If Gamepass does not go big by 2027, Microsoft may pull out of gaming!
- Thread starter Jim Ryan
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Fire xbotz brand fully packaged with it's idiot boss phil please, because based from emails revelation, this dude clearly can't do his fuckin job
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This is their fault alone.
The console and PC videogame market always depended on a steady output of quality videogames. When studios started releasing trash, we got a videogame crash.
And I think Microsoft actually started quite well with the OG Xbox and X360. But a decade ago Microsoft looked at how much money the GaaS smartphone videogame market could do and how controllable it was (i.e. more reliant on addiction dynamics than videogame quality), and thought they could turn the Console + PC market into the GaaS smartphone market, by continually throwing money at it.
Now they have billions upon billions of losses on studio acquisitions and 3rd party games on their service, but no matter how many times they pay for articles praising Gamepass, they can't go over a number that consists basically of their installed console base plus a bunch of PC gamers.
They could have changed their internal dev studios' policies with lower reliance on public funding and subcontracting, better and closer studio oversight and organic studio growth, to just get a steady output of quality videogames. But I guess that's too much to ask of Phil Spencer and Microsoft's C-levels who think they can just buy more studios and "leave them alone", assuming there will never be any culture clash between people, policies and work methods.
The console and PC videogame market always depended on a steady output of quality videogames. When studios started releasing trash, we got a videogame crash.
And I think Microsoft actually started quite well with the OG Xbox and X360. But a decade ago Microsoft looked at how much money the GaaS smartphone videogame market could do and how controllable it was (i.e. more reliant on addiction dynamics than videogame quality), and thought they could turn the Console + PC market into the GaaS smartphone market, by continually throwing money at it.
Now they have billions upon billions of losses on studio acquisitions and 3rd party games on their service, but no matter how many times they pay for articles praising Gamepass, they can't go over a number that consists basically of their installed console base plus a bunch of PC gamers.
They could have changed their internal dev studios' policies with lower reliance on public funding and subcontracting, better and closer studio oversight and organic studio growth, to just get a steady output of quality videogames. But I guess that's too much to ask of Phil Spencer and Microsoft's C-levels who think they can just buy more studios and "leave them alone", assuming there will never be any culture clash between people, policies and work methods.
Bold of you to assume they have a hands-off approach. That's what Phil likes to say, but a hands-off approach would have not meddled with the development of Redfall, for example.
Lack of effective leadership =/= hands-off approach. Phil just can't take any responsibility.
Now we know the date, let's go to work!
More information in @Gamernyc78 post below with infographics and article text.
If Gamepass does not go big by 2027, Microsoft may pull out of gaming!
Now we know the date, let's go to work! More information in @Gamernyc78 post below with infographics and article text. https://icon-era.com/threads/if-gamepass-does-not-go-big-by-2027-microsoft-may-pull-out-of-gaming.5915/post-154955icon-era.com
Now that would be the best thing literally to ever happen
Just to illustrate how far behind they are, they were expecting to hit double the amount of users they have now, until the end of this calendar year. So they'd need to double their GP users in a little over 3 months.
Poor ol' Phil, he will be spending the next 12 months playing boardroom politics just to save his ass.
These reports and emails from Phil sound like my college year surveys and "data-backed" essays. I was bullshitting out of my ass, and the professor ate it up.
The board has to wake up to this disaster class. Sell some IPs before its too late
These reports and emails from Phil sound like my college year surveys and "data-backed" essays. I was bullshitting out of my ass, and the professor ate it up.
The board has to wake up to this disaster class. Sell some IPs before its too late
With all this coming out, I could conceive of MS pulling out of the Activison deal just to calm the board down. Dumping another $80 billion down the shitter is not going to be popular with the information in the leak.
If MS pull out of Activision, I'd say they will close Xbox division within 4 years too.
They can always close the hardware side of things and focus on game dev, specifically mobile gaming.
