Just when you tought Sony had won microsoft pull a hat out of their rabbit ... i mean huh.. .
Well not really..
Its STILL more expensive, and it STILL has an inferior offering of games (well, in my opinion anyway).
And all it proves is that Sony was right.
Its damage control. As simple as that.
(And I still plan on getting a PS4. Sony have proved overall this past year or so that they offer superior services and better exclusives in the long run)
I guess this shows that there's at least one person at Microsoft with a functioning brain cell. It's a little late, but better than just barreling ahead with their crazy train.
Yeah this actually changed very little for me. I'm still getting a PS4 on the fact that it is $100 cheaper alone. However, this doesn't mean I won't buy it later down the line, which I guess is a plus for Microsoft.
This is great news that I really didn't see coming. Kudos to Microsoft for listening to their customers. That being said, I'll still buy a PS4 before an Xbox simply because of the price difference and the fact that it looks like Sony is better at supporting indie developers.
Actually, bringing up the argument when this was just a rumor, that they were talking about all of this at E3.... why didn't they announce they weren't doing that AT E3?
Any publicity is good publicity, and the XBO has been on everyone's mind, with everyone tuning in to Microsoft events to see what's going to happen for the better part of a month. Or even longer, if we go all the way back to Adam Orth's comment.
The more I think about it the more I feel like they should have stuck with their guns... The damage has been done, might as well make the best of it. The DRM crap was never a hardware problem, it was a PR problem, and they botched the hell out of it from a PR perspective
I don't think any amount of PR would have made that lot palatable. Maybe next generation, when people are always online and console discs are a thing of the past... not now.
If they just kept doing games for the 360 instead of putting a shitload of money into a console that is literally getting more backlash than the South Park episode "Trapped in the closet" not getting aired. They would have avoided the never ending arguments on the internet.
The thing is, with this Microsoft has just proven themselves unreliable and the entire original concept of the XBox 180 a complete and utter lie. They always gave the impression that the DRM features were integral to the system, that it was the whole point of it. Undoing that may be a huge win for consumer's rights, but it also paints the company as massively untrustworthy.
The thing is, with this Microsoft has just proven themselves unreliable and the entire original concept of the XBox 180 a complete and utter lie. They always gave the impression that the DRM features were integral to the system, that it was the whole point of it. Undoing that may be a huge win for consumer's rights, but it also paints the company as massively untrustworthy.
Yeah. Like the meme I posted here earlier, Major Nelson himself said just a few days ago that removing the Xbox DRM is NOT as easy as people were made to believe, but this clearly shows that it was easy. What else have they lied about?
or xbox where just trolling us the whole time about it.. to see if they can get away with it..
yeah lets totally fuck over every gamer and enforce retarded restrictions... just to see if people will lie down while we take them from behind..
maybe not in this generation but the next.. cos we know what sony are doing but we figured why try and beat them at e3.. cos we know fan boi's will foam at the mouth but we wanna see how much they really hate these idea's.. think of it as free feedback/ public survey
or xbox where just trolling us the whole time about it.. to see if they can get away with it..
yeah lets totally fuck over every gamer and enforce retarded restrictions... just to see if people will lie down while we take them from behind..
maybe not in this generation but the next.. cos we know what sony are doing but we figured why try and beat them at e3.. cos we know fan boi's will foam at the mouth but we wanna see how much they really hate these idea's.. think of it as free feedback/ public survey
genuis or lost touch with reality ?
Well the whole affairs given them a hell of a lot of bad PR, so the 180 may have saved them from their former path of business suicide, but we wont see how many customers pissed off by this may not chose to come back.
Ultimately though this is good news, though i admit i'm a little disapointed that i won't see how it would have panned out. The Xbox One is now a reasonable option for people, its more expensive and less powerful still, but for those interested in its functionality or what Kinect can do, it's now legitimately the better option.
This 360 owner for one is still getting a PS4 instead, but with these changes, somewhere a year or two down the line when it's a little cheaper with a lot of exclusives, i wouldn't rule it out.
