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This MF should’ve lost his job a loooong time ago instead of the thousands of people they spent billions into hiring by “spending Sony out of business” per his leaked emails.

@Kaloudz You’re trying to make it seem that it isn’t so bad because it was expected as layoffs were rumored since last week but respectfully you’re fooling yourself, many studios indeed have been mismanaged but whose fault is that? It’s clear now with so many studios that it’s Microsoft’s.

Now if they’re not in the business to break even why did they buy studios like Ninja Theory or Double Fine? I love their games but I really doubt ‘Keeper’ is going to even break even and I now fear for the future of the studio.
Also, all this recent multi platform pivot stemmed from the idea that studios needed more revenue, but now it seems they won’t even give them a chance?

It’s pivot after pivot after pivot, everything just highlights that there’s no strategy or even a long term vision for Xbox and more importantly for all the studios and the talent they spent billions into buying and now they’ve now just laid off, studios don’t work without talent, for me the big red flag that made me distrust Microsoft/Xbox was the closure of Tango, it was so insulting having the first great Xbox game in years only to strip away the exclusivity to “foster the IP” and then close the studio, and today they’ve done it again, showing solid but vaporware “gameplay” of a game 12 months ago only to cancel it, reminds me of Scalebound but worse since this was a first-party studio and will no longer exist.

@Kaloudz You don’t have to excuse them for everything, I see you’ve been trying to put a positive spin to today’s news but this has been yet another brutal day for Xbox.

I honestly feel way past the point of trying to excuse them or even finding legitimate reasons for their actions, yes games are expensive to make but Microsoft is quite literally the wealthiest company on earth, plus the “gameplay” they showed just last year wasn’t even real, everything around Microsoft/Xbox these days are deceptions, broken promises and disappointment after disappointment.

I swear Microsoft is so pathetic, the only studio they didn’t buy ended up being closed before shipping one game, plus that means the demo we saw on last year’s showcase was nothing more than vaporware.

They really did buy half the industry just to lay it off, and I know layoffs happen everywhere but it’s the fourth time in a couple of years that Microsoft does this and particularly with MS Gaming/Xbox.

@themightyant But why do Xbox owners had to wait until the game was ported to PS5 to get this enhancements? That’s the main issue for me and it’s not the first time it’s happened, I understand every game will be more polished after time but I’m sure they could’ve delivered this patch months or weeks after the game launched, not after 15 months only to line it up with the PS5 port.

I know it’s ‘normal’ now to have Xbox games releasing on PS5, but do they really need to treat every PS5 port as the definitive version? It makes it feel like people who bought it on Xbox or played through Game Pass were little more than beta testers…

Every single time Xbox seems to be getting some sort of momentum they squash it with some terrible demoralizing moves…

This is my fear tbh, what’s the purpose of Microsoft building a console if they won’t care to distribute it outside the US…

The more times they come out and say they’ll still be doing first-party hardware I honestly believe it less and less.

However, giving them the benefit of doubt, if they actually pull it off having a PC/console hybrid with Steam, Game Pass and all of my legacy Xbox library I’d definitely look into buying it day one, that is if Microsoft cares enough to distribute it globally and not only the US as the Series X|S is right now.

In my opinion this device will only damage the brand further as it’s already creating confusion, Microsoft has been talking about “taking our Xbox library on the go” but that’s incredibly disingenuous since our Xbox library isn’t compatible with this device except for some few Play Anywhere titles (not even 10% of my own library).
People will be quick to point out that for $900 you can basically get a Switch 2 plus a PS5 or Series X and still have some money left.

They’re not being clear since they’re trying to market this as a console instead of a PC, and it’ll only get worse once people spend $600 or $900 for the device only to find out their games aren’t there, this should’ve existed once MS figured out how to bring console games to PC, not before.

Good news is you don’t need to wait, play them right now on a Rog Ally X with 95% the same experience.

Microsoft is setting this game to fail with that price tag, no one that has played the first game ever thought “you know this actually is an $80 dollar franchise”, if they’re going to do this with every AAA then we’re going to have lots of studio closures in a few years or months.

