https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/04/23/we-are-xbox/>We have work to do>Players are frustrated. >New feature drops on console have been less frequent. Our presence on PC isn’t strong enough. Pricing is getting harder for people to keep up with. And core experiences like search, discovery, social, and personalization still feel too fragmented. Developers and publishers are asking for more, too: better tools, better insights, and a platform that helps them grow faster.[...]>The industry is becoming global and competitive. More than half of the market’s revenue, players, and growth are happening outside of our core markets. But the rest of the world is not just a large market. Developers there are increasingly competing with the most established Western studios, combining scale, speed, and a willingness to reinvent genres many once considered mature.[...]>Along the way, we will reevaluate our approach to exclusivity, windowing, and AI, and share more as we learn and decide.
They really want to exist in China for the gacha money. They might also be back to eyeing Japanese publishers going by the bottom part.
>>737509136can i see the "Exclusives"?
>>737509693They will come from Koei Tecmo and Square Enix.
>>737509543maybe they should include fewer ugly niggers
Forza Horizon 6 on PS5 is cancelled btw
>>737509136>no lolisThat is a lot of green text to say they don't want my money
>WHY WON'T THE EAST PLAY OUR FUCKING GAMES?!They'll never figure it out btw.
>>737509136>we will reevaluate our approach to exclusivity, windowing, and AI,??
>>737509543I don't know shit about M&A but hasn't Microsoft done this shit (and laid off devs/closed studios) enough to the point that regulators are going to be hard of them? Plus the gamepass price hike is another point against them.
>>737509136>we will reevaluate our approach to exclusivityNo one even knows what the fuck that even means, you paid shill. Microsoft is worse at PR than Sony.
>>737510289The Trump admin will let them do anything. They'd even let them turn around and make CoD exclusive right now if they did.
>>737509543>JapanJapan doesn't want their worthless asses
>>737509543Japan gives zero shit about xbox and don't help because they have been fucking up since OG.
Why is Microsoft run by retards?
>>737509136Seems odd to admit they were doing so many basic things wrong for the last decade. How did microsoft leadership allow this to go on for so long?
OP is a faggot
>>737511375Basically this image but they have money printers so they won't implode as long world continues to use windows and office.
>>737509136That’s a lot of empty words
>>737511718it reads like AI slop desu
>>737509543Expanding into China makes sense, its the fastest growing consumer base. I think you're reading too deeply about the point of M&A, that point was more towards utilizing their portfolio of studios to accelerate areas, like how they confirmed that Blizzard staff have been helping with the cutscenes for Fable. Why hire new cinematic artists for Playground Games when you already have some of the best cinematic artists in the industry already working for you at Blizzard? It's just common sense to build a shared development ecosystem where studios with specialized expertise can assist in areas other studios lack. It's both more economical and offers better team chemistry to outsource aspects of development to other 1st party studios than outsourcing to a middleware studio that doesn't even speak the same language as your core staff.
>>737511853oh no no no no
>>737509136Sony and Nintendo are being retarded too, so not impossible to turn it around.
>>737512415Nintendo, like Valve, are the only sane ones. I don't see Microsoft or Sony lowering the prices of their digital games.
>>737509136>sony been releasing their shit on PC for last 6 years>reports of them backpedalling on that and reactions are how le based that is playstation is back>xbox does same>uhh why they are backpedalling thats gay as fuckGeniuenly retarded. A fact so many Snoys are on this board is grim. I guess if both will really go back to exclusives then we will see another spam of goldface snoy wojaks. Im happy to see competition back on the menu but i dont give a fuck about consoles been PC fag entire life.
>>737509136>actually acknowledging that it's a western AAA crash, not a videogame industry crashThat's the first step, I guess.The Hollywood machine needs to not half-ass their change in direction if they want to save themselves. They should be infinitely more concerned about whether Gary who works at the docks will be excited to play their game than whether Jenny finds it immature or whether it's hitting diversity checkboxes. The east is winning because they have their priorities straight.
>>737511853your garbage buzzword reads like a plebbit post
>>737509543Literally impossible without pretty girls or high test badass heroes (no brown allowed btw) and I somehow doubt their capacity to do that.Fucking Japan is more receptive to western games.
>>737512864There are not enough Jennys or Garys in the world to keep up with budget creep.
>>737512864They mean american and canadian. You still can establish studio in europe and budget will be 2x smaller even with studio being in biggest most expensive european cities. Its insanely retarded how inflated IT wages are in US and canada even in complete bumfuck states. Publishers were taking loses for so long because of talent pool thats clearly gone now. Why would you establish and invest into studio in US when euros or asians will make same shit twice as cheaper.
>>737512915cry about it
>>737513004>no brown allowed btwGen 7 was the most boring era of big name games, fuck yourself. Let me play as Dingo Egret and Shantae if I want to.
>>737509136how about you spin up a ram factory instead? nobody can afford $1,000 xboxes. we cant even afford groceries.
>>737513184It's not about you, it's about China you fucking retard, how the fuck did you miss the context when it's was stated in both the OP and the first reply of the thread
>>737513160This is why he was getting that desperate (happened later in the same month), subsequently the aftermath is why this new Xbox jeet was greenlit to say "we won't do AI slop" because they're trying to look "pro consumer" again.
>>737512727They're both retarded though. Exclusivity only works if your hardware is AFFORDABLE.
>>737513098You know what would help budget creep? Running themselves like a serious professional industry instead of a chain of adult daycare centers.The reason why everything takes so long to make while looking worse than games from 15 years ago is because the industry is headed up by people who are lazy, don't know what they're doing, and don't even take their own craft seriously.
>>737511706The moral is, get rid of shareholders and a majority of upper and middle management.
>>737513120The talent is there, but the problem is that thanks to institutional investors, they answer to a bunch of completely unqualified """businessmen""", HR Karens, and theater kids.BlackRock needs to be completely removed from its position of influence in the US.
>>737513381>You are NOT allowed to say what YOU want!Ok?I understood the context. I'm saying fuck that, I don't want copy-paste protagonists again.
>>737514440>You are NOT allowed to say what YOU want!If you're going to say something unrelated to my post then please don't quote me.>I don't want copy-paste protagonists againSo your only metric for differenciating MCs is skin color? Nothing else?
>>737509136more like slopbox
>>737513885Corporate suits and their addictions to layoffs to prop up earning calls are definitely part of the problem. The games industry is an artistic field that's still being run like a blue collar tech job. Part of what fosters great games is team chemistry, it's why the games from your childhood (unless you're a late zoomer, if you are, I'm sorry.) felt so good. It wasn't just a simpler time, it was because back then teams were able to stick together more often and build the rapport that enabled them to create great things. This isn't even unique to games, it simply takes years for workers to develop the expertise that enable them to thrive in their work environment, and you deny that from happening if 30% or more of your team is laid off the instant the one game you worked on together is released. I don't think there's a single western studio in the industry that could attest to a similar story to something like how all 5 original developers of Super Mario Bros worked in some regard on Mario Wonder almost 40 years later, with only one of them only serving as a special thanks. The bigger problem that companies are less prone to admit here is the economical factor. Back in the day, Japan and the West had a headstart in terms of developing technical expertise on computer technology, but we're well past the point where the rest of the globe has caught up. We used to have terms like Eurojank for a reason, and now those same eurojank developers have crossed the skill gap and now we have the economical issue that as a global market, it makes more sense to build your teams abroad in regions with lower asking wages. A development story like Warhorse Games and KCD isn't unique, they're just a AAA studio, but the region they operate within allow them to compete in the same space with only a fraction of the cost thanks to lower general wages. This particular issue is the tough pill to swallow, and I wonder if the west truly has the stomach to accept it.
>>737513356truththey'll just call us poor and then wonder why they can't make money off us
>>737514965>If you're going to say something unrelated to my post then please don't quote me.How is "Man, fuck what China wants, we're not doing Gen 7 again" unrelated?You're just asshurt that you misunderstood what I was saying.>So your only metric for differenciating MCs is skin color? Nothing else?No, jackass. Nobody said that. Nobody implied that.Jesus Christ you're desperate for a dunk.
>>737514440>I don't want copy-paste protagonists again.Better than the copy paste mystery meat protagonists we get every single time though. We get it though, you hate white people.
>>737515339>How is "Man, fuck what China wants, we're not doing Gen 7 again" unrelated?Your original answer doesn't mention China at all.>you're desperate for a dunkSo where the fuck did I say that I wanted copy pasted protag?Fuck you.
>>737509136Just make the next TES game a PC/Xbox exclusive and that will be a huge nail in the coffin of Playstation. The PS at the rate Sony is going in this industry might not even make it to a PS7.
>>737515830>you hate white people.Maximo is rad, suck my cock.>>737515897>Your original answer doesn't mention China at all.Because that's WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. Why would I need to reiterate that?>So where the fuck did I say that I wanted copy pasted protag?Nowhere! And I never said that you said that! God damn, learn how to fucking read.
>>737516349>And I never said that you said that!So why mention copy paste protag and gen7 when I did not mention or even imply them at all?
>KinectYou are the controller>HelixYou are the Xbox
Actions speak louder than words.I do want Soiknee to have someone to fight against at least.
>>737511706There is also the fact that microsoft is a not-so-subtle asset of the US military.
>>737509136
>>737513184Fuck off, the bald space marine era, and the white dude with short brown hair era was absolute peak compared to what we have now. Fuck you and your love of worthless mystery meat protagonists.
>>737516764Of course Snoy needs competition, but good luck with that unless the gabecube really takes off. Microcock and Nintentard aren't it.
>>737509136People dont buy consoles.... with no exclusives???? What the fucking niggery is this?
