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Alucard Lazy? from Vancouver, BC Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#5902: Jul 17th 2014 at 4:02:06 PM

Most of the cuts aren't happening in Microsoft as such - they are instead gutting the Nokia phone business they bought.

A business that they had already ruined with that prick Elop when they managed to get him into Nokia for that specific purpose. There's a lot of folks in Finland want that guy's head on a stick still...

kingtiger522 Since: Jul, 2012
#5903: Jul 17th 2014 at 4:08:44 PM

[up]wild mass guess

And yeah, the bulk of the cuts are coming from Nokia. Probably now-redundant management positions.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#5904: Jul 17th 2014 at 4:14:19 PM

Not only them, and it's an open thing in the European technical press that what I said about that prick Stephen Elop is exactly what he was sent in to do. That's why when Nokia died as a phone maker, as he was instructed to do, he waltzed straight back into Microsoft. He expected to get the CEO job but not even the Microsoft board had that much brass neck.

Alucard Lazy? from Vancouver, BC Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Lazy?
#5905: Jul 22nd 2014 at 7:52:22 PM

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/microsoft-said-to-announce-job-cuts-as-soon-as-this-week.html

So, massive layoffs at MS, which includes people from the marketing team in the Xbox division.

kingtiger522 Since: Jul, 2012
Alucard Lazy? from Vancouver, BC Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Lazy?
#5907: Jul 23rd 2014 at 2:27:16 AM

I wasn't aware the stories were connected, but that original article said nothing about the advertising division (I was under the impression that it was just the TV division).

So it's still worth posting about.

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#5909: Jul 25th 2014 at 4:51:21 AM

Jim Sterling has his say on the Xbox One this week on his Jimquisition.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/9565-The-Xbox-One-A-Lying-Failure-Machine

Guess how he feels about it. [lol]

LordofLore Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#5910: Jul 30th 2014 at 6:36:08 AM

$599 is the XB1 price in China. I'm having flashbacks of a certain meme...

edited 30th Jul '14 6:36:43 AM by LordofLore

maxwellelvis Mad Scientist Wannabe from undisclosed location Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: In my bunk
Mad Scientist Wannabe
#5911: Jul 30th 2014 at 7:20:31 AM

That's more than it sells for here!

Of course, don't you know anything about ALCHEMY?!- Twin clones of Ivan the Great
GavsEvans123 HAAAA! from the new ruins level (Plucky Ensign) Relationship Status: Snooping as usual
HAAAA!
#5912: Jul 30th 2014 at 7:21:25 AM

RIIIIIIDGE RACERRRRRRRRR!!!!

Cortex should take a 12-step plan off a 10-step pier
Alucard Lazy? from Vancouver, BC Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Lazy?
#5913: Jul 30th 2014 at 10:27:11 AM

One poll claims that 11% of Chinese gamers would buy an Xbox One. Even the pollers want it to be taken with a grain of salt (the votes sample only reached 6665 people, and they also mention that it's just an online poll).

In any case, Now MS is giving away free Xbox Live Gold access through March 2015 to spice up their Chinese launch.

I think it's a pretty good strategy.

edited 1st Aug '14 9:39:41 AM by Alucard

joeyjojo Happy New Year! from South Sydney: go the bunnies! Since: Jan, 2001
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#5914: Aug 1st 2014 at 8:29:40 AM

6665? couldn't of they spoken to one more person? Gone for quads?

In Australia there's an old chestnut that Rain Follows The Plow. It refers to the fallacy the if you seeding an arid field with wheat and grain then of course the climate will change and adapt in your favour to suit you. It's as deluded as it sounds but many a farmer banked on Cocksure assurance and sowed the desert to reaped nothing but dust for their troubles.

Microsoft is acting a lot like Sony did last generation. The PS 3 was seen as the work of someone who let the success of the PS 2 go to their heads. A device that was overpriced and seemly built around what the producers wanted to sell as opposed to what the market wanted to buy. They were neglectful even contemptuous to both of their core market even the very idea idea of games and suffered heavily for their arrogance. Thankfully they had enough sense to realise that they couldn't sell a machine on the promise of a blue ray player aloud.

Microsoft is acting much the same as sony did so many years ago. They have sow their 'seeds' to winds of always online DRM and forced motion control, and so they shall reap the whirlwind.

edited 1st Aug '14 8:34:57 AM by joeyjojo

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Alucard Lazy? from Vancouver, BC Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
theweirdKiddokun What a Wonderful World! from Last Place in the Race Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#5916: Aug 13th 2014 at 6:28:16 PM

Here is a video summary about Xbox Gamescon conference.

The Reaper Games starts anew.
GavsEvans123 HAAAA! from the new ruins level (Plucky Ensign) Relationship Status: Snooping as usual
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#5917: Sep 4th 2014 at 3:33:57 PM

Xbox One has been released in Japan.

Cortex should take a 12-step plan off a 10-step pier
kingtiger522 Since: Jul, 2012
#5918: Sep 4th 2014 at 3:43:24 PM

There's going to be a deal from the 7th to the 13th at select (most) US retailers; buy any model of the console (including the existing bundles), get one free retail game. Any free retail game. Other than at Target, which is excluding Destiny for some reason.

GreatT HOT DOG Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
HOT DOG
#5919: Sep 4th 2014 at 3:45:17 PM

[up][up]That it did. And it went about as well as one would expect, it seems.

To be honest, this was my reaction.

edited 4th Sep '14 3:52:33 PM by GreatT

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RoboZombie is on the verge of a great collapse today Since: Dec, 2010
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#5920: Oct 13th 2014 at 3:14:57 PM

Well, this is a pretty depressing necrobump, lol.

Ok, anyways, so up until now I was pretty much deadset on getting a PS 4 (having had a PS 1, 2 and 3), but I'm looking at Forza Horzion 2 right now and holy jebus I wanna get this so badly now, but it's an Xbox exclusive.

Honestly, I'm really torn on what system to get now tbh. I mean, Sony's never really let me down (except the PS 3 launch of course), but honestly all of the current PS 4 exclusives have been pretty meh it seems, meanwhile Xbox has Forza.

God damn it, I dunno what to do ):

Irene (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#5921: Oct 13th 2014 at 3:35:17 PM

One system has a game you're interested in. The other has barely anything.

Go for the Xbox One unless your internet provider can't provide you with a proper connection for it. Comcast won't allowed you to properly go online. This does matter for many games, since online is mandatory for some. Keep in mind it used to be mandatory point blank, but I think they removed that and it may only apply to some.

Please do correct me if I got that wrong. This is also why I haven't gotten one yet. The PS 4 has zero games I want right now, while the One has Halo and Killer Instinct. grin

Shadow?
kingtiger522 Since: Jul, 2012
#5922: Oct 13th 2014 at 6:33:22 PM

[up][up]Honestly, this seems pretty straightforward to me. The X1 has the games you want, PS 4 doesn't. If you've got the cash, might as well go where the games are.

Alucard Lazy? from Vancouver, BC Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Face me now, bitch!
#5924: Oct 27th 2014 at 1:09:20 PM

You know things are bad when the console started at 499 and is already down to a fourth of its original price within the first year of release.

Watch Symphogear
kingtiger522 Since: Jul, 2012
#5925: Oct 27th 2014 at 1:18:48 PM

[up]Who on earth is selling X1s for 125 dollars, and where can I find them?


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