@BillJr106 You are one of the most ignorant and insular people I've seen post on here. The policies MS launched with would have restricted the ability to use the console of millions of consumers around the world, and their future looking policies would exclude many more from being able to continue gaming with the XBox. Pull your head out and realise that not everyone lives with the privilege you obviously do.
@hadlee73 'Re-scoping' sounds like the game wasn't very good. It could even be that they were poorly skilled or unprofessional developers they were politely kicking off the team? You're right that we can't judge without any context.
If their policies were so brilliant, why was it so impossible to make a convincing case for their necessity? Or why did they so quickly recant on so many key feature? Just like with Windows 8, the worlds premier desktop OS clearly optimised for mobile devices (thus alienating their key corporate market), Microsoft have shown poor vision and planning, exemplified in their inability to sell their crap to consumers. It's not our fault we didn't like the sound of what swung between anti-consumer talk and gibberish.
@hadlee73 Maybe we should be thankful they're improving their budgeting efficiency by not keeping on 12 redundant positions? We haven't heard a thing for 18 months, so they have probably had to take a flailing project back to the drawing board and don't need such a big dev team at the moment.
@Soulreavercross @OldKye That would be a strange situation. Great for a lot of consumers, especially the majority not so plugged in to what's going on. But surely, no matter the commercial upside, that's critical suicide?
@CaveManCobb Damned because they lied about the purpose of their features, and the functionality of their policies. Damned because the launch has proven how vision-less MS are. As a piece of hardware the XBO is a good console, but right now Microsoft don't deserve gamers money.
@KenderDragon The Kinect is a ridiculously powerful piece of equipment. The PS Eye is perfectly adequate for your gaming needs, but it can't read your facial expressions, heart rate and see the folds in your clothes in very dim light like the Kinect can. It also doesn't feature voice tracking so it can follow you around a room or pick up a new person when they enter it, and remember them if it has tracked them before. Kinect will be OP for years, from a functional point of view. But I don't need a camera to play games, and I just paid off my PS4 this morning : )
@Juon408 Probably not many because if any of this stuff was as important to the console as MS said it was, they would have to completely redesign the console to remove it. But they can apparently just switch it off.
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