I don't care WHO gets upset I hope the Kinect stays dead and Microsoft never does anything similar to this ever again lol.
Thank god casuals moved on from consoles.
Thank god casuals moved on from consoles.
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Lol I just meant to remove the video. I just meant no more kinect.
Tbh I never played Hellblade but this has got to be the most addictive gaming trailer for me in recent while.
As someone who's not even European or even White I have a big interest in Norse mythology and I really enjoyed the Viking symbols in the trailers. More importantly I can NOT get enough of the facial animations. I really cant wait for NT to share their mocap with other XGS. Very talented studio.
As someone who's not even European or even White I have a big interest in Norse mythology and I really enjoyed the Viking symbols in the trailers. More importantly I can NOT get enough of the facial animations. I really cant wait for NT to share their mocap with other XGS. Very talented studio.
lol. I just REALLY pray we see nothing like the Kinect again. I have nothing against casual gamers but ignoring one demographic in favor of the other was a nightmare.
As long as Phil Spencer is around that will never happen.
Thank god. Speaking of Spencer if and when the Xbox Series X is a success and Satya is impressed.... How big of a budget do you and everyone else think Phil will get for the Xbox division?
Motion controls are going to slowly comeback in various formats as an easier access and more immersive way to interact in VR.
That's different from a gimmicky peripheral that has no place in gaming.
If Phil can convince Satya to spend $2.5 Billion on mojang/minecraft, im pretty sure he can get whatever he wants out of him lol
It was gimmicky in regular games that just added Kinect support, but games built around it were much better. Dance Central and working out "games" were great for Kinect. This will all carry over with more sophisticated tech towards VR with software built from the ground up to make maximum use of such interaction.
Maybe for body tracking but playing without physical controllers feels bad. It feels nice to have a chunk of plastic in my hands.\
I say this as someone who owns Kinect 1.0, Kinect 2.0, and the Valve Index.
Sure for gamey games. The word game is going to be expanded with rather unique experiences that a lot of people aren't really going to call games which will work well with body tracking and no physical controllers.
I think VR's ultimate experiences aren't really going to be games but simulations and experiences.
As long as traditional gaming is not cannibalized in the process like what they were trying to do between 2009-2013.
Lets hope he keep doing that because oh man I feel the Xbox Series X is going to be the best Xbox console in a long run. I say this because we will see the TRUE potential of the Xbox brand!
Yea I can see this too. Like those virtual reality rides at theme parks.
Yeah it likely won't, it was new tech that was trending and the industry learned a lot from it. VR is where it's going to be primarily used at.
Yep. I think it will work it's way into being used in most industries. VR is going to advance very quickly in the next decade or two.
And I am curious to see how it is in the future. One thing they need to work on is making it MORE "immersive." Also what happened to Hololens and Xbox?
Hololens is still around. It's just not consumer ready.
I can tell because the prices are super expensive.
And why would it need to sell the IP for that happen when it's not just Microsoft's fault? either give the budget back to MS, or MS start the development with P* again, or shut up about it.
It's funny you keep assume P* is the only one unhappy about Scalebound cancellation when i can see MS is more unhappy due to lose a lot of money and 90% blame goes to them at that time.
Yup. And as bland as it looked I still believe the final product would have been pretty good.
At the end of the day it was more likely about their inability to reach deadlines. I think the comments about it being beyond what they could handle within a reasonable time are more accurate.
Hopefully this isn't too off topic, but speaking of HoloLens, with the amount of work that Asobo Studios does with HoloLens, specifically referring to HoloForge, doesn't it seem like a no brainer for an acquisition by Microsoft?
From the HoloForge website:
From the HoloForge website:
I'm not the biggest fan of MS gobbling up every studio in sight, but when looking at Asobo's work, they already seem just as much a MS studio as Turn 10 or The Coalition. And I must admit, after playing A Plague Tale recently, I'd love to see what else this studio can do with the full support of MS behind them.
Hololens 2 was announced last year.
Tim Sweeney was actually on stage at last year's event to announce Unreal Engine coming to the platform. Nothing really to do with gaming though. Unreal is used for more than just 3D gaming.
They are supposed to be holding another talk at mobile world congress this year as well.
