"Her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night"Original Xbox co-founder and console designer Seamus Blackley reckons it's no coincidence that Microsoft installed a CoreAI executive like Asha Sharma as the new CEO of its gaming arm. Rather, he sees Sharma's promotion as a sign that non-AI businesses like Xbox will be "sunsetted" as Microsoft invests wholly in AI as its ultimate solution to absolutely everything.Speaking with GamesBeat, Blackley sized up the future of Xbox following seismic leadership changes that included the retirement of longtime gaming boss Phil Spencer, the departure of president (and presumed Spencer replacement) Sarah Bond, and the appointment of Sharma despite her inexperience with games and short Microsoft tenure."Xbox, like a lot of businesses that aren't the core AI business, is being sunsetted," he said. "They don't say that, but that's what's happening. I expect that the new CEO, Asha Sharma, her job is going to be as a palliative care doctor who slides Xbox gently into the night."Blackley also expressed some confusion at Sharma's appointment, concluding that the logical explanation is that Microsoft, especially CEO Satya Nadella, wanted an AI person for what's viewed as an AI job."I imagine asking somebody if it made sense to put a major motion picture studio into the hands of somebody who didn't like movies, or a major record label into the hands of somebody who'd never seen a live show," Blackley said. "Why would you do that? Well, you only do that if you're looking at the problem in a more abstract way. The natural consequence of the focus on AI is that AI abstracts every problem from the minds of the executives who believe in it. We're abstracting the problem of games as well. There's a core belief, and you can see it in what Satya said, that AI will subsume games like it will subsume everything."
>>733659139https://archive.ph/wip/MSxVuhttps://www.gamesradar.com/games/xbox-will-be-sunsetted-under-new-ceo-original-co-founder-expects-her-job-is-going-to-be-as-a-palliative-care-doctor-who-slides-xbox-gently-into-the-night/
bro you jobbed to playstation for two generations in a row being outsold in all key markets, that bitch is not the real reason why you have to bring fucking forza on ps5pathethic cope and damage control
Remember when the Xbox One was supposed to connect to fucking cable television?
>buys up half the american video game industry>closes its gaming departmentactual laughably evil
>>733659139>Microsoft invests wholly in AI as its ultimate solution to absolutely everything.For what reason are they doing this? Do they seriously think AI will “do everything”? Shit can barely handle chatbots and simple videos. >In the future /v/igga shareholders want that money yesterday. Not in a hypothetical 20+ years.
>>733659139She seems incompetent if her job is to sunset it, it'll do better than ever
>>733659340Embrace, extend, extinguish
>>733659340they will just go the EA route and publish games and hold things hostage
my gamerscore...
America lost
>>733659139Was it seriously just a fluke all along? How much do you have to fuck up to even reach this point?
>>733659340The only real casualty is still rare which the ms purchase caused mass leaving killing the studios talent over night.Who cares if Bethesda died, all they did in 8 years under Ms was make starfield LOL and rerelease the same games 4 timez
>>733659340you VILL stream AI-generated slop from goypass using Pajeetsoft's Azure cloud services
>>733659139Too ridiculous to be true
>bethesda will get shut down before TES6lol, lmao even
>>733659402experts say we will have AGI in approximately two more weeks
>>733659402They're all betting on the idea that they'll be the ones to come out unscathed after the bubble bursts, or they're all so set on the bubble not bursting that they're all going all in and making it ever larger.
>>733659139Even if I can imagine positives coming from this, it's obvious that the point is to move people to making more AI software no one wants.
>>733659565wonder what happened to this guy
>>733659139ah so no new xbox like it was said a few years ago? FINALLY
>>733659562MS won. Sony is putting literally all their stuff on PC. Nintendo is stuck selling to kids the same games over and over (Fever just released with 75% reused assets lmfao). MS wanted this in 2013 and was pushed back, now Nintendo is doing 'keycards' which is a worse variant of what they wanted with X1. Now they can make any hardware "an xbox" and you can own even less while Sony struggles to sell overpriced weak hardware on their own.
Xbox as a brand will be killed off in favor of having Microsoft Game Studios continue making mediocre, forgettable titles under their new name: Buckbroke Studios.
According to who? Does this guy even work at MS? MS are betting heavily on gaming going forwards because it's another part of their cloud and AI push. Soon they'll start allowing you to stream xbox games direct to TV, phone, PC and they'll sprinkle some AI in with that too. Also I remember reading a statement from nadella about how he wanted ABK for the IP because IP is king now e.g. they can use it for cross media collaboration, which again involves AI and stuff. I don't doubt that Xbox will eventually become the biggest gaming platform on the planet simply because they will push it at you from every angle. The upcoming windows update for gaming which will include the xbox full screen experience is basically just the xbox app, pushing xbox games and gamepass. And it'll be the most popular gaming feature on already the most popular gaming operating system. Anyone who thinks they're going to exit gaming is deluded. Everyone is trying to get into gaming now.
>>733659562The early 360 was the only time Microsoft had a decent exclusively libraryLost odyssey Gears of war trilogy Halo 3 with backwards compatibility with the last 2 games Blue dragonForza Saints row Crackdown KameoViva pinata 1 and 2Fable 2( 3 was not a good game but least something was coming out)Dead rising which people forgot was an Xbox thing for a long while Dozens of indie classics got their big start as Xbox arcade games And it had great 3rd party support By 2011 though Microsoft just released more halo games more gears games more Forza games and nothing elseA decade later and they still only make more halo games more gears games while cancelling shit like scale bound complaining that other projects don't make profits except halo also stopped making a profit for like 10 years
>>733659826>Microsoft does not own PCCOPE
you xboxnegros are coping hard. it's plain as day microsoft is retreating from non-core sectors. xbox brand will keep alive as pc game platform and streaming. hardware business is fucking dead.
Waiting for xbox's version of the burning platform memo to get leaked.
>>733659402>Do they seriously think AI will “do everything”?Yes, you have a lot of dumb boomers in charge of everything and Altman actually managed to sell them on the idea AI will replace everything
It'll be interesting if it happens. I wonder if they will just be able to sweep everybody losing all those digital purchases under the rug.
>>733659695He unironically continues to suck cock for corpos. Just curiosity searching his most recent post had him retweeting a she/they who got laid off from Activision defending that AI jeet with a 500k word essay just to say>im a woman and sucking cock translates to every job :)He also got turbo super sized which makes his current re-tweet about a Mario soda collab really really funny.
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>>733659836>tHe pOwEr oF dA cLoUd>in two more weeks*inhale*AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOhaVanEMWg
>>733660184there are indications ms is working on its own xbox emulator they will launch on pc, that would be their solution for the digital game owners
>>733659960No new viva pinata when animal crossing started blowing up will forever be retarded >We can't get a team to make banjo threeie because nobody would buy it>Spends half a billion on halo infinite for it to die in a monthHahahahhahahha fuck Microsoft
Is there a good controller on PS5 that mimics the Microsoft feel? Solid triggers and assymetrical sticks?Just curious haha...
>>733659139>original co-founder expects>"Blackley left Microsoft in 2002"Most of the people posting in this thread weren't even alive back when this guy still had a job at microsoft.
>>733659340They need those IPs for AI games.
>>733659340>spend 100+ billion on acquiring companies >release games on other platformswhat exactly what the strategy here? Sony is doing (or did under Ryan) the same retardation now
>>733660184They're going to allow everyone to play their library but on PC. And the next xbox is just a PC but with the xbox full screen experience enabled by default. Just think of the steam machine, but with windows instead. That's the way gaming is going anyway. Consoles are a stagnant market and don't serve a practical purpose anymore when they're literally just walled garden ecosystems built with off the shelf PC hardware from AMD. Valve is all in on PC gaming, so is MS. Nintendo left consoles ages ago and are now market leaders in this emerging handheld market. Sony are really the only ones who care about consoles anymore but soon PlayStation will be irrelevant when you can just buy a steam machine or windows xbox and play the same games, for free, or for cheaper, but with the capability to play at higher graphics settings or whatever the fuck you feel like doing. PC gaming won.
>>733659960original xbox was good too, it just got turbomogged by the ps2
>>733660440Are you implying most people here are underage?
>>733660486they are gambling that hardware will go away and cloud gaming becomes the big thing, therefore they need their games to spread out to other platforms to get as many consumers as possible
>>733659139I think we need to campaign to monitor her every online move and call out her bullshit on the spot. Gamers tend to be slightly more savvy than average normalfags, but still, double down on the distaste everyone already has towards her. Destroy her in every single tweet she makes and laugh at everything she does, in a couple weeks she'll quit all social media because of "bullying". That's more entertainment value than Xbox's entire brand has given us in the last decade!
>>733660486sony and microsoft did a partnership in 2019 remember?
>>733660558well yes, but also 2002 was 24 years ago anon
>>733660486making games became more expensive while the number of console players didn't grow as much
>>733659562sony shitting the bed with the early ps3 and MS securing exclusivity for a bunch of third party jap games helped. loved the 360
Microsoft can reinvent themselves if they start selling gaming PCs instead of consoles.
>>733660808that would have been smart 10-15 years ago, but disastrous now
>slides gently into the nightLike dookie into the toilet
>>733660808console gamers want consoles, not a 1200$ half pc abomination
>>733660808That's what everyone is doing now MS included. It's no coincidence that nvidia invested in intel to enable them to put RTX graphics in SOCs with intel CPUs. The "mini pc" is the future console.
>>733660757rrod is the real shitting the bed. dead last 4 life ahaha
>>733660509Overtime consoles lost what made them special.Complete games. No installing, configuring, or updating necessary, instant action. Some measure of quality control.Local multiplayer.Good value power/performance vs a similar era PC.I still play on my Xbox and Playstation a lot, but I can't shake the feeling I'm just playing on a shitty PC.
>>733660808Xbox not pushing a working windows os into their new xboxes you can dual boot into whenever is the biggest miss opportunity i can think of
>>733659534wow ! Epic gameplay sir !!
What are the odds they just nuke everything?And I mean, EVERYTHINGMojang, Activision, Bethesda, etc all shut down
>videogame """news""">look inside>speculation of a literal whoMight as well quote a random post from 4chan and /v/.
>>733660808microsoft already tried this and they failed. it is the only reason that trash loser console xbox exist ahahaahhaahahahah
>>733659139>as Microsoft invests wholly in AI as its ultimate solution to absolutely everything.Imagine "investing wholly" in a bubble.
Just as I said before. These jeeters only get put in these positions when its time to manage the decline/failure.
>>733659826Microsoft didn't win shit.>Sony's now about to "retire" Herman Hulst like they did Jim Ryan>Sony is tired of live-service slop and AAA movie slop and this is the last year they're allowing their western devs to fuck up before they pull the plug>Sony is more invested into games like Gran Turismo and Astro Bot now with a focus on both being a hardware showcase and gameplay-focused games>Sony is moving back to Japan while also looking at the Asian market over the western one>Sony is no longer focusing on raw performance next gen with the PS6 handheld being the absolute floor for them>Nintendo already won and made a console that set them for life, they will release awesome games in the future>Valve took over the PC market and have now gotten serious with their console like Steam Machine and Steam Deck 2 while getting back into game development as Source 2 is ready>Nintendo, Sony, and Valve have all found a niche that no one can breach while Microsoft is collapsing into itselfNo, Xbot, Microsoft lost, they're the only retards that did lose. Nintendo and Valve knew not to follow them, Sony only competed with them to protect their placement, now they no longer need to bother and can finally go back to their 5th/6th gen ways. Microsoft failed in both console and PC gaming and lost big time. They simply need to quit; this is embarrassing now.
>>733660757A memory I'll always have is waiting with my friend in line for the PS3 at the midnight launch (i was a poorfag so no 599 USD console for me) and going home with him with 3 games and they were all super ass (i hard disagree with him on Ridge Racer 7 though game is incredible) so we just played Timesplitters using the backward compatibility instead.
