VoidPunk

Wow Unbound really did kill the franchise. Goodbye NFS you will be missed.

I said the exact same thing months ago. Not a single game has been made that takes advantage of the hardware. And there are only 8 exclusives-6 of which were $100 million failures. Flight Sim 24 is currently the most successful game on the platform by default and it’s a niche appeal.

Drop support for the Xbox One and start producing the base model for the Series X again. In my area the only products I can get is the white 1TB Series X with no disc drive a.k.a. The worst model. A couple of places have leftover Series S models but those are quite rare.

Put the price back at $500 and focus exclusively on good games.

We were promised 2 things

An affordable Xbox

We received no things.

If any rumor is proven to be true than affordability is long out the window.

"it doesn't matter what kind of games you play"

As long as they aren’t Xbox games of course. Because you can’t play them.

AC: Shadows was so successful that Ubisoft sold 25% of the company and all their assets and their newest game immediately got a deep discount!

Is one of the accessories something that makes this play Xbox games

Insane that this and the fact they hat it sold so bad it killed Ubisoft can both be true.

I would trade 1000 streaming games for one new good exclusive.

Announce that they plan to right the ship. Rehire the 9k people displaced by their CEOs failure and cancel the next Xbox until the Series X has a library deserving of such a beautiful machine.

Too bad other store fronts don’t do this.

This is the prison version of the series X.

I like clear tech but a green shell would go even harder.

A total embarrassment. After firing 9k people she shouldn’t be allowed near any position of power ever again.

It’s good they stopped that guy from cheating early. Sets a good precedent amid a sea of games where cheering is rampant so it’s cool he didn’t get away with it.

Hate to say it but games that got ported to PS5 also get a port to S2.

There’s a golden opportunity for MMOs and other live service games to get in on the ground level. Sea of Thieves would have near 0 competition as Nintendo’s only new live service game is the DOA basketball game which had trouble filling lobbies in the demo.

Visa requirements absolutely going to try to stop GTA6 from releasing.

@Coletrain

What support. They just fired the Forza Motorsport team.

Every single Xbox exclusive lost $100 or more.

This or 2 Switch 2s?

And yet they still fired 9000 people.

If this isn’t definitive proof the service doesn’t work I don’t know what is.

No. Using an old optimized and buggy engine not meant for the genre would have been disastrous.

Isn’t that when they all release?

Though so does Pokemon usually except this year.

MS is trying to get people fired at this point.

MS not quite ready to pull the $1000 console trigger.

Do you think these Teams decide to make the remaster worse than original at the start of development or do they have to have a “ruin it” phase later on?

Console port for 1 and 2 please

Hi-Fi was once their only successful exclusive despite it being made by like 4 people and a dog with a marketing budget of $3.50 and a rubber band.

They shuttered the studio and gave the rights away for nothing.

@darylb24

The company is still shrinking regardless.

Gamepass can be a compelling service but if it was truly great MS wouldn’t still be stuck in dead last. They wouldn’t have started hiding sales numbers. And they wouldn’t have just fired 9k people.

We can argue all day but the results are in.

Announcing this after SKG hit 1,000,000 signatures is gutsy.

The protagonist had man chin.

Making hardware with no games. This will will save the company.

@DarthVerde

Thousands of people just got axed because there’s no money to pay them.

@DarthVerde

No.

“we have more players, games, and gaming hours than ever before.”

This is why sales matter to those who keep saying that they don’t. Giving your garbage away for free doesn’t keep the lights on. Avowed got people-a lot of people-fired.

@Boogzi

Because a subscription service is just sales with extra steps

Avowed sold like 100k copies what are you on about?

If it’s worse than the original like Oblivion then the answer is no.

@BacklogBrad

It’s not working because they aren’t making games. It’s not a market problem.

“ideal entry point for Xbox fans interested in PC handhelds”

If this is the target audience it means MS is actively trying remove users from its consoles.

This on top of the founding ever saying the hardware brand is dead.

The next Xbox will be the last

@Ricky-Spanish

Obfuscation is a tool used to hide the results when the devs ignored user feedback. It’s why BioWare kept touting players and not copies sold.

@Questionable_Duck

Tbf, Sony never signed the agreement MS presented them with so while they are obligated to release it on Steam and possibly the Nintendo eShop, the only reason they would have to is because the FCC might (key word might) get in their case. If they could get away with it they would massively benefit by not doing it.

I partially disagree with cancelling the next Xbox. It wouldn’t be forever only for a few years. The Series X currently has 8 exclusive games. That’s games that aren’t on the Xbox One or no longer exclusive. Of the 8, 6 were financial disasters with only Flight Sim 24 and Stalker 2 making money. I think focusing on fleshing out the library of the most powerful console in history would help boost sales. This is my opinion anyway.

Starfield is insanely boring and sold disastrously low for how long it took to develop. The player base is less than games a decade old after only 1.5 years. It’s another stain on the Bethesda legacy and unlike say Fallout 76 which they worked very hard to fix, Starfield has been abandoned. Actually it’s less than abandoned as they released one of the lowest rated AAA DLCs I've ever seen.

Avowed just sucked and didn’t even break 500k sales (based on rough estimates). @kmtrain83 I was joking about removing it from GamePass but it was just awful. To be fair I should have included more games like Redfall to be offered refunds since it isn’t fair for those who load paid for a broken and boring experience. And that’s the thing these games are so ruddy boring that even modders left.

As for SBI they have become brand poison. MS should refuse to put any game they are involved with on GamePass due to their polarizing nature. Not on their store just GamePass which is supposed to be highly curated experiences.

Also I don’t have a rebuttal for Cloud gaming other than it’s just a money pit gamers don’t want and statistically don’t use aside from saves.

TL;DR MS still has the best console in history on the market and can and should spend the time to give it the unforgettable library it deserves. That’s why I’m so passionate about talking about it.

Thank you for your well written response.

Agreed with everyone that Xbox needs to be more transparent. Hiding console sales basically guarantees you’ll be seen as a failure. Allowing games like DA:Failguard and Assassin’s Creed Badows to hide sales is also a very poor look when they need you
To let them on your platform.

Darn I thought this game was one that actually made money.