Xbox Founder Says The Past Five Years Have Been "Painful To Watch"

I think any console who's priority is not gaming is missing the mark. Most people who buy consoles buy them for gaming, not to have an all-in-one media center. If the former is being sacrificed for the latter, the demographic that has kept consoles alive all these years are being shat on, and we are all one step closer to being PC only users.

Saved me from typing that! Thumbs up for you! Errr I mean thumb up¡

I see the whole console industry being eaten up by bad business strategy, going for volume like apples 1 dollar games seems to be the best way forward but they still hold the old fragile premium pricing structure.

Customers are surrounded by 7 or 8 devices they can game on cheaply at any time any place and the high end of the market guys will always have a better experience on quality top tier PC configs.

I felt like I was getting something special with ps3, ps4/x720 from the rumoured spec sheets is an AMD system I could build myself for 300 bucks.

Not sure I get this guys logic. If Xbox is doing OK and the rest of the industry is a "stumbling failure" well, I guess you must be doing something right, right?
Calling Sony a stumbling failure compared to Xbox I think is a little out of line. How about we compare console failure rates? If Sony is a stumbling failure at least they can produce a console that won't brick 70% of the time.
But, alas, now I've missed the point because of my fanboyism

You think thats bad? Try being a pc gamer where you were blamed for all piracy even if you had never pirated anything. The games you did get were ports and had shitty textures and graphics because developers wanted to make sure it would also run on consoles. And dx11 had been out for a long time but no developer wanted to make dx11 versions(Other than a select few) because the consoles only ran 9. I hate consoles. They are a market distortion.

And as for the dx9 vs dx11 issue, its not that hard to port a game over and yes even if you dont use any dx11 graphics features its still better optimized and multithreaded and so would give better performance. Im looking at your GTA4.

At least when the next set of consoles come out there will be less of a disparity so PC games won't be held back as much.

Amen brother.

I think if most of the rumors come true with the nextbox, Microsoft is going to be in more trouble than the Wii U is in right now. They are focusing all their energy in all this extra crap when they don't even have a solid exclusive library of games. Gamers will be fed up with all their B**S****, and will vote with their wallets.

I hate to bring this up but if COD keeps making Activision billions of dollars, with a $60 price point then big business's are going to keep trying to tap that market. They don't realize though, that market us already tapped, with COD.