I hate overcomplicating the Xbone's turnaround with the reasoning that MS were incompetent and didn't know what they were doing.
They knew exactly what they were doing. They heard what people were saying well before E3.
Their play? Go through with this bullshit, announce it publicly right before E3, then hope that a big showing of "games games games" at their conference will make everyone forgive and forget.
But people didn't. The preorder numbers, polls, and media pieces all showed that.
Then, AND ONLY THEN, did they fold. So they can go fuck themselves.
Well said
I am glad they turned around, but they still attempted to significantly change gaming, they wanted to go from ownership to service, to great detriment to their consumers in order to make more money.
They still have the issue of the forced Kinect, which in turn spikes the price to 499, a big problem that is still preventing me from seriously consider the Xbox One. At least it is a problem that will go away in a few years when they do a price cut.
This is why it is great to have competition, i do not have to give my money to them, there are competitors who did not try to outright rob me of my ownership of games, both Nintendo and Sony so far have not attempted that, so they naturally right now look much better in my eyes.
The recent resignation/firing of Mattrick just further shows how the entire division over there has no clue what they are doing, insane policies, change them around, talk about TV TV TV!? Mattrick leaves, it is just a giant mess and makes them look unprepared and that spills onto their console, there is so much uncertainty in regards to Microsoft and Xbox One, they absolutely
do not have their shit together, anyone claiming that is in straight up in denial. To many chefs in the kitchen over there is my best guess as to why there are so many conflicting reports and so much turmoil.
They have a console to launch in November, they got a competitor who will launch for 100 dollars less and might launch before them, they better get their shit together now, this is not a time for all this turmoil