Head of Xbox Phil Spencer spells out the platform's goals for backward and forward compatibility going forward.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
"The company was unable to focus enough on its main hope"
Nope. Going back to the 32X as the reason Sega lost that generation doesn't go back far enough before the Saturn.
Sega executives need to blame themselves as to why Sega lost that generation. Not Saturn. Not 32X. Not Sega CD. Nope. Executives were the reason why. It wasn't the hardware. Those devices were either dropped early or released to soon resulting in a developer backlash the hurt the game catalog. They really shouldn't have been made at all because they should have planned their next move more carefully. It has nothing to do with the devices. Poor leadership decisions and lack of unity within the company are what happened.
Love how blame is always shifted away from what is the truth. Writing a book placing the blame on the 32X isn't the truth.
Chris D. Spoke with the Chiodo Brothers at PAX East about Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game and their Career.
The upcoming update with ability to buy X360 BC games on XB1 is a great feature. This will no doubt will entice more publishers to allow more BC titles as they can earn extra profit at no additional effort. I suspect we will see many more x360 titles made BC after the Spring update.
SWEET
So when can we start to see the forward movement to bring OG Xbox games to Xbox one .
All I need for BC now is Tales of Vesperia, Lost Odyssey, and Fable Anniversary. Everything else I'd want is now either already available via backwards compatibility, or got an HD remake for the Xbox One.
I hope MS' effort pays off financially since it cant be easy to do this.