>>733659139This is retarded if you think about it for more than 10 seconds.>Be Asha Sharma>Be up-and-coming power exec in consumer tech industry.>Work your way into head of the department in the fastest growing industry on the planet.>Leave so you can oversee the decline and closure of unrelated product line.Literally why would you do this? How would this be a good career move?>Be Microsoft>Console sales declining.>Buy Phil and Sarah out of their contracts. Promote new outside hire. Promote Matt Booty.>Literally paying 4 people (2 outgoing, 1 outside promotion, 1 internal promotion) C-suite salaries for a department you intend to shutdown.>Literally zero companies who have the money to buy Xbox so positioning for a buyout is pointless.Surely if you wanted to wind Xbox down, you'd save as much money as possible and just get some random sob from inside the Xbox department to go down with the ship. This is like claiming the Raiders fired Pete Carroll and brought in the Super Bowl winning offensive coordinator because they're shutting down the team.The fact that she's not in gaming seems immaterial and I have no idea why this doofus is fixating on that. Sarah Bond wasn't a gamer either. Reggie himself was a non-gamer who came from Pizza Hut. Phil is pretty unique in that he actually was a gamer but that doesn't seem to have served him any better as an executive. If anything, what Microsoft needs is someone who will crack skulls instead of being close with the creatives and giving them too much leash.
Xbox is not, and has never been good. And has never contributed anything positively to gaming and the broader medium. Only Americans might disagree. And I have no idea why. Xbox has been a blight on the medium, and has time and time done nothing but make things worse. And you can't even point to Halo or whatever and try to act like it was worth it, because even as a fan of Halo, the original Halo's PC release was superior to its Xbox release. And without Xbox, the entire series could have been made for PC.
>>733660968yeah rrod caused people to buy way more 360s which inflated sales too. In reality it's definitely behind the PS3 by more than a couple million. The OG models LITERALLY had a 50% failure rate. There's only a few of them left that work.
>>733659829Underrated
>>733659139I doubt it, but imagine. XBox gets killed by some AI Pajeeta that got her firs achievements in January 2026.
>>733659139At this point if your granny buys you an Xbox, she officially hates you.-Fleekazoid
>>733661024Consoles haven't been special since 7th gen. The last gen where we got unique hardware specifically built for gaming and there was a lot of room to grow both in terms of graphical capability and also in terms of new unexplored game genres. We hit the point of diminishing returns. Most people have no reason to upgrade their ps4 because games don't look noticeably better on a ps5.
>>733659826>>733661185Both Microsoft and Sony are eating shit and they deserve it. They put people in charge that would rather push Black History Month and Pride Month bullshit instead of making good products. Let's just pump gritty science fiction settings full of rainbows and other assorted faggot shit. Surely that will improve the intellectual property. Great idea Microsoft. Meanwhile Sony's stupid fucking retard teams are shitting out absolute garbage full of fatfucks, trannies, and rainbow people like Concord and wondering what went wrong.The 0.7% of the population this shit appeals to don't spend $70 on videogames, let alone half a grand on a god damned console to play them.
>>733661394>Phil is pretty unique in that he actually was a gamer>this retard still believes this lieAnyway, he's right and I can Microsoft spinning-off and selling-off ABK and Bethesda in the next couple of years with the next Xbox going up in flames.>what Microsoft needs isTo fuck off from gaming, we have Nintendo, Sony, and Valve now, Microsoft is no longer needed. There is no selling point to the future of Xbox because why bother when Nintendo, PlayStation, and Steam hardware exist. What reason is there to get an Xbox?>>733661406American here, looking back and you're 100% right. Notice how things are starting to get better as Xbox dies.
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Super funny watching Xbox dominate the cultural consciousness for so long only for it to fade into the wind like this. I would have discussions with people about how it's Nintendo who's doing everything wrong and they should just give up.
>>733661652True, Sony's the only one fixing their problem and course correcting though, Microsoft really doesn't give a shit about gaming and it shows.
>>733661185This. Sony forcing Xbox out means that they can finally stop focusing so much on raw power which will keep costs down and hopefully make game releases quicker. I remember during the 7th gen PCfags complained that the consoles were holding back PC hardware. But look at what the fuck is happening now? Every single goddamn hair follicle and testicle fold has to be rendered in 8K which makes costs balloon and dev time has gotten out of control. I would literally be fine with PS4/Switch 2 tier graphics forever. Fuck this shit.
>>733660615>>733660486Hardware has gone awayThe PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series are PCsI am being very specific about this because the 360, PS3, Nintendo 64, fuckin' Sega Genesis, etc., those were all consoles, they all had their own unique quirks and meritsIn 2014 people stopped making consoles and just started shitting out rebadged PCs and we all just accepted it for some reason
>>733661406What a retarded post. Also an uninformed one considering the PC ports of Halo were known to be fucking shit to the point the MCC devs went back and added a bunch of xbox features to MCC which were based off the PC versions.
>>733661764>dominate the cultural consciousness for so longNigger, it only dominated during the first half of the 7th gen and only in the anglo world. In Europe and Japan it was a different story from day one. Xbox didn't even win a single goddamn generation.
>>733661764>dead last console every single generation since its inception>dominate
>>733661406Yup. Xbox has been a net negative to the industry, by far. Rest in shit. >>733661874shut up retard, xbox has been nothing but cancer from the start. They literally invented paying for your own internet twice and popularized microtransactions. Not to mention putting motherfucking ads in your dashboard and calls to join the army. Get the fuck outta here faggot.
>>733661406>The 2003 Gearbox port of Halo: Combat Evolved for PC (ported by Gearbox) introduced several exclusive features but was plagued by significant graphical downgrades, broken shaders, and altered AI behavior compared to the 2001 Xbox original. While the Gearbox version offered online multiplayer and custom maps, it lacked the visual fidelity, such as proper transparency and bump mapping, found on the Xbox. Are you stupid?
what was even their last real big hit game?
>>733661406Nah Xbox shit all over the SnoyCube. From the controller to the console power to the exclusives (RIP) just a premium quality experience all the way down.
>>733662104>exclusivesIt has like 5 worthwhile games lmao, it's just a worse PC. Not to mention it'll shit itself and die even if you leave it alone. Xbox hardware has always been unreliable garbage.
>>733661790It's going to be fun. Nintendo will be the absolute floor, Valve will hold the middle ground, Sony will be above them but not extreme. Anything above that will be unaffordable dogshit. Most devs will just follow these three and make games for everyone with all three showing the uniqueness of their hardware with tech demos. My childhood will return in full force.
>>733659326That pass through shit was actually pretty good. Too bad for them it was created at the time when people stopped having to share a TV due to smartphone proliferation.
>>733662080probably forza or something. It'll never cease to amaze me how the MCC was released in such a broken state and remained as such for years lol.
>>733662053Xbox might have done some shady things but PlayStation has been far, far, far worse to the point i vowed the ps2 was going to be my last ever PlayStation console and it has been ever since. After the 360 I built a PC in 2011 and never looked back. I'd sacrifice PlayStation any day over xbox. Never have i seen a company or fanbase as cancerous as PlayStation. Even to this day despite their games being on PC, Sony down talks PC gaming and their fans absolutely hate PC gaming with a passion where they smash their consoles whenever a PC port is announced lol. Remember when horizon was announced for PC and that guy smashed his PS4? Weird people, just get rid of them.
>>733661769>Sony's the only one fixing their problem and course correcting thoughOnly because it's got Japs in charge and they somehow have remained resistant to the baizuo mind virus. I don't have confidence in their leadership after watching them clamp own on Arrowhead, forcing them to police their fan community like a fucking prison camp and instantly banning anyone that dares to reference any real world event that happened in the last 400 years. Allowing corporations to exist as international conglomerates and holding companies was a colossal fucking mistake.
>>733661406Halo wasnt even developed by Microsoft. Microsoft bought it after it was done for PC and released it in it's failed Xbox console as a middle finger to PC gamers for rejecting Microsoft gaming on PC. Those are the facts.
>>733661024Because you are playing on a shitty pc. Xbox was an actual console for exactly one gen. The 360 was already a hybrid and everything after relied on selling people the same live service slop as on PC's but in an extremely shit version trough a shitty monthly subscription browser using your already paid internet connection. Consoles were great as physical one time buy media. When you bought a game on a disc and had the machine that was (compared to a PC) easily portable and could be connected to the next TV that used to be everywhere. I vividly remember bringing my Playstation to vacation homes for the evenings and having a blast with the other kids and couch coop etc. Stuff like that. Consoles functioned with a local, small time power source, basic tech and a disc. Now you have to be careful to gather enough good boy points or Jeetsoft will simply not let you play your library anymore - whoopsie! You can throw the shitcan away now. Couch coop? But that would mean at least one subscription less. Cant let you do that Dave! You better be careful with your anti-corp think or we have to ban you another month.
>>733662239That'd be great. Literally everything microsoft touches gets worse. The OG xbox and early 360 were decent despite microsoft being at the helm, not because of it. But it couldn't last forever and their true nature finally fully revealed itself with the kinect.
>>733662053Sony literally charges you a sub to download games in rest mode. I've never seen anything as cancer as that before or since.
>>733662104Only the PC, PS2, GameCube, and GBA were worth it, Xbox was ass. When I got a 360, like two to three years down the line, I wished I had just got a PlayStation 3 instead. Xbox somehow makes you dislike video games and the moment you drop it for PC, Nintendo, and or PlayStation, you fall in love with gaming again.
>if a competitor dies, things are gonna get better!why are snoys so retarded
Phill didn't want to retire, Nutella gave him the ultimatum, retire to save face or be fired
>>733662317Microsoft has been trying to destroy PC gaming for years since PC gamers rejected Microsoft as gaming platform GFWL. Every single industry bad trend is Microsoft's fault. Every single one. You cannot blame Sony for it on the contrary you have to be glad Sony killed Microsoft in the console space and owe them an apology.
>>733662317How has PlayStation been far, far, far worse? Give concrete examples that impacted the industry in a worse way than forcing people to pay for their own internet again or popularizing microtransactions. It just sounds like you're incredibly butthurt the ChadStation raped, shitted on and killed Xbox. The fact you're still mad about the PS2 proves this and is hilarious.
>>733662439Kinect was a massive success though. It held the Guinness book of world records record for fastest selling consumer electronics device in history till the switch came along. It was mattricks baby and why he was promoted to head of xbox. But he leaned way too much into it and it flopped with the xbox one. But saying kinect was some sort of bad thing is contrary to reality.
BasedXbox has been unprofitable since the late 2000sThe only reason it still exists is because america wanted a gaming brand in the industry
nobody is going to miss xbox. halo 2 was fun but it came out more than 20 years agoi wish it would have died sooner, so that >we could have a romanticized nostalgia for it like with the dreamcast, but instead we had to witness it becoming shittier and shittier for generations until we see it put down like a rabid dog
>>733662468Nintendo sells you games without the game installed on the physical cartridge, please cope
>>733661069They'll try and sell a lot of their stuff first. Activision and Mojang are safe. The rest aren't.
>>733662606Ps2 was a great console. Ps3 was dogshit. I abandoned PlayStation at ps3. Learn to read.
>>733662326Exactly, the Nips realized their western branch copying Microsoft were retarded and finally took control again, this will continue until PlayStation of old is back. The death of Xbox is honestly the best thing to happen to gaming which makes me believe the whole gaming will get worse if Microsoft leave nonsense just came from dumb Xbots ignoring that Microsoft was the reason gaming was getting worse.
>>733659139And you can expect every IP worth a damn to remain in limbo forever for the astronomical possibility that there's even a cent of value in gaming at ANY point in the future.Not that there's a lot though.
>>733662317It's obvious you hopped onto the Xbox 360 because it was the clear lead at that point, not because you were unhappy with PS2 games. Though Sony has sure faltered, many of those problems are attributable to Sony Interactive's CEO coming from outside Japan, which is now not a problem. A company that hated the PC wouldn't release that many PC ports.
>>733661069>What are the odds they just nuke everything?Zero. Even Atari still clings to life to this day thanks to their IPs and software development studios.
>>733662468As cancerous as creating the concept of needing pay to play your games online? This is literally caused by microsoft you retard. It's all the fault of xbox making sony and nintendo take money for literally nothing because they saw subhumans just taking it up the ass on xbox and paying for fucking nothing. Then these companies started putting features behind a paywall so it'd seem "worth it" to have ps plus or NSO.
>>733662552I'm an idort, Microsoft is a cancer, and has always been a cancer to gaming. They only get worse as time goes on. It has to end, man.
>>733662635It was a bad thing. After the kinect was launched they stopped releasing good exclusives for the core audience. This carried over to the xbone. Nobody gives a shit about the kinect.
