[Mel E]

This is still a Ballmer Hangover. "Do it the way I want to do it and like it". I hope that as Ballmer leaves the company, his imprint gets washed away. MS used to be a company that dominated because it made the best stuff. Then they decided to push people around because of their market share. That is why we almost had the Xbox1 that no one wanted.

[Ana Torrecilla Cabeza]

Do you get all of your news from IGN?

[JERMAINE VIDAURRI]

If this is true, then Microsoft is really trying to screw themselves are they?

[Leticia Hernandez]

Depends on how much devs are willing to put up with it. If enough of them do, then Microsoft strikes a blow of sorts on Sony by ensuring they don't get any sort of exclusive, no matter how temporary it is, that could attract consumers over to them.

[jessica breen]

Sony is getting clobbered in the marketplace? How so? Maybe in the US marketplace.

[Project]

Really depends on the laptop since most aren't upgradable and by the time that screen busts, what do you got? Something not worth fixing.

[Ian White]

This is pretty funny.

As for the OP, it's ironic that the Thief devs are the ones talking about this, considering they've scrapped the mechanics of the classic Thief games in favor of linear, scripted push-X-to-win. Then again, they did gut Garrett's character model in order to make him a bishy ninja star of QTE-ridden cutscenes. Like all devs, they've forgotten why people play games. Hint: It's not for shiny graphics.

[A Dardzz]

For all it's worth, they removed QTEs.

[Mr.Broom30]

I can't imagine many companies willing to do this unless Microsoft bribes them. It would seem awfully inconvenient for developers to release on X1 and then have it release for the other consoles later.

[Janeth Valenzuela Castelo]

I'm guessing you aren't a handyman inclined guy with a lot of laptop user friends. I get a 'can you fix this' at least every couple months, and a lot of them practically busted the screen getting it out of the box. If you bust the screen on a day old laptop it still costs as much to fix it as it does to replace it, and it's faster to replace it, so what have you got? A brand new laptop with a busted screen.

Next one that crosses my path gets an HDMI cable plus a wireless USB game controller and turns into a game console for my living room. Glad this conversation came up.

[Scarlet Devil]

LOL...okay...clobbered was probably inappropriate since PS3 outsold XBox 360 in September...for the first time.

Bottom line Microsoft leverages every bit of marketing power they can get their hands on...exclusive titles sell their boxes, the prevalence of their boxes allows them to demand exclusivity...that's not gonna change just because someone thinks it's unfair.

[Lauren Graves]

This.

[sara OMAR]

They had a year headstart and outsold in a single market, were behind in every other market, and tied for total worldwide sales.

Next gen they have already been outsold in the US market, and as more parts of the world have a Sony release they are getting beat there too. MS knows this and are taking preemptive steps because they have a bit of leverage now from last gen, but won't maintain it in the foreseeable future of the next gen.

[Oceavision]

+1

[Eric Hayes]

Let us hope that works out. Even though it seems unlikely that if Sony gets access to any market leverage they wouldn't misuse it just as much as Microsoft has.

[Anna Kyselova]

They might not need to bribe anyone. Refusing to abide by the terms and not put their games on the One means that devs are missing out on sales they could have easily had otherwise. If the Xbox One sells enough units, then Microsoft could secure the leverage they need to make this policy possible.

[Carlitos Avila]

Well, the guy who wrote the 'article' looks like he's 15, so what can you expect?

[Wanda Maximoff]

You're right, I'm a handyman inclinded guy with a lot friends who don't use laptops

Though I typically fix stuff that relates to a house. Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, structure....that type of handyman. Also if you need a MSGF guy, I'm your guy

[KRistina Karlsson]

http://ign.com/articles/2013/12/10/telltale-game-of-thrones-project-is-multi-year-multi-title-deal

Nice!

[Michelle Serenity Boss]

Well this sounds nice, but i hope they dont take too much from the show, and instead approach it like they did with the walking dead. and they better not release this until they are done with the TWD Season 2 and the Wolf among us.

[Euan]

I don't think they're a big enough studio to do that even if they wanted to. They only have so many employees.

[JESSE]

Saying that a machine that has to be on a specific price point and has fixed hardware "closes the gap" to a machine that can cost any amount of money and can be updated at any time a hardware manufacturer makes a new product is a little silly actually.

The thing is Intel already has a 6-core processor out. Remember that a 4-core Intel i7 processor at 3 ghz is faster than an 8core AMD FX processor at 4 ghz. Imagine how fast the 6-core Intel i7 processor is...

And remind yourselves that there is already a graphics card out there (AMD 290x) that plays the most graphic intensive games like Crysis 3 at max settings at 4k with like 30 to 40 frames per seconds. That is already happening.

Next year Intel will ship their first ever 8core processors,PCs in general will get ddr4,and a new series of graphics cards will bring at least 50% performance increase for each model on each individual price point.

In 2 years by now GDDR6 will become a thing,and graphics cards in the range of 200 - 300 euros / dollars will do 4k.

By the time the consoles will be coming to the end of their lives, in the PC world perhaps there will be people playing at 8k.

Except if... There will be no point on buying monitors anymore because everyone will be playing with an Occulus Rift attached on their heads.

Remind yourselves that Valve is currently patching their games to be VR ready,and that it plans to release a VR accesory its own self in the future. And let's not kid ourselves,Valve IS the platform holder of PC gaming right now either we want it or not...

[Lauren Denman]

New Prologue trailer for the Panthei Rae powered Deep Down. The game is going to be a free to play, PS4 exclusive. Open beta is planned for late next month.

http://ign.com/articles/2014/01/02/deep-down-gets-new-prologue-trailer

[Phoenix Draven]

Deep down I thought this was going to be a thread about Rockstar or CD Project RED...but I was wrong.

[Jessica Lloyd]

Those are in the works.