WTF Microsoft...Great Job

I don't worship any company, certainly not Sony. Sony is not one of the good guys. I just like to mess up with lems here. I realize though that there are better companies than others for the industry. I just happen to think MS is one of the worst since they have too much power and they are trying to make very basic technology that is closed to their systems and affects the whole insdustry as the standard. I'm pretty sure Sony or Nintendo would love to do the same but they don't have the power so they're not really so harmful. I'm ok with proprietary technology but not it dominating everything. Even Steam has been trying to get off MS grip but they are not so powerful. I like companies like CDProjekt whose philosophy is to be as open as possible but I don't worship them.

Microsoft and the xbox brand havee really turned things around in the past year and a half in terms of gaming. If they can keep this trend going I don't see how Sony or Nintendo compete.

@darkangel115: never said they didnt...whats your point?

And besides I have never bought a game through origin or uplay, I dindt buy any games from ubisoft at all for about 4 years after the allways online bullshit. And I never pay full price for EA games as quite often you dont get a complete game from them until after all the dlc has been released...

I vote with my wallet and I dont accept simething and go "oh well" just because another company does it.

Even withot ms,bliz,ea and ubi I still have too many games to play, so f**k all of them :p

I will too :D

@dakur: Yeah sure thing.

I will say while the XBone is not my favorite system this generation, it has done well enough to garner my respect. Phil Spencer is a giant part of that equation. Give credit where it is due. He seems like a guy I would genuinely like unlike Andrew House. Sonys recent blunders are only making Microsoft look better. When I buy the 1080TI I'm not sure what to do with the One. I suppose it might get used with multiplayer games with my friends. It's a Destiny and KI machine at the moment.

Windows Store? Lolololol, hell no!

Until these dipshits divorce their games from the POS windows store I won't be supporting them with a single penny.

It's great to be able to play the few good X1 "exclusives" without having to buy the console. If it's good business for MS on the other hand is another question. They are pretty much giving people more reasons not to buy a MS console. The best solution this gen is having a PS4 and a PC.

You're perspective is warped by system wars. A game being on two platforms isn't a reason to NOT buy one of the platforms. It just means you won't need the second platform. But at the end of the day it means dev's will stay invested in the XBOX platform which is now both windows/console. It also means if you want to play some games from the couch and you've got many of the PC games that are shared, you can buy an xbox instead of a more expensive secondary PC. Its a good move for M$ because it means their platforms have a more friendly ecosystem for consumers.

@waahahah: They won't sell as much hardware which is sort of a big investment for them in the first place. Sounds more like they are planning to leave the console market, and get everyone to have a windows pc to game on. If all they're games are available on PC, why buy a console to play the exact same games?

That solution would be fine for us consumers, people won't need to buy an overpriced PC from MS if they can choose a much cheaper and better product from elsewhere.

Hardware isn't a high margin item, software/services is. Their goal is to keep developers developing for their platform so consumers can keep buying software for that platform. Again its not a reason to NOT buy something if a game is on that system. Owning a system you can already play it on is a reason to not buy that system. But for any one else looking at platforms a game on a system is a definte reason to buy that system, and if its not on another system (ps4 in this case) it holds greater value.

If all the games you want are available on xbox why buy a PC? See how that works? You're implicitly declaring PC the only choice which is stupid. Consoles have less hackers, less bugs in their games, standardized on controllers (so if you want to say play bf1 on the couch with a controller a PC is a terrible choice... unless you like eating shit in the MP), a single service to deal with (every publisher has to have a piece of the service pie on PC).

The fact that with microsoft I have the option for power at all costs and flexibility vs a cost effective, simpler, and more reliable platform is great. Its even great that I'll be able to use both with the same game library the way they are going so I still have incentive to buy a secondary system with xbox if I want to be able to play with the benefits of a console.

Would you do that assembly for 694,000 units per month without being paid for it? One of the main goals for "System on Chip" is to reduce labor cost.

From Ubisoft's financials and most Ubisoft's games are mostly multi-platform games and Xbox One's attach rate is excellent.

Similar result from Activision

Well, ms have got nothing to lose by going cross platform. Not like they had any decent exclusives...

Sony on the other hand, are no doubt well aware that many only buy their consoles for the exclusives so there's probably fat chance that they'll go cross platform - but hey it'd be nice if they did though!

well it never made business and common sense that microsoft gaming IPs were not available on the biggest microsoft platform anyway...

Xbox one sales are not failing though, thats where you lose the argument, they mayu not be as good as the Ps4 but thats because the Ps4's sales this gen are the Exception not the rule.

Xbox one sales have been increasing year on year and Since the release of the Xbox one S sales have gone through the roof.

http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/409663/Xbox+One+console+sales+increasing+year-on-year/

http://thisgengaming.com/2016/09/08/xbox-one-s-sales-increase-by-111-on-amazon-after-sonys-ps4-pro-event/

http://www.geeksultd.com/2016/08/xbox-sales-increased-75-release-xbox-one-s/

How many price cuts and offers X1 had since its release in order to push sales ? They even remodeled the original version for further price cut in its first year ! Thats how you justifying if X1 is doing good ? Sorry i pass !

The issue here is under what terms and circumstances PS4 sold up till now and under what the X1 ... X1 had a very rough road , specially at the start. And it was right that moment that MS decided to go Pc way.

Any move to unite gamers on a single platform is to be commended. I very much appreciate what MS is doing and have been asking for it for a long time.

That's not really true. I think the people currently running the Xbox division really care about gaming, and they want to create new, and better stuff for this world when it comes to gaming. Sure it needs to be profitable, but Phil Spencer really likes gaming, and really cares about it. Just like Elon Musk cares about the environment, and the mysteries of the universe, which is why he is doing Tesla (environment), SolarCity (environment), and SpaceX (universe).