Xbox just announced a new logo and a rebrand. Tell me it isn't giving OG vibes.
it's very interesting to watch the death throes of such a former giant
>>737528798Xbox has never turned a profit for Microsoft lol
they've also officially scrapped the microsoft gaming namewhich arguably was the oversight that ruined it going all the way back to the xbone
If Xbox wants to win they need to announce AAA Bakugan for their platform.
Announce Banjo Kazooie 3 and I'm in
>>737528798>Sony is going back to the roots of PlayStation>Microsoft is going back to the roots of XboxI don't know, why does this feel so fake and corporate compared to when Nintendo and Valve does something?
>>737528798>OG vibesdo people really fall for shit like this? you probably would even with ms's track record over the past 10 years.
>>737528798>Tell me it isn't giving OG vibes.Okay.
>>737528798Imagine trying to pander and falling over your head immediatly because you cant ditch the corpo minimalist x ball logo from the shitbox 360, they wish they could replicate early xbox kino
>>737529396Because you've been traumatized for so long
>>737528798>Tell me it isn't giving OG vibesSure thing, anon. It isn't giving OG vibes.
>>737529504I bet 3 months ago you said Xbox would change their name to Microsoft Gaming.I bet you sit down to piss.
>>737529396Nintendo hasn't done anything authentic since the Wii
>>737529396Because Sony and MS have made it abundantly clear how compromised they are as organizations, especially in comparison to Valve and Nintendo. Say what you want about the latter two, but they seem nowhere near as rotten with the commie jew jeet disease.
>>737529396Nintendo doesn't do anything meaningful anymore if you're not in their ecosystem of games, and Valve hasn't done anything that the wider public gives a shit about. Meanwhile Sony and Xbox are just corpo PR speak crap.
>>737529742Unlike Sony and Microsoft, they're making good games. Valve is next once that Steam hardware comes around.
>>737528798if this isn't a shilling thread you really suck at sounding genuine
>>737528798it looks nice I am intrigued at what they will bring to the table in future
>>737528798>giving OG vibes.you werent alive for the original
>>737529545>no anon they didn't rebrand for a reason>no anon they didn't choose those colors for the reveal for a reason>no anon stop>stop anon>nooooo
>>737529545modern logos are so depressing i honestly feel like it was some kind of orchestrated psyop to demoralize people. its obviously not just the logos but its everything and the logo is just one aspect of it. but soemthign you see plastered everywhere in society on every product so it does matter.cool/happy logo= positiveugly/bland logo=demoralizing
>>737530147A big part of it is largely the minimalist corporatism. Imagination is frowned upon, safe market trends are sought after to please the shareholders because they think sleek, minimalist, corporate looks are both cheaper to produce and easier to market. And with how many retards buy the newest iPhones or random bullshit, so far its worked for almost 20 years.
Apologize
changing the color of our logo will surely sell more game machines, right chatbot?>yes, ms sharma.
>>737528798reminds of green shit. How fitting
>>737528798GREENWOOOOWGUYS IT'S GREENGREENWITH BLACKGREEN AND BLACKWOKE IS DEADGAMING IS SAVED
>>737530068If you erased history and told me the logo on the bottom was the successor to the top I'd believe it
>>737530492When Conker's Bad Fursday drops you won't be laughing
>>737529396>Valve does something
>>737530364She’s cute :3c
>>737530364This is all just acts of desperation because Steam slapped their shit in.
>>737528798Okay but they actually need games now
>>737528798yeah Officially Garbage vibes
>>737530979HAHAHAHAHAHAANON THAT WAS SO FUNNY
Even if they genuinely turn things around it'll only last until they get comfortable again and restart the enshittification. Don't get give corpos second chances. Only Valve has never betrayed gamers (cue artifactfag.
Setting console fanboy bullshit aside, the idea of a comeback story intrigues me, especially if the mountain to climb to it is labelled "impossible"
>>737528798Feels good to be a playstationGod
>>737528798It looks exactly the same but I like that it's green again
>>737530364>Cut Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 per month>after it was originally increased from $19.99 per monthThe chocolate rations have been increased...
