Some tidbits on the importance of gaming at Microsoft moving forward.
https://www.thurrott.com/xbox/157090/xbox-after-the-x
https://www.thurrott.com/xbox/157090/xbox-after-the-x
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Thurrott.com: Microsoft is making significant investments / financial backing to go all-in on gaming
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I think its pretty arguable that - as the article claims - the Switch has carved out a "casual market" chunk and is in no way a competitor for the Xbox.
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Will be interesting to see what they come up with. Competition like this is good for everyone involved.
All that money and they still can't turn the Xbox App on PC into a game launcher and ditching the MS Store. P L E A S E.
In a vacuum it doesn't, but imagine a game like Horizon where those factors are incorporated into the open world.
I just want to see the results of this. I've been hearing this (or something similar) for years now, but whether out of design or incompetence, so far Microsoft doesn't have anything to show for it.
It was the vision planned for Scorpio when it's still always online.
Every generation we hear how Microsoft's limitless financial backing means Xbox will be a guaranteed success.
I think that MS wants to follow the PC model. Games are forward compatible until they don't run good enough.
I wonder if Nintendo, by simply existing, are considered "casual" regardless of the titles that are actually on their systems.
And again with the cloud shit. They still haven't even released Crackdown 3, let alone announced a release date, and it was suppose to be their big display of cloud computing
Going to be really curious to see if they just drop Xbox One and Xbox One S support but let Xbox One X still play the next gen games.
Syncing in-game weather with the real world is one of the dumbest and most pointless ideas that I can think of.
lmao Thought the exact same thing, the concept actually is exciting but the example chosen and the way it was phrased is hilarious.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but how would you argue this? From what I see myself (purely anecdotal) there's a huge overlap between the two audiences. Switch seems much more focused on the core gaming audience than Nintendo's consoles other recent consoles have been, this is definitely reflected by the software too.
Hope this is true cos if it is then I'm so happy MS isn't rushing out the next Xbox. They need to take their time and create something substantially better than what we have now.
This is all very interesting though can't wait to see what the OS team and Panos hardware team come up with also they'll hopefully have a lot more projects in development than the rumoured Fable and PD also what's the part about a new Xbox in development??
This is all very interesting though can't wait to see what the OS team and Panos hardware team come up with also they'll hopefully have a lot more projects in development than the rumoured Fable and PD also what's the part about a new Xbox in development??
I don't understand why this thread is focused on the cloud comment when there's a lot of other points to discuss here.
We've known that MS isn't giving up on cloud stuff. Just they are reworking how to do it. My hope is that reworking means that
not all of their games become online only. We don't need that.
We've known that MS isn't giving up on cloud stuff. Just they are reworking how to do it. My hope is that reworking means that
not all of their games become online only. We don't need that.
Feels like the Xbox team was commanded to use Azure and now has to brainstorm ways to do so.
Uh, I don't know. Streaming games... and weather... traffic....
Uh, I don't know. Streaming games... and weather... traffic....
So basically he's talking of a future where bandwidth is fast enough to have the actual game assets and code delivered to the user in real time through their internet connection.
So basically, an idea for 2040. We'll see how it pans out.
As for the increased investment, I hope those go in significant part to actual game development. Slim pickings from their publishing arm these days.
The Xbox One is the most disappointing console I ever bought, personally. It'll take some convincing to get me to buy another one.
So basically, an idea for 2040. We'll see how it pans out.
As for the increased investment, I hope those go in significant part to actual game development. Slim pickings from their publishing arm these days.
The Xbox One is the most disappointing console I ever bought, personally. It'll take some convincing to get me to buy another one.
MS has always done something wrong each gen which bit them on the foot and prevented them from taking the lion share. I hope this news pans out to keep Sony and Nintendo on their feet. Personally I am not happy how Sony has handled BC this gen, they need to take note from MS on this and hope they keep pushing it so it makes it harder to ignore for Sony.
THIS example maybe not but its amazing to think that real world changes could affect our game. Imagine Fifa, starts to rain because the city you are playing is raining now.
Why is it that every time people talk about the cloud's implications for gaming, it always ends up sounding shockingly...mundane? Like, the thing he cites in the article sounds like the kind of feature an engineer would love to brag about at a conference or a TED talk, but it wouldn't really present any actual value for consumers. An infinite game world with nothing interesting to do inside of it is hardly a selling point.
Either way, "Microsoft is really taking gaming seriously, you guys, just you wait" articles seem to be a dime a dozen these days.
I was gonna say...the Switch is selling as well as it does because it actually does have appeal for gamers rather than being sold exclusively to the casual audience.
Either way, "Microsoft is really taking gaming seriously, you guys, just you wait" articles seem to be a dime a dozen these days.
I was gonna say...the Switch is selling as well as it does because it actually does have appeal for gamers rather than being sold exclusively to the casual audience.
I have a gut feeling that "forward compatibility" means anything less than an Xbox One X will not be able to run "next gen" games once the Nextbox gets underway.
New baseline. Forward compatibility would mean games still designed with the base XB1 and PS4 in mind.
All the discussion in the article on the future of xbox and people are trolling over the authors opinion on what the cloud could potentially do smh
I don't think Microsoft cares about exclusives or sees them as their big draw. They're essentially going back to the strategy of the original Xbox and touting being the most powerful system available. It's just that in the past while that might have draw exclusives, and exclusives might have been a good way to show this off, nowadays devs are more multiplatform centric and their aim has instead been to show that they have the best looking/performing version of those games