WTF happened to Xbox?They used to run the console space for years, and somehow learned absolutely nothing from it. It’s not like Microsoft can’t do something great with Xbox. They’ve got the resources, the studios, and some of the biggest IPs in gaming. But they keep fucking up over and over again. It blows my mind that Xbox leadership doesn’t seem to have a single strong vision at the moment. They’ve got unlimited money and access to legendary franchises, and yet… nothing: no bold new projects, no kino exclusives, no spark,At this point, it feels like Xbox is slowly giving up on gaming altogether. You could argue they already did. Still, part of me hopes they’ll pull it together
They ran the console space because the wii was underpowered and nintendo (just like they did for DS) demanded every third party utilize their gimmick shit for the first x years of it's life, and the PS3 completely fucking faceplanet out of the gate.That's literally it, they won by just not fucking up as bad as the others. There was the whole RROD fiasco affecting something like fucking 30% of units if I remember right.Around 2010 when ninty gave up on demanding waggle and PS3 set itself right and just started getting all the titles microsoft moneyhatted from japan with all their DLC and updates and bug fixes and shit, the 360 really lost relevance. It was extremely frontloaded.Everything they've done since then has been an attempt to recreate the popularity of the 360's early lifespan, without realizing that they themselves didn't create it, but the circumstances around them. You could argue halo was great (and it was), but the bigger titles by 2010, again, were multiplat. BF3 (well, bc2 then, but bf3 after), cod4/MW2. It was nothing uniquely xbox, by their own design. They spent so much fucking money trying to make the xbox a thing in japan that they couldn't afford to make their own games, and almost all of the jap games they paid for weren't even perm exclusive, just timed, and ended up better on the other platforms later.The things they did RIGHT like online play weren't even unique or special to it, DLC was marred by that AWFUL ms points system forcing people to overspend (plus dlc wasn't exactly well received early anyway), and they had a real identity problem. remember the xbox miis? lmao.Kinect was an ENORMOUS moneysink for them as well, that's a large portion of why the xbone pretty much just got left to flounder, after the kinect failed and they had to sell them to mocap studios for pennies, they redoubled on the series x/s.
>>722630452>They used to run the console space for yearsYou mean one time during 360 and not even the whole generation?
>>722630452>We're going to add all this shit that benefits us but screws the consumer.>But does the consumer want it?>No, but they will still buy it.Except they didn't buy it.
i'd wager most xbros have moved onto PC. there's no reason to own an xbox anymore if you have a computer that isn't a complete fucking toaster
>>722630452same thing that happened to sega atari and all the othershubris
>>722631736So, after all of that, they essentially handed over the last gen to sony, and the sudden realization on sony's part that backwards compat maybe isn't a stupid idea as they loved to call it throughout the ps4 era, means that people are now locked into the hardware ecosystem. Not that it matters, the insistence on MS to try and force digital only when the US just isn't ready for it crippled not only themselves, but the entire generation's start. I mean, even still, we're seeing MANY games get fucking ps4 releases because the series S is so similar spec. And the ps4, of course, eclipses the ps5 and the series s/x. They literally propped their fucking rival up by demanding devs support the series S, who then turn around and say "might as well ship to ps4".It's been a MESS, and they haven't done anything to improve it. They double down on stupid shit like gfwl, they redesign their UIs and add knockoff shit (not that they're unique in this, everyone does but theirs were particularly stupid), they haven't had unique or interesting games, pretty much ever, indie star level at best (Sunset overdrive, hi-fi rush).Their recent trend of buying studios spoke to literally anyone with eyes that they were bowing out, that's why there was that massive panic in april/may, where they had to have a fucking half hour fake podcast to say "no no we promise we're not dropping console support, we swear, we promise", and then again earlier this week they had to say the same thing, everyone knows they're dipping, they're probably contractually obligated for one more gen, but I wouldn't expect much.I don't think the games will be coming out either, I think xbox buds off entirely or just gets reabsorbed in large part and the game studios just get told to go into profit mode.
