Xbox one late because of positioning, PS4 will be castrated?

Ironically, the Xbox One, which won the Emmy Award for video, added a threshold to the country's line. Sony first launched on the PS4 Cloud Game Service PS Now, also may face the same fate.

Reason for being late--xbox one's location

Xboxone's video service is overdue. January 21, the video content of the official online Xbox One national line, sold last September, postponed for nearly 4 months. In the meantime, those who booked in advance complained that the Xbox One advertisement was not in practice, and that Microsoft and the company had to promise to give 3 months to half a year of diamond membership to compensate.

The reason for being late is related to the location of Xbox One. Microsoft has been advocating home entertainment, making the Xbox One no longer a simple game console, but an advanced set-top box. The Xbox One has also won an Emmy Award for technical Engineering, and the panel's argument is that Xbox One and its technology have successfully diverted people from the game to TV because of the availability of apps for many video services and TV programs.

The difference is that the rules on the lifting of the Shanghai FTA will not completely pave the way for the Xbox One to enter China. The implementation rules of the FTA show that foreign enterprises are allowed to engage in the production and sale of gaming and entertainment equipment. The so-called "gaming equipment" refers to the pure game machine, rather than the device with the Set-top box function.

The Xbox one wants to get into China without castration, and requires a license plate for a set-top box or Internet TV. Then Microsoft's choice of co-operation with the company seems like a perfect solution to the problem. 3 years ago, the OTT licence, the integrated broadcasting and control licence for Internet television, was obtained.

Unfortunately, Microsoft is too optimistic. As a NO. 001 business in the FTA, Microsoft announced early in September 2014 that it would be officially sold for the Xbox One, but the OTT license issue was delayed, leading to the castration of video functions, including the ability to bypass video, ie browsers, app stores.

IE does not exist at all, now in the Xbox One App store only Skype, Blu-ray player and other 4~5 app. According to industry sources, at the beginning of the Xbox One sale, Microsoft originally prepared 13 Apps for the National Bank, such as New Oriental English. Now it seems that when the trial is still full of unknowns, the developer's investment is also played water drift.

For the same reason, Microsoft's masterpiece, the "Halo: Chief Petty Officer", has not yet been sold domestically. The above people said, because the game has the game video function and was called off, want to over the trial will need to cancel the video function. Time is likely to be submitted to the third batch of games after the Spring Festival. At present, the game is being approved about 10, more for Ubisoft products.

It was not until 4 months later that the issue of licences was resolved. January 20, the blockbuster announcement, the video service will be online Xbox One country line. Shanghai Radio and television station issued a batch of Internet TV set-top box client number, dedicated to the Xbox One Chinese terminal products. Since then, the traditional game consoles have been included in the OTT set-top box management category.

Will PS4 be castrated?

As a pioneer, the Xbox one into China's frustrations, originally thought will not happen again in PS4 body, but again turn to Sony naïve.

Just days before the PS4, Sony announced on January 8 that it had postponed listing for a variety of reasons. Outside speculation, the delay will not be as short as xboxone, and may be postponed to the Spring Festival, the main reason for the game approval. If the game approval is only a matter of time, then another problem seems to be in the future.

In 2014, Sony unveiled a cloud gaming service PlayStation Now that allows PS2 and PS3 games to be played on devices such as PS4, PS3 and PSV. In January 2015, Sony first opened the PS now free trial to PS4 in North America. As the cloud game bypasses government approval, PS4 may again suffer castration. Despite the lifting of the game, it's still not easy to get a full version of the console. Finish）