>>737509136>core experiences like search, discovery, social, and personalization Aren't they forgetting something? The games?
>>737509543>elderscrolls is creator-centric platformthat just confirmed they going to use that shitty gamebryo for tes6. its over
Once again its a >developer or platform owner learns the complete opposite lesson necessaryepisode. Fuck didn't MS remember years ago they tried this shit MULTIPLE TIMES to lean on exclusivity.>Games for Windows Live >Only on XBOX >OKAY WINDOWS STORE ONLY GUYS I MEAN IT >Okay GoyPass please you have to use Windows Store / Xbox apps AND you have to buy DLC for games you don't own! only for it to fail over and over again. Console faggotry is never the right answer. It seems more than Sony that MS at least learned >Shit we tried this WinStore/Xbox only thing and we crashed fucking Halo and Sea of Thieves with no survivors. Hey, what if we start releasing it on Steam as well.. HOLY WHAT THE FUCK WE HAVE PLAYERS?! but they keepfucking up. They never made GamePass sync with Steam despite 99% of the games being on Steam too etc. Fuck even UBISOFT MOTHERFUCKING UBISOFT figured out that A) going back to Steam is a good important thing and B) if you're going to have a subscription, make it access ALL OF YOUR GAMES WITH THE ULTIMATE EDITIONS ON DAY FUCKING ONE. I don't have to like every Ubi game but massive respect for their >Brand new game, Ultimate edition with all pre-order shit available on day -1, to all UPlay subscribers. And all of our old games too with best shit.MS has lost everything that made them worthwhile and fucking Ubi is doing better in this regard.
>>737517247Not him, but the takeover by clueless """businessmen""" who look down on nerd culture and want to replace gamers as the primary customer was in full swing in the 7th gen. We're basically looking at the culmination of what started in the early 00s. The fact that it got worse over time doesn't mean that the 7th gen is worth looking back on fondly.If the Hollywood machine wants to save itself, they need to put normal guys in charge who's response to seeing paladins, wizards, demons, and sexy anime girls is "fuck yeah". The worthless retards who find it embarrassing need to go. They listen to Karen's efforts to shame them at their own peril.
>>737509136Goes to show how they haven't learned. Instead of using the endless money they have, they can easily target their core demographics (Masculine games/Dude bro shooters - Western RPGs), another team that focuses on China's market and dish out gacha slop. On PC it's simple, RTS and Mechwarrior, bring back the original teams and just let them do their thing. Fix the bloat with Bethesda and the rest of the studio, forget Wokeness (They won't), and let creatives do their thing with reasonable oversight. Bring back the S O V L blades, and make sure for the next Xbox not to have that retarded feature that makes you go online to activate your Xbox.
>>737509136>Our presence on PC isn’t strong enough.GOODI DONT WANT TO SEE WHAT DOGSHIT NONSENSE PAJEETSOFT WILL DO IF THEY HAD ANY SEMBLANCE OF GAMING PRESENCE ON PCWINBLOWS IS BAD ENOUGH
>>737518919Microsoft refuses to return to the OG Xbox and early 360 (2001-2008) while Sony refuses to return to the PS1, PS2, and PSP. I moved back to Nintendo and PC gaming permanently. Switch and Steam Deck were the best decisions I made in years. Normalfags can have the Xbox and PlayStation, honestly. Their old spirits moved to Switch and Steam.
>>737516443Because it was a comment on appealing to China. And they're well known for not liking variety in their games.The logical through line is "fuck gacha give me all kind of characters." Come on, man. You're being stupid now.
>>737519759But gacha does have many kind of attractive characters while the west has an obsession for debra wilson.
>>737512727Sony can get away with going back to full exclusivity because their market share is so high, how is Xbox going to do that with less than 40 million units sold and Game Pass cannibalizing software sales?
>>737520357Neither can get away with it when Sony is selling a $700-$900 PS6 and Microsoft is selling a $1000-1500 next gen Xbox. Sony lost Japan, and Microsoft lost PC gaming. Sony can't beat Nintendo and Valve, Microsoft can't beat Valve and Nintendo. Both should stop. Exclusivity, who would waste money on Sony's or Microsoft's slop? Anyone with a brain would just get a Switch 2 and Steam Hardware calling it a day after.
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>>737513742I think worrying less about GWAFIX would help even more desu
>>737509136How many more times the Eastern devs have to carry the industry when Western devs are crashing again and again
>>737522432What's the difference?
>>737522620Nintendo's carrying the East, Valve is carrying the West. Sony can't carry the East and Microsoft can carry the West. I don't know why either try.
>>737522726>Nintendo's carrying the East, Valve is carrying the West.Did you just time travel from 2009?
>>737522674no more flat design slop
>>737510041This looks like their current CEO kek
Pajeetsoft is so fucking desperate lmao.
>>737522432>soul>liquid gl(ass)These retards literally invented aero and had plenty of good design languages even on Xbox, leading up to it. How gay and retarded.
>>737522779Did Sony beat Nintendo in Japan, did Microsoft's Xbox Store beat Steam?
>>737522781Looks like the same soulless slop to me.
How can they go back to exclusives when the next Xbox is supposed to be a 1000 thousand bucks baby's first PC? By exclusives they mean Xbox/PC, right?
>>737509136They're so screwed. There's no way they will be able to sell their next gen console now that RAM and SSDs will drive the price to over 800 dollars. Given the economic suffering of America now, it will cause people to pick one console and stick with it. Bingbingers will pick Switch 2. Moviebros and people with sunk costs in the PS ecosystem from PS4 will pick PS6. Who will pick XboxHeliXXX? I don't think there is a single thing they can do.
>>737509136>Our presence on PC isn’t strong enoughYou can start by porting Fable 2 and the rest of Gears of War to PC. You know, shit that fans have been asking for for years?
>>737523109These retards are competing with high-end PCs at $3000. They somehow think people will spend $800-$2000 on these Helix PCs from their first-party one to the third-party ones and somehow believe people will choose Helix and the Xbox Store over Switch 2, Steam, and PlayStation 6. It's similar to how Sony thinks they can beat both Switch 2 and Steam while still thinking Xbox, in any way, is a threat.
>>737509136Xbox is a zombie propped up by infinite Microslop bankrolling. On its own merits it should have folded faster than the Dreamcast.
>>737523172nah, AI will save them saar. the next xbox won't be a physical console but a subscription LLM service.
>>737523109a lot of the shit they've said doesn't hold up to scrutinyshit like near native cloud gaming, mobile gaming, expansion to chinawhy the fuck would an OG xbox fanboy care about any of that shit?
>>737522726This is just like the 80s again, plus steam
>>737523248I think most of the people who were asking for those have moved on from gaming and are working 50 hrs a week in their soulless corporate job by now with little time to go back and play Fable 2 or Gears.
They're gonna do it are they? They're gonna push the emergency button.
>>737523396That isn't an Xbox
this is all pointless as it will take 7 or 8 years to make those exclusives so who gives a fuck?
>>737509136Saying they're reevaluating their approach to exclusives means absolutely nothing. They're putting Halo on Playstation, that's a bell you can't unring. No snoy on the planet is going to buy the next Xbox console, no matter how much they insist that they won't be porting any other games.
>>737523495The only Xbox exclusive I really gave a shit about was picrel. It wouldnt be anything special by todays standards though.
>>737509136>>New feature drops on console have been less frequentNo fucking shit. For the past year and a half it’s felt like they’ve done nothing for the console side. Every piece of news has felt almost entirely geared for pcniggers. Recently it’s even felt like they’re hinting about bringing backwards compatible OG Xbox and 360 games to pc which would mean Xbox lost its final console selling feature. Unless the next Xbox gets rid of paid online and goes back to exclusives, I’m going to PlayStation and not looking back. It felt like Sony was on the same suicidal trajectory as Xbox until the news broke that they’re going back to exclusivity like a fucking console should
>>737509136If only there were reasons to believe this is an actual comitment from their part. They have an herculean task ahead
>>737523627why would you want exclusives? All that does is make it so you cant play as many games without paying more.
>>737509136Microsoft should partner with Sega and make Sonic, Persona and Yakuza Xbox exclusive.
>>737523674>why would you want exclusives?Because I want them to compete. Competition is good, more competition is good and can only benefit everyone in the long term.
>>737523801That would effectively kill any possible sale of Sonic in Japan. The only thing they need to do is making CoD exclusive flexing their ownership over it, it's a perfect fit since Xbox was born as the murrican system and nothing more murrican than war shooty shootiesThey running against the clock now that CoD is rotting.
>>737523846You can compete in selling hardware without exclusives. Exclusives are just shitting on customers. There are a thousand other ways they could compete besides that. Specs, Lower prices on their piss+ or xboxlive, or rolling back PAY TO USE YOUR OWN INTERNET, better features in their OS, or allowing you to actually back up your saves to usb, or more choices in SSD size, etc. Instead you're asking them to shit on you by excluding you if you don't buy their $800 box that can't play all games.
>>737524394You have the current state of gaming as proof of why they need to return to push exclusives. Why would you want the current gaming landscape?
>>737524394>You can compete in selling hardware without exclusives.>There are a thousand other ways they could compete besides that. SpecsNo, you can't. Xbox is the biggest evidence and you're making the same fundamental mistake they did and at least 2 Nintendo CEO knew they shouldn't make. Consoles are game systems and a game system without games won't sell, exclusives are those games that will sell your system.Every product sells under the premise of exclusivity and offering what other product can't, for game systems it's more than clear that you shouldn't try to change an already functional paradigm
>>737523801>Microsoft should partner with SegaSega should do what they always do and tell Xbox to go fuck themselves. Only Sega America helped Xbox, Sega Japan knew not to trust them.
