The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

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So my Turtle Beach Ear Force Delta shoud still work with the PS4 with the optical and bluetooth I beleive.
 
Soygen

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Wow, almost a billion dollars in inventory. Yikes. I blame those stupid fucking commercials.
 
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It's because Microsoft are trying to force as much change to gain as much profit as possible as quickly as possible. Instead of trending with the market they seem to be trying to force trends or jumping on something to late and making a far inferior. They saw Apples success and tried to copy them instead of attempting to offer consumers a different experience to apply they just offer a worse one. Android now offers what Microsoft used to offer in some ways.
 
Joeboo

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They are kind of damned if you do, and damned if you don't. I always thought that their Zune mp3 players were vastly superior to iPods in every way(easy drag & drop interface, no syncing crap) yet they failed miserably compared to iPods. So then the windows phones come around, attempting to piggy-back on the success of the iPhone, but they flounder. So then Microsoft jumps into the tablet market with their RT/Win8 tablets, offering something vastly different from Ipad, and those flop too.

I'd almost have to say that the only successful piece of hardware that Microsoft has had in the last 10-15 years has been the Xbox. You can only have so many massive flops before it starts to take a toll on your company.
 
Utnayan

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joeboo_sl said:
They are kind of damned if you do, and damned if you don't. I always thought that their Zune mp3 players were vastly superior to iPods in every way(easy drag & drop interface, no syncing crap) yet they failed miserably compared to iPods. So then the windows phones come around, attempting to piggy-back on the success of the iPhone, but they flounder. So then Microsoft jumps into the tablet market with their RT/Win8 tablets, offering something vastly different from Ipad, and those flop too.

I'd almost have to say that the only successful piece of hardware that Microsoft has had in the last 10-15 years has been the Xbox. You can only have so many massive flops before it starts to take a toll on your company.
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And now they have properly messed that up as well with the Xbone.

DMK totally agree on everything you said. They are playing follow the leader and doing a horrible job at that. Late to market, but not just late to market, they are so behind the technology that's out there now they have no way to break into the market share at this point which has already been driven for the last 6 years now on mobile devices. And just a clue for Microsoft, you don't do that by building a one size fits all operating system.

The problem is the majority of any remaining talent at Microsoft is gone, and they are so full of corporate bloat and bullshit that they are paralyzing themselves.

It's amazing when it comes to the lack of common sense in large corporations.
 
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And this is the new head of the Xbox:http://www.gamefront.com/new-xbox-he...ers-concerned/

"Devices and Studios Engineering Group," no more Xbox specific division and headed by someone with dick all experience in the game industry:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Larson-Green

Julie Larson-Green is replacing Don Mattrick as the head of Xbox hardware.

Two weeks ago, Mattrick left his role as Microsoft's head of Interactive Entertainment Business to become the CEO of Zynga. Following this shake-up, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced an aggressive restructuring plan last Thursday that would see the Xbox One team folded into the new Devices and Studios Engineering Group, which oversees all hardware development.

Larson-Green has been appointed head of the Devices and Studios Engineering Group and has also been put in charge of games, music, and entertainment. This effectively makes her Mattrick's replacement - and responsible for helping Microsoft recover from its poor performance at E3 2013.

While Microsoft's hardware unit forms a relatively small part of the company's business, responsible for less than 10 percent of the company's revenue, it is perhaps its most high-profile aspect. Office software may bring in the big bucks, but it's the Xbox and Surface tablet that get the media attention.

Larson-Green may lack experience in the video game industry, but during her time at Microsoft, she has demonstrated the ability to quickly adapt to new challenges. A 20-year veteran at the tech giant, Larson-Green was hired by Microsoft in 1993 as a program manager for Visual C++ and has since led UI design for a number of Windows projects and overseen the launches of Windows 7 and Windows 8.

After Windows Vista's poor reception, Larson-Green was transferred over to help reorganize the Windows team. According to an interview in The Telegraph from 2009, Larson-Green played a fundamental role in turning things around for Windows 7. "I'd been working on Office and had never worked on an operating system before. I spent a lot of time learning about the market, the challenges, the people on the team," she told the The Telegraph.

Perhaps the most obvious effect that Larson-Green has had on a Microsoft product was Office 2007's "ribbon" redesign. While it was met with initial controversy among end-users accustomed to the old layout, Microsoft awarded Larson-Green its 2008 Outstanding Technical Excellence Award for the redesign. The award recognizes "an individual responsible for creating or directly influencing a visionary initiative through collaboration and technical leadership, creating a breakthrough in the technology industry."

Selling the idea of the dramatic redesign to the teams behind Word, Excel, Outlook, and the rest of the Office suite was no easy task, but Larson-Green managed to convince the suite's principals one by one. Given Microsoft may have some difficult decisions to make with regards to the Xbox One, Larson-Green may just be the right person to make the tough calls and persuade the necessary parties to keep up in the race against Sony and the PS4.
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spronk

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microsoft was successful up until the late 90s because they offered an inferior product at a superior price, and provided a massive breadth of support so students, developers, nerds, geeks, etc all preferred their product over the expensive (apple) or confusing/complex (sun, oracle, ibm) competition because of MSDN, technet, conferences, certification, etc.

Then they got their knees cut out under them when the alternative became cheaper/free (browser, android, linux) and the entire computing paradigm has moved away from Microsoft's core message: a powerful computer for every person. Instead we have now moved to cloud computing and browser-based everything, combined with an extremely robust opensource competitive server environment (linux, mysql, etc) has left microsoft to flounder for the past 10 years. Its not just Microsoft - Dell, Sun (gone), Oracle, IBM, HP/Compaq, etc have all been shrinking for years.

To bring it back to gaming, a big concern for xbros imo is that Microsoft will face immense pressure to dump gaming and refocus on business computing as their profits continue to shrink. The xBox division has never made money and in fact lost billions over the years, as the early hardware subsidization costs were ridiculously high. You will see a lot of pressure from shareholders over the next few years for Microsoft to just abandon TV and gaming, and without a strong evangelist inside Microsoft it could happen.
 
meStevo

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Think that kinda goes both ways, the 360 never dug out of the hole profit-wise of the original Xbox, while the PS3 burned up all PS2 profits and dug an insurmountable hole ensuring it will never be profitable.
 
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"Perhaps the most obvious effect that Larson-Green has had on a Microsoft product was Office 2007's "ribbon" redesign."



Hahahahaha
 
Xarpolis

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"She was also responsible for bringing Lance Armstrong's Yellow Bracelets to every employee at Microsoft."

Ok, I made that up, but it's just as relevant.
 
Soygen

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I hated the ribbon, but now I really like it. Still buying a PS4.
 
Lenas

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What? The ribbon is one of the best examples of function over form. It's ugly but you have a ton of options.
 
meStevo

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Hate the office ribbon too, feel like I'm re-learning how to use it every time, when in my head I know exactly where I wanted to go in the traditional menus. For some reason a tweet about that I made is frequently favorited or RT'd by spammers before they're deleted.https://twitter.com/meStevo/status/335123394817323010

Some coworkers love it, and defend it saying I just need to learn to customize it to my habits/liking.
 
Vaclav

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But who invented the Office Paperclip - that's really the one you want heading things - a talking paperclip, that was innovation.
 
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