Why does the incredibly simple task of "make game, sell game" elude them?
>>719369379They fucking tried that you fucking fucker. Don't you remember? The Xbone launched with RYSE Son of Rome, CRIMSON DRAGON, Killer Instinct, Dead Rising 3, and fucking yet they still couldn't win...They lost the most important generation where players were building their digital libraries. They tried FUCKING making games. It FUCKING doesn't FUCKING work.And before you ask, Internal review said they were good. So that's that.
>>719369379They made games, the problem with them - they are meh, because after the first glimpse of success suits came to "make it even better"
According to Phil Spencer it's not so simple as making great games.
tech companies, especially software ones, err on the side of taking over sectors and "providing services" rather than building parasocial fanbases through quality products. apple was an outlier in this, for a time.
>>719369379In the modern era, western companies have to spend 2-4 years trying to please several other groups of people the average consumer absolutely despises, all of which who have money for funding, before they can start working on how they can please the consumers themselves. The end result is always a game that pleases no one.
>>719369379Because the investment and return are insignificant compared to any other microsoft product. Every unit of the origional xbox was sold at a huge loss.The Xbox brand was created to achieve a monopoly in the video game industry, not just a 30% to 60% market share.Too bad the damaged they have done to the gaming industry, as a whole, is permanent.
>>719369379Sheer incompetenceThey're scrambling to have anything but discards everything that takes too long to show results
>>719369379What is the newest Xbox exclusive that actually mattered? I can't think of anything after the 360 that anyone cared about.
>>719369379They only got into the business to disrupt Sony, games and all that other crap was just something that came along with them getting in the way. Xbox as a product is designed to be in the way and ruin the business for others, not produce games.
>>719369379They made plenty of games. They were just:1. Mid in general terms.2. Also available on PC.>>719372737As in actual exclusive? Probably Rare Replay.
>>719370125They lost the moment their consoles became drm machines. They probably could have gotten away with it had they waited a few years but people were still pretty online only resistant in 2013
>>719369379The heads of the Xbox team have an absolutely awful eye for quality. None of them play video games, so like everything else at Microsoft, everything is a MBA numbers game. Because they suck at being able to tell if a game has potential to be good or bad, they pass on picking up third party exclusives and are simultaneously unable to develop good first party titles too.
>>719370125>RYSE Son of Rome, CRIMSON DRAGON, Killer Instinct, Dead Rising 3Yeah, OP should have said "make appealing and memorable games" instead of just "make game"Xbox was doomed the moment they told their Japanese division to eat shit in the 2000s. Otherwise they might have had a chance.
>>719375341Early 360 years 360 was the better jrpg machine than ps3 or wii
>>719369379>let studio do whatever they want>get trash>be hands on and tell the studio what they are supposed to do >get trashI almost feel bad for them, but I'm sure it's still their fault.
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>>719377743What was that fucking game about Indian cooking to express your feelings or whatever that shit had me dying imagine Philled /w Lies Spencer we he saw that shit.
>>719372697 This is literally the core issue. They can't commit to anything unless it generates hype in six months or less. If it's not trailer-fodder or some vague live-service pitch, it gets binned. Any long-term vision dies in committee meetings. It's like watching a headless chicken try to run a AAA studio.
>>719369379so you want them to moneyhatt just like sony?
