Microsoft has released official statement regarding current rumorshttps://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/no-xboxs-next-gen-console-hardware-plans-arent-cancelled
I believe some random internet person over Microsoft at this point
>>722533803Doesn't matter. They still have AI obsessed pajeets.
>>722534012Then you're even more retarded than actual children. You think IHV contracts turn on a dime? How sheltered are you? You're the type of faggot who uses homelab shit in a corporate scenario.
Microsoft lies all the time so this isn't saying much. They are actively investing in it (now) and next year they won't be.
>>722533803Remember when pajeetsoft said acquiring Activision wouldn’t lead to price hikes and layoffs
>>722534012Kek true
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/dreamcast-dead-in-march.1024162https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog/c/phc2xpideEg/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-24-fi-16204-story.htmlhttps://www.sonicstadium.org/articles/features/dreamcast-deadhttps://www.ign.com/articles/2001/01/24/sega-sinks-console-effortshttps://www.ign.com/articles/2001/01/24/sega-confirms-ps2-and-game-boy-advance-negotiationshttps://variety.com/2001/digital/news/sega-vidgame-plan-goes-tilt-1117792593https://kotaku.com/that-time-sega-killed-the-dreamcast-1739729382https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/02/03/sega-goes-third-party-nintendo-ties-announcedhttps://www.gamespot.com/articles/wrap-up-sega-becomes-a-third-party-publisher/1100-2681775/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2008/sep/11/gamesinterviews.microsoft1
>>722533803Well they are doing something because the people working on hardware haven't been fired yet
>>722534624Kek retarded jit.
>>722534087Retard.
>>722533803who's the bigger liar: phil spencer or todd howard?
>>722533803Everything is an xbox so of course they'd say it's not cancelled can't cancel something you aren't making. Doesn't mean microsoft will ever make another xbox ever again though you'll just see a bunch of "xbox pcs" that are just prebuilts with an xbox logo on it.
>>722536623Todd lying is overrated. Most people just deliberately misconstrue what he says.
>>722536623"Todd the liar" was just a meme originally. It's just that younger generations saw it and took it as more than just a little inside joke thing and thought it was real. Phil literally said "just 4 games" and later kept going. Maybe it was just 4 games at the time and Nutella told him to keep doing it, but between the two, the answer is Phil
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>>722538663How many of his lies were cut content>miloNevermind, they all were lies.
>>722533803Who cares? All of the Xbox games are on PC so I don't have to buy an Xbox since the Xbone.
They clearly locked in with AMD to one more generation, we had this discussion earlier this year, I think it was may or so when they had to do that fucking sitdown panel and talk about "the future of xbox", but it's very clear that it will be the last, everything they're setting up is to bow out of the rat race of actual console competition. They'll be another service you can sub to on your playstation or your pc. or maybe even switch if they get their cloud servers up to snuff (they won't)
>>722539065If anything, they'll cut the first party Xbox and take the loss there and give the APU to third parties for free, having them make home consoles and handhelds at different specs given this PC APU with a modular design. It's cheaper that way.
>>722534012This. The guy who said that there is no more Xbox consoles anymore every 2 days for the past 17 years will eventually be right.
>>722540413Not only that but this leak comes from the same person who leaked MS going multi platform
>>722540719So it's 100% confirmed. Even if Phil himself doesn't know it yet kek
>>722540413The guy has actual internal sources plus, it was leaked back in December of 2023 that Xboxes will be OEMs, no more first party devices made by Microsoft. Only one still trying to push this is Phil Spencer for reasons I don't know why. It's become embarrassing to even try to push Xbox anymore with how dead it is to the point that I believe Phil was paying a lot of money to keep this stupid thing going until Microsoft finally caught on and saw it as a waste of money, time, and resources that could better be poured in Windows. Microsoft currently cares more about AI so I don't see much improvements happening to the Xbox full screen experience as they're more focused on AI.
>>722533803>revisit our agreement announcement with AMDThey will probably end up using those APUs for their cloud service like they currently do with the Series X APUs.
