Rumor: Microsoft has officially informed major stores in Saudi Arabia that it will stop selling Xbox devices in Saudi Arabia.

FatKaz

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This IS a rumor, but I would suggest you take this as an almost-fact. His sources in the region are strong.
 

Dick Jones

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Disgraceful. We all know it was the good work of @Bo_Hazem that brought about the Xbox withdrawal from the Middle East. Not one mention in the tweet.

Do we know if this means all the Middle East or just Saudi Arabia? If Saudi only, had they already given up on the other countries or is there still a presence there and not in Saudi Arabia.

If Saudi only, apologies to Bo for the above.
 

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Well if we see any reeling of hardware from regions in Europe then I think the rumors a while back were true. Internally they dont know if they want to make another piece of hardware, but would rather have third party manufacture's do it?

I have no faith in a gaming first designed system by Surface team being gamer centric and not something that adherer's to their cloud/subscription ambitions.

I think this next 2 quarter is make or break for how Xbox operates currently. I think a deemphasizing of gamepass has already started but its touch n'go right now.
 
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Disgraceful. We all know it was the good work of @Bo_Hazem that brought about the Xbox withdrawal from the Middle East. Not one mention in the tweet.

Do we know if this means all the Middle East or just Saudi Arabia? If Saudi only, had they already given up on the other countries or is there still a presence there and not in Saudi Arabia.

If Saudi only, apologies to Bo for the above.
I know of a different part in the middle east that isn't restocking xbox quite as much. The major brand in the area is completely out while some other smaller stores still hanging onto XB+Forza5 or XB+Motorsport bundles for months/year+, and most advertising is done for PS and Nintendo and some handhelds like Steamdeck/ROG
 
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It just takes one badly worded thread to result in getting dunked on but most normal people have forgotten it or understand that it's a forum... Not a news site.

We did put a delay between posting threads to twitter after that incident though.
This one too
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Papacheeks

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This one too
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Yea hopefully the new policing with well made threads with actual good sources, and not dumb reactionary threads continue to be the ones created. We had a lot of dumb threads that literally got auto posted to X and it just makes this place look bad.

And it sucks because there are a lot of good thread makers here.
 
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