>you go back in time to april 2013 and become the new head of Xbox>use your modern knowledge to save the brand from certain doomWhat do you do?
>>722320439The only way to save a dedicated gaming platform is to hold exclusive games hostage. But that would hurt me as a consumer, so I wouldn't wanna save it in the first place. Brand loyalty is retarded.
>>722320439weren't they ahead of the curve though?just about everything is now online and everything is a streaming service box. voice commands before alexa. motion control before vr used similar tech. digital platform before digital only consoles. seems they simply werent delusional about where things were going while sony doubled down on what? used games? and not being a netflix machine? they followed Microsoft's lead and became the same exact service but blue.
>>722320439make online free, let sony announce their drm first. Seems simple enough. Exclusives would flock by themselves due to being the number #1 console
>>722320439The games industry doesn't end up better off if Xbox is saved.
make the console run on a linux distribution
>>722320439Hire more indians.
>>722321396making xbox live free would've saved them.>free to play online>sub tiers if you want the free games and stuff
>>722320439all this fag had to do was to not be a fag about the always online/can't borrow discs bullshit. like holy shit, what the fuck was he thinking with that crap? a shitload of people preordered a ps4 right then and there. I had fun with my xboner but fuck Don Mattrick and his entire stupid career. motherfucker couldn't stay for 2 years in fuckin Zynga.
Make xbox a PC that runs a lite version of windows, offer something like gamepass to make the console sell a lot and then capture both console marketshare and PC marketshare from stream as people have their library on both
>>722321852I think people subbed to gamepass regardless of online play. So gamepass could've counted as their constant subscription just on its own, no need to pay for online. But now it's seems like this would never happen
>>722320439>1. Remove the Kinect from the system to make it cheaper, it didn't work on 360.>2. Remove the always online DRM>3. Do what Nintendo did with the Switch, have the 1st year of online be free >4. Buy Activision-Blizzard before Snoy can get their Destiny/CoD exclusive nonsense>5. Delist all Activision games from PlayStation immediately>6. Pay all the most successful Xbox Live Arcade indie devs to make their games timed exclusives for Xbox One>7. Profit
Remember when Raresnoys said that Rare would make a comeback and "own Nintendo" during this period?
>>722322342You call everyone snoy at this point. Don't you get tired of your cultist behavior?
>>722322231I fully agree but would add some things>change the name, Xbox One is retarded>call it 720 like everyone wanted, make a little video with the original xbox, it spins around 360 degrees and it turns into the 360, it spins around again and it become the xbox 720>349 launch price to undercut Sony>go ahead with good ideas like game pass, xbox play anywhere and more pc integration>whent it's time for the mid gen upgrades call it xbox 720 ultra, don't just an X to the nameAlso by purchasing ABK in 2013 MS saves 50BNintendo would have been cheaper than Activision in 2023
>>722322387Seethe harder, Eric Rarefaggot.
>>722320439Fire anyone who thinks that rainbow flags and cringy black women lecturing white men about their victimhood while hiphop plays in the background is the future of gaming. Loudly play cringy hiphop in the lobby and out in front of the building while they leave with their boxes.Fire anyone who views gamers as cattle.Fire anyone who doesn't know anything about videogames or gamers. Some fat Karen who was an executive at Taco Bell or whatever has no place making multi-million dollar decisions at a videogame company.Hire a bunch of serious devs with functioning moral compasses.Put those devs to work developing projects that will act as a refuge for strong white male heroes, attractive women, and masculine morality and edge.Throw some money at South Korea and save them from their own worst instincts on monetization.Behold, the timeline where Xbox has unironically become the biggest babyface in western gaming.
>>722323314Also, I would just ditch the dead horse that is consoles and put the games on Steam.Microsoft would become the big dudebro publishing brand. If I were going to do anything related to hardware, it'd be something like the Steam Deck. I do think that a handheld that plays PC games will take off eventually because it actually offers something that a home PC doesn't.
>>722320439I help Kamiya make Scalebound for one.
>>722322065>free online play>make a singular powerful console so you dont confuse consumers or force studios into making weaker games >dont name it something retarded (i cannot stress this enough)>give it a standout design and a stylish UI>market it as a premium status symbol (people were buying ps5s with literally no games just because it was the thing to have)>have actual exclusives that you dont just throw on gamepass because film business already learned the lesson that no one goes to watch a movie if they can get it on streaming a few weeks later>train a do-nothing studio on the creation engine from bethesda to have another first person rpg out the door from a new IP at a rate faster than 1 per 10 years>dont stop supporting the nippon market/aesthetic because anime is now mainstream in the westwhere do i collect my consulting check xbox
>>722320439>april 2013Too late, it was already over. Gotta go back to 2007 when Peter Moore left to stand a chance
>>722320439Simply make more of the same of the Xbox 360 and not pounder to fags
>>722320439Phil Spencer has been more damaging than him