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daredevil.shark on 19 December 2014
FrontlineJaguar said:
daredevil.shark said:
Is Lionhead developing another new IP? Microsoft has more first party studios than Sony. I hope they will make their own AAA exclusives this gen.

As far we know its working on fable legends and a new ip with few concepts always flowing in and out in their studios


Cool.



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smroadkill15 on 19 December 2014

If anyone can send me an invite to the xbox preview updates I would appreciate it.



FrontlineJaguar on 19 December 2014

When is Halo 5 guardians beta going live for preview members



GamechaserBE on 19 December 2014
FrontlineJaguar said:
Microsoft needs to do something for Europe Ps4 is kicking it in Europe and Asian countries.

After 2014 I think Ms needs to lay down a strategy to capture global audience rather than limiting themselves to Us and Uk, gamers are all over the world and Ms cannot deny that Europe is small compared to North America numbers say something else.

What can Ms do let's make a list:

1. Bundles at attractive prices
2. Bigger ad campaigns for Europe and Asia
3. Price Cuts at occasions which are important in specific regions.
4. Improving the image in people's mind in these regions

Games games games games,  you should make a list of what is coming every month.  For January for Xone we have the CEs event that can create a positive image on the net for Xone but that is everything.



FrontlineJaguar on 19 December 2014
GamechaserBE said:
FrontlineJaguar said:
Microsoft needs to do something for Europe Ps4 is kicking it in Europe and Asian countries.

After 2014 I think Ms needs to lay down a strategy to capture global audience rather than limiting themselves to Us and Uk, gamers are all over the world and Ms cannot deny that Europe is small compared to North America numbers say something else.

What can Ms do let's make a list:

1. Bundles at attractive prices
2. Bigger ad campaigns for Europe and Asia
3. Price Cuts at occasions which are important in specific regions.
4. Improving the image in people's mind in these regions

Games games games games,  you should make a list of what is coming every month.  For January for Xone we have the CEs event that can create a positive image on the net for Xone but that is everything.

Don't get me wrong I  agree games are important but look Xbox One had better games this holiday and is still not doing great numbers in comparision to Ps4. Why?  (Europe and Other areas). Honestly this holiday is very dull for Ps4 their are no great games on Ps4 to play (from holiday standpoint), Xbox One has so much more and difference is so big in favour of Ps4

Well answer is simple marketing and pricing. They were able to pull trigger in NA because of pricing and aggressive marketing if they do the same for Europe I believe they can capture a bigger market share.

Ms has the tools they need to sell more consoles however lack of execution is disappointing:

1. Europe loves racing and Ms has Forza, they also love FIFA and they also have ea access. They should launch a Forza Bundle with Forza 5 and Forza h2 dlc, also launch a fifa and forza bunde (forza 5 or h2) or maybe an Ea bundle FIFA 15 and Ea access for 1 year.

2. Even when you have these bundles the key is to make more and more people aware about them. Which means marketing when people will see these bundles they will automatically get attracted but you need to make them know like "Hey there is an Xbox Bundle out there in stores which comes with Forza Horizon 2 and 1 year of Ea access at the same price of Ps4".

3. Once they  acquire this momentum in Europe they can steal some light from Ps4



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GTAexpert on 19 December 2014
FrontlineJaguar said:
GamechaserBE said:
FrontlineJaguar said:
Microsoft needs to do something for Europe Ps4 is kicking it in Europe and Asian countries.

After 2014 I think Ms needs to lay down a strategy to capture global audience rather than limiting themselves to Us and Uk, gamers are all over the world and Ms cannot deny that Europe is small compared to North America numbers say something else.

What can Ms do let's make a list:

1. Bundles at attractive prices
2. Bigger ad campaigns for Europe and Asia
3. Price Cuts at occasions which are important in specific regions.
4. Improving the image in people's mind in these regions

Games games games games,  you should make a list of what is coming every month.  For January for Xone we have the CEs event that can create a positive image on the net for Xone but that is everything.

Don't get me wrong I  agree games are important but look Xbox One had better games this holiday and is still not doing great numbers in comparision to Ps4. Why?  (Europe and Other areas). Honestly this holiday is very dull for Ps4 their are no great games on Ps4 to play (from holiday standpoint), Xbox One has so much more and difference is so big in favour of Ps4

Well answer is simple marketing and pricing. They were able to pull trigger in NA because of pricing and aggressive marketing if they do the same for Europe I believe they can capture a bigger market share.

Ms has the tools they need to sell more consoles however lack of execution is disappointing:

1. Europe loves racing and Ms has Forza, they also love FIFA and they also have ea access. They should launch a Forza Bundle with Forza 5 and Forza h2 dlc, also launch a fifa and forza bunde (forza 5 or h2) or maybe an Ea bundle FIFA 15 and Ea access for 1 year.

