Microsoft XBOX ONE

[Asmo]

MS allegedly offering $3 per thousand views to youtubers who 'promote' XB1 -

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=753566

http://www.igameresponsibly.com/2014/01/17/microsoft-is-offering-youtube-personalities-good-money-to-promote-xbox-one/

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

That's how screwed up MS is with XBOX One

 

[Jumpman]

That's cool I guess. Consumers seem more likely to follow others they know or can trust, than "Big Business" at this point. I'm sure if this is true, it won't last long, as someone will exploit the process, and MS will be paying millions for no return of One purchases. This should be interesting at least.

Chris

 

[WizardStan]

That's marketing. Microsoft may not be doing it right just yet but at least they're trying. Nintendo didn't even try.

 

[Klumpen]

Those xbox commercials in all the videos from Machinima are annoying me for weeks now.

 

[Asmo]

Looks like the inevitable result of the youtube payola scheme has begun-


http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=754946


Simplest just to head to the 'Gaf thread, wealth of links in the OP.

 

[vcoleiro1]

It's probably on par with them paying an agency to hire people to post positive xbox comments on tech sites. Then up voting them so they appear as the top voted posts. Then down voting and chastising other peoples negative opinions.


You would think there would be regulations on this sort of shit.

 

[Klumpen]

You would think there would be regulations on this sort of shit.

There is: The amount of money paid by each side.
And of course there is pure theoretical stuff like this:

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/03/ftc-staff-revises-online-advertising-disclosure-guidelines

 

[Klumpen]

http://www.thenewsreports.com/microsoft-charging-users-to-return-faulty-xbox-one-consoles/2300/annier

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LlVY3M2x1rA?feature=oembed

 

[Asmo]

You would think there would be regulations on this sort of shit.

Apparently there are - at least in the US and UK it is necessary to state that it's a paid promotion rather than personal opinion as a consumer.

All that aside, it seems an incredibly stupid thing to do when there's already such a cloud of suspicion over them. How could they not see the potential for this to backfire so rapidly?

 

[Asmo]

The NeoGaf thread OP was updated with a link to this piece by the source of the leaked agreement form -


http://reconxbl.blogspot.de/2014/01/why-i-leaked-xb1m13-agreement.html

 

[CocoCreekFisherman]

Why does it all have to come to this?

 

[subert]

Xbox one is not selling as they expected ?

 

[_jr_]

Because in general it is easier to sell crap than to produce quality.

I stopped watching TV because I could no longer take the ads selling computing hardware using the claim 'es ist flach, es ist schön' (roughly: 'it is flat, it is beautiful').

 

[Binky]

'it is flat, it is beautiful'

^ that makes even less sense than the way every. single. car manufacturer seems to base their sales pitch on "this car has a really cool stereo which can play DVDs and bluetooth audio from your iProduct"

I thought cars were all about moving people and luggage along roads...

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

People live in cars these days so they must have everything a house has   so...

 

[Asmo]

Maybe they're bracing themselves for the Japanese PS4 launch next month.

 

[Asmo]

IGN says "The 180 is complete" -


Microsoft announces Xbox One will sell without Kinect (Kinect bundle also available) from June 9th, and some other changes like being able to use Netflix without a gold subscription:


http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/xbox-delivering-more-choices

 

[DatNOBoi]

IGN says "The 180 is complete" -


Microsoft announces Xbox One will sell without Kinect (Kinect bundle also available) from June 9th, and some other changes like being able to use Netflix without a gold subscription:

http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/xbox-delivering-more-choices

Things that should've been standard from the jump.

I'm about to set a timer to see how long it'll be before Amazon acquires the Xbox division.

 

[Jumpman]

Now if "N" announces a tablet controller free WiiU, we'll have a real battle this E3 :lol:

Chris