Console exclusives were once good. Only Nintendo can pull them off now. MSFT and Sony absolutely lost their touch and there's no coming back.
>>737524329Cool, COD can die faster that way.
>>737524816I can't wait until HLX releases. Microsoft needs to have their shit pushed in on how to make a proper FPS game.
>>737524476>Blaming everything that's wrong on no exclusivesWeird. I've been able to play plenty of free games that I liked recently. Expedition 33, Elden Ring and SotET, Lies of P and its DLC, Nioh 3 and more. So I'm happy as a clam. Yet you'd want these to be money hatted and be exclusives to some shit console. What's wrong with you?>>737524619 Sony won without exclusives. Xbox getting exclusives will do nothing for it. All the dudebros on PSN due to PS4 winning gen8 are why Xbox is dead. That's it. Xbox needs to swing the tide a different way. Stop charging for multiplayer, maybe then that'll get them something.>Every product sells under the premise of exclusivity and offering what other product can'tYou don't just do that in software but in your features and hardware as well, just like different RAM, cases, Mobos, GPUs and CPUs compete against each other.
>>737524870>Xbox has a resurgence due sheer virtue of Cod audience and starts focusing on exclusives again and fixes itself>Massive hit to PS after losing a strong multiplat for them and forced to recover>Cod fucking dies in the processGreat scenario ngl
>>737524816Nintendo hasn't made a good game in years, it's all fucking toddler garbage or normalfagcore shit.
>>737524967>Can't refute argument >B-But I do this thingThat's cope, worse; piratefag cope, as such you have no real saying in what the industry should focus since you don't participate into steering the ship.>So I'm happy as a clamCope but a fair one. But you're settling with scraps instead a slice of pie like it used to.>Yet you'd want these to be money hatted and be exclusives to some shit console. What's wrong with you?Yes; I want competition. So they drop good shit on the regular instead your reality of constant droughts with good releases becoming rarer and stupid levels of budget sustainability.>Sony won without exclusives.No, Sony is stumbling with no exclusives. Your impression of "winning" comes from Xbox's constant fumbling
>>737524967>Xbox getting exclusives will do nothing for it.Kind of. Depends on if they can deliver a huge chunk of them and if they are really good because they basically are dead as brand, only way to revive that is basically starting all over again>You don't just do that in software but in your features and hardware as well, just like different RAM, cases, Mobos, GPUs and CPUs compete against each other.Not really>GPU at sale>"But out GPU offers you this which that GPU on sale cant do"Only you deny that the second GPU is the one that will sell unless deep discount of the first one. If.
>>737522726Nintendo is irrelevant outside of toddler games.
>>737525175Is it 2008 again?
>>737523109She doesn't know jackshit about gaming.
>B-BBBBBBBut whatabout Nintendo and Sony!!!!
>>737509136Too late to cancel Halo Campaign Evolved for PS5. Even though it's exactly the type of game that's port should be scrapped. But least ES6 and the next Gears will be a start.
>>737524476Exclusives are more irrelevant than ever.
>>737511706>as long world continues to use windows and office.Unfortunate for MS, Trumps antics have forced the EU to start the move over to open source software.
>>737525363I don't think that matters much anymore. Microsoft software division is garbage and it's only getting worse. Whether the games are exclusive or not make no difference when the brand itself in toxic and the games are so mediocre. Starfield being exclusive made zero difference.
>>737525404Xbox sold 2 million Series worldwide in one yearNintendo sold +17 million Switch 2 in 8 months.Your opinion can't resist the numbers
>there are actually people cheering for exclusives to come backI hate you all
>>737525562Xbox has always supported PC so I've no issue if they make their shit exclusive and stops Playstation players from getting anything. Especially given how half-assed Playstations attempt at going into other markets was and how quick they were to pull out.
>>737525562>reddist spacer shitting on exclusivesJust like a system without exclusives your post is not worth
>>737525176No individual spends enough on gaming to steer the ship as your money is infinitely small in the market, thus there's no sense in bothering to participate. The fact that games take 5+ years to develop assures that exclusives will not enable Sony and MS to drop good games "on the regular". You're blaming the wrong thing for your lack of games.>No, Sony is stumbling with no exclusives. Your impression of "winning" comes from Xbox's constant fumblingWhat is "stumbling"? If the other guy in a race crashes out, then his competitor wins all the same.>>737525306>Not reallyYeah sure bro, RAM, CPU and GPU companies don't compete at all.>Only you deny that the second GPU is the one that will sell unless deep discount of the first one. If.No idea what you're even saying here. Rich people will buy more fully featured GPUs as money is no object to them. Poor people will buy budget options, but you didn't see many buying 3050s, to the point 4050 is laptop-only and never got a desktop release. There's a range of what people will accept, they wont always go for the cheaper product.
>>737525550The PS5 sold 17 million on the first year and Xbox Series sold 12 million despite no exclusives. The platform and branding is more important than a Halo Demake being exclusive or not.
>>737525562They aren't people, they are mindless toddlers.
>>737525626>Xbox has always supported PCThat's only partially true tho. They dropped support and killed Microsoft Game Studios late into the Xbox 360 era. They returned crawling to PC only after Steam had gotten big and fat.
>>737509136And as long as they continue to make everything lame and gay through virtual signaling to a non-existent modern audience they will continue to lose to the east.So nothing is going to change. Because these people believe in DEI as if it were a god.
>>737525307Only coping Snoys and Xbots say that.
>>737525562>he paid +$600 for her platform to play forknitewhat a waste
Why doesn't the guy demanding exclusives just buy a Switch 2? Nintendo will give you all the shitty exclusives you want. I haven't bought a Nintendo console since the disappointment that was the Wii, so what good are all those exclusives they have to me anyway?
>>737525837Nintendo only makes games for women and faggots now.
>>737525701>The PS5 sold 17 million on the first year and Xbox Series sold 12 million despite no exclusivesExcept they were sold at loss at the time. The platform branding is not important if it's not healthy which is PS and Xbox's state
>Exclusives are LE BAD>Competition is LE BADThe only people who hate the idea of exclusives are third worlders worried the console they've invested brand loyalty in for years won't get the game they want.
>>737525948Gaming will never be healthy again. The market has hit diminishing returns on its offerings of technology and has ballooned to unsustainable size.
>>737525701PS5 had massive supply issues for the first 1-2 years after launch alongside every gpu. Xbox was basically the only modern tech regularly available because the Series S was using a budget chip and less effected.
>>737525670>No individual spends enough on gaming to steer the ship as your money is infinitely small in the market, thus there's no sense in bothering to participate.Pure cope. No wonder why f2p GaaS became so prevalent; your kind enabled cancer to appear and ingrain>The fact that games take 5+ years to develop assures that exclusives will not enable Sony and MS to drop good games "on the regular".Hence why the push must come with getting rid of budgets that caused long dev cycles. Also, that's exactly the reason why you are under the impression exclusives aren't good/functional anymore. Those 2 mistake are bound togheter in their longterm effects>What is "stumbling"? If the other guy in a race crashes out, then his competitor wins all the same.Losing steam by making your audience not seeing your product worth buying, you know; what Jim Ryan caused to PS as of late with his PC game push. So with the other 2 not competing and stumbling having issues that should have never happen to them Nintendo is winning big time.>Yeah sure bro, RAM, CPU and GPU companies don't compete at all.They do, but you're mixing apples with oranges here.
>>737525948It's really just Xbox, Playstation is more profitable than it has ever been.
>>737525670>Rich people will buy more fully featured GPUs as money is no object to them. Poor people will buy budget options, but you didn't see many buying 3050s, to the point 4050 is laptop-only and never got a desktop release. There's a range of what people will accept, they wont always go for the cheaper product.Cheaper will win.>>737525928>Why doesn't the guy demanding exclusives just buy a Switch 2?>No OLEDNot yet.
>>737526154Yeah such a healthy ecosystem they have to constantly put PS5 on sale to be able to sell at all
>>737526257>PS5 launch price: $499>PS5 'sale' price 6 years later: $599the fuck kind of sale is that
>>737517472It seemed obvious to me Oblivion Remake is a testbed for 6. UE5 for the graphics and Creation to retain some modability
>>737526029>Gaming will never be healthy again.>companies and manufactured avoiding competing and comitted to bloated budgets will go out of bussines and/or mass lay offs will be at sight downsizing the scale of the industry culling the worthless pieces of it>budgets of games will reduce itself and development will be driven by competent teamsWe're already in the lay off period...>>737526154Notice how you ignore how their profits don't come from systems sold but predatory practices now. PS is not fine at all.
>>737525837t. Toddler
>>737513356>>737515324What's all this "we" shit? You talking about Nintendo? Cause this is an Xbox thread and last I checked, poors were banished last console launch
>>737525948All consoles are sold at a loss.
>>737526320The kind where they and the mass consumer see they have no competition (despite Nintendo being there and moping the floor with the competition with relative ease)
>>737526143>No wonder why f2p GaaS became so prevalentI don't play f2p gaas>Hence why the push must come with getting rid of budgets that caused long dev cycles.So basically you have to do what would fix the issue along with the exclusives. Because the exclusives have no part in the issue.>Losing steam by making your audience not seeing your product worth buying, you know; what Jim Ryan caused to PS as of late with his PC game push.92million units just isn't enough for you I take it>They do, but you're mixing apples with oranges here.PC component companies compete on quality and specs without having exclusive games. Consoles can compete on quality and specs without having exclusive games.>>737526214>Cheaper will win.In your world, no one buys 5090s and everyone buys 5060s or older models or used GPUs for that matter. It just isn't true in the real world.