>>737530364>increase gamepass by a clearly greedy amount (50%)>start losing way more of your playerbase than the additional 50% covers>reduce the cost back down to where your increase should've been>gets called a winFuck MicrosoftThey STILL don't let you play the DLC by default. Who the fuck is buying DLC for rented games?
>>737532068>became $20 2 years ago (June 2024)a 2.99 increase 2 years later makes sense, also because of the library growth and what's comingthey could've made it $25. I bet you said it would never lower even by a dollar.asha cookin
>>737528798It's incredible how some corporate speak change the way people see Xbox.Personally I have never been too much of a doomer or a consoomer, but now I realized they are just the same.
>>737530594Live and Reloaded was better than Bad Fur Day>muh censored swear wordsI’d rather the game not feel like liquid diarrhea to play on over the word “shit” being censored
>>737528798Looks coolTho it feels weird seeing the glossy logo without the white colors, greens is very obvious but i got so used to the white one
>>737532656I'd kill for Live and Reloaded's multiplayer to come back
>>737528798>tell me it isn't giving OG Xbox vibes guys!
>>737530364Nobody cares about this shit. She has to get all of those studios they own to start pumping out good games.
>>737528798They'd be better off ditching the name and starting over.
>>737530364Not yet, I'll appologize when I see changes not when she says she will maybe do something
>>737530364 >>737528798>apologize>every microsoft studio consists of 40% trannies 30% enby 19% women 10% niggers 1% men SAAR I AM VERY ROOTING FOR THE CUMBACK OF THE XBOX MICROSOFT!!!! THE NEW CEO IS SO HANDSOME!!
>>737529396it's fake and corporate no matter what company does it. Nostalgia sells, you don't think Pizza Hut and Burger King reverted back to their 80s logos at random right?
Eh, I want China to make a console. And fast. I think Pragmata might be the last good AAA action game. It basically bombed in Afrimerica, so I don't expect more from that market besides the same online battle games.
I just set up my original with an old CRT for some nostalgia, and something I find impressive is how picrel startup animation plays instantly, the moment you press the power button. Something you don't get or expect from any newer consoles
>>737533064Feel like Western game publishers would refuse to support a Chinese console at all, over the concern that the whole thing will drive emulation and piracy, officially or not
>>737533184https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlS1AQ4YpFgA lot of things lost a lot of their sense of whimsy as the 00s went on.
>a Woman of Color is going to save the dudebro console that was destroyed by stupid white menHow does that make you feel?
>>737533184Probably because these things were custom-made for what they were intended to do. Nowadays the platforms are effectively PCs with custom operating systems so so much shit chugs in the background, on top of stripping out the cool touches. Shit, Switch 2 is pretty snappy but under the hood for the main menu there's so much bullshit clogging the system up when you're not in a game that it probably can't ever hope to have folders and themes without shitting itself.
>>737530364>Cut after a 50% bump. And the "cut" games with the loss of CoD days, basically the only reason faggots still used that shit>Announced a project someone else was doing, and that is going to be a glorified Windows PC>Rebranding of nothing because it was always Xbox, Microsoft Gaming was the SH that made games>Scrapped because there is no sense calling your console a "digital servisse". People were getting confused.>She never said that. If anything she is pro HIGH quality AI content. She is indian by the way, what do you expect?-written with and by a fucking AI, you dumb brainletIt's Dreamcast all over again. Remember flags, there are going to be more cuts at Microsoft in May. I can't wait for the crying.
>>737533298My man, her previous job involved AI integrations and we saw what that's done to Windows.
>>737533184back then game consoles were game consoles, not budget PCs with more limited features.
>>737533350CoD has been shit for years now MW1 reboot was the last sorta good CoD and even then it was coming after like 5 failed titles before.I'm glad they cut that shit and lowered the price in fact they should go a step further and remove the fortnite battle pass shit too even if it saves me only 50 cents.
>>737528798if this fails, MS will pull the plug or they're gonna keep pushing indians and promising games while promoting gamepass?
