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Old 09-05-2013, 12:22 AM   #601
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Old 09-05-2013, 05:25 PM   #602
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The current goal for Microsoft in regards to the Xbox One's launch is to either generate a small profit or at least come close to breaking even. Neither the original Xbox nor the Xbox 360 came anywhere close to breaking even during both launches.

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Xbox chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi, while speaking at the Citi Global Technology Conference, said that the company is “looking to break even or low margin at worst” when the Xbox One launches toward the end of this year.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-launch-sales/


Official Microsoft Stores will also be participating in the $10 "upgrade" programs for those who own select Xbox 360 games but want the Xbox One version as well.
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The deal is similar to that offered by GAME, Sony, GameStop, and Amazon. Gamers who purchase an Xbox 360 title from the Microsoft Store online or at retail can then upgrade that game to the Xbox One version at any Microsoft retail store for just $10.

Games included in the promotion are: Battlefield 4, Madden NFL 25, Need for Speed Rivals, Call of Duty: Ghosts, NBA 2K14, FIFA 14, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...de-ins-for-10/


Microsoft is still considering implementing both the digital game trading and family sharing plans for the Xbox One but not any time soon and only when the "time is right" to bring both features back.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...in-the-future/
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Old 09-06-2013, 05:27 PM   #603
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According to the senior director at Microsoft, the Azure-based cloud technology being used for the Xbox One could be expanded in the future to also include support for backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games.

Would follow the same route of Sony using Gaikai for possible PS3 backwards compatibility in the future for their PS4 console.
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Old 09-18-2013, 05:28 PM   #604
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Microsoft's Phil Spencer says he hopes Epic Games will continue the Gears of War series on the Xbox One although they won't push Epic to make one if they don't want to.
http://www.destructoid.com/gears-of-...o-262062.phtml


According to DICE, they are currently considering adding in head tracking features for the Xbox One version of Battlefield 4.
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“Through SmartGlass, Xbox players will be able to view the overhead map during multiplayer matches and take advantage of the second screen,” Battlefield executive producer Patrick Bach told Xbox Wire. ”Also, with Kinect, we’re looking into features that enhance the controls including peeking and leaning and tracking head movement as well as incorporating voice commands.”
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ld-4-xbox-one/


Microsoft states the Xbox One will be launched in Japan next year although no date has been set as of yet.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...unch-in-japan/


Also stated they are currently in the planning stage with several Japanese developers to create some exclusives games for the console in Japan.
http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft...e-262029.phtml


Capcom reveals some new details for Dead Rising 3 which includes online co-op similar in style to Dead Rising 2 and stats/progress gained in co-op can be carried over to single player.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...single-player/
http://www.destructoid.com/capcom-de...m-262041.phtml
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Old 09-25-2013, 04:58 AM   #605
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Old 09-26-2013, 01:18 AM   #606
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Well they missed a totally gimmick date.
Sorta. While they didn't go for a marketing gimmick, they went for a sales gimmick: being able to lump sales into Black Friday figures.

People fudge that number as it is now with retailers opting to open "before midnight" on Thanksgiving night, so the 22nd falls into the alleged 3 day window- which is already skewed; it's technically a week long window, depending who you ask, since some take the three days before, some take the weekend, and others now include the sales of Cyber Monday into their numbers.

Anyhow, as it stands, a company that may have x amount of excess systems after fulfilling pre-orders can pretty much sell them immediately (instead of being mandated to hold some back for that Friday, mainly to help drive sales) without it hurting their retail numbers for the biggest shopping weekend of the year, and can pad in some bragging rights, such as some asanine "biggest electronic item of the year/most requested"(etc.) to MS for total sales because of WHEN it launched- namely, with the blessing of Black Friday and before the PS4.

Those kind of projected stats are like corporate shareholders versions of Gamerscore.
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According to Microsoft, the Xbox One automatically records gameplay when achievements are earned as a way to make it easy to show and upload as help guides for others.

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In an interview with YouTuber ChampChong at the EB Games Expo in Australia, Xbox Australia executive Adam Pollington revealed that Xbox One would automatically record and save all Achievements that you unlock. From there, these videos can be shared, or if you don't care, presumably deleted.
http://www.destructoid.com/xbox-one-...k-263145.phtml


In another instance of Microsoft sending out contradictory messages, the company stated last week privacy is still a top priority for the Xbox One and while on paper it is possible to sell Kinect data to advertisers, they are not actively considering that as an option.

Within a few days later, the company hinted they are currently considering selling off that data for "market research" purposes.

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Xbox's Albert Penello, a marketing executive, talked to NeoGAF about this touchy subject. "Some of the new Xbox One Kinect features *could* be used in advertising - since we can see expressions, engagement, etc. and how that might be used to target advertising. This is the point that seems to draw some controversy. First - nobody is working on that. I'm not aware of any active work in this space. Second - if something like that ever happened, you can be sure it wouldn't happen without the user having control over it. Period," Penello emphasized.

He further accentuated the company's stance on privacy by explaining that the Skype app will stop streaming and will be rendered unusable whenever it's moved to the background. This is its way of ensuring that nobody will accidentally broadcast something when they didn't know that the application was active.
http://www.destructoid.com/microsoft...t-263040.phtml

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As reported by Advertising Age, Yusuf Mehdi held a talk on Saturday morning at the Association of National Advertisers' annual convention that was titled "Winning the Game: Xbox Marketing." In his presentation, he touched on ways in which Xbox One could revolutionize advertising, such as increased production values attributed to imaging technology, taking advantage of the gamification movement, and most importantly, the possibility of making data available for market research.

"We are trying to bridge some of the world between online and offline," Mehdi said. "We have a pretty unique position at Microsoft because of what we do with digital, as well as more and more with television because of Xbox. It's early days, but we're starting to put that together in more of a unifying way, and hopefully at some point we can start to offer that to advertisers broadly,"
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So Titanfall: Malibu Stacy's New Hat The Game is now a Microsoft exclusive permanently, which evidently surprised not only a lot of customers, but also Sony and...Respawn themselves, who didn't find out about the exclusivity until everyone else did.



Well played, Microsoft.
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