| Jimbo1337 said: PS Now seems to be a complete flop as the prices are simply way too high for it to be even considered to be a fair service. Microsoft doesn't make any tv's themselves, so how do you expect them to have XBOX tv? Morpheus is something that Sony has been perfecting for three years now. It's not like Micrsoft can drop all of their efforts into getting more first party studios just to make their own virtual reality headset. The exact thing that Microsoft REALLY needs right now is more first party studios developing games for the XBOX One and only the XBOX One. Microsoft screwed up by allowing Titanfall to be also sold on the XB360, which allowed XBOX fans to play the new exclusive without going to their next gen console. The problem that I see is that Sony has great relationships with all of their first party developers. Sony also has first party developers in Japan to appeal to the Japanese market. The even more troubling issue is that the original developers for Halo and Gears have now moved on to other exclusive titles. It seems that instead of gaining new support, they are rather holding on to the few franchises that made them successful in the past. I can agree on one thing that you said. "[Microsoft] need[s] to announce something new and innovative very soon". Coming out with Halo, Forza, and Gears every year is not going to win over the consumers heart. Buying timed exclusivity or downloadable content first on XB1 is not going to win over the consumers either. They need to come to next years E3 with new first party games that will come out in the near future instead of showing 3rd party after 3rd party games with timed downloadable content. |
Microsoft would probably have an easier time just matching sony's new ideas than they would building the kind of first party studio system that sony has. Sony has nurtured some of those relationships for over a decade, I just don't envision MS competing on that front. Its not even a situation like last gen where atleast Sony developers could say "this could only be done on PS3". If an MS exclusive developer says something like that they will be laughed at.
They don't need to come out with their own tv either. PS TV's can be purchased built in to Sony Tv's but they can also be purchased as seperate streaming boxes. I don't necessarily think MS needs to only try to put out something to compete with Sony's upcoming offerings. They just need to show something (don't know what they could be) that isn't just another exclusive game, they need more selling points than that. Now that kinect has been left to fend for itself and tv integration has proven useless, they need to both compete with sony's offerings and also diffrentiate themselves.
