| konnichiwa said: blue dragon and lost odyssey are now available digital the first one cost 19.99$ the second is bit cheaper and is giving away for free till the end of this month so start downloading :). |
thismeintiel said:
Kinda doubt it'll be a hybrid console. You honestly think MS is going to have it where you can plop one disc into either a Scorpio or XB2 and play on both systems, only with upgraded graphics? Highly doubt that. They may have said that to cause a stir, but once they realize Nintendo and Sony aren't down for that, though more importantly devs and pubs, AND that they would be losing money on people who double dip for remakes/upgrades, they'll abandon it real quick. Nah, it'll be just like any other gen. We'll get cross-gen games and maybe devs/pubs who will offer free or at low cost upgrades to their games, but tey will still be different games on different discs. I doubt MS revealing a XB2, even if it is slightly more powerful than a PS5, will really hurt the WW appeal of the next PS5. Especially if it is B/C with the highly successful PS4, while still launching for just $399. Of course, if the Scorpio flounders out the gate, a XB2 will become farther from a certainty. |
then you completely miss the point... First MS never competed directly with Sony it's just a mere consequence of being in the console market... It's more about cutting any entry point to the living room to true big players like google/alphabet, amazon, apple etc... You know the company MS are actually threaten by...
with that in mind MS is trying not only to supress the concept of generation changing console consomption into something more streamlined... For everybody consumers and developers.... But that's just a fragment of the true goal... They want to remove the concept of device.... Through software unification... Develop for on target and automatically adapt to all if needed...
what this mean is devs could cut cost, take advantage of the latest HW while keeping the game available for older device owners those widening the market.... But it could also mean that MS could eventually have third party hardware manufacturer do XBox compatible device... Opening the door to the competition but with their Software/ecosystem on it.. XBOX being just a showpiece like the surface line is for other devices.. I pretty sure that's MS objective maybe not today or tomorrow but in a future not so far from now...
the real question Sony fans should ask themselves is in what shape Sony will be 5 years from now??? Knowing very well how the company is terribly manage at the European level, not leveraging their strength in one sector to push up their struggling division even after hundreds of recommendations from consulting partners in various field... I guarantee you the Sony you know today is not the one of tomorrow... Pretty sure after the VAIO branch the Phone branch will be the next to go.
anyway bottom line Sony is a blimp on MS radar when it comes to both companies future and Sony is more struggling than MS... Yes they are competing on the console market by design but in the long run they have very different objectives...