>>737533298You mean "kill" the console dudebro era for good
>>737532692It's still alive and well anon
>>737533338>Nowadays the platforms are effectively PCs with custom operating systems so so much shit chugs in the background, on top of stripping out the cool touches.Sorry, are you saying the original Xbox wasn't LITERALLY a PC running a stripped down version of Windows? Because it was. It ran on a Pentium with an Nvidia graphics chip. The entire name, Xbox, came from the term 'DirectX Box.'
>>737533418This amount of copium is really sad and phatetic.
>>737528798what happened to xbox since the release of xbone? studios scamming money from ms?
>>737533425They will probably do another attempt if this fails they need the gayming market on PC and console now more than ever because Valve and their push to make linux not fucking suck will cause a giant dent in their userbase if they ever figure how to solve the 20% performance tax proton introduces.Trust in wangblows is at an all time low because of botched updates and consumer hostile moves to shove AI and draconian terms of service everywhere most gaymers would gladly switch their main PC to linux if it didn't involve a drastic cut to FPS.
>>737533393If you look at the specs for the original Xbox, you could argue it is the most "budget PC with limited features" any console has ever been, including later Xboxes. Yet it can still do that type of thing
>>737533298I for one welcome what Mia Khalifa is doing
>>737528798SOVL
>>737533263>Feel like Western game publishers would refuse to support a Chinese console at allDamn. Can't wait to preorder. The Afrimerican market is full of turd worlders, junkies and mentally ill people who can't afford video games, and don't play them, but love complaining about how they should push some insane cultural or political agenda like genital mutilation or going to war with Russia. Saner people need to take over the business.
>>737533484Stripped down but custom-tuned specifically to the hardware so that it focuses strictly on what it needed and not a bunch of telemetry bullshit and constant internet linkage for half the features. Nowadays the PowerPC architecture shit is just a crutch for making game ports more convenient alongside standardized development structure but it feels (yes, anecdotally) like that's digging its claws into overhead like crazy.
Still not buyingThem making an End of Service update to the 360 killed all trust I will ever have in them running a console properlyMeanwhile you can still get PSP games from PSN btw
>giving OG vibesFirst of all its literally just a the modern logo but glossy green.Second what the fuck is up people saying something is "giving"? Like do people not complete their sentences anymore?
>>737533607Scratch that, Eastern publishers might also stay away, for the same reasons. Nintendo is known as the worst copyright troll/bully in gaming and they are Japanese
>>737528798A TRUE RETURN TO FORM
>>737533521Halo pretty much hard carried the OG and the 360 to the point Halo and Xbox are synonymous. 343i shit the bed with Halo 4 and kept shitting the bed long after, so naturally the console's brand suffered too since it had nothing as memorable to be the face of Xbox.
>>737533608>Nowadays the PowerPC architecture shitWhat the fuck are you even saying?The original Xbox ran on an x86_32 Intel Pentium CPU.The Xbox 360 ran on a PowerPC chip.The Xbone One ran on an x86_64 AMD CPU.The Xbox Series X runs on an x86_64 AMD CPU.The original Xbox was literally a basic PC.
>>737533565This is a common misconception. While it's specs on the surface are close to a budget PC, it's still very much designed as a console and has much different architecture from a PC. It's why Xbox emulation took so long to improve despite it seeming simple to do on paper.
>>737533184>Bill Gates being genuinely shocked by how responsive the prototype was (because it was running a (very cut down) version of windows)
>>737533705Halo, Gears of War, the occasional first party smash hit that was neither of those like PGR, viva piñata or Forza and the best version of multiplats is what carried them hard until they went full retard with kinect shit
>>737533757It ran on Windows CE.>It's why Xbox emulation took so long to improve despite it seeming simple to do on paper.Incorrect, it was difficult to get working because the Nvidia GPU. It was difficult to find any documentation on how the GPU worked.Zoomers ITT posting nonsense.
>>737533298Culture war shit is cringe and people don't even care at this point, as long as someone brings back good games .
>>737533298She isn't saving anything, Nadella was the one having Phil do all of that, now he's having her do the opposite to get Xbots to fall for her, it's working hook line and sinker. Sony's using the same strategy by making a Nip man the sole CEO of SIE to make Snoys believe PlayStation is going back to the days of the PS1. It's just Sony and Microsoft being desperate because they didn't take Nintendo and Valve seriously before they became unstoppable.
>>737528798So much flip-flopping from them lately but their exclusives are still coming to Playstation.
>>737534240bro no one gives a shit about baby mascot games shut the fuck up
>>737534397You would think, XSnoy
>>737534385"We will reevaluate our approach to exclusivity" - Asha April 23
As a consolefag who’s owned every gen of Xbox (and a ps5), a next gen Xbox would be a hard sell because I’m going to get a ps6 regardless. Unless Sony committed to launching everything on PC and the Xbox is a proper PC
>>737528798Doesn't matter unless they start making some absolute kino exclusives again. If everything comes to PC then they might as well fucking give up.
>>737528798Can the redo the last 20 years of xbox gaming though?
>>737534515Sony hasn't released anything exclusive that's warranted a purchase of the PS5 let alone a PS6People will go to where the games + value is
>>737534504This is the one that they wont change. The damage has already been done, games like Indiana Jones, Starfield, Fable, Gears, Halo Campaign Evolved should never be on PS.
>>737529742Lol>>737529839Lmao even
>>737534632>This is the one that they wont change.Says the guy who also said they'd never lower the price of Game Pass
>>737529343Do you trust them making a Kazooie game? They couldn't even get a Perfect Dark game off the ground despite making a whole studio to make one for 6 years and still failed.
>>737534821Old regime
Ehh. Who really cares anymore? Xbox ain't been shit and hasn't been in a long time. They'll never have a run like the days of the 360.
>>737529343Barely anyone who worked on the original Banjo Kazooie still works at Rare
>>737528798Still no games
>>737530364Only if she posts official bikini photos where you can see her hard nipples erect from the brisk ocean air.
>>737528798Wow, that's really interesting. It still looks like the gay Xboner redesign while attempting to look like the reactor core gem design, but it fails to capture the original energy and spirit. It is like some designers were told what to make rather than anyone having an actually cool and unique idea. Why even bother?
>>737535369It's not that deep bro
>>737530364All that stuff but 0 games.
>>737528798>Tell me it isn't giving OG vibes.they've been trying get OG vibes for the last 15 years, vibes don't mean jackshit without substance
>>737530364It's an impossible dream, but what if Xbox welcomes back the uncensored Japanese or Far East Asian fanservice that Sony/PS disposed of near the end of 2010s? They said they are going give a focus to China/Mobile-first markets in their new strategy.
>>737528798looks the same to me
>>737528798>xbox>is a sphere
>>737537591That's why they added the 360
>>737528798xbox has always been the redheaded stepchild of consolesand who the fuck is buying a console in 2026, just build/buy a pc
>>737537694Ram is too expensive, It's better to buy a cheap console and play what you want.
>>737530364Her ass is hueg like an Xbox too or so I've seen.
>>737530492Yes, you mad gaystation fan?
>>737532765You're gay for posting gay porn.Also Xbox is fucking back. Yeah!
>>737532937They're going to make online passes for multiplayer dirt cheap at like $5.99
>>737537794just buy a prebuilt
>>737533587I know man. It feels good to be an Xboxer.
>>737530364The Xbox really did a 360 turn!
>>737530364Gotta say it was bizarre to see so many Xbox fans pretend that "This is an Xbox" marketing was good. Literally telling people not to buy their product. Anyway, I agree with the moves here in a business sense, but MS can burn in hell before I trust them again.
Chat is this a return to form?!
>>737538174Xbox fans (if there are still some left) act like abused wifes who go back to their husband after each beating. Or MAGA voters, same thing
>>737533298I mean, she took the natalist pill from silicon valley dudebros. She's probably some kind of alt-right with her white supremacist husband
>>737533608Are you implying that the reason as to why nu consoles don't have SOVL start up screens is due to standarized hardware? Cause if so youre retarded
>>737530364Watch out, when I posted this I was banned for "fanboyism"
>>737538667I hope you get banned again, Xbot
>>737532150They would be making more money if they never raised the price.Lots of people were reminded to canceled their subs when price raise announcement came.
