>Literally does the bare minimum to revive the Xbox brand>Immediately outshines her predecessorIt’s funny how simple rollbacks like the reduction of game pass pricing can make such a big difference.
Gay thread m8
It's easy to look good in the first few months before fucking it all up. Just look at trump.
Nothing she does will turn things around unless Xbox's studios put out a constant stream of good exclusive games. That's what Phil was never able to do despite all his good intentions and what killed the brand.
Nobody is discussing the real issues here, like how many ounces to indian toe cheesy could i scrape out from between her toes and under her toenails to put on some crackers and nom nom eat that shit up.
>>740845034>re-remakes Halo CE>adds 3 missionsNah fuck no. It would be impressive if the whole game was filled with new stuff.Theyre basically still on Square-One with Fable in their pockets. And thats gonna be niche I bet.
>>740845034>Owns most of the most iconic games of all time >Keeps whining they are losing money beyond redemption Seriously what the fuck is stopping them from being bigger than Nintendo? Creative bankruptcy?
>>740845034That's nice. Can't wait for all the firings followed by all those employees getting replaced by Jeets.
>>740845034I honestly think decisions that these people make absolutely do not matter in the slightest.Do you genuinely believe there's a magical algorithm that 1) sets up and production line for quality exclusives and 2) makes an xbox a worthwhile purchase?
>>740845034Very funny to post this a week or two before she fires 10-20% of their developers.
>>740845280Halo is an early 2000 game dude, it's not forever iconic like Nintendo licenses
>>740845034Nice try, Jeet. Xbox is not redeemed
>>740845280The structural issues that plague almost all big western studios. Bloat, lack of communication, talent bleed from the publisher laying senior staff off and hiring new staff to avoid having to raise wages for seniority, etc.
I’m sorry, /v/rehs, I…I think…I think I wanna kiss her…
>>740845034>"Hey Phil, just fyi I'm gonna need you to bring profit margins of 30%, which is totally normal haha, k bye lol.">Phil raises the prices of gamepass, gets rid of exclusivity to sell more, and does anything he can to meet the quota.>Still fails>"Oops, it seems like you didn't make it. Ah, what a shame, you have to leave. Don't worry, I have a "perfect" replacement :)">Fellow pajeet gets the job>Suddenly, prices get lower and exclusivity is back.>Xbox profits down the drain, no fucking way the 30% profit margin gets met, but it's ok, because Phil is no longer there, and that was the actual reason for quota.
>>740845280Graphics, the chase for good graphics was a trap that just makes things take way more time to make and makes things way more expensive. That’s why Nintendo won, they half assed on graphics and focused on game play instead which is why they have games while we been waiting for fable for 6 plus years, like they literally announced fable in 2020, where duh fuck is it, they’ve probably spent so much fucking money over the 6 years financing this piece of shit game that their going to lose money on it now where if they just halfed ass on the graphics like Nintendo does that shit would of been out years ago.
>>740845034I got no faith in this nepo hire
>>740845506Don't forget lack of a cohesive artistic vision for their franchises. All major Western franchises end up being trend chasers rather than trend setters because their vision of the franchise depends on what will attract the a large casual audience to the exception of the stable loyal audience.
>>740845034>nothing has changed>just le vibe shift>xbox saved!Wow, it's like the stock market!
>>740845280the MS you remember from before 2012 is long dead
>>740845785No can't be these imbeciles just trying to push their kin into major positions to make money!In the end Xbox is about Family.
>>740845034After the next console Xbox is over and done with as a venture.
>>740845034Can't wait for the cuts next month. It's gonna be weeks of seething from Xbox niggers.
>>740845034>price is $10>price raised to $100>we have heard your complaints gamers>price reduced to $92>WOWEEE ZOWIEOP, YOU'VE FOUND YOUR HERO
>>740845034xbox is still dead
>>740849931No gears lol
>>740845034Don't be too hasty, anon. Shit is about to hit the fan, big time.
Another shitty Gears of War is "reviving"? Hahahaha
>>740845280>what the fuck is stopping them they forgot to release any games
>>740845034>glass clifflol
>>740845034truthfully if phil spenser had done the same things it would have been seen much worse than with a new CEO
>>740845785Indians are notorious for only hiring other Indians...
>>740845034As long as she remains the head of xbox, it'll nuke itself with time
>>740851424Ah yes, surely this time it will be great.
