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@Jenkinss It's sold millions of copies.

I have come to believe that XBox is in a death spiral and that there is no saving it. If there is any hope, MS's greedy insistence on infinite growth and giant profit margins will certainly kill that hope. At this point my only hope is that Game Pass lasts long enough for me to complete my 2.5 year stack.

I clicked on this article to see how the true believers are taking this news and wow not well. I don't understand what it is going to take for some people to accept that MS is incredibly anti consumer and anti labor under Nadella and that XBox is going to be the same under his handpicked CEO. XBox is in a death spiral caused by their greed. It's shocking to see so many good soldiers standing by leadership.

@Gabrie It seems like you're quite fine with thinking about and discussing the business of XBox but moreso that you have an issue with people being critical of XBox.

Their AI business is never going to be profitable and they need to do something with the data centers. They created a problem and now they’re going to sell us the solution. In the end paying for a cloud subscription will cost more than a $1000 console. These people are scam artists.

@Kezelpaso Yeah I know that is there. I still think it would be better to segment the lists. Either way I appreciate the response to my suggestion.

It would be cool if you segmented these lists by subscription level.

The words platformer and platforming have become completely meaningless. How does a game that does not include platforming end up calling itself a platformer?

@BrokenByTheScream I'm not bootlicking. I hate Microsoft. I also just don't ever notice the ads and am baffled that is such a big hang up for people.

I'm confused why this is such a big deal for people. I never spend more than 1 second on the home screen and I don't have to pass over the ads to get to the places I want to navigate to. I don't notice them at all and could not tell you a single thing that has been advertisted.

I just want to know if the new Gears game is going to be splitscreen. If I get that everything else is just a cherry on top.

I only play the parts of games that are fun so my game score is 120,000 despite playing over 300 and beating 200 games on Xbox.

@somnambulance Wow your tastes must be much more narrow than my own. There have been 15 games released on GP or coming out this month that I want to play. 8 of them I would have purchased if GP didn't exist.

@somnambulance I specifically mentioned core gamers because we spend a lot of time gaming and are not going to just play Mixtape for the month. I will play Mixtape on GP this month, Forza, and Motorslice. Plus there is another drop coming.

The total value of games I have played on GP so far this year is $224. And most of those are smaller games rather than the big expensive additions like KCD2 and Death Stranding. And there are like another 10 games I still have not had time to get to but am very excited for.

Game Pass is a way better deal for core gamers than buying games.

@Skinny-Pete I don't think it's a PS fanboy thing. I think most of the hate for GP comes from Xbox gamers who prioritize owning a few games over getting to play dozens of games.

Guy with three plates of food meme

Game Pass is so ridiculously good. It's crazy to me that so many core gamers hate it.

@Skinny-Pete They mean affordable for them not us.

And the other show drops.

It's amazing to me that anyone thought her hiring was going to lead to anything besides forcing AI into everything Xbox does. People are so gullible.

They need to reboot it. As someone who only played Halo for the first time in 2020, and has zero nostalgia, I enjoy the gamplay a lot but find the story and especially Master Chief to be extremely boring.

@AverageGamer Ah right, I forget that some people who are invested into the Xbox ecosystem game on PC.

You see that, I can just admit I'm wrong about something. I didn't die. It didn't even hurt.

I still don't believe your BS about not caring about Xbox and only being here because you have an account from their sister sites. I can see that you have way more comments here than you do on nintendolife and you don't appear to have any comments on pushsquare. Plus the the majority of articles on this site that actually get discussion are Xbox oriented. Posts about general gaming news usually only get a handful of comments. I hope as grow, you learn that accepting your own fallibility is healthy and a part of personal growth. Good luck little guy!

@AverageGamer That doesn't explain why you ended up on this article, then chose to go into the comments section, and it definitely does not explain why you have 424 comments on this site for a console you supposedly do not care about. You could just say you're here to be a troll but I don't think that is the case. I do think you have an Xbox. You know it's okay to say "I didn't think about that, I guess I was wrong." Learning will not kill you nor will admitting you're wrong. I promise. You really don't need to make ***** up.

@AverageGamer Then your response literally makes no sense at all. Nintendo lowered their prices from their standard prices. What on earth does that have to do with anything besides a corporation realizing that they have already bleed us dry. Also why do you have an account here if you don't care about Microsoft gaming?

@AverageGamer My dude we are talking about a digital product. Yes all of the trends you mention are terrible and leading to price increases but they have nothing to do with GP price increases. We know exactly why the price went up. Microsoft demanded 30% profit margins because they are a greedy company that prioritizes immediate growth and profits this quarter over long-term health of the product division. Despite the negative press Xbox gets everything is good with their profits. The problem is Microsoft is not satisfied with record profits. They demand growth. The line must always go up.

Look man, I love my Xbox too but at some point you have to accept the fact that the company making your favorite box is evil. Microsoft is an evil company. Their unrepentant greed, that needlessly costs tens of thousands of workers their jobs every year, workers who help Xbox acheive their record profits I might add, is somehow not even the worst thing they do. They're helping Israel commit genocide.

