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It's Microsoft's Fault That Videogames Are Bad

It behooves first party publishers to provide top quality productions that make their consoles worth buying. Nintendo and Sony have both produced amazing games to sell us on the PS4 and Switch.

Microsoft, however, is different. Microsoft has decided to act no better than a grasping third party "AAA" publisher. Even worse, it set the tone of a generation and contributed - perhaps more than any other company - to the nasty normalization of excessive monetization.

It's Microsoft's fault that videogames are bad.

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Srhalo1834d ago (Edited 1834d ago )

I have been saying this kind of stuff forever.

Honestly he skipped over much of the most egregious things Microsoft does and has done, but it's still good work.

Short term memory people and people who don't understand why people don't want an xbox need to keep being reminded of this stuff.

I don't know why anyone supports them, from the very beginning Microsoft has don't nothing but be a damaging influence on gaming. Pretty much all the bad trends you see today were initially born from Microsoft's greed. They have zero interest in gaming as an art or any desire to make a good game just because they can.

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Imortus_san1833d ago

Do you even kow that Microsoft did MS DOS and windows and is responsable for gaming existing like today, what a joke of a comment you have.

Godmars2901833d ago

Did you know that DOS was practically given to what would become MS by IBM which was a hardware company which didn't want to branch out into software?

battlegrog1833d ago

Dont forget apple probably wouldn't be around anymore if it wasn't for ms funding it

AmUnRa1833d ago (Edited 1833d ago )

Yeah and MS was "using" the OS from IBM changed it, and called it heyr own. That is the true history....

rainslacker1833d ago

DOS was around before MS distributed it. It wasn't even required to have MS-DOS in the earlier days of boot disc gaming on PC, as the game developers would distribute their own drivers.

MS is responsible for the way modern PC games are made, and to their credit, DX was something that PC gaming sorely needed. If such a thing hadn't come about, then there is no way GPU's could have gotten to the point they are without some other company doing it. This may not seem like such a big deal now with only two competitors in the 3D GPU market, but there used to be a lot of GPU vendors, and having a fight over which one could make the best drivers, which would likely lock others out, would have held back PC gaming for a really long time.

Not that MS didn't also hold back PC gaming by locking DX behind newer versions of windows, but that's another matter.

However, the discussion presented by this video, and being discussed here, isn't about what good was done for gaming by any individual company, but rather, the things MS has done, which has led to bad practices against the consumer which were introduced by MS. I'm not going to say MS is guilty of being the first with all the things presented, because I know they didn't come up with all these schemes. But they were among the first of some of the examples posited to push them as a central part of their marketing and distribution ethos.

MS does indeed have some good things they've brought to gaming. But at the same time, some of those things may, or rather would have come about either way. Network account centralization being among their biggest achievement with the Xbox brand. Centralized achievement systems(although it's subjective if that's good). Things like standard hard drive in the console would have come either way.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that MS is at fault like being presented in the video. I think the entire industry played a part in getting to where we are today. MS may have introduced and normalized some things we don't like, or have just accepted are the norm now, but chances are, most of that stuff we would be dealing with anyways. What MS did was finding solutions to "problems" that existed within the industry. Those solutions benefited them, while annoyed us. If MS hadn't found those solutions, then someone else would have. MS just took a lot of ideas from others who failed at makign them a thing.

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madpuppy1833d ago (Edited 1833d ago )

This is wrong, Bill Gates purchased MS-Dos from Seattle Computer Products for $50,000 and licensed it to IBM for it's first Personal Computer.
That was essentially the creation of Microsoft as a company. Bill Gates Mother was a powerful business woman with very close ties to the Leadership of IBM at the time....Nepotism at it's finest. If it wasn't for Bill Gates mommy, Microsoft may have never existed.

Godmars2901833d ago

@rainslacker:
"I think the entire industry played a part in getting to where we are today."

That's not a legitimate excuse. As a console maker, as the holder of the leading platform when the 360 ruled, MS greatly influenced the industry. EA was all but a subdivision of Xbox.

