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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

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green-eclipse wrote: post #32
originalvichy wrote: post #2

The 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.

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Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4

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Post by izzydata »

coldpie wrote: post #19
spywaregorilla wrote: post #12

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Why can't you turn on your pc and play games?

Driver updates. OS updates. Driver update broke HDMI. OS update broke my controller config. Steam update broke my controller config. Bluetooth controller randomly unpairs every other week. Game picks the wrong sound device so now it's coming out of the TV instead of my wireless headphones. Some game doesn't work with gamepad so I guess I need a wireless kb/m now, too. Oop game lost focus because of a Chrome update di…

There is no fundamental reason why a PC can't be made to be like a console due to the fact that consoles are just PCs. It's pretty darn simple already, but Microsoft could take it one step further by having some kind of boot into gaming mode that does everything for you.

Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4

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choudharism wrote: post #39
green-eclipse wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

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Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4

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Post by green-eclipse »

chucksta wrote: post #38
green-eclipse wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ahh got it, thank you.

Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4

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Post by wccrawford »

yourusername wrote: post #33
sanedigital wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Console updates are really annoying because they insist that it happen right now, or you lose features in the game.

At least PC updates let you choose when to update, which could be right after you finish gaming that day.

Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4

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Post by jamespo »

ziddoap wrote: post #36
danhor wrote: post #26

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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 multip…

Depends on the game, but for a quick play it's nice to just sit down on the sofa, turn the controller on which turns on the console & screen and you're playing in 15 seconds.

Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4

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Post by vimy »

sanedigital wrote: post #23
spywaregorilla wrote: post #12

Earlier 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…

Don’t connect to the internet and play your games in offline mode. Zero updates for anything.

Assuming they are singleplayer games of course.

Re: Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4

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Post by wccrawford »

originalvichy wrote: post #2

The 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…

They lost a lot of customers on the "you won't own the game on your disc" debacle, too. The idea that the publisher would get a portion of every resale of a game, even on disc, really pissed people off. The publisher was even able to deny the resale!

Who thought that was going to please the end user? It's so customer-hostile that I couldn't believe they said it out loud, let alone at a major conference.

https://gamingbolt.com/xbox-one-publishers-will-decide-on-re...

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