>buy the whole western gaming industry>kill itThat's kinda based now that I think about it
>>722543312I'm so happy people are finally turning on this retard
Microsoft tried their whole life to monopolize and centralize the gaming world (with them being the boss). Anybody remember GFWL? They fucked up every single time and lost on every single front. I think Satya decided that it's ultimately not worth it and focus on other, more profitable things.Things could have turned out differently if Phil wasn't so incompetent.
>>722533803Yeah, i'm sure that they'll tell everyone "Hey! We are closing the xbox division! We won't make another console!"
Real talk, could they have gotten away with making CoD xbox/pc exclusive? I haven't used gamepass for almost a year, have they even put all the CoDs in there yet?
>>722543435Why did people even praise him in the first place? Were xfags that desperate for a Reggie-like figure?
>>722533803and yet they didn't say there will be a new xbox console which would be the simplest way to quash any rumor to the contrary. so basically confirming they are ditching consoles and moving into handhelds.
>>722543702iirc wasn't making concessions like keeping cod multiplat a key issue in getting the merger approved because jim ryan threw a hissy fit?
Oh thank god. I don't think americans can afford any more humiliation this year.
>>722543873Then what was the fucking point in the first place? I genuinely don't understand
>>722543095>Phil was paying a lot of money to keep this stupid thing going until Microsoft finally caught on and saw it as a waste of moneyxbox was supposed to be killed off after the bone failed but it was the CEO who thought it was strategically valuable and wanted to keep it, and ultimately he would have to approve all of phil's adventures. not to mention, nadella's background is in cloud which is probably where the big push for gaypass came from. phil has a nice title but ultimately he was a low rent internal promotion to a dept head and doesn't have that much independence from the real execs.
>>722534087>You're the type of faggot who uses homelab shit in a corporate scenario.This is too left field and specific to not be some weird projection
>>722543702Microsoft promised the FTC that COD would remain multiplatform so lying runs the risk of massive fines and potentially having the merger reversed if the FTC decides to pursue them
>>722543312How did the entire western hemisphere lose this badly to 1 island? It's humiliating.
>>722544003thinking back i also thought that ms said something along the lines of putting cod on nintendo switch/switch2 to please the ftc or uk cma. also for cod multiplat probably makes way more money from the microtransactions
>>722544087So they wasted how many millions? All just to have one or two Activision titles on gamepass? I don't know about you but even in a perfect world i don't see how they were planning to make money with this deal
>>722540413Do you honestly believe that anybody would even think about buying the XXbox if Microsoft made it? I would like to figure out if MS can come up with a worse name than XXbox, though.
>>722544071>but it was the CEO who thought it was strategically valuable and wanted to keep itPhil had to talk the jeet out of killing the xbox after the xbone launched when he stepped in as ceo.
>>722544308>wastedThey're making tons of money off of COD, candy crush & blizzard.
If Halo was passed off to a competent studio after the goatfuck that was Halo 4, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Halo 6 was the last opportunity to turn it around, and they completely dropped the ball.
>>722534012This. I remember rumors of XDfiant shutting down before the devs said everything was going to be fine. 2 months later they confirmed EOS.https://www.videogamer.com/news/xdefiant-shut-down-after-4-seasons/https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/2wPUTEuXKpVoCvINTcxvGR/xdefiant-a-message-to-our-communityXbox consoles are dead. Microsoft is doing damage control.
>>722543702It would have been a financial disaster to have done it.
>>722544308It was more than just COD. The fucking FTC tried to make it, OH NO SONY AND COD. But Activision came with Blizzard + Kings. Microsoft had shit for mobile and wanted to hit the ground running with the King acquisition. It came up in the email evidence during the hearing.
>>722545220I think consoles in general are dead, we forget that most kids play on their phones or shitty PCs nowadays, even Sony sees the writing on the wall and that's why they're more PC friendly each day. Nintendo can manage to stay alive for longer but because that shit's basically a cult, in the future there will only be PC, mobile gaming, and Nintendo.
>>722545509If supporting good games is a cult then I'm a proud member of it.
>>722545509>NintendoThey're doomed as well just way later when millennials die off.
