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@HonestHick Yeah they apparently made billions and saved trillions of dollars according to genius Trump. Strange then that he just backtracked and bent over and touched his toes for China.

@HonestHick Yeah it was a lazy answer about Nissan because if I had checked I would have known they actually had reported a net loss of $4.5 billion for the financial year to March 2025, unlike Microsoft who are reporting massive profits.

I would have also known Nissan said that the uncertain nature of the idiotic U.S. tariff measures makes it difficult for them to rationally estimate their full-year forecast for operating profit and net profit, and therefore they have to leave those figures unspecified.

@OldGamer999 Because Nissan's profits have declined about 90% and they are expecting a further decline, probably from all the tariff stupidity but Microsoft is posting massive increases in profits.

Microsoft have also laid off about 22,000 people now in the last 3 years as well. Probably replacing as many people as possible with AI.

Just a heads up for anyone thinking about playing this on a SteamDeck.

You have to drop the resolution to 540p just to get 30fps and even then it drops to 20fps regularly, so in other words it's not even worth playing on a Deck.

$600 and $730 for a Series X, lmao, they've lost their minds.

Maybe you guys should hold on to your Series consoles after all if you don't want to lose access to most of your games but either way it's clear Microsoft is done being in the console business and the next one is just a PC with an Xbox sticker on it

"Windows Central understands that traditional Win32 will be the preferred development environment for the next mainline Xbox consoles, with Xbox One/Series X|S "ERA" environment gradually phased out. Where that leaves our existing library of Xbox ERA games remains to be seen, but it seems emulation is one avenue Microsoft is exploring for backward compatibility and game preservation."

I'd love to see what 3rd party publishers have to say about the last part lmao.

If Ubisoft had any sense they'd fire almost 10k people and close half their studios then maybe they could survive and there would be no need to sell IP's.

They are like twice the size of EA and have more studios than Xbox, Bethesda and ABK combined. Honestly the higher ups have they've lost their minds.

Just another flop PC handheld and lmao at the people pretending the ROG is some kind of powerhouse when it's weaker than a Series S.

Lol at the people falling for Philnocchio's lies again.

Summary of muse by Michael Cook - an expert in the use of AI in game creation at Kings College London.

*Muse was fed 7 years of video footage of Bleeding Edge and can now predic what will happen if elements of a level are changed, it will predict what players playing this new layout would look like.

Useful for developers to predict what making changes will look like and how it will affect player experience, in theory.

In other words, the idea is Muse could be used as a shortcut tool for predicting and visualising how gameplay might adapt to a particular input by a developer. And, crucially, that developer is still a human.

It is not and will never be capable of coming up with ideas of it's own or creating new games it does not have footage of. The tool would require signficant video footage of gameplay of the specific game before it could begin to predict outcomes as it does for Bleeding Edge.

Cook states this is impractical and may never be fully useful in game development.

Cook also stated that Spencer's comments around game preservation were "idiotic" and it would never work.

If Phil is doing doing the rounds telling anyone who'll listen this then you can bet your ass they'll announce some games getting ported soon and the way Xbox console sales have collapsed GTA6 is going to seem like a Playstation exclusive at this point and watch their console sales explode when it releases.

It's crazy how people still trust Philnocchio lol.

Fool me once comes to mind every time I hear that man speak but still somehow there's people that take his word as gospel. Oh well, I guess they'll find out the hard way yet again.

So 2024 compared to 2023 in Europe.

(2023)

• PS5 up 177% YOY
• Switch down 10% YOY
• Xbox down 18% YOY

(2024)

• PS5 down 20% YOY
• Switch down 15% YOY
• Xbox down 48% YOY

@Rog-X @FatGuyInLilCoat Yeah I should've finished the article before I commented. I jumped the gun on that one.

It's a port of FF16.

You guys trust Jez Corden right? Because he commented on this and said it's true and there's a lot more than just Halo and Flight sim coming.

And now Microsoft announced another round of layoffs across all divisions.

That's every quarter of their 2024 fiscal now.

Microsoft Q1 2024: Layoffs
Microsoft Q2 2024: Layoffs
Microsoft Q3 2024: Layoffs
Microsoft Q4 2024: Layoffs

It's not confusing at all. Microsoft/Phil and Jez (can't be trusted) Corden lied again, it's as simple as that.