>>740845034she's laying off a ton of people and probably canceling helix so go her, i guess
>>740845785This. Xbox was the last white division at MS.
>>740845034Hey man I remember when Phil was "woah, an actual gamer leading xbox" and everyone liked him as a cool guy 12 years ago.
>>740849962dead IP same as their dead console
At least she is focusing on the core fanbase and trying to move things in the right direction. The Xbox brand has been damaged so much that it will take years to get it back on track. Phil had good intentions his hands off attitude with the first party studios lead to development hell, cancellations and games like redfall being released. Asha needs to reign things back in which seems like the plan. Gaming is better with Xbox in it, Sony need the competition to keep them in check.
goy pass needs discontinued, as it's the biggest detriment to the value of exclusives.People no longer view games as premium or worth buying, they just view them as disposable entertainment like netflix slop.M$ needs to give up the delusional dream where they become the netflix of games
>>740845034Jeets need to be killed and erased from this globe. All the shilling is from desperate bharats who want to defend their caste system.
>>740845034bro the credit sharma gets online is unreal. I suspect it's 90% white nerds who just lust after her, because lmao xbox is in a shit situation and she comes from AI, the industry that fucks all the prices and by extension, will fuck the new xbox. too. and she'll shutter another studio and lay off hundreds of people next month.she's just as much a pos as all the other ceos, nerds just want to fuck this one is all, which is why they swallow all her pr lines
>>740845460>Halo is an early 2000 gameIronic that nintendo hasn't put out any relevant games in about the same time
>>740845034When a man feels himself going insane, his first act is to think back to the last time he felt sane.
>>740847037seen a lot of youtube shorts, threads, etc really trying to pump up excitement for her. feels very artificial.
she looks like my first gf in high school. but said gf was italian
>>740847178by 2011 MS was already dead
>>740845785
>>740845154This. Literally nothing she has done means jack shit unless xbox starts making games that people want to play.
ES6, Fallout 5, StarCraft 3, Halo (an actual good one) need to be exclusive to the next Xbox console and preferably be launch titles or very close for it to not be a huge failure, and even then it’s unlikely. Wii U -> Switch turnaround was able to happen because they merged their handheld and home console business, only home console was floundering. And it launched with BOTW, Mario Odyssey etc. Forza and Halo CE Remake should’ve been exclusive too.
why can’t they just make minecraft unavailable on ps5
>>740845034I WANT TO REDEEM THIS MA'AM...what do?
saar.
>>740855237Just finished splatoon 1 yesterday, nintendo truly died with Iwata, that was the last hit new IP they had, the switch had no successful new IPs and we're already a year into the switch 2 and new IPs are nowhere to be seen. Drag x Drive? lmao, even arms and sushi striker are less pathetic.
>>740845785Saveable post
>>740845034She's just a mouth piece, and does no actual work other than say some words
>>740855996she has the same hair as my ex, which admittedly does things to mebut one has to get over that, she's as much a soulless corpo suit as the rest of them
>>740845034MA'AM, ARE YOU PROSTITUTE?
>>740845154Yep. It's all about fixing the development pipeline and establishing a healthy release cadence. Xbox needs to start copying Capcom's homework. She's done the easy stuff. The hard part is reversing the trend of killing capable studios for one time quarterly report buffs.They need to be treating Halo like resident evil, multiple studios, new title or remake every 2 years or so, and strict 'pander to fans' culture. Xbox needs to spin up more studios and completely reverse the subversive writing rooms in their studios. They need to pander to a core target audience of mostly western males which will be a tough sell internally.
>>740845034How about this: allow us to finance it without interest with a set price. If the hardware situation changes for the better, monthly payments lower accordingly. At least I would buy the LE XBOX if that plan was in place.
>>740845034prove to me that this is a real person
>>740857567If we stop paying will the jeetess send goons to my house to repo the xbox?
>>740857567actually in favor of dirtbags leasing out consoles and pcs? never own, but pay out the ass forever?shill post detected, just buy an ad asha
>>74085756750 bucks a month, 3 year minimum contract. take it or leave it
>>740857567That won't happen because financing is through third parties. You think xbox has a bank like Sony ?
