Kluge Interactive has announced Synth Riders support for Oculus Rift has now ended. Owners can submit a request for a SteamVR version.
Xbox CFO Tim Stuart discussed the application of AI gaming, the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Game Pass, and how Microsoft measures success in gaming.
"Stuart explains that Xbox's mission is to bring its first-party experiences and subscription services to every screen that can play a game.
That means smart TVs. That means mobile devices. That means what we would have thought as competitors in the past, like PlayStation and Nintendo."
Third party train has arrived in the station. Ready to depart console business when next gen happens.
Basically microsoft is ditching xbox asap and going all in with gamepass
This realy feels like Xbox is ready to become third party. Not necessarily kill Xbox consoles, but kill exclusivity.
MS becoming a third party publisher is all but a done deal at this point.
But they’ll not specifically say it as their fan base would go f******* off it and they’ll probably think they’ll just end up pushing some of their fanbase to Sony
"Success for us is we can keep growing that content and services revenue double-digits. [...]. If we can grow faster than the market is growing, we are taking share in the gaming market.
And that's where we want to be. It's a 250 billion dollar market. We are not 250 billion dollars."
Their goal is a monopoly
It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft shift from a console to an amazon firestick sort of device that can be plugged into a tv/monitor and connected to a controller.
It shifts them out of the console business, keeps them on their path of providing gamepass to devices.
From Xfire: "Imagine a PlayStation that could sense and react to gamer's joy, frustration, or boredom."
technically this could be used to enhance games. Struggling with something and just broke your controller. We see you, dial down the difficulty to noob so you can finally have that dopamine rush of excitement which comes from finally beating that boss...
I mean, I agree, no thanks, but patents like these tend to be rather premature and something that wouldn't come to fruition for a few+ more decades. Proof of concept and trademark so others can't capitalize on the idea... Even then, it did come to fruition it still requires the player to have a camera in their room or a headset on. Long as they don't force something like this similar to what XB did with Kinect then to each their own I suppose. It's a hard pass for me though, and if they tried to force something like this on a PS console, see ya later PS.
Turn up. I'm ready. Let's open the flood gates, I'm in a hurry to some something "actually crazy" in gaming.
The Intellivision Amico saga took another turn today as it was confirmed that the company is to release a smartphone application for iOS and Android that will effectively turn your handset into an Amico console.