>>737526109The Series S was partially a good idea but they didn't know how to capitalize on its strengths.
>>737526391Not Nintendo. They always kept the costs low for them, the reason why "staying behind" and not falling for graphic memes was the actual right move in the 7th generation.
>>737509136>"Going back to exclusives">Daily Active Users is now their new yardstickXbox cucks can't read
>>737523674when i was a poorfag teenager i used to hate exclusives but every first party sony and microsoft game in the past generation has been so uninteresting. it makes me wonder if the lack of exclusives has fed into a negative feedback loop where fewer people buy consoles which means less money to subisdize the development of games in the future, at a time when game development is more expensive than ever. but i'm a retard that's talking out of my ass. all i know is that sony has yet to beat their sales record from the PS2 two decades ago.
Consoles have been extremely shitty AMD PCs since 2013-2014 and it's not changing anytime soon. You can build your own AMD PC and it will be 4-5x better.
>Call it something sick like the Xbox Scorpio>have a decent dashboard, instead of the shitty ones>no slop, no DRM, no mandatory age verification bullshit>at least a handful of games I want to play>keep the disc drive, and let me sell and trade my gamesI will *now* buy the next gen Xbox. Not that hard.
>>737526257PS5 should be going at 300 dollars at this point.
>>737526423>I don't play f2p gaasBut players that give money do; they commanded the ship and you're the one at fault for that
>>737526339>Oblivion Remake is a testbed for 6Actually disgusting.
>>737526491Not really, since even if I bought a thousand single player games, it wouldn't make any difference.
Xbox needs more eastern games in general. It will always be known as the dudebro black kiddie console and they need to break that stigma.
>>737509136Damn this would have been groundbreaking insight in 1975.
>>737526457They were saved by the Wii dongle. Nintendo gimmicks are more important than the actual software.
>>737526423>So basically you have to do what would fix the issue along with the exclusives. Because the exclusives have no part in the issue.Exclusives were the casualty and >92million units just isn't enough for you I take it>90 million with contraction from the previous system>with the brand losing space to the point its own audience has been voicing the issuesYeah, it's low as fuck for being alone and +5 out in the market already. It's exclusive line up is extremely pitiful too>Consoles can compete on quality and specs without having exclusive games.Again; the fundamental mistake Xbox did and paid the price
>>737526552there's no reason to put eastern games on xbox when no one who likes eastern games buys xbox. it's a self fulfilling prophecy and they tried in the 360 era to correct it by money hatting some exclusives. it didnt work. it was artificial. xbox's real audience just doesnt like eastern games.
>>737526552...by being the black pedoweeb brand as well
>>737511706It's funny how modern corporation's somehow end up being less efficient and meritocratic than fuedalism
>>737526423>In your world, no one buys 5090s and everyone buys 5060s or older models or used GPUs for that matter. It just isn't true in the real world.Your reality is delusion. Xbox Series numbers show you the reality, guess which model of it is the best selling
>>737526467Exclusives are part of the identity of each brand. Halo, Gears and Dead or Alive were a key part of Xbox's dudebro image.
>>737509136>Pricing is getting harder for people to keep up withwow, maybe they could sell their games for less??
>>737526589Nintendo gimmicks are ludokino. The Switch is the worst Nintendo console since the Gamecube because there are no gimmicks.
It's clear now that white people are inferior and destined for extinction, and that's a good thing!
>>737526658>dudebro imagePeople always say this in regards to the Xbox and I don't know what it means. Are dudebros like the jock stereotype? I just see Xbox as the normalfag brand.
>>737525562Some people equate exclusives with the industry being in a good state but it has no bearing on games themselves being shit and dev teams being blown to pieces so another suit can get his yacht quicker
>>737509136>But the rest of the world is not just a large market. Developers there are increasingly competing with the most established Western studios, combining scale, speed, and a willingness to reinvent genres many once considered mature.this seems entirely like a response to crimson deserti cant really imagine any other games they'd be talking aboutcrimson desert isnt even that amazing i mean maybe its pretty good if you invest more time in it because it just has so much shit to do, idk i got kinda overwhelmed and quit because i have real life bullshit going on i have to deal with for now
>>737526467>if the lack of exclusives has fed into a negative feedback loop where fewer people buy consoles which means less money to subisdize the development of games in the future, at a time when game development is more expensive than ever.It is, it's why PS5 only profits from microtransactions and most of the PS5 numbers is people moving on from PS4 at sluggish pace. For years we had evidence of deep sales in Japan and players were either watching movies or just playing their PS4 games on it. The rise of dev costs triggered a domino effect
>>737525943Nintendo makes games for gamers, Valve makes games for gamers, Sony and Microsoft only know how to make trash.
>>737509136I think even Playstation fans realise that xbox games should stay xbox exclusive. New fallout, elder scrolls, forza, gears, halo, fable etc should stay as xbox selling points. I'd like es6 on ps6 but it only makes sense to skip the platform entirely so I'm forced to fork out 800 bucks for a helix. Business 101.
>>737526772>players were either watching movies or just playing their PS4 games on it.not gonna lie, ever since the ps5 came out i've been waiting for a steep sale specifically so i could watch 4k blurays on itbut i just found out that it doesn't support dolby vision so maybe i'll get an xbox series x
>>737526529>since even if I bought a thousand single player games, it wouldn't make any difference.You sound like a vegan so I'd agree with you for having such a defeatist approach. PC is not a place where you sell games in big amounts>>737526552Nobody accepts Xbox as a place for weeb, only seen as an oddity
>>737526589>savedThey were never at risk. The one that saved Nintendo was the DS and that saving was from losing market share lost (gained really) by Sony's unprecedented dominance
Exclusivity is good, it mirrors human social, parental and romantic relationships.People that want games on as many platforms as possible are essentially the same as men who would share their wife.On top of that, hardware and peripheral constraints is what makes games interesting. Having them be across all platforms means homogeny of graphical fidelity and haptic hardware across games.
>>737518919damn i bet he dry scoops assmongoloids preworkout powder
>>737526746>Are dudebros like the jock stereotype?Kinda. Back in the day video games were seen as something only children and NERDS played. Xbox really capitalized on the idea of the college dorm console, aiming for the normies that played racing games and sportsball games. Look at the Xbox 360 reveal at MTV.
>>737526658>Halo, Gears and Dead or Alive were a key part of Xbox's dudebro image.>DoA>Not Dorito'sShame on you!
>>737523561>It wouldnt be anything special by todays standards though.that game was amazing and if they rereleased it at 60+fps and high resolution it would be the first xbox game i buy and play for 30+ hours in years
>>737526842>but i just found out that it doesn't support dolby vision so maybe i'll get an xbox series x>PS5 isn't even a good movie playerJUST
>>737526686The Switch hybrid setup is technically a gimmick, but it's so good it's more like a standard festure.
>>737526915People that want games on as many platforms as possible are essentially asexual
>>737526848>>737526620>>737526613this dudebro stigma is why xbox will never win. they need eastern games like steam.
Do these hicks at Microsoft really think they can take on Steam Store, SteamOS, and Steam Hardware, like really?
>>737527013I'm dissapointed nobody really used the gimmicks on there. So much potential for touch games, dual screened shenanigans and the likes. But hey, the current consoomer is okay with manufacturers and devs not being creative and competing and rather mere shallow spec memes +1, not really videogames
>>737526593>Exclusives were the casualtyExclusives should be the casualty. They are an artificial means of beating an opponent rather than by the quality of the hardware, features or service quality.>Yeah, it's low as fuck for being alone and +5 out in the market already. It's exclusive line up is extremely pitiful tooThe market is just shrinking and it needs to shrink further to get dudebros out of gaming. Gaming going back to PS1-2 era audience would be a good thing. That's "stumbling" on "line must go up" corporate profits but beneficial for players.>Again; the fundamental mistake Xbox did and paid the priceThey competed with Sony's PSN subscriber advantage. That was why they lost. If Xbox won gen 8, they would be in Sony's position now as they would've locked people into Xbox Live rather than PSN.>>737526645Series S since Xbox is so horrible there's no reason for anyone vaguely interested to overspend to get an X.
>>737509136k keep me posted when it’s more than just lip service
>>737527117But when they had the dudebros Xbox was seeing success
>>737526778>Nintendo makes games for gamers>Valve makes games
>>737527117PS5 has dudebros now though anon. Xbox has no one. That's the difference.
>>737526824>fallout, elder scrollsThose are PC games.
>>737527203Stop posting my wife
>>737527013>hybrid setup is technically a gimmickI guess my disappointment comes from the Switch not having a format unique enough that it affects game design. The DS for instance with its dual screen layout and touch screen resulted in quite a few ludokino games that would not work on other platforms. >>737527154>dual screened shenaniganshow would this work? it's not like the Wii U, you have to dock the console to view it on your TV. unless this is a new switch 2 feature? (i have been extremely out of the loop for the past couple years)
>>737509136So this is Asha's famed corpobabble. Impressively lacking in substance.
>>737527162>Exclusives should be the casualty. They are an artificial means of beating an opponent rather than by the quality of the hardware, features or service quality.This was solved +40 years ago; game systems are products, not services, and they live and die through software, not features.
>>737527162>Series S since Xbox is so horrible there's no reason for anyone vaguely interested to overspend to get an X.Don't deflect; say it: why it's the one that sold the most of it?
>>737527153Make Windows not a pile of shit?
>>737527289Yet it is no longer true, Yamauchi. Your time is over.
>>737527270B-but which one?
>>737527331I would if I could understand what that post's Engrish meant.
