/v/ - Video Games

>>16141464

pls forgive typos, friend

>>16141454

I don't think they'll abandon it, but I do think they'll put less money into the next Xbox.

>>16141477

Unrelated, but why am I seeing so many people with JC avatars on YouTube lately? Like, I've seen thousands of them.

i think its another initiative to unify all platforms like One Windows, on pc, xbox, laptops

That trend's been around for a while anon, did you somehow forget about all the "XBAWX EXCLUSIVE ALSO ON WINDOWS 10" every E3 insists on having?

They've been trying to push Windows 10 as their new vidya platform and there are a few games that suffered massively for it since said games had to put the games running on the Windows 10/Store above any other priority, including bux fixes, performance, game content, etc. Gigantic's the only named example I can think of, there were two other games whose names I had forgotten.

Kindly post more big bootied aliens.

>>16141499

>>16141518

>why are legitimate losers sheeple with google accounts sheeple

>>16141454

It's one of their last major portfolio in the consumer space, and the one that they're really close to "getting right" after ~2 decades of cash burning. Their other cashcows are corporate and enterprise productivity stuff. I guess you can sort of count Windows as "consumer", but it doesn't spark any kind of positive image in the consumer's mind.

My guess is Microsoft realize that if they were to give up on the Xbox now, they'd slowly become the next IBM, then either Google or Apple will take over their place.

>>16141454

Microsoft has only one path forward that puts them ahead. They need to go Microhard. Sony and censorship is a gift from the god of corporate retardation for Xbox. They need to get dirty and scary, and they will win. Horror Tits should be their motto. The less virtue signaling and less milking they do next go round, they will fuck shit up. I never bought a xbone for reasons we all know and a still sad about. However, I already know I won't be getting the PS5 for reasons we all know and are furious about. Don't fuck this up Mircosjws, bite your lip and make some money while you still can.

I doubt it, they're doing maintenance for the fucking 360 right now.

the next gen systems could be shipped with ssds or hyrids ssds and disk drives.

>>16141557

>they'd slowly become the next IBM

It already is, it just hasn't been cannibalized yet, it already smells of curry and cumin.

>>16141454

Well yeah, as a platform they already have. What they're doing now is treating it as a PC lite for casual gamers, while porting over all their other games to PC and potentially Nintendo's platform since Nintendo abandoned stationary consoles. It's genius, yet simple.

>>16141454

>Will Microsoft abandon the Xbox?

Is this an excuse for a Halo porn thread? Post Cortana shit at least.

>>16141476

I don't even think they'll put less money into it, but they're going to diversify the brand far beyond just a consumer electronics box. They're trying to build an ecosystem to rival Apple or Google, and Xbox is a wedge to get customers in the door.

>>16142451

What about ayys with 3d women?

>>16142456

nah, that shits gay and degenerate female ayy x human male only.

>>16141518

I'm not even surprised, at least now I know

>>16142460

>>16142464

What about ayys with 2d women, was what I meant.

>>16142611

I wonder if a console will ever exceed the PS2?

>>16142611

Wait, isn't VGChartz complete bullshit?

>>16141574

This won't be happening in a million years, their CEO is a currynigger.

The price of a gaming PC has gone down a lot compared to when the PS3 and 360 came out. PC gaming has become much more accessible and popular too. The PC now has a lot of mass appeal while the distinction between a console and PC has shrunk at the same time. Microsoft can't give their pre-built locked-down PCs called xboxes much of a reason to exist any more.

Who's going to compete with Sony? There is still going to be a market for consoles.

>>16142451

Would you prefer to eat an ayy puss out or have an ayy sit on your face

>>16142662

I think the market will shrink to just Sony and Nintendo. Sony will catch the """hardcore""" audience and Nintendo will get the casual market.

>>16142681

>eat an ayy puss out

But what if vagina dentata?

>>16142756

French kissing

>>16142781

Vagina dentata doesn't imply in tongues

That said, when I was a kid, I dreamed I saw a pussy and a short tongue came out of it kind of like it was doing a :P face, for years I thought pussies had stubby tongues inside and I was kind of disappointed when I found out they didn't and I would never be able to french kiss a pussy.

