Yeah. And then foreign businesses say Because Microsoft is so profitable and we want to be like them and Microsoft money, we follow their practices. So you have Japanese companies making studios decisions because they want to be like American businesses, not stubborn Japanese business. Case in point: Xbox moves games to PC, so PlayStation does, who has absolutely no reason to have to, but Nintendo isn't. Xbox did it as a move of desperation, not to expand. Nintendo knows this but PlayStation is like the little puppy following the kid with the balloon and ice cream. PlayStation forgot they're riding at the top. It's Xbox that has been copying their business tactics to keep up
@Sindayl - Dude, your User Icon of Space Channel 5 ought to indicate to you that you know better. I went through the same era and watched the fall of SEGA. While then it was a tragedy and still is today seeing the pre-SEGA Sammy era, when we, with honest eyes, look back at that time, SEGA wasn't just hemorrhaging money as everyone likes to say, they had a lot of inner turmoil going on that wasn't condusive to a healthy growing environment for what SEGA once was.
When people have adjusted to the better fit in the gaming world and getting rid of the unnecessary and look back and see documentaries made on the subject and Xbox will be honest with the world, we'll see the same thing. The inner struggle of Xbox and the man behind the curtain that was dishonest and a conman trying to get away with shady business decisions to make corporate board members more wealthy and steal from the pockets of hard working people. Give it time. The truth will surface and you'll see real transparency l, just as we saw from SEGA. Except SEGA wasn't dishonesty, you know better. It was jealousy and Sega of Japan and Sega of America's inability to get along and that was horrible as more Japanese games should've made it overseas to the Americas. Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan knew right out of the gate, through the experience of Steve Race, that the two had to get along and work together, and that they very much did so and it crippled SEGA.
Xbox, however, has a much deeper story that's more than just Don Mattrick, but while Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond are still at the helm, you're gonna have to wait some time before all that surfaces. I would also say, at some point, because Activision/Blizzard employees will become frustrated with how Xbox does business and how out of touch they are, a lot of employees will leave to join other devs or start their own, eventually they'll want to leave and Xbox in the future will allow Activision to disconnect themselves or shut the studio down altogether and that $69 billion will be even more wasted. There's so many IPs there Microsoft will never use again, they'll die, and won't know how. Phil Spencer SHOULD have out of good will and as a sign of good faith and a peace offering and to gain friendship, shown up with a HDD in a fancy wooden box, much like Guerilla Games did with the Decima Engine for Kojima, to the front door of Insomniac Games with the IP of Spyro the Dragon to return him back home and to the front door of Naughty Dog with the IP of Crash Bandicoot to return him back home where he belongs. Crash Bandicoot STILL lives on through Naughty Dog, but Xbox has no idea what to do with him. He's a trophy to them, that's all, but they'll ignore him and they're using Call of Duty, a dying breed, and that's about it. Theres so much more, but these days with the cost of game development taking five plus years, $69 billion was poorly spent money
It's amazing how far behind people are. I could've made a good living being a tech advisor. It doesn't take a genius to see Game Pass was a bad business decision, Microsoft now knows was never a good idea to begin with that lead to studio closures and mass layoffs. Turn to the PlayStation community with PlayStation doing everything right and Xbox watches their software ... Um.... "Fly off the shelves" and Xbox actually makes money. They weren't making money on Xbox. They weren't making money on Xbox Anywhere, even. They're making ALL THEIR MONEY ON PLAYSTATION in the HOME THAT SONY BUILT!
When Xbox decided they wanted to follow the handheld, those of us with eyes to see knew it wouldn't work and for this very reason. Do consumers know and just aren't vocal about it, unlike the diehards that loom over the threads? Xbox fans want it because they're begging for Xbox to stay relevant. They don't want a Dreamcast repeat, except wiser SEGA fans know better today with clearer eyes looking back. It was painfully obvious Xbox wasnt blazing any new trails but just following the trends as they always do. The handheld is far too saturated to think they can take it on.
Moral of the story? PlayStation are the king of hardware. Let them build the hardware and make third-party software. It should've been that way all along. With less pressure, we might even see PlayStation's return to proprietary hardware (innovation in hardware) that leads to more unique experiences instead of off the shelf parts.
"There's no competition now with Xbox going third-party." Um. Yes, there is. You have three now: PlayStation, Nintendo, and Valve. You still have options, but, after the initial hype with the honeymoon phase and all of that wears off, third-party will abandon Switch 2 and focus on PlayStation and Steam. Happens all the time with Nintendo underpowered machines as more powerful gives devs more tools to push hardware and then Nintendos inferior hardware fades back into the mist. So, yeah, you'll get some surprising third-party games for a little while, but many third-party devs will look away and focus on more modern hardware.
Oh, and all the fuss about using a joycon as a mouse? Feedback doesn't seem to be very good for that gimmick and some are already saying: "Thankfully Switch 2 will allow you to use a real mouse" so the Joycon mouse already doesn't work. Kind of like SIXAXIS for the PS3, I recently just used in my playthrough of InFamous to get the platinum trophy
Well that's not good. Phil Spencer probably didn't get what he wanted. He was hoping he could get Steam and Epic Games Store App on the handheld so he could say: "Look how we changed the world, you can play PlayStation games on our device. You can finally play God of War" but PlayStation was smarter than that. Phil looking for a backdoor.....
They are finding they're not doing better as a third-party publisher. It's really what gamers wanted all along. Let Sony handle the hardware and then everyone does the software. Except, in those days when we were thinking that, Sony wasn't using off the shelf parts. They were using innovative proprietary hardware.
But, for fans of Xbox making hardware, it sounds like someone wised up and saw what they'd be jumping into. If they thought the console market was tough, look how many handhelds there are..... And they all use Windows, so what's the point of having a dedicated Xbox handheld when it's the same as the rest? Microsoft CEO wants to make as much money as possible and be everywhere so, why does he want to sabotage Microsoft relationship with everything with Microsoft bread and butter?
That's just it, IT SHOULD'VE BEEN XBOX ALL ALONG! And not this 28MB on a 100GB UHD. You gotta use two discs, so what. Install one and use the other as a your authentication disc. SHOULD'VE BEEN XBOX TO START WITH! "We support physical media" right..... Phil Spencer once a chronic liar, always a chronic liar
@johndoe89 Doesn't matter. Welcome to the digital era, dude. When you don't have physical media, they can take it away whenever they want. That's always been the fear of those smart enough to have always invested in physical media and demand it, because you never know. I got Gears of War on a third party site shortly after it's release on PC, threw months later my PC crashed, went back to get the game from my account, GONE! I learned then, in the early 2000s what the digital era would look like. And, remember that agreement you made to the notification Steam sent out that you don't own your Steam games, they're just licensed? Yeah. Backing them up doesn't do anything when your Internet connection is shut off (when you try to disconnect it to hide your games so they can't take them from you and an Internetless console (the most recent PlayStation Network outage, for example), yeah, if they tried to take your game library from you and you had your console disconnected, they were already way ahead you months or a year or two ago when you updated your console that required an Internet connection to play digital games. They're way ahead of you, man. That's already been thought through AND those who collected physical media are way ahead of everyone until some twenty years or so when and if disc rot becomes a thing like a small percentage of software does now (obviously depending on how well you take care of them in various living conditions such as dry vs humid). It's not gonna save you, man. Xbox thought of all of this a long time ago, perhaps to get you to buy their software again on a competing console to make more money. You may not understand just how much Xbox wanted Activision that they'd pay anything for it. It wasn't worth $69 billion, but they knew PlayStation wouldn't and couldn't pay that much so they outbid them like eBay, but it was too much for them, they had to go to Microsoft to ask dad to reach deep in his pockets assuring them this acquisition would cripple Sony. Daddy believed them and when the acquisition happened and the first Call of Duty released and underperformed and Microsoft understood the mistake of the promise of Game Pass to give everything away free, dad became mad and said: "You're gonna work your butt off to pay us back. How're you gonna do that? You can't. You're in debt to us forever now." The only way was to sell their software on competiting consoles that were selling significantly better. Activision was their mistake. Activision was probably only worth, I don't know, $2.5 billion, at most and maybe not actually worth that, but Xbox was panicked and did know of Sony would work out something better so they offered an astronomical amount and now, they shot themselves in the foot
Why bother when you can't get a sizable amount of games on Xbox, but you'll soon be able to get just about anything on PlayStation and Nintendo.
What's happening here is Xbox, really, doesn't care. They're evaluating the market to see what happens and I guess they're seeing what they can sell on PlayStation, which his been really good. They don't want Xbox fans to see they don't care so they're making the Xbox handheld in cooperation with ASUS. ASUS is likely making the hardware and Xbox is asking if they're software can just be present. (This isn't an Xbox.) If you look at it, how is the Xbox version of ROG any different than what's already available? There isn't. It's not Xbox made or Xbox branded. It's ASUS that Xbox asked if they can be present on which isn't any different because the other device is a handheld PC running Windows.
What am I seeing? Xbox sees a bigger market with PlayStation and Nintendo. That's where they're ultimately gonna go. They're, basically, getting ready to break up with their Xbox fans by letting them down as easily as possible to move on to a polygamist relationship with PlayStation and Nintendo fans, why? Because Xbox fans will just gravitate over to the competition and build their home there and buy Xbox games anyway, or to the PC where Play Anywhere already exists, never even Xbox but PC, basically Steam anyway. This is Xbox getting ready to cut things off with their fanbase altogether and tell them to just move on. Ya know, act now and ask forgiveness later
This is the franchise that once ported to PlayStation sealed Xbox's fate. Not even Halo holds the clout of Gears of War. Gears of War almost saws the shores of PS3 when Mark Rein has seen Gears of War maxed out on 360 and was looking to expand its audience once that cow had been milked, but once Microsoft caught wind quickly swept in to prevent the series from going, knowing just how big the franchise was, bigger and drawing more attention than Halo. PlayStation can do without Halo, but Gears of War, well, yeah. Xbox is done. No need for hardware. Xbox is now SEGA Sammy
And you think that was a compliment? Consumers finally wised up and saw Xbox's true colors with the Xbox One. And a very small minority still seem to think Phil Spencer is some kind of Nostradamus when Microsoft is still cleaning up from all their messes, where if they were really in the know and knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be having to clean up.
