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Hallelujah hallelujah, what great news. Made no sense in the Xbox app at all.

It's such a shame with these great studios shuttering. The gaming market is absolutely saturated and there's so much talent out there that want to contribute to the field. It's like Hollywood, everyone wants to make it but not everyone can survive the industry and battle for attention of the mind. What they made was good but players are all over the place gaming in different places with bigger franchises. Wishing everyone good luck in hunting for their next big project with another studio!

@Questionable_Duck they should start with Elder Scrolls only on Xbox imo

Now to cut Matt Booty and bring in Reggie Fils Aime

I'm hoping they keep cross gen long enough with SeriesX so I can maybe consider Gen 10. Bought a gaming PC so skipping Xbox unfortunately due to bad decisions. Still buying stuff on Series X though and play it nearly on a daily basis

Most people on COD are Warzone fanatics so happy Microsoft learned this the hard way after the AB acquisition, we were not going to pay to help them recoup their acquisition. I'll consider a resub at $15. I have unfortunately found out that Core has been more than enough for my play habits and library so definitely not feeling any need to upgrade

I am curious to know how many people have renewed for Ultimate after all the changes (not counting the people that stacked it for 2-3 years or people before the cutoff).

I think only one of my friends is still on there, the rest of us swapped to Core. Premium is just there as a marketing gimmick to make people decide if they are ultimate or core.

Nobody wants to deal with rules and tiers for rewards. Simple, straightforward and known in under 30 seconds should be the rule. Who the heck is going to run the math on this? They need The Points Guy for this stuff!

I love the Only on Xbox logo. Made it feel so cool.

@xboxjapanfan they probably collaborated with their Japanese colleagues and their tourist board: https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2122.html

@IOI I agree with this POV. It diluted the brand.

I'm happy the Copilot tips to save the brand are "kill old this is an Xbox campaign" and "improve the dashboard". Not a fan of the new CEO but happy for some initial changes. Still not planning reupping with Xbox given they still release on other consoles

Which program did they do aware with? I thought Xbox Insiders was gone or was it another one of the circles of the program?

Consoles will always have a place for budget gamers and families that don't wanna deal with PC gaming's learning curve to get going. "Buy $500 box then games" is still easy enough. I got a gaming PC end of last year but still mostly on Xbox and Switch 2 where I have my friends online and couch coop games.

I think they really thought they would be the Netflix of games which was a foolish idea imo from the start. Too much hype trying to get it on every device.

Now personal view time:
Streaming entertainment and games are completely different models and Xbox serves a very niche set of hardcore gamers that have loved their franchises for decades.

Hey if the new CEO got rid of that stupid campaign, great job!!

Well as long as the human is remarkable...

Poor Marketing & comms Team internal calendars being ruined by impatient fans, I feel for them. Not every company has the same comms or launch strategy, all in good time

@Globo check out the Evercade VS system as well, it's around a hundred bucks and you can get bundles with extra games or controllers on Funstock sometimes or during their sales. All the carts are swappable & have booklets and carts in every case. They feel slightly cheap and small but for $20-30 a cart to own the games forever is a good deal

Bruh Xbox should hire Andrew Byatt, guy has done such a great job listening to gamers and giving them what they want. I have a couple of Evercade consoles now and a ton of carts. Love it.

@Exerion76 this is a fair point, I think I'd not be able to beat my entire back catalogue in my life at this point 😭 it's like I've made a game of purchasing desired games

So anyway, I made a prompt that it is all those people and saved 8 hours talking to actual executives 😏 it's called AI

Okay okay, Halo on Legendary though with the Duke. Just made a Gamertag a month ago! Yeah, MS didn't really plan this well with her.

Xbox should hire Reggie Fils Aime as their Xbox CEO. Bringing in Instacart and Meta with no game industry experience? I wonder what nepotism is behind this hire from CoreAI and someone new to the company no less.

She hasn't event beaten Halo 1 on Legendary! Nerd statement The AI in the first two games was light-years ahead and still holds a candle to a lot of modern games. Nintendo Life said it best. Xbox keeps stepping on rake after rake 😭

Microsoft needs to bring in artists and serious video game leadership instead of business leaders from wherever in their organization, to lead what is literally some of their most complex software they have at the company. Copilot and their full suite of apps are an absolute hot mess with features on endless features with no real goal in mind for the end user other than, hey try this AI stuff. Sarah a
was a Marketing Executive running a gaming division and she treated it like a brand exercise that lost them a ton of console players. Nintendo in less than a year has sold nearly half of the Xbox Series family that took 6 years. Now we have an AI leader and guess what, Copilot isn't going to help her sell 18 million Xboxes in a year. Focus on the fundamentals like Sony, Nintendo and Steam do.

