[The Verge] Microsoft may stop marketing of Xbox consoles in EMEA and focus only on Game Pass, Cloud, PC and Xbox Controllers
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Phil Spencer's Xbox strategy reminds me of a certain Katy Perry song
you change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes
you change your mindLike a girl changes clothes
They're done in EU, now they're left with the US and Mexico; two markets where they're also being outperformed by both PlayStation and Nintendo.
Phil Spencer killed Xbox. It's time to admit that.
Phil Spencer killed Xbox. It's time to admit that.
These big tech companies wants a digital future cyberpunk world aka a cashless society
And even Nintendo will follow the same path sadly
Of course they weren't. They just announced it at press conference and that's it. No bullshiting, spinning, lying like Xbox is doing these days
Yeah, it was so swift without a neverending stream of BS from Sega execs, unlike Xbox. At least that’s what I remember.
Obligatory: Did Xbox fans blame PlayStation or say they’re going to follow Xbox in this?
Everything bad that happens on Xbox is someone else's fault, not theirs. The blame falls on PlayStation, exclusives, the media, the climate, inflation, war, man on the moon and everything else.
Everyone is guilty except Phill Spencer and the board at Xbox.
After 14 quarters
PS4 : 60.10M
PS5 : 59.20M
PS2 : 53.85M
PS3 : 35.80M
PS1 : 32.82M
360 : 30.20M
XB1 : 29.20M
X|S : 26.30M (Only 25.10M according to Oscar Lemaire)
XBX : 21.00M
(difference on the same time)
PS4 : 60.10M
PS5 : 59.20M
PS2 : 53.85M
PS3 : 35.80M
PS1 : 32.82M
360 : 30.20M
XB1 : 29.20M
X|S : 26.30M (Only 25.10M according to Oscar Lemaire)
XBX : 21.00M
(difference on the same time)
- PS5 / X|S : 32.90M
- PS4 / XB1 : 30.90M
- PS3 / 360 : 5.60M
- PS2 / XBX : 32.85M
Damn Xbox making a quick exit from being a platform-holder.
Nadellamis well and truly sick of the company throwing away billions on a market that's constantly rejecting its poor efforts.
Nadellamis well and truly sick of the company throwing away billions on a market that's constantly rejecting its poor efforts.
i hope now people understand why i'm against Sony going PC and Cloud, these are the results
Or it's the fact that xbox hasn't had truly defining software since the 360 era or that they conditioned their userbase to not buy their software. But sure, let's go with PC and now cloud as well. What next, microtransactions?
Btw, Sony has been doing cloud before xbox. How come they're not dead yet?
Microsoft is in this situation not because of the PC but because of gamepass, putting day one games on it and telling people you don't need a console leads to this disaster.
Even the Xbox One with the bad policy of 2013 didn't have such catastrophic sales, and yet their games were released on PC too.
Seems that they continue to slowly moving away their gaming focus from their console hardware, moving to have a more multiplatform approach with Windows as their home platform.
Sony released PS cloud gaming in 2014, before MS. And has been making computer games all the generations since 1984. So isn't anything new.
They started their recent PC push in 2019, little before the PS5 release, and more recently improved their cloud gaming/gamesub in different stages.
This period/generation (and particularly now) SIE's revenue, profit and console active userbase are higher than ever before. They're making more money than ever in total, from console, PC and gamesubs.
Their related KPIs increased during this period, so if it had any effect on them is positive, not negative.
Interesting, I thought that the distance between PS5 and X|S was bigger. According to your numbers, the ratio is:
PS5/X|S is 2.25:1 (2.36:1 according to Oscar Lemaire)
PS4/XBO is 2.06:1
PS3/360 is 1.19:1
PS2/XBX is 2.56:1
I have no idea about who Oscar Lemaire is, and same goes with the source of these MS numbers, sound like just personal guesstimates.
I bet the distance this generation is going to end being bigger than in the PS2 gen. And maybe already is if the real number of X|S for this quarter is 23M or lower (I have no idea about real X|S sales and I don't have any info to make a decent estimate).
Because while doing that Sony is destroying Xbox?
Sony released PS cloud gaming in 2014, before MS. And has been making computer games all the generations since 1984. So isn't anything new.
They started their recent PC push in 2019, little before the PS5 release, and more recently improved their cloud gaming/gamesub in different stages.
This period/generation (and particularly now) SIE's revenue, profit and console active userbase are higher than ever before. They're making more money than ever in total, from console, PC and gamesubs.
Their related KPIs increased during this period, so if it had any effect on them is positive, not negative.
Interesting, I thought that the distance between PS5 and X|S was bigger. According to your numbers, the ratio is:
PS5/X|S is 2.25:1 (2.36:1 according to Oscar Lemaire)
PS4/XBO is 2.06:1
PS3/360 is 1.19:1
PS2/XBX is 2.56:1
I have no idea about who Oscar Lemaire is, and same goes with the source of these MS numbers, sound like just personal guesstimates.
I bet the distance this generation is going to end being bigger than in the PS2 gen. And maybe already is if the real number of X|S for this quarter is 23M or lower (I have no idea about real X|S sales and I don't have any info to make a decent estimate).
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