>>733662681Nintendo are scummy now too. But not nearly as scummy as Sony. Like they insult you to your face but their fans defend it. Example: you can make local backups of ps4 saves on USB, on a ps5. But you can't do the same on a ps5, with ps5 games. So they're forcing you into this mandatory subscription just to be able to preserve your saves. Not even MS does that and they offer it for free, as does steam and pretty much every except Sony and nintendo.
>>733659340Honestly who even cares, games will still be made regardless. People passionate will find a way. Nobody needs Xbox.
Will next gen be the first where we only have 2 big name consoles?
>>733659402They tried crypto first, and that didn't work out.
>>733662730Still waiting for those examples. Demon's mogs everything on 360, by the way.
>>733659139We’ve all known for a while Xbox would be folded into Microsoft Gaming and go cloud only. This is actually bad because now Sony can do whatever they want as the only console manufacturer. Both MS and Sony have said they don’t consider Nintendo competition.
>>733659139>brought in a pajeet to kill the brand that pajeet is presiding overYeah, that's about right.
>>733662394The Game Pass push is incredibly stupid and we can only expect it to get stronger now that an AI executive is in charge. Still, Microsoft games are easily purchased without a subscription to Game Pass and that has improved recently.
>>733659139>imagine asking somebody if it made sense to put a major motion picture studio into the hands of somebody who didn't like moviesI don't have to imagine, that's what happen with Disneyfied Lucasfilm and Kathleen Kennedy.
>>733660440Didn't the xbox first come out in 2001? So he co-created the first xbox and then just immediately left, afterwards? Why? Didn't he get along with management, or something?
>>733662468wow, why does nobody talk about this? this is apple tier shadyness but not even apple does this actually. fuck sony
>>733661790They are just going to get more jew-y now that they lost a major alternative offering for customers to move to.
>>733661072>Might as well quote a random post from 4chan and /v/.They do that, they repost it on twitter and then say: "many users are claiming..."
>>733660808They do not want to give you freedom. If you buy on Steam and not their storefront, they lose their 30% cut. If you can pirate all the games, they lose even more money.
>>733662997The Star Trek brand is also being run by people who actively hate Star Trek.
>>733662870Nintendo is incapable of keeping up with modern hardware and Playstation will not face any consequences for their live-service slop push. There's nothing good about the end of XBOX.
>>733662997I hate the modern Star Wars movies too, but Kennedy was producer on a ton of beloved films and worked directly with George Lucas on Indiana Jones.
>>733662965Did anyone really expect anything else from subhuman street shitters?
>>733661661>Anyway, he's right and I can Microsoft spinning-off and selling-off ABK and Bethesda in the next couple of yearsLiterally who has the money to buy these companies? Microsoft is the richest company involved in gaming. There's no bigger fish to sell to.>To fuck off from gaming, we have Nintendo, Sony, and Valve now, Microsoft is no longer needed.This is why retards are retards. I understand why some gamers hate Microsoft. But put that aside and consider this from Microsoft's perspective for two seconds. Why would Microsoft specifically choose to do this? Xbox generates a profit. Microsoft doesn't have any debt they need to get rid of. There's no sucker rich enough to make them a decent offer. Even if Satya wanted to get rid of Xbox at some point, he's stuck with them now.
>>733662635kinect was trash and like all microsoft things it was not develped by microsoft. microsoft just bought it. the kinect was the worse one of all motion controllers of its time to the point it became a meme in that infamous xbox conference.
>>733663151There was nothing good about xbox to begin with. American garbage.
>>733662468WTF. I was on the fence between xbox and PS for gta 6 but fuck this I'm not paying ps+ just to download updates are they high? I'll just buy an xbox instead
>>733663152>but Kennedy was producer on a ton of beloved filmsAnyone who is stupid enough to disseminate "THE FORCE IS FEMALE" as a marketing phrase is a subhuman dreg and I hope they fucking die.
>>733662790Different contextsAtari's still a vidya company first and foremostSatya's AI fetish has the potential to make the great Pachinko push of the early 2010's look like a joke
>>733662925Next gen is going to be niches with living room boxes being optional. Handhelds will take over with Nintendo, Sony, and Valve, but they won't battle each other, they'll have their own ecosystem for their fans and lock down a niche. All three will have exclusive tech demo games to show off the hardware and optimization for third parties to make games for. It's going to be a huge shift away from Windows with development being pushed on Nintendo, Sony, and Linux through SteamOS. This is inevitable at this point.
>>733660808Offering two directly competing operating systems that run different software is obviously shooting yourself in the foot. They could just make a new Xbox that ran on Windows and I wouldn't blame them.
>>733659139Can we finally just admit maybe women are the problem? Not the chicks that can hang with the boys, I mean nomie women feeling welcome.>Sarah Bond takes over Xbox, fucks it so hard in the dirt hardware for it dies and beloved companies go to shit>Ubislop & blizzard hire shit tons of women, suddenly sexual harassment lawsuits fly like crazy and the companies are now worthless.>Anime cons start pandering to cosplay whores, now it's not about anime it's about whores taking selfies shilling their OF and fucking voice actors for clout and job opportunities.>Kathleen Kenedy turned starwars into a lesbian coven fantasy and now no one gives a shit about the franchiseNo wonder society never lets women have any authority or power. These bitches literally cannot do anything without making it self insert dogshit then blame you for not liking it.
>>733659139Rest in piss just for pushing AI slop to be mainstream and goypass lobotomize a generation of retards that want free games.
>>733659402
Xbox's entire value was its ability to dip into Microsoft's infinite budget. If Microsoft can't give them budget, there's no point.
>>733662681Nintendo hasn't done that(yet), just lazy/cheap devs.(hence why gamefreak did one)
>>733663217it just updates when you turn it on instead, it's not even a big deal. you might as well get the one that might have exclusives at some point.
>>733662961Sony is about to kill off their western branch turning them into support like Nintendo did because they no longer have a need for them with Microsoft fucking off. Sony's PS3-PS5 mindset is going away. Nintendo isn't competition, neither is Valve, Sony isn't competition for them either. Future of gaming is those three being in their own niche not bothering one another. Only Microsoft lost. Microsoft tried to compete with Nintendo, Sony, and Valve all separately and lost every time. Xbox is doomed.
>>733659139Consolidation under Copilot Studios.
>>733663214Not their fault the Gamecube and the Dreamcast failed. Not their fault that the PS3 had no games and was overpriced. Not their fault that other companies decided to the replicate the same paid online shit instead of being "nice" to their costumers.
>>733663251The protagonist of the coming film is a woman and women were considered a large untapped market. More importantly, no one thought her job would involve screaming about "FEMALE" empowerment. It was assumed that she'd help put out another film like Jurassic Park.
>>733663151>Nintendo is incapable of keeping up with modern hardwareThey don't need to>Playstation will not face any consequences for their live-service slop pushSony's about to drop it because it's a money pit.>There's nothing good about the end of XBOX.Xbox held gaming back for too long, gaming was better when Xbox didn't exist, gaming will get better when Xbox leaves gaming.
>>733659434>Embrace, extend, extinguishThat's what Google does nowadays, and on a time scale of 1-2 decades as opposed to a few years. They are locking down Chrome so it can't run adblock, they are locking down Android so it can't run anything outside google store, they locked down Maps API so you can't use it without setting up billing first, they are currently doing the same to Recaptcha, etc etc etc.
>>733663421hell no I'll buy the one which actually complements my pc if anything. I already have game pass on pc.
>first thing indian does in a new tech position is smear AI on it like it was cow dung on their own bodyi don't think another race is as adamant about being hated as indians
>>733663151Nintendo has reached the final frontier of performance, Switch 2 is about as powerful as PS4 and that is more than enough graphical performance for any non-VR game. Playstation is getting an occasional reminder that solid singleplayer games have so far given them more profit than their live service attempts lost. The only thing that will be lost with Xbox's death is all the IPs they carry, because they for sure aren't starting a garage sale to let someone else have Halo.
>>733663195>Literally who has the money to buy these companies? Microsoft is the richest company involved in gaming. There's no bigger fish to sell to.Tencent is big enough. They would probably be interested in a few franchises currently held hostage by Mumbaisoft.
>>733663481You never see Lifetime and Hallmark producers like “50% of the population is male. Why aren’t we tapping into that market? Women will watch us no matter what.” It’s only male products like Star Wars and video games that need to accommodate the other sex.
>>733659562RROD was strike one. Imagine having such a lead, and your competition fucks up (PS3), only to have it slowly evaporate with the most failure prone hardware.Kinect was strike two. Way too late to jump on motion controls, the Wii was slipping in popularity in 2010 as everyone bought one and after a couple years the novelty wore off. Also everyone realizing a button press is still more immediate than moving an entire limb.Xbone was strike three, you're out. TV TV TV and refusing to let consumers share games had to the most buttfuckingly stupid marketing ever done.
>>733659139>AI will subsume games like it will subsume everything."Feels like in listening to a cult.
>>733663481>The protagonist of the coming film is a woman and women were considered a large untapped market.I still do not understand the fascination with this ignorant shit anyway. Some of the greatest science fiction films, even all the way back in the 1970s, had female protagonists. Furthermore, the Force is an intangible non-entity that is manipulated by people who use it regardless of their intentions. It's not biological, it's not sapient, and it sure as fuck does not have a gender. But hey I guess I should be careful with that or the next buzzphrase will be "THE FORCE IS GENDERQUEER!!!"
>>733661940>dead last console every single generation since its inceptionOG Xbox did rape Gamecube thoever.
>>733663195>Literally who has the money to buy these companies? Microsoft is the richest company involved in gaming. There's no bigger fish to sell to.They'll either sell them to the Saudies or sell them to the Chinks, if they don't do that, they'll spin them off.>Xbox generates a profitIf that were true, they wouldn't have gotten rid of Phil and Sarah. Xbox is on its way out. Microsoft is known to kill things in the worst way possible. It's coming.
>>733663198Kinda hilarious reading this as someone not invested in this knowing that Sony also didn't make half the shit they put out in gaming. Hardware is all amd shit for the last 15 years and their highest rated games are from studios they bought like naughty dog with tlou or bungie with destiny.
The original Xbox was great and the 360 was fine. Everything else after that tarnished their legacy. Only thing of loss is Rare.
>>733663098Gaben isn't any kind of "good guy", either. You literally aren't allowed to put your game on steam, unless you agree to price parity across all the platforms. So you can't have your game cost 60 bucks on steam but 30 bucks on epic, for example. Gayben is a scummy fat fucking kike and that's a fact and all based mofos out there know it.
>>733661652I literaply uninstalled MCC because of this shit. Seemed like every time I felt the urge to play a Halo game, my eyes were assaulted with this vile shit. These days I just break out the old xbox.
>>733659826>Sony is putting literally all their stuff on PCthat's literally free money
>>733663584then why would you use it for anything other than gta ever? you at least get access to some other exclusives on ps5. idk why someone would pick more of the same instead of having more options.
>>733663832Hated that sack of lard since HL2 required online authentication.
>>733659960>The early 360 was the only time Microsoft had a decent exclusively libraryDon't forget Lost Planet, Beautiful Katamari, even Idolmaster was 360 exclusive, plus they had a metric fuck ton of import shmups.
>>733662104>Nah Xbox shit all overitself? KOTOR is to be played on PC. Playing it on consoles is dreadful. And for all the faults of Playstation. Until recently, it used to have real exclusives and a decently strong frequency of production of them too. Xbox never did. If you had a PC, you didn't need an Xbox. Japanese Xbox got small portion of actual exclusives. But that's about it. And it does not remedy the harm that Xbox has wrought.
project gotham racign 3 and 4 are the best games from nextgen generation.Forza motorsport 2 is good but pgr3 and pgr4 remains at the top.
>>733663730Gamecube lost the race in the west because both PS2 and Xbox doubled as media players and had sports games. Even then, OG Xbox really slumped in Japan despite their best efforts to appeal to them, they even redesigned the controller for them and they still didn't buy it.
>>733663832I don't want to go back to having 8 different PC launchers, so price parity is a good thing.
its what i have been saying for the past few days. we knew this. still shouldnt be a jeet janny being in charge.
>>733659340pretty normal for microsoft, "this industry will exist on our terms or it will not exist at all".
