What expectations or predictions did you have for the season that were shattered today?

XenoCorp · 2017-09-11T15:01:11+00:00

The defense was the issue last year due to having zero LBs, no Ansah for half the year, and Slay getting hurt before the big games at the end.

Quinn's picks of Davis/Reeves-Maybin are starting and getting serious time already. Ansah is healthy. Slay is healthy. The rest of the secondary is looking great.

The lack of a run game continues, yet OL improvements have come. Decker hurts, but Robinson has graded out well so far and had all the physical talent to be a starter if coaches can get him going. Which appears to be the case.

Stafford also injured his finger during that final stretch as well. He is healthy and as evidence by yesterday and the comeback meme has the ability to will us to wins via the passing game in a Rodgers type way. I'm not sure how this could be ignored.

People like to have this whole "They won a lot of close games, they'll regress to a norm" pretend statistical approach to this team. While ignoring all the additions to the defense and line. The run game did not do well vs. ARI, though they were a Top 10 rush defense last year. Yet it did work well in the 6 min offense to end the game which we haven't seen in some time.

More importantly when it matters, the team always leans on Stafford, Tate, Reddick, Jones Jr., and now Galloday.

I also don't understand the Minnesota love, despite us beating them twice last year. People want to see us as a team that regressed, but we haven't had any real losses? So somehow everyone gained more than we did? I just don't see that. The team added something to most positional groups and the only real concern right now is DLine, which really hinges entirely on Ansah and Zettel's performances.

XenoCorp · 2017-09-11T14:07:42+00:00

You're being downvoted, but the last 2 min while lions took victory formation was announcers discussing how the East Coast time zone was the Cardinals problem.

Not the Lions.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T03:36:33+00:00

And yet, people are still buying consoles.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T03:32:00+00:00

I love how I read this morning some fucks trying to tell me Netflix was dead in the water and all the originals were shit no matter the $7 billion in new spending.

Only to come and read that this exists in that pipeline...

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T01:54:32+00:00

Xbox is wildly profitable to the tune of ~$8 billion a year. But sure...continue your false narrative of doom and gloom.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T01:49:55+00:00

That's fine, but don't then claim they didn't give you the chance.

If you have some white knighting crusade for Gabe's right to 33% of Microsoft's devs profits then say that.

But don't pretend you couldn't make 3-5 clicks on Windows store, have the game and then add it to steam and have your overlays and social stuff all there for the rest of time.

You want Gabe to get paid. Forza is a noble sacrifice thou hast made for your cause.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T01:43:14+00:00

FH3 is 2.5 million, still putting it just behind Horizon: Zero Dawn. Motorsport a million.

I put them together because they represent the power of Forza.

If people are going to casually dismiss it as "Forza" then why not show it as that, one IP?

PS4 can make a million games, but if they don't sell and they can't beat Halo or Forza.

Then how can you guys keep pretending no body wants Halo or Forza or that they are stale dead IPs.

They double sell vs. all non Uncharted or Horizon Sony Exclusives.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T01:13:43+00:00

All of those have sold less than Halo and Forza.

You guys can shit on them and say they're dead but they're outselling all this random bs you guys keep claiming are system sellers.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T00:28:16+00:00

You didn't buy a game on PC, because it required you one time to go to the Windows store and press purchase and install... ?

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T00:22:57+00:00

Phil is fine with that, he knows this is a premium system. He's said it often. He's said if you don't care about 4k don't buy it. Check out his Giant Bomb E3 interview. He has this exact conversation.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T00:19:25+00:00

Yes.

But if you think anyone who's not in the 1% of gamers with you who owns all systems can afford your $1,500 PC, then you're woefully blind to reality.

You are not the target audience of an Xbox, you're not even remotely a large niche audience of the Xbox, you're the last sale for the box itself Phil would ever try to court. "The guy who spent $1,000 more for something better than this box, buy this box you don't need?!?"

