Oh fuck, that shit is hilarious looking backI liked the one where he said The Last of Us would sell a couple of million and then be forgotten a few months later.
Oh fuck, that shit is hilarious looking backI liked the one where he said The Last of Us would sell a couple of million and then be forgotten a few months later.
I love how we live in a future where the course of history was literally altered because of this very backlash, and yet you still manage to type "it doesn't matter."
Yes, I agree. Had we lived in a completely alternate universe where what actually happened was entirely different, then yes, perhaps it would have not mattered.
MS's relatively tone deaf messaging during that period certainly drove me to the PS4, and I'm someone who was, until that point, mostly content to ignore whatever Sony was doing and stick with Xbox. At this point it's not really a grudge, it's just that I see no reason to own an Xbox. I have no software library there, and am content with my Pro, PC, and Switch.Wow. Really? Is this really why you havent bought one? I means 6 years is a long time to hold a grudge for something that was abandoned like less than a year after release.....
My recollection is hazy, but he said something to the extent of "I'll give you $10 if you can find a time I ever mentioned 'secret sauce' [in reference to some rumored special hardware feature on the Xbox One]"Didnt this guy lose a bet to somone on the old forum?
And never paid?
People should give more shit to Sim City 2013. THat was the preview of this generation's AAA.
pretty much every outlet was backing the anti-used game schtick in the pre-release cycle. shit was baffling.
You're right. Anthony and Matt started a podcast right after closing (rebelfm) and invited him on since he was living with Anthony.Wasn't Gies the guy who only got a job because he was a room mate of some 1UP guys in the past? Or am I mistaking him for someone else.
That is some fucking ether right there. People complain about GaaS a lot now, but as a whole I gotta say the industry is way better than it used to be. Last gen was such just such a huge clusterfuck.How much has changed, honestly?
You could draw a lot of parallels to the general media reaction to things like the Epic Game Store. Epic's transgressions aren't as egregious as Microsoft's, but there's certainly a "who cares about the consumer or the indies" attitude that colors such a huge percentage of words that people ever bothered printing about it.
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This is still my favorite post from OldGAF btw (by faceless007):
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So forgive me if I find myself not caring one bit when the industry complains that it's just so hard to sell six million copies of Gears of Medal of Battle of Uncharted Angry Dudes VII in the first week and that's why they need to take away used sales for the entire platform. No, the problem isn't at this end."
Mario Kart 8 will likely be the worst-selling game in franchise history, here's why
It's amazing that some ppl to this day still think Sony was going to do the whole DRM, always online thing too.Admittedly I bought into the idea that Sony would do something similar with the PS4 in terms of a used game lockout, but I knew immediately Kuchera was full of shit and his article was nothing more than pitiful corporate ass-kissing.
As far as I know, Kuchera still writes for Polygon and Gies left game journalism to go back to school.Kuchera and Gies were absolute jokes. Not sure what's their current state, but I don't think I care to find out.
What 2013 till now shows us is MS just tried to push too much too soon IMO.I'll be honest and say it mattered more than I thought it would. I figured Microsoft was just the first to make a step that was inevitable and people would just kind of accept it. But it became obvious how much it mattered when they did a complete 180 on it.
Change it to "Xbox One Backlash Shouldn't Matter" and you could write a decent article that was way ahead of the curve considering how things went the last several years even after Microsoft walked back a lot of stuff.
Between things like Game Pass and how digital has all but overtaken retail spending on games (Xbox One SAD selling boatloads at Black Friday this year) it's funny to look back at the stuff they were talking about like sharing digital game licenses and reselling digital games before all that stuff got cancelled.
I'm sure they're all very anxious for you to give them such mercy.He's not alone, they burned all bridges for me unfortunately. What they tried to pull was insane. Once all the people that were there during the one reveal leave I'll give them a second chance. Phil Spencer, Major Nelson, Greenberg. Mike Ybarra and Penelo have left.
There are dozens, I tell you. Dozens. Only waiting for individuals to leave Xbox.I'm sure they're all very anxious for you to give them such mercy.
He's not alone, they burned all bridges for me unfortunately. What they tried to pull was insane. Once all the people that were there during the one reveal leave I'll give them a second chance. Phil Spencer, Major Nelson, Greenberg. Mike Ybarra and Penelo have left.
I remember this was big in Germany. While the PS camera was ignored :D Nowadays, this is just how it goes right? Alexa, Cortana, Siri and discovering that real people actually listened to what they recorded. Crazy times.Kuchera wrote an article months later, alleging that the Kinect was likely spying on users for US or UK intelligence.
Yeah.