>>733663961>Gamecube lost the race in the westIts global sales were in last place, and the system's sales in Japan were about a million less than the N64 in Japan. The PS2 just raped everyone that gen.
>>733660615All the people who think this is about MUH CLOUD COMPUTING are retarded and falling for an unironic AIshill grift. You fucking retards forget that the hardware shortages affect ALL electronics, including the ones needed to access cloud computing garbage in the first place.
>>733663890ps5? exclusives? dont make me laugh. you can play pretty much everything on pc and dont pretend like youre oblivious to this fact. buying a ps5 alongside a pc is retarded when you think about it because there's no overlap. even if I did hypothetically play a ps5 game on ps5 and then want to continue on pc there is no cross progression for Sony games.
>>733659340They'll probably start treating their IPs like how they treat MechWarrior, just license that shit out to third parties with no involvement. Games can even be exclusive to other platforms and never release on Microsoft's own platforms.
>>733659326It does, just no one uses it. There's a HDMI in on the back for your cable box.
>>733664159That would be way smarter than what they've been doing. It's more likely they'll ask an AI what a given product should be and then ask AI to make it.
>>733664158kek, angry little xgroid. Sorry but the xbox got raped killed by the ChadStation.
>>733659139No shit
>>733661406Truth nuke
>>733659139>Buys 5 studios for their exclusives>Still losesBravo
>>733659340It was all part of the Great Reset.
>>733659139Dire times xbros. I guess I'll just go back to pirating
>>733663451Ah yes, because companies seeing another company get money for literally nothing was not going to make them do the same. Fucking subhuman microshil.
>>733659340they didnt buy anything good anywayall of the companies have turned into shit anything that becomes popular and does well eventually falls into some rich faggot losers sights who then sinks their claws into it and corrupts it to the core.
>>733659139microsoft is so shit even the glowniggers are mad lmao
>>733663787>sony didnt did half of its shitwrong but fair enough and yet microsoft did not did a single thing. not even one. from that perspective it is funny trying to laugh at something far superior while you are at the bottom of an abyss. need i to remind you before there ever was tlou there was uncharted? sit down boy, you are embarrassing yourself.
>>733664158>you can play pretty much everything on pcbut not everything, and you do get ahead of the timed exclusives as well. i mostly game on pc, the only game i played on ps5 last year was death stranding 2 that i could have waited to play that on pc but that's STILL better than xbox because it let me do something i couldn't do on pc at the time. if you're buying a console for gta6, this is a pretty obvious answer. > even if I did hypothetically play a ps5 game on ps5 and then want to continue on pc there is no cross progression for Sony games.you have to the use the windows store on pc for crossbuy, which is aids. game pass is for cucks too, just pirate the damn thing if you don't want to support the devs. there is no world where xbox+pc is the play. it is the dumbest combo you can have. access to more games>>>>>>>>>being able to play the same games. and it's not even like a steam deck where you have portability going for it.
>>733664331my pc mogs all your consoles
>>733659340They're closing their console department (which has been shit for more than 10 years anyway). There's no way they're gonna close activision or bethesda or other money printing studios
>>733659340I was telling retards once xbox shuts down Microsoft isn't gonna bother with gaming at all, none of this third part B's since that's fucking chump change for them
>>733659139So she's basically going to be in charge of managing the process of selling/repurposing all the user data they have because you know it's not going to waste.
>>733663659they actually only had a lead in the US and UK. It was being outsold worldwide. Xbox was always only an American/anglo thing. God the xbone was shit and then they followed it up with a console that's even worse with less games lmao
>>733659139if xbox was smart, they'd accomplish this by making their next "console" an equivalent to the steam machine but for windows. insane they didn't make this move already when they're owned by fucking microsoft. just ship it with a cheap bluetooth keyboard and a free year of game pass, people will buy it
>>733660319Rare doesn't like treading old ground and game developers don't grow on trees>Spends half a billion on halo infinite for it to die in a monthYeah that kind of illustrates the problemMicrosoft could in-theory literally make an entirely new studio to inherit old IPs that their home developers are not interested in re-visiting but that doesn't guarantee good games necessarily Hell, we already saw that with the Initiative which imploded
>>733659139>They won't be able to hold back an entire medium from its potential anymoreOh-oh no....whens nintendo and sony shutting down too then?
>>733664531i dont value consoles at all. I don't care about Sony games and never have. exclusives dont mean shit if they're all on pc eventually its not like everyone doesnt already have an insane backlog of steam games. Also I hate symmetrical sticks. I've been using xbox and recently gamesaar and gulikit xbox knockoffs and would prefer to continue using it unless someone puts a gun to my head. the real question here is why are rockstar not just releasing it on pc day 1.
>>733664458>ummm, I only committed a crime because I saw another person commit a crime. I'm a good person actuallyWhat is it that you don't get, retard? If Playstation stuck with their free online you would have a point, but they didn't because they are just as cancerous.
>>733661790>"I would literally be fine with PS4/Switch 2 tier graphics forever"little lad wtf are you even talking about?you know RDR2 was on PS4, right?RDR2 is literally the best looking video game on the market.
>Nintendo has reached the final frontier of performanceIncredible bait
>>733664528Microsoft co-developed the zen processor which is in the ps5. Which is funny because Sony co developed the cell of which the good parts ended up in the xbox 360. These companies dont make shit themselves expecially Sony. The point about sony buying naughty dog doesn't change regardless of the games they made. They were still acquired just like bungie and a bunch of other studios they've acquired over the years.
>>733664830if you prefer the xbox controller layout then go for it i guess but keep in mind the price of xbox consoles is higher than playstation consoles now, even the series s is about the price of a cuck digital ps5 despite being much weaker. >the real question here is why are rockstar not just releasing it on pc day 1.to catch double dippers, as always.
>>733663610I agree, honestly. Improving graphics has done nothing but result in shittier and shittier games, year after year. Games peaked before the late 2000s.
>>733665083I can find a series s on Facebook marketplace for £120.
>>733664541nigger you don't even own your games lol
>>733665176i would probably wait to see performance reports before buying a series s in particular unless you wanna play at 30 fps locked instead of 60.
>>733665013>Microsoft co-developed the zen processor which is in the ps5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBzk-WNdvrA
remember when xnigs on here were partying it up saying cod and all the future bethesda games would be exclusives and that xbox won? LMAOOOO
>>733659139They are essentially becoming a AI-driven subscription-first platform. It was fun while it lasted!
>>733664925Yes, that's what I just said, dum dum. PS4 games literally look better than PS5 games in a lot of cases.
>>733665265Ive already seen the DF analysis on the gta 6 "captured on ps5" trailer and they straight up said there's no way current gen consoles reach 60 fps with the graphical fidelity they were snowing in the trailer so its going to be a 30 fps game on all platforms by the looks it till it comes to pc. Hopefully I only have to wait 3 months and then I can flog the console to a charity or some family friend with a kid.
>>733665289To be fair, I don't think anyone expected them to immediately commit suicide by AI and jeet ethnic nepotism
>>733665289>healthiest man in india
>>733664868Why the hell would either Sony or Nintendo do that when they saw free profit for nothing? Stupid nigger. Microsoft literally made their competitors stoop to their level, they're a bad fucking influence, xbox has been a bad influence on gaming, like I've been fucking saying.
>>733665372showing*looks of it*
>>733665372the time it takes console games to get ported to pc is becoming shorter, 3 months would be good. i wouldn't expect them to announce the pc port until after christmas though unless it's far away just so they can catch more double dippers.
>>733665385anyone who has been following microsoft should've know they'd fuck everything up like they always do. Microsoft hardware especially is the biggest meme on the planet, the fact xbox made it this far with so many iterations is a miracle honestly. They kill off hardware with the frequency of google.
>>733659563Rare died when they left Nintendo. Stupid fucking sea of thieves zoomer >>733659402They’ll just use their army of poos and AI to shit slop endlessly until the AI replaces the poos.
>>733665462I will hope and pray gta 6 is a play anywhere title
>>733659487Honestly concerned about this, I like my GS its not a lot but of curated games that I love
>>733665614While I prefer PlayStation I kinda dig Xbox hardware. Still think they knocked It outta the park with the One X, complete opposite of the PS4 Pro (smaller than it’s predecessor, quieter and cooler) and if there was one thing I wish my PS5 had it’s quick resume. Such a shame about the other stuff and boy did I miss out only jumping onto the GamePass train way late last July mere months before they torched everything.
>>733665424>Why the hell would either Sony or Nintendo do that when they saw free profit for nothing?Exactly, they all went for the gold pot because they had their own interests in mind, and they didn't give a shit about what the players thought. They don't get a pass for replicating the same bad practices as Microsoft.You already get my point so fuck off, retard.
>>733661394Oh yeah Phil the gamer that released garbage like nu-battle toads.
>>733665871considering rockstar delays their pc ports to make people buy the game twice, the odds of that happening are astronomically low unless microsoft is giving them over a hundred million dollars for that.
>>733666087No, you have no point, you're just defending microshit because you're an xnigger. You know perfectly well they're to blame for the vast majority of cancerous practices and fucked gaming up. Fuck you and your retarded brand.
>>733666126Never forget we lost Scalebound under this Bozos watch
>>733659139>new head of XBOX is YET ANOTHER Indian pajeet>it came out that she has never once played a video game in her life before being hired here>she's being pushed here because she's another AI loving pajeetJUSTFUCKMYSHITUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP
>>733665948xbox hardware has been unreliable garbage for most of its life, I don't give them much of a pass when they only got their shit together semi-recently. At least you had BC and a decent controller though. You're definitely late to the goypass party. A used series s and kikepass let you play a ton of releases for practically free, it was never going to last. Microsoft are such fucking retards lmao, how did anyone think that was sustainable.
>Ragebait some anon>Check 30 minutes later and he's still here arguing with someone else pretending to be me
>sells its IPs to Sony>uses the money to make Windows 12 good>Sony releases dozens of exclusives and sinks Nintendont All according to Kotaku
>>733661394Phil's more comparable to say....an Iwata position than ReggieReggie was just in charge of managing business here in America, Phil's position was about handling Microsoft Gaming as a whole
>>733666230You sound like a deranged weeb. The typical cattle that pays $20 for emulated roms.I just don't want gaming to turn into a snoy monopoly. And no, doing the same cancerous shit does not make them any better and you retarded nigger arguments will not convice me otherwise.
>>733664008I have gog steam and epic. It's just three icons on my desktop. I auto log in when i klick em. It's not as big a deal as you're making it out to be.
>>733659340A very wise man told me.The entirety of AAA gaming is heading into a recession.Western games are trash.andWesterners cannot resist the temptation to destroy the game industry with their hubris and have been seething about the video game crash for over 40 years.
>>733659139>every company gets rid of everything to focus on A.I.>nobody around to use A.I. products
>>733659139>I imagine asking somebody if it made sense to put a major motion picture studio into the hands of somebody who didn't like moviesPretty sure that's what happened to the SciFi channel when they put someone in charge who hated Sci Fi and she smothered it with a pillow.
>>733666730Sony doesnt even have a monopoly now when everyone is preparing for the market shift to PC and handhelds so what makes you think they'll have a monopoly at any point in the future when devices like steam machine, mini PCs, switch, PC handhelds and so on exist?
>>733664284Believe an update removed the fester about halfway through the generation
>>733667062Not everyone wants to play on pc or handheld
>>733666730>You sound like a deranged weeb. The typical cattle that pays $20 for emulated roms.Projection. You're an xnigger, you don't even own your games to begin with. Xbox dying is a good thing, your shitty brand got raped and lost, good fucking riddance, faggot.
>>733667253>can't even fucking play your physical games on xbox without making an account and connecting to the internet>neither sony or nintendo do thisKEKAROOOO god xbox is SHIT
>>733662681Most disc games on xbox and ps do that as well
>>733659340>implying american videogame industry has produced anything of worth in the last 15 years
>>733667181A playstation is literally a pc with a console interface and a bunch of other proprietary shit. A device like a steam machine is no different to a playstation in terms of ease of use with a controller but offers infinitely more games and features and you dont have to pay subscriptions and you can use any input you want. So what you just said is pretty dumb.
What goes through the Xbox believer's heart and mind right now?
