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We’ve seen the buyout/burn down methodology against a lot of smaller companies; it sounds a bit like Microsoft is doing that internally to Xbox division. It’s all I can think of to explain so much of the intentional damage.
So, the console war is now basically Nintendo, Sony, and Valve.
… But not on a snowy bench or laying on some exterior steps
I’ll play out my remaining games that I purchased for my Series X and then bail for the PlayStation (or maybe steam box) ecosystem. I’ve never owned a PlayStation or steam computer, I went straight from Dreamcast to Xbox and have been buying each generation. They got online gaming right, but now they’re so rudderless it’s astonishing. What a shame, after the 360 they had all the momentum and squandered it.
Microsoft is an empty shell of a company drifting on the momentum of it’s achievements from 20 years ago. It’s another victim of shareholder sharks and MBAs extracting value instead of engineering and innovating. It’s taking time to die, but it’s getting closer. There’s hardly any Microsoft products that are worth a damn these days.
they put all thier development into AI, and they are frantically trying to cram it into everything else,. much like GOOGLE neglected thier pixels, and thier other services for AI.
Neglected Pixels? Lol, truth is they were always poorly made midrange phones sold at high end prices. Google has never made good hardware, not even accidentally.
My pixel 1 phone was fine. Went back to Samsung after that though.
Don’t worry, they’ll kill off and abandon the pixel line soon enough. Remember Nexus? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Nexus line had some real quality mid range phones at great prices.
Literally never heard this opinion before. Why are they bad?
Next victim of their downward spiral: gamepass and with it, the Xbox brand and the IP they own. I wonder who will they sell it to or if they’ll sit on it.
A couple months ago when the Game Pass price hike was announced, I checked my profile to see what tier I was in: how much I was paying. Turns out my account had expired, was tied to a credit card I haven’t had for a while. I really only play single- player games and apparently nothing on Game Pass interested me.
Have they tried doing something called innovating? Heard that’s in hot demand nowadays
Innovation is for libtard commies, let’s just rererelease another halo remaster and jack up the prices further, that’ll show em!
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After Xbox one, I was unable to understand what the next version was.
And when people can’t even name the product, then yeah.
Microsoft just messed up the whole naming convention after the 360 I think. You had the Xbox “one” which was a name people often used to refer to the original Xbox. Then you have an Xbox One S. Then Xbox series X which is a genuinely terrible name. Oh, and the Xbox series S which is not the Xbox One S.
Sony to their credit got it right from the beginning. Simple 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. No medals for guessing what the name of the next Playstation will be.
Every time I see the names of the Xbox lineup my brain just feels tired and kinda shuts down.
I am never going to remember it.
i had no idea they gave up after xbox one, thats probably eveyrones response, they probably never heard them marketing a new console.
My immediate thought reading your comment was the original black and green box before 360. So I’m one worse off in the chronology than you.
I love seeing those videos about game making up until 5th and 6th gen, how creative developers were, managing console hardware capabilities to bypass limitations and find other ways to render faster, wider, more colors, or fit more stuff in less space, pushing the system to its limits… am I wrong, or is the modern game industry just about using an unoptimized engine to make games, not optimizing shit, releasing games that don’t get close to reaching the full hardware potential, and then releasing a next gen of hardware even though the next gen games would probably run even better 2 gens ago if devs had half of the talent and problem-solving skills of past devs?
Games, like movies and TV, have become so expensive to make because studios and publishers have consolidated so much that they can’t keep the machine running with modest budgets to make modest profits. They have to slop together content with the lowest effort to extract the highest revenue from microtransactions and season passes because every game has to be a Call of Duty/Fortnite/Pokemon level hit or the studio is shuttered by the publisher.
Great games are still being made, just like great movies that aren’t remake or superhero slop are being made. Just not from big money but independent studios instead.
I think it’s more about tsunamis of content now. Graphics have been on a track of diminishing returns for ages now. Today it’s all about generating hundreds of skins, weapons, badges, hats, drops, whatever. It would explain why everybody’s salivating over generative AI.
its all MTX. the only game to go reverse on graphics is pokemon.
Xbox is dead outside of being a different logo for windows. I think it’s obvious to anybody remotely watching the industry that all they really care about is game pass at this point. Even at the game awards, they were essentially absent outside of a game pass ad, and recently put a finance guy in charge of Zenimax.
I would love to say this won’t end well for them, but they probably crunched the numbers and determined they could continue the same revenue with minimum effort. Enough people will probably stick around on game pass, even after the recent hikes, to keep it as a solid revenue stream.
I sold my Xbox six months ago after it sat collecting dust for a year and a half, glad I did.
But what if we cram it full of AI bloat/spyware? Could we entice you then?
- Microsoft, probably
Xbox One X Series X CoPilot X
AI made games.
The writing has been on the wall for a while. I remember hearing quotes about wanting to turn Xbox into a Steam competitor back in like 2018. I was honestly surprised when they released the Series. I was pretty sure we would get some sort of streaming only console after the One X|S.
I imagine going forward, in addition to the streaming services, we are going to see Xbox leveraged as “certification” for other manufacturer’s hardware where consumers can be assured that this device meets some set spec for this year’s Xbox games.
Not me. I’m hanging onto mine for the inevitable retro revival!
(h/j)
They want how much for an Xbox‽
I’d pay maybe £150 at this stage. Ye gods.
Were the authors aware that everyone is broke this year and the “deals” to be had were previous mark-ups going down slightly? The game is rigged, we are all aware these “sales” are nothing more than a sales gimmick and very little of worth is available by an actual deal. No one is even trying to hide that fact anymore, and the populace is broke and fed up with all the stupid games we get forced to play
I guess they consider their murder of non-subscription self-hosted multiplayer to be complete enough that their rent-seeking game service can survive without the need for hardware walls for the proverbial garden.
