Deshalu

I like her. I think she is doing really good right now and you can definitely feel a change with XBOX.

I’m just hoping Microsoft CEO Nadella and the board members back her. I don’t care what Sony fans say or Xbox claim fans but are secretly Sony lovers say. Microsoft needs to swing the exclusives back. Even if the sales are not on their side. Find new ways to get that money back without lowering the quality of the XBOX console product

@Tyrant_T103 Yes. That’s what upsets me is the double standards. If Sony does it, it was good for them it needed to happen, but how dare Microsoft.

Look! They both are shady, but right now do some research. Sony PlayStation is the monopoly in the gaming industry. Old Square Enix employees and other developers have come out and said they were scared to make Xbox games because of Sony’s repercussions.

Sony was also charging companies for potential losses on crossplay games. This came out in the Apple vs Epic lawsuit

Read about the Microsoft - Activision/Blizzard Acquisition vs Sony. The FTC definition of a monopoly is literally everything Sony is doing. That’s why they lost that case.

I’m sorry but as game consumers we need PlayStation and XBOX to hold each other in check and keep prices low. Ask yourself how Sony announced back in 2019 2020 that the PS5 was already making profit on each console sale but managed to put in cheaper parts and increased the prices of the PlayStation years before the ram shortage?

We know they’re making profit on the PS5 consoles and they increase the prices again knowing the GTA six is coming out soon and all these console players from PS4 and Xbox one are going to upgrade most likely to PS5 because Microsoft doesn’t have exclusive?

Microsoft, please pull your games from PS5 except Call of Duty and bring back all the exclusives

@Jenkinss just clarifying, you do know Sony PlayStation and every other company does the same thing, right?

Sony has shutdown multiple studios and layoffs. Went back on there word with releasing games on PC

@Weebleman yes Microsoft was unhappy with sales and yes it goes back to what I said Sony probably doesn’t see value in it. In Sony eyes if it isn’t bringing money, why keep it.

Either way it’s all hypothetical.

One thing is for certain, competition is good for everyone.

Bring back EXCLUSIVES

@Weebleman do some research. It’s out there that Microsoft wasn’t happy about Gears sales

@PsBoxSwitchOwner either way your reasoning for PS5 not having a lot of shooters is a very good reason why XBOX should have exclusives

This will help push Sony to make new games for existing IPS or new games in general

Their state of play lacked games made by their studios

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Gears Reloaded didn’t sale well on PS5

Plus, it was by the ratings board, which is technically not Microsoft announcing that Gears is coming to the PS5

@Weebleman read comment number 27.

It’s possible that Sony didn’t find the IP very valuable so did not hold Microsoft to the agreement

@PsBoxSwitchOwner also Sony could’ve found it not very valuable so decided to let them have it back instead of holding them into that agreement

@PsBoxSwitchOwner It could’ve just got an age rating, doesn’t mean they made an agreement with Sony for it to be on their console yet.

Could’ve, will never know

@abe_hikura the other Call of Duty’s were being made, and weren’t a part of the original start of the contract for Nintendo

@NeoRatt they don’t read my comment below your first comment.

Remember those games have been in development for a long time

@PsBoxSwitchOwner those games could’ve been announced for PS5 behind closed doors with Sony or other possible sponsors and or investors

@abe_hikura Call of Duty is very different because of the contract agreements with government and other companies within the gaming industry.

Really wish people would’ve followed the Microsoft Activision versus Sony case

@BacklogBrad do a little research. You’ll find that the reason Sony pulled their PC strategy away is because of steam releasing their own home console and the next Xbox being able to use steam on it.

Sony doesn’t want any console competition. Again, it’s about keeping the monopoly of the console business that they have.

The next XBOX is rumored to have all PC storefronts on it

@BacklogBrad timing is everything. I think Phil Spencer was on the right track, with your logic. The big problem was they couldn’t release the new console in time that would be integrated with steam to help force Sony to multi-platform just like they are.

Sony pulled the plug for PC. By doing so this allows Sony to be the monopoly in the gaming industry that they already are.

Microsoft bring back exclusives allows them to fight back. If you go through and read the Microsoft Activision versus Sony FTC case you’ll see that Sony is a monopoly in the gaming division. Even the FTC’s definition of a monopoly is everything Sony‘s already done and still doing. That’s why every judge they went through allowed the merger of Microsoft and Activision.

For some reason, people refuse to believe that Sony is a monopoly

@BacklogBrad cool, so why are you not on Sony PlayStation forums complaining about there exclusives?

@RiverGenie my issue is with the cosmetics complainers, when they give you what you want, you don’t buy any skins. That’s one of the reasons most companies go to crossovers because people buy those. In terms allows the company to continue to support the game in other ways, that’s why Call of Duty, Fortnite, rainbow six siege, hunt showdown, and many others have sustained for so long.

Crossover skin sell whether we like it or not. Authentic skins people just don’t buy them which pushes the companies to crossovers.

@Fiendish-Beaver I was thinking the same thing

@ShepardCGM Underrated game. I just told my little brother about this game a week ago

Bring back

Kung Fu Chaos - add crossover Xbox characters. Microsoft literally owns this IP

Brute Force

Blood Wake

99 nights

@Fiendish-Beaver Yeah! I’m just happy that it was only COD pulled and lowered. I’m glad all there other titles as of now are still included

I want Xbox to make there games exclusive again.

Leave Call of Duty, Minecraft, ESO, Overwatch, Fallout 76, and Sea of Thieves multiplatform. Those are the only games that should be

She did lower gamepass

If they really wanna bring fans back and potentially get new fans (Xbox Console owners) they need to make everything exclusive again, except for obviously Call of Duty.

