Wickerbasket
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Microsoft sells Mediaroom, Xbox to be their TV strategy going forward
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Didn't you hear? Ps4 is a hardcore games machine and Durango is for streaming The Voice.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Saw this coming a mile away. Games aren't enough for MS anymore. I suspect they never were.
Deus Ex Machina
Member
"It allows Microsoft to commit 100 percent of its focus on consumer TV strategy with Xbox."
Microsoft is so fucking done
Microsoft is so fucking done
Xbox will be 100% of our consumer TV focus = US will be 100 % of our Xbox focus
So much this.
Not only do not appear to be gaming focused, but if the last few years are anything to go by, they will be US focused too.
Very worried for the nextbox.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
The first half of 360's life was glorious gaming, so it's still sad to see this direction they're taking.
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
Makes me uneasy.
KojiKnight
Member
You do realize that the x-box and playstation are game consoles yes? Any attempt to focus more on videos/music than games will only end up hurting the consoles primary base.
Is it a good business decision for them? It may be, but it's a bad one for the game industry. I never once mentioned Sony NOT fighting this same fight.
BlazingDarkness
Member
Isn't Netflix enough?
You can have all the multimedia features in the world. I find nothing wrong with this and hell yea I'm interested.
But this is sopose to be about games Microsoft. Isn't that why you got into the business to begin with? Weren't the founding fathers of Xbox hardcore gamers themselves?
Should All these rumors about not playing used games, always online required, and watching tv on this is true, it makes me sad as a gamer.
It looks like sony is getting it right this time. After all it's called the playstation.
A station to play games.
But this is sopose to be about games Microsoft. Isn't that why you got into the business to begin with? Weren't the founding fathers of Xbox hardcore gamers themselves?
Should All these rumors about not playing used games, always online required, and watching tv on this is true, it makes me sad as a gamer.
It looks like sony is getting it right this time. After all it's called the playstation.
A station to play games.
Just like WIPEOUTHD. Anyway, I'm a playstation gamer most of the time, but I kinda wish sony would be more proactive in this area. I'd like to be able to watch TV or something from my ps4. At least give us more apps.your video games will now have commercials.
Focus is important. Without it, elements of a product can suffer.
Windows 8 is a good example of a design that tried to be all things for all people on all devices and ended up offering compromising experiences for both tablets and desktops without offering enough positives for people to want it.
Lol. I'd say most.
Uiki
Member
Gamers aren't enough for MS anymore.
A lot of xbox die hards I feel have taken a bashing the last few weeks. I think many held on to the notion that many of these rumours were all made up malarkey and would carry little to no weight. The reality is and always was that many of the sources for the original rumours (Edge for example) have some very reliable insiders, and now more and more sources are either confirming the rumours or have info that correlates with them.
Either way, it's not looking pretty. Will be an interesting reveal. In the end, I think they'll (try to) drown out the non gamer and anti-consumer stuff with some massive games. From what I've heard about the latter, there should be some big one's up for show.
Either way, it's not looking pretty. Will be an interesting reveal. In the end, I think they'll (try to) drown out the non gamer and anti-consumer stuff with some massive games. From what I've heard about the latter, there should be some big one's up for show.
Canis lupus
Member
Its not a bad thing but it fuels the sentiment that their next product is more of a set top box than a xbox
People on this website must be in a coma if they actually believe one of the PS4's main focuses won't be entertainment other than gaming.
All of the consoles, including the PS4, are more entertainment centers of a living room than actual gaming consoles anymore. There is a reason people watch Netflix and video content more than play games on modern consoles now.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Lolllllll
Vinterbird
Member
Without a doubt both. Microsoft is revealing their machine this close to launch to show a more fully formed and actual vision of the next Xbox. Meaning that they will show what will actually ship in the console and show how it fits into the lifestyle of a normal person.
Unspeakable Evil
Member
MS going balls deep
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Funny thing is that they've focused more on games and HW talk more than anything else so far.
Of course it will have Netflix, Gaikai, etc. The message MSFT is delivering is the opposite of what I've seen with PS4 so far so I don't know what you are reaching for here.
Stop being dense. Everyone knows it will be a media machine too, the difference is people trust Sony to have a strong gaming focus as well based on their past and present focus and their constant comments that the focus for 4 is gamers. Just like everyone has no faith in MS due to their past and present focus on kinect and media.