"But, Xbox has more first-party games coming to PlayStation than PlayStation has on the PS5." Well, again, consumers are smarter than that. Xbox BOUGHT all of their studios rather than building them from the ground up, raising them and watching them grow, doing the only thing Microsoft has ever known how to do. Dig deep in your pockets and buy it and then, they're porting games to PS5, not building games from the ground up for PS5.
Every time Xbox opens their big mouth, there's a quick rebuttal to expose the con game. It's Xbox lying repeatedly to try and stay relevant, but it's Xbots that are the only ones buying into it in a desperate attempt thinking the efforts will save Xbox. We've been their before. You have no problem with Sonic being on a Nintendo console but you'll understand better it wasn't ever meant to be that way. Those of us that watched SEGA fall to Nintendo will understand your backup plan to like Nintendo undid Xbox just as much with the Switch at 154 million consoles sold and now Master Chief will be on Nintendo hardware as well. The thing is, those of us SEGA fans that watched SEGA fall years later can better understand the problems SEGA had going on internally and when they brought back brilliant minds theyd lost under the success of Genesis, by then it was too late. As time goes by, it will be better understood by Xbots why it is the way it is today. The blinders will come off but you'll better understand why longtime SEGA fans still can't bear to see Sonic on Nintendo when you have no problem with it
It'll sell some but, people just don't seem to understand it's only the Xbox diehards that'll buy them. If you don't own an Xbox Series by now, is GTA 6 gonna change your mind? I doubt it. When it's announced Halo and Gears are coming to PlayStation l, there's no need for Xbox anymore. You'll be able to play everything on competing consoles but you can't play everything on an Xbox so why do you even need one?
People are in incredible denial. Squaresoft is willing to invest the money in porting games to Xbox on dying hardware. I really don't understand the logic of the business world.
It's said Xbox only sold 2 million consoles in 2024...... And what do most of those games like to play? Final Fantasy? People that play Final Fantasy grew up on Nintendo but moreso on PlayStation, not Xbox. Denial, denial
It's frustrating how this is spreading like wildfire. People seem to forget WHY Xbox is doing this and how can it be made any more clear? Xbox is doing this because they conned consumers and lost consumer trust. I, thus, pose the question: When Sega went multiplatform, did Nintendo and Sony follow then?
Xbox isn't some great prognosticator, they're screw-ups. Ask an Xbot this last year and you'd have been met with a hellish backlash, but because Xbox was forced to go this route, suddenly, everyone has to play nice?
Xbox feared Sonys threat, and has been the case since the very idea of conception of the Xbox when Bill Gates feared the PS2 would be the marketing tactic PlayStation set out to convey, that PS2 was a supercomputer and Bill Gates feared the PS2 would take over the living room. (Bill Gates was nerdy enough to have figured and saw in his mind, people doing their taxes and spreadsheets on their living room TV on a PS2, but he didn't seem to think it was just a console and DVD player). Xbox has always had this fear. So, with PlayStation getting as close to Activision as they were, playing Xbox's game of Call of Duty content released first on PlayStation and Bungie devs showing favoritism toward PlayStation with Destiny, Xbox was fearful. What did they do? Went to Microsoft asking them to dig into their deep pockets for a bailout, which parent company happily ablidged, and offered an absurd number they knew PlayStation couldn't match, and Sony didn't but instead battled out in court what would profit them most.... Which was a dying Call of Duty anyway and that's exactly what showed. Microsoft over spent on Activision, Call of Duty wasn't profitable and Microsoft wanted their money back but Phil Spencer couldn't deliver so Microsoft called back their favor and Nadela decreed Xbox would pa to back the investment through multiplatform. This isn't some forward thinking plan, it's: "we're dead. Activision wasn't worth $69 billion, but it was an offer Sony wouldn't match. But it doesn't matter because Activision is a dying breed. If it was so profitable, we kind of wouldn't be in this kind of situation.
But, that's only half of the equation. With the announcement of Xbox One, it was the start. Xbox has always been using their consumers as guinea pigs. Remember when they wanted to boost Xbox Live to $120/yr? PlayStation laughed with a: Good luck with that one! Xbox then did as they usually did to loyal fanbase when met with the backlash they couldn't get away with. "Ohhhhhhh. We're sorry. We're reversing our policy. You see, we hear you. We're using your feedback to make a console for you, by you." And wash rise repeat every time Xbox wanted to pull something on their consumers to see if they'd sucker for it. PlayStation was doing it right from the getgo. No imposed restrictions or DRM, consumer control of media, hardware options, etc. THATS LISTENING, that's being connected with consumers and be educated in what the market is and wants
We all know, as well, the exclusivity of Rise of the Tomb Raider was to combat Xbox's desire for an Uncharted Phil Spencer couldn't stand to be without but he knew it couldn't be done. This many years later, Xbox finally gets Indiana Jones but, too little to late, Naughty Dog are again paving the highway for the next big evolution. Xbox fashionably late as usual
@Banjo- So you see how that looks and sounds, though? How knarled and twisted and warped that all sounds? It's not natural and neither was Sonic going to Nintendo. What a horrific day that was that's forever etched in my subconscious memory where it forces me to let it live rent free.
Y'all really don't know what's about to happen to the industry. How boring it's going to become. Do you know how your mom kept her sanity raising you your whole life? Her Soaps. That and whatever she could hear the next isle over in the grocery store. News media all know better. As Jack Tretton once said: "So my friends in the press industry tell me that NOTHING makes their editors day like controversy and bad news. To them I say, YOU'RE WELCOME!"
Wait..... How can Xbox patent this? If Nintendo patented their JoyCons, and Sony patented the DualSense, how can Xbox then patent the tech in their controller? I seem to recall an incident during the PS3 era that affected the Dualshock 3 to where it became the SIXAXIS for some time because of a rumble feature. Once Sony worked out paying the royalties, then it became the Dualshock 3 so...... How does Xbox put haptics in their controller without infringement on the haptics patent???
What a fitting photo of Phil Spencer. About how he's feeling at this point. He always reminds me of an older Beavis, except fatter with brown hair instead of blonde and an Xbox shirt instead of a Metallica shirt. That underbite is absolutely uncanny!
But really, though. Call of Duty is number 2? Sony didn't suffer from the Activision acquisition. Jim Ryan put up a big old fight and fuss over it but, an annual game every year like that just like Assassins Creed. It was neat at first but now, it's repetitive as anything.
Also, what the frick? Even Senuas Sacrifice gets an 8 and The Great Circle gets, what was it a 7.6 and it wins Game of the Year? Shouldn't a Game of the Year get a solid score above everything else. This is the epitome of Xbots screaming for Xbox to stay. Snapping at everything, making a dump in a box seem like a tremendous masterpiece.
Let's be honest with ourselves here because, what else have we got? If you can't be honest with yourself, what else have you got? You can't and shouldn't lie to yourself. Xbox blew it, they're done. Sheamus Blackley wanted something great when the rest of Microsoft didn't. It was that big of a fight but he got it going. Xbox 360 came along and they built on the momentum. But it got to the point where suits ran Xbox and got greedy. They didn't think about what you wanted, what was best for you and still don't. They just want to pick your pocket and spent $69 billion when they didn't have to, they overpaid to keep Sony from intervening, showing you the relationship Sony has with devs, and now you the customers are paying for it and Xbox is now trying to leech off of Sonys customers to pay off Activision. It backfired in Xbox's face.
Look, I was there once. You know how it feels, even to this day, for a long time SEGA fan to see Sonic on a Nintendo console, even worse when it's exclusive to that Nintendo console? I had to sit and watch SEGA shut it down. SEGAs gone. Fans in denial can say what they will, but Sammy isn't SEGA. SEGA was different a long time ago and when you finally have all the information and can look back on it, an awesome little documentary called CONSOLE WARS sheds some light. Sega of America and Sega of Japan had serious issues. They were at odds all the time and couldn't be on the same page. It frustrated businesses that wanted to sell their product and Japans ego caused major problems. Whether the 32X contributed to the demise or whether it was the animosity remains to be seen, but it happened. Bernie Stollar couldn't get along with Arakowa either, it was constantly a tug of war battle and it ended poorly.
The same will happen with Xbox. The dust will settle on the battlefield in a couple of years and it'll all come out when Xbox is actually honest with themselves and aren't keeping things. Former employees will talk. They'll talk about a sour relationship with customers, lying to and deceiving them, constantly, over and over. Phil Spencers a con man. You thought Mattrick was bad, Phil Spencer operates like a con artist, he can't handle it anymore so he pawned it off onto his subordinates. Before he liked the spotlight, he wanted to look like a rockstar on a stage and didn't like the end result. And then, yes, Activision. Tell me something, did Call of Duty come to the Switch? MLB The Show from Sony did as part of their agreement with the MLB, but Phil Spencer didn't even make good on bringing CoD to Nintendo so ... You tell me
It's Fox News vs CNN. It sells advertising. Have you seen how many ads are on these articles? Used to never be like this. Xbox isn't innovative but AOL apparently was.
