ArnoldRimmer said:
That's the first thing I have to think of when it comes to "have they kept their promises": The ridiculous "power of the cloud" meme, where Microsoft actually convinced some naive fans to believe that it doesn't matter that Xbox 1 ist just half as powerful as PS4, because some mysterious god called "da cloud" would soon show up, and by magic transform all their inferior Xbox hardware into vastly superior and more powerful machines. |
Oh and that's not all. There's so many more more promises MS made that will never happen. They seemingly said anything that they thought would sell more xboxes. And the entire gaming media and a certain group gamers want to ignore it.
- every xbox is a dev kit
- our games will have no performance issues
- secret sauce (nobody but us truely understands how much more powerful xbox is)
- esram hype that never panned out
- family share play
- xbox live 300,000 dedicated servers
- etc
Mike_L said:
Agree. XB1 is a great console and for that reason Microsoft should've just been upfront about its resolution and framerate. Just lay down all your cards in the first place instead of being secretive and making a big deal about it. In that way it would get far less attention as well. |
See the thing is that when the gaming media and certain people say they don't care about power or graphics or resolution or framerate they are probably not being entirely thruthful IMO. MS's and others reactions during the launch certainly tell a different story. This stuff mattered last gen and the gen before that and the gen before that. That is why MS and their media team try to hide it. You can find game reviews last gen from major players like IGN/Gamspot/etc where they absolutely destroy the PS3 version of a game for having ~5-10% less resolution and 5% lower average frame rate but now this gen things are seemingly different and the western gaming media can't spot 40% differences in resolution.
