With Microsoft distracted, the Xbox console experience is suffering
As Microsoft expands horizontally, is the Xbox console experience being forgotten?
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[WindowsCentral] With Microsoft distracted, the Xbox console experience is suffering
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What's with all these Xbox people suddenly being willing to say negative things about them? Is it just a "woe is me" narrative meant to make the ABK deal seem even more necessary to any remaining critics of the deal?
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Ahh, the "there are no consoles to buy" PR speak. Sure, Jan.
Also, this entire paragraph is damage control.
Also, this entire paragraph is damage control.
That narrative never made sense to me. How are Sony able to sort out their supply issues but MS with all their resources can't?
Phil didn't get approval early this month to pay their "Salary"
M$, is these guys think that people morons? Wtf wrong with them?
Distracted, trillion dollard company was pictured as garage crew with wifes as secretories?
Distracted, trillion dollard company was pictured as garage crew with wifes as secretories?
It makes no sense because it isn't true. Furthermore, the PS5 has been outselling the Series even during the huge PS5 shortages.
Now that the supply issues are resolved and the PS5 is skyrocketing, it must mean it's because there are no Xbox consoles to buy.
Sure. And there's not a single piece of evidence supporting this, like there was with the PS5.
Now that the supply issues are resolved and the PS5 is skyrocketing, it must mean it's because there are no Xbox consoles to buy.
Sure. And there's not a single piece of evidence supporting this, like there was with the PS5.
Man took almost 3 years to they release that lol
Part of the issue is that blind afanasse that take years to realized something bad that happened years ago.
The UI was terrible since launch (well since Xbox One launch to be fair).
The games never come… they release one or other game after bugs hiatus that took even years.
The GDK is a mess.
Series S is a disaster.
Series X is not that good designed at all.
Things that we are talking since day 1.
Welcome Jez to the reality.
Part of the issue is that blind afanasse that take years to realized something bad that happened years ago.
The UI was terrible since launch (well since Xbox One launch to be fair).
The games never come… they release one or other game after bugs hiatus that took even years.
The GDK is a mess.
Series S is a disaster.
Series X is not that good designed at all.
Things that we are talking since day 1.
Welcome Jez to the reality.
Love the part where he seems resentful that Playstation and Nintendo don't get as much hate as he thinks they need to compared to Xbox.
Reality is setting in that things are going to be just as bad if not worse than last gen. Xbox will be dead by the time the ABK acquisition has any effect.
Even their most hardcore fanboys can see it now. Here comes another disappointing gen where Xbox is just a bad product.
Even the shill Jizzed Condom is having a meltdown. Redfail hot garbage is coming soon for more tears from the Xbots.
BTW “distraction” looks more like incompetence.
They still keep boasting that Publisher of the Year "award" if that meant anything. I'm glad that these people finally get a bitter taste of reality. I'm so sick of gaming conversations online, especially on twitter. I'm glad I found this forum.
They commemorate non-significant awards because they only have that
Games matter… in quality and well quality.
You can list with your fingers how many games MS released last decade? It is too low… they don’t do the bare minimum.
People can say everything about Sony and Nintendo but they plan releases for the whole year.
Since 360 (the best Xbox gen) MS has that mentality of only release games in holiday… and after that they started to decrease the number of releases to the point that you have years without any release at all.
How do you manage a game business like that?
NPD, UK and Europe numbers broke them. After years of shilling, being toxic and calling Sony a dead man walking, reality just hit them.
Customers don't want Xbox, no matter how hard they try to force them with acquisitions. All the IPs and studios will die on Xbox.
They already closed this topic on ResetERA . Guess it's just one Xbox Down Bad thread too many for them.
Although I think Jez is a shill and rampantly obsessed over Final Fantasy games not coming to Xbox, to the point he stupidly thinks he needs to crusade for more Japanese games on the platform where those Japanese games never sell...I can agree with him on one thing. Microsoft/Xbox DO lack focus right now...in fact they've lacked focus for a long time. Nintendo is primarily focused on one platform: the Switch. Yeah they're doing their multimedia thing now too but in regards to gaming, they are primarily focused on the Switch and getting games out for it.
Sony are primarily focused on the PS5. Yes, they've been bringing some games to PC (a strategy I think they need to at least partially change) and want to push more into mobile, but their push for mobile isn't very different from Nintendo's, and it's very clear they are prioritizing the PS5 experience and pushing it hard. Microsoft are just all over the damn place. They want to push Xbox on one hand, but can't decide if they want the power narrative or the pricing/value narrative so they go for both and succeed in neither. They want to push Game Pass, which minimizes the need to buy their games. They want to push Game Pass on platforms other than Xbox, which reduces the need to buy an Xbox...but they're taking up to $200 losses on Xboxes because they're trying to sell them. They want to push xCloud for mobile so you can just stream your games to a smartphone or tablet.
