The digital age has arrived. Does this mean that one day all games will be digitally distributed? Many people think so, but I beg to differ.
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.
@christopher: “ That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest”
The key word big can be ether good or bad 🤷🏿only time can tell
First Forza being generated entirely via AI?
If any company would do it, it'd be them.
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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This article is pretty weak TBH
While there will probably be some physical media it will not be the norm it will be a niche. And it will be more than enough for most people, in fact that it's already enough for a lot of people on the casual facebook/iPhone/flash game portal end of the spectrum is already enough. And some PC gamers have also gone 100% digital as well.
While Internet is currently not as wide spread as it needs to be it is rapidly expanding and getting faster every year. Also trends like streaming are becoming ever more popular, also in many Asian countries Internet cafes and the like are vary popular and free to play MMOs mean that the physical media is almost irrelevant in those places already.
As for the attachment to holding physical media there is a way of getting that without physical media, Special editions that come in a box with maps figure's, posters etc can still happen without physical media for the game.
And finally the attachment to physical media is last generation thinking, the next generation will not have the strong nostalgic attachment to physical media so they won't care about not having a disc. The Article should be titled "Digital distribution will never be enough for me".