Topic: The everything Xbox thread

It's a good move for MS. This along with taking out that check-in crap has me looking forward to getting an Xbox One. Still going with PS4 first since I already have it pre-ordered and Sony has better first party, but MS is taking steps in the right direction and it's good to see because until Mattrick and Phil Spencer took over, you could make a strong case for the Xbox brand being the best in gaming.

Well according to Gamespot.com its offical.

Mattrick will start on July 8th for Zynga

http://www.gamespot.com//news/don-mattrick-leaving-microsoft-...

Yup, they're back on track.

Old news already, but reason enough to post some of the GIFs

LOL

I say a change in leadership is good for the company (in this case, both companies). On the Zynga side, advertising is what they seriously need (it's almost all through word of mouth on Facebook), and if there's one thing that Mattrick is good at, it's advertising.
On the Microsoft side, it shows a lack of vision when a company is so sure of itself on its policies and then 5 days later completely reverses them.

I wouldn't call that a lack of vision. All of microsoft's other product lines are moving toward that way and have been somewhat successful to the move to services and devices. Upper management just assumed games would as well and when it was a giant revolt they back pealed to save the product from going the way of 3DO.

Damn that music is so awesome. Probably my anticipated launch title between each console.

so... there's a petition to get those policies back... $5 bucks says it's a petition consisting of PS4 fanboys.

However, many of the signatures “supporting” the petition appear to be from PlayStation 4 fans who want the Xbox One to fail.

I think this answers it.

Xbox One [Microsoft, FBI, CIA, NSA] - There on to us.

the company revealed for the first time that it has failed to entice many people to buy the product, and the software maker made an unexpected, $900 million writeoff on its unsold Surface inventory. The losses don't end there: On Friday morning, Microsoft shed $30 billion in value after its stock tumbled 10 percent.

Things just keep-on getting better for Microsoft, and people think there back-on track.

I was a loyal fan of Microsoft until they messed things up with this new system called Xbox One. Greatly disappointed in the system! I have no idea what they were thinking. I was already annoyed with the fact I have to pay just to play online. I mean really can't use the system without internet!? Can't play used games on the system, epic fail! Who can afford to buy a brand new game every single time? I sure can't. They also focused on entertainment to much... Um why do we buy gaming systems in the first place? To play video games! Not movies and television programming. If I wanted to see movies I will go buy the DVD, cable or get Netflix. I still have not heard if they fixed the problem where if your connecting to internet and then blocked because you have to enter to use the wifi, like at hotels. Have they fixed that yet? That's so frustrating! I wasn't able to play online for 2 months! Then Once I got internet my membership was over. So a complete waste of my money! I don't think Microsoft even cares about the opinions of fans, in fact they don't if they did they would do better! I can officially say I am switching over to Sony! Buying a PS3 next month!

So I'm guessing you haven't heard that the whole always online and bizarre used games policies have been dropped, then?

Yep I heard that, but for it to even been considered is insane!

I wouldn't doubt PS4 will try and do TV stuff, too. Movies and music are on everything these days. The thing is gonna play video games. All that TV, music, etc. stuff is a side thing.

Also, they're making it so you can play games with TV shows and stuff. They're just spending money for the hell of it, probably.

Wii U has TVii as well. I've only used it twice and I already have stuff connected to my TV like the Xbox One using ARC on my HDTV without a million inputs on the back. It's just standard stuff, and I don't think it affects how they handle their video games at all.

@SCAR392 Yes your going to have to experience tv, music etc. But it just shouldn't be the main subject like the presentation they made it such a big deal! Should be about what new ideas they have created for the games.

@JadeGirl
There will be games for Xbox One, no doubt. We all want to see some cool stuff, but that's most likely all they wanted to show for now to give a general idea of the UI layout.

They wanted to show you can go in between games, movies/TV, music, etc. using the Kinect. The Wii U does this stuff with the GamePad already. They're similar features, but they go about it in different ways.

It's remote integration vs. console integration when it comes to TV. Wii U still has yet to have other media, but it's not that big of a deal to me.

@SCAR392 I am very interested in the Ryse Game coming out for Xbox... But Its still not enough to make me forgive them. I want Microsoft to do more for their customers and also do away with Gold Membership! That would be very nice! Would be nice to see them get more of their own franchise games I can just number off the games by them alone! They need a lot of more of their own games like Nintendo and Sony has!

@JadeGirl
I don't see Xbox Live Gold going away, but I think they might lower the price or keep the price as it is and give you games once a month/week similar PS+, except you get to keep them.

They've charged tons of people $60 for a year for years, so I think it's in the cards they'll give more back for supporting their console.

@SCAR392 Maybe they will. They have to do something. Seeing there sells are dropping.

Which is why they had two presentations one aimed at TV and not at you, and the other which was nothing but games.

All of this seems to be made somewhat moot by chromecast anyway.