Munkeh111 said:
Adinnieken said:
Munkeh111 said:
I'm a bit pissed off at M$ because of Halo 2 at the moment, but seriously, why would anyone believe anything that they say now? They have changed most of the things about this console. It is one thing listening to fans, but what is the point of designing the console in the first place, why not just make a poll on a website to decide the design in the first place
Anyway, I am now going to go and actually watch the video, but having a headset is a good idea as I have said before |
Actually, any good company, before they ever bring a product to market does focus testing.
If you've never worked in the corporate world, you don't know or understand the power of the bean counters, the accountants and CFO. I've worked in a company where the amount of floor space your cubicle occupied, and the cost to heat/cool that space was measured for every employee and figured into the cost of that employee. Sometimes you have people who look too closely at the numbers.
I think the other problem is that the Xbox One as a product, including all of its services and features, are coming together in the here and now. I think the rumors that Microsoft was caught off-guard by Sony releasing this year were likely true. I think Microsoft anticipate it had another year to bring everything into focus, but when Sony announced the PS4 would release this year it caught them unprepared. That doesn't mean that they didn't have everything in the works, just that instead of 15-16 months before they had to have all their plans ironed out, they only had 3 - 4.
The reveal, for example, seemed like something better suited for CES rather than any other event. If you compare the Xbox 360 reveal to the Xbox One reveal, they're completely different. The style, the energy, and the information.
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I don't see how M$ were not prepared, the 360 is 8 years old! The problem hasn't just been that they haven't got their plans in order, it has been that they have completely thrown out the window. I can see how some more time might have been better for their always online strategy and yes, if they had more time maybe they would have actually communicated their ideas properly, but that is clearly their fault
I really don't think that they have any excuse for being caughty off guard by the PS4, there is no way that they could have left the Xbox One for another year given how it is currently selling.
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I don't think they did focus groups. I think the executives came up with a plan of what they wanted to do and didn't really put feelers.
If you don't see how Microsoft wasn't prepared, then you're kind of blind. I mean, for a year there has been a DRM rumor regarding the Xbox One (Durango) and at the Xbox reveal Microsoft not only doesn't address it properly, but they handled it very poorly. When everyone is talking off different notes, there is a communications problem. When one executive tells people, we'll talk more about that later, and then another starts talking about some of those details before the more important details in between were talked about, there is a communications problem.
The only way to have a communications problem THAT bad is to be unprepared.