>>737527238People forget xbox has had exclusivity with those franchises in the past. The skyrim dlc were 6-12 month exclusive to xbox 360 before they came to ps3. A bit shorter before they came to pc.
>>737527289Xbox 360 won early on via features. Steam is winning mostly thanks to features.
>>737527162>The market is just shrinking and it needs to shrink further to get dudebros out of gaming. Gaming going back to PS1-2 era audience would be a good thing. That's "stumbling" on "line must go up" corporate profits but beneficial for players.Not really shrinking when even the worst selling Xbox has decent numbers, but dismal in perspective. The only thing needed is banning high budgets for gaming and that will make exclusives what they need to be; strong products to give worth to the platform they're made for. It's a symbiotic relationship
>>737527275>it's not like the Wii UIt's exactly like the Wii U; Switch is Wii U 2.0 but with proper marketing
>>737527371Yes
>>737527412Xbox had a relationship with Bethesda going back to Morrowind but the WRPGs were a PC genre for the longest time. One of Microsoft biggest problems was not being able to handle the PC and console branches of Microsoft Game Studios, one always comes at the expense of the other.
>>737527348>no longer trueXbox faded out once they strayed away from exclusives>>737527414>Xbox 360 won early on via featuresNot true; they won early because games. And they had exclusives there too. Features were the reason their downfall happened.
>>737527498Switch is a handheld. Wii U was not.
>>737527389that's still deflection.
>>737527498The difference is that the Wii sold mostly because of Wii Sports and motion gimmicks. Switch was popular because it's a handheld that plays fully fledged console games.
>>737526934I'm a zoomer so maybe I'm not old enough to remember but I thought the PS2 was quite popular with everybody before the 360 came out. When I was a kid, I only felt that stigma towards Nintendo consoles. I had a DS and I remember some of my peers drifting away in favor of the PSP because it seemed more "grown up".
>>737527614If I can't understand your post because you butchered the wording so bad, don't expect a cogent response.
>>737527498that doesn't answer how dual screen gimmicks would work on the switch/switch 2
>>737527553The most popular game on Xbox 360 was Call of Duty, and that relief entirely on Xbox Live features. Halo 3 was popular because of the in-game features such as Forge and co-op. XBLA was also a big deal back in the day.
>>737527553Xbone had plenty of exclusives at the start. It failed anyway.
>>737527573Hybrid home system
>>737527626>but I thought the PS2 was quite popular with everybody before the 360 came out.it was very popular, but despite that videogames were still absolutely associated with nerds at that time
>>737527626PS2 was very normie-friendly (tons of sports games) and presented a more adult image. But the Xbox 360 really went hard appealing to teenagers and young adults with FPS, sports games and hot women.
>>737527694>Halo 3 was popular because of the in-game features such as Forge and co-op.>featuresYou mean... the game itself?!>>737527710>failed anyway>ended up selling +80 million units, massive design flaw and shitting the way the second half of its life cycleIt was a gigantic success in the big picture.
>>737527729Wii U could not leave the home. Switch can. That gives Switch the Gameboy/DS audience which was merged into it, leading it to sell well.
When Nintendo talks about their games, it sounds like they're talking about a toy factory.When Sony talks about their games, it sounds like they're talking about a tech demo.When Microsoft talks about their games, it sounds like a business meeting.
>admitslmfao the ccp and uk are eating the west's lunch because their govts invest in the mainstream arts. why?because they control the minds of their enemy's children.meanwhile orange retard and the other conservicucks just let it happenLook at Mouse PI: Tell me that didn't come from an American studi-oh wait, it came from POLANDhttps://www.mobygames.com/game/255218/mouse-pi-for-hire/credits/windowsFUCKING retards letting their country's mindshare be invaded by a caliphate.
>>737527671Game and Wario.>>737527617>Switch was popular because it's a handheld that plays fully fledged console games.It was advertised it's portable capacities, not handheld.
>>737527710The Xboner was dead on arrival. The Kinect fucked up the brand way much, and they lost a ton of first party studios and partnerships. The reveal was also a disaster that completely abandoned their original fans.
>>737527836>When Nintendo talks about their games, it sounds like they're talking about a toy factory.>>When Sony talks about their games, it sounds like they're talking about a movie.>>When Microsoft talks about their games, it sounds like a business meeting.>>When PC gamers talk about their games, it sounds like they're talking about a tech demoftfy
>>737509739>koeiNo. >squeenixAlso noThey'll hire some talent to make one or two great games and then let them whither on the vine because the sales didn't hit the same amount as full sales for a multiplatform game.
>>737527825>Wii U could not leave the home.Just put it in your bag, ez
>>737527818You want people to believe PS5 is a failure at 92m but Xbone is a success at 80m. Everyone knows Xbone failed.>>737527891Yes, exclusives could not overcome that.
>>737509136Microslop is too far gone to walk back on exclusivity. Their sheer incompetence has killed or severely devalued most of their acquisitions, from Rare to ABK. They haven't cultivated their IPs to the point where they can come back from a Wii U level flop like Nintendo did. People are already used to their games being multiplat, especially when it comes to PC releases, they can't revert that without pissing off a large part of the market. The only way left for them is to accept their new role as a multiplat whore, maybe make Windows less of a pile of shit, organize a better storefront and release some fucking games worth a damn.
>>737527818Forge is a feature, it's not the main game.
>>737527848But the British government is the enemy of the British people.
>>737509136Let's not pretend like anything is going through the heads of xbox leadership besides AI being a retarded holy grail that will solve all their problems.
>>737527891>The Kinect fucked up the brand way much, and they lost a ton of first party studios and partnerships.All that fucking mismanagement...>RARE sent to Kinect mines... somehow>Drop every focus on exclusives>In fact might as well drop every focus on release quality games>Xbone showcase>complete disaster>Try to course correct>Too little too lateDon Mattrick got the memo too fucking late
>>737527895PC gamers are not one unified audience.
>>737527836>When Sony talks about their games, it sounds like they're talking about a tech demo.Um m8, I think your description of Sony may be a tad bit outdated.
>>737527920>Xbone is a success at 80m.*360
>>737509136Yawn. Wake me up when something changes.
>>737527895This is right going by Valve
>>737528025neither are sony, microsoft, nintendo console owners
>>737527934No; it's a game mode, not a feature. You play games, not hardware/features. >>737527836>When Sony talks about their games, it sounds like they're talking about a tech demo.More like movie scripts, bad ones on top of that
>>737528072The prices will change. I don't see how PS6 and Xbone7 cost less than $1000
>>737525458If he succeeded, it would be enough to justify voting for him on its own. That said, we all know the euros ain't gonna do shit.
>>737509136>guys the only thing saving us from completely going under is that we are releasing our games on pc>i know how to fix this, lets sell games on the console nobody fucking wants
>>737528109No, he's right. Vegans as an audience are too chaotic like the nature of the platform they're loyal to, and they're way too loyal lmao. Meanwhile console audience's is easier to notice margins of behaviour
>>737522726Lol
>>737513532Not only does the hardware have to be affordable, but exclusives all need a lot of exclusives to support the ecosystem. Yeah, there might be a system seller exclusive, but if there is just a single exclusive worth a shit it is only going to sell to people interested, and it's not going to help push other software sales. But Sony and MS (and it looks like Nintendo now too) don't get that; they don't need 1 or 2 exclusives and then hope that will let them sell multiplats, they need an entire aisle's worth of exclusives. Even more so now than ever with PCs being more user friendly and approachable for gaming than ever before.At this point Sony and MS would be better off doing a Steambox clone and sell small form factor PCs with specific iterations of an OS than trying to sell dedicated consoles.
>>737509136That's wild... here is the funny part.They had a total monopoly on PC and a console foothold, then fucked their PC foothold with windows 11 and AI.>I'll help you Microslop>Drop ALL login requirements for your games for games from your studios>Allow me to transfer my Xbox360 games to pc>Fix your games that don't work because of GamesForWindowsLive bullshit you killed support on>Make an Xbox App that works on Linux and Honors my Xbox 360 library and history. >Stop live service slop. Make complete games.>Make a legally binding part in your TOS that makes you not take away our games. You have a horrible reputation for killing support on shit you promise.>No more Xbox Live needed to play online on console, Xbox live is now gamepass.>Bring back JRPGs again like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey. These DEI games aren't cutting it.>Market to men, bring back pretty girls and booth babes.>No more over moderated voice chat. Raw, unfiltered shit talk it back.Look Xbox and indian CEO lady, I see you are trying but the stink of the XBOX ONE fiasco and how much you have stabbed your base in the back means you are starting from nothing.A lot of use would rather you die than trust you again.We havegood memories, Xbox and 360 were great..... But fuck me did you become assholes we couldn't trust anymore
>>737527920>Xbone is a success at 80m58 millionhttps://gamingbolt.com/xbox-series-x-s-has-sold-21-million-units-xbox-one-at-58-million-as-per-microsoft-brazil-presentation
>>737528240as a PC gamer, i said what i said because i always see other PC gamers talking about graphics and fps instead of how good a game is. it reminds me of that totalbiscuit faggot.
>>737513532>Exclusivity only works if your hardware is AFFORDABLE.It doesn't matter; exclusivity works on favour to make your hardware worth buying. The price is relative, but making it more affordable helps a lot. >>737528274Except Nintendo does get it, it's the only one that refused to not forgetting it. S2 is having a somewhat smart first party line up, we can have entire thread about the quality of some of those. But that aisle, they are able to end up with one>nu pokemon and MP4
>>737528274The exclusives also have to be good, when you lost as hard as Sony and especially Microsoft has, you no longer do exclusives. When both use to make good/decent games, with affordable devices, I used to be fine with it, now, if it happens, those studios are done along with the platform itself. I don't care all too much since indies and AAs exist. If the AAA dies, gaming will just start over under Nintendo and Valve anyway. This industry is in no real danger. Plus, it needs a cleansing from the normalfag infestation.