Then tell me why the 360 sold so well when their exclusives were shit compared to the exclusives on the PS3.
The same reason the Classic XBox didn't fail - teh Haloz.
Microsoft targeted their consoles at the people most likely to play online - male teens - and got some good games geared towards them. Dead Rising, Gears of War, Halo...
Just because Sony had the better exclusives (and they did) didn't stop people who'd gotten into gaming through Halo wanting to keep getting the newer games in the series, or continue with the same console that got them into gaming. Brand loyalty and all that.
It's dated. Badly. And a lot of the features it introduced are widely despised (quick time events, anyone?). But overall, the Shenmue series has a compelling story that, if nothing else, I'd love to see finished in some form.
I don't hate QTE and I like it in Shenmue where you are chasing someone they throw like pipes down and you then have to quickly press A and B or something to jump over it makes it fast paced and doesn't just feel like press this to win.
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Its STILL more expensive, and it STILL has an inferior offering of games (well, in my opinion anyway).
And all it proves is that Sony was right.
Its damage control. As simple as that.
(And I still plan on getting a PS4. Sony have proved overall this past year or so that they offer superior services and better exclusives in the long run)
XD
I guess Joe must have got to him.
"Let me check this shit..."
".... OH... HE WAS RIGHT!! 0_O"
*pushes DRM button*
It is still £70 more and less powerful...
Long Term...
Well...
They might announce Viva Pinata 3...
The thing is, with this Microsoft has just proven themselves unreliable and the entire original concept of the XBox 180 a complete and utter lie. They always gave the impression that the DRM features were integral to the system, that it was the whole point of it. Undoing that may be a huge win for consumer's rights, but it also paints the company as massively untrustworthy.
Yeah. Like the meme I posted here earlier, Major Nelson himself said just a few days ago that removing the Xbox DRM is NOT as easy as people were made to believe, but this clearly shows that it was easy. What else have they lied about?
yeah lets totally fuck over every gamer and enforce retarded restrictions... just to see if people will lie down while we take them from behind..
maybe not in this generation but the next.. cos we know what sony are doing but we figured why try and beat them at e3.. cos we know fan boi's will foam at the mouth but we wanna see how much they really hate these idea's.. think of it as free feedback/ public survey
genuis or lost touch with reality ?
Well the whole affairs given them a hell of a lot of bad PR, so the 180 may have saved them from their former path of business suicide, but we wont see how many customers pissed off by this may not chose to come back.
Ultimately though this is good news, though i admit i'm a little disapointed that i won't see how it would have panned out. The Xbox One is now a reasonable option for people, its more expensive and less powerful still, but for those interested in its functionality or what Kinect can do, it's now legitimately the better option.
This 360 owner for one is still getting a PS4 instead, but with these changes, somewhere a year or two down the line when it's a little cheaper with a lot of exclusives, i wouldn't rule it out.
a price of a console means nothing with out the games...
but xbox gets stuff quicker/first..
some people want to be first in line..
But it also had fewer games.
Then tell me why the 360 sold so well when their exclusives were shit compared to the exclusives on the PS3.
Xbox One
Dead Rising 3 looks like something out of COD. Instead of being comical like Dead Rising 2, its dark & gritty.
Halo is just Halo
Sunset overdrive looks good
Forza looks like a normal racer
Xbox Live Gold recently announced 2 free 4 year old games every month
PS4
Has Drive Club and has made it first person.
Has inFamous Second Son which is being developed by Sucker Punch one of the best Sony developers.
Has Killzone Shadow Fall again a first person shooter and I didn't really play any Killzome games so.
Knack looks like a creative game.
PS Plus gives me around 5 free games every month and most being under 2 years old.
Microsoft targeted their consoles at the people most likely to play online - male teens - and got some good games geared towards them. Dead Rising, Gears of War, Halo...
Just because Sony had the better exclusives (and they did) didn't stop people who'd gotten into gaming through Halo wanting to keep getting the newer games in the series, or continue with the same console that got them into gaming. Brand loyalty and all that.
And the Jimquistion has a special on the 180 debacle.
I have heard of that game before is it any good ?