>"The selling point of our next $1200 console is it'll be able to run steam">today happensWhat's going through their heads right now?
>>725656660probably a bullet
If actual human thought went on in Microsoft's heads at any point in the past 12 years, Xbox wouldn't be in the abysmal position it is today.
What selling point?
The Xbox PC is just a last ditch attempt at staying at the hardware market, I don't think they really care that much about it. After it sells worse than the Wii U, they'll happily close their hardware division.
japs wongates lostjust auction off the brand already and get out
>>725656702hopefully
>>725656660Why not? A console is just a retarded version of a PC anyway.
>>725657032I don't think Sega wants it back
>>725656660>wow an ROG Ally 2 with Xbox branding>IT IS AN XBOX!Microsoft fooled you again
>>725656660Xbox has been in a perpetual humiliation ritual since 2013
>our competition is no longer playstation>instantly btfo by steamFucking hell.
>>725656660"we lost so let's seek empathy to carve ourselves a corner". But they don't realize that without a clear vision and leadership they'll only keep meeting failures.>>725656702If only
>>725656660>What's going through their heads right now?Nothing. The Xbox team is comprised of actual retards.
>>725656969running steam
>>725656660KWAB
>>725657338>smartphones are retarded pcs>TVs are retarded pcs>xiaomi lightbulbs are retarded pcs>Apple Watches are retarded pcs
>>725660124Bad example; smartphones made PC obsolete when it comes to practicallity Anyway please excuse him; he think consoles as a whole are the sad sattire that arrived in the 7th gen.
>>725656660That's literally why they're doing this whole Xbox/Windows unified console strategy. Microsoft couldn't give two shits if PlayStation wins the console war. It's a shrinking market that's increasingly irrelevant for phone/tablet kiddies; their revenue from hardware sales is practically a rounding error. But if SteamOS actually took off as a desktop alternative, that would cripple their entire company.
>>725656660>What's going through their heads right now?That they don't even need to sell their next console because Valve will sell the hardware for them so they can sell the games they funded.Do you even understand what Xbox strategy is? Not saying it's a good one, but the next steam flop doesn't affect it.
>>725656660Xbox next is just a copium, probably some corporate money glitch to pay salaries for nepobabies. Xbox is dead since closing business in Europe, it's just cloud service with some extra steps
>>725661505Ms can't unify UI for windows, unifying Xbox and windows even more delusional
>>725661702they should just cancel the next console then
>>725661505>It's a shrinking market that's increasingly irrelevant for phone/tablet kiddies>nintendo sold its best ever and the pace keeps going into their newer console>PS5 somehow managed +75 millions>Mobileshit never took off outside gacha and gacha is a 1/100 chance of passing the 1st year>Even bouncing back from gaming into services/microtransaction can bring some cashXbox simply failed hard, anon. It's deluded to not face it.
>>725656660lol
>>725662684Does anyone still believe this corporate rhetoric? They are paying attention and they are shitting their pants.
>>725662558Xbox failed hard but the reason a company worth $3 trillion isn't even trying to sell/advertise their console is because they don't evaluate the market to be worth pursuing.>nintendo sold its best ever and the pace keeps going into their newer consolePeople forget the DS sold 150 million units in addition to the Wii's 100 million units. The Switch earned those sales by cannibalizing two separate product lines.>PS5 somehow managed +75 millionsWhich is the same pace as the PS4. In a vacuum that seems good, but remember Xbox sales have plunged over that same span. So where did all those Xbox players go?>Mobileshit never took offThis is just delusionalThe fact of the matter is that Wii+DS+PS3+PSP+Xbox360 cumulatively sold way more than Switch+PS5+Series X|S sales.
>>725662476They shoud've done that after the Xbone but they stupid or tone deaf enough to keep losing money from that end. THAT stupid
>>725665228>Xbox failed hard but the reason a company worth $3 trillion isn't even trying to sell/advertise their console is because they don't evaluate the market to be worth pursuing.Becuase they failed to the point of no recovering.>>725664573Vocal minorities that try to be politically correct.
>>725662684KWAB
>>725665228>The Switch earned those sales by cannibalizing two separate product lines.PS4 reached similar numbers, cannibalization and product lines have nothing to do here.>Which is the same pace as the PS4I tend to feel PS5 was sluggish as hell compared to it.>This is just delusionalIt's true; its audience never fell for the serious platform for games and those "gaming smartphones" some manufacturers try to sellas the next big thing were forgotten soon. People simply doesn't see smartphone as anything more than short lived and disposable, the complete opposite of gaming platforms that need a little comitment
>>725665228>People forget the DS sold 150 million unitsThe PS2 sold 155 millions!
>>725666032*150 and out of his generation.
>>725656660We're fucked
>>725662684God I hate this faggot
>>725656660>What's going through their heads right now?Probably something along the lines of>Finally a reason to ditch this brand!Satya Nadella is just one of countless greedy tech executives who are prioritizing short term stock price over long term growth. Xbox is fucked because they can't realistically hope to meet the extreme profit goals demanded by corporate, and there's absolutely no way they can implement the mandatory AI use in a way that isn't pointless. Xbox as a brand won't even be granted a graceful death, their legacy will be pissing away the good will of the entire generation that grew up with them.