>>737509739Ah yes. More games like Forspoken. That will surely go well for Xbox/MS.
>>737528339Yeah the guy I replied to used 360's numbers in his reply when I clearly said Xbone here >>737527710
>>737528404>as a PC gamer, i said what i said because i always see other PC gamers talking about graphics and fps instead of how good a game is.>when you find that rare PC vegan that it's actually a PC chad focusing on games instead of specs>on /v/ of all thingsCavill... is that you?
>>737528463>>737528456PS5 sold over 90m units. What exclusives got it to that?
ExclusiveAnon. Tell me how Halo Infinite+1, Battletoads 2 and Gears of War 7 save Xbox Helix. I'd be interested to know.
>>737528524None, that's the issue. At least PS4 had BB
>>737528456>It doesn't matter; exclusivity works on favour to make your hardware worth buying. The price is relative, but making it more affordable helps a lot.True, but hardware needs to be a good price, exclusives need to be GOOD, and there needs to be a lot of them. Also do something with your hardware no one else is doing so you can sell some tech demos to show just how cool and advance your console or PC is and do things other platforms are just incapable of doing. Problem with Microsoft is that they never really did any of this.
>>737528279so microsoft had a monopoly on pcs (and actually still do. if you don't believe me go on amazon/best buy/walmart/retailer and buy a pc that ships with not windows preinstalled)but they could never get a foothold in gaming as a platform holder. yeah they made the OS which you were going to install anyways because what was your other option? and they made directx so games could play very well under windowsbut you never actually bought a video game from microsoft so they never saw a dime of that game sale.they tried to change this with gfwl and the microsoft store but every time they tried something it blew up in their faces
>>737528582So do exclusives really sell hardware
>>737528582NTA but you're mad 90 million people bought a console with no exclusives? Why?
>>737523109AI will power games featuring ugly women and brown people and you will buy it.
>>737509136>Pricing is getting harder for people to keep up with.>They unironically say while asking for $150 for 4 days early access and all promised DLC in Weeb 6.Fuck you, MicroSlop.
>>737528524None, problem now is that the PS6 will be expensive and normalfags don't want to switch to it. Microsoft will face a worse problem as no one is currently buying the Xbox Series X|S and those who have those won't get any form of Helix.
>>737528571By trippling the amount of exclusives and every single one of them being solid 9/10. Like I said; I doubt Xbox having the capacity for it but it's the only way for them to pull off a revival. I think even if they fail at that but manage to show they actually didn't half-assed it the average consumer might change their feelings and give Xbox a chance But if it's a PCfied consoles at $1k nothing will save it from being DoA
>>737528629so from the 9th gen it kind of showed both sides of this but this generation has been fucked hard>covid kills production so both sony and microsoft can't even keep their consoles in stock>people buy them anyways knowing both platforms won't have any real games for the next year or longer>years go by and you can now buy both consoles with regularity>people that held out to buy the console when it got cheaper were surprised to find both consoles were going up in price and were forced into the second hand market>exclusives prove they aren't selling consoles as we are now almost done with the 9th generation and the game publishers are relying on to sell their consoles is a third party title called gta vi
>>737528637ask yourself the same question and you'll see the precedents it sets. btw, PS4 sold 10 millions or so without a single game, no Knack was a glorified tech demo
>>737528770What put PS4 at 117m though?
>>737528629For Sony, nah. For Nintendo, yes. For Xbox in the past, bit of both. Back in the day the Playstation was just the default gaming device so while exclusives were nice to have, you were going to get one anyway with or without them. On the other hand the entire appeal of Nintendo are their 1st party IP, like, nobody's buying a Switch to play FIFA like they would a PS/Xbox, they buy it to play Mario and shit. Xbox initially had to set itself apart from the pack and sold on the basis of its exclusive franchises like Halo and all that but then eventually became the same as Playstation where people buy it to play COD and shit.
>>737528629Why would anyone buy a PS4 over a cheaper Xbox One if not for Bloodborne when they share 90% of the few worth playing games of that generation? I liked Sunset Overdrive, fuck you
>>737528626iirc that's one of the reasons gaben started investing into SteamOS and Proton development, MS could get Steam and the vidya market cornered at one point by locking shit behind the Windows Store app back when Windows 8 (or was it 10) was rolling out
>>737513419You are correct.And like they always do, once they hot a certain metric of success they will try and force your behavior again.I just don't think they realize how hard they fucked their brand for over a decade.Wake me up when...>Booth babes come back and are at events>Zoe quinn and her Ilk are laid off and get a full on restraining order from all microsoft events>I can call people a fucking nigger without catching a ban from a faggot janny.>They stop trying to sell my data and serve me ads>Blizzard/Bethesda/Activision stops being dogshit pumping out market research trend slop>Stop charging me to play online.I will be forever distrustful of Xbox and Microslop after the shit they pulled.But I can be persuaded to pretend to care a little if they aren't dog shit slop shoveling nigger faggots trying to moral fag to me.
>>737528842I understand but what got ps4 to 117m?
>>737528770It sets a great precedent as I only need to buy one of the following: PC, PS(X) or Xbox(Whatever) and I can play all the games. Preferrably PC.
>>737528795Wii U and Xbox One fucking up their introduction and marketing beyond repair before the start of the very same generation
>>737509543Its not a global market where people play nice. Aggresive assholes of the past suddenly create a gacha to appeal to the west. Actually have titties and ass in it. The east will still spit on it and do its best to make it fail. The gacha industry takes a long time to find a niche as well and GTA clones are on the horizon. There is no room for the west since they leave everything to crunch time. You need to be able to work continously on the next huge update. No AAA has it in them anymore not even Blizzard.
>>737528940So it had little to nothing to do with exclusives
>>737528629Somewhat for enthusiasts but for normalfags, not really. The normalfags mostly care about multiplats since everything went multiplat and Xbox is at a strict disadvantage because they need to release games on PC too which makes their consoles fucking worthless so people just default to Playstation if they want a console.Xbox is forever behind too because they bungled the PS4/Xbone generation where everyone built up digital libraries so people will just keep buying Playstations forever because that's where all their games are. It's like how PCfags will continue buying games on Steam forever.
I know how Xbox can win next gen. Make a high quality VR porn game with AI generated hot women. This is the only way. But it's something they could never do.
>>737528903>It sets a great precedent as I only need to buy one of the followingwhich boils down to no competition so you'll end up with the platform you wasted money with barely any game to play and worth overall. Can't say I'm fond of that.>PC>Windowslol lmao even a fucking Xbox is better at that point
literally all they have to do is fire every woman and brownoid in that crowd and hire exclusively straight white men and good games magically get made again. They know this but it's planned destruction of the industry.
>>737525948The problem with marketers and CEOs is that they do not believe they have reached saturation but still do the 5-10% growth estimates.
>>737529016I was with you until you said "AI generated"As a footchad I don't want to see bitches with 13 toes
>>737528948You don't grasp the level of disaster the marketing for those. It killed the competition for that gen right there>So it had little to nothing to do with exclusivesNo, actually even in that state exclusives had a lot to do
>>737529060That issue is long over. And AI Generated is the only way you'll be able to romance your waifu in the game, as Xbox can't technically infringe on other people's IPs unless you make the prompt that does it
>>737528949>Somewhat for enthusiasts but for normalfags, not really. The normalfags mostly care about multiplatsAnd yet even in yt comment box you find normalfags realizing exclusives are needed and they want them. Kind of funny when you think about it
>>737528626They are losing market share. Keep in mind a majority of PCs are not GAMING PCs and at best are casual. Lots of corporate PCs in that mix just handling business.The 5% market share linux just hit is a big deal and windows 11 is having big problems.>They COULD have a successful console again, but it will be difficult and they have to embrace shit like.game ownership, a reasonable price point, and not spying on users or feeding them non stop ads while making good games that don't get Blackrock DEI goodboy points.
>>737529131>as Xbox can't technically infringe on other people's IPswhy not just use original characters
>>737528629i think PS5 was the one scam generation they can get away with as i think at launch a lot of us expected a better catalogue over time. more like demons souls remake. why sony hasnt bothered with actual good remakes im not sure, probably zero talent. but for me at least, the exclusives would get me to USE their hardware, and there were none, so my PS5 collected dust for years then got packed up. not getting 6, i have a PC now. and its not like tons of people flocked to PC since 2020, but i know a lot of normies that did and do not own a playstation or console anymore, their xbox needs are satisfied by PC.
>>737529156how do i get an xbox 360 gf?
>>737529019Worked fine this gen. If every game is on all platforms, there really cannot be barely any games to play unless your tastes are so niche and specific you barely like any games. In which case having more exclusives will mean your platform of choice would be likely to miss 1-2 games of the 3-4 you want.
>>737509136>don't want DEI niggerfaggot girlboss slop>don't watch gachafaggot tranime dailyslopit's a dark time for gamers
Find it funny how when Nintendo and Valve does something first and Sony and Microsoft copies, it's Sony and Microsoft being the disrupters of the industry. What is this hatred normalfags seem to have with Nintendo and Valve?
>>737525307Many of you in both executive xbox and sony positions. Failing to understand the importance Nintendo holds in Japan, its economy and influence on the rest of the world.
Steam support on xbox will be bigger than we realise. Even if you give no shits about xbox that is still a huge selling point as a windows based gaming device with steam support. Makes you wonder how sony will counter it. I dont think they can without allowing for dualbooting of windows themselves.
