Microsoft Exec: Offline Gamers Should Stick With Xbox 360

[Strazdas]

So, we should stick with Xbox360, a 7 year old obsolete hardware consoles whose support will melt rapidly after new consoles get released and its support will be dropped soon after.
also remmeber they just released new 360. they want to sell that.

Capcha: top_drawed
nope, Xbone not getting there.

The sad thing is the console will still sell relatively well when ignorant dudebros are going to dish out $500 so they can play the next COD and BF4.

Like it or not those so-called dude bros are bringing in piles of money to support your hobby, so perhaps acting like a jackass to them isn't the best course of action.

sure it is and no thier not. they are bringing in piles of money to support their hobby. playing "COD 25" and "sport_title 2014" is not my hobby. if they were, say, bringing piles of money to developers like Paradox, then yes, i can see your argument, now, however, no. and yes, this is subjective, because the whole "dude-bros" thing is subjective.

So, how many countries did MS tell to fuck off and buy a 360?

Still like to see what german authorities will do to the xbone.

Well lets see. Most of africa, middle east, the slumpoor part of Asia, some parts of south america and half of USA. thats about.

Though this comes off as super arrogant, I get what he's trying to say. The 360 is a great console, and they're releasing a new one, so they're obviously still intending to support it for some time. Microsoft is really trying to get people to get behind this cloud idea, and though I'm still skeptical, I honestly hope in the end I can go "yeah, I see why they've done this." Their stance might just be too firm, but I understand what they're trying to do here.

so basically you are buying it because you are hoping that MS will magically after decades of bad practice actually start doing things better than promised?
im sorry for your upcoming dissapointment.
and you seem to ignore all the reasons for not buying it.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

No no no, that's totally cool.

I can play on another console that won't blatantly fuck me over.

It's called the PS4, and I hear it's pretty cheap.

Zing! That is correct! I'm starting to wonder if this guy's been planted at microsoft by sony or something.

 

[Madman123456]

I don't remember where i read it but wasn't there something about Microsoft planing on restructuring and possibly selling the gaming wing of the company?
I think this last few months was the gaming wing leaving a big turd on steve ballmer's desk.

Mr. Adam Orth kinda confuses me; I mean, even when you live in a part of the world where you can go online all the time he must have had some days when the internet wouldn't work; Change of isp and the new isp fucks up for a bit perhaps. Or you move and your isp can't be asked to re connect you. Or you visit someone for a few days who isn't always online and has no W-lan.

At the very least, he would know people who had this happen to them. He must've have known that there are some people who are potential customers but can't be online sometimes.

It confuses me that he wouldn't go the what i will call "steam" route; "You can't sell used games and you need to go online to activate them but in return we will make things more convenient for you!".

If i had a choice between two versions of "GTA 4", one which will "phone home" every 24 hours and one as it was with the ridiculous copy protection software which malfunctioned and was actually harder to get rid off then a virus i would sing the highest of praises to Rockstar and buy the "phone home" edition.

If Microsoft said that they feel the need to protect themselves from piracy and they think the most convenient way to do so is for the console to phone home, Microsoft wouldn't have inspired so much ire.


Even someone so disconnected from the world as adam orth should be able to wrap his brain around the fact that people don't like to have to do anything. Even if it's just connecting to a database for a second.
And i still don't know how save this database is; is it possible that lulsec would hack the thing and make all the games installed on my drive appear to be pirated?




Oh, by the way, i have discovered something that could be useful about the xbone! I deserved a price or something.
Picture this: you watch TV with you xbone (because what else would you do with it? play games? Hah!) you may not have to fiddle for the remote which is buried deep between the cushions of your couch, you can just talk to the kinect to change channels.

If you live alone and have no skype call with a friend who would troll you by constantly changing your channels you could put your remote in a drawer and save money on the batteries. In theory. If the kinect works right at least half of the time and you have no other sources of sound.
In practice characters in the show you're watching will say something that makes the kinect change the channel, starting a funny game

 

[Doclector]

Wow. This guy is really a fucking soulless git isn't he? Hell, just look at that face. That fake smile with dead eyes, complete with introducing the xbox one like a friend he's not entirely sure will get on with his other friends.

Seriously, the first moment I saw this guy, I wanted to punch him. He literally has one of those faces.

 

[Vie]

*Rests head on keyboard, groans to himself at the shear stupidity of this whole XBone mess.*

Look, I prefer Sony to MS (the controller doesn't make my hands cramp up after 10 mins,) but I don't think MS handing the entire "Mature" side of the console market over to Sony alone is a good idea.

That's one of the ways you end up with Monopolies, and Sony doesn't have the most stellar records when it comes to those (though not as bad as MS.)

Please MS, pull your head out of your posterior, fire Ballmer and the guys running the XBox division... ..and the Windows and Office... ..also Windows Phone divisions while your at it and get back to making products that people might actually want to buy.

 

[Warhawk137]

Did this guy live under power lines as a kid or something?

 

[yeah_so_no]

Microsoft just does nooooooooot care, dang. First then, then them basically handing Asia to Sony on a platter (not coming out until 2014 in Korea, and not even a WHIFF of a Japanese release date)... They really don't even care.

Ahh, well - it's a PS4 for me when I finally upgrade.

 

[M Silverthorn]

*blinks*
*watches that interview clip again*

Man, man. If you just want to say "I don't bloody know!" just come out and say it. At least then we'd understand why you're saying all this.

 

[hazabaza1]

Oh god I didn't think anyone could be this fucking stupid.

 

[Lady Lucky]

That was a huge mistake. Basically telling people that they don't understand how good it is. Plus there was ZERO EMPATHY in Don Mattrik's statement.
Way to loose customers Don...

 

[V8 Ninja]

This is pretty amazing. If Don Mattrick somehow still has his job by the time the Xbone releases, Nintendo and Sony will have won any competition that existed between the three companies.

 

[CriticalMiss]

Or just buy a PS4? It's not region locked, it plays used games, it allows offline play, it's way cheaper and it isn't being sold by a company with idiotic Executives.

Mattrick, Microsoft's President of Interactive Entertainment Business

If you take the first letter of each word in his title it almost spells 'PLEB'. Just saying.

 

[Lieju]

Wow Microsoft is straight up starting flamewars against their userbase, only surprising thing right now is they aren't running a new slogan "Xbone, buy it or you're a fag!".

Well, as a fag who lives in a submarine, I guess it's not a console for me.

Which is a shame because there were so many good qualities about it, like...
Kinect? And it looks kind of nice, I guess?

While I agree with the vast majority of complaints people have, I do find it kind of irksome knowing that despite all of this outrage, a significant proportion of the complainers will still buy one, including the content creators for a lot of gaming sites who are also saying it's a load of crap.

I'm not going to blame people who buy this stuff because it's their job to be informed about them.

 

[ecoho]

ok MS this is what you need to do, if you still want that stupid drm contact every satellite company like ever and ask them how to do the whole authorization thing over a phone line. There half your problems are solved, and the other half is an easy fix in just letting people share their dam games.

 

[ciasteczkowyp]

The majority of offline gamers have, and always will stick with pc.

 

[Colt47]

All we need is a good alternative to Windows that has full on gaming support and business software applications compatible with MS Office. The entirety of Microsoft would basically sink into obscurity at the rate they are handling things with both Windows and their "media" console.

 

[Woodsey]

Before it was like watching someone dig a hole to bury themselves in, now it's starting to look like they're opting to just choke themselves with a few spadeful's of dirt to get it done with.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

...Does anyone else get the feeling that they're trying to "Springtime for Hitler" themselves? Because honestly, that's about the only explanation that makes sense.