How did Microsoft fuck up so bad after the 360? Even with RRoD it was the better console because of the game library. How inept are the people in charge of these companies? Wish I could run my mouth and fall upward like all these pukes.
>>722545509Switch being portable like phones and tables helped a lot. Now I want to see what they will do next because going back to traditional home systems is suicide. Switch 3, 4, 5?
>>722536623Todd has never lied
>>722545764>How inept are the people in charge of these companies?Extraordinarily inept but they have windows and azure and now actiblizz keeping them alive forever. They're a terrible company but they have a handful of things that sell no matter what so no matter how bad they fuck up they never go out of business which has basically turned the company into a welfare program for retards.
>>722536080>>722544075
>>7225340873RD POST BEST POST
>>722544075There's way too many faggots here who use their home networking logic when comparing corpo networking logic.
>>722544509regardless of who convinced who, the CEO had to approve it
>>722543095Because they want to clear out the remaining inventory of XBoxes
>>722536623>phil spencer>don mattrick>todd howard>peter molyneuxWhy is pajeetsoft's gaming department so full of conmen
The fact that this had to be address shows how dire the brand has become at this point.
>>722545385Didn't they fuck up King internally as well though? There was news of layoffs of some kind months ago.
What if they had just like, made games that weren't shit?
>>722545509Yeah, pretty much>>722545627Nintendo already set themselves for life
>>722546904The sadder thing is that nobody seemed to be shocked or saddened by the rumors when they started floating around. I remember how upset people were when the news broke out that Sega was dropping out of the console scene, but for Xbox it seems more like something that people have been expecting for years now.It's just straight up apathy for the brand at this point, which is a worse fate that being garbage.
>>722546835>>don mattrickHe didn't lie, though. Hence why he was fired.
>>722547059>Speaking anonymously, King staff told MobileGamer "Most of [the] level design [team] has been wiped, which is crazy since they've spent months building tools to craft levels quicker. Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams.">The same goes for King's narrative copyrighting team, which was reportedly also hard-hit by the layoffs. "The copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those individuals have been creating.
>>722534012ThisXbox has done this shit before too. This is a marketing ploy so that potential future customers dont completely stop buying the console knowing it is at the end of the brands life so that they can still sell surplus stock.
>Buy a company because they make lots of money>Fire 90% of the people that work there>???>No moneyWhat was the plan here
>>722545509>that's why they're more PC friendly each day.Not at all. You are being retarded. Sony has millions of sales, they only resell their games on PC now because they won the console war and it is smart to get more profits for their games. There is zero reason for them NOT to put their games on PC after the initial PS5 exclusive launch, its more money.
does Microsoft even have exclusives?
Sold my series x today and like 90+ games. I can play the old Halo games on steam and actually have mods.
>>722547337Microsoft is unironically everything wrong with gaming, hell, technology in general, the day someone bombs their ass is the day Jesus himself will come back
>>722547337Man, King would've been a passive income maker for Microsoft, and even they had to do shit like this. They're really going all in for AI.
Even if the news/rumors yesterday was wrong, it cannot be a good look for the company. Especially after all the game pass cancellations. There wasn't even mass-coping about never getting another Xbox, just apathetic acceptance. Imagine the fires being put out at Microsoft HQ right now.>in b4 no publicity is bad publicity
>>722547503Halo is, but the Helldivers warbond and Gears Reloaded made it pretty obvious that it's only a matter of time before we see the green man on Playstation
>haha don't worry guys ha we're looking at portables haha>it's a fucking ROG ally with xbox branding on it
>>722547503Exclusives?>>722547509Hopefully you'll still have your library and it'll be available for PC. It's sad to see the current state of Xbox because between the two, I would get the Series S and replay some OG Xbox classics. SSX 3/Tricky
>>722534012:(
>>722547701>$999.99
>>722547701They "cancelled" their portable. Rog ally was a separate thing.
>>722547503No. Exclusives only work if you're Nintendo and don't have astronomical development budgets to recover from chasing graphics.
