MMGN user blog: Recently looking through the pre-orders trying to work out what to order this gaming season (September – December) and you can't help but think, how many sequels do we honestly need? Some games it seems perfectly fine but other seem to be over the top.
In the future clones walk amongst us, and you need to kill them before they kill you.
EA Sports is teasing the announcement of a new college basketball game. This would mark the publisher’s return to the sport since 2009.
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.
That's not true at all the OG Xbox had drive and they had hunger and they wanted to accomplish something. It was a great console.
they didn't quite reach their goals and they gave up prematurely because they couldn't win. It was halfway through the Xbox 360 when kinect released and that was when they lost their way and we're a rudderless ship ever since
In all fairness, Xbox had some great games with online play, Xbox 360 even better. Xbox consoles started to die with the Xbox One. Ditch consoles for the PC and PS.
@Bathyj hard to compute ay. Xbox was never better than a PC and that's all they ever were. A demo box. Doesn't get more true than that.
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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.
Isn't the point that it's irrelevant how profitable MS is, the suits have decided it's time that the Xbox division started making them money. Hence the layoffs, the pivots.
That wouldn't surprise me, as motorsport has been heading down hill since the great number 4. Where as playground have consistently put out better games. I think the two studios will be merged under playground games banner.
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"Don't get me wrong in all this, I still line up every year and buy my sequels, I still get hyped and I still love to play them, to find out what my favourite character is doing this year and how they will inevitably triumph over the impossible, but for once I wouldn't mind finishing a game, and not seeing it pop up and steal more money from my wallet two years later. *Glares at Batman*'
No ones "stealing" money from your wallet. You CHOOSE to buy these games. Btw, no ones forcing you to buy these games Day 1. You can wait till the price drops.
Its not that bad really, only games that are coming out too frequently from his list is NFS (9 in the last 5 years lol), CoD (Don't even need to go there as there is soo many) and Assassin's Creed (7 not including the 3DS one).