Which, if I remember correctly, they can except for streaming services

@Fishticon Sega, Ubisoft, IO Interactive, Crytek, and or Embark.

Embark would be good and keep multiplatform

Ubisoft - same as Embark, but Ubisoft needs help already

The others buy and make exclusive games but keep HuntShowDown multi

@Medic_alert I don’t get how Microsoft is always getting the short end of the stick on this. Even when Forza horizon 5 was the only thing that came out wasn’t even nominated for game of the year, but fans and developers were all praising the game.

The Microsoft hate is real.

What’s left to do when you’re maxed out? What type of DLC is coming out for it, that’ll push people to purchase? They said that they’re pushing this game to last for 10+ years, how?

Just so many questions about this game and its longevity. I am having fun with it so far though.

@Romans12 don’t subscribe to Xbox, done. You can still buy it separately like PlayStation does or PC

Is Game Pass still the best place for deals. Yes, Ultimate is now $360, but Xbox encourages you to game share, heck their website tells you how to do it. If you don’t have a family member, you have to have a friend, but that’s $180 each.

PlayStation on the lowest tier is $80 a year and one $70 dollar game is $140.

Game Share on Xbox it’s not hard

@Enigk I highly doubt it because that developer has a great track record. Still crazy things happen, but because of the developer, I’m at ease.

I’m just wondering what Rare is doing lol

I wish you could get the Halo infinite elite series 2 controller in the design labs

I wish they would have made an elite series 2 of the sea of thieves limited edition controller

@GeeEssEff best comment of today

I love the Halloween franchise. This game is going to be lit. I just hope they keep updating and building on this game.

This is an unfair poll.

One game has single player and multiplayer gameplay out there. The multiplayer game play is the whole match.

The other game has a CGI trailer and the title, that’s it. So, no one should be hyped for this game

@NishimuraX bro I don’t work for them. It’s not damage control. It’s common sense.

These studios or division of developers plus managers why pay them seven years and continue to pay them when they’re not producing and you continuously losing money paying them. Any smart business person would cut them loose.

What’s really cool is after all this Microsoft still gave them a severance package

@Nexozi “ While the games have been in development for a long time there's a lot that has gone on that we don't know about.”

Again, we also knew that the games were in development hell, which means the managers gotta go.

“MS made how much money? So why do they need to get rid of staff?”

Why would you continue to pay these people for 7 to 8 years and not have a title ready to release? Sorry they needed to go.

@NishimuraX it wasn’t a spin. It was a fact. you just didn’t like it.

@NishimuraX so if you read my comment earlier, I don’t get how some of you think that these layoffs were a bad thing from a business perspective. Theoretically, it is hurting you.

The Activision blizzard thing is making them a lot of money, so yes, it was worth it.

The only thing I can’t defend or definitively say is the tango studio closure. But if you notice neither side actually talks about it, I think there was more there than what people know about or think about.

I think there were severe issues at tango Studios, and legally Microsoft can’t talk about it. And the reason tango won’t talk about it is because I think they were at fault.

@Nexozi maybe I read that Bethesda article wrong but I could’ve sworn it wasn’t talking about the elder scrolls online MMO. It was talking about an unannounced MMO that was being made back in 2018 from the elder scrolls MMO team.

And rare with being mismanaged, we know about this through leaks and articles from the development of everwilds. Plus they had two split teams one was still working on see of thieves. The other was working on everwilds. That’s why I think the managers were fired and not the majority of staff on rare, which was kind of the same thing with the elder scrolls team.

That’s why I said I think people are getting a little too emotional, but if you take a stance back, a lot of these layoffs were kind of warranted.

@Kaloudz I definitely see this happening.

It sucks because sometimes your friends aren’t as good as you see them.

I’m in management.

Not to sound like a bad guy

If you look at the people that were let go and the gaming studios that were closed we’re not very good teams and their games were announced in like 2017 2018.

I get that some of those people made really good games 20 years ago, but it sounds like they need to be let go

I think people are being too hard on Microsoft and Phil Spencer on this layoff

At the end of the day, you still have a business to run

@Valhura Xbox has! The guy launching Xbox One killed them and Sony PlayStation loyalty is very real

Sony PlayStation loyalty is very close to Apple IPhone loyalty, and Apple hasn’t been innovating in years.

@Medic_alert thing is if you give ownership up to the other storefronts (steam) you don’t have to worry about exclusives, and you gain all that revenue from your software sales from other platforms, and people subscribing which game pass is proven to be highly successful. We know game pass is successful because of the Activision blizzard case.

Plus, if you watch and read Sony has almost fully copied game pass.

@Valhura you’re losing the console market anyway what else do you have to lose?

@Questionable_Duck Phil actually did, you can look it up or put it in ChatGPT, and I’ll do the research for you.

Yes, he’s been preaching about getting rid of exclusives too back then

@Medic_alert I’m a little lost on how everybody’s confused.

Phil Spencer back in 2013 said he wanted a game pass on PlayStation.

Which Sony is blocking it. Which actually makes sense of why they’re blocking it.

Phil Spencer also said in 2013 that he wanted to get rid of exclusives. Exclusives actually kills and hurts the game/developers. Which Phil isn’t wrong on that.

They’ll always need a console/based device, in order to do cloud gaming correctly. Which Microsoft has always talked about this. That’s why they’re one of the best streaming services out there, other than Nvidia.

Me personally I think Phil Spencer has done a really good job at sticking to what he been saying on what he’s trying to do. It’s just getting others to buy into what he’s been saying, from team green. Look at how long it’s been trying to get us to see the vision.

Adding steam and other storefronts as your main operating system on the next console is pure genius.

@Sindayl $80 bucks. Game Pass does look really good.

Late would be a big mistake, especially since that’s when Call of Duty comes out.