@madpuppy:
Wow. DOS's history was worse than I recall...

rainslacker1833d ago

@God

I wasn't using it to excuse MS of anything presented in the video, or being discussed here. Just that the original poster was off base, and I went into more detail about all that.

I don't excuse, or even really blame MS, for the stuff in the topic at hand. Maybe for paid online, but the rest probably would have happened with or without MS. Just look at how publishers followed the mobile market practices to monetize their games, and while the console makers enabled them to be able to do that on console, they probably would have been pressured to do so anyhow.

For all the blame one may throw at MS, the industry as a whole is trying to move to make more money. I'd expect that from a business or an industry. The problems come in that those moves aren't lining up with what is in the consumers interest, even though these companies, and the industry, will try to present it as something that is good for the consumer, because it gives them more, even though it's less, but with a price or some consideration attached.

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Saranya1833d ago

Don Mattrick(also Steve Balmer), he's only one to made Xbox brand failed.

Rachel_Alucard1833d ago

Satya Nadella is outdoing them in failing somehow.

JeffGUNZ1833d ago

The amount of bias you have skews your judgment. I will make this simple; every business everywhere wants to make the most money it can. The fact that MS is the evil one because they started charging for Live, but Sony gets a pass for them following is laughable. Do you even remember how better Xbox Live was to PSN back in the day? Xbox Live had so many features PSN lacked early the last generation until PlayStation began charging. Now, both services are fantastic. Regardless of that, Sony is just as guilty for greed as MS. All companies are guilty of it. It is amazing to me to still see people have this blind loyalty to a gaming console they happen to prefer. I love my PS4 and my Xbox One X, but I don't give a crap about Sony or MS enough to spew this fanboy nonsense. If MS provides a product/game I desire, my support falls in that purchase. Same with Sony. I mainly game on my PC, but it is laughable for people to throw all the blame on MS for starting this stuff and by some odd train of thought, justifying their platform of preference for following suit. Can't we all step back and agree companies don't care about us and only care about money? Do you think these guys running Sony or MS are only in it for the joy they bring to you? Get real, they want more money.

We exist in a world where games are being pushed out not completed and patched weeks to months later. We live in a world where season passes and Microtransactions are now taken over rewards that we used to unlock by just playing the game. We as gamers have been throttled with bullsh*t over the last decade and all we do is pick one company and blame the other. It's sickening to see this, why are we all not united against this hogwash?

SegaGamer1833d ago

I don't know how anybody can disagree with you, it's all facts.

Rachel_Alucard1833d ago

Who made it a norm in the industry for Sony and Nintendo to do it in the first place? Oh yeah.

DaDrunkenJester1833d ago

@Rachel

So you're saying MS has so much influence that both the gaming giants Sony and Nintendo couldn't have fought back on it?

Are we also going to blame PSNow for creating subscription based gaming on consoles since it was the first and clearly influenced the likes of GamePass and EA Access?

gangsta_red1833d ago

Excellent post and it just shines a light on the hypocrisy of this site and certain users who constantly like to blame one company and give the other(s) a past.

That is what's so funny about a theme I've been seeing when trying to only blame MS. How MS is forcing other companies to do the same. It's downright hilarious to even read it.

As if MS could force or strong arm Sony or Nintendo to do the same tactics.

Do you know how much praise Sony or Nintendo would get if they both offered free online or no microtransactions. But no, they too followed the trends and saw potential profit in services and followed suit.

They were going to do it with or without MS's entry into the gaming market and people are fooling themselves if they don't think so.

Rachel_Alucard1833d ago (Edited 1833d ago )

At no point am I saying Sony is better in any comment. But to dismiss the one who created it just because their competitors decided to follow what the west does a decade and half later is pure fanboying.

Imalwaysright1832d ago (Edited 1832d ago )

Rachel_Alucard

Oh the irony. You were defending Sony and Nintendo a few comments above and even made the pathetic point that they were just following because they thought it was the norm in the west. I felt some of my brain cells dying when I read that utter crap. They followed because it makes them money, that is it. They are not exempt from blame. No one is.

