yes, they blatantly lied about VR.
were they sued over faulty marketing of scorpio for VR?
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40 PS things that happened since we last saw Xbox's Perfect Dark, Fable, Avowed, Everwild, SoD3.
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were they sued over faulty marketing of scorpio for VR?
A small caveat: we only saw CGI trailers of these games.
After all this time I am really starting to question this.
Maybe they are keeping all the games for the next gen console release?
At least they used to ship games, or hired third parties to make games for them.
I think that this is the point of the thread.
So, anyone thinking 2023 will see the release of IllumiRoom?
And Milo! In Mixed Reality!
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It was denied for the Bone and was supposed to be the next step in immersion.
BTW, I actually was fortunate enough to try a HoloLens demo at work.
It's garbage.
It's garbage.
Yeah, when they even had to bullshit the demos of THAT, anyone with a brain knew MS was just bullshitting to try to take the shine off the real announcements from other companies, in that case, all the hype over the Oculus Rift.
Standard MS playbook: Competitor demonstrates new tech, MS "announces" something better, which is usually not past the concept stages but MS SWEARS it will totally destroy the real, functioning tech that the other guys just showed.
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I remember a funny story that there was a Japanese dev, on Ni No Kuni I think, who basically used the funding from MS to make the "full" version of the game for PS3 while they released an incomplete version for the 360 early on.
Gives me shades of the GamePass strategy MS has with some Japanese devs/pubs today (i.e they only feel the effort to port is worth it if they get an upfront payment from MS directly). Honestly when it comes to Japan & 360 era, MS could have acquired at least Artoon and Cavia. Artoon had some close ties on Xbox with the Blinx games and Bullet Witch had potential as a franchise.
But MS were too nearsighted and weren't thinking very long-term in terms of core gaming or required IP variety for global audiences. Same reason why they jettisoned Perfect Dark to go in on Halo instead (when they could have easily prioritized both IP or even do something cool like a Halo x Perfect Dark crossover game, and this is all the way back during 360 era).
Really shows how much they relied on 3P exclusives (primarily of Western games, like the Mass Effect trilogy) to push 360 back in the day. At least Sony would identify key 3P teams and IP to cultivate and grow with ove time. MS let a lot of good potential just go wherever.
The cloud streaming for game previews still isn't live? Why's Colteastwood been talking about it like it's something he can do now?
The dev in question was the director of Eternal Sonata, who infamously declared that the 360 versions of Namco Bandai RPGs were just beta versions, and the real game was the PS3 version. He also said he was totally fine with taking the MS funding to make a game, hand over whatever was ready when the MS deadline came, then get feedback on what to adjust on the PS3 version and release that with all the intended content.I remember a funny story that there was a Japanese dev, on Ni No Kuni I think, who basically used the funding from MS to make the "full" version of the game for PS3 while they released an incomplete version for the 360 early on.
The cloud streaming for game previews still isn't live? Why's Colteastwood been talking about it like it's something he can do now?
As for the ColtEastwood question, MS shills ALWAYS talk about what they’ve been promised is coming as if it were already here, because otherwise what’s actually here from competitors is better by default.
Sony also announced and launched a whole new console with a bunch of games since MS has started buying studios and talking about games releasing.
Imagine being a gaming company and putting out games instead of just PR. Madness!
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Yes, I tried it too at our research lab. It was garbage
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We can add "GT 7 PS VR2 version announced" and "set for release 1 month later" to this thread 
Another facet is Xbox just doesn't seem to resonate with gamers on a world wide scale. Whether it's their image, games, marketing, or something else - Xbox is not successful in many countries around the world. And even if they do hit it out of the park with upcoming games, I'm not sure how much that will change this pattern.
Good games will resolve a lot of things. But they also need patience, actual success would probably only happen in the next cycle.
I think that if they have had a proper follow-up to the 360. The xbone would have been proper console, with a focus on gaming performance, be just a bit more powerful than the ps4, or maybe if Sony had shipped the PS4 with 4GB of RAM. They would have taken over Sony in the last generation, people still remembered the early 360 days and associated MS with the good part of that, a good number of gamers also wanted the better performance in third party games (associated with Xbox at this point).
So the worst happened for Xbox:
- they didn't show up for hardcore early adopters
- Sony did pretty good with the ps4 (other than the fan noise).. also, Sony gained a lot of good will by shipping great 1st party games on the ps3, that gave them some momentum
If MS had a good underdog end of generation they could be in a position to gain the upper hand for the next one.
Obviously this Xbox fan wet dream assumes Sony does nothing to keep their clients and that MS does everything just right.
MS only got where they did with the 360 by bringing in experienced, connected people from elsewhere in the gaming world. As much as Peter Moore and Don Mattrick are asshats, they had connections from their days at SEGA and EA respectively. Current Xbox leadership are all MS lifers who only know the MS way of doing things, which is why nothing they do is working, or ever will succeed in a big enough way to keep the division going past this generation.