>>722547503Ace Combat 6
>>722533803They could have just said there will be a new console, but they didn't.
>>722533803The next Xbox will be the Xbox "Dreamcast", after that Microsoft will stick with PCs and their exclusive devs will go multiplatform.Halo on PS6 by 2035, screenshot this.
>>722545764They never wanted to make a games machine. Xbox was a trojan horse meant to take over your living room as an all-in-one media device. The second they tasted success with the 360, they went forward with their real plan. Gamers didn't want a media device and media consumers had no use for an xbox.
>>722549092Halo will end up on PS5
>>722537627It's absolutely not a meme retard. He has lied consistently and repeatedly for years.
>>722549092There is no next Xbox, the future Xbox is just third party living room PCs and PC handhelds using their next gen APU, that's it. The Xbox Series X|S was their last console. PlayStation will probably die during the 10th gen. Real smart gamers will see the writing on the wall and just go Switch and PC (Steam Deck counts), fake ones will go to PlayStation and will be in for a rude awakening when Sony does the same shit.
>>722533803Xbox stands a better chance of recovering than Playstation. They have PC gaming and know how to innovate when necessary. All Sony has is a bunch of fanboys and can't do anything except improve the hardware and keep releasing consoles that are essentially the same as the PS2
Even the new cod seems way less popular if beta player numbers are indicative microsoft has the midas touch but instead of gold everything turns to shit
>>722549519They're not recovering, give it up already, Valve owns PC, especially handhelds. Microsoft is putting money on AI, not gaming.
>>722545764>How did Microsoft fuck up so bad after the 360?Microsoft never had the ball to begin with.-OG Xbox: PS2 blew it out of the water because of DVDs. A lot of people's first DVD player was the PS2.-360: Wii blew it out of the water because PS3 was $600, even if we omit Nintendo the PS3s never red ringed.-XBone: PS4 blew it out of the water because they didn't forcibly bundle a failed motion capture device. Switch also blew it out of the water despite hitting the scene mid gen. Kinect was dropped too late to save it.-Series X/S: PS5 is blowing it out of the water because Sony knows how to navigate the industry. Switch 2 will probably also outperform it because of the niche it and the OG Switch fill.This is Sega 2.0
>>722543768Cause he's so heckin laid back and a true gamer like us! Memba his battle toads shirt?!
>>722549505I've seen the articles before this, they said they're giving it one more shot to see if it works for them. That is why it'll be their last.
>>722549646It's worse than that. Sega ran out of money, Microsoft has a trillion dollars and they still can't compete. It's a level of failure never before seen.
>>722549519Playstation has outsold every competitor except for the Wii and the Switch. They have never been outsold by Xbox.
>>722549716New information is coming out that they canceled it. It makes sense because even I didn't understand why they were even making another home console. If you're already paying third parties to use your next gen APU to make the same damn thing, why are you even making one yourself? It's a complete waste of money.
>>722549790Wii and Switch were not even direct competitors. When Nintendo competed directly with playstation, even they got their shit pushed in.
>>722549816Those were tabloids and "my uncle works for nintendo" type of sources.It still looks bleak though, unless they do an abrupt 180 we're about to get the next Dreamcast.
>>722549863>even they got their shit pushed in.The Wii U was so poorly thought out that you could've marketed a paper weight with "I'm not a Wii U" written on it in sharpie and it still would've outsold it.
>>722549905Get fucked, even Tom Warren says SneakersSO has internal sources at Microsoft. Again, what's the point of a home console if you already have OEMs partners making that shit for you?
>>722534087>IHV contractsMore like HIV contracts because xbox fags get aids from fucking each other in the ass
>>722550182The official announcement will crush so many xbots. I didn't know there were so many of them left until a few years ago with Activision buyout. Now it will be soon time for their reckoning.
>>722550182>my uncle works for nintendo
>>722550286I will laugh my ass off, they should have saw the writing on the wall with how quickly Microsoft cancelled the ARM-based first party handheld when SteamOS melted Windows in handheld gaming.
>>722550367Your cope will be amazing, can't wait to see it. After that, I'll wait to see the Snoys faces when the same happens to PlayStation during the 10th gen.