>>733662681Switch games aren't cartridges, they're glorified SD cards. The data will literally leak out of them, 3DS games are already dying as are some switch 1 games. It's no N64. I'd rather have the data be etched physically onto a disc if real cartridges aren't an option.>>733667397Yes, it's over 90% on PS5. But you still need to connect to the internet no matter what on the xbox lmao just like >>733667387 said.
>>733667253This, I'm expecting multiple studio closures, death of all things Xbox, massive layoffs under restructuring, studios going independent and taking their IPs with them, Microsoft licensing out their IPs, Microsoft killing off the Xbox hardware altogether, Microsoft putting games on Switch 2, PlayStation, and Steam, while not getting involved with gaming, Microsoft may even shove what's left of their IPs in AI just to save money. It's definitely Xover for Xbox.
>>733661072>downplaying it because it's painting putting an aislop exec in charge of the gaming division in a negative light
>buy pc, plug in xbox/ps controller wow I suddenly have an xbox/ps
>>733659139If Xbox leadership were smart they would have delisted Activision-Blizzard, Bethesda games and Minecraft from Playstation the moment they obtained them. Sony's 1st party have basically imploded this gen due to them trying to make 15 GaaS at once, and Microsoft in response choose become Playstations most vital 3rd party support.
>>733659340and nothing of value is lost
>>733667443I lost my ps5 last year, figured I’d give Xbox a chance given how good a value GamePass was months before they torched that and I ended up selling it. Was considering getting a ps5 again but in rolled the Steam Machine reveal and it was certainly appealing.Built pc’s in my teens and twenties but transitioned to console around the start of ps4 after my pc died and I got sick of dealing with the myriad of pc issues. With the Steam machine I felt I’d give it a shot and having next to no Steam library figured I’d get a Deck to work on my library in preparation for release. Turns out it’s delayed and I hated the deck, don’t leave the house much and it ran like shit docked. Have no need for portable systems just want a nice easy to use TV experience. Sold my Deck last week probably just get a ps5 pro next and ride that out until gaming dies. Don’t like pixel games or indies much, hate side scrollers but I did like Palworld, Arc Raiders and Planet Crafter. Sadly the latter is pc only rip. I don’t care for most of Sonys 1st party aside from maybe Kena and Soros much of what I play are service games.
Unless you're on nintendo, gaming is a dead wasteland right now.
>>733659614Unless MS actively kills them, I could see a sale to the Saudis, like with EA.
>>733668012That was never the plan, Halo started Xbox, Halo killed Xbox. Infinite costing close to $1 billion to make killed the Xbox console. Halo Infinite was free-to-play, launched on PC even Steam day one, was Day One on Game Pass, the game failed in every category and it's when Microsoft started making major changes.
>>733659836>streamingRetard-kun, internet infrastructure in the US can't handle that kind of data, as Stadia, Luna, and all those other flop game streaming services proved years ago. Even if you overcome the data limits, the speed is still too shitty for anything except casual games. I even live in one of the tech districts in SF and the internet here isn't good enough to stream games.
>>733659826Problem is that the gaming market is slipping from the hand of Microsoft. There is a serious movement to decouple gaming from Windows and just like with Xbox MS just watched as everyone built up their own playground. Xbox made not just the haters but the users the enemies of anything Microsoft.People still have no idea how will the general gaming audience react when MS pulls the plug and stops supporting the Xbox libraries because it cost too much. It will be first time when the gaming audience as a whole will stop for a second and realize "wow anyone can do this with me". It will be a huge blow for digital distribution on every platform.
>>733659340>this is the same company that has embedded itself within the military of a world spanning empireLel
>>733667816All of that is a vast improvement. I'd love for some of the IPs they own to be freed from the ms prison.
>>733659139sunset the entire pajeetsoft microslop
>>733662592I saw it pointed out that this news came right after Microsoft's end of financial quarter reporting. If that's true, it seems clear they blamed Xbox for the whole company underperforming (a lie that will work once and only once), and scapegoated Phil and Bond and brought in the poojeeta to put the division out of its misery. MS was already trying to kill it with the impossible 30% profit margin target the CFO sent down, this is just the next step of that.
>>733668816Me too, feels good to finally see Xbox go away, forever.
Please stop subscribing to cloud services if you value the gaming industry.
The past tense of "set" is set
>>733659340Please understand.
>>733659139They should have shitcanned the console after the failure of the Xbone, and brought Xbox HUEG & 360 emulation to PC.
>>733668261you're not even human
>>733668931Cheers to that, friend.
>>733669268>360 emulation to PC.The reason they didn't was because the foundations for their cancerous OS W11 and the infrastructure for total licensing control and surveillance weren't ready yet, I suspect these rat faggots will eventually add their fusion emulation to PC only if you have their jeeted AI spyware installed, account linked to your social credit/digital ID, always online. Also you'll be given a temporary license, meaning you don't own jackshit and it can be revoked at any moment.
>>733668261Bro, you're like the perfect goy cattle.
>>733659139Consoles as a concept don't have a future. They've enshittified everything that made them worthwhile, all while PC has only improved and now has everything. Xbox dying first is just a premonition for the other two.
>>733670232The only thing left in gaming will be Nintendo consoles, PlayStation consoles, Steam hardware, and prebuilts. SteamOS will grow as Microsoft continues to get worse. Xbox will die and die alone. Game industry is correcting itself from the damage Microsoft did to it.
>>733660486The strategy is consoles are a super risky and shitty business model that force you to start from scratch every 7 or so years and only limit the size of your audience. Unless you have an extreme cult that you constantly feed with brands, death is inevitable.
>>733670232Xbox isnt dying tho they're just changing with the times and probably for the better because people have been asking for windows on xbox since the og. At least they're finally doing what makes perfect sense
>>733670773>Xbox isnt dying thoCope
>>733664591>activisionReminder it was bought only for candy crush saga it's the only money printer out of 3 companies
>>733661470She is kinda cute in the image to the right.
>>733670773I'm sure microsoft will still make games, but xbox is dead.
>>733662681>BUT NINTENDOlmao
>>733671461every basic bitch poopjeeta hag would look better under ten layers of AI filters and photoshop
>>733662468That's the same kind of shit as charging for backup saves or voice chat. Paid online is cancerous as fuck no matter who you look at.
>>733671546They've said numerous times they're making new hardware which again makes sense cos they're going to be setting the hardware standard for xbox games on pc going forward from OEMs like lenovo, Asus and all those companies. And dont forget the copilot neural processor they absolutely need to put out into the market. It makes sense. New hardware + merging pc and console into one.
>>733663378Yeah and Dispatch wasn't censored on switch due to nintendo it was just lazy devs after all that's what everyone here coped with for the past 2 weeks
>>733659139let's be real here, microsoft already sunsetted the xbox. they clearly gave up on it years ago.
>>733671461She looks like a sephardi jewess mixed with a gypsy. Sandu Ciorba's music videos and JIDF yearbooks might be right up your alley.
>>733671710That was before they "retired" Phil and "resigned" Sarah, anon. This new chick was brought in specifically to kill the Xbox, that's a fact.
>>733670773>Xbox isn't dying tho
>>733666924You thirdies should stick to your gacha threads.
is the concept of a fall guy this obscure?
>>733672031Looks like anon touched a nerve, schizo bro
>>733659139On PC, the future of gaming is.
I'm sure spending $2 billion and 20 years for elder scrolls 6 will help xbox
>>733671854Why is it impossible for marketers to actually be funny?
>>733668556Retard. I live in bumfuck Virginia and have no issues. I doubt you even live on the North American continent.
>>733662394I remember I took my N64 when we went to Florida like an autist but I did end up playing Goldeneye with some kid.Different world.
>>733671854So embarrassing and humiliating for Xbros. Imagine if Nintendo did this ad during the Wii U era.
>>733671854Who the fuck were they targeting with these retarded ads?
>>733660509Retard.
>>733670447>death is inevitableSony and nintendo seem to be doing okay
>>733667443Retard.
>>733671921If it helps you sleep at night
>>733672328a meeting room full of execs/investors
>>733670447Consoles are super risky the "Microsoft" way, thus why Nintendo ignores them, Sony is course correcting away from Microsoft's direction, and Valve doesn't follow anything Microsoft does with their hardware. Everyone realized Microsoft is shit, some realized it years ago.
>>733672447You're going to be coping hard next gen, my friend.
Will never not be mad that Xbox Studios released exactly one critically successful budget game that was made in a timely manner and they shut down the studio who made it within a year, and yet somehow Double Fine, 343/Halo Studios, and the shitty and unsuccessful parts of Bethesda are allowed to exist.
I just like how leftists can't criticize a jeeta so they'll just take it and / or blame Trump (but they do that anyway).
>>733672653I migrated to PC back in 2015 buddy
>>733672384what niche could microsoft make for the xbox? after gamecube got destroyed by the ps2 they stopped competing in the high fidelity console wars and instead targeted the family party game market with low fidelity consoles where you would just play wii sports every now and then when family comes over. microsoft is finding itself in a similar position to sega where they're simply going to become a game publisher for their former rival.
>>733672696I wish your Xbot mind would have also migrated with you.
>>733659139Corporations are literally retarded. Don't give a shit about Xbox, but throwing everything you can think of into LLM's which are a bubble? LLM's are not AI.
>>733672759Seems you're the one with the console war mind. It's not me who needs to be worried about next gen especially when everything is moving towards pc except sony.
>>733672661I'd love them to fund more Hi-Fi Rush, but that studio also put out The Evil Within 2 and Ghostwire: Tokyo. It's unreasonable to expect their next release would have been another HFR.
>>733659139and satya nadella is sliding microsoft gently into the nightwcyd bros
>>733662887/thread
>buys half the games industry >all the studios they bought proceed to release mid slop that never gets higher than an 85 on metacritic Honestly it’s not their fault that 343, Bethesda, Obsidian, etc. dropped the ball.
>>733659836They will probably just get out of the console business, and continue pushing for more AI in the game development side.
>>733672661cause microshit and xbox were intentionally sabotaging jap studios/devs while making a quick profit off of their talents, they never intended to keep them around on the payroll in order to maximize profits and cut costs
>>733672875Good luck transitioning the entire business world, airports, nuclear power plants, etc from windows to Linux
>>733665627>Rare died when they left Nintendo.They still made good games like Kameo and Viva Pinata
>>733672994Good fucking luck keeping them on Windows 11 son.
>>733673028Retards say they died because they didn't shit out a mascot colecthaton every 2 years.
>>733673131Gamers wont leave windows. They have no reason to. Especially when they're not weird cultists who post here. Windows just works for the overwhelming majority of people. Hell, nvidia is borderline unusable on Linux still to this day.
>>733672328microsoft wanted to get everyone playing their games by advertising you don't need an xbox to play their games. it was an all around horrible campaign that cost the xbox sales.
>>733673290Give Microsoft more time to cook and they will convince a lot of people to move
>>733672994Windows is like 5-6% of Microsoft's revenue. They can bankrupt themselves without losing the corporate PCs monopoly.>airports, nuclear power plants, etc.Industries like these still use long unsupported versions of Windows and don't need Microsoft to be alive to continue to do so.
They fucked up themselves into a corner with the naming convention that bad huh
>>733673338Fun times
>>733673378To move to a worse platform? That doesnt make sense. If someone wants to play battlefield 6 or something why would they to go a platform where the game flat out doesnt work. I'm all for having alternative options but Linux has always been dogshit for gaming relative to windows. Even consoles have better support than Linux in some regards.
>>733673201It would've been piss easy to make Banjo Kazooie 3 instead of whatever Nuts and Bolts was and made a ton of money.
>>733659139>"I imagine asking somebody if it made sense to put a major motion picture studio into the hands of somebody who didn't like movies, or a major record label into the hands of somebody who'd never seen a live show," Blackley saidHas this guy been in a coma for the last 20 years?
>>733659139Yeah, and I would too at this point. Xbox has been a vestigial brand for a decade now.
>>733673338>>733673687Looking back this retarded bitch might have been one of the worst things to happen to xbox, but who knows, the indian bitch could still surpass sarah bond with something even more retarded.
>>733659562It wasn't a fluke - Xbox was led by Peter Moore going into the 360's early years, and he had a competent head on his shoulders. Then he stepped down and to this day, no one has filled even one of his shoes.
