Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi: We Need To Educate Consumers

[Jingle Fett]

Oh boy, this is going to go well, Microsoft are you for real? Like, it didn't occur to you that with the way things are right now, if you had to choose between saying this and remaining silent, that remaining silent would probably be the better option?

 

[stabnex]

"Ultimately consumers will decide which is better," Mehdi said. "It's a big market."

And their plan is revealed! They have never had any intentions of marketing this device to gamers, just consumers. If they meant gamers, they would have said it. They intend only to move AWAY from us. Microsoft has become so jaded by the pursuit of "increased profit" (because they totally have never made enough) that they can't find it in themselves to depend on us for revenue any more. And yet the entertainment industry is what's fueled this countries economy for over a hundred years.

 

[Monkey_Warfare]

Microsoft's handling of the Xbones release has probably provided more entertainment than the console itself will. It has been a shining example of how to run a PR train wreck with arrogant comments, failure to explain system features correctly or in a way that doesn't alienate customers and giving their rivals countless coups. They should have expected the furor after the difficulty valve had getting us to accept steam and should have done their best to paint its advantages (the cloud ability to access your games anywhere) from the start. The damage though has been done and looks catastrophic (and hilarious).

 

[Snotnarok]

People need to be educated about this change? Do they realize the last few statements put out by them just come off as arrogant and insulting? "Don't have a stable internet connection for Xbox One? Buy a Xbox 360!" Now this...Problem is people are educating themselves and word is spreading on how shitty their DRM policies are.

 

[Evil Smurf]

All this guy is highlighting why you should not buy the Xbone, I remember when all the consoles were plug in and play with no DRM bullshit.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

"There's plenty of benefits in cloud connection, Mehdi claims. You'll be able to take your library with you wherever you go, so long as there's a decent connection."

As opposed to me being able to do that with physical copies outside of areas with internet. Good benefit there. (sarcasm)


"You can even digitally loan copies - up to a limit of ten - and there could be other, as yet undefined benefits."

Umm, I can loan WAY over 10 copies of physical games. What's your benefit?

 

[Lunar Templar]

Wow..... that is some damn fine spewing of bullshit right there. I dont need to be educated,I already know all I need to know about the XBone to know it has no fill no gap other devices dont already fill better and cheaper

 

[chris89300]

Looks like Microsoft wants to be the new Apple, only more honest about it, which is pretty ballsy in a retarded kinda way.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Hahaha, educate consumers! Dude, you need to educate your own company *about* us consumers. You've made a product few gamers will want. Didn't it occur to you at any point to, I don't know, get consumer feedback that you were making a PoS?

All these millions on development, 6 months before launch and we can *already* see that the XBone will fail hard, particularly in light of Sony's significantly more consumer friendly and cheaper entry into the next gen. For a huge corporation developing a major platform, you've seriously screwed up.

Sega's Dreamcast was the best hardware platform of its day and failed. The One is clearly the worst, what chance does it have?

 

[Jaeger_CDN]

Looks like Microsoft wants to be the new Apple, only more honest about it, which is pretty ballsy in a retarded kinda way.

Exactly why Windows 8 is such a different beast from Windows 7 and it's general departure from over 20 years of similar GUI experience.

They saw the way Apple more or less unified their GUI/walled garden across desktop/tablet/phone/mp3 player systems and wanted to do the same. Granted it makes financial sense but the way they tried to force it down everyone's throats was entirely the wrong way of going about it. It was their general disdain for anyone not drinking from their water fountain that has made Win 8 adoption as crappy as it is.

When I saw the general overview from the Xbone reveal and then their E3 presentations along with the multitude of mixed and contrary messaging coming from their "execs" that makes me hope there will be some shake ups coming within Microsoft. They seem to have forgotten that they owe their customers a decent product instead of their customers blindly owing them their money for a crappy product.

 

[La Barata]

Oh, Yuusuf, it's not the change we hate.

It's you trying to fuck us in the ass and telling us it's for our own good.

 

[La Barata]

Oh, Yuusuf, it's not the change we hate.

It's you trying to fuck us in the ass and telling us it's for our own good.

 

[Roxor]

For pity's sake, Microsoft, how many times do we have to tell you: 1984 was NOT an instruction manual!

 

[Li Mu]

Microsoft's arrogance is becoming quite startling. They seem to have this view that they are always right and that the user (or potential customer) is a complete moron who needs to be told what to enjoy and what to play.
At this moment in time, I would say that if you do actually buy an Xbone then you are proving microsoft right and are indeed a moron.

 

[Neonit]

maybe.... maybe WE should be educated....
i however, am pretty sure that ms will be educated soon enough....

 

[Li Mu]

Looks like Microsoft wants to be the new Apple, only more honest about it, which is pretty ballsy in a retarded kinda way.

Exactly why Windows 8 is such a different beast from Windows 7 and it's general departure from over 20 years of similar GUI experience.

They saw the way Apple more or less unified their GUI/walled garden across desktop/tablet/phone/mp3 player systems and wanted to do the same. Granted it makes financial sense but the way they tried to force it down everyone's throats was entirely the wrong way of going about it. It was their general disdain for anyone not drinking from their water fountain that has made Win 8 adoption as crappy as it is.

When I saw the general overview from the Xbone reveal and then their E3 presentations along with the multitude of mixed and contrary messaging coming from their "execs" that makes me hope there will be some shake ups coming within Microsoft. They seem to have forgotten that they owe their customers a decent product instead of their customers blindly owing them their money for a crappy product.

Well said

 

[BakedZnake]

Is it quite bad when title mentions yusef I automatically thought they got the character from The Ballads of Gay Tony to work for microsoft?

Then again he prob can do a better job than the guys at microsoft atm, even high on coke and hookers

 

[00slash00]

yeah everything will eventually go digital, but diablo 3 and sim city proved that we arent quite ready for that yet. and if you realize that gamers dont like change, why would you make such an abrupt change? ease gamers in to the transition. you let a kid start in the shallow end and gradually work up to the deep end, you dont throw the child in to the deep end right off the bat and go "learn to swim, asshole!" (though interesting story, my sister did that to me when i was 4. not out of a misguided attempt to teach me to swim, but because i stole her favorite pail).

 

[Xarathox]

So basically Microsoft is trying to accomplish what Steam has done, but far worse with big-brother DRM measures,higher prices and a complete lack of understanding on why Steam worked in the first place.

In other words, Microsoft saw how Awesome! Ea's Origin was, and decided to build off that.

 

[masticina]

Marcus Bachman also said something about re-educating people.

Does anybody really want to be named in one breath with Marcus Bachman?

I do agree with some here, this almost sounds like the first two years of the PS3..and those we're not good years. To say that the PS3 has a slow start is saying it nicely. And now microsoft is making allot of mistakes putting themself in said situation.

I mean Sony doesn't has to do its own PR with how deep a whole Microsoft is digging.

At what point does Microsoft makes the WiiU look good as a second console?