XBROS ARE WE WINNING?!?!?
>suiciding your console brand just before gta 6 comes outliterally just gave playstation a free 20m extra ps5s sold
Game pass brings in billions of dollars a year why would they not keep selling a fucking flagship game pass machine?
>>722550428Why would the same happen when sony will have literally 0 competition>steam is the competitioni disagree
>>722550428>when the same happens to PlayStation during the 10th genSony knows what they're doing. Once Xbox dies it'll be Sony, PC, Nintendo, and Mobile.
>>722549790Correct, but the PS5 has all the problems that the Xbox has. It just has a more loyal fanbase so they sell more consoles. Sony is out of ideas and the PS6 will almost certainly just be a more powerful PS5 with even fewer games. Microsoft can at least find a way to make their new console/platform appealing in a way that's better than selling a box that plays games. They have PC gaming and an entire ecosystem that uses their software.
>>722550596This isn't your normal every day cope. This is... ADVANCED COPE
>>722550596The Xbox is physically and technically superior to the PlayStation. Don't even cope. There is no reason to buy a PlayStation anymore. The age of the exclusive is gone.
>>722550781-Genesis had a faster processor but SNES still beat it.-N64 had superior specs but the PS1 outsold it because of CDs.-Gamecube had superior specs and it was dead last.-PS3 had superior specs and the Wii blew it out of the water.
>>722550526Their games need to be on other platforms now because the PlayStation alone can't recoup the cost of their games.>>722550553They don't, they're next. Only Nintendo and Valve know what they're doing. Only a shill believes Sony or especially Microsoft know what they're doing.
>>722533803xbox is a dead brand like google stadia, ouya, and ngage.
>>722550516That's the thing!It doesn't sell billions of dollars! They just had a massive cancellation wave! Nothing Xbox has done regarding Game Pass makes any sense at all if it were that massively profitable!And the Series S IS that flagship Game Pass machine! Nobody uses it for Game Pass because that's retarded!
>>722551502I have a series S and I use it for game pass every day.
>>722551315>they're next
>>722551546Gamepass Georg is an outlier and should not be counted
>>722543483I don't think Phil is evil enough to do what needed to be done. He doesn't belong at Microsoft and we should all thank him for failing to destroy the game industry.
>>722551598Only copium is seeing that nothing's changing. You don't say that "Multiplatform is the future", pull investment off your console hardware, and raise prices constantly if you're not looking for a way out. Same damn shit that happened with Xbox before this happened. The Sony people won't don't care about the PlayStation are starting to ask for their money.
>>722536623Sataya Nadella.
>>722543768Because he was alright at SCEA. His tenure at X-box has been very bad. Some of it isn't his fault (he inhereted Mattrick shooting the brand and burying it six feet under before Spencer got there) but everything since has been his fault.>Buys studios>80% of them release nothing and get canned/closedLike, he literally thought:>We buy ATVI>We put CoD on Goypass>This will make us money!And instead:>CoD day-one on Goypass has lost MS $300million in revenue because who the fuck is going to buy CoD for $70 day one when they can just spend $10 a month to rent it and be done in said month?
>>722549646>-OG Xbox: PS2 blew it out of the water because of DVDs. A lot of people's first DVD player was the PS2.The OG X-box does DVD's as well. It just didn't do it out of box with a controller. Which being fair: Sucks ass to use for that. The X-box DVD remote was nicer than a DS2 for thosePS2 blew X-box and Gamecube AND Dreamcast out of the water because it was the sequel to the PSX, the most popular console of the last generation. No shit X-box was going to have an uphill battle there.>-360: Wii blew it out of the water because PS3 was $600, even if we omit Nintendo the PS3s never red ringed.Urine blew both PS360 out of the water because of waggle and silent/boomers wanting to play Bowling (it's literally the only video game my mom played). That's it.360 outsold the PS3 for a while until Sony finally got the hardware for the PS3 down to where they could cut the price enough to edge out MS as Mattrick was fucking up (chasing Waggle [Natal/Kinect]), Netflix Netflix Netflix!!!You're last two should be:>Killed in cradle because Adam Orth pissed folks off and Don Mattrick spit in their faces.X-box never recovered from the 2012 Boner reveal.