I'm glad she had Copilot generate this generic script for her. Can we please get the Pure Xbox team promos to other sites? Love the writers and community here but unsure how long PX stays around without a serious major boost in Xbox console sales (not MS Game Studios revenue) because where do mobile, tablet, Samsung fridge gamers go for MS Gaming news? Brand is in splinters.

I liked Star Field and never committed to new game plus so save scummed my way back Spoiler

to my first universe because of all the ships and planet progress I made. Unsure if they updated to have some stuff survive when doing New Game Plus.

I actually did not read she was head of CoreAI until I read the part before his quote 😂 I could just sense it!

Now they have a chance to totally rebrand and thank the fans as they move to whatever new business model AI and MS has in store for us.

I liked Phil a lot and felt he was stepping away from being a big Xbox advocate the past couple of years. Wishing him luck and a good retirement ahead!

I moved to Game Pass Core and honestly my Xbox experience is the same for a lot less. Hope they keep that price low.

The 2020s have been so rough I don't mind waiting until the 2030s. That should hopefully let them have a ton of games deep into development that we want to buy

Day one buy! Can't wait to explore the Island of Sodom and Gamorra!

They're adding new enemy types based on geopolitics I'm sure of it no need to comment more on that!

Bruh they've hardly taken advantage of Series X

Dragon Quest is an amazing series, happy to see these on Xbox

Yeah but since everything is an Xbox that actually means hundred million more users 😏 not. Xbox needs to fix it's branding and commitments to players. It'll just be a pivot to Microsoft Gaming Studios soon enough and they will "thank the fans for their loyalty, hope they enjoyed Xbox". I already invested in to the PC world because of their wishy washy Xbox commitments. Will keep my Series X because I love it but more or less done with new Xbox stuff. Love this site too so will keep reading here.

I would buy far more Xbox games physically if they actually made them. It makes sense both Sony and Xbox have higher digital sales as their more common entry level form factors are digital only. I like how Switch is the only console that only has options for both (except for hellish key cards)

This is why Nintendo shows games when they're ready, they learned a lot with Metroid Prime 4 whereas Xbox has made so many promises and then hit the fan with Redfall, cancelled Perfect Dark and will delay this game. I think 3 months to a year is enough time for people to get hyped and you can work with the community on that rather than over promise and retreat later

Yeah with 1 TB I don't feel the need to ever own an expansion. I own over a hundred games but don't need them all downloaded in one place

I hope they simplify their Bluetooth protocol so we get more affordable controller options. My Internet isn't always the best so tying the controller to wifi like Google stadia did is maybe about shortsighted. Hope it can do both along with being wired for worst case scenarios. I picked up the Game sir Pro wireless and absolutely love it so doubt I'll get another Xbox branded controller anytime soon

One game, the King Arthur rogue lite. I pretty much just play online nowadays despite having beat many games and being more into RPGs in the past

Great franchise

Hopefully they give Candy Crush and WoW to 343 Studios so they can really do something with those franchises. Oh wait

That is until they determine the number they need to be selling on PS too

@themightyant dude I think the best streaming service was Stadia. They had excellent infrastructure and they were running Cyberpunk better on cloud than on downloads on consoles. Shame MSFT or others didn't buy up all that great infrastructure. Google wasn't made to survive in the gaming industry. Otherwise yeah, Microsoft Cloud isn't good for my style of games which I agree with your points full heartedly on.

I've increased my usage of cloud gaming solely to get Microsoft Rewards points which I'm sure a lot of us do. I've had so-so experiences with it because I play a lot of action titles that demand high frame rate and minimal lag so def not for me vs downloaded on the console.

I feel so bad for our lovely PureXbox writers and staff to oversee what's happening with the brand, I still come on here to read regularly but have never been more bitter about the state of Xbox. Buying a lot on Switch 2 and saving up for a lot of PC games. I've made my last Xbox purchases outside of DLC for Hunt

A Series S limited edition that looked like a 360 would've sold gang busters

@Ramouz it's the wireless via dongle. Works great. Just have some sync issues with my headset I plug into sometimes so I have to reset it every now and then

@Ramouz it's really good. It has a USB dongle which it wasn't really marketed as having which is lame BUT the gaming experience has been exceptional. Some weird desyncs with my wired headset which means resetting the controller every now and then but still. Zero drift. Super comfortable, best bang for buck