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S.T.A.G.E. on 17 June 2013
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JusSayian said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
JusSayian said:
oni-link said:
Oh c'mon nobody here thinks that X1 can take out Wii U or PS4 out of the industry after this gen? Really!!!?


I think they can the X1 is clearly a future proof device, Sony and Nintendo are just delaying the inevitable. Anyone who cannot see that clearly lives in a bubble and refuses to see truth.


The gaming industry has its standards and we Apples standards are not our own. Microsoft doesn't speak for gamers, they never and they never came into this industry to, so they so they should stop forcing us into their plans to beat Apple. Full digital isn't going to stick until 10-15 years from now. Console gamers value their game ownership. Apple isnt a gaming company and their products are made for the general public. If they want to make an AppleXbox one then so be it, they just dug their own graves and alienated millions of gamers with their own greed.

Than who speaks for gamers? Sony? Nintendo? Please just like MS they have their own agenda which is to mint as much money for their customers as they can. MS can do two things at once if they want too, Apple is becoming a bigger threat to them than any other company. I could elaborate more but i honestly could give a fuck. You have your opinions i have mine.

10-15 years? Are you kidding me? Its going to happen a whole lot sooner. Look at the Music industry their going full digital real soon. Gaming going to follow whether you like it or not. The Xbox is not going to roll over and die like many of you hope. If the RROD did not kill them, used game policies and interent requirments definitely wont.

Sony has always provided third parties with the platform they've desired for mainstream gaming, which is why the first Playstation sold over 100 million. Everyone got what they wanted. Sony did the impossible at that time which was expand gaming whilst keeping gaming at its core intact, which is why the industry has expanded. Nintendo is the classic that has always been a commercial beacon of what console gaming is and stands for. Microsoft came into gaming and so did the restrictions, but I thank them for helping out with online gaming even though they were still doing that for the Dreamcast by the wayside. 

Yes...I am not kidding..10-15 years. They were talking about this on the Bonus Round with industry experts when they were discussing consumer vs publisher relations and the pricing of games if as they condition gamers for full digital gaming later on. If you want us to relinquish our ownership of hard discs, loosen up the licensing and let us keep our games transferrable on a cloud from one console to the other, adjust the pricing and keep it competitive to the point where when discs are phased out we wont complain.

IE: Action Adventure games without multiplayer should be $40, Hack 'N Slash $20-30 (depending on the size), Multiplayer games with large replay value are $60, with fighting games being $20 or free to play starting with DLC packs and JRPG's can be $50. Times are changing so the prices of certain games need to be changed accordingly if you dont want used games and to up initial sales.

MS took the 100% corporate American route and left gamers out to dry and now they have been trying to mend their ways yet are proving nothing by saying that they will change nothing. Ugh...more mixed messages.