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Do you think the industry is annoyed with Microsofts inability to stick to a gameplan?

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maverick40 on 16 May 2014
kowenicki said:
no

Not entirely true. The developers who are making Kinect only games seem to be the ones who are pissed and rightly so. Other than those select few, every other dev will see the kinect removal as a god send.

It is still scary that they have literally did a 180 degree on everything the console stood for initially



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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 16 May 2014
Nem said:

I dont think so.

SEGA dropped a system they could perfectly kept supporting for more years. They disappointed publishers and customers.

Microsoft just pissed off the early adopters a bit. Maybe they annoyed a few publishers a bit, but i'm sure they understand that it benefits them more in the long run.

Except for the fact that the reason they dropped out/discountinued the Dreamcast in the first place was because they couldn't finacially support it anymore.



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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 16 May 2014
maverick40 said:
kowenicki said:
no

Not entirely true. The developers who are making Kinect only games seem to be the ones who are pissed and rightly so. Other than those select few, everyone dev will see the kinect removal as a god send.

It is still scary that they have literally did a 180 degree on everything the console stood for initially

Except the name...

Yet..



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S.T.A.G.E. on 16 May 2014

The Kinect is a secondary device so whatever baclash they got from third party would be small. Sega screwed up their complete relationship with third parties completely for the Saturn and they all ran to Sony.



S.T.A.G.E. on 16 May 2014

If Microsoft had stuck with their initial gameplan even a cross section of Xbox gamers would've boycotted them.



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Nem on 16 May 2014
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Nem said:

I dont think so.

SEGA dropped a system they could perfectly kept supporting for more years. They disappointed publishers and customers.

Microsoft just pissed off the early adopters a bit. Maybe they annoyed a few publishers a bit, but i'm sure they understand that it benefits them more in the long run.

Except for the fact that the reason they dropped out/discountinued the Dreamcast in the first place was because they couldn't finacially support it anymore.


Oh sorry... i meant the Saturn, not the dreamcast. The OP alluded to in his point... so i thought it was obvious. I will edit it to make it clear. :)



oniyide on 16 May 2014

naw, sega REALLLLY screwed up, moreso than anyone in recent memory. As the OP even said SOME publishers were probably backing MS behind the scenes, so they didnt make everyone mad



NobleTeam360 on 16 May 2014

No.



oniyide on 16 May 2014
maverick40 said:
kowenicki said:
no

Not entirely true. The developers who are making Kinect only games seem to be the ones who are pissed and rightly so. Other than those select few, every other dev will see the kinect removal as a god send.

It is still scary that they have literally did a 180 degree on everything the console stood for initially


i disagree, especially since what it intially stood for wasnt that great IMHO



GameAnalyser on 16 May 2014

I'd say it's a classic example of almost being similar for comparison. Sega's moves had spelled disaster for it right from day one. Kinect and the eSRAM issues are the sensitive ones here. Not to mention that DRM fiasco in the beginning which was somehow fixed in time.