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AspiringProGenji1833d ago

“The xbox has coasted by on being the system you get because your friends have it” -Dunkey 2019

notachance1833d ago

to put it in a perspective..
how many users here are new XB fans that started from XB1 era and not a remnant from previous gen?
compare that to the number of new fans of PS4/Switch

battlegrog1833d ago

Been enjoying xbox since the first, never bought a microtransaction in my life. This article's stupid or maybe video game players are. They have contribited more than some few shaddy moves that someone else did or would have done regardless of who took the lead on it first. People are in control ofwhat they do

DerfDerf1833d ago

It's definitely gamers as a whole. Unfortunately quite a few of them are simply idiots.

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notachance1833d ago

@ndonnine if n4g loves click bait and bullshit this site would consist of 90% MS fanboys because that's what they're doing all this gen

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Soybetaboy1833d ago

Wow what a reliable source
Let me quote some guy and call it "FACTS".

AspiringProGenji1833d ago

Except I didn’t call it facts

CorndogBurglar1833d ago

It's in quotes. And he named the person that said it. He never claimed it was a fact. Do you think anything with quotations around it is supposed to be a fact? That isn't how things work.

Soybetaboy1833d ago

Then why bother quoting.....exactly

Godmars2901833d ago

Sadly, those were the days when COD dominated the gaming scene. Did its own level of damage to creativity as all companies made clones.

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Father__Merrin1833d ago

xbox OG was excellent especially the clancy games, 360 was superb loved it, xbox one was drab from the begining with hardly any games of note just the same games from last generation ie gears forza halo. microsoft now are selling on average 40k consoles per week its a dying console and ppl on here still feel the need to support them even with no games, whilst the competition soars ahead.....

Godmars2901833d ago

Sadly, MS's tone deafness regarding game development has been on display since OG Xbox. They may have started big with and even had some successes with the likes of Ninja Gaiden and Splinter Cell, but when multiplayer came to Halo, that was pretty much it.

RizBiz1833d ago

What was superb about the 360? It's impressive failure rate?

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nitus101833d ago

@someone72

I still have my fully working FAT PS3 which I brought day one of release.

Father__Merrin1832d ago

it had a massivly impressibe library of games 2007-2009 i much favoured it over ps3 at the time

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Nintendo To Go In 'Different Direction' To Current AI Trends, Says Miyamoto

Music to our ears.

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“There is a lot of talk about A.I., for example. When that happens, everyone starts to go in the same direction, but that is where Nintendo would rather go in a different direction."

Good on Nintendo for not chasing the next big thing.

Aussiesummer1h ago

Well nintendo has always been about innovation so I'm not surprised.

badz1491h ago

LOL simply because they don't want to invest in it and stick to their outdated approach. See the next pokemon game on Switch 2 will look like something that should come out during the PS3 gen

WolfSeed1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Translation: We'll wait until it's cheaper.

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Ubisoft CEO says Assassin's Creed Shadows and Ghost of Yōtei 'can both sell very well' in 2025

“I would like to say that there’s a lot of space for very high quality games," says Yves Guillemot.

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Kaii4h ago

" very high quality "
That's only true for one of the two though, and we all know which one that'll be.

DarXyde4h ago

I promise, only one of them will.

And it's the one that is the better franchise and respects the historical context of the region.

Hotpot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Dude’s getting the sweat because star wars outlaws underperformed, and that’s with far smaller controversy compared to AC shadows.

Extermin8or3_1h ago

The AC shadows controversy is fucking ridiculous though.

Abnor_Mal4h ago

Well of course, but AC: Shadows will be on more platforms so I would expect it to sell more than Ghost.

raWfodog2h ago

I won’t be buying either until 2026 though lol

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Ubisoft Has Already Recouped the Money it Spent on Activision Cloud Gaming Rights

Ubisoft announced on recent earnings calls that it has already recouped the cost of Activision/Blizzard streaming rights - which were only between €50M and €100M.

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