Was a waste of money, if you ask me. Sony nearly had a solid grip on the anime scene but, $320 million for some extra shares? They basically bought one exclusive at the apparent cost it is to develop a game that's five years out. Yeah, waste of money if you ask me. Kadekowa is apparently worth at least a billion, maybe not if half a billion only gets you 10% shares, who owns and calls the other 90%. Your shares maybe pay for another Concord that flops and then you lose half a billion. You know many homeless people you could house and get off the street for that much? The profit gets dumped into a Live Service Game that flops and you just threw the money away. I mean, I guess you put some people to work to pay their bills for a little while. Whose making their investment deals? Nintendo just acquired Monolith and Sony bought some shares? That's not how the gaming world works apparently these days, especially if the companies own employees were looking for someone to turn the tide of their work environment, now a targets on their back with their boss looking to fire them for their lack of loyalty.
The name of the game is acquisitions these days. Microsoft just got spooked. Maybe their still recovering from their way over spending, and did you see a Call of Duty announcement for Switch? Neither did I, but you better believe they're on the hunt now and, if they paid $69 billion for Activision, they'll buy out that other 90% Sony and then they have the money to do it, you know they do and then you're up the creek. It'll be like that guy who nearly has a complete Sega CD Collection, he's only missing Kaio but still nearly has the complete set. You almost have a complete anime collection, but the one got away and they're dangling it above your head.
It doesn't mean PlayStation and Nintendo need to follow suit. It doesn't mean Xbox is blazing a trail. Remember, this is all the continuous cycle of Xbox lying and continually trying to deceive their customers, throughout the Xbox One console cycle, mind you. Phil Spencer had his process treating consumers like guinea pigs. They'd run the test, when there was massive lashout Phil Spencer, or his favorite pet Aaron "Executive Fanboy" Greenberg (who now that I mention has been unusually silent the last little while, maybe since Matty Booty and Sarah Bond-- Ill get to her in a second) would come out and "apologize" and then follow it up with "you see, we're listening. We're making Xbox for you based on your feedback" which really means: We couldn't pull one over on you because you're a little too smart for us, we'll try again next time. And sure enough, they would. It was this vicious cycle. They tried to pull the PlayStation out of LISTENING out of PS4s playbook, except Sony didn't try to deceive people and then backtrack. Around the time The Last of Us Part II came out, Xbox was serious, then, about hiking the price of Xbox Live to $120/yr and people lost it, but Xbox tried to do it without any notice. Then they did their thing. PlayStation was laughing behind the scenes still sitting at $60/yr watching Microsoft take the revolver and shoot themselves in the foot and blow their other foot off.
This isn't Microsoft as some prognosticator, they're up s**t creek and stuck because they treated fans and consumers poorly so they have to try something else, but you can't earn that back and this is proof of it. It's in about not getting exclusives, buying Activision for a check they really couldn't cut was the absolute final blow but, they were really desperate at this point.
Look at Nintendo, for example. Nintendo has nothing of their gaming career falls through. They go back to making playing cards and board games. They've got a lot to lose. If the gaming industry is really in that bad of shape, why is the most revered gaming company STILL 100% EXCLUSIVE TO THEIR OWN CONSOLE!?! Why are Nintendo not on PC? Because it must not be as bad as everyone says it is. Switch 2 is rumored to be 4K and I doubt it'll financially hurt them like devs are complaining about now.
PlayStation crashes, they're end-to-end. They go back making TVs, smartphones, audio equipment, publishing music, and making movies and TV well, and now anime. So, if Nintendo is still 100% console exclusive, what's PlayStation worried about? Google failed streaming. Sony tried it with Gaikai that became PlayStation Now after Gaikai and OnLive found streaming didn't work that came from SEGA in the 90s that found it didn't work. Sonys walked that path already is doing so now, and it doesn't matter because people's internet STILL sucks and if internet tries to keep up, games are gonna advance and never be able to keep up so..... Handhelds? PS Vita anyone? The Steamdeck and Switch both took from the genius of the PS Vita. PlayStation wants to go back to that, the PS Portal is really a joke, but that wasn't PlayStation going all in.
The point remains the same. Xbox is going this route they're in deep. This is what they call The Console Graveyard.
You're sneaky Xbox. What they're going to try and do is marry all the devices together, if they can get an app that they can put on their own Xbox console, like Steam, then Xbox gamers can play PlayStation exclusives on an Xbox console, and why then need a PlayStation so long as PlayStation is releasing PC games. You're sneaky Xbox. It could be, to counter this, PlayStation will require a PSN login..... Plus you're getting your Platinum Trophies and PlayStation rewards points, makes sense.
Yeah, this all smells like a work around for Xbox to create an empire. They lost on the console front, now they're trying to swing the battlefield, they want to find a way to get PlayStation games on their consoles, because let's be real here, it's all Phil Spencer wants at this point is to say he beat PlayStation by getting them to bend to his business strategy and have PS games on Xbox. And all he needs is a Steam or Epic Games launcher to be on his console. Egh.....
Meanwhile, Nintendo has all the confidence in the world with all their games 100% exclusive to their console with a successor to the Switch next year. That shows confidence PlayStation seems to be lacking trying to play both sides of the coin. If that's the case, I'd be going Nintendo. I don't want a console that has no confidence in itself
That doesn't mean and there's no reason Sony and Nintendo ought to feel obligated to follow. Both have worked hard to repair and maintain relationships with their consumer base. Assuming the LEGO Horizon rumor is true, that's going to damage PlayStation's reputation, especially with the Switch 2 on the horizon showing Nintendo has complete confidence in their offerings and PlayStation wouldn't. We know exactly why Xbox is in their current situation. They sabotaged their relationship with consumers, Nintendo and Sony haven't. PlayStation has a bit of a rough run with developers with the PS3 but that was repaired smoother sailing since, and they have a more solid and envy of the industry first-party development team so with all that effort, we're going to see it all fall apart why?
This is where Xbox has brought themselves. It's not the future of gaming, it's their screwups they had no other alternative. Again, THIS ISNT THE FUTURE, this is where Xbox brought themselves sabotaging their relationships with consumers
All this info leaking, Xbox employees must really hate their jobs and hate working for Xbox. Even with all that Microsoft money, don't you find it rather strange with all the hell Xbox is going through, all the leaks? PS3 had that issue for a time and Jack Tretton joked about it one E3 that he was surprised everyone actually showed up considering the industries ability to keep information confidential. After that, BAM! But, with all those leaks, they really must hate working for Xbox
Ya know, The Last Guardian had this same kind of problem. Came out, didn't do anywhere near as good as they thought and now Ueda is making his game being published by Epic Games.
Perfect Darks gonna flop horrendously. This has been going on for some time. HOW IS IT THIS HARD!?!? They should've just left IP alone of Rare wasn't willing to do it. How many Game Directors have they lost over this? And they got a Naughty Dog dev or something? Well, he's gone
We'll see how it fares and Sonys saying they're releasing big titles starting next year but, man, five years into the consoles lifecycle? We'll what the competition fares beginning with Ghost of Yotei
Of course, it's a huge relief for him. When Jack Tretton left and during an interview Geoff Keighley did with himself and Jack Tretton, that is ironically found nowhere on the Internet now, Geoff asked Phil about it and you see Phil with this huge sigh of relief and then he says "Yeah, I don't have to worry about you kicking me in the heels".
This is a major relief for Phil Spencer, like seeing the four star general of your opposing army retiring. Shu Yoshida is a legend in the PlayStation development community right alongside Scott Rodhe. Shu has been around since the beginning of PlayStation. The first game I ever saw him credited in was THE LEGEND OF DRAGOON on the PS1. Scott Rodhe originally started his gaming career as a QA Tester at SEGA, yeah. So, unlike has been the track record with Xbox's Executives (watch GEARS OF WAR - THE ROAD TO E3 funny enough included as a Bonus Feature with the Gears of War Collectors Edition Bonus Disc where Epic Games is faced with a Executive from Xbox that tried to convince them to remove the Lancer because it was too violent and how Epic devs responded, yeah, Xbox thought they knew better and sent in the Exec to tell them to tone it down, can you imagine what that would've done to Gears of War? They wanted another Halo. Adult, but not too violent..... Yeah). But, you'll always read when Shu Yoshida or Scott Rodhe walk through those front doors to take a look at your product, as gamers themselves, you know you're gonna get really good feedback that's going to be the best constructive criticism to help your game. And how have they seen that? Two of Shu's biggest fans, that will evangelize Shu's name to know end are former Game Director of Sony Santa Monica David Jaffe and current Game Director for Santa Monica Studios Corey Barlog, just to name two, and you can see by God of Wars reviews and Corey Barlogs reaction to those reviews how much he respects Shu Yoshida. Yoshida knows his sh*t so of course Phil will smile about his departure. A veteran like that coaching your Game Director and designer's, it's a relief when Xbox has no comparison. Fortunately, at least for now, Sony isn't doomed as they've still retained Scott Rodhe, for now, again and Exec that actually knows his stuff and has again been praised by numerous PlayStation first-party devs.
Shu leaving is music to Phil Spencers ears, but is really bad news for PlayStation fans. It's a HUGE loss you can't even know
It's a bit late for it. FromSoftware was a big deal when Demons Souls released on PS3 at its time. Xbox wasn't the least bit interested and turned it down but Sony was adventurous at the time and open to experimenting with new things. It wasn't until FromSoftware had proven itself that Xbox was even interested. So, like everything else on the industry, loyalty goes out the window and so, apparently, does Japanese honor. The most disappointing is Konami, and more specific Kojima who really wouldn't be where he is today without PlayStation, not would Kojima Productions, but he's had no issue selling out to Xbox that, again, had no interest in him while PlayStation carried him along.
