Something crossed my mind…
Does anyone remember WAY back when Itagaki said he how he choose the Xbox as THEEEE platform for Ninja Gaiden because of how strong/capable the system was?
Developers now…Knowing that the PS4 will be the more powerful console out of the bunch , dont you think it will get way more attention from devs just because of it? I think so.
Also i know forsure that the xbone will never have any exclusives that will appeal to me. Unless they make Lost Odyssey 2 which dosent seem very likely.
Thing that bothers me is the whole “authorized dealers” as far as the used market goes. If I can log into MS servers with my store’s Federal Tax ID and all that to “wipe” the licensing from a traded in game for resale, that’s workable, but if it becomes something like “You need to play MS $25,000” to become an authorized dealer or some bullshit…they’re gonna cutting out everyone except Gamestop pretty much. Head scratcher that looks to be fucking over small businesses, third party distributors.
Shit is so vague, but if if there’s a cost for becoming anauthorized, then won’t they be leaving Gamestop in almost monopoly type of position…?
Like they give a shit about killing mom & pop stores or handing Best Buy/Gamestop/Wal-Mart a monopolized market…
It’s all about the dollars to Microsoft… so much so that they even want to control how and where you spend you gaming dollars.
I’m going to have to change my catchphrase- Instead of "Fuck Capcom" I’m gonna have to start saying "Fuck Microsoft and the morons who will give them money for Xbone" a bit longer, but necessary in this current climate.
It’s funny because this is what we all feared when Microsoft first tried to get into gaming with the XBox “1”.
It was feared that, as the greediest company in existence, M$ would eventually try to ruin the games industry.
Good to know our fears were not misplaced.
What kinds of numbers would M$ have to see with the XB1 to make them get the message and change their model? 20 million Units over the whole lifespan of the system? Would a number this low be possible if the outcry continued loud enough? I’d love to see them only sell 35…but I’m wondering what is a realistic sales outcome of this fuckery.
Actually XboxOG pulled about 25million until they stopped counting the year before it was discontinued. So if it sells less than that, hopefully they just hang up their guns and decide not to bend over their customers for awhile
Major bankers have such vast amounts of wealth (virtually infinite, some of them) and have power and influence that puts them fuckin far into governments around the world they control politicians movements like rock em sock em robots.
You’re not going to be able to a whole lot more than sit back and watch them do whatever the fuck they want.
But Microsoft? Those fuck niggas make fuckin electronics and computer software. Get fucked over by them? Nah, M$ is a fight that consumers can REALISTICALLY win.