BIGPADDY
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At least you can change your mind at any time with consoles.
Wise words.
At least you can change your mind at any time with consoles.
Odd that most of the sites don't mention frame rate drops on the PS4... It's like there truly is a witch hunt to bring the One down. Almost reminds me of the media coverage of the last presidential election, Obama as the PS4 and Romney as the XB1.
I am a 360 guy, I use windows phone, windows 8 desktop, and outlook. I'm "plugged in" to the MS ecosystem. I'm just a realist. I would posit that I have a very good grasp of the situation. I am seeing it for what it is, not clouded by my enjoyment of this companies' past products.
You're calling the Xbox One a "big brother machine," despite the fact that nothing had been shown to prove that factual. In fact, it's FURTHER from that with the allowing of unplugging the Kinect now. Really, which is a greater customer pool though, the gamer-only audience or the pseudo-gamers who also love general media consumption? The second is the group Microsoft is aiming for, and if you think that they don't have the software to match the PS4 on almost every front, you're sorely mistaken.
Wise words.
Between the cloud stuff and the Kinect, I really think Microsoft has given more thought behind the Xbox one than given credit for. You can't just pay for exclusives and stuff more hardware in. Developers have to have a reason to prefer you or they'll just jump ship as soon as the money changes direction. Remember how at e3, the fans hated the X1 but the developers *loved* it? Give it time.
This is a self-contradiction. You say you can't just pay for exclusives, but you need a reason to jump to a platform. A big reason people pick a platform is probably because of those bought exclusives, such as Gears of War, Titanfall, and Ryse.
I completely agree about the potential, though. I love the "Drivatar" feature in Forza and someone made the ingenious suggestion of letting it carry over to shooters. Quick explanation, in case people don't know--"Drivatar" takes your driving habits and records them. It then replicates those habits as an in-game AI for other racers around the world, meaning AI drives like people by learning from them. The shooter translation here is to learn a person's shooter habits and carry it over to squad-based shooters. Imagine if the AI in Call of Duty wasn't so incompetent, because it mimicked your friends. That would be the ultimate selling point for multi-platform games, if Microsoft could get Activision and DICE/EA to do this.