>>722549790360 was outselling the PS3 until near end of generation. If the generation didn't get enlongated to 7-8 years versus the traditional 5, the 360 would've beaten the PS3 because the PS3 was $600-700 with no bundled games and the 360 was $300-400 for it's life, despite the RRoD issue.
>>722552114Specifically what did he buy and close that was actually his fault? All the shit that happened with Bethesda was residue from their old leadership and their old decisions. He invested in new studios that went nowhere but otherwise every Dev he bought just operated as usual. The only questionable decision he has made is shutting tango and if I was in his position I may have shut it too, mikami leaving was a massive red flag, the same red flag existed for arkane when colantonio left.
>>722550378>Microsoft cancelled the ARM-based first party handheld when SteamOS melted Windows in handheld gaming.That isn't anything concerning, since MS does that shit with their Windows off shoots all the time.Remember S-mode? Chromebooks stomped it dry.NT ARM? Flounders because nobody sane is going to drop back comp apps in x86 for ARM.MS isn't Apple. They can't even get folks to upgrade to Windows 11 because their TPM requirement has a lot of people balking, if their shitty spyware (Copilot) "AI" (Copilot again) and shoving more ads and forced installs down peoples throat being advertised as a good thing didn't already.
I was a PS fan since the PS1. Got a Series X and am never looking back. I can't believe I fell for the meme all this time.
>>722539065>They'll be another service you can sub to on your playstationI don't get this whole narriative that gamepass is going to end up on all devices. I mean why would a walled garden ecosystem like sony knowingly invite the thing that killed off xbox game sales onto their platform. Even more so considering they would at best be getting 30% of the subscription fees.
>>722552489>>722552429An L is an L even if they were ahead until the 11th hour.>If the generation didn't get enlongated 2008 happened that's why.
>>722552625Nigga if xbox dies you're going to have to get a PS6
>>722552605Interesting enough, Kepler_L2 is saying the Xbox handheld was actually an AMD handheld and it got cancelled because Microsoft got scared that because the Steam Deck only sold around 5 million units and the PC handhelds sold less, Microsoft didn't want to take the risk. But they somehow thought a $1000+ home console would sell.
>>722552429>Urine blew both PS360 out of the water because of waggle and silent/boomers wanting to play Bowling (it's literally the only video game my mom played). That's it.Well if it sold it sold, that's all there is to it. You can't discredit it because of demographics.
>>722533803Translation: they promised AMD they'd buy something and struggle to figure out what to do with that.
>>722550553>Sony knows what they're doing.Sony sure knows how to lose 400 million dollars in 2 weeks.
>>722546904i think they're doing it so their stock doesn't tank. doesn't mean they're telling the truth
>>722553738Bingo. That's why Philly S said "only 4 games".
>>722547068That requires good leadership skills, accountability & competence. It's easier just to buy the competition using your monopoly money instead.
I played more Sony games than M$ games in recent history. I bought a dualsense for my Linux machine because I read conflicting things about the xpad driver. What does M$ even do? What games do they even make other than CoD slop which I'll never play?
>no x isnt actually happeningevery time an article says that you know its bullshit
>>722552662Because everything is an Xbox, and you can trust them to make the worst possible decision
>>722554196that image is ai slop
>>722554196
they did the "this is an xbox" branding so they can transition to selling what basically amounts to prebuilt pcs
If Xbox were to announce going third party tomorrow, how long would they support the Series S/X?
>>722544071It's truly impressive how they can go from the success of the 360, to killing the xbox brand.
>make videogame netflix>invest billions on it>kek lol lmao who needs a console, everyone has windows anywayvalve actually releasing steamOS to the general public will bury the xbox brand
>>722557350Yup, Steam Deck 2 in 2027 using a cutdown Medusa Halo Mini APU will kill Xbox completely.
Xbox isn't going anywhere, chuddies. It has a huge fan base and makes money for MS. This thread is just snoys wishful thinking.
