When did this trend of hating on Hideo Kojima start? Sure the dude is a bit eccentric, but I’m not so sure I’d agree that he is “insufferably pretentious.” You might just be someone who doesn’t really like his games. The dude knows what he is. Is his exhaustion self-inflicted? Yes, most likely. But he also admittedly…

You guys have the same number of jokes as the “identify as an attack helicopter” people

What an absurd take. Do you actually expect every company to publicly announce ever single decision or idea they have?

So in the regards of any future plans, titles, and such being leaked, I say “you reap what you sow.”

This made me actually laugh, thanks.

Talk about smelling it and dealing it!

It’s pretty simple. Because The Marvels is a failure on the level of what theatrical Marvel movies are supposed to be. And is troubling from the point of view of the health of their entire market segment.

Not yet but once we bottle them they're gonna sell like hot cakes.

Seriously, why didn’t the person also ask why was Flash a bomb at 50+ Million!?

Wonka also pulled in its dollars despite the fact movie musicals are on the outs nowadays

Like you said, it’s the budget. Wonka will be a success in theaters alone if they make it to $250 million world-wide - and it’s nearly two-thirds of the way there.

Yikes, does something this self-evident really need to be explained to people? If so, let me add that Wonka has already made $150 mil globally, and is on pace to make more globally than The Marvels by, likely, a hefty amount. It will be more successful irrespective of budgets.

“Ahead of its time” is normally something I associate with a great idea that noone was ready for but always online DRM is a bad thing whether it becomes common place or not.

And let’s not forget that the mandatory Kinect, coupled with a mandatory always-on internet, was a major privacy issue.

“It combined a console, streaming device, and Blu-Ray player into the original all-in-one media player. But like Marty McFly rocking out to “Johnny B Goode” in Back to the Future, people weren’t quite ready for that. Yet.”

The people who will run in with attempts at “told you so”s will ignore two major elements:

1) Even if it was the best thing ever, Microsoft did such an ATROCIOUS job explaining/marketing it, it never would have mattered. The case study of just how you could botch a console launch from every conceivable angle is…

I see we are to the point now where it’s time to try to rewrite the history of the Xbone and make excuses for why it, once again, was a failure. At this point Microsoft has given up completely on even trying to learn from and correct any past mistakes, they’re not even trying at all anymore to attract new customers…

Kinda missing the point here. You mention the Kinect, but the other big thing that really hurt its optics at its reveal, was its no pre-owned titles being able to be used with it. Microsoft’s focus on being an entertainment box, specifically trying to mesh TV/Movies/Whatever with games was the most minorest of…

“The moon is empty and barren, do you think Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were bored when they risked their lives achieving one of humanity’s greatest achievements going to the moon!? Exploring another one of our barren empty worlds is like, totally basically the EXACT same thing!”

I mean, too little too late for most people I’d imagine. Most people wanting a Bethesda fix that Starfield didn’t deliver are probably replaying Skyrim, again. I know I am, and with mods for my first time ever on console, it looks and plays better then I ever remember.