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fireburn95 on 16 October 2014

franchises we own? lol franchises you bought (ala gears) or franchises you bought timed (tomb raider)

Apart from that, Halo, forza, fable and gears are really the only significant franchises they own. The rest of the exclusives are bought

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I feel sorry for Phil cause he has to do the best with what little he has, that is a confuddled product as a result of crap directing by Don Mattrick, still though



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Ganoncrotch on 16 October 2014
MrChaos said:
Enough with this buying stuff.They ruin everything they buy anyway. They need to create and tough it out.They spend way too much money on promoting Halo.Some of that money should go into promoting other games.Too many of the interesting games on their console are not their games and end up on other platforms.Paying for Titanfall was a bust,face it.Obviously that strategy does not work when your competitor is having more success.


Paying for Titanfall was a fantastic start tho, it's the same as Nintendo paying for Bayonetta 2, you don't create a successful console with a single game, it takes a lot of effort in a lot of different area's. Can't just instantly fund a whole line of games I mean!



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Ninsect on 16 October 2014

"and is looking at Nintendo as a role-model for the future"

 

Sounds good until you realize Nintendo are doing even worse in the home console space these days



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Bullsrun on 16 October 2014
Deeds said:
Bullsrun said:
Deeds said:

Microsoft's stragegy to copy Nintendo will fail because Microsoft is not first and foremost a gaming company. Anyone who has studied "opportunity cost" will understand this. What they need to do buy exclusives from third party devs.


To expensive this gen given PS4s big sales advantage.  

Too expensive? Microsoft was planning to buy Yahoo for $40 billion a couple years ago. They could easily buy exclusives.


You kidding ?  Yahoo might be worth it, but buying exclusives to still get their spanked sales wise and embarressd and waste billions.  Yahh share holders and any one thats competant at MS would surely support that.  Lol at the foolishness that MS can buy x they got billions mentality.



pokoko on 16 October 2014

I think what he really wants to say is that they're going to copy Sony but, well, we know why he can't say that.

The way things are being set up on their side reminds me very much of Sony's World Wide Studios. I think that's the model they're using and I think they're looking hard at the positive impact Yoshida has had on the reemergence of the Playstation brand. Both Sony and Microsoft had kind of a "hardware first" approach going at the start of last gen which is a poor way to view the market.



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MoHasanie on 16 October 2014

Good luck to them. They shouldn't release too many exclusives though otherwise most will flop like most of the PS3 exclusives in 2011 and 2012.



    

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Deeds on 16 October 2014
pokoko said:
I think what he really wants to say is that they're going to copy Sony but, well, we know why he can't say that.

The way things are being set up on their side reminds me very much of Sony's World Wide Studios. I think that's the model they're using and I think they're looking hard at the positive impact Yoshida has had on the reemergence of the Playstation brand. Both Sony and Microsoft had kind of a "hardware first" approach going at the start of last gen which is a poor way to view the market.

Heh, nobody wants to copy Sony. ;)



Deeds on 16 October 2014
MoHasanie said:
Good luck to them. They shouldn't release too many exclusives though otherwise most will flop like most of the PS3 exclusives in 2011 and 2012.

If they can absorb the losses (which they easily can) then there is no problem. Microsoft needs more exclusives, not less.



MoHasanie on 16 October 2014
Deeds said:
MoHasanie said:
Good luck to them. They shouldn't release too many exclusives though otherwise most will flop like most of the PS3 exclusives in 2011 and 2012.

If they can absorb the losses (which they easily can) then there is no problem. Microsoft needs more exclusives, not less.

Xbox needs to make money not lose money. Investors wants to get rid of the division and MS management hasn't been that supportive of the Xbox. More losses will just justify a reason to sell the division. 



    

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pokoko on 16 October 2014
Deeds said:
pokoko said:
I think what he really wants to say is that they're going to copy Sony but, well, we know why he can't say that.

The way things are being set up on their side reminds me very much of Sony's World Wide Studios. I think that's the model they're using and I think they're looking hard at the positive impact Yoshida has had on the reemergence of the Playstation brand. Both Sony and Microsoft had kind of a "hardware first" approach going at the start of last gen which is a poor way to view the market.

Heh, nobody wants to copy Sony. ;)

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