GS News - Xbox One sales hit 2 million + Blizzard takes on YouTube!

If you want to see how the YouTube new Copyright protection work, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQfHdasuWtI

to put it simple it's a joke.

I would have thought "Let's play" videos are generally good for business. I've watched those types of videos when I'm not sure if I want to buy. A good game would benefit from them -- isn't it free advertising?

Youtube videos are pretty much free publicity for games so I don't know why any publisher wouldn't want to allow them. Sure, some LPs for heavily story driven games mean some people won't actually play the game, but likely they don't represent true lost sales anyway.

I know I've been switched on to many indie games through a few youtubers who I subscribe to, but also big publisher games like Hearthstone which I would have had no interest in if TotalBiscuit hadn't kept doing vids & got me interested.

I have spent money because of free videos. Countless others have done the same. Why would you want to attack free commercials for your games?

Yeah the sequel to Xenoblade (Unofficially Xenogears 2?) Will likely make me cave and pick one up.

The following games need to all be out before I consider buying a Wii U:

1. Next big Zelda title (no, remakes don't count.... unless it's Majora's Mask)
2. X
3. Shigeru Miyamoto's secret new IP. Yes people, he IS working on a new IP as we speak! So the people talking about Nintendo not coming up with anything new can shut up now.

i support copyright enforcement - there is too much entitlement culture; it may not be popular, but someone who creates an IP has the right to control it as they see fit

youtube lost the plot a long time ago

I'm so sick of Mario and I've not actually played a Mario game properly for years. And Zelda. Like listening to the same advertisement on the radio about seven hundred times in a day.

I went to my brothers house to help decorate and him and his work buddies being builders just leave the radio on all day. I wanted to smash the thing into a million pieces before the end of the day.

Not quite as intense with Nintendo but it is the same sort of feeling I get when I hear about them these days.

Gamespot, please create two pages: One with Facebook users only and one without. Putting them together doesn't make sense.

Is it just me or do FB people post the dumbest stuff?

How can people watching videos of a game do anything but potentially help sales of that game?

For a website that bemoans fanboyism and how owning or liking one console should not preclude liking the other, Gamespot does an awful lot of touting of sales figures, which should be meaningless outside of discussions of fanboys or analysts.

I like that I now keep track of which News video I have seen by Jess' t-shirt :-)

Keep the "Let's Play" videos. The are interesting to watch and actually help promote the game.

Would there be an advantage to any party for taking the 'Let's Play' videos off of YouTube saying it's a copyright violation? In fact, I would beg to argue that it probably helps advertise those companies who may think they are being "violated".

Maybe there is a small group of people who, instead of buying a game, will just watch it's playthrough on YouTube. However I would say that banning these videos STILL wouldn't cause most people in this group to go out and buy the game instead.

Also, there is probably (I'm assuming a lot...I know) a much larger group who look at these videos and it sparks something inside of them to go and buy the game because they want to play it for themselves. This can cause the 'Let's Play' videos become (possibly) the number one advertiser and it doesn't cost the production company a cent!

Who is YouTube helping by not allowing these videos?

Please take your shirt off and give it to me.

Seriously, I want that shirt.

Mario Kart is not a system seller. The people who buy Mario Kart (and yes I know "real gamers" buy it, too) are generally moms and dads looking to entertain their kids. Said moms and dads are still not clear that Wii U is an actual console, and they're certainly not going to pony up over $300 for something which already exists on their Wiis.

Mario Kart Wii launched into an environment where Wiis had been flying off the shelves for 2 years, and continued to do so. The Wii U is still stuck at launch-day numbers. The two situations are not comparable. Wii U just doesn't have any consumer appeal, and it's only going to get worse, now that PS4/X1 are here.

There is going to be a LOT of plastic floating around the oceans for a very long time, microbial plastic degradation is the Future!

No jokes this time?! Jess?!

Wii U is a great system. When it undersells and people years later declare it a masterpiece like the N64, Gamecube, and Wii I'll laugh. Because Nintendo will have another console out with great games and everyone will be declaring that one a failure too.

The copyright bs is ridiculous. The gameplay vids actually give publishers free advertising.

At least some of the big publishers are challenging it. It'd be in their best marketing interests to do so.

Although some people are waiting for titles like Mario Kart to buy a WiiU, it's not going to be a miracle or anything like the sales of those titles on Wii.

As we all know the Wii was a freak thing, it sold to all those "casuals" right. For most "causuals", the notion of a "system seller" doesn't exist, they don't use that kind of analysis in deciding to buy a console, maybe they don't use any real analysis at all :). I think the Wii's massive install base drove the game sales, not the other way around, so I don't see any sudden massive boom for the WiiU from any title, Mario, Zelda, anything.

You are posting this crap on every video/article that has something do with next gen. I dont know how much money microsoft is paying you, but you should try to find a real job.

you guys should get a app for the xbox one so I can watch gamespot news on my xbox because this is really addicting!

I think Sony's strategy of shipping limited quantities of consoles to the stores during the holiday season could hurt them. Microsoft is constantly sending shipments of Xbox One's to Target, Gamespot and the Walmart that I go to. Although they seem to take longer to sell, they do sell out. I was in Target a few days ago and they had 7 Xbox one's sitting in the case with about 5 in the warehouse. The next day I went back to pick something up with my wife and they were all sold out.

2 Million xbones sold which means there are 2 Million people being watched by the NSA...lol.

The way the story broke, it feels like Microsoft was aware this was going to happen and they paid people to keep it quiet until after the launch. Sucks to be an xboner these days with 720p-gate and now NSA-gate...lol.