>>737529169They could but it'd be inferior in its ability to cater to the highest fantasies of anons. Tons of people on /v/ want porn games with various IPs that MS does not own.
>>737529156so im a linux user, been using it foreveri say the biggest hurdle for linux adoption is you can't walk into a store and walk out with a linux machinei refurbish and sell old computers and a lot of them im putting linux on because 11 just doesnt run on thesethe people that buy them i have to make sure will not come in asking for a refund or how to do anythingonce you can buy a computer with linux on it without having to know you need a tuxedo or a nova custom or a system76 or a framework, linux will see widespread adoption
>>737529213>If every game is on all platforms, there really cannot be barely any games to play unless your tastes are so niche and specific you barely like any gamesYou're missing the point; if a game is on every platform there's no need to buy any of them and that may affect the game in question. This is why they bounced into predatory practices; PS/Xbox and multiplat devs since the costs are way too high for them and being multiplat adds to those costs to recoup. Therefore; don't be surprised the next PS/Xbox and further multiplat releases not only expensive as hell but filled with microtransactions and the likes>Worked fine this gen.>the gen where the impact of gen 7's multiplat cocksucking is reaching FUBAR levels
>>737509543>They might also be back to eyeing Japanese publishers going by the bottom part.great, let's obtain a fuck ton more studios to closeand looking at how things went in the past with japanese studios they clearly have no idea how to manage them
>>737529313>Steam support on xbox will be bigger than we realiseThere won't be Steam support, Helix is designed to hurt Steam, unified GDK vs Steamwork SDK, Xbox Store exclusives, Steam is locked out of Xbox features in the Windows Mode, you'll have to go on the Steam website and download and install it, will be plagued with Windows problems since it won't benefit from Xbox features due to being made for Steam. You want to use Steam at its fullest, you're better off getting a Steam Machine or waiting on the Steam Deck 2.
>>737529204They don't exist anymore sadly.Feminism infected everything.Men stopped being the target audience.Everyone is a crybaby faggot now
>>737529023>muh straight white meni don't know why /v/ thinks white guys are magically better at making games. a lot of minorities in the game industry have the same complaints that /v/irgins do, but they're forced to accept the whims of higher ups.there are plenty of great movies, books, music, etc. made by people from all kinds of backgrounds. i don't think the problem is that dev teams aren't white enough.
>>737511706xbox has been stuck at failure/implosion for fucking years now and the only reason it's still alive is by being part of microsoft/integrating itself into windows
>>737529482You have to buy at least one if you want to play the game. And the obvious choice is PC for everyone in the know. Dudebros can have PS6. Also I don't know where you get the idea it's really expensive to port games now, given how little care and optimization goes into the ports.
>>737529560>There won't be Steam support, Helix is designed to hurt SteamI think this is possible since the Xbox "Handheld" was in theory that but then Valve did the funniest thing and released some SteamOS stuff right before the ROG Xbox Ally and undercut the whole thing into oblivion
It's always baffling to me when companies make decisions that seem like they are meant to not make any money and distance themselves away from any audience.Like who managed to trick them"Yes, you should release your games on competing platforms, that will make your console successful!"How do you fall for that, are you retarded?
>>737529579We need to accept that this isn't just an attack on straight White Men, this is an attack on all straight Men, we need to band together to end this faggotry. I want my sexy bitches back.
>>737529353Were reaching that point especially for prebuilds looking to shave $200 off the price tag
>>737529579i always wondered about thiswhat was it about 2000s game devs that just mogged anything that can be made outside of the indie spacelike AAA companies have access to the best talent, the best tech, and they used to make the best games. then it just dried up somehow
>>737529579"Muh woke" is a mind virus
>>737529643>You have to buy at least one if you want to play the game.But if it's everywhere I don't even need to buy it, even the f2p release on mobileshit would suffice. It's everywhere; it kills the desire to go for it and get it inmediately>Also I don't know where you get the idea it's really expensive to port games now, given how little care and optimization goes into the ports.It's still costly, anon. Not as simple as copy-paste even as hackjobs
>>737529790No one here is talking about games that could have a f2p version on mobile. Just normal video games.
>>737529734I feel like at some point there was some huge sabotage in the industry that took place and I'm not sure who benefited from it yet
>>737529864>Goes full retard and ignores the second half of the point he's reading that was adressing it just becauseAnon, I...
>>737529734>>737529917it's simple. modern games are such a massive investment that game publishers have become extremely risk-averse.
>>737529917the only thing i can think of is everything became a board meetingyoull hear about this from devs every now and then and im surprised you dont hear more from them>we tried to pitch this cool game idea that would have been a passion project>but the suits that pay us said no make a battle royale>so we did and everyone hated itinvestors are running the show now thats all i can think of
>>737529917Here's the sabotage >>737529695>"Yes, you should release your games on competing platforms, that will make your console successful!"
Xbox could have 100 exclusives and I still won't buy that shitbox.Making their games exclusive simply ensures they will never see a penny from me.
>>737530017You weren't going to buy it anyway, nigger
>>737530017consoles r a nonstarter for me these days>sony engaging in dynamic pricing>then says oh those games on pc we're gonna make those ps5 exclusive>so we can rape you in the ass on our turf and theres nothing you can do about itits just a shit investment
>>737529942I don't see where any relevant point is addressing that. Do you seriously think Elden Ring could be released as a f2p mobile game? It can't fundamentally or it would no longer be a game worth playing. Do you think console/pc devs will all just go to mobile, leaving no real games left? There is no sign of that occurring. Premium games are a different industry.
I'm willing to bet Godd Howard's next masterpiece will be Xbox exclusive. We already know Kojima's next game is.
>>737509543Harassing and bullying gachafags to suicide should be legal
>>737530116making es6 an xbox console exclusive would permanently bury bethesda lmao
>>737530102>I don't see where any relevant point is addressing that.>>737529790>It's everywhere; it kills the desire to go for it and get it inmediatelyYou chose sidetracking. It has nothing to do with mobile games specifically, it was nothing more than a minor example.
>>737530168YES. ES6 XBOX EXCLUSIVE, PLEASE!
>>737528629Yes, but the problem is that Nintendo is basically the only one who has cultivated their franchises to the point they can pull it off nowadays.Sony and Microsoft mismanaged the shit out of their first-party studios and IPs, so the choice between one or another has devolved to picking the one that isn't actively trying to fucking you the ass (PS4 vs Xbone) and now simply picking the one that still plays the stuff you bought last gen, especially your digital library (PS5 vs XSS/XSX).
>>737530168Every elder scrolls game has been xbox exclusive in some way or another. But his next game isn't es6 anyway it's fallout 5 because of the tv shows popularity.
>>737530310>Xbox>Mismanage the fuck out of your studios>Nigger out just right next to hit the pay off building yourself a strong foundation of first party line up and studios for the long term>Playstation>Have some hits here and there then proceed to do fuck all with the little amount of IPs you had across +20 years and instead rely 100% on 3rd party devs to make exclusive games for your system's library >Also proceed to fuck everything sending the development costs sky high and increasing the deve times so 3rd won't make their games exclusive to you and will take longerInsane how hard they shot themselves in the foot
>>737530083>>sony engaging in dynamic pricingfor real? dynamic pricing is the worst fucking thing. i hope every nation in the world makes it illegal but i know that will never happen.
>>737530083What's this dynamic pricing thing?
https://blog.activision.com/activision/2024/activision-announces-new-studio-elsewhere-entertainment-all-new-franchise-developmentI'm still waiting for whatever this is. It was supposed to be a starcraft RPG like cyberpunk, witcher, elder scrolls etc. Maybe this is the next big xbox franchise.
>>737530554a lot of companies nowadays will use the data they have on you to determine how much you want to buy the thing they're selling, and if they think you're likely to buy then they'll increase the price just for you. i've personally noticed it with major airline and hotel chains as well as aliexpress.
>>737530083Consoles main competitive advantage was no mater what, you owned a physical copy of your game that would never be taken away from you.now they don't even want you to have that and want to avoid accountability if tgey fuck up and avoid accountability if some genderblob faggot has a grudge against you and targets you using the companyLike nigger.... why wouldn't I just go to steam or GOG then and go PC?
>>737530606Knowing Microsoft, they're going to cancel it
>>737530606The starcraft game is being made by blizzard and will be shown at blizzcon. Apparently its similar to space marine 2
>>737531110We're never getting StarCraft Ghost, are we?
>>737531068Microsoft are only cancelling small AA games. They straight up said about a year ago that they're focusing on high budget, high margin games going forward i.e. AAA blockbusters. This seems to be an industry trend because sony said the same thing.
>>737531226>They straight up said about a year ago that they're focusing on high budget, high margin games going forward i.e. AAA blockbustersI'm tired boss
>>737531172Maybe if this upcoming game sells well. I want xbox's rts studio to make a new starcraft rts
>>737511375because it's being run by jeets who want to cram AI into everything.
>>737509543They were fine before, the problem is that they chose to pander to idiots who don't like games and in fact hate games. Why make a product for those people? No strategy is going to work if you don't make things for the actual target audience.
>>737530236I dunno anon, a game being on all platforms doesn't make me not want to get it. Seems like a you problem.
>>737530479Microsoft has bought so many studios that, by all rights, they should have the rest of the industry by the balls. Even before the ABK deal, they already had the means to bounce back from the Xbone, especially because Sony wasn't and still isn't doing itself any favors by chasing after the elusive GaaS slop. It takes a special breed of moron to fuck this up, yet here we are.
