Xbox One turns one year old tomorrow, and what a frustrating, fascinating year it's been for fans of Master Chief and chums. microsoft entered the listings on an all-time high, having comfortably overturned Sony's market dominance with the Xbox 360. PS3 has now drawn level in terms of boxes shifted, but Xbox had the edge for much of the battle, while Sony struggled to overcome the fallout from a tardy debut and mountainous production costs. Nintendo's Wii may have beaten both consoles to the hundred million mark, but if you were a serious enthusiast, microsoft's was the machine to own – cheap, relatively easy to develop for and joined at the hip to Xbox Live, the only online multiplayer and distribution platform worth speaking of. Sony PS4: One year on, has the PlayStation 4 lived up to the hype? You couldn't have asked for a better platform to start to a new generation. And yet, here we are 12 months later with Xbox One trailing Sony's triumphant PS4 by millions of sales. How did that rallying cry to "jump ahead" become such a massive step back? Stumbling out the gate We looked on, aghast, as a firm often portrayed as the original "Evil Empire" cheerily unveiled a console that imposed limits on your ability to sell back games to retailers. We watched in baffled horror as, at the height of the Edward Snowden leaks, microsoft began singing the virtues of mandatory internet check-ins and the Kinect camera's ability to match faces t ... More @
Friday, November 21, 2014
Analysis: Xbox One: 12 months on, has the third Xbox recovered from its shaky start?
Friday, November 21, 2014
Xbox One turns one year old tomorrow, and what a frustrating, fascinating year it's been for fans of Master Chief and chums. microsoft entered the listings on an all-time high, having comfortably overturned Sony's market dominance with the Xbox 360. PS3 has now drawn level in terms of boxes shifted, but Xbox had the edge for much of the battle, while Sony struggled to overcome the fallout from a tardy debut and mountainous production costs. Nintendo's Wii may have beaten both consoles to the hundred million mark, but if you were a serious enthusiast, microsoft's was the machine to own – cheap, relatively easy to develop for and joined at the hip to Xbox Live, the only online multiplayer and distribution platform worth speaking of. Sony PS4: One year on, has the PlayStation 4 lived up to the hype? You couldn't have asked for a better platform to start to a new generation. And yet, here we are 12 months later with Xbox One trailing Sony's triumphant PS4 by millions of sales. How did that rallying cry to "jump ahead" become such a massive step back? Stumbling out the gate We looked on, aghast, as a firm often portrayed as the original "Evil Empire" cheerily unveiled a console that imposed limits on your ability to sell back games to retailers. We watched in baffled horror as, at the height of the Edward Snowden leaks, microsoft began singing the virtues of mandatory internet check-ins and the Kinect camera's ability to match faces t ... More @
Xbox One turns one year old tomorrow, and what a frustrating, fascinating year it's been for fans of Master Chief and chums. microsoft entered the listings on an all-time high, having comfortably overturned Sony's market dominance with the Xbox 360. PS3 has now drawn level in terms of boxes shifted, but Xbox had the edge for much of the battle, while Sony struggled to overcome the fallout from a tardy debut and mountainous production costs. Nintendo's Wii may have beaten both consoles to the hundred million mark, but if you were a serious enthusiast, microsoft's was the machine to own – cheap, relatively easy to develop for and joined at the hip to Xbox Live, the only online multiplayer and distribution platform worth speaking of. Sony PS4: One year on, has the PlayStation 4 lived up to the hype? You couldn't have asked for a better platform to start to a new generation. And yet, here we are 12 months later with Xbox One trailing Sony's triumphant PS4 by millions of sales. How did that rallying cry to "jump ahead" become such a massive step back? Stumbling out the gate We looked on, aghast, as a firm often portrayed as the original "Evil Empire" cheerily unveiled a console that imposed limits on your ability to sell back games to retailers. We watched in baffled horror as, at the height of the Edward Snowden leaks, microsoft began singing the virtues of mandatory internet check-ins and the Kinect camera's ability to match faces t ... More @
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