>>722559105>Xbox isn't going anywhereSure, it isn't, it and PlayStation will be dying and gaming will heal from their deaths.
>>722559105They had to change the definition of an xbox to pretend it wasn't getting killed. It's gone.
>>722543768>ReggieYou fell for the same lies years ago
>>722534012fpbp microsoft is always full of shit.
I don't know about the next generation with Xbox, but the Series X is probably the best console I have ever owned, Microsoft just threw money at you for playing games and asked a dollar in compensation, it was crazy and something only a trillionaire company like Microsoft could pull off, I was not getting that with Playstation or Switch, even PC, it was good while it lasted
>>722533803>Jez Corden begged the AI customer support app for help and this is what he got
>>722534012This. Even Jez at Windows Central concludes his article with "Yeah, but what if MS says something different tomorrow". At this point anyone who believes in any kind of positive Microsoft statement is insane.There were people who said back when it was "just 4 games" Xbox will go full multiplat. They were right.There were people who said in the Call of Duty / Candy Crush / WoW corporate structure MS will kill every single smaller project eventually because they are not worth the hassle. They were right. Halo and Gears has a last chance and if they won't make insane numbers (success is not enough now) Forza Horizon will be the only Xbox game going forward. Btw does anyone believe Fable will actually come out after Perfect Dark? Who knows at this point.>>722534087It is not like Microsoft went back on everything they said 3-6 months later in the last few years. It is not like they had to state numerous times there will be a next "console" because at this point nobody believes they will keep their word. It is not like they are cancelling supposedly 99% complete projects like Perfect Dark. It is not like they are releasing a handheld which doesn't play Xbox games and out of the budget of 99% of their userbase. Surely they won't change their mind or use the contracted APUs to feed their xCloud platform instead of proper hardware. Surely.
>>722554798Probably why they're fiending so hard to get Steam on "Xbox" too, since that shit is not happening on a console. Steam actually already tried on their end with Portal 2 and the PS3 cross-compatibility way back and it just didn't pan out, probably too much of an ESRB or licensing headache.
>>722547493For generations, they've never had a reason to port their games to PC. Coincidentally, they're only now bringing them, as if they see that millions of people have no interest in buying a PS for one or two games every seven years. It's not about going to PC to make more money, but about going to PC to recoup the costs of exorbitantly expensive games that your own users don't buy enough of at full price.
>>722560724>For generations, they've never had a reason to port their games to PCSee you are retarded.reread my post you fucking retard
>>722534012About right lol. Microsoft is too dishonest. But you know how it is. The richer a company is the more dishonest they are, the less rich a company is the more they have to stay honest.
>>722536623Peter Molyneux.
>>722560386Perfect Dark was not a 99% complete project lmaoThey were still at prototype demos.
>>722545509Nintendo found a good niche with semi portable, id never pull my laptop out to game on a flight or bus ride, and most phone games these days need internet so dont work great in those situations anyhow. I very rarely use my switch at home, but it’s usually the only way I game when I’m traveling.
>>722546904Very late reply but it also says a lot about Microsoft's reputation and how far they've dug themselves with their history when people are willing to believe a rumor over their own statements as another anon said.
>>722560860Are you stupid? They never needed to sell on PC because their games sold well and were cheap. Today, they don't sell enough games and their cost is 10 times as much. They're going on PC because that audience is another useful way to earn money. Today, PC users also tend to buy, and Sony needs to make sales because it needs them, not because it's a sideline business that they might stop doing tomorrow.
>Microsoft update: "We are actively dead"
>>722550694>>722550781There is no reason to buy a PS5 or an Xbox. The library of games exclusive or otherwise is a complete joke even five years into release.But Sony needs developers to make games for their proprietary platform, whereas Microsoft doesn't have to worry about it because they are the default platform for everything. If they can make the Xbox platform more appealing than Windows in a unique way they can keep the brand alive.
Yeah, because Microsoft doesn't lie all the time or anything...
