DF Weekly: a multi-platform future appears unavoidable for Microsoft and Sony
Plus: what should we make from Xbox's huge claims for its next-gen console?
In this week's DF Direct Weekly, the Digital Foundry Team shares their ideas on the Xbox company upgrade podcast and tries to fathom technique from the PlayStation group in the wake of some threatening statements that led to a 10 portion point dip in Sony's share rate. The bottom line looks plain and extremely simple: the audience for PlayStation and Xbox consoles is not increasing gen-on-gen, while the expenses of making video games to service that audience is increasing drastically. Something needs to alter.
Let's deal with the Xbox company upgrade. My handle this is that Phil Spencer and his group truly desire to take a multi-platform technique forward, an...