@HonestHick Jez was in denial for a while when every other insider was saying Xbox games are getting ported to playstation. He was running his usual defence on Twitter telling people it was nothing more than fanboy hopium. People still rip him a new one for it now.

He simply can no longer deny it like he did before but he still lies and runs defense every chance he gets, just like now with Indy.

I'm sure Circana's monthly and FY2024 best selling games report won't actually reflect what Jez is saying but I guess we'll wait and see.

Jez talking out his ass again lol. It's obvious it sold poorly and I don't believe for a second Disney got on the phone and asked for a sequel. If he had of said Xbox asked then sure but it's obvious he's lying here.

@awp69 And before Indy he claimed Starfield was the best game last year also he also claimed Astrobot was too hard for him lol.

Anyone with half a brain knows he's just a bitter twisted old man with a hate boner for Sony at this point, with his multiple angry rants. Ofc he's always going to pick an Xbox game every year because he's lost his mind.

Look forward to the monthly and yearly positions of Indy because I have a feeling it paints a completely different picture.

@Banjo- And I've owned every generation of Xbox apart from this one and I still own an Xbox I just didn't bother to upgrade because of how disappointed I was with them last gen but I still take an interest in them is that so wrong? Maybe I would've actually upgraded if they got their act together sooner and tried to actually compete but I'm not liking their new strategy so I'm simply using this place to voice my opinion on it.

@Banjo- I could ask you the same question every time you pop up on push but to answer your question I own an Xbox, in fact don't we all? Actually I'm typing this on one right now. Well according to Microsoft I am.

@Banjo- Your blind faith is impressive but the complete lack of effort over the holidays to try and sell any consoles should be obvious to anyone by now that they no longer care about selling Xbox consoles and in fact they're just going to let it die because that's part of the plan so they can pursue that 3rd party publisher status you're boosting about.

With the This Is An Xbox ads and no big discounts or console promotions, killing their console sales over the holidays was clearly by design.

So black ops 6 launches into Gamepass and Xbox has the worst hardware sales for November ever in the history of Xbox.

Yeah I think it's safe to say Xbox consoles are definitely cooked.

@awp69 Deleted my Eurogamer account recently because it's quite obvious they've lost their damn minds.

@Ricky-Spanish Except the game was made in the Czech Republic because the developers left Ukraine when the war started and opened a new studio in Prague.

Some launch issues is a massive understatement.

Despite countless issues would've been a more fitting description.

This is an Xbox 💩

Right before the holiday sales kick off telling your potential customers they don't need a real Xbox is absolutely genius marketing. 🤣

One step closer to Microsoft abandoning consoles.

@Ricky-Spanish I guess you've never played noughts and crosses.

Xbox in court - "Buying Activision won't result in layoffs."

@Rog-X Really what's all these games your talking about? Because the only ones I can think of are Hellblade which flopped and Indy and Cod which are both on playstation meaning Sony 1st party studios will have actually released more than them and yeah I know Concord flopped and nobody cares that's why it flopped.

If you're going to mention flight sim etc then be aware that none of the others are actually made by 1st party Xbox studios in the same way Helldivers 2 wasn't.

Hilarious lol, Xbox really is a laughing stock these days.

Edit: Actually they have been a laughing stock for a long time now so I guess I should be used to it, still funny though. 🤣

Didn't we already find out the file size? I was told by a friend it was 172gb on PS5.

@Sol4ris Except I was basically just repeating what Tom Warren said and I don't care if it hurt your precious feelings, maybe you should just try not to be so sensitive.

@Rog-X Whatever gets announced next week is the start of the second batch.

Well Tom Warren just said Xbox is gearing up to do their next round of playstation ports so whatever they announce next week is just the start lol.

Shinobi is definitely a credible source and people can try and just brush it off but it's obvious more games are getting ported.

The Adbox is living up to its nickname.

And it was just recently on sale in a bundle with the Spyro trilogy for £20 so any sensible person could've just bought them instead.

Is it still coming? I thought the last thing they said was that it was delayed indefinitely? So there's a chance it may never actually get ported.

They're actively trying to destroy their console sales now so that when they pull out of the console market they'll have a valid excuse.

@kuu_nousee You forgot about MLB The Show.

@BAMozzy Edit: this comment isn't actually directed at you. At first I was going to reply to your comment then I decided to just leave a comment of my own. So just ignore it lol.

There is 2,155 Xbox 360 games and only 632 of those are backwards compatible but apparently Xbox is all about preservation.