xbox-done

[Rockababy]

I want to quote that like... everywhere.

You can do that "Anonymoosly" im sure it will be fine =] (ooooh bad joke I love it I love it!)

[Gotenmaru]

LOL Sony trolled M$ so hard on youtube XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stiYAbaJY1w

[Catapult]

The three console giants basically saw the same thing: customers were getting ready to break up with them. They were getting too clingy, too costly, they weren't very fun anymore, and they just couldn't be trusted. Hysterically, all three companies basically engaged in the same behavior people do when a relationship is in danger.

Microsoft got insecure and domineering... it didn't want you sharing things with your friends, it started following you around and listening in on your conversations... checking if you lied about how many people were really at your "party"

Sony just wanted to make things right. It knows the gaming industry is making some mistakes right now, but baby, it can change! It'll be like it used to be, but better!

Nintendo... did what it always does when it thinks you're going to break up with it. It just told you, "Whatever, baby. Call me when you get your head together." and started working on the next Pokemon game, because you'll come back. You always come back.



I love that Sony's response to Microsoft is basically, "Look at how you're trying to solve your problems by making them worse! That's pretty funny!" while doing its best to make consoles relevant in 2014. Personally, I think they made a pretty good case for getting a PS4. It's about the price of a modest PC upgrade and will see you through the next generation of console/system exclusives without getting all anti-consumerist on you. I'm sold. Bring on that XV and KH3!

Moose, expect to be quoted and re-quoted.

In the end though, it is the games that matter. It's always the games that matter.

The combination of PS4/WiiU has the games I want and the consoles have managed to not piss me off. That is all I needed. /cha-ching

[Fatestorm]

Even with its trademark exclusives Nintendo needs to get the Wii U gaming library up to par and quick. I don't have anything against Nintendo at all, and I would indeed like to see their console succeed. Just needs some games. Even the example you give, Pokemon, will probably never be a game for the Wii U (at least primarily--maybe some later integration with your 3ds game or something).

Nintendo always shines on first party, and that's fine. As you said, we always keep coming back. I would just like to see more than just the usual suspects Mario and Zelda and crap. I kind of liked this in the Sony conference; I mean yes, they obviously would have led with this stuff if they had it, but I was glad that there was no "OMG NEW UNCHARTED, OMG NEW GOD OF WAR", which is precisely what the ign folks started bitching about once the conference was over. Really? We complain about a lack of innovative games in the industry, and then continue clamoring for the same old shit over and over and over?

[nasomi]

There's a reason why I never stopped following sony, and have ps1, ps2, ps3, psp, and ps vita logo's tattoo'd on my back. Looks like it's time to ink up again!

[Zehira]

LOL Sony trolled M$ so hard on youtube XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stiYAbaJY1w

Haha, that's awesome!

[KaiKatzchen]

This is just my option, but:

Sony did everything right, that M$ did wrong and obviously it worked well for the PS4. M$ has no one to blame but themselves, and I'm wondering if they can even recant some of what they said. I am sure they already have contracts and deals with the different companies that they will do what they said (IE: Not support the trade of games, all games have to be DL'ed so you never really own them you're just renting because if their servers go down, so does your game, has to be online 24/7 etc...)

I don't understand why M$ ever thought any of that was a good idea... and I feel that M$ forgot who made the Xbox what it was. The gamers are what made the Xbox big and made it one of the best consoles out there. To me, the Xbox One is a big middle finger to all the gamers... it isn't a gaming console. It is as if they made a huge multi-media box and then at the end said 'Oh yeah, wasn't this supposed to play games too?'

Sony remembered that it is the gamer's that gave them success and the gamers that would keep them there. So kudo's to Sony and shame on you M$. You don't care about the gamers, you just care about how much money you can get to line your pockets.

[Flower]

Well I will not go as far as to say its dead.... nothing is ever "dead". I will say tho, they certainly screwed themselves over lol.

[Fatestorm]

This is just my option, but:

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I don't understand why M$ ever thought any of that was a good idea... and I feel that M$ forgot who made the Xbox what it was. The gamers are what made the Xbox big and made it one of the best consoles out there. To me, the Xbox One is a big middle finger to all the gamers... it isn't a gaming console. It is as if they made a huge multi-media box and then at the end said 'Oh yeah, wasn't this supposed to play games too?'

Sony remembered that it is the gamer's that gave them success and the gamers that would keep them there. So kudo's to Sony and shame on you M$. You don't care about the gamers, you just care about how much money you can get to line your pockets.

This is exactly what a lot of people said after Microsoft's reveal conference. It's almost as if Microsoft used gamers to get its foot in the door with market share, then once it felt it had its feet on firm ground, then it could jettison gamers for the sake of general electronics buyers. As if Microsoft, in preparing its Xbox One, wasn't even thinking about Sony and Nintendo as competitors, but rather Apple and Google.

Maybe that's a wise business move for them in the long term, I don't know. I have no idea. What I *do* know is that it's foolish not to treat Nintendo and Sony as legitimate competition in the market *you* tried to break into, Microsoft. The decision to sell gamers out after we helped them build the very platform they're now trying to sell was, as everyone knows by now, a huge blunder on Microsoft's part, and their new console's entire sales lifetime is going to reflect that now.

[nasomi]

Microsoft didn't use gamers to get it's foot int he door. They saw the cornered market that sony had iwth ps1 and launched to compete with ps2, to open the world of "online" gaming on a console for people that aren't savvy enough to do it on a computer. Now they're trying to stay ahead of the curve. microsoft underestimated sony. the xbox won't die, microsoft has unlimited funds to pump into it.

I'd love to see sony keep the drm at a minimal, but now that ms did it, i can really see sony doing it next gen, with the "well at least we weren't the first." Remember microsoft made the online account cost money when sony had it free, people did it anyway. Now sony's doing it. It's the shock, it hasn't been done, but the ice is broken so now it's not going away.