I mean, if they fit the content profile for multiple sites, why wouldn’t they be duplicated? Otherwise they either pay two people to do the same job or only post it on one site, limiting its exposure to possibly interested readers.

So everybody wins, except the console warriors.

In work so couldn’t read the article yet, but could this be because starfield didn’t perform as well as they wanted? So now they're realising that maybe releasing it on both is the best option to make as much as possible

hey you know what DRM is supposed to stop?
pirates
hey guess who the only people not terribly inconvenienced by DRM are

Seems like this won’t (or shouldn’t) go anywhere. The two logos are very distinct in style and color scheme, and the full name of Remedy at the bottom of their logo really clinches it. Nobody is buying a Remedy game by accident thinking it’s a Rockstar title, or vice versa.

I think the reason that people were more willing to accept streaming for videos and music is because of variety.

“Got comfortable” and “Begrudgingly accepted the lack of alternatives” are two very different things.

He wasn’t even making a joke. He was making an analogy that the writer (and probably the interviewer) is too young to remember

I don’t think they were defending the title or saying the title shouldn’t be changed. It reads, to me, like they were saying it could very well be the case that the development team had no idea of what the possible connotations of the original name were.

I call bullshit on NOBODY at the company knowing. Someone at that turd factory knew *exactly* what they were doing.

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.