So, to my point, FromSoftware has released enough on Xbox and the way PlayStation has, themselves, shown signs they don't have much faith in their console porting to PC while Nintendo is showing zero signs of slowing down keeping all their software exclusive to Nintendo, Nintendo is apparently the very definition of exclusive. Xbox just gave up and Sonys getting cold feet now, but Nintendo while their library is severely lacking, you have to really respect the fact they're holding their ground, firmly. So, what's exclusivity going to do for Sony at this point? They managed to hang on to Demons Souls and Bloodborne, but FromSofts games are so much the same, that whatever they develop exclusive to PlayStation, their next game is pretty much the same thing, but with a new coat of paint and a new name, the guts or engine is the same as the exclusive previous so.....
It's too late and with the apparent cost of games these days and how slow Sony is to get them out, by the time you acquire From and then pay for the game development, who knows in five years, Froms Souls-like could be dead, just like they thought Concord was gonna hold, even though the fanbase told them they were idiots and they didn't want it.
I wouldn't bet on it and it's not smart at this point, even for Kadakowa, especially with Sonys dictation, which is contrary to their views during the PS3 and PS4 era and could meet the same fate. Sounds like a bad idea for both parties to me. PlayStation can't afford it, and if Hulst remains in the driver's seat, rather than how Tretton, House, and Layton did business, From will crash and burn as well
What a bunch of spoiled brats. "Too much too soon". Really. They get to "show up" to work whenever they want, go home when they want, they only really have to crunch on crunch time, and their pay is phenomenal! It's like Hollywood actors AND actresses, they've forgotten how easy they really have it. So you have to go into the office to work, big whoop. Youve got people that go risk their health in warehouse jobs, delivery jobs, public service in Law-Enforcement including those who work on jails and prisons, I could list on-and-on and you know what? THEY MAKE DIDDLY-JACK!!!!!! Millennials and Gen Z, what a bunch of lazy cry babies! "We're unionized so you can't fire us!" Unions were established around people that worked hard and just wanted to be treated fairly. You're all treated like royalty and you're complaining. Shoot, there's a lot of people in the industry that've been laid off and fired, had their studios closed down AND HAVE NO JOB! Shoot, I'd say fire them for not coming in to work like everyone else because THERES A HUGE LINE of people that just want a job so, put the ones to work that would be happy to have a job and show up to work.
It's most definitely worth mentioning that everyone can stuff it! Now, don't get me wrong, I'm 100% about physical media and especially after SEGAs statement that you paid for the item, but it's not yours this last week for their new game from Persona dev team, and when digital takes over, I'm no longer buying games. I have a massive backlog of games to play and I guess I'll finally be able to catch up so, I'll make that clear--even though it doesn't matter cause you don't know me anyway, but to get that out of the way, I'm all for physical media. In my time Nintendo gamers got their games, threw the box out and thought nothing of it, but they didn't see today back then. Sega collectors smile as their box were plastic, until publishing rights were bought later Sega Genesis games shipped in cardboard, but Sega fans were already well trained. Today, those that hung on to all of that are smiling. Sega fans have a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga now selling for $1000. $40 when my brother bought and still has his, and $300 when I got mine, but it's now worth 3x what I paid for it. Not eBay listing, but actual Price Chart value. So, there are a lot like me today that buy the digital version for convenience, but tucked away in a box or on the shelf is a sealed physical copy. We're always trying to anticipate what those rare games will be and digital has proven it doesn't last. CONCORD, TMNT TURTLES IN TIME on PS3 and Xbox 360, Afterburner Climax on PS3 digital only. They're gone so, we collect the physical right along with the digital.
But, when I see bull crap like this and everyone going along with it, I don't want to hear griping and complaining about not having a disc drive or a stand. Y'all are bringing this on yourselves and doing it to yourselves.
By-the-way, if you work at retailer, you might as well do this. Ya don't steal it, that's wrong. You'll probably lose your job but put some money on the till in the electronics department and put it in a nice big bag. It's paid for, but Microsoft isn't going to come after you for breaking the street date. Don't even know why they bother. As long as you ain't stealing it and your manager is stupid enough to trust his staff and not keep things in a cage on he has the key to get to it, again, you didn't steal it. Stealing is wrong and it's criminal. Breaking a street date isnt exactly honest either, shows you can't be trusted and have no integrity, but nobody is gonna prosecute you, maybe just fire you but, as long as you pay for it. Steal it? You deserve to rot in prison, but I don't want to read everyone griping about digital only when someone posts something like this and everyone rallies around or, or hypocrits like this flood the internet praising people for having a digital console. People are just stupid and need a reason to complain, I guess.
Oh, the Japanese LOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEE Indiana Jones, people don't even know. When Sony was marketing Uncharted 3 in Japan, they brought in Harrison Ford to play the game. THATS ALL THEY DID was put a camera on Harrison Ford face and he was Nintendo Smiling and loving it. He was impressed and blown away games had hit that point and it was flattering to him Uncharted took from the Indiana Jones franchise. So, Sony released it as a trailer in Japan, and what happened? Uncharted 3 sold.
I'm willing to bet my PS5 and my entire game collection that's why Xbox's are selling in Japan, they're anticipating Indiana Jones because Japanese like Americans, mostly because of the Hollywood life. It's all they know in America is Hollywood and music and Indiana Jones on Hollywood. The Japanese aren't buying anticipating Gears of War, they're not impressed by it. It's not for Perfect Dark, they're not impressed by it but I'm totally willing to bet they're gearing up for Indiana Jones
And their customer service is COMPLETE GARBAGE! When I called in, I explained to them I knew the store was closing next month and wanted to try and get what I could on my Xbox 360 before then. "Let us assure you that we'll take care of your issue" and she said Id hear something from them in 72 hours. I'm coming up on a week and nothing. Not an email, NOTHING! And of course to keep labor cheap, especially since Microsoft is an American HQ business, all of their work is outsourced so you 1) Can't understand much of anything anyway and 2) For a company that's been pushing philanthropy and accessability, if you're hard of hearing or have a hearing disability, there's no chat option either so you're screwed.
It just adds to the long list of how Xbox is constantly digging themselves a deeper grave, how out of touch they are, and how much they just don't understand business or their clientele. It's bad!
In contrast, I made a purchase error on the PlayStation Store, even a couple of times, PlayStation fixes it. If they can't they'll still contact you to let you know there's an issue.
Xbox? Nope. So get ready to try and resolve your issues and have assurances made they can't deliver on because their job is keep you from getting angry. (It's not the reps fault, they didn't create the problem unless they're getting snotty or short with you, which is sometimes even understandable because they could be getting chewed out so much because it's Microsoft that's incompetent so, it's not them, ITS XBOX and thus MICROSOFT.) Yeah, I'm waiting on their assurance they get the issue resolved. I called back and waited nearly ten minutes when they said it was two after they made the call back...... Lame
THAT'S WHY IT WAS CALLED EMERGENCE DAY!!!!! Now you're talking down to me like a friggin child. E-Day!? That's EMERGENCE DAY!!!!! What are we in, an alternate reality now?
Gears of War that launched in 2006 was Emergence Day, how can you do a prequel to a game where the locust didn't emerge until Emergence Day? Marcus was locked away after the Pendelum Wars. Something doesn't seem to fit
Release a physical copy of the game and watch it boom. That's held me back in getting the game. I'm learning I have an immense amount of patience waiting for good sales with digital media
Imagine what Halo and Forza could do on the Switch and what Gears of War could do on the PlayStation. Microsoft could hand off the IP of the original Trilogy to Bluepoint Games to do all the heavy lifting
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Re: Imminent Xbox Layoffs Could Include Entire Studios, Warns Industry Veteran
Yeah. And then foreign businesses say Because Microsoft is so profitable and we want to be like them and Microsoft money, we follow their practices. So you have Japanese companies making studios decisions because they want to be like American businesses, not stubborn Japanese business. Case in point: Xbox moves games to PC, so PlayStation does, who has absolutely no reason to have to, but Nintendo isn't. Xbox did it as a move of desperation, not to expand. Nintendo knows this but PlayStation is like the little puppy following the kid with the balloon and ice cream. PlayStation forgot they're riding at the top. It's Xbox that has been copying their business tactics to keep up
Re: Xbox Building A Handheld 'Makes No Sense', Says Former Blizzard Boss
@Sindayl - Dude, your User Icon of Space Channel 5 ought to indicate to you that you know better. I went through the same era and watched the fall of SEGA. While then it was a tragedy and still is today seeing the pre-SEGA Sammy era, when we, with honest eyes, look back at that time, SEGA wasn't just hemorrhaging money as everyone likes to say, they had a lot of inner turmoil going on that wasn't condusive to a healthy growing environment for what SEGA once was.
When people have adjusted to the better fit in the gaming world and getting rid of the unnecessary and look back and see documentaries made on the subject and Xbox will be honest with the world, we'll see the same thing. The inner struggle of Xbox and the man behind the curtain that was dishonest and a conman trying to get away with shady business decisions to make corporate board members more wealthy and steal from the pockets of hard working people. Give it time. The truth will surface and you'll see real transparency l, just as we saw from SEGA. Except SEGA wasn't dishonesty, you know better. It was jealousy and Sega of Japan and Sega of America's inability to get along and that was horrible as more Japanese games should've made it overseas to the Americas. Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan knew right out of the gate, through the experience of Steve Race, that the two had to get along and work together, and that they very much did so and it crippled SEGA.