>>16142611

The Xbox isn't going to die, but it will become less of a focus. The traditional Xbox Line will become an increasingly outmoded legacy box designed specifically for "console enthusiasts" - but will really be more like a SteamBox but even more streamlined. A lot of people like the idea of having a system that acts as a dedicated gaming PC - but are either too stupid, too lazy, or too intimidated by the options and responsibility for administration. They just want to put the game in and play. There's still a huge market for this type of device, so MS isn't going to abandon it - but it will increasingly become a legacy platform.

Meanwhile, having Xbox content available on multiple platforms (either natively on PC via Play Anywhere - or via streaming through an Xbox App) means there's really no direct need to actually own Xbox hardware. While this could potentially open up the market to new customers for software and services (where they make the bulk of their profit in the division), having lower sell-through numbers on actual hardware could mean that third parties nervous about the squishy metrics of "engagement" would skip over the platform. However, with everything being x86 standard architecture and being incredibly easy to port - coupled with having at least one "Xbox model" to which they can target for performance - I think MS is banking on UWP to be attractive enough to get devs to just port to their sandbox environment and from there it should be compatible with any Windows device natively - as well as other devices so long as Microsoft develops a UWP portal app which is independent of Windows itself. So actual development support may not drop off the way people think it would - even if Xbox 2 only sells 10 million units.

The biggest hurdle to this that I can see is that PC is the prime platform for UWP integration as a forerunner - and PC users aren't interested in that locked-down "app" bullshit… mobile devices aren't powerful enough to handle newer games running in UWP, and the competition sure as fuck isn't going to just allow MS free license to open up their own marketplace to compete with their native marketplaces.

I feel like they've got 80% of a plan, and are just kind of in the process of throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks in terms of deployment.

>>16142958

maybe you are into sergals

and they are xeno material too

^.^

>>16141540

>why are legitimate losers with google accounts sheeple

Imagine being this afraid of the NPC meme lel

>>16143032

The fetish choose you, too late.

It isnt furry just because the xeno has fur.

>>16143133

Can't win against the human dick.

>>16143133

>Chris Cunningham directs a porno

>>16143189

I've got an even better question for you.

Why not?

>>16143189

Looks like video effects, not prosthetics.

I imagine being the CG artist for a weird porn studio must be an interesting job.

>Female Sangheili in combat armor

Not lore friendly.

>>16143189

>implying it's a costume

the truth is out there bro

>>16141454

They are already dropping it. The XBone is a complete flop since day 1. Hopefully, Soyny and Jewtendo soon follow, so we can finally rid the industry of DRM boxes.

>>16143510

>he doesn't know about piracy

>>>/v/16143035

>>>/4um/

>>16144024

forgot to spoiler oops

>>16144024

So its some kind of wet nightmare material

>you may not want, it but your body does

Thats FEAR 2 ending in a nutshell

xbox is so worthless of a topic that people would rather talk about fucking eldritch abominations

>>16144055

Don't pretend that it takes any amount of effort to get /v/ to talk about something other than vidya, especially if that other something involves porn.

>>16141499

haha cuz memes dood xd

>>16144024

any more recs on horror porn?

>>16144060

Hey- with other topics the porn and vidya are at least discussed simultaneously.

>>16142659

Not only their CEO. Most of its staff nowadays is pajeets, it pretty much became an Indian company at this point. And the rest is probably diversity hires. Expect their incompetence and fuckups to only keep ramping up until they either burn to the ground or get bought and, hopefully, unpajeeted by another company.

if they do the shift will be toward affordable gaming laptops

they will make walled garden windows 10-based machines with roughly the same price and capabilities of competitor consoles

>>16144110

>They really sealed the deal with Crackdown.

Crackdown was doomed from the start. Hell, that was one of the titles that was approved under Mattrick, what the fuck did people expect? Being able to pivot mid-development and turn a shit product into a good one is damned difficult to pull off, and usually requires them to strip the current build for salvagable assets and start over. That's why so many games just end up getting flat-out canceled rather than reworked to make some of that money back. Further, once the Xbox really hit rock bottom post launch - it was already damned neared impossible for them to turn things around. The money and effort it would require to try to regain that momentum just wouldn't be worth it, especially not when they could just patch things along until they could relaunch on the next generation with a clean slate.