@NeoRatt You got many specs wrong for the current Rog Ally X and it all feels like comparing the iPhone 15 to the 16, virtually the same devices with some tweaks, not a generation apart from each other at all lmao

The point still stands, if you want to wait 6 months to spend $800 on that thing to not be able to play your owned consoles games as any other current PC handhelds then go ahead.

@NeoRatt Lmao that Xbox UI is literally just Windows 11 in a different coat of paint and they already said all handheld PCs with Windows 11 will eventually get that same UI, and aside from some design tweaks it’s the exact same device that has been sold for 2 years or a year for the Ally X, you could’ve played all your Sony Steam titles there but it’s now news because it has an Xbox logo?

This is unacceptable, why even bother at this point, we rapidly devolved from full games on disc to 80mb on disc to now the very worst option, selling a code in a box.

If you need it so bad, just get the normal Rog Ally X right now as it’s exactly the same thing as the Xbox branded one, if you’re waiting for the Xbox UI for Windows 11 they already said it’ll be released for all PC handhelds with W11.

That is until games are delayed to 2027 lol

It was an ok showcase but definitely not as good as previous years, we shouldn’t excuse it for tomorrow’s promises.

It wasn’t bad but certainly not as good as in previous years.

It has got to be the most overhyped and overrated game I’ve played in a long while, it’s impressive at first but the game really is just a non-stop boss rush that aside from getting frustrating it gets pretty repetitive, left it around 6 hours and debating to resell my physical copy tbh.

Nothing at Xbox makes sense anymore.
I hope we can get PCs running steamOS in a near future so it can fill the void of Xbox consoles.

@Medic_alert My thoughts exactly, I was very hyped for this game and sadly I keep getting bored every time I play it, some bits are amazing (the dragon) but the pacing feels very slow for a DOOM game, I finished both 2016 and Eternal in around 5 days and I still haven’t even got to half of The Dark Ages.

Once again, Xbox is so f***ing dead.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if one of these days another article comes up saying they’ve stopped or “sidelined” all development of future hardware, the way Microsoft is doing things Game Pass itself might get sidelined in favor of selling more copies on PlayStation and PC.

The death of Xbox consoles is now set in stone, on the upside is seems MS gaming is thriving as a publisher.

@HonestHick LMFAO. Perfect example on why prices should only increase for you guys in the US, YOU want this, YOU voted for this, YOU think manufacturing of millions of consumer goods and supply chains can be switched overnight, YOU are under the illusion paying more for imports will somehow replace your income tax (spoiler: it won’t), YOU are “happy for it”, so YOU should be the only one paying more instead of screwing the rest of the world.

It’s so unfair for everyone outside the US, if prices need to increase there because of tariffs then just increase it there, in the end 50% of their population voted exactly for that, why tf does everyone else globally has to pay more to offset their poor decisions?

Does anyone doubt a substantial price hike for Game Pass is coming?

Also, I find it sooo gaslighting that just yesterday they’re were boasting about great numbers and MS Gaming having its best quarter ever, just to kick fans in the balls, again, less than 24 hours later.

What a big load of BS, I could understand the console raising prices, but it should only affect the US since the tariffs are a US problem but we’ve seen every company raising prices everywhere else to offset the increase there, it sucks.
Pricing themselves above the PS5 while becoming multiplatform is yet another death sentence for Xbox consoles, even the PS5 Pro is now cheaper than the most expensive Xbox!

What I find unjustifiable is $80 dollars Xbox games, they literally saw Nintendo doing it with Mario Kart and said why not us with Call of Duty…

@NattyKing That has been the way for a long time now, they don’t disclose most things, I’m saying it’s great in the context of last quarter where everything was down, and if Microsoft says gaming was a “business highlight” means numbers are good.

Great numbers tbh, Game Pass is having its best months EVER so expectedly many people are signing up, hardware isn’t down as much as they were expecting so I hope they realize there’s still many people interested in their platform.

