This is all spot-on. The Xbox One's design isn't about customer service, it's all about Microsoft. If a game system thinks I need to be supervised when I'm playing games I bought, I don't need it. If I wanted a supervisor looking over my shoulder, I'd just stay at my job 24/7. And my boss doesn't ride my ass nearly as much as Microsoft does.
My wife preordered a PS4 for me after Sony's conference. I am excited about the PS4. The Xbox One, not so much. My favorite games of the show were FFXV, KH3, Tales of Xillia, Sony's The Order: 1886, and Supergiant Games' Transistor.
Good luck with Bandit. :)
Don Mattrick has created new memes every time he opened his mouth over the past two days. I also think the video of Sony bigwigs Shuhei Yoshida and Jack Tretton demonstrating PS4 game sharing by having Yoshida simply hand his game over to Tretton went viral. That was the best moment of E3, even better than the Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3 trailers.
This is what I call Third Console Assclownitis. The symptoms are overbearing arrogance, stupid decisions, and corporate executives making things worse by insulting their customer base.
"People who play RPGs are depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms playing slow games." - Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo, bitter over Square making FInal Fantasy VII for the PlayStation instead of the Nintendo 64
[the PS3 is] "for consumers who think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else." - Ken Kutaragi
I bought my PS3 used. It's a 60-gigger first-generation PS3. It lasted for two years before the YLOD took it down. Sent it to Sony and they sent me back a refurbished unit of the exact same model, looks like new! I wasn't thrilled by the YLOD but I was thrilled with my replacement PS3. You better believe I take care of that backwards-compatible baby.
Microsoft will never change its policy on Xbox One. No policy change will come until the Xbox Two, if that ever comes out. Their corporate culture is always convinced of its "rightness", based on their monopoly of the PC OS market, and they'll blindly rush headlong into disaster.
Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts 3 are all I needed to hear. And it's good to see the Sony I remembered from E3 1995 and E3 1999, the one that was willing to do what it took to meet and beat the competition, back inform.
It's also kind of entertaining watching Microsoft splutter and fumble. They f***ed up and they know it.
The best print ads I ever saw were:
A Sega ad for the the Saturn which had a luscious naked woman on them with the game screenshots pasted over her naughty areas. Ostensibly, the game system was so awesome that you didn't even notice her.
A Final Fantasy VII ad with the Junon canon that read "Someone get the guys who make cartridge games a cigarette and a blindfold." The small print on the ad read, "If this game were on a cartridge, it would cost $3,000."
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.
I'll do you one better, Microsoft. I'll skip the Xbox One and the Xbox 360 and stick with the PS4, the PS3, and the Wii U.
SMH. Microsoft's Games Division needs a month in a psychiatric hospital under 24-hour observation, because they are seriously suicidal.