>>740845034She's an ai shill pajeeta, she'll destroy Xbox in a year or two. She's just reverting to industry norms to try to last until ai can magically save everything (it won't)
>>740858102>She's an ai shill pajeeta, she'll destroy Xbox in a year or two. She's just reverting to industry norms to try to last until ai can magically save everything (it won't)I agree, but that's half her, half the parent company MS. all odds are against xbox imo. desu the saddest thing for me personally is that they'll probably close down DF first. this industry fucking sucks
>>740845034>It’s funny how simple rollbacks like the reduction of game pass pricingI thought they rolled back the standard price but increased the premium price and are going to put their premuium games like CoD on that one with the cheaper pass effectively now for shovel ware?
>>740845034Vajankiya, hurry up and give me the fucking Gears Collection you cunt
>>740855996you mean s*cilian
>>740845853North american devs waste a fuckload of money on all kinds of shit other than graphics. Notice how all the discussion about how expensive it is to make a game is pretty much confined to north america.European and asian devs don't have the same problem at the same scale, there's only a handful of cases like with sega and square enix chasing the live service dragon or ubisoft and their bajillion employees across a ton of studios.
there's no way there's still Sony pony shilling after they literally have zero games for almost 20 years straight, right?
>>740845034She'll cause irredeemable damage to xbox
>>740861647>Sony ponyForced meme that never caught on.
>>740845034Is love to know how much they lose on gamepass each month now.
>>740845034Phil too did the bare minimum early on. Remember when people pissed themselves because of backward compatibility? But the bigger picture never changed. Xbox never delivered where matters a lot and kept delivering where it matters little.Will the game pass price reduction grow it further? Of course not because it is reaching the point where it is too significant compared to a price of a full game.Will keeping Gears exclusive (at least for now, don't be surprised when tehy change their minds) sell more Xbox consoles when every other major franchise is on PS/PC/Switch? Of coruse not.Will the Helix not be unaffordable for 99% of their current userbase? Of course not.Nothing changed, this is just the exact same "social media shitter, every day an interview about nothing" behavior Spencer kept doing for a decade.
>>740855237yet which one is winning
>>740845785mommybros… is it true?
>>740845034Bare minimum is still better than doing nothing but this will not last long unless they go back to itagaki era of xbox
>>740845853It's because dumbasses like you go "wtf this looks like past-gen I could've just stayed on PS4"Literally consumer sheep mindset, the same mindset that has pushed computer component prices up, is why they do thisYou could easily play games on the lowest setting, what a surprise, no one doesPeople aren't buying Series S's to play Crimson Desert or GTA 6, what a surprise, I wonder whyJust shut the fuck upNintendo operates in a different niche where fat manchildren have the low amount of self-respect to still be excited by the same rehashed baby mascot title every year it has nothing to do with the sphere we're talking about
>>740845034are women really this stupid to not realize they're being put at the head of the company to take the fall?
>>740845034>like the reduction of game pass pricingIt's not even a full rollback of the priceXbox fans are legitimately retarded to get excited over the literal nothings this woman did.
>>740845034Jeet thread for a Jeeta. Curious how Xbokts come out of the woodwork when a Jeeta is hired.
>Xbox CEO Says They May Need Third Party Exclusives And To Buy Even More Publishers And Studios In Order To Compete>but says it with a cute Indian smile and the gamercels buy it up!
>>740862668Yeah ok bro I bet any money you were one of the many who believed it'd never go downJust shhhhuuuut up
>>740863534>she says they'll have to pay third party devs to make some of their games exclusive like sony does>pissstation on suicide watch
>>740845034Feeding time is officially over
>>740863758Sonys actually been shuttering studios instead of buying them recently
I still think it made more sense for them to put the Xbox App/Gamepass on everything and fuck the console. Nobody gives a shit about Colteastwood and other Xbox console diehards like him crying that console wars or over and they're old and dried out.Just put the Xbox App on laptops, phones, TVs, headsets and everything that will take it and go from there. You can still download the games completely if you want. Leave the high-end consoles to PlayStation, make your games timed exclusives for up to a year before you put them on PlayStation, and leave the handheld toy market to Nintendo.
>>740863867It's not about buying studios it's about incentivizing third party devs to choose their platform which they've doneMS finally woke up and realized they can beat Sony at their own game if they wanted toA lot of people undersell the effect games like Mass Effect had when it was exclusive to the 360 for like 2 yearsA blend of good first party exclusives + timed third party exclusives can turn things around
>>740857261And it'll take a few years before games that start developing under her reign are released. I hope she and the Xbox last that long.
>>740858037Sony has a bank?
>>740864154Lose console, you lose market share, then you lose third party support for XBOX versions of games (already happened with some) which you need if you want to run a one for all service like Game PassConsole is also a funnel-neck/loss-leader for a chunk of subscribers, especially for those that want their games at the best possible setting/no latencyMicrosoft finally realized this
>>740845280I theorize it's part of a bigger epidemic of western developers, especially ones backed by big corporations or venture capital, consistently fumbling around at the leadership level and letting their underlings run around like headless chickens. An actual, serious case of people having heads up their own asses. Now I'm not going to say eastern teams are "superior" because Japanese work culture has it's own systemic problems, but you rarely see eastern devs fumble around.
>>740864763I just had a thought. Will Xbox Helix have an optical drive?
>>740865082If it's at the rumoured price range/trying to appeal to PCnerds, it has toAlthough recent reports seem to indicate Asha is thinking of a cheaper SKU as well, I wouldnt be surprised if that ended up being a dockable handheld like the Switch
>>740865082It's going to be a PC
>>740845034womanslop needs to go. tired of them infecting everything. it just becomes model shoots and fashion shows inevitably. all they wanna do is take pics of themselves in different outfits while having the background object as what should be the focal point, but it never is.life is a giant fashion show to women and i have yet to be proven wrong
>>740865753Console that plays Xbox and PC games*
>>740845034>bitches about hardware prices being insanely high by like 500%>shes literally the former head of AIfuck her and fuck that dog shit company
>>740866097>acting like ms is the only company that invested in ai
>>740866224Where did I say that?
>>740845034Phil Spencer had the unfortunate problem of rebuilding Xbox entirely and also being the face of the company with more personal pressure than any other Xbox lead.>inb4 people think I am defending PhilI am putting it in context. He inherited Xbox at its actual lowest and basically had to act as the face of the company. It is hard to act as the face and then also make hard decisions like firing people or canceling things. I mean, you get the feeling Phil didn't want to cancel or fire anyone even if they HAD to. Like games that NEEDED to be cancelled and people that NEEDED to be fired were kept on. He was forced to do it near the end of his tenure, and if you notice that is basically when he stopped appearing everywhere. He used to go on podcasts and do interviews all the time, then after that he just kind of retreated except for major events.
Ok, but where can I buy that gorgeous controller?
>>740855237Bro, just stop. You know damn well Mario is more relevant than Halo. Even if you hate Nintendo, Microsoft does not own a single IP even close to Mario or Zelda. Hell, Master Chief at this point isn't even their fucking mascot anymore.
>>740845280>>Owns most of the most iconic games of all timeSuch as?
>>740866438Asha inherited a worse XBOX from Phil than Phil did from Mattrick and it ain't even close
>>740845034It wasn't hard to remedy the problems the Xbox brand had been facing. I'm not sure if it was pride or perhaps people in positions lobbied for things they couldn't cut, but all they had to do was literally make a console that was more powerful than the competitors, outside of PC and basically operate like the Xbox 360 2 or Xbox 360 3 (the gen where they won). That's it.
>>740866502>at this point isn't even their fucking mascot anymoreUntil an official new Halo game is released on PS, it still isA remake of an almost 30 year old game doesn't change this
>>740866817No she didn't, lol. Xbox is burning money but it is not seen as a radioactive like it was during the Xbox One where they got rid of sharing games, forced kinect and online, etc.She basically inherited a business that is spending too much but has a ton of studios, IPs, and a subscription service with millions of customers. When Phil got it they had literally nothing. Most of what people consider 'advantages' of xbox (Gamepass + studios they own) was facilitated by him. Phil's problem was always being too hands off. He thought that the reason Xbox sucked during Xbox One was because of stifling the creativity of devs. However, in giving them too much freedom all of their budgets went out of control, they missed launched windows, and the games turned out mediocre.
>>740866097BASED reply.
>>740845034still not buying the jeetbox
>>740867012No, actually. Nintendo needlessly shoves Mario's face onto literal business statements sent out to stockholders, not gamers. Microsoft is currently attempting to reboot Halo by releasing a 2nd or 3rd remake of Halo 1. Mario represents Nintendo. Master Chief hasn't done that since probably Halo 4.
>>740845034>reduction of game pass pricing>still more expensive than it was beforeoy vey
>>740845134>It's easy to look good in the first few months before fucking it all up. >Just look at trump.he never looked good
>>740845154First thing you do is go to Double Fine and tell them to either make Banjo 3 using what they learned from making Psychonauts 2 or get the fuck out and make their indie games as an actual indie studio. Then you go to Ninja Theory and tell them to make the Hellblade/Senua more action-based because what the actual fuck are they doing making a 3rd game in a series that flops.
She's trying, but Xbox is pretty much a poison brand at this point. She'll move on in a couple of years after it settles in that she's attempting the impossible.
>>740845331to be fair there's no one at obsdian who deserves a job right now
>>740867074>Most of what people consider 'advantages' of xbox (Gamepass + studios they own)Notice how you don't actually need an Xbox to enjoy those 'advantages'. Phil inherited a troubled but still popular console division and turned it into Sega 2.0
>>740867074>No she didn't, lol.Yes she didWhen Phil came in XBOX didn't have their IPs showing up on other consoles, third party devs skipping the console (both unfathomable at the time and still today), a 60 billion dollar deal to reel in and 10+ years of stagnation and trust to rebuild. Jan 2026 was XBOX's lowest ever point. Quit being a moron.
>>740867195I bet you said it'd never be reduced
>>740845785this bitch must have the tastiest pussy ever...
good, now fire todd and his team
>>740845785Stop noticing, bloody bastard.
>>740867591curry flavored, spiced with racial nepotism
Phil was too fucking soft on dev studios. There's no excuse for not having a Fallout game ready to ship (or at the very least an F3 or FNV remaster) when season 1 premiered on Prime, for example. He should have been handing over popular IPs to other studios to get at least spin-off games out the door. Spending billions on buying studios and other publishers just to release a single popular franchise game every decade was shitbrain retarded and poor business.
>>740867481No she didn't.Businesses can cut cost. Businesses can fire people. Businesses can close studios. Her major issue is making Xbox profitable. Phil had to literally rebuild the brand from the ground up. Their entire philosophy (no pun intended) is the result of an over correction.>Xbox/Microsoft is seen as the most anti-consumer of the big 3>Literally loses a generation and has everyone write them off>Phil takes over and then proceeds to over correct. Gives away tons of games for free, makes a subscription service that was laughably cheap, puts their games on multiple platforms, etc>Goes too far and it hurts the brandI am not saying Phil was a better CEO. I am saying his situation is different. Xbox has an identity now. Even if it is gamepass and owning obsidian it is literally more than they had a generation ago when all of their IPs failed, their console failed, and their biggest competition proceeded to take over the gaming industry after a hard fought previous generation.
where is she now?
>>740867912Knee deep in pink chicken paste
>>740867912It is shocking to make how naked the grift, corruption, nepotism, and bias in the corporate world is.In real life if I was an electrician and was so bad at my job I got fired, I would genuinely have trouble getting work in the same field. People talk. Even if they did not know instantly, they'd find out I got fired by some other company.In the corporate world you can fuck up so bad that you ruin an entire billion dollar global corporation and you INSTANTLY get another high paying job. Capitalism is so fucking fake and gay.
>>740865082No but they'll sell a disk drive you can plug into it with a usb cord
>>740857261the studios kill themselves because they are given microsoft money and then sit back and enjoy an easy life. I've never heard of a SINGLE complaint from these microsoft owned game studios. They all seem to be given enough time and money to do their jobs. I firmly believe that these studios are getting too coddled and Microsoft should be hiring some brutal managers to put fear into these people. There is no way that something average like Avowed should make it out the door with all its gayness and some managers not screaming at these people: PUT SOME TITS ON THESE MODELS OR YOU WILL GET FIRED YOU WOKE BIDEN LOVING BASTARDS
>>740845154After watching all the interviews and stuff I get the feeling Phil had had slowly been giving up at Xbox. Like due to increasing pressure to do stupid shit from higher ups at michaelslop. Sarah Bond even being there at all was clearly just there for DEI gibs. In the later interviews and stuff you could just see the dude's soul leaving his body and I have a hunch they were giving her more power than him despite being in a lower position for no other reason than that she was black and female. I've seen this happen at way too many of the corporate level jobs I've worked at and even had it happen to me at least twice.
>>740868073Yes, I discussed that here: >>740867074It is not something you need to 'feel', it is literally true. Phil said he took his hands off of development at partner studios because he believed that the previous overbearing style of Microsoft leadership was hurting their games. So he went totally the opposite extreme and now every Xbox game has like 3-4 extra years to come out with probably 2-3x the budget.
>>740866438I'm sorry but I just don't believe that you can be boss of a company for 10 years and then wash your hands and say that you could do nothing to change course. This is like Putin not being responsible for how shit Russia is. No, you dont get to whine and complain about others. You had near absolute power to do whatever you wanted, to fire whoever you wanted... and somehow things dont get better? That's on you.
Phil ruined XBOX. Bond almost killed it.
>>740868267I don't think he was a good CEO, but I also don't think he was used to having a spotlight on him. Phil being liked by gamers was weird and unexpected. Microsoft and Sony generally had the faceless corpo types that people didn't personally identify with like Reggie, Miyamoto, or Iwata. Phil sort of became that for Microsoft and I think he took that seriously. I mean he did comment numerous times on acting as their spokesperson.I am saying that most people did not know his predecessor's name, image, or likeness. Everyone knew Phil and he had cameras on him every time he left the office. I personally believe that resulted in him failing to make the necessary hard decisions to help the company and also help the games. He needed to put his foot down and didn't, I just think the fact that people liked him made it harder to do that.
>>740868292And Asha is the savior
>Xbox 3 years ago>Console exclusive + PC, major focus on Gamepass>Games suffer poor sales, gamepass is proven unsustainable >Try putting stuff on PS5 so the games can reach a larger audience and recoup their development costs>Xbox in 2026/7>Console exclusive + PC. Major focus on gamepass.>????
It's nice to see them giving a shit again but... what exactly are they going to do?Nobody is going to buy a console at this price in this economy and they cab't keep cutting games from playstation where most of their market base is.
He should have been "encouraged" to retire right after the Series X launch when it was clear he couldn't handle it. Like the stupid bastard in pic related who was just one continuous fuckup after another. He didn't retire, he was shown the fucking door before he could ruin PS and given the chance to save face.
>>740868676The issue isn't gamepass, the issue is line must go up. They set crazy targets that they were never going to meet. It also doesn't help that games like Perfect Dark drained money with nothing to show.
>>740868484When your brand struggles you kinda have to do that. I remember when Sony had to regain trust/morale they had that guy on stage talking about "how to share games" as a console warbro. When things are okay you get to chill in the background.Problem is you can boost morale/regain trust but you've also gotta have an aligned road map/vision and start making good decisions. He rested far too much. Per capita of time Asha has done more in 100 days than he has in the last 8.
>>740868484I will say one thing in his defense: If you have a belief that creatives are getting stifled then even within 10 years he only has enough time to see 2-3 cycles of games getting made because each game takes up to 5 years to finish. So by the time he realizes that his belief was wrong or partially flawed he would already be on his way out. I actually generally agree that creatives are getting stifled in studios but it's not so simple: There are also many many shit, stupid and lazy creatives or creatives that are only good at one thing but would utterly mismanage the product as a whole etc. You need a Steve Jobs in each of these studios who is creative but also ruthlessly knows what to do and why and when. Not a big surprise, you need good people to get good results. But this is precisely his job as a CEO of a parent company: Find good people and give them power. I bet it was hard to buy some of these great studios and then watch them do .. nothing. Because now these so called stifled creatives have all the money they need to be comfortable and they no longer have the hunger to work or prove themselves. You have to promote some people who are still hungry or who will always be hungry.
>>740867195This fucks me up more than anything and I don't care about game pass, I just want to do coop in dark souls n shit. Nine euros for that is armed robbery.
>>740868676>Xbox 3 years ago>profit accountability margin = 30%>Xbox in 2026/27>not 30%>????
>>740868978Producers are always the most hated people in every piece of art because artists complain about them, but most of your favorite films, tv, and games only exist because producers forced them to cut shit and release a product. Hell, most franchises that people love are the results of the producers wanting more money and customers wanting more content.
>>740845034She's firing everyone with low token usage
I think Sony pulling back from PC, which was a clear move to forgo short-term profits for long-term protection of the brand, was one of the catalyst that woke Xbox up
People acting like lay offs are a bad thing, that's exactly what the fuck needs to happen
>>740869863Nooo, but double fine makes amazing games!
>>740864856That's exactly it and Kojima is a great example, look what happened when he fucked around with Konami's money for too long. People give publishers a bad rep but pressure from above gets games out the door bad and into the hands of consumers. Too many western studios fucking around with nothing to show years down the line and millions spent.
>>740869728They're waking up very slowly, only 2 "console exclusives" and still coming to PC, so I still have zero reason to buy an Xbox, I'll just pirate their games day one and give 0 dollars to Microslop.
>>740869863People are upset because Joe Worker #4025 loses his job but Eugene Shekelsberg, CEO, keeps it or is instantaneously rehired at some other company to be on their board.It feels like even if you make a good game you can get laid off because of business decisions made by a guy who doesn't have to face consequences for his actions, or his consequences are miniscule compared to yours when he is already well off.
>>740869117So the strategy didn't change, just the arbitrary standards it has to meet?
>>740845034>still loseskekI'm going to play the new gears and everything they shit out through a 89th hand account I scrounge up for less than 1 dollar.
>>740866438Phil didn't pay enough attention to the first party developers. Remember the state of Redfall? That should never have happened.
>>740870098You have to make a profitable game
>>740870563That is not the job of the guy modeling a tree. That is the job of the CEO. The guy who didn't lose his job or was instantly rehired.
>>740870192CEO's salary had incentives for gamepass growth.
>>740870673If you are working at a company that is losing money and each game released sells less, you should be updating your resume. If you are working at a company and your game has been in development for 5+ years with nothing to show for it, you should be updating your resume.
>>740870192Yes see >>740845785
>>740870673>That is the job of the CEO.You have no idea how corporate power structures work
>>740870673People who model trees make bank living cushy lives while others actually struggleIf you want the perks, you accept the risksOtherwise go build model trains or something
>>740845034Imagine squeezing cum on that schnozz like a can of whip cream.
>>740845785This is probably exactly how it all happened in reality.
>>740845034She literally did not do shit. Until she fires all the woke retards at xbox studios. Which she wont because she probably agrees with it just like Phil
>>740871073>She literally did not do shithave you been living under a rock?
>>740871443He's right. All she's done is a bunch of superficial garbage and you're an idiot if you think otherwise.
>>740871443Here's what she did so far:>changed achievement notification animation>introduced xbox player voice to hear the opinions of the customers. a month later what changed is the playtime is shown in hours instead of days>changed the brand name from Xbox to XBOXBasically you're a retarded simp
I fucking hate the jeets who keep flooding /v/ with threads about herYour izzat will not increase, saarGo back to your designated shitting street
>>740871851You're a retard, seek professional help
>>740872559What kind of response is this lmao
>>740864503Yes.
>>740864503>>740875710https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BankForgot the link. Also this one toohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony
>>740845034She didn't do anything. You and your friends were paid to post this all around the internet to psy op people into accepting her as some savior
>>740876276I think jeets do it for free as part of their retarded izzat culture.
>>740869728If sony wanted long term protection of their brand they wouldn't have put all their studios on live service bullshit and killed off all of their old IPsThe few remaining IPs they have are all being killed by their obsession with pushing girlbosses
>>740871851>>740871696>bring back exclusives>reduce the cost of game pass>kill "this is an xbox">commit to consoles going forward
>>740845034Still ain't convinced tho, unless the incoming layoffs they are talking about is about the woke devs, I sleep and wait to see.
>>740845034it's too late to save xbox
>>740845785thiseverything phil was criticized for will be ignored because he is hoping to see open bobs from high caste business lady
Stealth /bharat/ general.
>>740845034how much BWC do you reckon she had to suck to get to her position
>>740862809We don't have to hide in shame any more
>>740855996>>740856783Why don't I believe you?
>>740879635Now that Epstein Island is shut down, Bill Gates has to get laid somehow.
>>740845034Long-term corporate and government strategy. Enshittify for a decade, roll back for few months and repeat.
They're planning more layoffs, so there's zero hope. Phil's problem was firing everyone who made the fucking video games like he did with Platinum games because he wanted Scalebound to be GaaSshit and Tango Gameworks and Arkane who committed the unforgivable sin of wanting to make another video game (it would cost money to make a another video game). Copilot ain't making any games and they're still firing the people who make their product like they can magically poof more games out of nowhere. They'd have to stop shooting themselves in the foot for a single year and they can't fucking do that even with the new boss, so they're dead.
>>740845785/threadshitskin pajeet xjeet shills, you will never convince me to buy any microshart productthis is exactly what happenedthe jeets are happy and ecstatic they fired the white guy and replaced him with one of their upper caste
>>740879693because pajeets are trying really hard to save their izzat and paint "similarities" with certain white countries
>>740872083there's literal dedicated subreddits, telegram channels, discord servers, whatsapp groups, etc where these filthy streetshitters organize and discuss which places to shit up and spam with their shameless shillingthese "people" are legitimate subhumans to methey would rather do all of that instead of fix their disrty shithole
>>740864274LMAO
>>740866438He told Bethesda to waste another year on Starfield. He greenlit Redfall himself despite the studio wanting to cancel it.
>>740875710>>740875806Thanks Anon.
>>740872083basedthis shit is making me hate xbox more
>Xbox niggas spend ten years insisting Phil was turning the ship around until it all crashed and burned post-ABK acquisition>he gets fired and replaced with a Jeetess with zero experience in gaming >they immediately go back to insisting she is saving Xbox despite not changing anything
>>740866502Halo was bigger than Mario back in 2007.
>>740883480they never recovered from losing timdog
>>740864503>Sony has a bankYes they are called Snoys
>>740883809
Was Starfield Bethesda's idea or did Microsoft ask for it?
>>740883339Xbox has been a dead console for 2 gens now. Give Xbots a break. They're basically buck broken.
>>740885261100% Bethesda
>>740845034>already planning layoffs and studio shut downslollmao
>>740845785This doesn't happen on a macro level like with Jews. Indians hire other Indians because they know they can pay them less and they won't complain about working conditions. Indians don't give a fuck about other Indians as a race, with a few exceptions like the Patel community.
>>740885981Wrong. Jeets hiring other jeets increases their izzat massively and the jeets that are hired have to pay back the master jeet or lose izzat. Jeets prefer working with jeets due to this and other reasons. They are basically jews but shittier and smellier.
>>740863575nta but you're a retarded goypass goyboxer lol
>>740885639I wonder who's on the chopping block this time. I hope blizzard gets decimated, but it'll probably be double fine and obsidian.
God forbid people are enthusiastic about someone who want's to turn a sinking ship around and focus on the core fans who have been neglected whilst the brand was whored out to competitors. I'm white btw not that it should matter.
>>740867738kek, 100%
>>740845034>>740845070ejj lemejj
>>740867576who cares nigger it's still more expensive than before, imagine being a literal xbox fan LMFAO
>>740886589consoles are all trash underpowered closed-sourced devices that are maintained by shitty retarded corporations who are insanely anti consumer.The faster they die the sooner we can have an actual golden age of gaming.
>>740887210nta but you're a retarded nigger. If anything we need less powerful hardware so games stop taking a million years to be made. Fuck off faggot, the golden age was during the 7th gen, we got entire trilogies on one console back then, stupid graphicsnigger.
>>740887368you are the illiterate nigger here, where have I mentioned ANYTHING about graphics?!?You giant retarded nigger, I don't care about graphics, but I won't buy an overpriced piece of shit hardware.
>>740886589>focus on the core fansNo such thing happened.
>>740845280Developers are incompetent and can't make games on sensible budgets anymore.
>>740845034gamepass price reduced but not the console itself, no more PC game bc console exclusivity war in the year of tariff, ai boom and gas war.there only way xbox can win and survive this shit by going 50% reduce price for the console itself.
>>740891336>there only way xbox can win and survive this shit by going 50% reduce price for the console itself.It won't survive by doing that. Consoles are already sold at losses with the intent of recovering the money and then some through game sales, online membership, etc. In 2022, they were already seeing losses of around $100-200 per console & as you and I very well know, chip prices have skyrocketed, so you can forget about previous gen trends of dropping console prices later into the cycles. No company can afford $400+ losses per console, the amount of money each user would need to spend to recoup would be too much.
>>740845034The forced pajeetess threads all day aren't making me want to buy xbox slop OP. My wallet is closed.
>>740845134Trump has never been better. I know you /pol/cels liked his neocon cabinet in 2016 but that’s not what the rest of us normal people wanted.
>>740870563Blizzard infamously laid off a lot of staff right after their best earnings report up to that point. CEOs who wreck company after company are welcomed by the shareholders of their next victim.