Xbox, however, has a much deeper story that's more than just Don Mattrick, but while Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond are still at the helm, you're gonna have to wait some time before all that surfaces. I would also say, at some point, because Activision/Blizzard employees will become frustrated with how Xbox does business and how out of touch they are, a lot of employees will leave to join other devs or start their own, eventually they'll want to leave and Xbox in the future will allow Activision to disconnect themselves or shut the studio down altogether and that $69 billion will be even more wasted. There's so many IPs there Microsoft will never use again, they'll die, and won't know how. Phil Spencer SHOULD have out of good will and as a sign of good faith and a peace offering and to gain friendship, shown up with a HDD in a fancy wooden box, much like Guerilla Games did with the Decima Engine for Kojima, to the front door of Insomniac Games with the IP of Spyro the Dragon to return him back home and to the front door of Naughty Dog with the IP of Crash Bandicoot to return him back home where he belongs. Crash Bandicoot STILL lives on through Naughty Dog, but Xbox has no idea what to do with him. He's a trophy to them, that's all, but they'll ignore him and they're using Call of Duty, a dying breed, and that's about it. Theres so much more, but these days with the cost of game development taking five plus years, $69 billion was poorly spent money
Re: Xbox Building A Handheld 'Makes No Sense', Says Former Blizzard Boss
It's amazing how far behind people are. I could've made a good living being a tech advisor. It doesn't take a genius to see Game Pass was a bad business decision, Microsoft now knows was never a good idea to begin with that lead to studio closures and mass layoffs. Turn to the PlayStation community with PlayStation doing everything right and Xbox watches their software ... Um.... "Fly off the shelves" and Xbox actually makes money. They weren't making money on Xbox. They weren't making money on Xbox Anywhere, even. They're making ALL THEIR MONEY ON PLAYSTATION in the HOME THAT SONY BUILT!
When Xbox decided they wanted to follow the handheld, those of us with eyes to see knew it wouldn't work and for this very reason. Do consumers know and just aren't vocal about it, unlike the diehards that loom over the threads? Xbox fans want it because they're begging for Xbox to stay relevant. They don't want a Dreamcast repeat, except wiser SEGA fans know better today with clearer eyes looking back. It was painfully obvious Xbox wasnt blazing any new trails but just following the trends as they always do. The handheld is far too saturated to think they can take it on.
Moral of the story? PlayStation are the king of hardware. Let them build the hardware and make third-party software. It should've been that way all along. With less pressure, we might even see PlayStation's return to proprietary hardware (innovation in hardware) that leads to more unique experiences instead of off the shelf parts.
"There's no competition now with Xbox going third-party." Um. Yes, there is. You have three now: PlayStation, Nintendo, and Valve. You still have options, but, after the initial hype with the honeymoon phase and all of that wears off, third-party will abandon Switch 2 and focus on PlayStation and Steam. Happens all the time with Nintendo underpowered machines as more powerful gives devs more tools to push hardware and then Nintendos inferior hardware fades back into the mist. So, yeah, you'll get some surprising third-party games for a little while, but many third-party devs will look away and focus on more modern hardware.
Oh, and all the fuss about using a joycon as a mouse? Feedback doesn't seem to be very good for that gimmick and some are already saying: "Thankfully Switch 2 will allow you to use a real mouse" so the Joycon mouse already doesn't work. Kind of like SIXAXIS for the PS3, I recently just used in my playthrough of InFamous to get the platinum trophy
Re: Xbox Has Reportedly 'Sidelined' Plans For A 2027 First-Party Handheld
Well that's not good. Phil Spencer probably didn't get what he wanted. He was hoping he could get Steam and Epic Games Store App on the handheld so he could say: "Look how we changed the world, you can play PlayStation games on our device. You can finally play God of War" but PlayStation was smarter than that. Phil looking for a backdoor.....
They are finding they're not doing better as a third-party publisher. It's really what gamers wanted all along. Let Sony handle the hardware and then everyone does the software. Except, in those days when we were thinking that, Sony wasn't using off the shelf parts. They were using innovative proprietary hardware.
But, for fans of Xbox making hardware, it sounds like someone wised up and saw what they'd be jumping into. If they thought the console market was tough, look how many handhelds there are..... And they all use Windows, so what's the point of having a dedicated Xbox handheld when it's the same as the rest? Microsoft CEO wants to make as much money as possible and be everywhere so, why does he want to sabotage Microsoft relationship with everything with Microsoft bread and butter?
Re: Hellblade 2 Is Getting A Physical Release On Xbox, But Not By Microsoft
That's just it, IT SHOULD'VE BEEN XBOX ALL ALONG! And not this 28MB on a 100GB UHD. You gotta use two discs, so what. Install one and use the other as a your authentication disc. SHOULD'VE BEEN XBOX TO START WITH! "We support physical media" right..... Phil Spencer once a chronic liar, always a chronic liar
Re: Lots Of Xbox Games Have Suddenly Been Delisted In Some Countries
@johndoe89 Doesn't matter. Welcome to the digital era, dude. When you don't have physical media, they can take it away whenever they want. That's always been the fear of those smart enough to have always invested in physical media and demand it, because you never know. I got Gears of War on a third party site shortly after it's release on PC, threw months later my PC crashed, went back to get the game from my account, GONE! I learned then, in the early 2000s what the digital era would look like. And, remember that agreement you made to the notification Steam sent out that you don't own your Steam games, they're just licensed? Yeah. Backing them up doesn't do anything when your Internet connection is shut off (when you try to disconnect it to hide your games so they can't take them from you and an Internetless console (the most recent PlayStation Network outage, for example), yeah, if they tried to take your game library from you and you had your console disconnected, they were already way ahead you months or a year or two ago when you updated your console that required an Internet connection to play digital games. They're way ahead of you, man. That's already been thought through AND those who collected physical media are way ahead of everyone until some twenty years or so when and if disc rot becomes a thing like a small percentage of software does now (obviously depending on how well you take care of them in various living conditions such as dry vs humid). It's not gonna save you, man. Xbox thought of all of this a long time ago, perhaps to get you to buy their software again on a competing console to make more money. You may not understand just how much Xbox wanted Activision that they'd pay anything for it. It wasn't worth $69 billion, but they knew PlayStation wouldn't and couldn't pay that much so they outbid them like eBay, but it was too much for them, they had to go to Microsoft to ask dad to reach deep in his pockets assuring them this acquisition would cripple Sony. Daddy believed them and when the acquisition happened and the first Call of Duty released and underperformed and Microsoft understood the mistake of the promise of Game Pass to give everything away free, dad became mad and said: "You're gonna work your butt off to pay us back. How're you gonna do that? You can't. You're in debt to us forever now." The only way was to sell their software on competiting consoles that were selling significantly better. Activision was their mistake. Activision was probably only worth, I don't know, $2.5 billion, at most and maybe not actually worth that, but Xbox was panicked and did know of Sony would work out something better so they offered an astronomical amount and now, they shot themselves in the foot
Re: Lots Of Xbox Games Have Suddenly Been Delisted In Some Countries
Why bother when you can't get a sizable amount of games on Xbox, but you'll soon be able to get just about anything on PlayStation and Nintendo.
What's happening here is Xbox, really, doesn't care. They're evaluating the market to see what happens and I guess they're seeing what they can sell on PlayStation, which his been really good. They don't want Xbox fans to see they don't care so they're making the Xbox handheld in cooperation with ASUS. ASUS is likely making the hardware and Xbox is asking if they're software can just be present. (This isn't an Xbox.) If you look at it, how is the Xbox version of ROG any different than what's already available? There isn't. It's not Xbox made or Xbox branded. It's ASUS that Xbox asked if they can be present on which isn't any different because the other device is a handheld PC running Windows.
What am I seeing? Xbox sees a bigger market with PlayStation and Nintendo. That's where they're ultimately gonna go. They're, basically, getting ready to break up with their Xbox fans by letting them down as easily as possible to move on to a polygamist relationship with PlayStation and Nintendo fans, why? Because Xbox fans will just gravitate over to the competition and build their home there and buy Xbox games anyway, or to the PC where Play Anywhere already exists, never even Xbox but PC, basically Steam anyway. This is Xbox getting ready to cut things off with their fanbase altogether and tell them to just move on. Ya know, act now and ask forgiveness later
Re: Reaction: Gears Of War: Reloaded Makes Perfect Sense For Microsoft, But Not For Xbox Fans
This is the franchise that once ported to PlayStation sealed Xbox's fate. Not even Halo holds the clout of Gears of War. Gears of War almost saws the shores of PS3 when Mark Rein has seen Gears of War maxed out on 360 and was looking to expand its audience once that cow had been milked, but once Microsoft caught wind quickly swept in to prevent the series from going, knowing just how big the franchise was, bigger and drawing more attention than Halo. PlayStation can do without Halo, but Gears of War, well, yeah. Xbox is done. No need for hardware. Xbox is now SEGA Sammy
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@fatpunkslim Huh?
Re: Former PlayStation Exec Says Xbox's New Strategy Is 'Natural' For Microsoft
And you think that was a compliment? Consumers finally wised up and saw Xbox's true colors with the Xbox One. And a very small minority still seem to think Phil Spencer is some kind of Nostradamus when Microsoft is still cleaning up from all their messes, where if they were really in the know and knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be having to clean up.
"But, Xbox has more first-party games coming to PlayStation than PlayStation has on the PS5." Well, again, consumers are smarter than that. Xbox BOUGHT all of their studios rather than building them from the ground up, raising them and watching them grow, doing the only thing Microsoft has ever known how to do. Dig deep in your pockets and buy it and then, they're porting games to PS5, not building games from the ground up for PS5.