>>725670256Who cares though? It's actually weird that there's still fags obsessed with Xbox%, love or hate. I was a daily 1 og Xbox owner and xbox live beta tester. I just bought two copies if crackdown 3 for 4.74 each to play with my son but Xbox has been long dead and irrelevant. Gaming in general is far shittier than when xbox was relevant as well.
>>725670256>their legacy will be pissing away the good will of the entire generation that grew up with them.There's barely any of those at this point and not enough to make any sort of difference tbqh
Am I being gaslit? I could've sworn there were headlines all over the fucking place about two or three months ago about Microsoft intending to permanently shutter the Xbox division and get out of the videogame industry entirely... and now it's like none of that happened.
>>725671343>Am I being gaslit?Yes, that's Xbox's intention when they ditched exclusives.
>>725671343They're killing the Xbox console and turning it into a SteamOS stand-in for Windows to go against Valve. Next gen is Nintendo vs Sony, Valve vs Microsoft, gonna be fun.
>>725656702That would be a waste of lead. They're killing themselves just fine without it.
Oh yeah, that was a rumor or some shit. I usually tune out Microsoft news.>>725656702fippy bippy
>>725672306Next level humilliation ritual.
>>725656660The only reason the entire gaming division at MS wasn't shut down is they are terrified of valve and linux. Xbox is now just a tool to slow down the destruction of windows.
If the new Steam console is positioned to shit on Microsoft's parade then I might have to buy 2.
>>725664573>>725665786>>725668347bUt HeS sO cOoLDiD u KnO hE HaS a GaMeRtAgoNE oF uS!!!!11
>>725673304What's the gametag again? To laugh once more
>>725671343Everyone hates Xbox including Xbox fans so there's enormous incentive for clickbait/leakers to exaggerate and dogpile them whenever they're in the media cycle. They already have a deal in-place with AMD so they're for sure going to release SOMETHING. The speculation is it will be a more powerful/expensive version of essenti>>725672306How is Sony not competing with Valve and Microsoft? They port everything to PC which means SteamOS/Windows can play every PlayStation game in addition to computer gaming capabilities.
>>725673932They technically are trying to compete with Valve next gen, the PS6 is going to be significantly less custom and more PC-like going by Mark Cerney.
>>725673932>The speculation is it will be a more powerful/expensive version of essentiXbox is clearly doubling down of failure route; $1k hardware where you own nothing and depends on internet almost entirely. They hope but they won't sell without exclusives; game systems live and die through it and can't survive without them hence why Xbox's selling trend in game and hardware has been in a downward spiral for pretty much a decade
>>725673849https://www.gamertagnation.com/member.php?u=5174&do=gamertag
>>725662684absolutely fuming and panicking behind his keyboard
>>725674564Danke
>>725661937This. Ever since Windows 8 Microsoft has had no fucking idea how to design their own OS.The only reason Windows is used is because of the programs other people already made to run on it.
>>725674564>completed games are Microsoft solitaire and Avatar tbe + a bunch of easy arcade shit>only cheevos on NG4 of all thingsHe really is one of the modern audience; plays for 2hrs the shiny new game out of novelty and then fucks off to the next one that will drop in less than 3 hours
>>725674457Literally only Nintendo sells consoles on the strength of their exclusives. Every other platform lives and dies by live service games. Literally every other entertainment platform is fully digital and internet mandatory. It's been obvious since World of Warcraft where the industry was headed, and I have no idea why you clingers are still in-denial about it.If you actually have a RAID library of cracked digital copies, respect. But typically this whining comes from Gamestop boomers who cluelessly prefer discs that have the exact same licensing protections as digital copies. It's just paranoid idiocy.
>>725674564>rates GH3 with 3 stars>Scott Pilgrim,dig dug, dead space and simpsons arcade with only 1>but Halo MCC, RotTR, Cod and RE6 with 5 stars
>>725676095>Literally only Nintendo sells consoles on the strength of their exclusivesProducts sell due the strenght of their exclusivity. This applies to every simple product ever known to man and extends even into services. It's a thing that only works for one specific but a testament in how the ones rejecting a paradigm that works meets struggles for the sake of change to sell it as a some sort of hook.
>>725665228TRVKE
>>725676583Xbox had exclusives and couldn't get into any market outside us. Japanese game fans are casual.
Well you can play games with anti cheat!
>>725676907You're mixing apples with oranges. And that's even with you ignoring 360 was the best performance Xbox ever had in Japan... and that was exactly because their JP exclusive push.
>>725662684>core values
>>725662684Big Phil finna close some studios to blow of steam frfr
>>725677495>the only steam he can blow off
>>725671343>people see a target store moving Xbox displayXbox is dead!>guy heard Xbox is missing 2026 deadlinesXbox is dead.Meanwhile, amd leakers continue to leak nextbox shit.
