Blue wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 10:44:

Ant wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 10:20:
http://www.develop-online.net/news/43051/Next-Xbox-to-simply-be-named-Xbox is gone!

Guess that's proof that they didn't fall for this.

yuastnav wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 06:51:

Beamer wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 12:53:

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 21:38:

Whether it's the Internet or 1973, it's ridiculously stupid to have compromising photos taken of yourself for anything other than professional uses.

Dating you must be a blast.

Why? It sounds to be an incredibly moronic thing to take such type of pictures of yourself and then just send them to whoever.

LittleMe wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 17:47:

Creston wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 11:28:
Next Xbox simply to be named Xbox.

Yeah, that's not going to go well.

Ebay: "For sale! Xbox, hardly used, 10 games, 2 controllers included! $149!"

Oh, you expected it to be the NEW Xbox? Sorry, it was the old one.

Exactly this is a terrible name for the new console. Making one word mean two different things just confuses and angers people and will certainly lead to upset consumers buying the wrong games and accessories. Many, dare I say most, console consumers are not technologically savvy.

"Excuse me, where are your Xbox games?" asks customer

"Right over there" says the clerk

"No, I mean Xbox not xbox360" says frustrated customer

"Oh, these are xbox games" says frustrated clerk that usually sends people to the 360 shelf but knows some want new xbox games.

or...

"Is this xbox compatible?" asks customer

"Yes, it is." says clerk.

Customer gets home, opens package, and product doesn't work because it's for the wrong 'xbox' and goes back to store. Store refuses item return for opened package and insists the product was accurately sold as xbox compatible.

Fail Microsoft marketing.

Armengar wrote on Jan 24, 2013, 02:21:
Because ubi only want the ip.

1AngryGamer wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 17:56:
Gross...who on Earth would want to buy Homefront

Cutter wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 16:27:

The Half Elf wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 16:19:
22 mill for Volitionm, does that include their IP's?

Anyone wondering Kock Media is Deep Silver. REALLY wish Take 2 would have bought Volition, would have loved a Saints Row game with Rockstar Tech.

Yeah I thought it would have been natch for them to want to get their hands on Saints Row. Dunno how well it bodes with Koch getting it. I suppose only time will tell.

Redmask wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 16:21:
If the worst result of this sale is that I have to click launch twice in Steam and uPlay to get into the South Park RPG then I can live with that. The Koch Media purchase is an odd one, I think they're the parent company behind the Dead Island guys. The companies and IP are often two separate things, it would be good to know which companies are being purchased with their respective IP intact or not.

PropheT wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 13:11:

Beamer wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 09:51:
"Loathe" is pretty much right, too.

Thinking back of Microsoft products people don't loathe:
1) Windows, for about 5-10 years
2) DOS. No one loathed it, but no one really liked it
3) Paint!
4) Hotmail, until Gmail
5) Office, but arguably Excel is the only product that, uh, excels (sorry, had to)
6) Windows Phone. Like DOS, no one loathes it, but it isn't exactly widely appreciated. Still, if you're looking for a list of Microsoft brands that aren't loathed, you take what you can get rather than look for successes

To be fair, 1,2, and 5 are are only on the list because there aren't or weren't any real competitors to take their place for the average person and 4 didn't even start as a Microsoft product, they bought out the company. You could also argue that 3 is only there because it's pretty much ignored, the only time anyone uses it is if they don't have anything better on that system.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 22, 2013, 21:38:

Whether it's the Internet or 1973, it's ridiculously stupid to have compromising photos taken of yourself for anything other than professional uses.

Creston wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 11:33:
Also :

The source claimed that they had “witnessed Unreal Engine 3 demos running at a solid 60fps” on the device

60 fps for an Unreal 3 game? PFWOAR!!!

Consoles have entered the year 2008! News at 11!

Creston

Verno wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 11:04:

sauron wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 10:52:

I was looking at a Surface tablet the other day and found myself thinking it was pretty good. I actually had to pause to think that this might be a Microsoft product I didn't hate. It was really surprising.

The feeling goes away after continued use of bumping into the artificial ARM platform limitations. I ended up returning mine.

Kajetan wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 10:26:

nin wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 09:30:

Report: Next Xbox to simply be named 'Xbox'.

I see MS Marketing hasn't lost it's touch...

Its consistent incompetence at work. MS branding policy is one of the worst i've ever seen. They throw away well established brand names for some shit they throw away a few years later, only to be replaced by some other mumbojumbo no one cares about. And now they just name the third console like the first, because ... well, because they can.

I suspected the next name would be XBOX 8, but MS proved me wrong

Optional Nickname! wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 10:00:
Even better, many States and Municipalities in the USA are trying to get Amazon to begin paying local taxes, on the flimsiest of foundations.

One of the arguments against and by no means the least compelling, is the difficulty of accounting all of those different States and municipalities rules on what taxes and how much to pay.

Now imagine paying Tax on your +5 Sword of Imagination. Have fun explaining that deduction!

HorrorScope wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 10:06:

Beamer wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 09:35:
It makes some sense, though. I'm convinced Microsoft is trying to take Xbox everywhere. So rather than something being an "xbox 360" game, and playable on an xbox 360, it will just be an "Xbox game," and playable on anything Xbox compatible.

If they really wanted to do it well they'd do tiers, as others have mentioned here somewhere. Games are released for certain tiers, so for now something that runs RT or WP8 is Tier 1. The Xbox is Tier 2. A powerful PC today is Tier 3. A powerful PC tomorrow is Tier 4. When you look at a game you look at the tier. If it's equal to or lower than the tier of your device it can play that game.

So will Xbox games play on Xbox 360's? When I say Xbox, I mean the next gen, this is going to be fun I see. In your words Xbox games play on anything Xbox compatible, so I would assume the 360 is compatible, amiright? And the whole Xbox and Pc Xbox, I'll believe it when I see it working between both, as is.

Verno wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 09:47:

nin wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 09:30:

Report: Next Xbox to simply be named 'Xbox'.

I see MS Marketing hasn't lost it's touch...

It's literally the only successful consumer brand they've launched in 15 years, can you really blame them? People can list dozens of failed Microsoft products and branding efforts, the Xbox is the only consumer related entry that people don't loathe.

nin wrote on Jan 23, 2013, 09:30:

Report: Next Xbox to simply be named 'Xbox'.

I see MS Marketing hasn't lost it's touch...