>>733673787>and made a ton of money.Yeah like Crash 4 was supposed to amirite
>>733659534what game is that
>>733659139who gives a shitt. xbro
>>733665627They were already dead by that point.
>>733659139Conquest's third law of politics>The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
>>733659139S.They got what they fucking deserved. I hope the rest of Microshit joins Xbox in hell soon.
>>733673934I really don't think it even matters what the Indian woman does at this point since Xbox being done seems set in stone.
>>733673993Crash 4 was not made by Naughty Dog.
>>733659139At least sell it to the Saudis or China
>>733659402The mechanical jeet will reduce the whole world to Indian.
>>733674695I doubt it. Xbox is in a position where people don't have much interest in the hardware but still have interest in the games the studios they acquired can make or rather their IP (like elder scrolls, call of duty etc). If people hated xbox they'd be done but all this lady needs to do is sell attractive hw. If that means selling a sick mini-pc with sick features then casuals will probably be interested while everyone else just builds there own. They have been provided a golden opportunity in a moment in time where everything is shifting towards pc gaming and they just so happen to own the biggest gaming platform on earth.
>>733663378Nintendo is the publisher, retard. The publisher decides how the game releases.
>>733666521>All according to KotakupfftI'll have to steal that one for later when Marathon flops.
>>733667397Lies. Check out does it play. Most PS5 games can be installed offline. Only scumbag companies like ubisoft and activision force internet on you to install. All of my Jap games (the only game I buy) can be installed and played completely offline. Now compare it to the switch 2 where even third party nip games usually require internet because they’re all on slop cards. It’s absurd. Sony is unironically the most physical friendly company right now.
>>733659139based jeet is accelerating like there is no tomorrow. to be fair xbox brand should have been killed with a bullet to the head long time ago.
>>733672384Playstation survives off sports shit for giga casuals, and the switch 2 is crashing and burning.
>>733672840Sony's course correcting. Nintendo, Sony, and Valve have people that care about gaming, Microsoft have people that hate it and want to stop supporting it, there's the difference. There is no console warring here, Nintendo players, PlayStation players, and PC players all one thing in common, they all hate Microsoft and Xbox.
>>733661790>What we wanted; stylized mid 2000s graphics not breaching uncanny valley with your vram and cpu ghtz going towards the game having 10x the depth and reactivity >What we got; every pore on a trannies face has it's own polygons in a linear walking simulator with ray tracing instead of NPC behavior packages.
>>733673338>>733673687This is bullshit given that Spencer came up with Xbox is everywhere back in 2020. They really don't want to pin anything on that bastard, do they?
>>733675765Only a Playstation fan thinks everyone hates xbox or depending on the day, nintendo or pc. Because Playstation fans hate all of those since time immemorial
>>733668012two problems here, first acquisition would fail regulatory checks because of biggest monopoly in gaming, second they have to recoup some of that ABK money ASAP.
>>733661470I'd let her shit on my street.
>>733675282There is no reason to get an Xbox, they've been pushed out of all the markets, Nintendo killed them, Sony killed them, there is no reason to get the Magnus when the Steam Machine exists for a lower price. Microsoft really has nothing with Xbox, they only really have software, that's it. Selling a Mini PC means nothing because now you're barking in Valve's territory and their ROG Xbox Ally already got embarrassed by Valve's own Steam Deck.
Odds of Craig Duncan bailing?
>>733675903Nintendo fans hate Microsoft for wanting to hostile takeover Nintendo several times, PC players hate Microsoft for killing Mac gaming while trying to kill PC gaming in the early 2000s while also trying to buy Valve when and lock Steam down when they were getting their ass kicked on PC, along with the OEM wars damaging Valve's first attempt at gaming in the living room, Sony fans hate Microsoft because they indirectly fucked over Sony so hard that killed the PS1/PS2 era of Sony for three decades. Microsoft is hated by everyone along with their Xbox. They deserve hate and not in the console war way.
>>733672941If it happens to all of their companies, maybe they have something to do with it.
>>733659340This seems more like they're sunsetting the actual Xbox platform as a standalone console, not Microsoft Game Studios, not GamePass, not the Xbox App, etc. It wouldn't make any sense to close everything they just bought as they are already using the infrastructure on PC via the Xbox App and they still have tens of millions of people tied to their environment. It would also make the "This is an Xbox" advertising make a lot more sense with what they're planning overall.
>>733676207Rog ally and steam deck arent competing. Theyre wildly different price points and by all indications the ally was successful according to Asus anyway as they said they were selling every one that they made. Xbox according to the discord leakers isnt just 1st party hardware but also 3rd party vendors who'll piggyback off the windows FSE which is releasing later this year. But the 1st party console will be the baseline for expected specs and features.
>>733676512They're successful to Asus, not Microsoft which is why Bond got the boot.
>>733676490Major changes are coming to Xbox, Microsoft is currently looking at what works and what doesn't, Game Pass is currently on the list of what's not working along with Xbox, in general. Microsoft only wants to be a third party.
>>733676668I have to wonder what is going to happen to all of their studios. Some are going to get the bullet in the back of the head.
>>733676587Its no different than how they operate already with Asus selling laptops with windows on it. It'll just be mini-PCs this time. And they'll still have their 1st party console like they have surface laptops.
this company is so funny
>>733676767Well she did work at Netflix before xbox so her line of thinking does make sense
>>733676865you don't find it funny that xbox employees got internally got mad at sarah bond's play anywhere shit, but the new ceo is saying the exact same thing? its hilarious, working at ms is just one big joke.
>>733659402>Do they seriously think AI will “do everything”?Yes. Right now AI is barely useful in chatbots, but you could make the same argument about the internet decades ago with it only being useful for sending messages across two PCs on the same network.The entire reason why everyone and their mother is investing into AI is because they want to be the first ones at the table and have a huge market share in control of it once it happens. They're in a situation where they want to be the Google for AI, and if they get into that market they'll immediately have hundreds of millions of customers and subscriptions. As it is they're already finding uses for it in getting rid of smaller make-work jobs or secretarial work.You also have to understand that AI will eventually get better. Will Smith couldn't even eat spaghetti at the start, and within a year he was already eating it like a normal person. Video generation couldn't even make anything make sense, now we have kino like Diddy vs. Epstein. Obviously it's still not there, and we're still years out from stuff not being super lifeless and fake looking, but we already have normalfags being convinced that half the AI commercials at the superbowl are real. My own mother regularly sends me AI animal gifs and she doesn't even realize they're AI.Once someone actually gets AI working in a serious way, especially if they somehow get AGI working, society as a whole gets upended because a good 50+% of jobs are erased outright. A huge swathe of jobs are going to be eradicated, impossible for humans to even compete in anymore, and leaves the majority of people unable to do anything which is going to lead to huge problems for all governments in the world. Once you start seeing random stuff Elon pretends is going to be real by Tesla actually become real that's when you know we're through the looking glass.
>>733676740The ones that can afford to split willMicrosoft has had a history of studios parting ways amicably They owned Bungie but Bungie bought back their freedom while Microsoft kept HaloTwisted Pixel bought their freedom and also managed to get their IPs as wellToys for Bob was owned by Activision, went independent, and are still working with Microsoft on a game (unless that got canned as well) Mojang has nothing to worry about, Rare is clinging onto Sea of Thieves, DoubleFine might be screwed depending on if they can secure the rights to their games during a split (unless they get shut down altogether), etc
>>733676767And now they have an AI chick at the helm. It's a race to the goddamn bottom.
>>733677072Not really. I doubt she'll want to announce any radical changes 1 day into the job, even if she has plans to do so.
>>733676740They're going to start trimming the fat through a restructuring. They will do massive layoffs and studio closures, they will allow studios to go independent with their IPs, heavily reducing the size of Xbox Game Studios, ABK, and Bethesda, they will force AI onto what remains. Microsoft will want games to release faster and make nothing but profitability through live-service and a multiplatform strategy. They're probably going to start bumping up prices of games to $80 to get every penny.>>733676765Sarah Bond was responsible for that, people that worked with Microsoft know how they work, they're saying this is the beginning of them killing the Xbox hardware, this will not survive.
>>733675568Id rather just have no game than a game without a day 1 patch.
>>733659340How i think it actually went down>Buy half of american Gaming industry>Poo in chief decided All in on AI>AI is a wet fart>Oh fuck we gotta recoup losses>Going to start selling off big studies to buyers.IMO if you have a beloved game or franchise that is owned by MS, you have 2 outcomes, neither of wich are going to be good.1) Its gonna be sold off, likely to a chink company so pray tencent does not buy it.2) MS is gonna keep it and microtransaction the fuck outta it to keep it profitable. So you are either going to see your beloved game become a abomination, or ruined by another company.
>>733659340They'll still have the studios and just continue to be a publisher on different platforms and try to take away some of steam's pie on the PC platform market.
>>733677316I havent seen any reports of them wanting to do anything you claim. It seems you're wishing it would happen but have nothing to substantiate your claims with. Just chill out.
>>733677383>if you have a beloved game or franchise that is owned by MSCOULDN'T FUCKING BE ME
>>733677449This chick has never worked on anything game related, Sarah Bond has no replacement, every insider under the sun is saying this. Do the math. Just look up SneakersSO, everything will be clear then. Everyone can see the writing is on the wall except Xbots.
>>733672661Hi Fi rush was made by a Bethesda studios not Xbox games studios. The development was even finished before Bethesda was acquired by Microsoft.
>>733660486>you vill own nothingthey're hoping they can finally sell cloud gaming there you just pay for an app like netflix and use their computers in their data center to play with shit tons of lag
>>733672247I use GeForce Now and it works flawlessly. Granted, I live near a GFN server and have fiber Internet, but even still. I play high speed action games and fighting games on it without issue. It's truly like black magic, and well worth the subscription price
>>733659139Is it weird that I literally do not care if AAA games die? I can't think of a single Microsoft IP that I care about.
>>7336776135 seconds on Google proved this guy is some random nobody from fucking neogaf kek. Theres a reason why neogaf is a banned link on many gaming forums because its turned into a massive radical Playstation fan boy circlejerk.
>>733677932No, most are fine with that happening.
>>733677316>they will allow studios to go independent with their IPs,Honestly?If Double Fine and Rare are fucked, they're fucked in a way that's damned if you do, damned if you don't.Schafer is TERRIBLE at managing a company and Rare going solo would mean they'd have to support Sea of Thieves (assuming they'd even keep it) by themselves without the backing of a megacorp.The ones that are splitting in my eyes, are likely the ones who are either small and niche enough to do it without much problem whose IPs aren't too valuable to acquire back (like Twisted Pixel) or the ones who can manage without their IPs period.
>>733672592The whole model is innately ridiculously risky. Exclusivity doesn't change that, hence why nintendo only has one hardware line left and if it tanks they'll be in full blown crisis mode.
>>733677971Everything he said is coming true in real time, Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond were the people holding hardware up, with them gone, that's going with them. You're a complete delusional Xbot tard. This is like believing Microsoft when they said Phil wasn't retiring anytime soon just last month.
>>733678042Scafer may be the only one that can save DF, but Rare may be fucked since they lost the guy leading them.
>>733677779I used GFN as a beta tester years back when I was in university on the shittest wifi ever and it was very low latency back then too. Its good shit. If everyone can catch up to that standard I think we're in for a good time.>>733678093According to you a few posts ago they were the ones killing hardware. Make your mind up. And also grow up. Console wars havent been a serious think for a whole generation now. Nobody cares anymore.
>>733677316>They will do massive layoffs and studio closures, they will allow studios to go independentLoL no. They will just shut down everything just like Sony does.
