can’t wait until Jan 1 when he comes back as EA’s EVP of  “ethical standards” or something.

...what?

“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…

One of those “pretend not to know what the author is referring to when they use common industry parlance that refers to a specific business model, so that I can act superior and impart useless information that is irrelevant to the topic at hand” statements...lmao

Which begs the question, who wants to advertise to people who don’t have money to spend?

not all spending is equal. an easy example is mac and cheese. while a low income family may not be able to afford a gamepass subscription they might buy name brand kraft products because it is within their budget and kraft definitly wants to advertise to those people. 

Try creating different characters with backgrounds and characteristics that clash or are oppositive of your previous character.

“LICK THE BOOT! LICK THE BOOT!”

You must be young. I’m old enough to remember when “double coupons” were a thing, and yeah, they counted towards sales. 

You aren’t paying extra to save money at fast food restaurants, you aren’t subscribed to a service you pay a fee for where the rewards of the service are discounts on products you can’t use.

If you are paying for discounts you can’t use you are being scammed.

Most other stores I shop at with similar rewards programs (Amazon, Best Buy, Costco) allow you to redeem points for store credit that you can use on almost anything. It’s not unreasonable to assume Gamestop’s program is similar. It’s unfair to compare Gamestop to fast food, where the norm is trading rewards points for…

“But I don’t have a platform to write a long winded article whining”

This person clearly drank the kool-aid

Muscular woman killed my vidya gaem daddy Joe and made my daughter/wife-fu unsexy! Revenge bad lOL

Given their history I’m gonna guess their ‘nuance’ will amount to an exchange between an American and Iraqi that goes something like “We’re both fighting for what we believe in, really makes you think” and then they don’t mention it again.

Yeah I think calling this a “remaster” is the problem here. Just call it an enhanced port or something.