Yeah i know, but the good Microsoft is gone since 3 or 4 years now.
Yup.
But hey i can pay XBL Gold so i can watch GameTrailers on my Xbox!
Whatever, i'll wait and see what they have in mind on the 21st of May, things don't look too good for now.
Of course if it is indeed always online, there's nothing (or very little) they could do to get me to buy it.
Wickerbasket
Member
You should buy a Roku if you're serious; they're cheap and will likely give you most of the same services.
People constantly act surprised when they read about this. This is something that's been going on for a while now, and if anyone thinks Microsoft is going to let go of something that appeals a much larger audience to it's product, he's got another thing coming. Everyone seems to speak as if this console should be catered to them, people tend to forget that this is a business. Anyone placed in such a position is going to do the same. It's not like Balmer is going to go home at night and say "Well my product isn't doing so well but at least the hardcore gamers are happy!"
Personally, none of the entertainment components of the console appeal to me, in fact I can't even use a quarter of them in the country I live in. I'll be waiting for the games, and I highly doubt Microsoft is just going to ditch the audience that help helped jumpstart their console in the first place. If nothing get's announced, then I have the freedom to choose something else which caters more to me. But I just don't get the hostility some of the others have. It's like Microsoft stabbed them in the heart and butchered their soul. All that and nothing has been announced yet!
Personally, none of the entertainment components of the console appeal to me, in fact I can't even use a quarter of them in the country I live in. I'll be waiting for the games, and I highly doubt Microsoft is just going to ditch the audience that help helped jumpstart their console in the first place. If nothing get's announced, then I have the freedom to choose something else which caters more to me. But I just don't get the hostility some of the others have. It's like Microsoft stabbed them in the heart and butchered their soul. All that and nothing has been announced yet!
KojiKnight
Member
The thing is... Microsoft thinks the new x-box that has a heavy focus on these things is going to EXPAND their audience, and simply put... it's not. There is too much of a gaming stigma attached to the name. If they focus too much on the entertainment portion and keeping developers happy instead of customers they'll end up pushing the hardcore away and once it's gone, it won't be back (Nintendo says "Hi" on that)
Palette Swap
Member
Only if it's called "Burn in".
I have seen quite a few people here claim that. They seem to have missed the first 35 minutes of sonys PS4 announcement show where they talked about everything but games lol
This has been microsofts direction from the start anyway. You can bet Sony will be offering just as many services like this.
Also, I don't remember people bitching about PS2 Ning able to play Video DVDs back in the day. I don't se how this is really any different. It's adding to the entertainment capabilities. No way is gaming being pushed to the side.
Deus Ex Machina
Member
Well said, Thank you.
THE:MILKMAN
Member
I'll visit you in off-topic!
I think Microsoft may be confusing my wife watching 60 hours of Netflix and me playing 20 hours of video games as though Netflix is the primary reason we bought an Xbox 360. I won't buy the Next Xbox for $3-500 to watch Netflix when I can buy a Roku for a fraction of that. Give me game power, yo.
Microsoft hasn't offered anything yet considering the console hasn't been officially announced or features officially confirmed...
From most comments I've seen on NeoGAF you would think the PS4 is nothing but a gaming console and will offer nothing else.
It isn't what they do in comparison it is that they offer it in the first place, people are not going to be happy if their new console can't even match the media offerings of the old console.
Just because you buy a console for games doesn't mean it's usefulness stops there.
statham
Member
Sony can join us with their free movie from Epix.
We have an idea of Sony's plan about games. Not the case with Microsoft.
Bel_Air_Jeff
Banned
the best thing to happen to video game consoles since forever.
KojiKnight
Member
This... so much this.
theytookourjobz
Junior Member
What does the new Xbox do for media consumption that the 360 or even much cheaper Roku or Apple TV doesn't do? The only people that would be willing to shell out $500 at launch are enthusiasts and it seems to me like MS isn't really concerned with pleasing them.
I wonder if the next console will just be called "Xbox". Microsoft's recruitment page just calls it "Xbox" too.
rakkadakka
Member
It seems to me that MS is setting themselves up to compete with the iPad rather than just making the best gaming console ever.
The real question is going to be if they can deliver on both.
R3TRODYCE
Member
I've been thinking about that, but if my console can do it then two birds one stone; I get the ips I love plus the services I want.