God forbid we have different opinions on things.
Dude, it's a meme. Don't take it seriously, lol
Are you guys serious right now? I was just asking a harmless question. lol
God forbid we have different opinions on things.
Dude, it's a meme. Don't take it seriously, lol
"All those PS2 fans will just buy the PS3"Negative mainstream press IMO still isn't going to stop the Xbox 360 owners who want to buy the system to keep playing COD, watching/playing sports with their same group of friends.
You can go all digital on PS4 too.
"All those PS2 fans will just buy the PS3"
I love the "MS is playing the long game" comment every time they make a flop.
WP8: MS is playing the long game
Surface: MS is playing the long game
Windows 8: MS is playing the long game
What exactly does Sony risk? What's the worst case scenario out of this for them?
I love the "MS is playing the long game" comment every time they make a flop.
WP8: MS is playing the long game
Surface: MS is playing the long game
Windows 8: MS is playing the long game
Microsoft will have perfect knowledge of every one of its customers: it will know everything they own, what they spent on it, what they're likely to buy in the future. And since they know that person will be constantly connected to the internet they can put special deals in front of them, etc. The potential to make much more money off of each individual user.
Sony won because Microsoft went crazy and Sony helped everyone laugh at them. I thought both of them were boring outside the drm and used games jokes.
Nintendo said screw it, told use about everything before E3 and made you wait in lines at Best Buy for 3 hours to play ther games.
This is not necessarily a problem with PSN, this is a problem because you don't use your PS3 often. I'm not saying you have a problem because you don't use it often, but as someone who uses their PS3 regularly the updates are not an issue.The problem with Sony and digital to this point has been that the person who established the infrastructure for the PS3 dash and PSN should have been fired.
I went to buy Last of Us via DD and I actually had to download the PSN store as an App! I go there so rarely I forgot what it was like. That on its own is regrettable. But to add insult to injury you have to essentially leave the dash to go to the store. Thankfully I didn't need to change credit card info otherwise I probably would have had to back all the way out to the main dash and account settings page like I had to do when I bought Joe Danger years ago.
MS has it totally integrated and I'm sure Sony will do the same thing this time around but they have a load of catchup to do on the services front. MS also has lots they need to do but they are not starting from such a deficit.
We take for granted services and delivery via DD when they are done well. On PS3 I've avoided ever going into the PSN store unless I absolutely have to. That isn't a good mindset to rely on when you are trying to sell digital games. I certainly hope Sony has it covered. My PS4 is preordered and prepaid and there is no way I'm buying a physical disc for it.
Sony put themselves into a corner. They have to continue to support drm free used games until physical media is pretty much 100% dead.
Sony has said the PS4 will feature and even predownload games for you based on your playing habits
I was kinda hoping it was going to be more about gameplay ideas, or just the fact that since everyone has to be online all the time you could go further with Dark Souls-esque gameplay and not really worry about if someone can or can't use all the functions.Microsoft will have perfect knowledge of every one of its customers: it will know everything they own, what they spent on it, what they're likely to buy in the future. And since they know that person will be constantly connected to the internet they can put special deals in front of them, etc. The potential to make much more money off of each individual user.
This is not necessarily a problem with PSN, this is a problem because you don't use your PS3 often. I'm not saying you have a problem because you don't use it often, but as someone who uses their PS3 regularly the updates are not an issue.
Also if you wanted to make it easier, you could have simply pre-purchased the game via the web store (which is great btw) and after purchase go into your downloads under account management. I believe you can actually do remote downloads now from the web store, I just haven't tried that yet.
Microsoft will have perfect knowledge of every one of its customers: it will know everything they own, what they spent on it, what they're likely to buy in the future. And since they know that person will be constantly connected to the internet they can put special deals in front of them, etc. The potential to make much more money off of each individual user.
I was kinda hoping it was going to be more about gameplay ideas
Also the Kin.You forgot the Zune.
But first they have to learn those habits, which means you have to choose to opt in to being online.
Also possible, since developers can now make online-only games without having to worry about segmenting the market or dealing with customer service of people buying a game and not knowing what to do with it. So that's a different piece of it.
I would think that losing a large chunk of your users is a bigger problem than not being able to monitor what 100% of your users are buying.
But first they have to learn those habits, which means you have to choose to opt in to being online.
... and gamers who do not want their habits tracked can purchase a PS4 and buy games they want thus leading to more money for Sony.
I find it funny how many people think games are going all digital like really soon. Sure, it's going to happen, but in the next 5 years? No. It's going to slowly occur over the next decade+. The Xbox One is not brilliantly positioned to take advantage of the all digital future. By the time it truly arrives the console will be old news.
Negative mainstream press IMO still isn't going to stop the Xbox 360 owners who want to buy the system to keep playing COD, watching/playing sports with their same group of friends.
Going all digital is the risky thing to do unless the hardware goes 'digital' too. As long as people buy consoles from retailers Microsoft risks that their console is not offered or promoted if going digital only (which is probably why they open more stores themselves).
The transition was very quick for PC games. 5 years seems reasonable to me.
It's not about a consumer being able to choose going all digital, it's about 100 percent of the games on the console being stored digitally and tied to an account. Microsoft is taking the risk of forcing the issue, but (and this is the point) in the long run, Sony may be taking a risk by not forcing it.
Going all digital is the risky thing to do unless the hardware goes 'digital' too. As long as people buy consoles from retailers Microsoft risks that their console is not offered or promoted if going digital only (which is probably why they open more stores themselves).
It will if it's what consumers want. You don't need to force it if that's the direction consumers are going in. They'll gravitate toward that form of purchase naturally.
Microsoft will have perfect knowledge of every one of its customers: it will know everything they own, what they spent on it, what they're likely to buy in the future. And since they know that person will be constantly connected to the internet they can put special deals in front of them, etc. The potential to make much more money off of each individual user.
Great article and sums up how I feel things will go down eventually. MS just took the leap first. They will take their bumps and bruises but will adjust IMO as they will have to. I do believe that this industry is going down this path, kicking and screaming for some. I think being forced to go digitlal though is wrong and they need to adjust their strategy with this quickly.
I agree, however, it makes at least a lot more people think over their purchase that otherwise would have blindly bought the Xbone.
How are they taking the leap first when they are behind?
I wish I could combine the two. Love the no blocking used games and the no DRM thing but MS showed more interesting and new games at their conference.