Xbox One/Series game packaging is so confusing now. There's now 3 box designs, each platform is labeled in little text, and fucking CoD is $70 now. Also many cross gen games only give you one version in the box with no upgrade.
To make matters worse, Xbox series X only and optimized games have the same "Xbox" spine design and case as late print runs of 360 games.
To add to the branding crisis, the Xbox One was named that because of the ill-fated media center of the home branding.
https://www.vg247.com/xbox-one-microsoft-exec-explains-consoles-name
In 2018, Phil Spencer talked about gaming evolving beyond generations, in a rant that sounds a bit like the Burgers? comic:
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/death-of-the-console-1202833926/
In 2020, he wasn't a fan of the idea of console generations, liking the approach of PC games being able to scale down for shitboxes.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-07-10-are-xbox-series-x-developers-being-held-back-by-xbox-one
Microsoft definitely needs new people in charge of the Xbox division, especially when they're trying to outdo Sony in terms of bad choices and losing focus.
https://www.vg247.com/xbox-one-microsoft-exec-explains-consoles-name
In 2018, Phil Spencer talked about gaming evolving beyond generations, in a rant that sounds a bit like the Burgers? comic:
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/features/death-of-the-console-1202833926/
In 2020, he wasn't a fan of the idea of console generations, liking the approach of PC games being able to scale down for shitboxes.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-07-10-are-xbox-series-x-developers-being-held-back-by-xbox-one
Microsoft definitely needs new people in charge of the Xbox division, especially when they're trying to outdo Sony in terms of bad choices and losing focus.
But here's the thing. If you see Phil Spencer as anything but something else wrong with gaming at this point, you're foolish.
Phil Spencer is the kind of nutter who'd use Fediblock.
Phil Spencer is the kind of nutter who'd use Fediblock.
@PhenomX6 The PS4/PS5 stuff is thankfully obvious. I've never had an exBox. Right now I could point to a picture an identify the latest one, but I cannot fucking remember what the name is now. Anything past 360 (ring of death) just gets insanely confusing.
And as far as the second part, you no longer own games if you don't buy discs. You own a license to a game. Monitoring people on the platforms is honestly peak mental illness. If anything it will make oversensitiveness issues worse. It kinda makes me glad I don't play a lot of multiplayer games.
And as far as the second part, you no longer own games if you don't buy discs. You own a license to a game. Monitoring people on the platforms is honestly peak mental illness. If anything it will make oversensitiveness issues worse. It kinda makes me glad I don't play a lot of multiplayer games.
@xianc78 @PhenomX6 Yea, and that's always been the case (cue the 1990s and lookup the block from page 15 in this book that has a red background so you can't photocopy it) ... but ... it's just all the extra unnecessary steps ya know?