>>737534240Shouldn't an "unstoppable Valve" have found a way to sell more than ~5 million Decks by now?
>>737540047Valve had PTSD from over-stocking steam machines, and understocked the 'ecks because of it. Then when they needed more, FAGMANN fucked up the supply chain.
>>737539953The reason subscription prices get raised most of the time is to make a bad quarter look good, it's quick, easy, and you can smudge the presentation in the earnings report to make it look like natural growth. Sometimes it backfires though.
>lowers the price of Game Pass to $22>Going to launch a $1200 PC that they're calling a console>stating that this is affordableWhat the hell is Microsoft doing?
It definitely is giving Obviously Gay vibes for sure. Good call.
I honestly feel like I have woken up in bizarro land because I don't know what the fuck people are thinking>omg she wore a halo jacket wow!!!>omg the logo is green like xbox used to be green!!And so on.Is everyone fucking retarded?
>>737540047Different strategy from the rest.
>>737540690It's what happens when everyone at M$ lives in their tiny west-coast bubble and have no idea what middle-class actually is.
>>737540738Literal shills, like the old definition, they're paid to pretend to be excited about what she's doing, even when it's shallow shit.
>>737540690>Going to launch a $1200 PC that they're calling a consoleIt's going to be so fucking funny when it becomes apparent how badly Microsoft have gimped this concept. I can almost guarantee it'll be locked down to Windows Store apps. No Steam for you.
OG XBOX? SOULEd Fries (Xbox)>Ed was in college in 1984 when the game industry famously melted down. All these game companies went out of business, including the one I worked for. I had to get a real job, so I went to work at Microsoft. They put me on the first version of Excel for Windows. I was the youngest of seven programmers. We had a really difficult task to fight Lotus. Lotus 1-2-3 was the biggest PC software product in the world, and Lotus was the biggest PC software company>The head of the games group was leaving. They were looking for someone to run it. To me that was perfect. I was super excited about taking that job. I talked to my bosses and they said–multiple VPs called me into their offices. One said I was committing career suicide. Another told me, “Why would you leave Office, one of the most important parts of this company, to go work on something no one cares about?” That’s what they said about the games business in the mid-’90s>Seamus Blackley, Kevin Bachus, Otto Berkes, and Ted Hase. [The original Xbox instigators] were from the DirectX group, and so of course they wanted to make this thing called the DirectX Box, or Xbox for short. It was very different from what we shipped. It was a Windows PC that was in a box that made it look more like a console, and then pretended to be a console. You would stick a PC game in it and it would quietly install it in the background then it would run. It would behave like putting in a disc to play a game. That was the original proposal>They proposed something very much like–completely custom hardware, custom software, effectively a PlayStation. We proposed something that was very much like a Windows PC>The original Xbox IDE bus supports speeds up to 133 MB/s (UDMA6)
>>737540849>The reality was that we were PC developers, PC game developers for the most part, trying to understand the console business. And the console business, you have to remember, was ruled by the Japanese at that time. They’d controlled the console business since the mid-’80s. All the biggest companies were Japanese. The biggest franchises were Japanese. And yet in the PC world, where we came from, there were incredibly exciting things happening with multiplayer games, first-person shooters, that kind of thing>When we talked to the press, especially the console press, they would say, “Who’s your Mario? Your games look dark and gritty, not bright and colorful like console games.” And what that meant was they didn’t look Japanese.>For one thing, we had a hard drive. Hard drives don’t get cheaper. They just get bigger. They still cost, at that time, 50 bucks. It’s just how much space you get for that. Worse, we had an Intel part and an Nvidia part. We didn’t own the IP for the CPU or the GPU. There was no way we could integrate those parts together to shrink the machine. So definitely on the hardware side, we were losing money>Ed Fries is probably one of a handful of people still alive who can program the Atari 2600>Bungie’s going broke—not an unusual call at the time, since developers and publishers were often going out of business—and they needed to be acquired. Ed Fries suggests buying Bungie and Halo in 2000 because he liked Myth. Bungie considered it a leap of faith because they liked Ed Fries.>Steve Jobs was mad that Ed Fries bought Bungie, and he had to call him to calm him down, and suggested a Mac port>Bungie built Halo in 9 months, copy pasted hallways were due to having to make it to the Xbox launch>Ed Fries insisted on making networked multiplayer—LAN work on Xbox
>>737540821They'll lock Steam down into the Windows Mode with shitty optimization all around along with Windows issues while stores in the Microsoft Store will get all the Helix treatment of console-level optimization for games in the Xbox Mode.