Every time Xbox opens their big mouth, there's a quick rebuttal to expose the con game. It's Xbox lying repeatedly to try and stay relevant, but it's Xbots that are the only ones buying into it in a desperate attempt thinking the efforts will save Xbox. We've been their before. You have no problem with Sonic being on a Nintendo console but you'll understand better it wasn't ever meant to be that way. Those of us that watched SEGA fall to Nintendo will understand your backup plan to like Nintendo undid Xbox just as much with the Switch at 154 million consoles sold and now Master Chief will be on Nintendo hardware as well. The thing is, those of us SEGA fans that watched SEGA fall years later can better understand the problems SEGA had going on internally and when they brought back brilliant minds theyd lost under the success of Genesis, by then it was too late. As time goes by, it will be better understood by Xbots why it is the way it is today. The blinders will come off but you'll better understand why longtime SEGA fans still can't bear to see Sonic on Nintendo when you have no problem with it
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It'll sell some but, people just don't seem to understand it's only the Xbox diehards that'll buy them. If you don't own an Xbox Series by now, is GTA 6 gonna change your mind? I doubt it. When it's announced Halo and Gears are coming to PlayStation l, there's no need for Xbox anymore. You'll be able to play everything on competing consoles but you can't play everything on an Xbox so why do you even need one?
People are in incredible denial. Squaresoft is willing to invest the money in porting games to Xbox on dying hardware. I really don't understand the logic of the business world.
It's said Xbox only sold 2 million consoles in 2024...... And what do most of those games like to play? Final Fantasy? People that play Final Fantasy grew up on Nintendo but moreso on PlayStation, not Xbox. Denial, denial
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@XBOX045 - How do you think Sega fans feel about Sonic on a Nintendo console, to this day? Same thing
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It's frustrating how this is spreading like wildfire. People seem to forget WHY Xbox is doing this and how can it be made any more clear? Xbox is doing this because they conned consumers and lost consumer trust. I, thus, pose the question: When Sega went multiplatform, did Nintendo and Sony follow then?
Xbox isn't some great prognosticator, they're screw-ups. Ask an Xbot this last year and you'd have been met with a hellish backlash, but because Xbox was forced to go this route, suddenly, everyone has to play nice?
Xbox feared Sonys threat, and has been the case since the very idea of conception of the Xbox when Bill Gates feared the PS2 would be the marketing tactic PlayStation set out to convey, that PS2 was a supercomputer and Bill Gates feared the PS2 would take over the living room. (Bill Gates was nerdy enough to have figured and saw in his mind, people doing their taxes and spreadsheets on their living room TV on a PS2, but he didn't seem to think it was just a console and DVD player). Xbox has always had this fear. So, with PlayStation getting as close to Activision as they were, playing Xbox's game of Call of Duty content released first on PlayStation and Bungie devs showing favoritism toward PlayStation with Destiny, Xbox was fearful. What did they do? Went to Microsoft asking them to dig into their deep pockets for a bailout, which parent company happily ablidged, and offered an absurd number they knew PlayStation couldn't match, and Sony didn't but instead battled out in court what would profit them most.... Which was a dying Call of Duty anyway and that's exactly what showed. Microsoft over spent on Activision, Call of Duty wasn't profitable and Microsoft wanted their money back but Phil Spencer couldn't deliver so Microsoft called back their favor and Nadela decreed Xbox would pa to back the investment through multiplatform. This isn't some forward thinking plan, it's: "we're dead. Activision wasn't worth $69 billion, but it was an offer Sony wouldn't match. But it doesn't matter because Activision is a dying breed. If it was so profitable, we kind of wouldn't be in this kind of situation.
But, that's only half of the equation. With the announcement of Xbox One, it was the start. Xbox has always been using their consumers as guinea pigs. Remember when they wanted to boost Xbox Live to $120/yr? PlayStation laughed with a: Good luck with that one! Xbox then did as they usually did to loyal fanbase when met with the backlash they couldn't get away with. "Ohhhhhhh. We're sorry. We're reversing our policy. You see, we hear you. We're using your feedback to make a console for you, by you." And wash rise repeat every time Xbox wanted to pull something on their consumers to see if they'd sucker for it. PlayStation was doing it right from the getgo. No imposed restrictions or DRM, consumer control of media, hardware options, etc. THATS LISTENING, that's being connected with consumers and be educated in what the market is and wants
Re: Talking Point: 10 Years Ago, Microsoft Delivered An Incredible Lineup Of Exclusives For Xbox One
We all know, as well, the exclusivity of Rise of the Tomb Raider was to combat Xbox's desire for an Uncharted Phil Spencer couldn't stand to be without but he knew it couldn't be done. This many years later, Xbox finally gets Indiana Jones but, too little to late, Naughty Dog are again paving the highway for the next big evolution. Xbox fashionably late as usual
Re: Talking Point: 10 Years Ago, Microsoft Delivered An Incredible Lineup Of Exclusives For Xbox One
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ah shoot..... If you say so
Re: Xbox Predictions: What We Expect To See From Microsoft In 2025
@Banjo- So you see how that looks and sounds, though? How knarled and twisted and warped that all sounds? It's not natural and neither was Sonic going to Nintendo. What a horrific day that was that's forever etched in my subconscious memory where it forces me to let it live rent free.
Y'all really don't know what's about to happen to the industry. How boring it's going to become. Do you know how your mom kept her sanity raising you your whole life? Her Soaps. That and whatever she could hear the next isle over in the grocery store. News media all know better. As Jack Tretton once said: "So my friends in the press industry tell me that NOTHING makes their editors day like controversy and bad news. To them I say, YOU'RE WELCOME!"
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It's IGN. They lost credibility twelve years ago. I didn't know anyone really still followed them
Re: Xbox's Indiana Jones Success Has Apparently Left Disney Wanting More
Wait..... How can Xbox patent this? If Nintendo patented their JoyCons, and Sony patented the DualSense, how can Xbox then patent the tech in their controller? I seem to recall an incident during the PS3 era that affected the Dualshock 3 to where it became the SIXAXIS for some time because of a rumble feature. Once Sony worked out paying the royalties, then it became the Dualshock 3 so...... How does Xbox put haptics in their controller without infringement on the haptics patent???
Re: Next-Gen Xbox Controller Possibly Uncovered In New Microsoft Patent
Late as usual, never able to be innovative. And consumers wonder why Xbox is dying
Re: These Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (December 30 - January 3)
What a fitting photo of Phil Spencer. About how he's feeling at this point. He always reminds me of an older Beavis, except fatter with brown hair instead of blonde and an Xbox shirt instead of a Metallica shirt. That underbite is absolutely uncanny!
Re: Pure Xbox's Game Of The Year 2024
But really, though. Call of Duty is number 2? Sony didn't suffer from the Activision acquisition. Jim Ryan put up a big old fight and fuss over it but, an annual game every year like that just like Assassins Creed. It was neat at first but now, it's repetitive as anything.
Also, what the frick? Even Senuas Sacrifice gets an 8 and The Great Circle gets, what was it a 7.6 and it wins Game of the Year? Shouldn't a Game of the Year get a solid score above everything else. This is the epitome of Xbots screaming for Xbox to stay. Snapping at everything, making a dump in a box seem like a tremendous masterpiece.
Let's be honest with ourselves here because, what else have we got? If you can't be honest with yourself, what else have you got? You can't and shouldn't lie to yourself. Xbox blew it, they're done. Sheamus Blackley wanted something great when the rest of Microsoft didn't. It was that big of a fight but he got it going. Xbox 360 came along and they built on the momentum. But it got to the point where suits ran Xbox and got greedy. They didn't think about what you wanted, what was best for you and still don't. They just want to pick your pocket and spent $69 billion when they didn't have to, they overpaid to keep Sony from intervening, showing you the relationship Sony has with devs, and now you the customers are paying for it and Xbox is now trying to leech off of Sonys customers to pay off Activision. It backfired in Xbox's face.
Look, I was there once. You know how it feels, even to this day, for a long time SEGA fan to see Sonic on a Nintendo console, even worse when it's exclusive to that Nintendo console? I had to sit and watch SEGA shut it down. SEGAs gone. Fans in denial can say what they will, but Sammy isn't SEGA. SEGA was different a long time ago and when you finally have all the information and can look back on it, an awesome little documentary called CONSOLE WARS sheds some light. Sega of America and Sega of Japan had serious issues. They were at odds all the time and couldn't be on the same page. It frustrated businesses that wanted to sell their product and Japans ego caused major problems. Whether the 32X contributed to the demise or whether it was the animosity remains to be seen, but it happened. Bernie Stollar couldn't get along with Arakowa either, it was constantly a tug of war battle and it ended poorly.
The same will happen with Xbox. The dust will settle on the battlefield in a couple of years and it'll all come out when Xbox is actually honest with themselves and aren't keeping things. Former employees will talk. They'll talk about a sour relationship with customers, lying to and deceiving them, constantly, over and over. Phil Spencers a con man. You thought Mattrick was bad, Phil Spencer operates like a con artist, he can't handle it anymore so he pawned it off onto his subordinates. Before he liked the spotlight, he wanted to look like a rockstar on a stage and didn't like the end result. And then, yes, Activision. Tell me something, did Call of Duty come to the Switch? MLB The Show from Sony did as part of their agreement with the MLB, but Phil Spencer didn't even make good on bringing CoD to Nintendo so ... You tell me
Re: Pure Xbox's Game Of The Year 2024
Whew. Wow. That first sentence/paragraph is exactly how Xbox makes their consumers feel. Wow
Re: Sony's New $320M 'Alliance' Has Left Xbox Fans Breathing A Sigh Of Relief
It's Fox News vs CNN. It sells advertising. Have you seen how many ads are on these articles? Used to never be like this. Xbox isn't innovative but AOL apparently was.