@AverageGamer You cannot be serious. The Iran war started six weeks ago. Corporations have been recklessly seeking exponential growth for decades now and the trend accelerated over the last five years. The Iran war as terrible as it is for the humans suffering through it is a tiny blip economically compared to the depraved greed of the MBAs who now run every major industry

@AverageGamer Yes the current economic environment caused by corporate greed seeking unsustainable exponential growth. The line cannot go up exponentially forever.

@Balaam_ it feels like going so high was just smoke and mirrors so they could pull COD from GP and still get the good press of lowering the price back down.

I think the corporations are finally realizing they have bleed us dry. Nintendo announced a $60 game today, low for them, and is making a habit of giving digital discounts.

@Commander91_YT is your response performance art? It is right? You’re making fun of people who loudly insist on physical right? That’s definitely how it comes across. If you’re being earnest then you should know you just made a joke out of the concept of buying physical as a safeguard against delisted games. Why on earth would I care that a disk gave me the ability to listen to the music but not play the game? It’s a game not a music CD.

Not one single digital game I own has ever been delisted. Only bad gams or super old games get delisted. I don’t play bad games or super old games so I have zero concerns about my games getting delisted. I also don’t tend to replay games.

@themightyant Right?!?! I have seen so much praise for ending the This is an Xbox marketing campaign but nothing actually changed. They are still pursuing the same objectives they just dropped the maketing.

@FarmDog08 No the CEO that was handpicked by Nadella does not deserve any benefit of the doubt. Nadella's time at Microsoft has been terrible for consumers. Microsoft products are increasingly awful and filled with AI bloat. Why on earth would assume anything different from the new CEO who has an AI background and is more closely aligned with Nadella? I hope she proves me wrong but there is zero reason to expect that she will.

It's been hilarious to watch them do a full on marketing blitz for a new CEO. It's been tragic seeing so many fans fall for it. The AI CEO will make XBox worse. The merch is nice though.

Series X and Switch 2. I have used the SX for over 3000 hours and the S2 already has 500 hours on it so yeah I would definitely say both were worth it.

Is this what the physical collectors tell me I should be worried about? That I might lose my access to umm Battlefield Hardline or Pinball FX: World Cup Soccer & Pinball FX3?

The only thing I care about right now is splitscreen. I love Gears because I can play through the campaigns local coop. If they remove it, like MS did for Halo, then I won't play the game.

New Xbox leadership: best we can do is AI slop, layoffs, and price increase.

@Balaam_ What motivation do people have to hate on this game besides it’s quality?

@Millionski what are you on about? Game Pass is adding more new game than ever before.

Yes it is the ad campaign that is the problem. Nothing else will change but everything will be better because they are changing how they talk about their strategy that their fans hate. Sure thing! I hope people are not fooled by this but I expect to be disappointed.

If anyone wants free money you can bet against this game winning GOTY on Kalshi. A $100 bet will win you $117. It's not the most profitable scheme but it's also guaranteed money.

I hate seeing this man's face. What a truly morally bankrupt and useless human. An AI could do his job just as well as he does.

I still love it and get great value from my subscription but I play an absurd amount of video games. I can’t imagine it’s a good deal for like 99% of gamers.

@TheGameThrifter You misunderstand modern economics of consumer goods. If you price something at $1200 and sell 50% of what you could have sold at $300, you still make way more money. All of these companies are content to maximize the amount of money they can make even if means shrinking the market.

This is why the price of GP went up 50%, Microsoft is anticipating that the increase will not cost them 50% of subscribers so they will still make more money.

Literally every nonessential good works this way now. There is a class of consumers for whom price does not matter and they make up the majority of all consumption. There is no difference whatsoever between $800 and $1200 for Microsoft’s target customer.

@TheGameThrifter The majority of people buying consoles in 2025 made over $100k. Regular people are no longer the customer. The upper middle class and wealthy are the customers. Consoles are now a luxury good. They will sell just as many consoles at $1200 as they will at $800 because their target customers do not have price sensitivity. Capitalism was a mistake.

@fatpunkslim The dead city was startling to me. It completely ruins the Japanese immersion.

@themightyant Planet of Lana was so good. I actually like it more than Inside and Cocoon.

@Globo You should not assume that eliminating GP would lead to more first party sales. Forza 6 and Gears Judgement are the only Microsoft games on the horizon that I would buy day 1. Microsoft would get $140 from me without GP. With GP they’re getting $360. Eliminating GP would probably lead to me spending more on Nintendo exclusives and indies which I prefer to play on Switch. Xbox would go from my main console to one I barely play.

Alternative headline: How pessimistic are you about the future of Xbox?

I would run it a way that was content with creating a good profitable product rather than needing to achieve exponential growth so I would be fired instantly.

The first two sentences are the most AI sounding ***** I’ve ever read. Using AI for this kind of message when people are concerned about your AI experience is a bad look.

“I agree. Faking would be a terrible idea and wouldn’t work.” -AI

@Fiendish-Beaver For him to have already appointed someone means that this decision was not made after Phil retired. This was planned. Sarah may not have known until today but I doubt it.

If she did find out today, quitting on the spot without taking time to weight her options and plan her next steps feels like a bad call. It’s not the type of emotional reaction I would expect from a black woman who was able to get this far in gaming. And if she did know in advance then this her timing would be weird to do it today.