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The Reveal of the Xbox One, Five Years Later

Gamerheadquarters; "What an interesting reveal event, it's certainly always going to be remembered and not really for being something that was entirely successful."

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AspiringProGenji2167d ago

Uncle Mattrick was just following orders. he did nothing wrong

chrisx2167d ago

the xbone reveal has to be the worst video game console reveal of all time.

2pacalypsenow2167d ago

Exactly, I don't know why people blame him for the Xbox 1, he still answers to his boss. People forget that Phil Spencer was also there.

People think that these corporate guy can do whatever they want.

Gazondaily2166d ago

"People forget that Phil Spencer was also there. "

He wasn't the head of Xbox.

"People think that these corporate guy can do whatever they want."

Then who does 'whatever they want?'

2pacalypsenow2166d ago (Edited 2166d ago )

The shareholders who Phil and MS answer to.

If Phil could do whatever he wanted, Xbox would have a lot more games right now.

MS wanted to take on the living room and built Xbox around that, and when it backfired, Mattrick was their escapegoat.

AngelicIceDiamond2166d ago

"MS wanted to take on the living room and built Xbox around that, and when it backfired, Mattrick was their escapegoat."

He wasn't a scapegoat hes the one who issued all the policies. Way before the console reveals he evaluated that most ppl were connected to the internet across the world, therefor made a console centered around that as you said before.

Gazondaily2166d ago

Uncle Mattrick did nothing wrong. But Spencer did everything wrong...

AngelicIceDiamond2166d ago

Lol it was all Mattrick. He was the Head of Xbox hes also responsible for not building 1st part studios for Xbox at the time. Leaving MS to suffer in the future, or now rather. And now Phil has to build up 1st party. God knows how long that's gonna take.

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narsaku2167d ago

That reveal sank their entire brand, it's unreal.

Xbox went from coming out of nowhere, lasting a 4 year generation with the Xbox, then going toe to toe with the biggest names in console gaming the next gen later.

To this.

A bloody joke. Not just with pro TV, but half baked games, scummy service models on top of their already disgusting, "pay for the privilege to use your internet", service.

My only hope is the Master Chief X version is great and Halo6/Fable:Next and new IP's are GOTY material, but I just don't know if they can be when they're made by that company.

Idk, time will tell.

Godmars2902166d ago

"Coming out of nowhere"?

OG Xbox fell on its face, last millions because of a tech flub, the 360 repeated that, had a bad launch but recovered thanks only to MS money and the PS3 worst launch, then promptly sat on it's laurels while also trying to shove Kinect down people's throats.

If anything, you could pretty much see the XB1's launch happening as it even without the leak.

Razzer2166d ago

Huh? 360's launch was very successful. It sold extremely well. It stumbled months later with RROD, but initially it was well received.

Godmars2902166d ago

RROD, along with disc drive issues, was day one. It took months to be recognized and acknowledged by MS.

senorfartcushion2166d ago

I don't know. I'm over it.

The reveal of the next consoles is going to be identical: always online, high price, no discs.

Gazondaily2166d ago

That reveal absolutely shot down years of good will in an instant. The last gen Xbox was already faltering in the final few years with its exclusive output. Then in comes the reveal of the Xbox One making every conceivable mistake possible.

Bundled Kinect
High price
Focus on TV
No actual Kinect games or use of the tech
DRM
And on and on..

The Xbox One reveal was the most disastrous reveal of a console that I can recall. 5 years later and whilst many things have been righted, the core problem, the exclusives still hasn't been solved. It makes the Xbox brand the weakest it has ever been since it's inception.

AngelicIceDiamond2166d ago

Wow at stating the obvious? The Xbox reveal was a complete joke an shot themselves in the foot multiple times.

Razzer2166d ago

Yep. And Sony contrasted the X1 perfectly with PS4 lower price, no red tape, and a simple focus on games. Microsoft handed Sony a perfect storm.

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All Call of Duty Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Call of Duty has to be the most recognizable franchise on the planet. They didn’t get that way by only making a handful of games.

