It’s a cult. I thought the Xbox influencers were in to grift weak-minded people but they’re actually the worst of the bunch.
Incoming announcement on Xbox titles future exclusivity and publishing
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It’s a cult. I thought the Xbox influencers were in to grift weak-minded people but they’re actually the worst of the bunch.
It's like they have an abusive relationship with that platform and everything is always everyone else's fault.
That's why I'm saying once the news comes out, Nuke all of these drifters out of orbit, don't give them attention, and don't allow them to reinvent themselves and continue to profit off misinformation.
Since the moment they decided to start publishing all their games in PC and day one plus also in a game sub it was set in stone that they were moving away their focus from their console hardware. Also, when bought Minecraft and continued publishing everything everywhere including rival consoles. One of their main points with the ABK acquisition is to grow in mobile via CoD+King.
It would be really retarded to spend $100B on acquisitions and remove from all these acquired companies the revenues and profit they made in rival consoles, which was the majority.
They slowly are doing steps to do a Sega and go full 3rd party (they always will keep Windows as their platform). The fanboys weren't enough to keep their gaming business profitable during over two decades, so MS wants to highly grow their audience, revenue and profitability going beyond their own console trying to put their games everywhere after accepting they couldn't compete in consoles.
So they won't care about a few fanboys in Twitter, because they think they'll find way more fans in the other platforms. They care about revenue and profit, not about tweets.
Same will happen when they accept Gamepass has been a failure and even after spending $100B on acquisitions, losing most of their game sales and expanding it to all the platforms they can isn't enough: as of now they seem to continue stuck in 25M subs and their direct competition has twice that being only in console, not putting there all their games and not putting them day one plus having only spent a few billions in acquisitions.
First they'll stop adding 3rd party games day one on GP, later they'll stop adding some of their games day one and will start removing some 1st party games from there. Later, some games never will be put there. And then they'll stopp adding games there day one. So will slowly make it more like PS+. They'll slowly transition again to focus on selling games and digital addons, which is the main business in gaming and not game subs.
This will piss off many fans, but will be the best option for MS because once transitioned, in the long term they may start being a profitable division and start recouping the loses they had in these over 20 year plus the 100B in acquisitions, which may never recoup.
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but it was expected, only the bots was blind about it.
They’ve spent 80 billion in acquisition, how do they expect to see a ROO from it? “But MS already made that money back”:
Yes, MS did, Xbox did not.
And they’ll never get the ROI by making games exclusives.
Ohhh I want so bad to have access to the business case excel they have for this lmao
Colt is doing one final milking of the teats before the MS fanboy udders go dry permanently
But "lying Jim Ryan", "70 dollars games", "price hikes", "Jim isn't a gamer".
Oh well.
Oh well.
What are the lies Jim told?
For the rest... I mean, whatever, Jim is a business man, he's a suit and he does not play the role of a gamer.
The simple fact that they announced an announcement tells you everything.
If the answer was a simple no, you would have heard it by now.
They're preparing their PR bs to hurt as less as possible.
If the answer was a simple no, you would have heard it by now.
They're preparing their PR bs to hurt as less as possible.
Wanted to share a post from gaf that I really agree with:
I think it's clear what has happened, and it's why in hindsight the Activision acquisition will probably rank as one of the all-time greatest industry blunders. I think what happened was Microsoft envisioned securing Call of Duty exclusively on Xbox as a sort of knockout punch over Sony, but the regulators stripped it away. Microsoft refused to give up primarily due to the reputational damage in having to abandon such a big deal that it so publicly sought. Then, once they acquired Activision without exclusive rights over Call of Duty, they found themselves straddled with a monstrous asset that they paid a market premium for, and an asset that was only valuable to begin with because it sold millions of games on non-Xbox hardware. So, swallowing Activision without free reign over Call of Duty was a total poison pill. Nadella and the board of directors then demanded a complete change when they realized that Activision was not only unprofitable on Xbox hardware alone, but also worth a fraction of the $69 billion they paid for it.
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This is all pretty remarkable. Strategic plans A, B, C, and D over 20+ years have all went bust. Whatever they announce, it will be an attempt to salvage the current situation. If the goal all along was just to become a profitable multiplatform mega-publisher, then they took the long route and wasted many billions to do it, so this is not where they set out to be.I think it's clear what has happened, and it's why in hindsight the Activision acquisition will probably rank as one of the all-time greatest industry blunders. I think what happened was Microsoft envisioned securing Call of Duty exclusively on Xbox as a sort of knockout punch over Sony, but the regulators stripped it away. Microsoft refused to give up primarily due to the reputational damage in having to abandon such a big deal that it so publicly sought. Then, once they acquired Activision without exclusive rights over Call of Duty, they found themselves straddled with a monstrous asset that they paid a market premium for, and an asset that was only valuable to begin with because it sold millions of games on non-Xbox hardware. So, swallowing Activision without free reign over Call of Duty was a total poison pill. Nadella and the board of directors then demanded a complete change when they realized that Activision was not only unprofitable on Xbox hardware alone, but also worth a fraction of the $69 billion they paid for it.
New Copium incoming.
Personally, i think the text was from PlayStation Headquarters saying, Dont worry, we won't be taking all your exclusives; we believe in quality control here at PlayStation
Colteastwood lying in order to continue gathering superchats.
Sorry for the neogaf post but I think some of this stuff is too good/important not to share:
It’s post 930
Post in thread 'Phil Spencer: announcement next week'
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/phil-spencer-announcement-next-week.1666826/post-268882095
It’s post 930
Post in thread 'Phil Spencer: announcement next week'
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/phil-spencer-announcement-next-week.1666826/post-268882095
