
No doubt they didin't name it Xpod, because they know PS3 is gonna own Xbox 360 5 to 1 and it would be embarrassing for them, but then again what if Xpod sold loads, they could pretend the Xbox 360 has sold loads as well lol hahahaha!
I still think they could have found a better name than Zune.
If they had called it Xpod, then it would have to do with Xbox and Xbox 360, but the Zune is its own little media player that does not play games and stuff like that. Like Im sure it will hook up to the 360 and have great connections with it, but its mostly a non-gaming media player, sao calling it Xpod would a) mean that it would have some resemblance to Xbox, and b) theyd get sued from Apple for stealing key components in their iPod name. Zune is pretty neat and at 229.99 i think it is for 30GB of music and video and all that stuff, is a way better deal than 400 for a 20GB Ipod Video, dont you think?
Why does the most extream Sony fan keep posting MS news?.
who cares about what the zune does? i love ms but have no desire to get a zune. who cares what it can do when ms can (and pretty much is with vista) make a pc operating system that caters to the 360. can sony do that? no. can nintendo? no. is sony going to be able to play cross platform with pc users? no. is nintendo? they'll be lucky to make that thing compatible to a stopwatch.