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...
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.
So, massive layoffs at MS, which includes people from the marketing team in the Xbox division.
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.
$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
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
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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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
When you wish upon a side of beef, soon will come an end to all your griefWell, 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 ):
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.
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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.
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

Kind of makes this article
Hilarious in Hindsight.