Mr Puggsly said:
Slimebeast said:
Wow, a whopping $400 million on an entertainment feature.
And they also announced a Halo TV-series with Spielberg.
Imagine how many hardcore games that investment could have given us over the same five years.
Seems like MS has big plans and this could be seen as making a pre-emptive strike against Apple in the future battle for the living room.
We just have to accept that Xbox One is trying to become a general entertainment box rather than a dedicated gaming machine. But as a gamer it's hard for me to accept since I have zero interest in anything that's not games when I turn on my console.
Maybe this is the right way to go into the future gen. Honestly I hope for success for Xbox One but I don't think this NFL deal was a wise business move. It's just so much money. Like Molyneux said on IGN last nite, it's very difficult and risky to try to deliver top quality at so many different areas.
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MS is already investing a lot of money into games for core gamers. 3rd parties will bring plenty of core games. God forbid MS spend money to appeal to a market outside of core gamers.
As long as a console has games you want to play, I don't see why you have to get pissy about it having other features. Pointless argument.
Even if the NFL deal wasn't a wise move, what's the worst case scenario? They lose some money? Its MS, they can afford to lose money. You worry too much for them.
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It depends on what is a lot of money. I haven't seen a huge niche or core gamer library from MS in many years. Through my years as an Xbox fanatic I remember watching all these E3s and being very hopeful and enthusiastic but always ending up very disappointed and always very envious towards Sony's games.
We do not know how much MS has invested in 1st party games now. There's been this $1 billion number been thrown around but I don't know where it comes from, and either way I think it's total and utter BS.
This magic "15 1st party games in 1st year" slogan has already been scrutinized (who knows how many will be Kinect, Live-Arcade, post-poned and delayed) and you need to have a lot of faith for it to materialize as something that truly fulfills the wishes and needs of a hardcore gamer.
I also think this TV strategy is a huge huge mistake and it will cost Xbox this generation (remember you read it here first). MS think they are so smart by pre-emptively trying to conquer the living room before Apple decides to enter, but it's doomed to fail. Only Apple could succeed with such a thing and everyone knows that deep inside. Does anyone really believe MS will succeed in making the mass market adopt a general purpose media box from Microsoft? With all their failures such as Zune, Windows Phone and Surface behind them.
TV is a total non-issue on consoles. People are like "what? I already have a cable box, I already use a remote to switch channels, why should I re-route my TV broadcast through a freaking console?" (that way of thinking will change when Apple enters the entertainment box market, but that's a different story)
I believe the TV features are completely needless and redundant in the eyes of consumers. Microsoft's TV strategy is a big waste of resources and mind-space.
If not, where is this market? Where are all these people who are supposed to ask for this product? Where are these people that need an extra box in their homes to control TV channels with their voice and talk to Skype? I cannot imagine almost one single person.
If people use an extra device while they're watching TV surely it's a laptop or mobile phone (I bet that's true for almost whole of VGC. All young people do this today). They can get all their match info from there.
MS already hurt their repuation a lot by trying to chase the casual gaming market with the X36o. I am afraid they now destroy their gamer cred even more by adding TV to that mix.