>>722631927i went from 360 back to pc back to xboner (kino controller still working) then back to pc
>>722630452>They used to run the console space for years,literally never true, lmao. Their best gen was gen 7 where they still placed last. To be clear they did do well financially with the 360, but that was mostly because the 7th generation hit WAY over its weight and was arguably the peak of the video game industry with regards to number of people participating. It was also before valve really took off with normies so pc gaming was still niche, where it's almost the opposite today. Original xbox - marginal success, mostly a money sink360 - successful but only in certain parts of the worldXbone - complete money sinkXsex - complete money sink
Xbox More like eXbox
>>722631927the only guys I know who have any xbox systems either>don't know how to use a computer (both of them, yes they exist, somehow)>spent literally thousands of dollars on the dragon ball gacha (yes really)>only got it because all his friends have xbox and he wanted to play 1 game>and also both of these were gifts, they didn't get it themselvesonly other person I know who got an xbox was my father in law, who uh... didn't know what it was and gave it back to his company who got it for him after he won a raffle. (yes really lmao)
>>722631736I say GTA IV really helped as well, because for a while, the only way to play GTA IV TLAD(which was a lot of people's first story DLC ) was by playing it on Xbox, and you had to have a copy of GTA IV and needed to pay for it with MS points
>>722632314with this is mind>>722632404will gta 6 even come out before xbox dies?
>>722630452Because Microsoft is full of genuinely incompetent retards. So is Google. That's why all software they make is actual dogshit, that usually winds up abandoned after a few years when they give up.Everyone working there refuses to use their products and wish they worked for Apple.
>>722632494It will. The game is already listed on the Xbox Store; it's really up to Microsoft not to drop the ball at this point
>>722632404Sure, and the early CoD DLCs, but that stuff really only lasted till around 2010, that's what I'm saying. I think CoD's early DLC access switched in 2012 or 2013 with ghosts (or maybe it was AW, whatever), and that was when a LOT of people(normalfags) I know who played on xbox dropped it entirely, it was a real final blow type of deal.>>722632494100%. The series s/x aren't going anywhere. It's very likely xbox launches one final new system due to existing agreements with AMD, but the series s/x still have another 2/3 years before they eat shit and get discontinued at minimum.Now, will they get continued updates? That's another question. BG3 shows that for a popular enough game, MS will turn the other way for their "rules" (BG3 was allowed to have worse spec on series S at release when they've threatened removal and barring from the ecosystem entirely before), so it may be the first game with less or no series S version.Still gonna come out though.
>>722632701It was a ghost, which, might I add, I bought way too many pack and gun skins for, but yeah, COD and, shocking enough GTA IV were pushing the console hell, my dad bought and switched to Xbox because of that GTA DLC
All consoles died. The industry filled with people that hate it. Like that Indian chick that made animated Scooby Doo only she hates it and it was an official product
>>722633079I honestly wasn't into GTA that much to remember it. I do remember ballad of gay tony being a really big deal but I had tapped into PC by that point with my q6600 and my 8800GT for crysis and spore (but we don't talk about them)I did still play cod and halo and battlefield almost exclusively on my consoles because man even back in the day it was SO fucking obvious how many hackers were shitting everything up on PC. Even to this day, people screech and say it's not true but I get a hacker in at least 75% of my matches of any sort of "competitive" games nowadays, it blows.
>>722630452Imagine going from Peter Moore to Don Mattrick.
>>722631927>I'd wager most xbros have moved onto PCI've been dancing around the idea for awhile now and might make the switch next year. It's gonna be hard since a lot of my buddies don't have the money to switch or don't wanna start their gaming collection over again, I will likely install Arch with an AMD GPU and pirate my games >>722633320>hacker in at least 75% of my matchesAnd this is why I will not play online on PC, and turn off cross-play with PC players
>>722630452a pajeet is in charge of microsoft and you're wondering how things are going to shit
>>722633334wonder does he still plays on Xbox
