Xbox cancelled their E3 showing this year due to a marketing budget cut from Microsoft

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Budgeting, nah. They can afford 80b for Activision.….

If this is true then its just them trying to pull on the heart strings so the Activision deal goes through
 

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Budgeting, nah. They can afford 80b for Activision.….

If this is true then its just them trying to pull on the heart strings so the Activision deal goes through
Nah, man, it is two different entities.

No one is going to whole management and shareholders to approve few exclusives and show. That's why they never had big 3rd party timed exclusives, that's why they will never moneyhat the industry.

It is just xbots pipedream.
 
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I don’t believe that it’s because of funds. I genuinely think it’s because they don’t have enough to show to justify being there.
 
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So we're now pretending that they weren't planning to go to E3 at all?

There hasn't been a physical E3 show since 2020.

Were you asleep the last 3 years ? 😅


And if hosting a private show at MS theatre was such a genius move, why didn't they do this before? Instead, they were taking digs at Sony for abandoning E3.



That's a 4 year old pre-covid article lol, it has no relevance today.


Either way, I prefer to see Microsoft spend money on content and games for Game Pass day one. Wasting money on a booth at E3 does nothing for me.


Their 2022 showcase was fantastic. Who the hell is pining for physical E3's today anyway. They don't even do booth babes.
 

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There hasn't been a physical E3 show since 2020.

Were you asleep the last 3 years ? 😅
And it's happening now. Phil just said, that it's a seminal moment that he definitely wants to continue going to. And now he is not going.

Why? Because there's no money left? lol
That's a 4 year old pre-covid article lol, it has no relevance today.
Excuses excuses.

Phil was taking digs at Sony, and now following Sony's footsteps as always 😛 And it's a genius move all of a sudden.
 

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Phil was taking digs at Sony, and now following Sony's footsteps as always 😛 And it's a genius move all of a sudden.

smh

Their 2019 showcase was also in the Microsoft Theater, you know, the last show before covid lockdowns ?

Y'all really do take shit posting to its extremes
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I know this place has a hard on for MS hate, and the OP is clearly on the spectrum, but does anyone actually believe this?

They're having a showcase in the same venue as before, they're also committing to work with ESA for continuing E3. Literally nothing has changed from their previous shows before covid but because someone tweeted something vague, let's all shit/doom post about it as gospel.

Aka yet another day on Icon-era 🤷‍♂️
 

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Xbox didn't have 11k layoffs. That was the whole company
Does that matter? We know they were big enough it's resulted in game cancellations at Coalition cause their staff was drastically cut. 343 are being reduced to a couple producers and janitors to oversee the work of other devs and Bethesda was gutted too
 

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Does that matter? We know they were big enough it's resulted in game cancellations at Coalition cause their staff was drastically cut. 343 are being reduced to a couple producers and janitors to oversee the work of other devs and Bethesda was gutted too

1. The Coalition (and Playground) had a total of <10 employees let go. 343 is where most of the gaming related lay-offs happened.

2. There is no official news on any cancelation, even the rumors say that they 'canceled' it because they moved straight to Gears 6 instead of needing to work on a smaller project to get their developers used to the new UE5 toolkit.
 
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I know this place has a hard on for MS hate, and the OP is clearly on the spectrum, but does anyone actually believe this?
the news has been confirmed and corroborated through multiple sources, but please, keep burying your head in the sand.

The marketing budget for xbox has been cut. That's it, that's the news.
 
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also crazy to think that they were playing with a larger budget in 2022 than this year, and look at what you got last year...

2023 is going to be a hard year for xbox owners.
 
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It's so hard for us we already got a GoTY contender in the first month


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still going on about that indie game? lol dude, give it a rest. the game's already been forgotten.

we're about to head into another xbox drought all the way until the holiday, it seems.
 
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still going on about that indie game? lol dude, give it a rest. the game's already been forgotten.

we're about to head into another xbox drought all the way until the holiday, it seems.

So forgotten that it made you subscribe to game pass to play it.

Waiting for your "Redfall was in development for PlayStation" meltdown thread, followed by the "Starfield was in development for PlayStation" meltdown and the hotly anticpated "Hellblade 2 was in development for PlayStation" meltdowns thereafter.

Make sure to have a healthy supply of wipes to help you my friend 🥳
 
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So forgotten that it made you subscribe to game pass to play it.

Waiting for your "Redfall was in development for PlayStation" meltdown thread, followed by the "Starfield was in development for PlayStation" meltdown and the hotly anticpated "Hellblade 2 was in development for PlayStation" meltdowns thereafter.

Make sure to have a healthy supply of wipes to help you my friend 🥳
yep, i played your prized indie on my mac and even refunded my $1 trial after a day or two, lol.

played high on life more than Hi-Fi actually.

i usually don't play western games, aside from destiny 2. so the bethesda games mean nothing to me.
 
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I thought you played it on your mobile devices ?

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oh shit the narrative is falling apart, son :ROFLMAO:


@DonFerrari look how our poor boy is falling apart.
well, you can play them on both, mobile or mac.


Every single xbox game on gamepass is available through a simple web browser.

you can always check my game history here: