Come relive the biggest surprises the year had to offer with our look back at 2013's most unexpected moments!
New data shows Xbox Cloud Gaming’s most played games match console trends—including major hits like Call of Duty.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer suggest Xbox Game Pass is no longer as important to the business as it once was.
Truth is that it was always sort of a lie. You were getting a couple of “day one” per year but they had trained people to think they were going to get all games day one.
That is just false. It was never even eluded to that any games other than first party would be day one. Also it’s only April and we’ve already got more than “a couple” day one games.
Cmon guy. You really believed all games were coming day one when they've always said 1st party only?
They did it really carefully, i didnt say they ever said “all games are day one” but they created an impression like that was the case. For instance nowhere did people actually see a list of day one games in articles or from MS’s mouth, but they kept saying “all first party” as if the number of day one games was something amazing. Truth is that they were getting a couple of games per year max on average. (Not sure what its like now)
@GhostScholar
Again, not sure what you got this year. But honestly is it even remotely worth it? Also, they get “day ones” on PSPlus as well, just not first party, and they are not paying $20/month for it.
It's not like they could do any differently, it takes a lot of money to keep the Gamepass monster fed, to put the majority of games on there day one is just going to drain too much money. They may have considered it at one point to try and kill off Playstation/Nintendo, but it's not a viable long-term strategy.
What are the ethics of expending massive amounts of capital, energy, and man hours on not even a worse version of a game from 30 years ago, but a vague impression of it? These are the questions PCGamer's Ted Litchfield pondered after having gotten motion sickness playing a game for the second time in my life with Microsoft's Copilot AI research demo of Quake 2.
Actually whats key here is the AI part and rather it's ethical or not to be making games using it.
Depends how you think about it, not everyone is going to be happy.
It's like AI art, I see there's already many pissed off about it.. what else can I say. I guess it's like marmite.
Well I hope nobody wanted to go to school to learn programming games with hopes of working their way up. Microsoft is hell bent on destroying gaming.
AI has been used in gaming in many shapes and forms for like 10 years now, this is nothing new, won't be the first and won't be the last and the hardware in your pc/console also uses AI, it's literally already everywhere in gaming and you didn't even notice.
Microsoft is showing you their plan is to create whole games with AI, replacing all the humans who create the games.
You can't write this off by saying "a GPU has AI" the GPU isn't replacing any humans.
Every company would be creating full AI games if they had the chance and could get away with it, or the company hates money.
You do realize if they test an AI to build a game, they can detect what parts of it, it does well and only implement the things it does well, just an example i came up with in 5 seconds. An army base doing a drill doesn't mean they're going to war and a company doing tests with AI doesn't mean they will switch full development to AI. Why does it always have to be on the extreme end....AI can be a very important tool for devs, if it gets developed and tested well.
The gpu was just an example, he implied AI was some sort of cancer yet he doesn't mind benefiting from it himself.
That really does look like a bad rip-off of Quake, just because you could do something, doesn't mean you should. Plus, it that demo video looked stuttery to me.
Definitely wasn't expecting the 2DS.
Worst surprise was that Sony is charging for online play on PS4.
Best Surprise: The PS4s price.
Worse Surprise: The Xbox Ones DRM policy.
Watch Dogs shouldn't have been the only hot next-generation title in the works. The first party publishers really should have cranked out something that got rated 90 or more. The only company to do so was Nintendo, but its games debuted on a system that was already doomed, the Wii U.
Best for me is TLOU (PS3) and worst is a tie breaker between that awful DRM issue and the terrible 2DS console. That is a terrible, terrible design. Bring back Wonderswan lol:p