endimion on 14 August 2013
| sales2099 said: The Xbox 1 has become more gamer centric by the week as MS continues to surprise me for the better. Below is what they have improved and amended:
Improvements over 360 Era
Bluray drive Dedicated servers nope even better azure/orlean combo allowing real time resource allocation, no need to shut down servers to free up hardware resources.... as long as the studio pays the bills (either a forfeit or based on useage) their will be always servers available.... which makes it even better than any dedicated solution a third party could chose or what the competition has by far....
Region free
Smart Match > Truskill matchmaking
More reliable
Quiet
Improved 1st party Studio support with increased 3rd party deals
Since X1 Unveiling
Indie Self Publish/X1 is a dev kit too
Not always on
No restrictions on used games/lendingKinect can be totally OFF
Headset included
GPU Clock speed increased
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Quite an impressive list when you see it all in one place. Quite literally the only con left is the price gap and kinect being mandatory, which is essentially the same thing. But this in itself can be remedied over time and history has shown that a higher priced console can still catch up with another over time (PS3).
yeap especially considering that last gen not only the price gap was bigger but the price itself was higher with close to no real advantage.... the Cell extra power turned out to be marginally proven at the end of the gen and to me BR is completely useless at least at that price tag. I have a free BR player with my internet box with my ISP and I have never bought a BR disck.. I get all my movies DD and don't see any real advantage in BR.. it came too late in the DVD lifecycle and is a waste of money in my opinion (the launch price was too high and BR discs are too pricey compared to alternate solutions)
to me the 100 bucks price gap this gen is a laughable argument, I see way more value this time around at 500 bucks with kinect, than 600 bucks then with BR and the cell cpu and we didn't see the uproar of PS fan then.... XB fans are really ungreatful or really bad fans in comparaison..... But when it all comes down to it, features, price, and even exclusives take a back seat to mindshare. We know North America has no established bias, as they buy PS1, then PS2, but then buy the Wii/360 in the recent gen. It is by no means "Xbox turf" but it can be to whomever captures the masses interests. European gamers have a slight cultural disposition towards Sony products, but even then this continent is a true battleground.....where cost, games, and marketing all make a impact on what are largely unloyal masses.
Unfortunatley the secret to X1 losing out on 1st place is Japan. Yes I am playing the Japan card. Unlike NA and Europe, rejection of the Xbox brand is rooted in the culture itself. Despite great efforts in the 7th generation, the masses just refuse to adopt it. While console gaming in Japan is on the decline, there is still bound to be a several million gap between the PS4 and X1 in Japan. And globally, that will make all the difference, just as it has now. NA and Europe can essentially cancel eachother out, but imbedded cultural rejection of X1 in Japan will seal the deal.
Doesn't anybody find this....unfortunate? Offcourse the X1 will still sell respectable and likely make a nice profit. It will beat WiiU for 2nd if its sales don't drastically pick up so X1 gamers will have nothing to be ashamed of. If X1 is successful over PS4 in NA/UK......where most of us posters are from, that matters more then global sales anyday IMO. But theres still that feeling that no matter how good MS improves themselves, that it can't change geographical biases that are too rooted in the country to change any minds. It's a shame.
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on the last part you are probably right but we have to consider emerging countries.... even though MS is launching in less country initially they have proven with other businesses like WP that they care on the long term to provide complete services to a wider range of countries compared to other brand.... they have great success in some countries like india and russia (in comparaison to NA for exemple) for WP.... I think they are not launching in some country because they want to launch with the maximum services when they do....
we'll see
on top of that sales number ranking is quiet biased actually it's only good for fans and hardcore gamers.... in reallity when it comes to commercial success Wii will stay number one, XB360 number 2 and PS3 number 3.... because real success is measured in profit and not sales number....
