Xbox Business update next week
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All your lol emojis and snide remarks anytime Kiryu would badmouth MS and now it's your turn to turn on them.
You must be glad he's not here anymore to rub it in your face
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Joey Ravn
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The fact that Phil (note: I call him Phil because he's my friend) said nothing and told everyone to wait, at least, a week is absolutely bonkers. How much more PR damage can the brand sustain? A week with what's going on is basically an eternity.
I know the almighty "bottom line" won't be hurt and Microsoft will still make trillions with a T... but Xbox as a brand? It's already in life support, draining blood from daddy Microsoft just to stay alive in its deep coma. But with this message, Mr. Spencer is jumping on the hospital bed and taking a shit on the near corpse of the brand. And then he gets down and whispers on its ear: "We hear you!".
If there was absolutely no credibility to anything that's being said, the immediate and first answer would have been to outright deny everything. If there was even a single nugget of truth, then the response should have been instantaneous to halt any rumormongering... But, alas, not only has Xbox let the public message get completely out of control, they are giving free reign to their sycophantic mouthpieces to either go scorched earth with the brand or make a herculean effort to spin everything in a positive light, even when the message is continuously changing. What they said 12 hours ago directly contradicts what they are saying now. But who cares, because they are protecting the identity-brand, and that's all that matters to some.
Xbox had more than 20 years to establish itself as a pillar of the gaming community and industry. They had infinite money to do so. They were never the scrappy underdog that needed to buy the biggest Western publisher in order to have a fighting chance against big bad Sony, no matter how much certain people in certain places tried to paint it like that. And for all this, this is the fruits of their labor. I can't believe how mismanaged a brand like this could get, but here we are.
Good riddance, I guess.
I know the almighty "bottom line" won't be hurt and Microsoft will still make trillions with a T... but Xbox as a brand? It's already in life support, draining blood from daddy Microsoft just to stay alive in its deep coma. But with this message, Mr. Spencer is jumping on the hospital bed and taking a shit on the near corpse of the brand. And then he gets down and whispers on its ear: "We hear you!".
If there was absolutely no credibility to anything that's being said, the immediate and first answer would have been to outright deny everything. If there was even a single nugget of truth, then the response should have been instantaneous to halt any rumormongering... But, alas, not only has Xbox let the public message get completely out of control, they are giving free reign to their sycophantic mouthpieces to either go scorched earth with the brand or make a herculean effort to spin everything in a positive light, even when the message is continuously changing. What they said 12 hours ago directly contradicts what they are saying now. But who cares, because they are protecting the identity-brand, and that's all that matters to some.
Xbox had more than 20 years to establish itself as a pillar of the gaming community and industry. They had infinite money to do so. They were never the scrappy underdog that needed to buy the biggest Western publisher in order to have a fighting chance against big bad Sony, no matter how much certain people in certain places tried to paint it like that. And for all this, this is the fruits of their labor. I can't believe how mismanaged a brand like this could get, but here we are.
Good riddance, I guess.
Jez and Tom seem to be backpedaling.
I think even their sources don't know what's going on at MS because MS doesn't know yet their plans 100 percent. The event is next week, and not today for a reason.
However, IMO the damage is done. While MS games will live on, the damage to the Xbox brand is beyond reversible.
I think even their sources don't know what's going on at MS because MS doesn't know yet their plans 100 percent. The event is next week, and not today for a reason.
However, IMO the damage is done. While MS games will live on, the damage to the Xbox brand is beyond reversible.
All your lol emojis and snide remarks anytime Kiryu would badmouth MS and now it's your turn to turn on them.
You must be glad he's not here anymore to rub it in your face
Totally.
No he was a prick to anyone and everyone.
SOT and MS Flight was leaked coming to PS5. Keeping the XGS games locked to a dead ecosystem makes no sense.
they are conditioning them for a week more to lessen the outrage. like it isn't one already
they are like : calm down, calm down, no need to overreact
we give you a week to calm down.
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Joey Ravn
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they are conditioning them for a week more to lessen the outrage. like it isn't one already
they are like : calm down, calm down, no need to overreact
That might work with level-headed people, but the biggest Xbox mouthpieces on Twitter are on full meltdown mode. Nothing can be said to them to calm them now that the floodgates have been opened
Replace Luke w/ Jim Ryan and when he looks off at the force ghosts at the end of RotJ it’s the execs of PlayStation’s past.
Yeah, they conditioned their gamers to get games for next to nothing and now they want to make money.
They're gonna have to go to the gamers that pay.
I guess Xbox gamers may have to also relearn to buy games at some point.
My son seems to be interested in SOT actually.
If they changed their minds, their business strategy is even more braindead than I expected. You don't make these kinds of business strategy changes based on what your customer base thinks, but on what your customer base is and does. Their customer base a) doesn't buy games and b) is dwindling, so I doubt any plans have changed.