Xbox denies plans of leaving Saudi Arabia (Xbox hardware is currently available.) - Source: Jez Cordon | Update: Tom Warren says Jez is wrong
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Now we heard all, Jez Cordon that writes for windows central, has a xbox podcast is a sony fanboy.
Not a journalist... the lower case I was beaten out of me in primary school. Jizz is a terrorist to the English language.
its not lies. its fact. He broke numerous news about xbox and its spot on.
All Jizz does is get fed info by his Microsoft handlers. It's so blatantly obvious that anyone defending him is trolling or dense.
Don't even know why any of this is even a thing. Wow!! They leave Saudi Arabia. Oh no. There goes 15 sales. I mean this is freaking ridiculous. Unless Microsoft is pulling out in all of Europe or especially North America, it doesn't matter. This isn't newsworthy and if I was Microsoft, anywhere Xbox is non-existent, I would pull out console wise. You would have access to the Cloud and that's it until the handheld and even then, only if handhelds do good in that particular region.
That is actually false too.
He wrote articles to defense control after leakers split the beans? Yes.
But he himself never leaked anything… he just spread what MS told him to do.
And even so he said so many things wrong that I’m not sure fen sure if 50% of thing he wrote about MS turned true.
It is not the first time too and neither the last.
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It'll be the middle east first, Asia and Latam next, then continental Europe, and then all of a sudden you'll have the UK and North America which isn't enough to support third party development and then there's no Xbox at all.
Dude come ON!!
All things he was wrong about were copied from other news "sources" that posted it before him on small news sites or was based on widely available rumors. Allthe things he was right about he probably got from the same source.
And half the time he just gives his opinion about rumours which were already out there.
He's not the Oracle you claim him to be.
And he picked tweets from others, blended them and presented it as news from a trusted "source".
And when he does get called out, he deletes tweets and blocks people. Yeah that just screams "legit" doesn't it.
Are you a woman who also reads tabloids and sees these as a factual source? Honestly....
Jez = FAKE
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For PlayStation, it's a big market with 4.5% of PlayStation players. That's around 3 to 4 million I believe. Microsoft is out of a significant market.
Also, I believe Saudi is a big PCMR market too.
Makes sense. It's the Xbox one roll out, in reverse.
Tier 3 countries first to get the chop.
In December, Jizz broke that Xbox First Party games were not going on Playstation. He was right for about 6 weeks.
I wouldn't call that breaking news about Xbox.
Thinking like that…
Well maybe he is always right
because when he say something there isn’t any proof he is wrong yet 
It is even better than the broken clock Grubb that keep posting the same “leak” every year until maybe it become true lol
Thinking like that…
Well maybe he is always right
It is even better than the broken clock Grubb that keep posting the same “leak” every year until maybe it become true lol
Third party support IS the strongest that it's ever been for Xbox including Xbox 360 because third party publishers are finally realizing that unlike the cheap days of the past, it makes no logical or financial sense to be exclusive to any single platform and even more so if you're an online live service game of some sort. Microsoft will be just fine as will Xbox which doesn't need 100m+ console owners to make a shit ton of revenue and profit.
People need to stop believing that consoles are the only thing that matters when in reality, they're literally niche when compared to the markets that you can get to in all these other ways. If consoles were truly all that was needed, Sony wouldn't be going to PC because they know like Microsoft has known for years that consoles simply aren't enough especially as development costs rise due to better tech and in some cases, expensive licensing fees.
Microsoft (and Sony) will have their next gen consoles at a high premium price in which neither one will even come close to 100m+ units sold because it won't need to due to having a handheld which gets their platform and eco-system into people's hands at a cheaper price point of entry. Cloud is going to keep growing. PC will grow. Mobile will grow. The only aspect that is NOT growing is consoles and this applies to all three hardware manufacturers.
Sony isn't growing at all. They're basically just retaining what they've had for the previous four generations. Microsoft is declining in consoles but for them it's not relevant for what they want to do which is to be in more people's hands regardless of how they accomplish that because at the end of the day, as great as consoles are, they're not the be all end all and when you're a hardware manufacturer that owns so many IP's, you want to build them up and grow them outward, not inward because they're far more valuable than any console from any hardware manufacturer will ever be due to the fact that they all have an expiration date.
Nintendo while people rave about Switch should realize that they've lost sales due to combining their console and handheld which for them is the smarter decision but it doesn't change the fact that when you look at Wii and 3DS, they're not at the same level user install base wise. Granted, a lot of people would buy both the console and the handheld but that percentage is still minimal.
Xbox isn't going anywhere. If anything, Microsoft releasing their first party games on Sony/Nintendo platforms is going to be what keeps them alive and dominant for years to come because when you look at a top ten for PlayStation and it eventually becomes mostly, Microsoft owned IP's on that list every month, it's going to make them bigger in what they care about the most which is revenue and profit.
I said this years ago - Microsoft doesn't give a shit about how they get consumers into their platform and eco-system as long as they get you so while their console user install base will hover around 50m mark give or take, it won't matter because when you're getting 10m from Sony, Nintendo, PC and elsewhere, it will be the same as selling 100m+ consoles but with one main difference, the potential to grow even more in those other aspects.
Pulling out of Saudi Arabia (or wherever) their install base is extremely low, they're not losing anything by doing so because first, they're not growing whatsoever, second, people who are in their install base probably aren't spending much money so no loss there and third, the costs of manufacturing and shipping out hardware to a region in which they're non-existent in if anything ends up losing them money which they're done doing.
Microsoft will be releasing more expensive hardware with their next consoles because they're not losing money anymore. They will be premium products for those who truly want a premium experience on console and if you don't, they'll have a cheaper handheld for those who want it and for those who end up not wanting either, they can go to PC and spend thousands in the process and Microsoft will still have them buy their software which is far more important to them than the hardware. This also applies to Sony as well because they're transitioning as well. People just want to stay blind to it all because it's not what THEY want Sony to do but just like Xbox fans have to accept, they're going to do what they want to do just like Microsoft and to a much lesser extent, Nintendo.
If Sony only has 4m or less, Microsoft probably doesn't even have 25% of that so for them, it makes sense to pull out. I would too. I simply wouldn't waste money, time and resources in regions to where I know im not favored, no one has interest or cares and regardless of what Microsoft does, that's not going to change.