>>722561230>They never needed to sell on PC becausREREAD THE POST YOU FUCKING ESL RETARD
>>722561656No, you're retarded.
>>722561887>ESL>cannot read>wont read>spots out BS he makes up in his imagination as factLet me guess sony is going bankrupt, consoles are dying and playstation is not making money any more tooFucking ESLs like you should be range banned
>>722551502>Microsoft just lies on their financial reports for no fucking reason
>>722562134>hurr durr Sony is successful, that's why it needs to sell on PC! >read my cope again pleaseeee weeeh You're the kind of man they shoot in the neck
>>722562265>needs to sell on PC!Where did you get this nugget of shit fromREREAD you ESL RETARDI already explained it in my 1st post ranjeet
>>722534808That Ars Technica thread is priceless>BUT SEGA SAIIIIIIIIIIIIID
>>722562424Holy retard>>722547493>they only resell their games on PC now because [cope cope cope]
>>722561442You are ignoring the simple fact that people buying Xbox or ps5 don’t give a single shit about exclusives though
>>722562578ESL
Gee I wonder what happened.
>>722533803One need look only at your local walmart and the phasing out of the xbox section to know the fucking truth, and the writing has been on the wall for YEARS. Until they get their whole 20 foot section restored, MS is LYING to you.
>>722562958people love to dismiss this but they refuse to acknowledge that this person was probably just one of thousands like her, it's too late to learn their lesson
>>722534012I feel like this too but with all corporate and govts.
>>722534012Same lmao they said they were satisfied with HiFi Rush then they took them behind the shed and went Bear Jew on their enslaved jap asses.Companies lie about how well they're doing in order to attract more investment all the time. EA was "super satisfied" with Dragon Age Trannyguard. Then they erased the studio behind it and had to sell their whole ass to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia alhamdulillah. EA executives are getting their mouths shat in as I type this.Ubishit was satisfied with Star Wars Outlaws but then all of a sudden they need to cozy up with the Chinese Communist Party just to pay rent lmao.If a journocuck or a company shill insists on something - the truth is the opposite of what they're saying. Go woke go broke shall be the whole of the law.
>>722547059What the fuck does King even offer at this point?Do old fucks still play Candy Crush?Besides that and the diversity wheel I don't really know what the K in ABK does
>>722549519Their head jeet seems interested in shoving AI into everything, even gamesAI generated games, Copilot for fucking gamingYeah tough shit bro, just let Xbox die
the xbox was always just meant to be a prank pulled on Sony but some execs became convinced it was a game console instead
>>722549863Yeah, I remember when PSP and Vita mogged the DS line.
>>722568943Vita would have been so good if even half the titles released in JP made it over here. What a bad joke that was.
>>722565107>EA was "super satisfied" with Dragon Age Trannyguard. Then they erased the studio behind it and had to sell their whole ass to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia alhamdulillah.If EA allows DICE to put actual factions back into battlefield, it would have all been worth it
>>722534012fpbp
>>722552494Nothing is his fault, xbro.He is still based! He's our guy!
>>722544087>and potentially having the merger reversed if the FTC decides to pursue themThat's a thing?
They had no problem lying to the FTC and people are still taking their word as truth.
>>722543435>Become CEO of xbox>First interview is saying that Microsoft would have killed xbox if it wasn't of gamepass and that if gamepass stop making money they'll kill instantly>Spend all his time working on gamepass instead of trying to make a console>Studios now have unlimited freedom and money>they all make woke shit and dieI really wonder how much of that shit is his fault or if it was just Nutela forcing his hand
>>722544087>Microsoft promised the FTC that COD would remain multiplatformThey also promised there wouldn't be any firings or price increases directly related to the merger when there have been more of an increase in prices and firings after the merger than before.Also there was a promised switch CoD release using some kind of stream thing, we are already on the switch 2 and 3 games already happened after the merger.
>>722561072Not even a proper demo, from what I understand. It was pre-rendered like that first Killzone 2 reveal.
>>722534012this but unironically lol
>>722533803if the next xbox isn't a PC with some lite windows version with TV UI and option to install steam and emulators they're doing it wrong.
