Halo is kinda like a big deal, its the whole reason the xbox, FPS, and online play on consoles is where its at today.
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Xbox: End Of An Era [Opinion Article]
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No fanboy shyt lets be real. We all know Microsoft has more first party games coming this year more toward fall and winter comparable to PS4. This has been confirmed. Windows 10 integration will add hundreds of games to the Xbox one library as the Xbox one will have the same OS as PC. The possibilities are endless not counting the unannounced games at E3. You can say this all speculation but the evidence points otherwise.
Calm your horses. The Xbox is gonna be fine. Sure the lunatic Don Mattrick left a huge scar on them, but they will regain conscious and it looks like that. People forget that everyone thought it was the end for the PS3 and Sony during the early days of the PS3 and Sony possibly going bankrupt, but look what happened with the PS3 and Sony...
PS: IMO Its GOOD for Xbox that they no longer partnered with Activision/COD. Now the Xbox brand can ACTUALLY focusing on first party games and developing their first party studios instead of spamming COD...
PS: IMO Its GOOD for Xbox that they no longer partnered with Activision/COD. Now the Xbox brand can ACTUALLY focusing on first party games and developing their first party studios instead of spamming COD...
But yall act like there hasn't been a DROUGHT until this point. That's my shyt. So completely ignore 3/4 of the year?
Having the same OS as a PC. shyt is overblown. Windows is one of the most bloated OS's in the world (still love it). That doesn't bode well for XB1 IMO. The last thing you need is a bloated OS slowing shyt down even more as you already are at a hardware disadvantage that people have taken notice of.
Both sides will have games at E3. Unannounced even. Gears was already leaked so that killed that buzz. Same for an Uncharted collection.
If all you have an Xbox One, do you. The only reason to have one is for MS exclusives and if you are that thirsty for their TV shyt which many smart TVs do nowadays.
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Xbox: End Of An Era
Many of us are aware of the sales gap between the Xbox One and the Playstation 4. Sources put the sales gap worldwide at nearly 2:1 in favor of the PS4. This means that for every Xbox One sold, there have been 2 PS4s sold. We haven’t really seen much of an impact or an effect of that sales gap….until now.
Enter 2015. There has been lots of hints revealed about both Microsoft and Sony’s plans for the rest of the year, and particularly the holiday season. Microsoft’s bringing out their big guns with Halo 5 launching on October 27th. There’s also Forza 6 and timed-exclusive Rise Of The Tomb Raider scheduled for this year. Looking at the competition, the PS4 doesn’t seem to have many notable exclusives releasing this holiday. There’s Persona 5 which will please JRPG fans and Dragon Quest Heroes. There’s also No Man’s Sky which Sony is supposedly treating like a 1st party release.(even though it isn’t)
On paper, Microsoft seems to have the advantage. Their 2015 exclusives are clearly of a higher caliber and budget then Sony’s. But there’s one big area that most people seem to be unaware of……marketing partnerships. Here’s where Microsoft has completely lost favor with the biggest publishers in the industry.
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 3
Last night it was revealed via a Mountain Dew/Doritos promotion that Playstation has snatched up the Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 marketing rights. VisitDewAndDoritos.com and you can see that there is a promotion running with Playstation all year long. Currently, the featured game is Warframe, with Reddit users leaking a promotional Black Ops 3 packaging that is set to go on sale later this year.
What this means is that Microsoft has lost the Call Of Duty partnership which has made them the game community’s favorite for live-streaming and tournaments all these years. Microsoft has had a 1-month exclusive deal on Call Of Duty DLC for as long as we can remember and it only makes sense that gamers and the general public usually associate the Xbox brand with Call Of Duty. If Playstation has now stolen this deal from Microsoft, it can only mean one thing…..no more 1-month exclusive COD DLC on Xbox. Playstation will now be getting the month-early DLC and Xbox players will have to play the waiting game.
Even though all of this is yet to be officially confirmed, it is extremely hard to deny when all the proof is right in front of us. Other than this Mountain Dew promotion we’ve had other hints about the shift in partnership. For example, the press got to play Black Ops 3 on PS4s, something they always did on Xbox. It’s increasingly hard to ignore all of this evidence that’s right in front of our faces. All we can do now is wait for official confirmation from Activision or Sony.
ASSASSIN’S CREED: SYNDICATE
Usually Sony is the one doing bundles for Assassin’s Creed games, the series is definitely more popular on Playstation than Xbox.( A quick look at Ubisofts financial reports is all you need to prove it.) So why was there an Assassin’s Creed Unity bundle for Xbox One last year? No one really knows what happened between Ubisoft and Sony last year but all we do know is that Microsoft snatched up the rights to the game’s marketing and bundles in 2014. They even timed the bundle with a $50 price cut which had them outsell the PS4 for the most important sales months of the year in November and December.
Looking at this year’s Assassin’s Creed tells a different story though. Take a look at this promotional pic from one of the trailers As you can see the PS4 version of the game is front and center for Syndicate, hinting at a Playstation centric marketing campaign this year while the Xbox One version is front and center on last years Unity pic.