>>725677890And those nextbox won't be sold in retailers, they're trying to copy Valve's direct-to-consumer approach while the third-party Xbox PCs will be sold in retailers.
>>725678017We don't know shit about where or how it is being sold. Stop listening to mlid.
>>725676583Again, you're living in Gen 7. By total playtime, live service titles dwarf everything save for a few Nintendo flagships. Outside of enthusiast forums, no one cares.
>>725678214>Again, you're living in Gen 7Xbox's current gen numbers are the lowest and PS5 has been a slow burner. You want to make believe the past is a bad thing because your future and its ideas have failed.>Outside of enthusiast forums, no one caresExactly; you have no exclusives = you have nothing going for you, so no one cares.
>>725677201Og Xbox with ninja gaiden and doa games couldn't pull jap fans. Pathetic
>>725678640Nips simply don't like Microsoft even when it does something kind of right, the world and PC vegans should learn from them tbqh
>>725678789>nipsand poser faggot casual jap game fans. The sake group that didn't buy dreamcast
>>725679216>The same group that didn't buy dreamcastIt was doomed due Sega burning its bank from Genesis through Saturn (Thanks, SoA!), DC was its hail mary that gave some hope before reality checking in.
>>725679441The consumer base that people say Xbox needed exclusives for simply doesn't exist. Dark souls franchise could be xbox exclusive and it would be in the same situation. It wouldn't move the needle much.
>>725680121>The consumer base that people say Xbox needed exclusives for simply doesn't exist.Neither the ones saying it doesn't need them seeing Xbox Series' numbers. In fact they're even less seeing 360 sold almost 3x more hardware in comparison fueled by exclusives (a competent leadership and clear direction also helped apparently). That said>The consumer base that people say Xbox needed exclusives for simply doesn't exist.Anymore, they clearly got the message and fucked off to other platforms.
>>725656660Steam blew their load first, if it flops then Microsoft can abandon that model if the GabeCube is what they were planning to do.
>>725656660They can still dmg control this, just sell their $1200 console for $600.
>>725656660Surprise: The next Xbox and Steambox are the same thing. What if? I mean, the aesthetic alone - they look similar.
>>725681245Reportedly Xbox's next machine is going for pure power so the GabeCube would fit into the Series S niche which was the better selling Series model.
>>725656953Microsoft was pretty on-point, honestly. They did most things right. It's just the Sony brand-loyalists and their own bad reputation that caused them problems. Xbox Series X was a better product than the PS5. There's not even a real competition there. With GamePass, PS5 just got fucking smoked. If a just world, MS would have destroyed PS5. But, past factors ruined them.
>>725681245>Steam blew their load firstValve has been waiting years to make this move. Microsoft cancelling their own handheld and instead releasing a rebadged knockoff of the Steamdeck was the green light they needed to swing the axe. Gabe has been planning to kill Microsoft for decades.
>>725681245>be xbox>stir up rumors about a handheld>info leaks as time goes and "hype" builds when your announcement is right around the corner>Steam decides to release Steam OS that works on the alledged "handheld" PC you were about to reveal>Panic>Time passes and now rumours about a new generation console appears>Steam, what a coincidence!, decides to reveal their "console" that is basically the same crap you were hinting atGaben must have insider's info, the timing for this shit is way too funny
>>725671343Clickbait
>>725656993More than that, I'd say it exists purely so they can say "well, we tried everything and it didn't work out" and leave the harware market without shareholders asking too many questions. They're sending it out to die as a sacrificial lamb basically. There's absolutely no expectation or plan for it succeeding whatsoever.
>>725681658>They did most things rightKeep telling yourself that.They repeatedly cucked to competitors for short term profit.
>>725681658>Microsoft was pretty on-point, honestly. They did most things right>They did it so right their hardware line died off. nobody buys them physical, only has GP and GP actually predate people paying you the digital purchasewdym?>Xbox Series X was a better product than the PS5On paper, yeah. But in videogames the execution means everything and Xbox has been really poor at it.
>>725656660"Well we're fucked.">>725677307I'm all for some core values.>>725681658You know, I've seen Snoys and Nitengers coping a lot, but the type of logical loops Xbots tie in order to cope is something you just have to stare at for a bit and really take in to see how fragile and mentally out of touch people can get when they deny basic reality.
>>725681939Even worse when they could have won with ease but they themselves were the ones with the idea of keeping CoD multiplat. Why the fuck you'd keep your property able to others? Fucking retarded and now it's over because by when they actually make it exclusive PS might be recovered or dead and MS' reverse Midas touch could've killed CoD of all things, this is already happening it seems seeing feedback to the last releases of the series lol
>>725673932>They port everything to PC Still waiting for astrobot
>>725656702were it so easy
>>725682836Basado and Doritopilled
>>725682310>Even worse when they could have won with ease but they themselves were the ones with the idea of keeping CoD multiplat. Why the fuck you'd keep your property able to others?Because the FTC was breathing down their neck. Back when the Activision merger was first announced everyone was treating Xbox as an impending monopoly.
>>725683109>Because the FTC was breathing down their neck.Xbox was never in trouble, ms backs people within the US system.