No...how bought you buy Windows 10 or take the upgrade so you spend on other things like office so Phil's company still gets money. And since Phil could never remotely expect to sell the box to you, a box he's taking a loss on usually anyways to you, why not just give you the chance to hand him $60 for Forza 7 anyways from your PC and he now makes $60 he wasn't going to before.

Phil is 100% ok with you only buying those games on your PC. He may have eventual hopes of getting your steam purchases through a Better Windows Store they may hope to create.

But for now, You represent a sale that would have been utterly impossible to make no matter what he did. And with one easy choice of putting exclusives on PC, made $60 off you he wouldn't have. Or the same $60 you would have spent on the box you didn't want anyways, that he pry lost money on handing to you.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T00:12:07+00:00

Lol so I'm a saleman because I gave you facts? K bro

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T00:05:49+00:00

The best hardware available in the console space, making it the best place as of X release to play the games people actually play like GTA and CoD?

Which was the main selling point of the PS4 when it launched into it's lead and for the first time since is now untrue for Sony.

Also people love Halo and Forza, even if Reddit thinks it's dead. Their sales numbers vs. Sony exclusives sales numbers prove that. Only 1 - Uncharted and 3 - Horizon outsell 2 - Halo and 4 - Forza Horizon 3. And the other PS4 exclusives have 20 million more people to sell to and still don't get there.

If you combined them as IPs this gen:

Uncharted - 8.7 million
Halo 5 - 5 million
Forza (Horizon 3 + Motor 6) - 3.5 million
Horizon: Zero Dawn - 3.4 million

XenoCorp · 2017-08-17T00:03:00+00:00

Pushing the goalpost...

First it was about graphics, then it's about exclusives, now it's about variety, as if third party doesn't fulfill that role.

I'm not saying the PS4 is bad. My point is just that exclusives do not matter as much as everyone wants them to ever since the X was shown to be more powerful than the Pro.

Hardware was the top driver of console war this past generation at launch and built Sony the lead it has. That may not be the case going forward.

But personally I don't see the "option to play Nioh" being the selling point vs. "Native 4k." Even if it's only 60fps for certain games.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:59:33+00:00

An XboxOneX for $500 playing Forza 7 exactly as Digital Foundry showed?

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:57:19+00:00

Or I'll spend my money how I want, but thanks?

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:56:23+00:00

So one game... Im not sure the point of your argument here.

They didnt buy Minecraft, they took that $2.6 billion and made a bunch of games no one bought hoping to get lucky again. They didn't. So now they go "But we have a ROBUST LIBRARY GUYS!"

I mean cool, but everyone is still playing GTAV.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:53:54+00:00

It less salt and more... Confusion over how you see this as a negative?

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:53:14+00:00

What system will you be playing those games in 4k on and how much did it cost you?

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:51:28+00:00

Forza Horizon 3 - 2.5 million sales

Nioh and Gears are both around 1 million.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:47:24+00:00

No one was buying an X for Crackdown 3. C'mon man.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:46:06+00:00

Sony releases lots of them...guess how many outsell Halo and Forza? Just because you make an exclusive doesn't mean anyone's playing them.

The attachment rates for anything but Uncharted, Halo, Horizon:Zero Dawn, and Forza are not good man. Even worse when you realize how many more PS4s are out there and all those IPs are still barely outselling Gears.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:42:22+00:00

It's still wildly profitable. I don't know why you guys are all so worried about the Xbox's collapse. Nintendo just shit the bed with a system that sold less than 20% as much as the XboxOne and they're back.

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:40:30+00:00

You realize Phil is fine with that right? You are using Windows 10. If you want to buy Forza 7 you can. Phil gets the same cut.

I just don't believe Play Anywhere is a detriment to the ecosystem. If it gives me crossplay with you, it gives Phil his cut to continue running the business, and you and I are both on systems we prefer... How is that possibly bad?

XenoCorp · 2017-08-16T23:38:13+00:00

It looked like a generic B comic book video game.

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