Eventually we'll get to a point where AR devices are the primary computing devices. And of course gaming will be apart of that, whether its a full screen vr experience or mixed with the real world. It will all be the same device.
Here is the full event from last year if you want to watch it:
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Xbox revenue down 20%, Playstation revenue equally down 20%.
It's interesting to see both are down 20% overall YoY. Xbox HW declined 40%, PlayStation HW declined 25%. Despite the bigger decline for Xbox Hardware, the overall decline of both companies is at around the same. This means Digital/Game Pass/Minecraft offset the decline more than it did for Playstation, which further supports the importance of Game Pass.
I expect 2020 continues the declines for both gaming divisions given further declines in HW. Key first-party releases like Minecraft Dungeons or obviously Halo Infinite and further Game Pass growth might offset it a bit more from the Xbox perspective.
For hardware though, the Xbox division (Playstation as well obviously) really needs next-gen. While hardware is not too important for actual profit, it raises the revenue. Not enough next-gen HW units to sell in 2020 to really make a difference though, I expect the Gaming division growth train to really start rolling in 2021 with a strong combination of HW potential, Game Pass, xCloud and a more regular first-party output.
It's interesting to see both are down 20% overall YoY. Xbox HW declined 40%, PlayStation HW declined 25%. Despite the bigger decline for Xbox Hardware, the overall decline of both companies is at around the same. This means Digital/Game Pass/Minecraft offset the decline more than it did for Playstation, which further supports the importance of Game Pass.
I expect 2020 continues the declines for both gaming divisions given further declines in HW. Key first-party releases like Minecraft Dungeons or obviously Halo Infinite and further Game Pass growth might offset it a bit more from the Xbox perspective.
For hardware though, the Xbox division (Playstation as well obviously) really needs next-gen. While hardware is not too important for actual profit, it raises the revenue. Not enough next-gen HW units to sell in 2020 to really make a difference though, I expect the Gaming division growth train to really start rolling in 2021 with a strong combination of HW potential, Game Pass, xCloud and a more regular first-party output.
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Without checking it I think the digital attach rate for Xbox games is much higher than for Playstation games. I saw 51% is physical in the earnings report from Sony today and I think Xbox was over 50% digital like a year ago already ?!
Maybe you or someone else have the actual figure for Xbox digital games ?
Yeah, it NEVER looked like a good game. The response to its cancellation was so disproportionate compared to interest in it during its development.
In all fairness it's their second best year ever. That also being said one could definitely argue context was being left out deliberately.
Honestly, I'd be fine if ERA just said "Ok, you all can't be mature, no more finance threads." It's pretty clear most creators/participants of those threads don't know how to or care to interpret financial results properly. So they pretty much all just become low key console wars threads.
Perhaps Era needs a tag system for posts with the ability for members to block tags.
It's never been about the hardware, it's about the ecosystem the hardware locks you into. 3rd party sales and (maybe) online fees are where the real money is. Put in let's say 1% of the development effort (certifying a game and putting it on the store) and taking a 30% cut of all new game and digital sales? All day every day.
Big 'if'.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the idea hasn't at least been floated. As you say, they seem like a prime candidate.
While I agree with this (I was lurking in those threads at the time, and it can't be denied that almost no one cared before it was cancelled), there are some of us that were legitimately excited for it. As I've already said though, sometimes things don't work out; I was heavily disappointed by its cancellation, but I'm not going to use it as a stick to beat anyone with.
I know Rod is fast, but I doubt he's that fast.
I really struggle to think a big JRPG which is not ff, I mean even persona and dragon quest are super niche in eu and us
Why he was trying to imply something he knew wasn't going to happen? You misred it, people here repeated that it wasn't going to happen
I think that's a lost occasion on par with double helix
One thing we underestimate, if the hardware was way down for xbox than for sony, this means that software performed way better than we expected
I've read those threads, and they are nothing compared to what I've read in italian websites with denial crysis to explain why msft -20% is bad and sony -20% is fine
PlatinumGames Would Love to Finish Scalebound if the Opportunity Presents Itself
MS' E3 of dreams: Scaleblound revival, Lost Odyssey 2 and Fable reboot.
2019 was also the second best year of Xbox, only beaten by 2018.
Kind of scary how a video game forum can forge wrong perception, hu?
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