Howstuffworks writes,"As of 2001, roughly 79 percent of America's youth play video games, many of them for at least eight hours a week. Beyond the obvious issues of concern, like "what happened to riding bikes around the neighborhood," there are bigger questions. Many people wonder how this type of exposure to violence as an adolescent effects social behavior. The rise in dramatically violent shootings by teenagers, many of whom apparently play violent video games, is helping the argument that video game violence translates into real-world situations. But other people aren't convinced and insist that video games are a scapegoat for a shocking social trend that has people scared and looking to place blame. Entertainment media has always made a great scapegoat: In the 1950s, lots of people blamed comic books for kids' bad behavior.
Video games as we now know them are only about 20 years old, so there's nowhere near the amount of empirical evidence for or against their violent effects than there is surrounding, say, television violence. And even that's not a done deal."
Xbox and EA have recently made baffling moves that define how bleak the future of the gaming industry is with major companies at the helm. Ryan Bates from "Last Word on Gaming" posits in this op-ed that maybe it's not ineptitude, but intention.
Name someone that isn't trying to look us these days maybe cdpr.
Take two, ubi and yes even PlayStation are pushing us to own nothing and be happy with our live service ad injected games on a sub so they can raise prices at will and take access away when they see fit.
If it keeps up I'll be a full time retro gamer and this industry will be crashing hard
As rediculas as it sounds we need government reforms to defend consumer rights
XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon has founded a new studio to make a life sim game. Here's a new interview with him.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
"Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware."
It's for the best.
Quit stringing along xbox fans and screwing over PlayStation owners.
An Xbox game on a Playstation. Never in my years of gaming did i ever thought this was gonna happen.
No way can they get rid of the hardware as probably 90% of game pass subscribers are hardware users.
Highly doubtful those users will move to PC or Cloud to subscribe there and the competition (Sony and Nin) will never have gamepass on their system.
If they want to keep the current subscribers, they need to keep releasing new hardware.
I'm not convinced, why then announce that they're actually working on the next-generation Xbox with “the largest technical leap”, and also looking into handhelds now?
Not like MS don’t drop things a hot potato if it is not performing. Look at MS history to see products or platforms discontinued. Xbox is not a charity for MS, it needs to make money and the ABK was the last roll of the dice for Xbox.
Xbox hardware team members have been incorporated into surface team
This perhaps shows they are not expecting big things from Xbox as a separate entity
Seems like they are planning to win next gen. All the acquisitions were this generation and nobody except Xbox fans expect games from the acquisitions any time soon.
I’m sure Microsoft can afford to lose money on the short term, pretty sure they do risk assessment when acquiring many companies and spending billions, they’ll be fine lol.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
They wont kill it, but they will go fully PC while keeping xbox as a brand, and go multiplatform for the most part. They will also work tirelessly to diminish console gaming’s importance.
It would be best if Xbox goes the way of Sega, just make and publish games. I know I myself will not support them at all with buying games from them, you all can. 🙃
The Xbox brand will live for the games. I don’t expect Microsoft to entirely drop out of gaming hardware. They make Surface tablets and laptops. They’ll make Xbox branded hardware for those that want it.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
Starfield would be no surprise and there's the rumor that it will come to Playstation after the Shattered Space DLC, Forza (along with Halo and Gears of War) I find less likely but I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually end up on PlayStation too, especially if Xbox give up on hardware and go the Sega route.
Not to worried about forza. I'd rather see others like what inxile and obsidian are working on. Starfield sounds like it needs more time in the oven so let it cook first imo. If starfield and it's a small if does release on ps it'll be in the fall around the time for dlc or right at the dlc and come packaged with it.
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
100%!!
I wonder what happened to that dude that was always here posting those court articles with cartoons about MS spending all those billions in studios. He suddenly disappeared, I guess he doesn't like bad news when the green brand is in trouble. No new articles from him as of late...
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Violent Video games in no way what so ever lead to real violence. Anyone is capable of violent behavior. Some suffer real problems, but somehow the video games that serve a violent nature are blamed.
Vilent games are not intended for younger audiences, but these kids manage to get their hands on them. Why is that??? If a parent is dumb enough to allow his child to play games with such graphic content, then the parent is responsible. But, then who allows a child to rent or buy these adult only games? When I was younger I always got carded when even renting a movie with such violent content or movies that contained sexual nature.
Alot of problems in our society cause people these days to do horrible things. Anything you can think of is a possibility to the cause. But why blame a persons actions on something else. No one knows what goes on in a younger persons mind to commit such horrible acts. I don't blame violent games because these games are not intended towards the younger audience. I blame the people who allow the younger ones to get their hands on games of this nature.
Its funny to say violent games that contain alot of shooting can raise concern when it comes to teenagers shooting people. Gangs have been around alot longer then games with violence. Younger people are always somehow manipulated into these gangs. And to my knowledge, anyone can pick up a gun, point it at someone and pull trigger. So whats so different really.
Just cause your young, doesn't give you the right to pass judgement on to something else. The person who commits a crime has no one to blame but theirselves.
Let's be honest, the world has never been a safe place. Violence has always existed and humans have always had the capacity for it in reality - it did not suddenly appear after games were invented. Did playing cops and robbers as a child make me want to go and rob a bank? No, it didn't. And it's really strange that when we can enlist into the army (UK) at 16 and train to defend our country and in the process have to kill and then even have a debate about the moral issues/affects surrounding playing games. I understand the need for the debate but Games and gamers have just become an easy punchbag of late and it really irritates me.
Putting it in context is also important which is something the popular media fails to do on the whole. We have wars, famine, genocide, terrorism, lying politicians, poverty and 'games' ... spot the odd one out.
Bottom line ... adult games are for adults not children. GTA4 is woefully innapropriate for children as is COD4. But playing the game doesn't suddenly turn me as an adult into a raving psycopath! I think the main problem is that parents and teachers have slowly had their ability to chastise children in their care removed so who is going to control the (small) number of children running amock? ASBO's don't work. We can't lock them up. You can't give them a clip round the earhole ... society has gone mad around us.
I think gamers are undervalued in society or at best misunderstood as being 'sad'. Look how much cash we put into the economies of the world. People should love us! ;)