Incoming announcement on Xbox titles future exclusivity and publishing

[DForce]

They have been losing for decades, though.

Yeah, and Xbox fanboys always change narratives based on how Xbox is doing.

2013-2015 - PlayStation has no games. It's about exclusives. The most powerful console didn't matter.
2015-2016 - Indies don't matter. It was about the triple A exclusives. Metacritic mattered.
2016-2019 - Backwards compatibility. Most powerful console. Game Pass, not having to pay full price for games anymore.
2020 -2022 - Microsoft acquires Zenimax and ABK. Exclusives now matter. Sales are irrelevant. It's about engagement and players.

After years of saying sales don't matter, they're likely going with the sales narrative now after losing nearly every narrative possible. These guys will always look for a "win" over Sony.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

Just want to let you all know it’s carnival in Brazil so me and @ethomaz might be drunk when Phil Spencer delivers the killing blow on xbots and we might misspell a few words on the forum

 

[Deto]

I can't drink, I'm taking anti-inflammatories and antibiotics... My cat bit me.
Não posso beber, estou tomando anti inflamatório e antibiotico... Meu gato me mordeu.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

I can't drink, I'm taking anti-inflammatories and antibiotics... My cat bit me.
Não posso beber, estou tomando anti inflamatório e antibiotico... Meu gato me mordeu.

In my younger years I figured that you only need much less alcohol to get drunk in that situation.

Do not take this comment as medical or general life choices advice.

 

[Petekilla]

Lol

 

[balrogboy]

Just want to let you all know it’s carnival in Brazil so me and @ethomaz might be drunk when Phil Spencer delivers the killing blow on xbots and we might misspell a few words on the forum

Count me in, although I'm from the south and just use the holydays to get some damn sleep.

 

[Johnic]

Lol

When xbox shills make stuff up, they're not content with making stuff up. They make it up and then blow it out of proportion for good measure.

So both consoles are of the same power? What;s the point in having both then? They work the same, why make 2 SKUs? Next up, the handheld is actually MORE powerful.

 

[balrogboy]

When xbox shills make stuff up, they're not content with making stuff up. They make it up and then blow it out of proportion for good measure.

So both consoles are of the same power? What;s the point in having both then? They work the same, why make 2 SKUs? Next up, the handheld is actually MORE powerful.

They're already xbots which means their brains aren't fully developed, think like a kid that see's a shoe under the bed and thinks its a monster, they see a desperately failing console and think its "about to get better than ever"

 

[Bryank75]

The IGN bit here is just hilarious. I think it's bout Destin

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

The IGN bit here is just hilarious. I think it's bout Destin

I thought he was too sympathetic with xbox, like nobody I have seen from the gaming media really address the problems with xbox and why they failed (let's be honest, everybody is an influencer these days).

If you were to listen to these people that seems like a totally random thing that happened out of nowhere for no particular reason, or at least nothing important.

You have people like Skill Up that put games like hi fi rush and pirate whatever on the same level as days gone... then seeming to wonder why Satfield did not push consoles (as if it should have).

 

[ethomaz]

I can't drink, I'm taking anti-inflammatories and antibiotics... My cat bit me.
Não posso beber, estou tomando anti inflamatório e antibiotico... Meu gato me mordeu.

Last time I was in that situation…
I stopped the medicines.
Asked a friend that works in a drugstore to injection something to be good for a day… so every day morning I wake up a trash but after the injection I was ready to everything again.

After the party ended I deal with all the backslash in my health

But these were old days where I was partying day and night just sleep few hours at morning.
Drinking twice everything I could drink

Today I’m more like drinking while watching my kids at “matinês”.
And I feel very happy with that… I enjoy and remember way more than before.

I don’t thing I remember 90% of the girls I meet or have some type of “interaction” at carnivals

I won’t try but I don’t believe my body can sustain the rhythm of these old days anymore.

 

[ethomaz]

Lol

So it is all Series S lol

 

[Aidendelaney95]

Oh, so the brand is dead?

 

[AshHunter216]

Oh, so the brand is dead?

Would be semi-funny if they just changed the name from Xbox to something else but otherwise didn't change anything.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Lol

These people are so dumb. If true, then it’s a hybrid ya idiots, why would they make two different consoles with the same level of performance?

 

[Aidendelaney95]

All these discussions this past week about MS going third-party and something's only just now dawned on me: true or not, we have no indication of the ports even being good. PlayStation has standards, and we all know they did with Cyberpunk 2077 when that first launched. Not going to be a good look for MS if the first game they port over is as rough as a badger's arse.

 

[Say1nMan]

I was listening to Mooch's latest Crossfire podcast and one of the panelists suggested one outcome where the business event could be MS announcing Bethesda and ABK reverting back to full 3rd party publishing (sprinkle with timed exclusivity here & there) but that Xbox in house studios (Gears, Halo, and Forza, etc.) will forever be locked exclusive to Xbox. Furthermore, he poised the question would that outcome be satisfactory to Xbox fans? I think if this is the outcome of the business update I don't think the Kidsmoove, Gaz, and Timdog of the world will accept that. The acquisition of Zenimax and ABK were the biggest things to happened to Xbox this gen and bots put their chests out for it as major "ammo" against PlayStation. Bethesda and ABK going back to full multiplat publishing will be a slap to the face of the Xbox fanbase.

 

[Johnic]

I was listening to Mooch's latest Crossfire podcast and one of the panelists suggested one outcome where the business event could be MS announcing Bethesda and ABK reverting back to full 3rd party publishing (sprinkle with timed exclusivity here & there) but that Xbox in house studios (Gears, Halo, and Forza, etc.) will forever be locked exclusive to Xbox. Furthermore, he poised the question would that outcome be satisfactory to Xbox fans? I think if this is the outcome of the business update I don't think the Kidsmoove, Gaz, and Timdog of the world will accept that. The acquisition of Zenimax and ABK were the biggest things to happened to Xbox this gen and bots put their chests out for it as major "ammo" against PlayStation. Bethesda and ABK going back to full multiplat publishing will be a slap to the face of the Xbox fanbase.

That's an interesting idea but the xbox fanbase can't support their AAA in-house project by themselves. They'd be in the same problem. ABK and Bethesda games coming to PS won;t cover the costs of developing in-house games and them not selling.

 

[JamieRose95]

Going multi platform or not i don't give a shit anymore. Stop messing with your fan base fucking hell fire

 

[AshHunter216]

Where are people getting the idea that it's on Monday from? Phil's tweet just said next week and didn't mention a specific day.