The Great Big E3 ThreadFollow

My young cousins, who had no gaming consoles and were not video game players in general, were able to perfectly articulate how and why they wanted the 3DS to their technologically oblivious parents. /shrug

Seems fairly common, to be honest. All they're likely to know anything about are the games, at the end of the day. Which helps even the playing field. But Sony's announcements are generally far more relevant to young players than the 360's were. KH3, Pikmin, FF (depending on their age), that weird one with the floating shapes that turn into people (or whatever that was).

And if they're moms that worry about "violence" in video games, the XBone certainly isn't going to help sell itself. With KH alone, Sony has a lot of ability to flood children's channels (like, IDK, Disney) with ads. Commence begging.

The only thing I'm seeing in the XBone lineup that's "kid-friendly" is their music game. Sports games, too, but those are harder to advertise to that target demographic.

I like how Gamestop pushes for warranties.

I never meant to imply that the young demographic would be aware of the kind of specifics that gaming culture cares about. I just meant that they'd be aware that one was the brunt of jokes, and the other wasn't, and that they'll certainly be getting targeted advertising regarding the games and features they should care about.

For the PS3, that'll be social media stuff and a fair number of games. I'm honestly not sure what that would look like on the XBone. None of their games seem like they'd be approved for advertising on youth channels, and most kids don't juggle too many TV stations. I don't see them caring as much about things like voice browsing via Kinect, skype options, etc.

On the other hand, all young people in my life with social media accounts seem to fill their pages with inane comments and updates about everything I do. I can easily see them using that share button.

/shrug

...then it's your duty as an adult to spread the word!

I still think Xbox will retain a large section of their existing user base. They'll be tangentially aware of the Xbox being the brunt of jokes, but there's always been plenty of ****-talking at console releases, because people feel they have to justify buying one over the other. I'm sure plenty of a certain demographic will just be looking for the new Halo: Call of Maddenfield machine.

Why the flying **** are we talking about this and not Mega Man in goddamn Super Smash Bros?

Because we care about next gen consoles not current gen.

Yeah, anyone who uses it as a Call of Duty Box will probably just buy the next iteration.

So the real question is what kind of population is that?

And is Microsoft's new business model going to be able to withstand it? Because they've announced some BIG budgets, but that's not going to show a return if their primary consumer base is customers who just follow the same 1-3 game series and that's it. Theoretically, they're hoping to sell the XBone at a profit (hence the whatever billions they've promised for courting exclusive titles). They were expecting an absolutely insane number of console sales, though. Insane in the realm of "I can't believe we'd sell that many consoles this generation, period."

P.S. I do not like the plural of series. I do not like it at all.

They're hoping for a billion-thousand.

One billion.

They've sold 77 million 360s, and apparently expect 25 million more sales over the next 5 years (why?)

Their argument is apparently that this generation is expected to inflate to 400 million (what?) and they can make that 1 billion through their mass-media offerings (what?)

I don't get it. The PS2 had over 150 million sales. The PS3 is 70 million.

That's cutting the sales in half, at least... Granted, the PS2 has been out for far longer, and was only recently firmly discontinued. But still.

i think they are done already.

Yeah, they were at 9 AM PST.