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      Les développeurs sont prêts à abandonner la Xbox selon des insiders

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Yesterday - 18:03

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    L'avenir de la console de Microsoft serait en péril alors que les acteurs de l'industrie ne trouvent plus leur compte en y publiant des jeux.
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      Microsoft opens a crack in console gaming’s decades-old walled garden

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Yesterday - 15:58

    Will the fragile Xbox balloon pop if that cage is opened?

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    Since the days of the NES, the one unshakable distinction between the PC and console gaming markets was the latter's "walled garden" approach to game distribution. For decades now, console makers have completely controlled the licensing and sales methods available for games on their own hardware.

    So when Microsoft Xbox chief Phil Spencer says that he's open to breaking down that walled garden for his consoles, it's a big deal.

    Speaking to Polygon in an interview at last week's Game Developers Conference, Spencer said he could foresee a future in which competing game marketplaces like the Epic Games Store or indie clearinghouse itch.io were available directly on Xbox hardware. “[Consider] our history as the Windows company," Spencer told Polygon. "Nobody would blink twice if I said, 'Hey, when you’re using a PC, you get to decide the type of experience you have [by picking where to buy games].' There’s real value in that."

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      Xbox aussi veut sa propre console PC

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 2 days ago - 10:18

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    Phil Spencer imagine une Lenovo Legion Go mais faite pour les joueurs Xbox. Cet appareil est-il dans les plans de la firme ?
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      WWE 2K24 review - arcade fighter celebrates 40 years of Wrestlemania with slapstick spectacle

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 7 March - 09:00

    PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Visual Concepts/2K
    Visual Concepts pulls off an incredible reversal on this formerly beleaguered series, just in time for Wrestlemania’s big 4-0

    It’s a storyline worthy of a WWE superstar: washed up, widely ridiculed, apparently on its way to obscurity, WWE 2K20 was video game wrestling’s lowest ebb. Not five years later, presumably having performed all manner of off-screen training montages in meat lockers, the game returns revitalised, with a twinkle in its eye and, much more pertinently, controls that not only function but actually put a smile on your face.

    Conceptually, wrestling has always been hard to translate to a game. Why not just keep leathering your opponent in the face until they’re too stunned to resist a pin? Because that makes bad television, and if you hadn’t already guessed by the smell of body oil and hairspray, you’re in the world of sports entertainment here. No, being “good” at WWE 2K24 or its predecessors is about putting on a show. And boy, does it know how to let you do that.

    WWE 2K24 is out 8 March; £59.99

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      Xbox Partner Preview : 5 annonces qu’il ne fallait pas manquer

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 6 March - 18:31

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    Xbox présente plus d'une douzaine de jeux dans une conférence partenaire de 30 minutes. Voici les annonces qu'il ne fallait pas manquer.
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      What a potential post-Xbox future could mean for Sony and Nintendo

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 5 March - 14:33

    What a potential post-Xbox future could mean for Sony and Nintendo

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    Microsoft’s decision to ease off its 23-year competition with Sony and Nintendo over supremacy in games hardware has opened a path for Japan’s return as the world’s undisputed home of the console.

    The prospect of a new, less internationalized era of console wars has raised hopes of happier times for the Japanese survivors but has also caused analysts and investors to revisit the question of how much longer the whole genre of dedicated games machines will continue to exist.

    Microsoft head of gaming Phil Spencer last month revealed plans to release what would previously have been exclusively Xbox games for use on rival platforms, as part of a new focus on cloud-based gaming.

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