Xbox One failed miserably, and the only people actually upset with how Crackdown 3 and other newer releases turned out are people who didn't recognize that it was already over before it began. Microsoft are building infrastructure now to try to take another shot next generation - and some of those improvements will make it to the current gen as a test sample to gauge the market, yeah - but they'll only shoot themselves in the foot if they waste time and resources distracting themselves now trying salvage this flaming turd. To everyone else, they expected Crackdown 3 to be mediocre at best, or at the very least are not surprised at all that it ended up being underwhelming. Especially if they payed any attention at all to it's development history or the stories coming out of other partners working with Microsoft who have been burned (like Platinum, Obsidian, Darkside, Bungie, Lionhead, holy shit this list could get long)

MS has been considering dropping out of the market since the og Xbox but they're scared shitless it'll fuck with their stock value.

>>16144129

>first ten minutes

>she sucks the guy's soul

wew

>>16144024

>>16144129

This stuff is well made but it's by no means fappable.

>>16144110

But wasn't Quantum Break a flop?

>>16144160

>if they do the shift will be toward affordable gaming laptops

Who the fuck games on a laptop?

>>16141454

>Will Microsoft abandon the Xbox?

They already did after the 360.

>>16141537

I have a 1200 dollar pc with a 1070 and a ryzen 1700

Everything microstutters cuz of 10 to the point that i use my laptop witha 750m instead

Good luck with that microsoft

>>16145893

It's still shit, it's just not nearly as shit as everyone seems to be making it out to be. At least single-player. Multiplayer looks to be a hot mess of a bloated carcass pushed out on to the market, and you can really tell two entirely different dev teams worked on the game. As far as single-player goes, I actually don't have much to complain about - but the single biggest issue for me is a major one. That being the lock-on system, which has absolutely no place on the PC version and tends to get in the way more than it helps. Free-aim at close range feels good and satisfying, but any kind of intermediate to long range aiming causes massive bullet spread and instead of being able to look down the barrel to tighten your aim like you would in most other games, well you still do that but it tacks on the targeting lock-on. It takes some getting used to in practice, but you can't shake the feeling that it's just cheap as fuck and unsatisfying unless you're pulling off some complex environmental jump sequences, but since your camera is facing the target - it's hard or impossible to accurately navigate the chaotic complex environment in a way that feels good.

Collecting orbs is still autistically soothing though.

>>16146039

Well I can see the problem when using a mouse and wanting precision, but the lock on system is the exact same it's been since Crackdown 1 so it's clearly still balance around a controller.

Boosting and round and double jumping does feel good though, When I saw and older gameplay demonstration years ago it looked like it was gonna feel extremely stiff, but it actually smooth.

I can't speak for the multiplayer and i don't have much on an intention of playing it anyway.

May main point is as far as the single player goes, it defiantly is a Crackdown game, and that's enough for me after having fairly low expectations.

>>16143441

How can we know that that's what Sangayyli pussies look like? Wouldn't it make more sense if they weren't similar in appearance to human ones?

>>16146077

There's no canonical info on ayy pussies in the game, so no way to know, still they look good on ayys.

>>16146387

I personally think this one of their best:

https://yespornplease.com/v/891020477

Sorry, can't webm 30 minutes stuff with proper quality.

>>16145893

They pushed for Crackdown 3 really hard, didn't they?

I don't remember the first two being that big.

>>16148815

The first one came out of nowhere and everyone liked it, I don't remember the 2nd one though.

>>16141454

I think it all depends on their success in the pc market. I think they realize that pc is a safe vector for them, where "home entertainment" is much more volatile and competitive.

I believe their strategy is to get a foothold in pc by eating into steam's share of the market. If they can do that, then I think you'd see Xbox change into some kind of hybrid device, like one of the original steamboxes, or an Nvidia shield .

Like a pc streaming device with the capability to play (some/most) games directly for those poor fags who can't afford a good pc.

But I definitely see them trying to focus on pc more in the future. But anyone with a sane brain should be moving to Linux at this point, so idk how that will go for them.