@xrizz1066: There you go again with that 'limited stock' bullshit! When are you going to realise that repeating a lie over and over again doesn't make it true?
@graffitiheart: I think the recent news about Visceral underlines this. As much as people want to blame EA for the closure and the cancellation of the Star Wars game, the harsh reality is that you can't just keep throwing money at a failing project.
Lionhead and Darkside both closed due to poor management on their ends, and Platinum's problems were due to the same issues: they all promised something they couldn't deliver. It's a business where you have budgets, timescales and deadlines and if you can't meet them you can only be given so many chances.
Lionhead essentially made no progress at all with Fable Legends and made it too expensive to launch as a free-to-play game. Darkside couldn't deliver Phantom Dust for the budget the promised or in the time they said they could, Platinum did the same, only compounding it by devoting resources to Nier:Automata instead.
The current push for 'One X Enhanced' shows that Microsoft are willing to throw the money where they can get results, but they'd be insane as a business just to throw money away when they're never likely to make it back.
@King_Pazuzu: Don't bother replying to this twat (I don't anymore) - he just spends all day trolling every single Xbox related article spouting negative, uninformed (and usually grossly incorrect) bullshit.
@sladakrobot: Me too! I know a lot of people rave about Fallout New Vegas, but it just felt like it was trying to be too many genres at once (a kind of 'Red Dead Radiation', if you will)..
As for the first two Fallouts, I just found it way too RNG (a couple of times I died within sight of the vault after being 'one-shotted' by a giant ant).
@xrizz1066: Still not proof-reading then? It's fairly clear that somebody as indoctrinated as you won't be gotten through to by the likes of me anyway...
@xrizz1066: I don't think I've ever seen sheer denial on this scale before - you really need help!
Playstation Network was down for 23 days due to the hack - this is a documented FACT. Some of the services didn't evenm return until two weeks after that.
I'll just post the Wiki entry so you can scroll down to the NINETY FIVE citations at the bottom of the page, rather than me listing them here.
In that, you can see that they neglected to tell the users for three days until they shut network down (without warning) on April 20th 2011. All the personal user data they stored was unencrypted, which they then decided to encrypt AFTER the fact to try and cover their tracks (which they later admitted and ended up getting fined for in many countries, including the UK). They've now also changed their ToS so that you agree NOT to sue them if they do it again.
That all sounds pretty fucking underhanded, wouldn't you say?
As for getting users to pay for online services, that was to cover the costs (which ran to over $171 million), because (unlike your misguided and misinformed opinion) Playstation HASN'T made money for decades, and only started making profit again once the PS4 Slim was launched (coincidentally when they decided to make EVERYONE pay for multiplayer, the PS4 was still losing nearly $60 per unit, which miraculously got wiped out after that). They've actually lost nearly $5 BILLION on the PS3 in its lifetime.
That's the reason they've now got Mr 'Software-As-A-Service' in charge - they want to move away from hardware and just have PS5 as a pure streaming box so they don't lose money on every unit. Who cares if Xbox loses Microsoft any money (which it doesn't, it breaks even) - it would be the only part of the company that does. Sony on the other hand are so reliant on Playstation that one slip up could see them spiralling back into debt again. In fact, given the R&D costs of PSVR and the Pro versus their sales, I'd imagine the next yearly profit announcement is going to be fairly uncomfortable reading for some investors.
I do plenty of thinking for myself, thanks. I also read, research and don't go into heavy denial when confronted with obvious truths.
As for the childish 'M$' taunts - either they make money or they don't; you really do need to stay on track when ranting.
And for Christ's sake learn to proofread your garbage before you post it, window licker - your piss-poor spelling and grammar give me a nosebleed...
Okay then, let's start with WHY Microsoft (are you seriously still using 'M$' with all the shit that Sony have pulled?) chose not to allow cross-play last generation.
Perhaps something to do with Sony having the biggest security breach in gaming history to date, do you think? I mean why would you want a company that allowed access to the personal data of 77million users and had to shut their entire network down for three weeks to try and plug the leaks being linked to yours?
People tend to forget that the whole 'free monthly games' idea wasn't some act of altruism, but a blatant BRIBE to try and stop people leaving the platform and having the whole Playstation business faceplant into the tarmac.
But then again, you're probably too young to remember that, and while we're on that subject...
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