>>737533705>343i shit the bed with Halo 4 and kept shitting the bed long after, so naturally the console's brand suffered too since it had nothing as memorable to be the face of Xbox.Yes they did, but Halo was fucked way before then.CoD blew up and the demographic shifted towards that, then Reach released which was in the kindest way to put it, divisive. Halo was kiddy cartoon bullshit compared to "dude I got a nuke last night in MW2 bro!" sort of stuff in 2009.
>>737528798>a new logoYou mean the same logo from the 360 era?Surprised, they haven't just released an original mini at this point.
>>737541037However they go about it, they will absolutely sabotage the 'PC' side of it.
Okay whatever. Give me proper emulation and/or a translation layer or fuck off frankly.Bunch of my OG xbox games are still unplayable on Xemu and it's only been years with no progress towards them.
>>737528798pajeet console
>>737541642>Bunch of my OG xbox games are still unplayable on Xemu and it's only been years with no progress towards them.What games? Are they actually exclusive or are they on other systems? The PS2 emulates well.
>>737541382I'm relooking at my comment about this. I noticed Microsoft keeps calling this a "console". I'm starting to think those bastards are going to sell a $1200 box with paid online, no desktop mode, BC, and only third-party stores as apps in the Microsoft Store while having no Steam at all. Microsoft is crazy enough to do that. Something is just not settling right with me regarding this "console".
>>737528798Why dont they make Multiplayer free? It would actually give people a reason to choose Xbox over PS. It would also make Sony and Nintendo look bad and out of touch?
>>737542149Think about it this way anon, when have MS ever delivered on a promise in a way that wasn't drenched in monkey paw voodoo?They've called it a PC hybrid. My bet is it'll have a desktop mode, but it'll be locked down to Windows store applications. You won't be able to install a vast majority of executables/software. The other bit of bullshit they could do is have it so desktop mode only had 1GB of VRAM available or something. They did something similar with the old dev mode.Don't think this thing will run steam games. Microsoft will be truthful, but not honest.
does anyone under 50 and not american care about Jeetbox? it's a bigger flop than the sega saturn
>>737542459Microsoft has been expanding on Play Anywhere for a reason. This shit was never going to have Steam, kek. Only the third-party Helix will have Steam because those will be full Windows 11, but they won't have backward compatibility like the first-party console will. Microsoft is trying to fight a two-front war. One with Nintendo and Sony, and one with Valve. Xbox is completely fucked, I can't even see this time exclusivity thing where they lock Helix games off Switch 2, PS6, and Steam for many months isn't going to last very long because who the hell is even going to buy this?
>>737528798Reminds me of this shit
>>737528798OG and 360 were peak. What the actual fuck happened?
>>737530364She's also not some corporate drop-in, she's been with the Xbox team forever.
>>737528798Mfw I tank a brand so hard they're still trying to recover 15 years later
>>737528798Does this really qualify as "new logo"? It's more of a redesign.
>>737542789>360Only in the early years of it. Guess people memory holed how sanitized and corporate it got. The xbox one reveal being like that was just a continuation of the late 360 days.
SexBox
>>737538231>angry ugly women screaming at white men
>>737543106He did nothing wrong
>>737543695dude tv??? wtf is this gayming shit?
>>737544559I wonder if their metrics for people using the 360 as a multimedia device was enough for them to consider going all in on that a good idea. I remember seeing a bunch of my friends list just using netflix/the other stream services and browing the internet.
