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PS4 will have outsold its rival Xbox One to the tune of 11m units within five years, research firm IHS has predicted. The company believes that by 2017 PS4 will have sold 49m units worldwide with Xbox One trailing behind on 38m units. IHS believes that Sony’s wider geographical brand …
Read More »Xbox’s next-generation of storytelling
Emmy award-winning storyteller Elan Lee was hired by Microsoft this summer to help shape the future of storytelling. What exactly does that mean? MCV attempts to find out, to mixed success… You recently did a talk entitled ‘My mother has no idea what I do for a living.’ Why is …
Read More »Xbox One game downloads will fill up the hard drive pretty quick
The additional graphical flourish that will accompany next-gen games will result in another fundamental change – filesizes are set to explode. That doesn’t really matter when you’re talking about games on a Blu-ray. After all, it matters not whether your disc is carrying 5MB or 50GB of data. But if …
Read More »Xbox One won’t play 3D Blu-rays
Microsoft has confirmed that 3D Blu-ray discs won’t be supported by Xbox One. A rep told CNET that the functionality could be added at some point in the future, although it is not currently planned in and does not feature as part of the console’s day one update. It is …
Read More »Xbox One backwards-compatibility ‘problematic’
Microsoft Albert Penello questions whether cloud technology could make Xbox 360 games playable on next-gen hardware
Read More »A third of all console spending to be digital by 2017 – report
IHS head of games Piers Harding-Rolls has predicted a dramatic swing to digital during the imminent console generation. The analyst believes that by 2017 a total of 34 per cent of all games spend on PS4 and Xbox One will be spent on digital games. By comparison, it says that …
Read More »The Cloud unlikely to deliver Xbox 360 backwards compatibility to Xbox One
It’s looking unlikely that Microsoft will bring Xbox 360 backwards compatibility to Xbox One via its Cloud computing services. Sony has previously indicated that it will be doing exactly that to offer PS3 games on PS4, but Microsoft insists that existing online infrastructures simply aren’t up to the job. "It’s …
Read More »Call of Duty sales tumble 50%, but how bad is it?
Call of Duty: Ghosts UK launch sales are around 50 per cent lower than Call of Duty: Black Ops II, retail sources have told MCV. It’s certainly a big, worrying figure. But there are several caveats to consider. For one, Ghosts is a launch title for Xbox One and PS4 …
Read More »Target ships some Xbox Ones early in US; Consoles unusable until launch
Around 150 US consumers were the lucky recipients of their Xbox One consoles this weekend two weeks ahead of the machine’s official launch. Retailer Target has confirmed that due to a systems error” it shipped a small number of video game consoles prior to the street date”. Kotaku claims to …
Read More »Xbox One does ‘nothing’ without day one update
Microsoft's Albert Penello says launch update isn't optional
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