Was a waste of money, if you ask me. Sony nearly had a solid grip on the anime scene but, $320 million for some extra shares? They basically bought one exclusive at the apparent cost it is to develop a game that's five years out. Yeah, waste of money if you ask me. Kadekowa is apparently worth at least a billion, maybe not if half a billion only gets you 10% shares, who owns and calls the other 90%. Your shares maybe pay for another Concord that flops and then you lose half a billion. You know many homeless people you could house and get off the street for that much? The profit gets dumped into a Live Service Game that flops and you just threw the money away. I mean, I guess you put some people to work to pay their bills for a little while. Whose making their investment deals? Nintendo just acquired Monolith and Sony bought some shares? That's not how the gaming world works apparently these days, especially if the companies own employees were looking for someone to turn the tide of their work environment, now a targets on their back with their boss looking to fire them for their lack of loyalty.
The name of the game is acquisitions these days. Microsoft just got spooked. Maybe their still recovering from their way over spending, and did you see a Call of Duty announcement for Switch? Neither did I, but you better believe they're on the hunt now and, if they paid $69 billion for Activision, they'll buy out that other 90% Sony and then they have the money to do it, you know they do and then you're up the creek. It'll be like that guy who nearly has a complete Sega CD Collection, he's only missing Kaio but still nearly has the complete set. You almost have a complete anime collection, but the one got away and they're dangling it above your head.
Seriously, get rid of Herman Hulst
Re: Xbox Apparently Thinks Making Hellblade 2 Exclusive Was 'A Mistake'
It doesn't mean PlayStation and Nintendo need to follow suit. It doesn't mean Xbox is blazing a trail. Remember, this is all the continuous cycle of Xbox lying and continually trying to deceive their customers, throughout the Xbox One console cycle, mind you. Phil Spencer had his process treating consumers like guinea pigs. They'd run the test, when there was massive lashout Phil Spencer, or his favorite pet Aaron "Executive Fanboy" Greenberg (who now that I mention has been unusually silent the last little while, maybe since Matty Booty and Sarah Bond-- Ill get to her in a second) would come out and "apologize" and then follow it up with "you see, we're listening. We're making Xbox for you based on your feedback" which really means: We couldn't pull one over on you because you're a little too smart for us, we'll try again next time. And sure enough, they would. It was this vicious cycle. They tried to pull the PlayStation out of LISTENING out of PS4s playbook, except Sony didn't try to deceive people and then backtrack. Around the time The Last of Us Part II came out, Xbox was serious, then, about hiking the price of Xbox Live to $120/yr and people lost it, but Xbox tried to do it without any notice. Then they did their thing. PlayStation was laughing behind the scenes still sitting at $60/yr watching Microsoft take the revolver and shoot themselves in the foot and blow their other foot off.
This isn't Microsoft as some prognosticator, they're up s**t creek and stuck because they treated fans and consumers poorly so they have to try something else, but you can't earn that back and this is proof of it. It's in about not getting exclusives, buying Activision for a check they really couldn't cut was the absolute final blow but, they were really desperate at this point.
Look at Nintendo, for example. Nintendo has nothing of their gaming career falls through. They go back to making playing cards and board games. They've got a lot to lose. If the gaming industry is really in that bad of shape, why is the most revered gaming company STILL 100% EXCLUSIVE TO THEIR OWN CONSOLE!?! Why are Nintendo not on PC? Because it must not be as bad as everyone says it is. Switch 2 is rumored to be 4K and I doubt it'll financially hurt them like devs are complaining about now.
PlayStation crashes, they're end-to-end. They go back making TVs, smartphones, audio equipment, publishing music, and making movies and TV well, and now anime. So, if Nintendo is still 100% console exclusive, what's PlayStation worried about? Google failed streaming. Sony tried it with Gaikai that became PlayStation Now after Gaikai and OnLive found streaming didn't work that came from SEGA in the 90s that found it didn't work. Sonys walked that path already is doing so now, and it doesn't matter because people's internet STILL sucks and if internet tries to keep up, games are gonna advance and never be able to keep up so..... Handhelds? PS Vita anyone? The Steamdeck and Switch both took from the genius of the PS Vita. PlayStation wants to go back to that, the PS Portal is really a joke, but that wasn't PlayStation going all in.
The point remains the same. Xbox is going this route they're in deep. This is what they call The Console Graveyard.
Re: Xbox Is Reportedly Working On A 'Cross-Platform Interface' Called Project Rainway
You're sneaky Xbox. What they're going to try and do is marry all the devices together, if they can get an app that they can put on their own Xbox console, like Steam, then Xbox gamers can play PlayStation exclusives on an Xbox console, and why then need a PlayStation so long as PlayStation is releasing PC games. You're sneaky Xbox. It could be, to counter this, PlayStation will require a PSN login..... Plus you're getting your Platinum Trophies and PlayStation rewards points, makes sense.
Yeah, this all smells like a work around for Xbox to create an empire. They lost on the console front, now they're trying to swing the battlefield, they want to find a way to get PlayStation games on their consoles, because let's be real here, it's all Phil Spencer wants at this point is to say he beat PlayStation by getting them to bend to his business strategy and have PS games on Xbox. And all he needs is a Steam or Epic Games launcher to be on his console. Egh.....
Meanwhile, Nintendo has all the confidence in the world with all their games 100% exclusive to their console with a successor to the Switch next year. That shows confidence PlayStation seems to be lacking trying to play both sides of the coin. If that's the case, I'd be going Nintendo. I don't want a console that has no confidence in itself
Re: Xbox Reporter Says That Microsoft 'Won't Have Exclusives Going Forward'
That doesn't mean and there's no reason Sony and Nintendo ought to feel obligated to follow. Both have worked hard to repair and maintain relationships with their consumer base. Assuming the LEGO Horizon rumor is true, that's going to damage PlayStation's reputation, especially with the Switch 2 on the horizon showing Nintendo has complete confidence in their offerings and PlayStation wouldn't. We know exactly why Xbox is in their current situation. They sabotaged their relationship with consumers, Nintendo and Sony haven't. PlayStation has a bit of a rough run with developers with the PS3 but that was repaired smoother sailing since, and they have a more solid and envy of the industry first-party development team so with all that effort, we're going to see it all fall apart why?
This is where Xbox has brought themselves. It's not the future of gaming, it's their screwups they had no other alternative. Again, THIS ISNT THE FUTURE, this is where Xbox brought themselves sabotaging their relationships with consumers
Re: Xbox Has Reportedly Delayed 'A Big Game' Into 2026
All this info leaking, Xbox employees must really hate their jobs and hate working for Xbox. Even with all that Microsoft money, don't you find it rather strange with all the hell Xbox is going through, all the leaks? PS3 had that issue for a time and Jack Tretton joked about it one E3 that he was surprised everyone actually showed up considering the industries ability to keep information confidential. After that, BAM! But, with all those leaks, they really must hate working for Xbox
Re: Xbox Has Reportedly Delayed 'A Big Game' Into 2026
Ya know, The Last Guardian had this same kind of problem. Came out, didn't do anywhere near as good as they thought and now Ueda is making his game being published by Epic Games.
Perfect Darks gonna flop horrendously. This has been going on for some time. HOW IS IT THIS HARD!?!? They should've just left IP alone of Rare wasn't willing to do it. How many Game Directors have they lost over this? And they got a Naughty Dog dev or something? Well, he's gone
Re: Indiana Jones And The Great Circle Review Roundup: Here's What The Critics Think So Far
We'll see how it fares and Sonys saying they're releasing big titles starting next year but, man, five years into the consoles lifecycle? We'll what the competition fares beginning with Ghost of Yotei
Re: Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Congratulates Departing PlayStation Exec On Their 'Amazing Career'
Of course, it's a huge relief for him. When Jack Tretton left and during an interview Geoff Keighley did with himself and Jack Tretton, that is ironically found nowhere on the Internet now, Geoff asked Phil about it and you see Phil with this huge sigh of relief and then he says "Yeah, I don't have to worry about you kicking me in the heels".
This is a major relief for Phil Spencer, like seeing the four star general of your opposing army retiring. Shu Yoshida is a legend in the PlayStation development community right alongside Scott Rodhe. Shu has been around since the beginning of PlayStation. The first game I ever saw him credited in was THE LEGEND OF DRAGOON on the PS1. Scott Rodhe originally started his gaming career as a QA Tester at SEGA, yeah. So, unlike has been the track record with Xbox's Executives (watch GEARS OF WAR - THE ROAD TO E3 funny enough included as a Bonus Feature with the Gears of War Collectors Edition Bonus Disc where Epic Games is faced with a Executive from Xbox that tried to convince them to remove the Lancer because it was too violent and how Epic devs responded, yeah, Xbox thought they knew better and sent in the Exec to tell them to tone it down, can you imagine what that would've done to Gears of War? They wanted another Halo. Adult, but not too violent..... Yeah). But, you'll always read when Shu Yoshida or Scott Rodhe walk through those front doors to take a look at your product, as gamers themselves, you know you're gonna get really good feedback that's going to be the best constructive criticism to help your game. And how have they seen that? Two of Shu's biggest fans, that will evangelize Shu's name to know end are former Game Director of Sony Santa Monica David Jaffe and current Game Director for Santa Monica Studios Corey Barlog, just to name two, and you can see by God of Wars reviews and Corey Barlogs reaction to those reviews how much he respects Shu Yoshida. Yoshida knows his sh*t so of course Phil will smile about his departure. A veteran like that coaching your Game Director and designer's, it's a relief when Xbox has no comparison. Fortunately, at least for now, Sony isn't doomed as they've still retained Scott Rodhe, for now, again and Exec that actually knows his stuff and has again been praised by numerous PlayStation first-party devs.