@Coletrain If that even happens, which I still doubt it as we’ve seen nothing but rumors, you can be damn sure that Sony is going to do what it takes to block their games from the Xbox PC device, wouldn’t be surprised if they come up with their own launcher and even delist existing games off Steam, Sony is THAT petty.

Very cheap and fair but it’s just some skins plus digital artwork and soundtrack.

Game Pass is just on fire, already downloading the 123 GB of it but really wondering if I’ll be able to finish it before Doom comes out.

@Fiendish-Beaver Agreed, I’m excited for E-Day but the ending for Gears 5 now feels distasteful, it ends in the biggest cliffhanger of the franchise after a decision that no one knows which is canon and a follow-up might never happen and if it does it will be in the 2030s at least 5 years after E-Day releases, just wild.

And what’s more sad is that it’s not the only F-you we Xbox fans have gotten in the last few years and it’s certainly not going to be the last.

As long as they don’t close the studio after releasing a new IP, sure go for it.

@dskatter Yeah, what I mean is that even an obvious disaster like Concord also had some propagandists claiming in the first impressions that the game was ‘actually something special’ (I recall someone specifically saying these words lol), so these “impressions” are nothing to go by, I don’t think it’s gonna be another big disaster like that but personally it doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest

@K1LLEGAL Bungie is not part of Sony Interactive Entertainment, at least not yet, and besides, do you really think if this game does well Sony is suddenly going to port God of War and Spider-Man to Xbox?

Spoiler: Not gonna happen.

Lmao gaming media really has no shame with their PlayStation bias, just a refresher, the first impressions of Concord were very, very similar to these, needless to say how it turned out.

@Kaloudz Last time they did increase it a few months after Sony in the same territories by the same amount, but I don’t think they will this time.

Nah, they’re not even distributing them.

If you ever want to see how cope looks like just take a look at Push Square, absolutely nothing in this game looks appealing to me but they’re convinced Bungie is going to come through when Bungie’s last good game was Halo Reach and it was a completely different team, not a single person remains of the Bungie that made Halo and I’ve never been a fan of Destiny and specifically their monetization model.

I literally can’t wait to go on berserk mode in Doom!

This is where the marketing budget goes? Smh…

They have talked and talked about Play Anywhere but I don’t see any action to actually expand it, we know that for third-party publishers is up to them but there’s still dozens of games that are now owned by Microsoft, back catalogue for Bethesda, Activision Blizzard and even some from Xbox Game Studios are not Play Anywhere and they’ve had years to expand the program to their owned games but still haven’t and probably won’t do it.

This overall feels like yet another Microsoft side project that they suddenly remembered to advertise but themselves never fully committed to it.

@elpardo1984 I don’t think they would announce ports for other consoles in their own showcase, more likely the new games they announce will also be revealed for all platforms day and date, Spencer did say that we better get used to seeing the PS5 logo in Xbox trailers and announcements.

The brand may be in disarray but they always deliver consistently very good shows.

That weekend is going to be crazy with the Switch 2 launch followed by what would be E3.

I don’t see how both situations are related.

Microsoft wanted to tie a disc to an account, so you wouldn’t be able to lend or sell any disc game already tied to an account.
Nintendo is selling an empty cartridge that only allows you to download the game but you still need to have the cartridge inserted to play, and you can later sell or lend that empty cartridge and other person can download and play the game, which they already did with several games, only now it’s being standardized under “game-key card”.

Prices announced yesterday are egregious and absolutely deserve the heat they are getting, but this isn’t really what you’re making it seem.

I don’t think it will happen tomorrow as the spotlight will be on first-party games, but I do feel Microsoft is going to port absolutely everything they can get running on the console, they already were supporting the Switch back when they still believed in exclusives, wouldn’t surprise me if MS ends up being Nintendo’s most important third-party partner in terms of revenue in a few years.

@husker42c Oh no, Infinite’s campaign fell short and it lacked MP content at launch but the gameplay was nailed, it has the best feeling gameplay of the entire series imo.

The worst one without a doubt is Halo 5, with its CoD-wanna be gameplay and multiplayer, nonsensical campaign about evil Cortana and a bigger focus on some character we had never seen before instead of the Chief.