COD has a long and storied career. Launching as a PC WW2 first-person shooter, Call of Duty has gone through numerous makeovers and been on just about every system. The series has gone through some serious highs and tragic lows. I’ll be looking at each Call of Duty game, the good the bad, and the ugly."

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UnSelf800d ago

Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking

Minimoth800d ago

Yeah, it's close to the bottom. There are a couple of worse ones. Infinite Warfare definitely deserves its place.

KyRo800d ago

There's a number a lot worse than Vangaurd. It's also a lot better than that car crash Treyarch released before it.

XbladeTeddy800d ago

World at War is my favourite. Didn't know the N-Gage had a Call of Duty.

MadLad799d ago

Same for me.
I was never huge into Call of Duty, but I sunk a lot of time into WaW.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer are on point. Wouldn't mind a remaster.

I quit on CoD for a long while. Though I'm the odd man out that actually really enjoyed the campaign for WWII, being I got it through Humble monthly way back when.

TheLigX800d ago

I really enjoyed the Infinite campaign. Multiplayer... not so much.

Yppupdam800d ago

I agree, The Infinite campaign feels more like it's own thing that they slapped the CoD name on. If it stood on it's own, (sans the CoD name) I think it could have been it's own scifi franchise. And a damn good looking game, to boot. I never bothered to play the multiplayer.

victorMaje800d ago

MW 2019 apart from the desastrous file sizes is way better than AW.

MadLad799d ago

That was one I grabbed for Playstation because it pretty much just came out during the Redbox purge of videogames, and I got it for dirt cheap.

It was great coming home to an update every night, and watching one game eat up almost half my console's memory.

Amplitude800d ago (Edited 800d ago )

Will get disagrees but Infinite Warfare campaign was really good. Decent story, set pieces were amazing and if it didn't have the CoD game on it I'm sure people would have been more into it. Advanced Warfare was alright too. Titanfall 2 was just 1000 times better than both but I enjoyed them for their campaigns. I literally barely gaf about the story I'm in it for the set pieces and 5 hours of being stoned watching cool nonsense happen if I'm in the mood to play a CoD campaign. If I'm looking for a deep plot I'm gonna go somewhere else.
Ghosts was the worst story-wise though lol that cliffhanger ending was so bs.

Also MW 2019 was sick and is one of the best CoD games in yeeeears not sure why it's so low on this dude's list. Campaign was great, multiplayer was great and Warzone was fun for a while. Over it now but shrugs.

Beat the Vanguard campaign too but I can't even remember a single thing about it other than that it felt like it was 45 minutes long. Might be the most forgettable thing I've ever played lol just fully erased from my brain

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Call of Duty Multiplayer This Decade Ranked (2010-2019)

Call of Duty multiplayer ranked from worst to best! 2019 is coming to a close and MP1st ranks the best COD multiplayer games this decade.

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Ray Tracing in Monster Hunter World, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Watch_Dogs 2, COD: Ghosts & more

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members Benchmark PC Tech, Jose cangrejo, WillTalksTech, Zetman and MissinInAction have published some videos, showing Monster Hunter World, Black Mesa Xen, Watch_Dogs 2, Call of Duty Ghosts, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, The Sinking City, Remember Me, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Dishonored 2 with the ray tracing/path tracing effects that Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod introduces."

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Pyroxfaglover1761d ago

Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine

MarkyMark891761d ago (Edited 1761d ago )

Agree, but this gives me hope that one day Ray Tracing can be a software based feature and not require some type of proprietary hardware to achieve. Software will always outpace Hardware so it could happen, but I feel like its going to take a lot more time to achieve the same level that RTX has already shown glimpses of so far. Really just waiting for Cyberpunk to see if RTX is actually something viable. I think if anybody can truly showcase RTX Features it would be Projekt Red.

zeal0us1761d ago

Too bad it doesn't make Mankind Divided a better game.

starchild1761d ago

It doesn't need to, the game was already fantastic, imo.

zeal0us1761d ago

Human Revolution was a better game and not to mention longer.

isarai1761d ago

Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"