Shu leaving is music to Phil Spencers ears, but is really bad news for PlayStation fans. It's a HUGE loss you can't even know
Re: Xbox Game Pass Didn't Hurt Overall Black Ops 6 Sales, Says Analyst
If you believe that propaganda
Re: Sony's Next Acquisition Could Have A Big Impact On Future Xbox Releases
It's a bit late for it. FromSoftware was a big deal when Demons Souls released on PS3 at its time. Xbox wasn't the least bit interested and turned it down but Sony was adventurous at the time and open to experimenting with new things. It wasn't until FromSoftware had proven itself that Xbox was even interested. So, like everything else on the industry, loyalty goes out the window and so, apparently, does Japanese honor. The most disappointing is Konami, and more specific Kojima who really wouldn't be where he is today without PlayStation, not would Kojima Productions, but he's had no issue selling out to Xbox that, again, had no interest in him while PlayStation carried him along.
So, to my point, FromSoftware has released enough on Xbox and the way PlayStation has, themselves, shown signs they don't have much faith in their console porting to PC while Nintendo is showing zero signs of slowing down keeping all their software exclusive to Nintendo, Nintendo is apparently the very definition of exclusive. Xbox just gave up and Sonys getting cold feet now, but Nintendo while their library is severely lacking, you have to really respect the fact they're holding their ground, firmly. So, what's exclusivity going to do for Sony at this point? They managed to hang on to Demons Souls and Bloodborne, but FromSofts games are so much the same, that whatever they develop exclusive to PlayStation, their next game is pretty much the same thing, but with a new coat of paint and a new name, the guts or engine is the same as the exclusive previous so.....
It's too late and with the apparent cost of games these days and how slow Sony is to get them out, by the time you acquire From and then pay for the game development, who knows in five years, Froms Souls-like could be dead, just like they thought Concord was gonna hold, even though the fanbase told them they were idiots and they didn't want it.
I wouldn't bet on it and it's not smart at this point, even for Kadakowa, especially with Sonys dictation, which is contrary to their views during the PS3 and PS4 era and could meet the same fate. Sounds like a bad idea for both parties to me. PlayStation can't afford it, and if Hulst remains in the driver's seat, rather than how Tretton, House, and Layton did business, From will crash and burn as well
Re: Microsoft Issues Statement As 'Hundreds' Of ZeniMax Workers Go On Strike
@Trmn8r Nice
Re: Microsoft Issues Statement As 'Hundreds' Of ZeniMax Workers Go On Strike
What a bunch of spoiled brats. "Too much too soon". Really. They get to "show up" to work whenever they want, go home when they want, they only really have to crunch on crunch time, and their pay is phenomenal! It's like Hollywood actors AND actresses, they've forgotten how easy they really have it. So you have to go into the office to work, big whoop. Youve got people that go risk their health in warehouse jobs, delivery jobs, public service in Law-Enforcement including those who work on jails and prisons, I could list on-and-on and you know what? THEY MAKE DIDDLY-JACK!!!!!! Millennials and Gen Z, what a bunch of lazy cry babies! "We're unionized so you can't fire us!" Unions were established around people that worked hard and just wanted to be treated fairly. You're all treated like royalty and you're complaining. Shoot, there's a lot of people in the industry that've been laid off and fired, had their studios closed down AND HAVE NO JOB! Shoot, I'd say fire them for not coming in to work like everyone else because THERES A HUGE LINE of people that just want a job so, put the ones to work that would be happy to have a job and show up to work.
Cry babies...... Bunch of entitled cry babies
Re: Xbox Fan Shows Off White Digital Series X Ahead Of Upcoming Launch
It's most definitely worth mentioning that everyone can stuff it! Now, don't get me wrong, I'm 100% about physical media and especially after SEGAs statement that you paid for the item, but it's not yours this last week for their new game from Persona dev team, and when digital takes over, I'm no longer buying games. I have a massive backlog of games to play and I guess I'll finally be able to catch up so, I'll make that clear--even though it doesn't matter cause you don't know me anyway, but to get that out of the way, I'm all for physical media. In my time Nintendo gamers got their games, threw the box out and thought nothing of it, but they didn't see today back then. Sega collectors smile as their box were plastic, until publishing rights were bought later Sega Genesis games shipped in cardboard, but Sega fans were already well trained. Today, those that hung on to all of that are smiling. Sega fans have a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga now selling for $1000. $40 when my brother bought and still has his, and $300 when I got mine, but it's now worth 3x what I paid for it. Not eBay listing, but actual Price Chart value. So, there are a lot like me today that buy the digital version for convenience, but tucked away in a box or on the shelf is a sealed physical copy. We're always trying to anticipate what those rare games will be and digital has proven it doesn't last. CONCORD, TMNT TURTLES IN TIME on PS3 and Xbox 360, Afterburner Climax on PS3 digital only. They're gone so, we collect the physical right along with the digital.
But, when I see bull crap like this and everyone going along with it, I don't want to hear griping and complaining about not having a disc drive or a stand. Y'all are bringing this on yourselves and doing it to yourselves.
By-the-way, if you work at retailer, you might as well do this. Ya don't steal it, that's wrong. You'll probably lose your job but put some money on the till in the electronics department and put it in a nice big bag. It's paid for, but Microsoft isn't going to come after you for breaking the street date. Don't even know why they bother. As long as you ain't stealing it and your manager is stupid enough to trust his staff and not keep things in a cage on he has the key to get to it, again, you didn't steal it. Stealing is wrong and it's criminal. Breaking a street date isnt exactly honest either, shows you can't be trusted and have no integrity, but nobody is gonna prosecute you, maybe just fire you but, as long as you pay for it. Steal it? You deserve to rot in prison, but I don't want to read everyone griping about digital only when someone posts something like this and everyone rallies around or, or hypocrits like this flood the internet praising people for having a digital console. People are just stupid and need a reason to complain, I guess.
Re: Xbox Series X|S Appears To Have Passed 600K Sales In Japan
Oh, the Japanese LOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEE Indiana Jones, people don't even know. When Sony was marketing Uncharted 3 in Japan, they brought in Harrison Ford to play the game. THATS ALL THEY DID was put a camera on Harrison Ford face and he was Nintendo Smiling and loving it. He was impressed and blown away games had hit that point and it was flattering to him Uncharted took from the Indiana Jones franchise. So, Sony released it as a trailer in Japan, and what happened? Uncharted 3 sold.
I'm willing to bet my PS5 and my entire game collection that's why Xbox's are selling in Japan, they're anticipating Indiana Jones because Japanese like Americans, mostly because of the Hollywood life. It's all they know in America is Hollywood and music and Indiana Jones on Hollywood. The Japanese aren't buying anticipating Gears of War, they're not impressed by it. It's not for Perfect Dark, they're not impressed by it but I'm totally willing to bet they're gearing up for Indiana Jones
Re: Xbox 360 Users Warn Of Issues With Certain Content On The Old Store
And their customer service is COMPLETE GARBAGE! When I called in, I explained to them I knew the store was closing next month and wanted to try and get what I could on my Xbox 360 before then. "Let us assure you that we'll take care of your issue" and she said Id hear something from them in 72 hours. I'm coming up on a week and nothing. Not an email, NOTHING! And of course to keep labor cheap, especially since Microsoft is an American HQ business, all of their work is outsourced so you
1) Can't understand much of anything anyway and
2) For a company that's been pushing philanthropy and accessability, if you're hard of hearing or have a hearing disability, there's no chat option either so you're screwed.
It just adds to the long list of how Xbox is constantly digging themselves a deeper grave, how out of touch they are, and how much they just don't understand business or their clientele. It's bad!
In contrast, I made a purchase error on the PlayStation Store, even a couple of times, PlayStation fixes it. If they can't they'll still contact you to let you know there's an issue.
Xbox? Nope. So get ready to try and resolve your issues and have assurances made they can't deliver on because their job is keep you from getting angry. (It's not the reps fault, they didn't create the problem unless they're getting snotty or short with you, which is sometimes even understandable because they could be getting chewed out so much because it's Microsoft that's incompetent so, it's not them, ITS XBOX and thus MICROSOFT.) Yeah, I'm waiting on their assurance they get the issue resolved. I called back and waited nearly ten minutes when they said it was two after they made the call back...... Lame
Re: Gears Of War: E-Day Dev Is 'Not Retreating' From The Modern Gears Saga
THAT'S WHY IT WAS CALLED EMERGENCE DAY!!!!! Now you're talking down to me like a friggin child. E-Day!? That's EMERGENCE DAY!!!!! What are we in, an alternate reality now?
Re: Gears Of War: E-Day Dev Is 'Not Retreating' From The Modern Gears Saga
The story already doesn't make sense.
https://youtu.be/zadjDRa0Xtc?si=t6d_VfGvtV_iT4Q9
Gears of War that launched in 2006 was Emergence Day, how can you do a prequel to a game where the locust didn't emerge until Emergence Day? Marcus was locked away after the Pendelum Wars. Something doesn't seem to fit
Re: Talking Point: Is Sarah Bond Hinting At Eventually Moving Away From Xbox Hardware?
Removed
Re: Alan Wake 2 Still Hasn't Made Profit Despite Huge Critical Success
Release a physical copy of the game and watch it boom. That's held me back in getting the game. I'm learning I have an immense amount of patience waiting for good sales with digital media
Re: Microsoft CEO Comments On Xbox's New PlayStation Store Success
Imagine what Halo and Forza could do on the Switch and what Gears of War could do on the PlayStation. Microsoft could hand off the IP of the original Trilogy to Bluepoint Games to do all the heavy lifting