Personally I find it difficult to believe that the Zune was only released last November, but I guess that's the side-effect of big rumour run-up periods. Anyway, Microsoft set themselves the goal of selling one million of the little buggers in six months, and according to Entertainment and Devices Decision President Robbie Back they've actually done it already.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
Their reputation was lost way before that. From the moment Microsoft said they entering the console business, we all knew it would be a downgrade.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.
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Ross Scott—also known as Accursed Farms on YouTube—has been fighting tooth and nail for almost a full year to help spearhead game preservation. Starting after it was announced that Ubisoft's The Crew would be shutting down, permanently ending support for the game, Scott launched the "Stop Killing Games" initiative.
That makes a twofold deadline for the Stop Killing Games initiative. Or, at least, one headed up by Scott: The UK petition, which ends July 14, and the EU Citizens' Initiative, which ends July 3.
If you live in the EU then Please sign this or our game ownership rights and game preservation is
at stake. I know there isnt much time left but please consider signing the petition
People whine and in the end don't do a thing. Then whine more when they get screwed some more smh. If this makes it then it'll be monumental for consumers. That Pirate software guy was no help either smh.
There are many exciting updates this month for Xbox. Copilot for Gaming is available now for early preview on mobile and will be coming to PC soon. Xbox PC app introduces a wave of new updates: Aggregated gaming library gives players quick access to games from Xbox, Game Pass, and other leading PC storefronts, and with publisher channels players can browse their favorite franchises. Updates for the Xbox Console includes customization for Most Recently Used, free-to-play benefits, Game Hubs, and dialog improvements for game saves.
"Players can now hide system apps, pin favorites to the list, and reduce the number of tiles displayed. This update is part of our ongoing effort to make Home more personal, flexible, and responsive to feedback."
This is welcomed, i like a less cluttered home screen.
Gotta be a slow news day when a 18 hours and 3 comments (now 4)makes it to the front page🤷🏿
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Well anything that adds and help gamers is a good thing even if some don’t need it there’ll be more that will use it.
Well its MS news... those are usually pretty dry, unless it has something to do with another game being ported to PS. then its top of the pops.
"Well its MS news... those are usually pretty dry, unless it has something to do with another game being ported to PS. then its top of the pops."
Oh look no further than the "Upcoming layoffs at MS" topic. It will easily top the Hottest of the week.
Special guests like Mr. Dead might also show up. You just watch.
for a revision/redesign and a price drop.
1 million down 99 million to go.
I believe the iPod is over the 100 million mark already.
Good for them.. the Zune is a great piece of hardware, hopefully they can continue to build on this momentum.
If you think their going to catch iPods anytime soon then you are truly delusional....its about market share, and M$ is just trying to "steal" a small percent of iPods dominant market share. -What's wrong with that? The goal is to make a sizeable profit, many many business's are very successful but they are not the market leader. -Hell, Wal-Mart is the undisputed king of bargain retailers, but many others like Target are having alot of success, even though their market share is far behind Wal-Mart....which is why 3(maybe more) consoles CAN co-exist and be successful because if enough Gamers support them they all can be profitable, UNfortunately only one (1) can be the market leader= FORTUNATEly the "war", means its a good time to be a Gamer!
I had an ipod and a zune and the zune is waaaayyy better. 14.99 for every song you could ever want. Huge screen, i can put 49ers on my backround. Just like the xbox ms has a 20 year plan. they cant really lose. the market is far larger then 100 mil. there are nearly 1 billion people who can afford one and thats alot of people. if anything 500 million. they are even updating it soon to let us wirelessly download movies, music, pics, etc. then they put games on it and merge it with the 360 and put my gamertag and gamerscore on there. i can see whose online and playing. sick. watching all my game videos on widescreen is dope and the thing is 200$ now. the ipod is a rip off. small little screen and everyone has one. zunes only gonna get better. ms too rich to stop and they have a plan to take over our video games, mp3 players and living room.