>>733659340It is necessary to destroy the video game industry to save it
>>733678221Craig Duncan was in charge of Rare and he's the head of Xbox Game Studios nowIf sentimentality is still a thing, he'll try to protect it from completely shutting down (but the studio still suffered layoffs, Gregg leaving, and Everwild being canned which honestly kind of warranted it given the delays and alleged directionless focus it had) But if he's out, Rare's odds of living are doubly fucked and I don't think other Rare alumni at Microsoft could do anything to salvage a shutdown unless Rare could split off first
xbox has been dead for years and will continue to suffer unless microslop sell/spin the brand off
>>733666924Asian games are self censoring now too, shitlicker
>>733678347>LoL no. They will just shut down everything just like Sony does.Microsoft has a history of letting studios they own just buy back their independenceJust look at Bungie and Twisted Pixel who....okay honestly are one of the biggest wastes of money through an acquisition in recent memory and outright dead respectively but you get the picture.Unless the new leadership is less merciful, studios owned by Microsoft CAN split off
>>733659402>Shit can barely handle chatbots and simple videosI think bots are unironically more intelligent than these people. AI today is an entirely different thing than AI just 1 year ago. And 1 year ago, these retards were saying>Shit can barely make coherent sentences that aren't copy pasted, or pictures with less than 11 fingers. It's never going to be able to do anything useful
>>733678221>Scafer may be the only one that can save DF,There's a reason why Mr. Shitface accepted Microsoft buying them out
How long do you give them?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnEdHiZh80
>>733678335>According to you a few posts ago they were the ones killing hardware. Make your mind up. And also grow up. Console wars havent been a serious think for a whole generation now. Nobody cares anymore.Phil did help kill the Xbox, not literally, but his bad decisions led us here. Fact of the matter is with not Spencer or Bond, Xbox hardware is on its way out. I really don't understand the attachment to Xbox, it's not Atari, it's not Sega.
>>733678221Why doesn't Schafer just go to amazon or netflix, or even pixar and just pitch an animated movie? It seems like he's been more and more interested in the narrative and art style than actual gameplay. And I'd totally watch a movie he wrote/directed. It would probably be really good and interesting.
I wonder what's Phil going to do now. When Pete Hines got fed up with Microsoft's bullshit he went to work at animal shelters and he's also a board member of some suicide hotline charity. Funnily enough, Warren Spector is on the board too.
>>733678347If they don't fit Microsoft's vision, Microsoft will let them go, just hope that they don't fit Microsoft's vision. I hate that they own id Software.
>>733659340I love MS for that, genuinely. So many horrible studios will go up in flames from this.
>>733678585Bungie was never acquired by Microsoft. It was just a first party Xbox studios that exclusively worked on Halo which is an Xbox owned IP. They just at some point that they had done with Halo series and departed from Microsoft to work on their own thing (Destiny).
>>733678958>When Pete Hines got fed up with Microsoft's bullshit he went to work at animal shelters and he's also a board member of some suicide hotline charity.......Pete Hines is a good guy?
>>733659139Xbros please I'm sorry for all the shittalking. Don't leave PC gamers here alone with Snoys and...tendies
>>733659139>Trillion dollar company>Literally buys every big studio and popular game>Still fails miserably Bravo MS
>>733678985>It was just a first party Xbox studiosFirst-party means they were owned by Microsoft
>>733678904>I really don't understand the attachment to XboxOG Xbox is nostalgia. Only retarded Sony fanboys (who weren't even gaming during that time usually to make such a remark and also are zoomers) believe no one ever owned them.
>>733678904>I really don't understand the attachment to XboxIt wasn't sony and nintendo, and they always did a pretty good job with keeping people in the ecosystem from console generation to generation. And it seemed like microsoft was a safe bet, it would never be number one, but you expected some consistency. It really is a shame that they shit the bed witht he xbone launch and lost all the momentum the 360 had picked up. It was really their game to lose, and they just fumbled the ball and never recovered.
>>733678904I dont care for the xbox or any console because they havent been a worthwhile purchase for at least 5 years now. But its interesting to know there'll be pcs which double up as consoles and its real info so of course im looking forward to what it bring to the table. And as a bonus it seems to trigger you so I can get a bit of humor while I play runescape.
>>733659139But my achievements... how will the world know what i've done?
>>733678973I don't really know what will happen to all the studios that are under the acquired publishers.Maybe they will just let Bethesda and Activision with all their studios become their own companies again.
>>733679016He's not as terrible as most suits. He went through some depressive and suicidal episodes and looking after stray dogs gave him some joy and fulfilment.
>>733679253Well...damn good for him
>>733679253Honestly if I ever got a paycheck like those people do, and a golden parachute, why not just fuck off and do something you actually enjoy for the rest of your life.
>>733678914He can't deadline. Its well known he is retarded beyond belief about delivering anything on time. Brutal Legends has a hilarious interview where an EA exec just dressed his ass down about wasting time and inflating the budget with constant rewriting/rebuilding. The nigger showed a barely functional alpha to his boss a few months before the game was to hit shelves then cried about EA not trusting him with more money after BL which was YEARS indev at that point and was skirting losing the music rights to a lot of songs because of that.
>>733679529Usually their ideas of fun retirement is cliche shit like collecting yachts or moving to Thailand and fucking kids or ladyboys until they drop dead.
>>733678572Looks like anon touched a nerve
>>733679151I'll take that from Valve, thank you. I don't need Microsoft for that.>>733679116I had an Xbox, Microsoft did me dirty, they did gaming dirty. I've had every console platform, Microsoft just feels like they only want to control gaming, not care about it. The spirit of Xbox died when Peter Moore left.>>733679131It sucks, I had faith in Phil at first, but when I kept seeing him make the same mistakes while going woke, I dropped Xbox completely. I just couldn't do it anymore. Shitcanning the handheld was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
>>733679016>>733679253>le heckin corpofag is le good guy because he did le charitySounds like he did or seen some shit he regrets, like diddling a bunch of kids and became suicidal after being blackmailed and forced into a life of servitude for the jews under the threat of being exposed.
>>733659326Funny enough I think Nintendo probably did that better with Nintendo Tivii or whatever it was called on Wii U. Funny how they packed Wii U with features and it tanked, but they make a bare bones hybrid console and its ultra successful.
>>733679975I'll take Microsoft or valve over sony or nintendo. No sony console has been worth it for a while. And nintendo cant make good hardware for shit even if they do have actual exclusives. I'll just wait for the emulator on pc.
Is this shit gonna fuck over Toys for Bob?Like the game they've been working on the past few years gets canned and they fall apart?
>>733680225Sony and Nintendo never did anything to fuck over gaming, Microsoft repeatedly did for both console and PC gaming. I can't support this company.
The frog is no longer having its bath temperature gently increased until it starts boiling, we're going high heat from the get go.If consumers continue being retarded cattle that they are, they only have themselves to blame. These corporations are doing the most blatant and shameless anti-consumer shit imaginable and people are cheering while competing on who's the biggest bootlicker.If gaming in the future is subscription only-cloud-only AI generated slop, the ones to blame are the consumers. At this point I'm surprised no company is selling literal shit in a bucket with a voucher for a month of xcloud stuck inside. I'm sure it would fly off the shelves and people would argue that "you can just throw the shit away, chud".
>>733677173Nigga image and video generation is not what shareholders want. Okay so it can generate Will Smith eating Spaghetti for 3 seconds slightly better than it coudl before, but it's plateaued since then. New models aren't making the same gains, they're hitting diminishing returns. That doesn't even go into the limitations of LLMs and how once again, image generation, code generation (which has to be cleaned up by humans), writing your 5th graders essay via text generation etc aren't going to give the billions the shareholders want. All LLMs right now are a neat toy, a very expensive toy that costs lot of money to keep running. It doesn't cure cancer. It doesn't make anyone actually more productive and if anything creates more liabilities than if you were to just offshare that labor to a cheap immigrant. LLMs aren't ever gonna be AGI, they just arent. Let's use Claude plays Pokemon as an example. In the beginning, he could barely leave his room, but as the model got better he's made it all the way to victory road. But solving block puzzles is filtering him. He doesn't really have the context to remember stuff beyond a few moments ago, which he then takes notes for and then gets confused. This can't seriously manage anything if it can't even beat a gameboy game as simple as Pokemon. It's gotten better sure but it's still fucking retarded. And now they want to build a million data centers so it can be SLIGHTLY LESS RETARDED. That's not gonna cut it. They need a new "AI" that's better than LLMs, but they dont have one. Their own solution is to dump more power and energy into LLMs hoping it blooms into some kind of genius butterfly and it just never will. It will just allow Will Smith to eat Spaghetti for 7 seconds instead of 5 seconds. This shit is going nowhere fast. The most useful application is autotranslate and we've had that for close to ten years now. Nothing that actually makes shareholders the BILLIONS they invested into this garbage.
All you had to do was make games for your core audience. Let Sony be the tranny console.
>>733659139This is correct. They’ve already attempted to condition us with the “this is an Xbox” campaign and the end of exclusives. As well the Xbox ROG ally. They will likely just be third party and maybe sell off the big publishers while shuttering the smaller ones. She has zero knowledge or connection to the video games industry. She is merely pretending and poorly at that. Another poorly conceived Indian scam. I’ve owned every Xbox console. What these street shitters are doing to a once great brand is disgraceful. And of course Don Mattrick did major damage with the Xbox one introduction. This late stage Xbox. They are peacing out. What will remain is a hollow shell.
>>733680535>sony >not fucking over pc gamers Yeah sure, all those games they paid to keep off pc as "timed exclusives" over the years didnt annoy pc gamers. This is how I know youre just some weird playstation fanboy and have never interacted with other communities unless its to flamewar.
>>733680692>LLMs aren't ever gonna be AGI, they just arent.This is the black pill that the AI industry is just refusing to swallow for whatever reason.The models we have are just predictive. They will never be able to truly think and if they want something with AGI then they are going to have to start over from the very beginning because scaling up simply won't do it.
>>733659562People were excited for new graphics and it was $200 cheaper than PS3. It's that simple.
>>733659139It's been a dead brand for years because Microsoft is a shit company that only survives because they have a globally agreed-upon monopoly over PC operating systems and infinite money. They have done incalculable damage to gaming.
>>733680535Underage bait. Everyone was shitting on sony when they blocked cross play for years till the switch came out and people realised they couldn't use their fortnite accounts on their switch.
>>733680692The idea is that AGI will suddenly emerge when we hit some magic number but machine learning researchers are pretty clear on that not being the case. 1T is a meme for a reason. I think the current cope is to redefine AGI because LLMs at this point are allegedly smarter than the average normie. So we're just downgrading what intelligence is. The cynic in me wants to say that it's not far from truth.
>>733680826It's a marketing scheme. Elizabeth Holmes did the same thing by claiming she could do a blood test with 1 drop. If you say you have magic technology way better than everything else, people will believe it without question.
>>733662104This nigga knows.
Can’t believe sony were scared of these guys
>>733680692>but it's plateaued since thenMy point form that statement was that there was significant, visual improvement on the models in a very short amount of time, and that's still held true from a year ago to now.>New models aren't making the same gains, they're hitting diminishing returns.I agree. It's also spooking OpenAI in particular because ChatGPT has barely improved in that recent upgrade they had, and people who are paying for money are pissed because it's not praising you anymore with people forming parasocial relationships with them that is mentally harming them. The fact that they're now trying to shove advertisements into ChatGPT should show how much they're stuck.The only one that seems to actually be consistently improving is Google Gemini and that's primarily because their developers created how this LLM model even works in the first place.>LLMs aren't ever gonna be AGI, they just arent. I also agree with this. They're prone to hallucinations and cannot keep track of what is going on at all for too long on top of needing to clear their backlog to function at all. LLMs seem like they're going to be for smaller end things like aggregation whereas we're going to need a new model (Likely from Google) just to get past this hump they're stuck in. I do think someone is going to get AGI, it's just not gonna be from this current thought process of LLMs, and it's going to upend society. Hell, they're likely going to use LLMs to figure out how to get to creating a brand new system that actually lets AGI happen.
>>733659139Finally. Microsoft never really had what it takes, the fucking hacks.
>>733680823>Yeah sure, all those games they paid to keep off pc as "timed exclusives" over the years didnt annoy pc gamersWho cares, Sony was never a PC company. Microsoft is the PC company, when they fuck up something on PC for gaming, it effects us all. Don't give me that poor console war excuse. PC, Nintendo, and PlayStation should all have exclusives. Timed PC exclusives don't affect anything because you can just wait. It's still coming. Microsoft deserve no defending. They don't even deserve fanboys like Valve, Nintendo, or Sony.
>>733663913Katamari was a PS2 game.I miss the DOA "volleyball" games. I jizzed so good to that naughty stuff. It was so sensual.
>>733680651>If consumers continue being retarded cattle that they are>ifThey can literally cater to the entirety of the retarded cattle from india without ever needing the west in terms of consumer base, especially considering the amount of jeets that are currently running jeetbox and microjeetsoft, it isn't just nepotism, they are angling toward a country of billions of potential consoomers. The west is merely an afterthought in the grand scheme of things as it also becomes jeeted due to influx of infinite jeets.
