Had Xbox360, XBone and now series X. The 360 and series X are amazing.
The main gripe for XBone was half the features didn’t work in Europe and for some reason the UI was terribly sluggish.
Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
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Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#32The generational gap is insane. In Finland a vast majority in the PS3/360 days were in the green team. The next generation? It was rare to see anyone with an Xbox One. The pendulum swang hard. As a 360 user those days I saw some of the writing on the wall. Xbox E3 events focused hard on American features which turned the Xbox to a smart TV box. Aside from games we gained nothing for most of Europe. With the upcoming…
Can you explain what you mean by the "green team" phrase? Not familiar and google searches are not clearing it up. Thanks.
Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why can't you turn on your pc and play games?
I'm a working father. I get maybe 20-30 minutes a month where I can play games. Previously, I had a PC that never got turned on except for gaming. When I would sit down to play, I would have to wade through ~30 minutes of OS updates, Steam updates, and then game updates. Every. Single. Time. I got my son a PS5 for Christmas last year. I was able to play and beat Elden Ring over the course of a few months because I co…
You could get the same experience by just setting up a power schedule on your PC so it turns on to update the OS and Steam library once in a while.
If your son wasn't using that PS5 you would have the exact same experience there with first being forced to sit through updates for both the OS and games before you could get into it.
Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#34The generational gap is insane. In Finland a vast majority in the PS3/360 days were in the green team. The next generation? It was rare to see anyone with an Xbox One. The pendulum swang hard. As a 360 user those days I saw some of the writing on the wall. Xbox E3 events focused hard on American features which turned the Xbox to a smart TV box. Aside from games we gained nothing for most of Europe. With the upcoming…
Xbox stopped focusing on exclusive games (admittedly a benefit to PC players!) and tried to make the Xbox an all-in-one TV box. Honestly, I think the rise of smart TVs with all the same apps did them in the most though. The idea was good at some level, but they didn’t forsee TVs themselves becoming a competitor.
Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never been a big gamer but I was really into the Wii (mostly for sports-related titles) for a time. Pretty sure I used it a lot more than my Xbox 360.
The Wii was fun when it first came out. Unfortunately it seemed that all the games that came subsequently focused on the gimmicky nature of the Wii. Or maybe it was just a fad. Either way, got a lot more value from the Wii for the year or so I used it religiously than the many years I've had my XBone.
Imo, nintendo suffers this curse where they make great hardware, but then for reasons unclear, nobody except Nintendo is able to leverage it. I'm willing to believe it's nintendo's fault in sharing dev resources but idk.
The wii was great. Wii sports was amazing. The Wii U was also really awesome and the wii sports equivalent, nintendo land, was really good. the asymmetric screens for multiplayer were super fun. Nobody else used it really.
Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#36Consoles seem like a dumb idea to me. They were great when split screen was the main form of multiplayer. Now multiplayer has largely moved online. Finding local co-op / competitive games is kind of hard, and of the few that still come out, few of them are console specific. If you're colocated with your friends, playing together may not be possible unless you want to bring along another console and hook it up to anot…
It's much simpler. You turn on the console and go to the game you want, opening it. There might be an update, but nothing close to the annoyance of using a windows PC and custom launchers (linux is slightly better in this regard, but requires a lot more fiddling to get started & compatability). There are no launchers, no multiple stores, just a single, integrated UI that works great on a big screen with a controller.…
>There might be an update, but nothing close to the annoyance of using a windows PC
I generally can just come home, turn on my PC, and double-click the shortcut for my game.
I have hundreds of games in my Steam library and maybe 4 have a custom launcher, which I agree can be a bit annoying but in 90% of cases just means I am clicking 2-3 more times before the game starts (adding ~10 seconds, maybe).
Regarding multiple stores... What's that matter? Once I buy the game, I'm clicking the icon or start menu entry. Multiple stores does not matter at all once the game is purchased. From the purchasing side, I'm fine with looking on GOG first and then heading to Steam if the game I want isn't on GOG -- not really seen as an annoyance for me.
To each their own, but I feel like your trying to make it out to be much more annoying than it actually is.
Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#37No exclusives seals the deal for me. I already have a gaming PC so I'm not missing out on anything by not buying the new Xbox.
They make money by selling software and not hardware so this was part of their intent. Windows PCs are a Microsoft gaming platform.
Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#38The generational gap is insane. In Finland a vast majority in the PS3/360 days were in the green team. The next generation? It was rare to see anyone with an Xbox One. The pendulum swang hard. As a 360 user those days I saw some of the writing on the wall. Xbox E3 events focused hard on American features which turned the Xbox to a smart TV box. Aside from games we gained nothing for most of Europe. With the upcoming…
Can you explain what you mean by the "green team" phrase? Not familiar and google searches are not clearing it up. Thanks.
xbox is logo green, playstation is blue
Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#39The generational gap is insane. In Finland a vast majority in the PS3/360 days were in the green team. The next generation? It was rare to see anyone with an Xbox One. The pendulum swang hard. As a 360 user those days I saw some of the writing on the wall. Xbox E3 events focused hard on American features which turned the Xbox to a smart TV box. Aside from games we gained nothing for most of Europe. With the upcoming…
Can you explain what you mean by the "green team" phrase? Not familiar and google searches are not clearing it up. Thanks.
It means they were on the Microsoft / Xbox side (Xbox is heavily green colour-branded)
Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I turn on my console and it plays games. I'm not messing around with maintaining yet another PC and all those headaches.
Why can't you turn on your pc and play games?
Surely a person with the username "spywaregorilla" can understand the annoying overhead involved in owning and running a Microsoft Windows PC.