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"Major European retailer is struggling to sell anything with an Xbox logo on it"
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They could be selling other things in that space... seems like a bit of a waste not to try and see if they changed things, if they could increase sales / profits.
They were doing decent up until they brought in gamepass that's what botched them in the end. They had more player engagement but didn't get very many sales or if any from those people that did play it. You can't motivate devs to put in quality work if they're not getting funding for it.
Phil Spencer + Kinect + Gamepass. By far the main reasons why Xbox failed so miserably.
- Phil Spencer destroyed their internal studios and for over 15 years was unable to get them back in shape despite spending nearly $100B in an attempt to fix the problem.
- Kinect killed all the momentum that they had from the early success of the 360 and baited Phil Spencer into further destroying their internal studios.
- Gamepass, specially the day one commitment, only made any sense if MS was trying to destroy PlayStation by outspending them and crashing the premium games market.
TVTVTVT, always-on, bad hardware, those were all misses but not what actually destroyed them.
Money from MS, PR, control of gaming media/social media on the other hand are the main reasons why Xbox was able to hang around for this long.
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It's short he literally says "Major retailer" having issues selling Xbox stuff. That title doesn't say anyone is dropping support.
He is British and the only Major Game Retailer left in the UK is GAME.
Cex are preowned.
Could Curry's be it maybe?, i recall them promoting " Get a free Xbox's "on some of their televisions ranges they wanted to sell a year back.
I suspect Brazil was a relatively strong market for Xbox earlier this gen and still Xbox gave up on selling physical copies. It's just a matter of time until they completely give up on Europe as well.
The amount of people trying to sells Series consoles for really low values here is also crazy. That platform is 100% dead.
The amount of people trying to sells Series consoles for really low values here is also crazy. That platform is 100% dead.
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Yep could be.
Just realised he said Major retailer and not Major Game retailer.
So it could anyone of Currys, Argos, GAME etc.
I highly doubt it is outside UK since he is British.
Chris does generally make distinctions between UK and europe in his reports and general talk.
I'm thinking he probably means a mainland european retailer, like mediamarket, fnac etc.
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This is old, it probably doesn't matter.
This matters, but I don't think it's the major reason.
This is the major reason.