Realistically what do you think will happen to halo? Will they just give it to activation to murder even further? Or finally let it rest in peace?
>>733666279Americans are stupid. More news at 11.
>>733667506It's over so...I gotta be a gaming laptop kind of man because I can't afford a good PC nor build one.
>>733666279If anyone only just now realized how dogshit Xbox is then that's their own fault.
>>733659139Like it or not, total remigration fixes this.Remigration will fix not only our countries but also video games.
>>733674096Bro, it's over and I feel like crying.I have to play gay ass Sony and ninty games now.
>>733680701Americans don't want to be rich. They want pajeets ruling over them.Time to suck tranner cock I suppose.
>>733681463The hell you do. Just be a normalfag and buy third parties, it's what every PS5 owner does.
What’s they’re actually left to look forward to? GTA6 and uh…that’s it? Maybe dawn of war 4?
>>733681013Who cares if they did. Why crossplay with Xbox when the system barely has any players? What has Microsoft done to deserve any fans? They're not the ones saving PC gaming, Valve is doing that.
Is there a discord raid going on right now? Whats with the sudden anti-xbox threads and PlayStation shilling threads?
>>733681149Gemini and Antigravity are great tools. Everything else is a normiebait meme.The problem with machine learning is the same as the problem with digital games. The real issue with ML isn't the tech itself but that they want people to use cloud solutions instead of local computing which mirrors the real problem of digital games which is DRM and not the way the data is stored.
>>733681713yeah asha shwarma is shitting on the /v/ street and raiding the gaming industry with her shitskin clan
>SNOY shaking in their boots because the next Xbox and steam machine will outshine the Piss5You love to see it
>>733659139lmao holy fuck were watching a corporate entity commit suicide over false hype. its time for innovators to come to the forfront again because the suits are destroying themselves.
>>733681862It makes you wonder what place PS6 will have in the market when everything else is just a PC for your TV and we can call agree PC is better than console in every way
>>733681713>anti-xboxNobody gives a shit about Xbox anymore so all the hate (and love) you see for it is organic. Tendies and snoys tend to only scream at each other nowadays.
>>733681927>we can call agree PC is better than console in every wayNot in convenience or ease of use, and until Linux gets the EAC issue out of their hair they're going nowhere with normalfags who want to play Marvel Rivals, Genshin Impact, Destiny 2, etc. If you ever have to even think of going to desktop mode to make two controllers work, or have something like Dead Space work without issues it's never going to go anywhere with the public.
>>733682109The Windows FSE hopefully solves these issues
>>733680701>heads to the extraction>gets his throat slit
>>733674029cooking mama
Xbox was never profitable under Blackley's crew, so I do not understand why people think his opinion matters
>>733659139Blackley isn't the first one to say this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFG7YxFFCnYHonestly, after he and J. Allard left early X-box 360 era, the X-box was on a timer to death. It lost it's mojo completely on trying to cater to gamers and went full on into "New X-box Experience"s like Netflix and other bullshit.
>>733659139Sunset the whole company, fucking shitslop that it all is.
>>733659326>>733662256That and it was two generations (15 years or so) too late.>PS2 talks about being the "watercooler of the office.">MS panics and greenlights the "(direct )X-box" to try to beat them>Fifteen years later>Sony isn't a water cooler, but doing shit>MS flops on the watercooler and never recovers.Also it's funny insiders are throwing Bond under the bus for her multi-platform attempt when that is the way X-box should go after Mattrick and Orth killed the fucking brand dead a decade plus three ago.
>>733661185>>733661790>"hurr the market leader is going to pivot to making ps2 level grapthic gaems for japanese gaymers like me"are you guys autistic? this level of mental retardation is beyond shitposting. they have insomnic locked down to another 5-10 years of marvel alone. your childhood isn't coming back
>>733678904>I really don't understand the attachment to XboxIt's not Valve or Sony.
>>733662635>But saying kinect was some sort of bad thing is contrary to reality.No it isn't. Natal ("Kincet") was dogshit. It was MS's attempt at waggle without getting hit by Nintendo's patents for waggle. Even Sony's attempt at Waggle ("Move") sucked shit because unlike Nintendo's bluetooth/infrared lightbar to get around HDTV killing lightguns, they had to use shitty colored bulbs and MS's was EVEN FUCKING WORSE because it had no recognition skills. You can see it in the "Dance Central" games. Only do some bare movement and it'll count the move.
>>733671854That came directly out of a poo brain.
>>733659139THIS TIME FOR REELS GUIS IF I KEEP RE[PEATING ITLL BE TRUE EVENTUIALLY!!!1
>>733661470I want to take a dunk in her gange.
I still don't understand how someone who went their whole career fighting for consumer choice and accessibility was seen as a Disney villain by autistic people on this anonymous website and board.
So who thinks MS will sell off Blizz/Activ down the road
>>733682109Linux already solved the EAC issue. There's nothing anyone can do if the developer doesn't want to enable it client side. It's like complaining you can't play a PC/PS5 only game on PS5/PC. It's not a fault of either system, it's just the developer's prerogative.
>>733659340you blame them?just look at what studios they bought madePhil Spencer "hands off" approach was a complete fucking disaster, those devs have to be kept on a leashat this point its probably better to cut their loses, anything thats in the works will create billions more in loses
>>733683608That's not "solving" the issue then, that's just ignoring it. Now you're not able to play the games people want so you become less relevant as a whole. Normalfags want the EAC games, and unless Linux can make it so it doesn't matter on their end people will not care to adopt it en masse. Being told you can't play a game you can literally see on the storefront as being playable just not on your system is going to turn people away, not bring them in.
>>733683606I can't wait until OpenAI fucking implodes.
>>733674029new black myth gamebut dont get fooled, ue5 allows you to bake everything down and use the enging as renderer, dosnt mean mean game will look anything like this, will probably look a bit better than last one thoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Xyl-OW1DM
>>733661394It's a street shitting niggerThey oversee the enshitification of everything, so it's actually a very natural and logical fit
>>733659139So how long until we find out that Xboxes turning on by themselves is being used to run GPU compute for AI?
>>733659562It was only good for the first few years and then it was left in the dust by the PS3. It also had the worst hardware reliability of any console in history.
>>733683603wasn't there some whole thing where retards were seething that xbox was the only one making crippled retard controllers because one of the excs had a crippled retard kid? Like the controller was even open source and you could put it on other systems but fags were mad because it was done specifically because one rich guy had a retarded crippled kid?
>>733661394>Literally why would you do this? How would this be a good career move?moneymillion and millions of $a CEO at my last company lied about his credentials, fucked up everything he could and still it took 2 years for the board to get rid of him, in that he funneled out 100 mln$ in bonuses paid to himself voted in as part of bonus programs for the board, only the safeguards they put in still allowed him to take out 75% of it even if he gets removedask yourself, what wouldnt you do for that kind of money?>what Microsoft needs is someoneWhat microsoft needs is more money, and more political bribes.They know now that other companies surpassed them they dont have political protection anymore and know that if they dont get in on AI hard, they will be gone in 10 years.
>>733682319nigga thats cod not RE
>>733683786And how is that a fault of Linux, retard? EAC is fully supported on the platform and nobody is ignoring the issue. You can't force a developer to support a game on a certain platform or in some specific environment if they don't want to. >Being told you can't play a game you can literally see on the storefront as being playableWell then good thing it doesn't show them as playable! I'm not a Loonix cultist but your argument is akin to complaining that Uncharted isn't on Xbox. Fuck you want Xbox to do about that?
>>733685021>And how is that a fault of LinuxBecause those games don't run on it. It doesn't matter if the developers aren't letting it run on it, it's Linux's fault for not being able to run them to the average person. The background information as to why they don't run does not matter to a person, they see a game doesn't run and they ignore the platform.>You can't force a developer to support a game on a certain platform or in some specific environment if they don't want to.Except they work on Windows which is also a PC. So why would these people care to support the Steam Machines over the Xbox PC when their games won't work despite being the same platform (A PC)? This isn't really comparable to a console situation because it doesn't happen on consoles. They're not exclusives.>Well then good thing it doesn't show them as playable! They're on PC. The game is playable on PC. Being playable on Linux is semantics to normal people. The fact their PC can't play a PC game is the issue.>but your argument is akin to complaining that Uncharted isn't on XboxIt's more akin to a game releasing on the PS5 and Xbox, but the PS5 version won't boot because of a Gamertag check.
>>733683606I doubt Nutella sells. He shit canned Phil over it, but ATVI's I.P.'s are still valuable (until he shits them). He could right the Call of Duty ship after Phil stumbled out of the gate (how the FUCK do you fuck up CoD?), but that would require Nutella to stop going in on AI.>>733683786>Normalfags want the EAC games,No they don't. People are starting to wake up to how shitty anti-cheat is and even shit like TPM/"Secureboot" doesn't protect them. We fucking saw this with "EA Javelin anti-cheat." Asks for more invasive permissions than Easy. See, .webM.Now see Battlefield 6's player count: https://steamdb.info/app/2807960/charts/People are starting to get sick of not having the tools to moderate shit like the .webM themselves and then looking at Linux where they can play single-player games, they go "fuck it; CoD/BF/et. al. aren't worth it" and decide to just game on Linux, Multiplayer be damned.
This thread is the most insightful and legitimate discussion on AI I've seen.
>>733659562>>733659826Sony just fucked up with really bad with PS3 that's why xbox 360 even had a chance in that era
>>733685732And just to further prove that anti-cheat is so dogshit that "muh TPM muh Secureboot" doesn't protect you and thus multiplayer games that don't have community moderation aren't worth shit (and those can run on Linux) here's another perspective from BF6, thus showing the fucking cheats working:
>>733685810Correct. Why do you think they finally got rid of Krazy Ken Kutaragi after he struck lightning twice (first time thumbing his nose at Sony who didn't want to do the SNES deal in the first place?)
>>733659139>New CEO is a womanThat's how you know it's over. When things get bad, put a woman in charge and let her take the reputational fall.
>>733685732>they go "fuck it; CoD/BF/et. al. aren't worth it" and decide to just game on Linuxliterally no one does this and both of your webms are from the beta test. anticheats may not block 100% of cheats but its way better than not having anything.
>>733686082Not just any foid, a poojeeta at that. Shit is beyond over.
>>733685732>No they don't.Yes they do. Genshin Impact, Marvel Rivals, and Destiny 2 are three basic examples. All of Mihoyo games have some form of EAC-tier anti cheat. BF6 is dying because of their garbage support for it, nothing else. Call of Duty is still doing fine, it's just that their numbers are decreasing due to people getting older and there being far more to appeal to people like Fornite (Also not playable on Linux due to EAC).No one cares about anti-cheat on the level you are complaining about because TPM is enabled by default on any normalfag's PC. If you buy a prebuilt it's on so this doesn't even factor to them so they just play the games.
>>733681713Microsoft and Xbox were never liked. The shilling for them feels extremely paid compared to anything else here. Only /v/ and Twitter seem to even have Xbox shills. I don't understand it. I can understand liking the OG Xbox and 360, but post-Moore Xbox has been such a shitshow that I don't know how Xbox could even still have fans. Even worse, advocating for Microsoft's garbage Windows.
>>733681713xbot jeet shills getting stomped into the ground is a good thing
i don't give a fuck about xbox. i just want halo and gears of war to go to good homes.
>>733681862People are fine with the Steam Machine, Valve is very interesting and I'm getting their hardware day one, the problem here is Xbox. I really don't know what reason there is to get the damn thing anymore.
>>733682538Xbox was never profitable to begin with, it's profitability under Spencer was both a lie and didn't even last which is why he's gone now.
>>733672661Thankfully, Tango still exists and they're working with some South Korean publisher, so there's a chance that they'll make more games. Also, I love how this game used to be an Xbox and Windows exclusive now you can get it on a PS5 as well. Lol, AAA Western game developers and publishers are genuinely retarded.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_Gameworks
>>733683187We're literally seeing the pivot in real time, it feels like an east vs west thing with the east side of Sony winning.>>733683240That's why Microsoft sucks
>>733687245Krafton killed Devilian and nobody leaked the server files for it.