So Microsoft somehow lost the marketing partnership for Assassin’s Creed despite them having it last year. It may be that the partnership didn’t do as well as they wanted last year, Sony outbid Microsoft or far more likely, Microsoft wanted to put the spotlight solely on Halo 5 which is coming out the same week as Assassin’s Creed Syndicate.
STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT
Not even 5 seconds into the reveal trailer for Star Wars Battlefront and you already see a Playstation logo. As it was rumored, Sony got the marketing rights to this game too which will easily be one of the biggest games of the year with the new movie coming out. This is another big win for Sony and the PS4 is guaranteed to get a lot of exposure in Disney’s massive marketing campaign for the return of Star Wars.
THE END OF AN ERA
Two other big releases this year are Metal Gear Solid V and Batman: Arkham Knight, both confirmed to be partnering with Playstation. So in total that’s at least 5 big AAA games that Sony has in their corner, the biggest probably being Call Of Duty which is symbolic of how bad things have turned out for Microsoft and the Xbox One this generation. With the sales gap being almost 2:1 in favor of the PS4 and with that gap likely to significantly expand over the years, 3rd party publishers are ditching Microsoft and are betting on the winning horse.
Microsoft knows there’s been significant damage to their brand. So much so that Phil Spencer himself has gotten ahead of it and publicly gone on to say that they are focusing on 1st party this year. It’s likely that this is not a conscious choice but one of necessity. With so many 3rd party partnerships lost Microsoft has no choice but to double down on their 1st party offerings, particularly Halo 5.
Those of you reading this may wonder why anyone would care? I mean all gamers know that these games are on both Xbox One and PS4, right? The thing is that these kinds of deals marketing deals usually target potential new owners. This means that if there’s a ton of PS4 ads for Black Ops 3 on top of a special bundle in stores, guess which console a casual game will end up buying? There’s a reason that every single company does commercials, they just work.
So let me get this straight, COD which has been falling off for years
Assassins creed which hasn't been considered great by the majority since AC2
Then Batman and Starwars, which if an add said "on PS4" would make a potential "new customer" be confused?
I don't know about this article, but I do know every video game destination is saying THIS
http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/m...2015-game-lineup-is-the-best-in-xbox-history/
I'm pretty sure WHEN THEY DELIVER then all the talk will be about the games about to actually DROP
While talk about sony will be "Man, next year Uncharted 4 will make the wait worth it... no, I never got around to UC3"
Yall nikkaz fukkED
You've already posted a list that said Xbox had more exclusives. But we sound butthurt?
Stop relying on... wait, what are you relying on
LOL this Oct-DEC crap again??
2015:
Bloodborne
The Order 1886
MLB The Show
Until Dawn
Amplitude
Everybody's Gone to Rapture
Tearaway Unfolded
Gow 3 Remastered
Dragon Quest Heroes
Oneechanbara
Disgaea 5
Persona 5
J Stars Victory
One Piece
I removed every non 1st party title and 3rd party title from that list.
Gonna be a drought for PS4 this year
.Also remove several more games for possible delays and also add nothing else since there will be zero new games announced for release this year.
meanwhile on the larrybox we got:
2015:
Halo 5
Forza 6
Larry Raider Rise
(For a limited time we flossing it as an exclusive)Uhhhh.....????? Umm... Cuphead?
So let me get this straight, COD which has been falling off for years
Assassins creed which hasn't been considered great by the majority since AC2
Then Batman and Starwars, which if an add said "on PS4" would make a potential "new customer" be confused?
I don't know about this article, but I do know every video game destination is saying THIS
http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/m...2015-game-lineup-is-the-best-in-xbox-history/
I'm pretty sure WHEN THEY DELIVER then all the talk will be about the games about to actually DROP
While talk about sony will be "Man, next year Uncharted 4 will make the wait worth it... no, I never got around to UC3"
Yall nikkaz fukkED
You've already posted a list that said Xbox had more exclusives. But we sound butthurt?
that article is direct quotes from aaron greenburg and phil spencerno one is saying this besides them
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Bruh, are you slow
no one is saying this besides them
Its Xbox, who else is supposed to tell you about their lineup?Here's what you don't seem to understand. You see, no company says this, then comes out shooting blanks
That would be suicide for that company. Do you understand kid?
Are you aware sony came out and said they not gonna have much to show this year? 1/2 1st party games, thats it. Which is why all this discussion is going on. You can google the best E3 ever on Xbox, every major outlet has picked up on the story. So literally every major outlet would then go "Microsoft really let us down" thus crushing any chance of them being successful this or next year. So I wouldn't worry about it. You seem to be in some kind of denial, ok
Thanks for sharing your emotions!!!
Halo is kinda like a big deal, its the whole reason the xbox, FPS, and online play on consoles is where its at today.
U still stuck in the past. A 14 year old more than likely never even heard of Halo or don't even know it's history to care about it. But we shall see in the Fall
We had this conversation awhile ago and the tourneys will now use ps4
Pros will be forced to follow the $
What happened?
You have an unproven rumor. Asscreed jumping back and forth between consoles as usual. And a dice game being promoted on PS4 as EVERY other dice game has been.
So what does this prove?
Cod jumping ship and u know it
Everything they have shown has been from the ps4
All the youtubers coming in to try the game out has been on the ps4
Everything previously has been on the xbox