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.
"The global gaming community is gearing up for an unforgettable experience this November as DevGAMM, the renowned international game development conference, descends upon the enchanting city of Lisbon.
Set against the picturesque backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean, this inaugural event will take place on November 16-17 at the luxurious Oitavos Luxury Hotel in Cascais, Portugal." - DevGAMM.
"The Game Development World Championship (GDWC) celebrated the 2023 Summer Season with an Awards Stream on Thursday, September 21st. At the event, GDWC announced winners in 11 categories for the Summer Season." - GDWC.
Today Unity revealed a rather radical change to the new pricing policy announced a while ago, following the massive backlash from many of its developers and the wider gaming industry.
It's ugly, but I think they deserve a second chance only because they, at least, admitted they took a wrong turn, and they want to straighten things up. unlike for example, Nvidia.
Remember, competition is good for the consumers. we don't want them to go out of business, but to do things fairly.
It's only a matter of time until something else disagreeable becomes policy. The stage has been set. Stone has been cast. Can't rewind time like you can in their game engine.
Not sure why the downvotes...probably people who have 0 dev experience(or socialists lol). Competition is essentially for quality products.
Get out of here being logical and level headed on the internet. You can only spread hatred and be obstinate with zero exceptions. Obviously nobody being overly dramatic and critical has ever made a mistake. Otherwise they wouldn't be so quick to place permanent judgement on anyone....
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.