Xbox One Is Losing the Battle, But Could Microsoft Win the War? -- CLS Side Quest
PS4 is outselling Xbox One by a significant margin, but there’s a reason for all of us to take heart: Microsoft tends to show us its best when it's losing. Indeed, it's quietly (and sometimes not-so-quietly) making a series of possibly industry-changing moves that could have positive ramifications for all of us who game.
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In late 2019, chances are PlayStation 5 (or whatever it’ll be called) will launch. So let’s start framing the conversation around the new upcoming Sony console. How can Sony convince tens of millions of happy gamers that they need something new? What studios should be ready to go with games? What’s a good price point? This week’s Side Quest covers these preliminary PS5-related questions, and much more.
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From 2010 through 2013, IGN was victimized by the single most unprofessional bout of nonsense directed toward it by the publisher Konami. The drama surrounded Konami’s and MercurySteam’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow trilogy, beginning with IGN having the audacity to call the original game “good,” and ending with the temporary blacklisting of the entire site, and… well… me! Here's the full, 'til-now-untold story.
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Between PlayStation Experience and The Game Awards, quite a few games were revealed in just the last week. So, why not go over the 10 biggest announcements, and (unscientifically) put them in order of importance and excitement?
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Many gamers are worried about the future of single player games. Trust me, I’m a solo player, so I get it. But there’s nothing to fear, my friends. We may get fewer single player games in the future as publishers pivot more towards online functionality and games as a service. But the flood of campaigns won’t stop, and may actually improve in quality as a result.
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The release of Star Wars: Battlefront II should have been a celebration for millions upon millions of video game-playing Star Wars fans around the world. But Electronic Arts' insistence on maximizing profits over the happiness of its customers got in the way, yet again.
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Warhorse Studios' surprising commercial success shows that by paying attention to consumers instead of critics, developers can conquer the Perpetual Outrage Cycle and break through to the people that actually play their games, instead of those who sometimes seem most interested in shaming and destroying others.
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CLS: Side Quest marks Colin's return to video game coverage. New episodes post Mondays (beginning November 20, 2017).
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PlayStation Experience 2017 is right around the corner, and while it doesn’t have a press conference per se, some announcements should still come out of the show. Plus, PSX gives us an opportunity to talk about eight upcoming PS4 exclusives that should help Sony’s console finish the generation on a high note.
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Nintendo revealed amazing new sales numbers for Switch, and there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that the handheld-console hybrid’s stellar performance will continue into year two and beyond. But with two massive cards already played in close proximity to one another in the form of Zelda and Mario, and with a far leaner and far less interesting release schedule in 2018, could Switch’s sales noticeably decelerate?
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