The problem isn't so much that Microsoft have all these avenues they want to focus on, it's that they clearly are not prioritizing the one that SHOULD be their main focus, Xbox, and some of these avenues are counter-intuitive to each other (such as wanting to push game sales, but also pushing Game Pass which has those same games Day 1 in the service). They can't establish what their core identity in gaming is. I don't think them gunning after ABK is the distraction factor people like Jez want to think; if anything their inability to prioritize Xbox while taking care of the ABK deal is a signal of upmost failure of upper management, those two things should not be difficult to balance out. Sony can balance out acquisitions while also getting their supply out there and games out, why can't a company 20x their size manage the same?
It's been 20+ years and Microsoft still can't lock down what their core identity is supposed to be in gaming. The closest they got was with the 360 (before Kinect), and that was primarily helped by the fact Halo and Gears were still in their prime, and they became a magnet for FPS games. They were dabbling in PC back then but clearly Xbox was the prime focus, and the brand had a clear identity that spoke to a lot of the market especially in the US and UK. It feels like they have been trying to run away from that ever since, and many other things fell to the wayside with it.
It's "more profitable" with "more revenue" because they acquired Zenimax and rolled in ALL of their revenue and profits to the Xbox division! I love how he acts like this isn't the main contributing factor; Microsoft are looking for a similar "boost" by doing the same with ABK.
The message is clear: Microsoft need acquisitions in order to grow the Xbox division's revenue. Well, acquisitions and gimmicks like refrigerators and controller diapers.
You haven't heard anything about Game Pass in over a year because it's stagnating and not seeing the growth they want it to see. It's that simple. The service is barely pulling in over $2 billion annually off 25 million subscribers, and if that Linkdin profile was true, they only have 10 million subs on the console side, which is pathetic. 10 million on Xbox and you're "stagnating" on console? Says a lot about the service's perceived value.
. Guess it's just one Xbox Down Bad thread too many for them.Although I think Jez is a shill and rampantly obsessed over Final Fantasy games not coming to Xbox, to the point he stupidly thinks he needs to crusade for more Japanese games on the platform where those Japanese games never sell...I can agree with him on one thing. Microsoft/Xbox DO lack focus right now...in fact they've lacked focus for a long time. Nintendo is primarily focused on one platform: the Switch. Yeah they're doing their multimedia thing now too but in regards to gaming, they are primarily focused on the Switch and getting games out for it.
Sony are primarily focused on the PS5. Yes, they've been bringing some games to PC (a strategy I think they need to at least partially change) and want to push more into mobile, but their push for mobile isn't very different from Nintendo's, and it's very clear they are prioritizing the PS5 experience and pushing it hard. Microsoft are just all over the damn place. They want to push Xbox on one hand, but can't decide if they want the power narrative or the pricing/value narrative so they go for both and succeed in neither. They want to push Game Pass, which minimizes the need to buy their games. They want to push Game Pass on platforms other than Xbox, which reduces the need to buy an Xbox...but they're taking up to $200 losses on Xboxes because they're trying to sell them. They want to push xCloud for mobile so you can just stream your games to a smartphone or tablet.
The problem isn't so much that Microsoft have all these avenues they want to focus on, it's that they clearly are not prioritizing the one that SHOULD be their main focus, Xbox, and some of these avenues are counter-intuitive to each other (such as wanting to push game sales, but also pushing Game Pass which has those same games Day 1 in the service). They can't establish what their core identity in gaming is. I don't think them gunning after ABK is the distraction factor people like Jez want to think; if anything their inability to prioritize Xbox while taking care of the ABK deal is a signal of upmost failure of upper management, those two things should not be difficult to balance out. Sony can balance out acquisitions while also getting their supply out there and games out, why can't a company 20x their size manage the same?
It's been 20+ years and Microsoft still can't lock down what their core identity is supposed to be in gaming. The closest they got was with the 360 (before Kinect), and that was primarily helped by the fact Halo and Gears were still in their prime, and they became a magnet for FPS games. They were dabbling in PC back then but clearly Xbox was the prime focus, and the brand had a clear identity that spoke to a lot of the market especially in the US and UK. It feels like they have been trying to run away from that ever since, and many other things fell to the wayside with it.
It's "more profitable" with "more revenue" because they acquired Zenimax and rolled in ALL of their revenue and profits to the Xbox division! I love how he acts like this isn't the main contributing factor; Microsoft are looking for a similar "boost" by doing the same with ABK.
The message is clear: Microsoft need acquisitions in order to grow the Xbox division's revenue. Well, acquisitions and gimmicks like refrigerators and controller diapers.
You haven't heard anything about Game Pass in over a year because it's stagnating and not seeing the growth they want it to see. It's that simple. The service is barely pulling in over $2 billion annually off 25 million subscribers, and if that Linkdin profile was true, they only have 10 million subs on the console side, which is pathetic. 10 million on Xbox and you're "stagnating" on console? Says a lot about the service's perceived value.
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The same dudes couldn't identify any other previous winner, that's how important that is