MS is sidelining and putting the veil over their eyes just like they did in 2013. They said they had the balanced console, they projected their $500.00 (less powerful, kinect-laden with SNAP and their cable connectivity "tv tv tv"..console) was what consumers wanted, PS4 can't even compete with that....How could it........"Flailing your arms" was suppose to take over the industry for both games and media and of course "XBOX shut DOWN", "XBOX play Spongebob, Start Milo etc..."....I mean, how could Sony ever compete with that "Have you seen titanfall? Have you seen SNAP, do you know you can Skype? Even DF and the media wrote articles on this "balanced console" and the other media houses were hyping it through the roof.......One of the execs said...."Do you expect MS to give a 40% uptick to Sony? They spoke of the power of the cloud and how MS games would not be constrained, as they would have acess to unlimited power "from the cloud".....
They said that all games would have dedicated servers, people went on about Azure, and how Sony had no chance.....MS has the money, they have the infrastructure....Unlimited money, unlimited power from the cloud....Do people ever learn, that most of these MS execs just like to talk up a good game at this point......
MS's gaming division is not privy to all of MS's money, so speaking of MS's billions of revenue means nothing, they can't use all of that for gaming, especially since their gaming division is not close to being as sucessful as their software/os busines and server business.
Yet nothing has changed with the way MS does things, hype something for a bit, then no delivery. Recently, MS execs screamed through the rooftops about crossplay. How many games are pushing crossplay on MS systems after all that noise, where is CP in Fallout 76 or others multiplats at least on PC/XBOX where it would be easier for MS, since they own the OS and they have now considered Windows/XBOX to be hinged......
So no, nothing has changed, It's the same MS now. It's the same Phil Spencer who didn't acknowledge the PRO as a competitor to XBONEX....PRO is competing with ONE-S he said. Yet. PRO's are in higher demand and Sony can't seem to make enough....Phil said XBONEX was not about those CB, upscaling and those type of methods used by PRO and those lesser consoles, "XBONEX is a true 4K machine", but what do you know? XBONEX is doing dynamic resolution, reprojection techniques out the wazoo......
Unlimited power of the cloud, unlimited cash reserves means nothing.....These are just hype lines.....MS is the same who said, "we did direct x"......and some people go boasting about their software prowess, yes, because they have a monopoly, not because they have the best programmers anymore, because they don't.......The MS who did windows 3.1, NT and XP is a different talent pool from the current OS team......MS is so great on software and yet, their OS is decidedly the worse among the HD consoles? They were behind the 8 ball on features in 2013 (gaming related) and have been playing catchup ever since, to no avail....
I really don't understand why folk would be beating success drums for an MS streaming service, when it's not even live yet.....I'm still waiting on all games being on dedicated servers for XBOX-ONE and a game using the power of the cloud from those mighty servers......If you listen to MS/Execs, you would expect a game from them to have beaten a Titan X....."that unlimited power" right? And boy, do they have a contingent to hype stuff along with them, most often leading to a whimper......I still remember Leadbetter saying the XBONEX was like a GTX 1070 in power, yes, you really can't make this stuff up, just hype hype hype, leading to fail fail fail....