Microsoft has been hyper-reactive to the market throughout the Xbox One's development and production since 2013 so this doesn't surprise me. 200 dollars used to be the target price point for consoles in the 90's. 400 is the sweet spot now with 350 probably being seen as a value. They should just make 350 permanent, take the hits, but get more consoles out there.
I'm none too impressed with 2014 either. I find it ironic that Ubisoft was complaining a few years ago about the console makers holding the industry back for letting the 360/PS3 generation go on for so long. Apparently Ubi felt they were ready for new hardware. Well, funny that their first "next-gen" AC game shipped broken as hell. There were some great games that released in 2014 but overall its kind of making me sad that this generation is taking so damn long to truly get underway.
Bloodborne I guess? Really kinda burned on games after this year. So many big games crashing and burning. I hope Zelda is good this time. I really didn't like Skyward Sword.
the way I see it this is an annualized franchise so delaying the game is not an option for Ubisoft. I'm sure they were well aware of the issues when they shipped the final code and immediately began working on the post-release patches. I'm not sure how many teams are working on AC at this point but we know Activision has shifted to a 3 team, 3 year dev cycle with Call of Duty and so far seems to have kept the quality standard pretty high.
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