Asha Sharma is taking Xbox back the OG roots
>>737509136>We are going to infiltrate chinaOH FUCK THEY ALREADY MANAGED TO FUCK UP THE WEEB GAMES THROUGH CENSORSHIP AND NOW THE KOREABOO SHIT IS NEXTFUUUUUUUUUUUUAND NOW DUE TO APPOINTING SOME JEET W*MAN IT WILL SIMPLY COME OFF AS RACIST IF QUESTIONED
Xbox is never recovering, it doesn't matter what they do. Gaming has shifted, PC has become where the power users go, and Switch firmly has the casual market. PS5 will continue to get the middle ground for the time being, but that ground is going to start shrinking quickly in the next few years.
BTW microsoft is already hard at work trying to brainwash the chinese with testosterone "mommies" exclusive to their continent. Since entities like microsoft can throw around infinite money, the chinese corporate overlords will bend over and make every normal guy into a faggot who is attracted to men, just like EU and NA fags.Game fucking over. Meanwhile you have literal retards simping for these (((changes)))
>>737530349yeah thats why i specified xbox console exclusive because theyre all also on pc
>>737532113okay, put DOA Xtreme on back compat and game pass and air this ad on youtube for ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9NeqWr_knA
>>737530554>>737530493https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8yVc6Uarho
>>737509136didn’t phil spencer try to get exclusives but they all tanked during development?a lot easier said than done
>>737523172>Who will pick XboxHeliXXX?Supposedly, they're merging it with Steam as a PC/Console hybrid (like the Deck) but that begs the question: Who the fuck on PC is wanting Windows (especially 11) grafted onto their handheld? Outside of Call of Duty and Battlefield players (kernel anti-cheat) I can't see a great demand for portable Windows handhelds.
>>737532065Turns out buying ABK & all the other studios was to hasten the spread of globohomo especially in the gaming industry
>>737523846Competition is fine. Exclusives aren't. If anything, Sony and MS both eating shit porting their stuff to non-main consoles just shows the exclusives REALLY aren't as good as they claim they are.
>>737530168>console exclusiveThis doesn't exist anymore for Xbox; it'll be an Xbox "Store" exclusive and a PC exclusive.
>>737532628Well, they failed catastrophically in that regard too.
>>737509136Please, this was phil's biggest fuckup
>>737532769What's the difference? So long as Microsoft attracts new players and retains the old ones within their ecosystem, all is well.
>>737510041Or, they HAVE figured it out, but decided to keep avoiding the solution.
so is the fake "Kumbaya Era" over? Can gaming go back to being cut-throat and competitive again?
>>737512864As long as most of the writers are women this can never happen.
>>737533052>go back to being cutthroat and competitivebro sony and microsoft are buying up studios left and right and when theyre done with them they shut them down like how it was in the ps2-vita erathis is as cutthroat as you can possibly get
>>737533148>this is as cutthroat as you can possibly getNot when they both had 99% of their games be multiplat, which defeats the point of buying studios.
>>737532528I take it you have never touched a woman.
Western slop with a Eastern veneer will still flop. I'm not gonna suddenly like their socipolitical propaganda just because they make a shitty SFW anime girl spew it.
Apparently, they stressed a commitment to affordability? They reduced the price of GPU by a whole $7, which is a good start. I wonder where else they could go from here. I've got my fingers crossed for an announcement revealing that Project Helix is a $350 ARM-powered console leveraging Microsoft's new arm-compiling SDK
>>737533365Remember this old article lolIn the end they just paid a billion humiliation bucks for Genshin ZZZ Wuwa to come to Xbox
imagine how funny it will be in 2034 when all of China uses Xboxes though.
Entire thread reeks of dead internet theory
>>737509136How badly did shartfield flop on the PS5?
>>737509136Is he wearing an apron?
>>737533574The port is as awful as PS3 Bethesda games, it crashes and corrupts all the fucking time. They didn't even try.
>>737533270i think after all was said and done going multiplat was the smart choiceit saved xbox from being completely obliterated with the xbone and it saved sony from losing out on mega bucks with the ps5 which was having trouble selling softwaretake a look at monster hunter which capcom assumed would be a console majority playerbase and ended up getting half their sales on pcsony is just butthurt because they release movie games and keep them ps5 exclusive for a year, then wonder why all the pc players would rather just watch it on youtube than actually buy the game
>>737509136Look at all those boomers
>>737532957>exclusivity, windowingI figured out what they're doing, those bastards are going with timed exclusivity. They want these games to be made on their unified GDK so they can be optimized for Helix, when ported to Steamworks, PlayStation 5/6, and Switch 2, they'll run like shift and would need to be patched. God, I hate Microsoft. It's not as bad as Sony going back to full exclusives though. Nintendo and Valve really scared these shitters straight, huh?
>>737533873*shit
>>737533595Probably works in the canteen and was forced to be there
>>737509136So did they find their own gayshin impact yet
Xbox's fate was sealed when dudebros ceased to exist and hot human women stopped being acceptable in western games.
>>737509136>a willingness to reinvent genres many once considered mature.I love lines that are absolutely steaming fucking mad while appearing sterile and corporate.
>>737509136just ditch xbox already and focus on making pc a better experiencemicrosoft is in the best possible position to make their own ms machine and optimize specifically for it
>>737509543>eyeing Japanese publishersFuck off faggots leave my fucking gooks alone. its bad they have fucking Rareware.
>>737526637Because infinite growth is a fucking meme, eventually things hit a peak and you either make something new or downsize to something more manageable. the thing is that the people with money in this industry know JACKSHIT about what makes a good videogame so now were seeing a complete fucking erasure of the current gaming industry with all these layoffs because the customer is not only financially overwhelmed but also has alot of choices. The Indie scene is now becoming the new battleground because these retards above are actually shitting thier pants because people are starting to realise they're the fucking issue which is why you see all this insane corporate lawfare against places like Valve because they represent the atleast 80% of the indie scene and basically make publishers pointless circumventing the middlemen completely.all the Kikes in the industry are middlemen.
>>737518531People are so tired of Hollywoods bullshit they can't even sell a fucking zombie movie anymore.
>>737519315Peter Moore is still alive. Just admit you where wrong in firing him and bring him back on board. We live in such a shitty world primarily because the people currently in charge literally cannot admit when they are wrong. They just keep doubling down on their shitty ideas at the expense of all the rest of us.
>>737535506lol i finished your paragraph and thought "middleman... weird way to say kike"and then you capped it off perfectly.
>>737509693If a studio is closed while making a game it does make that game exclusive so really they have a whole bunch.
>>737509739>Koei TecmoJust no>Square EnixWould say no but Bravely default remaster released on everything but Playstation>AtlusXbox has been trying to make Persona xbox exclusive for a while
>final price of the Xbox Helix will be $1200>affordableIs Xbox on crack?
>>737509136Xbox and Microsoft deserve to go under. They've done tremendous amount of damage to the video game industry ever since they stepped foot into it.
These idiots still think booth babes are somehow misogynistic. They'll never figure it out.
>>737538769>believing rumors from forums operated by sony fanboysWhat is known is that Helix will beat PS6 in performance. The price between the two is almost certainly similar, maaaaybe PS6 $100 less. Maybe.
>>737509136AIDSbox
>>737509136Everyone who has worked with this poojeet bitch said she talks nonsensical bullshit and then has nothing to show for it. and shes done this for every single company she has worked for, she just has a mouth and that's all. Xbox is dead, every single time a company hires a poojeet, its the sign they are on a death spiral.
>>737513356why did she put a fish in her ear
>>737509136I won't buy a console for exclusives ever again. Port it to pc or no sale.
>>737512727They are not pulling away from PC.Only possibly from PS5.
>>737528240>VegansIt's not going to catch on
Sex box
>>737532602Why would you post YouTube slop
>>737540049I just did the BOM, price you retard, they're going to have a 48GB GRR7 RAM, that shit will not be $1000, it's going to have to be $1200 just to break even. PS6 is going to be either $750-$800 since they're using just 30GB of GDDR7 and won't have a fucking Windows desktop on it. This isn't me defending Sony or anything, but you're borderline retarded if you think the Helix is going to be less than $1000. Also going to point out, that the Helix OEMs are most likely going to start at exactly $1000 and end at possibly over $2000.
>>737534582Ball and gun gamers still exist.Thing is, ball and gun gamers are the goyim that Hollywood is imagining when they think of the masses (insecure, vapid, emotional, easily confused, easily influenced) and there's a big divide between them and the general gaming public. Chasing the 90 IQ audience that punches a hole in the drywall when they lose a match doesn't earn you a lot of brownie points with the people who are extremely tuned in, buy 10+ videogames per year, and are the first to let their friends know what's good.
>>737531381The problem is world became matriarchal and those bitches can't stand japan nor their pretty female characters
>>737538940Nigga just look at nintendo america ceo, another roastie showing le feet because she knows she can't compete against 20 yo women with big boobs
>>737540671Hipsters are the modern day emos. It's an effeminate semi-large subculture that annoys everyone outside of it and is doomed to be looked back on as extremely cringe.Obviously, it doesn't have enough overlap with gaming subculture to sustain it's presence in a healthy industry. Theater kids and femcels generally aren't gamers.
>console>Microsoft keeps calling first-party Helix a consoleMicrosoft wouldn't sell us a $1200 console with paid online subscriptions, no desktop modes, and only third-party storefronts within the Microsoft Store, would they? Something about this just doesn't sound right, it's like they're not telling everything.
>>737509136>core experiences like search, discovery, social, and personalizationvideogames?
>Xbox niggers begging to not be industry cuckolds anymore even though the new PR is the same as the oldQuarterlies are next Wednesday and after that the May cuts.
