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Xbox One sales in American have more than doubled following the release of a Kinect-less SKU, Microsoft has said. "Since the new Xbox One offering launched on June 9th, we’ve seen sales of Xbox One more than double in the US, compared to sales in May," the company explained in …
Read More »Microsoft jobs cuts imminent
Reports claim thousands of employees will be let go by the weekend
Read More »PS4 attracting higher Chinese interest than Xbox One
A survey conducted by a Chinese news outlet suggests that PS4 is attracting more buyer interest than Xbox One. Kotaku reports that of the 6,488 Chinese users who responded to a NetEase survey, 57.3 per cent said they would but a PS4. 19 per cent reckon they’ll keep buying hardware …
Read More »Microsoft to confirm job cuts this week, report says
Something in the region of 6,000 job cuts could to be announced at Microsoft later this week, a report has claimed. Bloomberg says that the losses will target areas in which Microsoft and Nokia overlap, as well as marketing and engineering. The site cites the company’s 5,800 job cuts in …
Read More »Xbox One update introduces improved game demo support
Xbox One’s latest update adds the ability to download a title’s demo and subsequently unlock the full version of the game from the same file. In an interview with Eurogamer, Microsoft’s ID@Xbox head Chris Charla stated the feature arrived as part of the console’s latest update – adding that he …
Read More »Xbox exec ‘defies you to see resolution and framerate differences on sub-60 inch screens’
The UK marketing boss of Xbox has said that one of Microsoft’s challenges is to overcome the disparity between the perceptions and realities of differing framerates and resolutions. Xbox One has since launch been troubled by the fact that several cross-platform titles offer either a lower resolution or framerate on …
Read More »Dovetail Games to revive Microsoft Flight Simulator technology
Licensing deal allows UK firm to develop new games based on series engine
Read More »Microsoft sees Xbox One ‘momentum shift’
Xbox One’s difficult start is still well and truly behind it, Microsoft has said. Discussing elements such as the dropping of Kinect, the recent price drop and the beefed-up Xbox One Games With Gold offer, Xbox UK marketing boss Harvey Eagle told CVG: "It’s the cumulative effect of all those …
Read More »Nadella discusses Xbox’s importance to Microsoft…
… after not mentioning the brand until 2,054 words into his 3,119 word statement. Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has pledged to continue backing the Xbox business while also stating that it is not part of its core. Having discussed the importance of ambition, innovation, mobiles, cloud computing, PCs, services, the …
Read More »Microsoft insists that every Xbox One can still be a dev kit
Plans remains in place for every Xbox One unit to have the facility of being transformed into a development station. Microsoft said way back in July that any Microsoft-authorized Xbox One unit can be converted into a debug console – the advantage to developers of course being the ability to …
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