2. Even when you have these bundles the key is to make more and more people aware about them. Which means marketing when people will see these bundles they will automatically get attracted but you need to make them know like "Hey there is an Xbox Bundle out there in stores which comes with Forza Horizon 2 and 1 year of Ea access at the same price of Ps4".

3. Once they  acquire this momentum in Europe they can steal some light from Ps4

The simple reason is that people don't buy hardware during holidays based only on the holiday lineup. Pre-holiday lineup matters, so does the outlook for the next year and of course so does brand image. PS4 is better on these fronts in Europe and Asia.

XB1's exclusive lineup for the next 6 months looks very weak IMO.



TiagoCosta on 19 December 2014

Q1&2 looks weak for me, overall. I don't care for the biggest games, batman, the witcher, battlefield, Evolve...

Kinda sucks, I will be exploring the vita line up, surely some niche jp game is coming out.



FrontlineJaguar on 19 December 2014
GTAexpert said:
FrontlineJaguar said:
GamechaserBE said:
FrontlineJaguar said:
Microsoft needs to do something for Europe Ps4 is kicking it in Europe and Asian countries.

After 2014 I think Ms needs to lay down a strategy to capture global audience rather than limiting themselves to Us and Uk, gamers are all over the world and Ms cannot deny that Europe is small compared to North America numbers say something else.

What can Ms do let's make a list:

1. Bundles at attractive prices
2. Bigger ad campaigns for Europe and Asia
3. Price Cuts at occasions which are important in specific regions.
4. Improving the image in people's mind in these regions

Games games games games,  you should make a list of what is coming every month.  For January for Xone we have the CEs event that can create a positive image on the net for Xone but that is everything.

Don't get me wrong I  agree games are important but look Xbox One had better games this holiday and is still not doing great numbers in comparision to Ps4. Why?  (Europe and Other areas). Honestly this holiday is very dull for Ps4 their are no great games on Ps4 to play (from holiday standpoint), Xbox One has so much more and difference is so big in favour of Ps4

Well answer is simple marketing and pricing. They were able to pull trigger in NA because of pricing and aggressive marketing if they do the same for Europe I believe they can capture a bigger market share.

Ms has the tools they need to sell more consoles however lack of execution is disappointing:

1. Europe loves racing and Ms has Forza, they also love FIFA and they also have ea access. They should launch a Forza Bundle with Forza 5 and Forza h2 dlc, also launch a fifa and forza bunde (forza 5 or h2) or maybe an Ea bundle FIFA 15 and Ea access for 1 year.

2. Even when you have these bundles the key is to make more and more people aware about them. Which means marketing when people will see these bundles they will automatically get attracted but you need to make them know like "Hey there is an Xbox Bundle out there in stores which comes with Forza Horizon 2 and 1 year of Ea access at the same price of Ps4".

3. Once they  acquire this momentum in Europe they can steal some light from Ps4

The simple reason is that people don't buy hardware during holidays based only on the holiday lineup. Pre-holiday lineup matters, so does the outlook for the next year and of course so does brand image. PS4 is better on these fronts in Europe and Asia.

XB1's exclusive lineup for the next 6 months looks very weak IMO.

Xbox One's next 6 months line up may not be strong but as you say people keep in mind the pre and post lineup in mind and in that case Xbox one's line up is bad ass at leat pre is and for full year 2015 it looks bright. In case of brand image yes Ps is better in  these regions and that's why I said Ms needs to market stuff and improve their image.



crissindahouse on 19 December 2014

MS would already do much better here if they would simply do more and look what Sony does and that's no magic. Just have commercials for your games (hey, it's really not a crazy idea to release ads for Forza, Halo, Sunset and so on and don't just hope everyone will buy your consoles even if you never have ads, Sony does have huge campaigns even for stuff like Singstar).

Work better together with other companies like Sony does with retailers, video on demand services, telecommunication services and more (they mention your console then even in ads for their service and people get your console cheaper if they get the service of these other companies) and some other simple stuff which would push sales.

Or another idea, don't reduce the price of you console in USA to $349 and tell people in Europe "no, we won't reduce the official price of 399€ in Europe, just hope for retailer deals if you want a price which isn't ridiculous compared to the price in USA". Sry but with that attitude you make it even hard for an Xbox fan like me to purchase an Xbox because I feel like an idiot if I see these price policies.

But MS doesn't do it because they probably don't even care much. They are fine with good sales in very few countries as long as these sales are enough to ensure support of most western devs and in other countries they do only the minimum. I really can only talk about what's going on in Germany and what MS tries here but I doubt that it is much better in many other countries like Italy or whatever.



maximrace on 19 December 2014

Halo 5 beta download is 11 gigs. Goes live 22pm CET ( in 1h and half)