MS did the same thing with Nokia and Stephen Elop back in 2010.
Ctrl+Alt+Deceive: All The Dirt, Info, Lies, and LOLs We Found During FTC vs. Microsoft
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Most people who create startups in the tech sector do it with the intent of making bank by selling the business at some point.
If they go work at MS they won't get anything, they're just employees but they will do it because they would folllow that guy anywhere and he works for MS. They will gladly sell themselves to MS to be near him.
Cult behaviour like with Phil Spencer.
Don't worry, those selling their companies are laughing all the way to the bank.
Lol yeah someone quoted a rando jp tweet quoting some other rando on the japanese equivalent of gamefaqs and tried to pass it off as an "analyst"
Looks like they've (Xbox fanboys) run with it and just spread it like crazy like it is a fact. It's even being discussed in the PSStudios thread on Reset.
Fuck those sites they're dumpster fires , I thought the very political thread posted on here yesterday was terrible aswell I don't care if a founder started it
Those Xbox zealots are going out sad RN, all because people didn't like Starfield as much as they wanted them to.
It's probably a good thing they made starfield & redfall exclusive cause they would've had way more refunds & anger at how shit they are
PS has been going out of business for about 15 years now. Any day now.
It's the same morons that kept saying the PS4 will be the last one because it will fail.
It's just a cult of deranged people, coping with loss after loss. It's a pathetic way to live. Imagine spending time trying to console war (I say trying because they can't really do anything against the Ls the keep taking) instead of actually enjoying games.
Honestly, a lot of them need professional help.
It's the same morons that kept saying the PS4 will be the last one because it will fail.
It's just a cult of deranged people, coping with loss after loss. It's a pathetic way to live. Imagine spending time trying to console war (I say trying because they can't really do anything against the Ls the keep taking) instead of actually enjoying games.
Honestly, a lot of them need professional help.
Oh, a bit longer than that. I'm old enough to remember when people insisted the PS3 was a death blow they could never recover from. Effectively killed the brand name. Even wrote bad parody songs about it.
Well, that channel died... This was kind of awkward.
Killzone 2 slapped, so that's a bit awkward too. lmao
A thought just hit me, in both console gaming and mobile phones, MS has been the failed third entrant in a two-horse race.
Windows Mobile 7 Series came out when the market was already split between Android and iOS, and there just wasn't oxygen for a third way with consumers already entrenched. In consoles, they tried to break in when Nintendo and Sony had the market split between them.
The only difference is Xbox took longer to fail because they were allowed to burn money for longer and had better timing and friendlier press reception than Windows Phone did. Also, changing the name of their iOS competitor every three months didn't help them grab market share much.
Windows Mobile 7 Series came out when the market was already split between Android and iOS, and there just wasn't oxygen for a third way with consumers already entrenched. In consoles, they tried to break in when Nintendo and Sony had the market split between them.
The only difference is Xbox took longer to fail because they were allowed to burn money for longer and had better timing and friendlier press reception than Windows Phone did. Also, changing the name of their iOS competitor every three months didn't help them grab market share much.
I think another reason it took longer is that the first two generations of consoles were run by people who had a clue about the gaming market. They introduced new IPs that people liked and helped pioneer online gaming in the console space. They had a healthy customer base and many loyal fans. It was the introduction of the Xbone that marked the beginning of the downward spiral. For me, that was when the corporate mindset of MS really started to show - Kinect, TV TV TV, always online, DRM, etc. Sure, they walked it back eventually but it was too little, too late for many people. On top of irreparably tarnishing their image, many once loyal people jumped ship to the PS4.
I have doubts they'd ever attain the same popularity of Nintendo and PS (especially given how little they've invested in cultivating audiences outside of their major markets), but they could've remained at least competitive with the other two. It just seems like that corporate mindset has become even more entrenched over time and is unappealing to the majority of gamers. As well, I think they've been allowed to burn money for longer because gaming is such a lucrative business.
In the first two gen (og Xbox and 360) they have shown progress, major progress and the 360 with Halo was an actual cultural phenomenon.
Then they released the bone, never managed to recover (changing your drm policy doesn't count as recovery). But they may have expected the series consoles to be more successful with Phil at the helm and bo drm scandal in their way. Unfortunately, Phil mismanaged so hard that the problems they have now may be much worse than a simple drm policy change.
Phil has been a disaster at managing Xbox. From releasing the Series S, creating a gaming sub service that cannibalizes game sales, allowing once prominent IPs (Halo especially) to fade into irrelevance, overseeing a predominately mediocre game portfolio, etc. - it's been nothing but bad decisions by Phil. He may have a cult-like following among some rabid fans, but I think the emails at the FTC trial showed he is the embodiment of the MS corporate mindset. And the results speak for themselves when looking at where Xbox is now compared to the 360.
Halo was a triumph of marketing over quality. They convinced gamers through their press shills that the game was somehow revolutionary in its AI, while actually not even measuring up to the original Medal of Honor.
360 was successful due to a full-court media push and paying out the ass for exclusives for the year before the PS3 launched.
Nothing Xbox was actually a success on its own merits.
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