Stuff That Sucks: Giving Up On Xbox One?
Oh no! Greg is back from E3 2016! Outrage confirmed.
Greg Burke stews about Microsoft's Xbox product roadmap on this week's Stuff that Sucks. Please take a look.
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Thanks for sharing your viewpoint. I gotta say I don't really agree with most of it, though!
- MS clearly wants to establish an "Xbox" platform here, one that will include products at multiple price points. All games will be coming out on both Xbox One and Scorpio (for a while, at least). I don't understand why you think no one will by an Xbox One S when it will cost almost half of what Scorpio will likely cost, and even less once November 2017 rolls around. If I want a nicely priced 4k Bluray player, don't have an Xbox One, and would like to play the new Gears, it could make sense at $300 or less.
- They announced they will be selling two consoles on the same platform for the first time ever, but you think they are abandoning their console? That is an expensive exit strategy.
- I don't think that consoles compete with PCs in the mass market as much as they do in our niche gaming community. I'm sure MS has data indicating what percentage of Xbox players also play games on their Windows PCs, historically. Clearly what data they have does not worry them, as they are making all games available on Windows 10. Personally, I use Mac laptops exclusively, so consoles make a lot of sense for me. Not everyone has a Windows 10 PC, let alone one that is powerful enough to run the latest games, and that is hooked up for couch-centric multiplayer gaming that console players are used to.
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However, I still don't see a point of buying an Xbox One or Xbox One S with the promise of a New Xbox Console next November. As well as all the games being playable on PC as well as Xbox, I see people diving into PS4 as there go to console. And anyone on the fence about getting a Next Gen gen Console, will just skip Xbox and Get a PC or just by a PS4. Which has been dominated the market share the last year.
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it's not for you, it's for the literally millions of potential customers out there that might be interested in playing games. the fact that a "newer/better/faster" one is coming out next year doesn't matter, because 1) they have no idea, and 2) MS is pushing this as an living ecosystem, and the same games will be playable on both, so nobody is actually missing out on anything. some random 3 kid family with a 40" 1080p tv isn't going to give a flying shit about not having a 4K xbox, they just want to play Forza Horizons because they saw a tv commercial.
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You don't know the price of the Scorpio yet.
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$999.99
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Pound Sterling maybe
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I think the thing has always been that Microsoft could afford to lose money on Xbox in the short term because it was part of their larger overall strategy to get in the living room as an expansion market.
With tech companies the biggest thing is always when they make the product no one owns and suddenly everyone needs. In the start of the 90's not everyone had a PC. By the end of the 90's literally everyone had a PC, and they all ran Windows. Microsoft doubled its income every year because people who never had a PC went and bought one. In 2010 when the iPad came out almost no one owned a tablet. The vast majority of the tech consuming population now has a tablet. Between the iPad and the iPhone, Apple became the most profitable company on earth.
So Microsoft branches out into new products that haven't hit feature saturation point yet. When the original Xbox came out, selling 2-3 million of your consoles in a year was considered a success, and five million was mind boggling. Now it's not even considered a good quarter.
All is well, except this tablet thing put a serious hurt onto Windows sales. People (consumers) stopped buying PC's in the numbers they used to, and a number switched to Mac (the PC market keeps going down but Apple keeps selling an increasing number of Macs). They got so desperate that they came out with Windows 8, a version of Windows designed to run like a tablet. Went over like a wet fart in church. They're literally having problems GIVING Windows 10 away.
So now they've kinda decided that helping Windows is more important than helping Xbox. Thing is they're going against Sony who isn't spread as thin and Nintendo, who makes its own gravity.
On the upside, it means I can upgrade my PC and not miss much with the Xbone.
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I thought it was weird initially how at the press conference they kept saying 'only on Xbox One and Windows 10' for all the games. I kept thinking "man, they sure are shooting themselves in the foot here. Who's gonna buy an Xbox now?".
But for the average every day gamer having a good enough PC to run games on is not in the cards. They might as well have said only on Xbox One and Holographic Matrix Dream Box. Microsoft realizes they can gain a few sales they wouldn't get otherwise by throwing these games on PC and it makes them look more open and inclusive and gets them a little fake street cred when in reality they aren't any more open than Sony or Nintendo. And in the end they'll still millions more on Xbox One than on PC.
I do think Microsoft is flailing around without much clear direction but I don't really see anyone else doing any better either. It's a very weird transitional time that I think will linger on for another 4-5 years at least. -
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I felt the same way. As someone who owns a beefy PC but none of the current consoles, the Xbox play anywhere stuff was far, far more compelling to me than any of Sony's stuff. I still have no plans to buy any of the consoles, but MS might get some cash out of me for a game or two, which is more than they could say before.
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I must say that page opening on a Edge, Shacknews.com looks like a mess. Is this a new design? Looks so bad. Also about 30% of the page is ads? I feel like puke-vomiting.
Also I don't like video articles (except on Giant Bomb), but what the hell.
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