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[Atrus]

Business, business, invest, etc. it's clearly there's an incentive for money in play and although they promise nothing more for than the 4 games, the fact that they talk about cross play across other consoles infers that more are coming.

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

Phil needs to go into politics. I've never seen someone involved with gaming be able to talk for hours and not say a damn thing, it's ridiculous. This is pure damage control, nothing more nothing less.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

My goodness. Any one of is could have led that shitshow. They only realize that NOW?

Same company that left Ybarra seat empty at the round table because he was such a gamer and it was remind them who they worked for, the gamer.

Who the fuck else would they be working for?

 

[DeepEnigma]

LOL

All that for this nothingburger. Oh man this is hilarious

Starts the initiative to port games it rival consoles:

 

[cormack12]

Knew matt booty looked familiar

 

[Hugare]

Word salad galore

But I saw it as the beginning of something. Those 4 games are only the beginning.

I see them doing what Sony is doing: releasing on PS5/Switch one/two years after Xbox

 

[tmlDan]

this also shows how we gamers are such idiots to allow ourselfs to fall into rumors so easly

What do you mean? this basically confirms that everything is on the table, MS always does this. They could change their mind and bring Indiana Jones to PS within 6 months after launch. Don't trust them for what they say now when their releases continue to struggle and GP doesn't grow.

34MM subs is super disappointing and the console isn't selling, they will do anything to make more money

 

[Ansphn]

A lot of empty word salads again from Phil with no real plan revealed. Nadella either okay with Phil running Microsoft games into the group or Phil is just delaying and stringing along the Xbox community as people slowly leave.

 

[Bond007]

"grow the industry"

 

[M1chl]

They have no idea what they're doing, and their communication is beyond horrible. This could have been a tweet.

Xbox needs an Elon Musk/Twitter style cleanout. It's a complete joke.

You seems like a very unserious person, if you really believe that. I hope you checked how is twitter doing after the buyout..

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

double speak is out of control

 

[bender]

Everything they've said after "only four" certainly sounds like it's going to be much, much more than that.

 

[Little Chicken]

 

[DenchDeckard]

Its literally a nothing burger

 

[Mobilemofo]

He's just babbling like an idiot about a 'healthy creator community'. Shut up you fat headed fuck. Admit that you've lost, you fucked the generation up, and this is weapons grade, nuclear blast levels of cope.

This is how it should have started.

*Lights go out* total darkness. Silence.

Two shotgun sounds ring out into the auditorium. We hear splatter. Then a ragdoll of a cliche ms employee slumps to the floor. Dimly lit. It focuses on the blood slowly seeping away from the fuckin massive wounds to his face. *

Lights come up. Ms guy: that was our last 18 months.

 

[Dr_Ifto]

I swear there are 3 people on that stage, but they all said the same thing. Why are there 3 people, lol.

 

[SlimySnake]

Phil is like the industry didnt grow so we were forced to layoff people and put these games on other hardware. Dude, YOU didnt grow. Playstation sold an insane number of consoles.

 

[LordCBH]

My goodness. Any one of is could have led that shitshow. They only realize that NOW?

They should give me Booty's job. I'd be hyper aggressive with getting good shit out lol.

 

[skit_data]

My guess is Phil will manage to put it in a way that may reel some of the fans back in but in the long run the cause and effect will be the same.

The longer we wait for this the more I feel it will be vague as fuck and leave everyone dissatisfied.

Bingo for me I guess.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Heisenberg007

Guess you were right, he did specifically say that other games are not coming and specifically name dropped Starfield and Indiana Jones as games that are not coming

Partially, but not exactly. He essentially only said that "Starfield and Indiana Jones are not a part of these 4 games that I'm not naming." Never said anything about the future.

He even said that they will be looking into bringing franchises to other platforms in the future.

 

[Ogbert]

Demonstrates how creatively redundant Xbox is.

These fuckers are paid millions upon millions. They have nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Imagine if Spencer had said, 'here's our business update' and then cut to a new Gears.

Instead, we get this business wank.

 

[jm89]

LOL

All that for this nothingburger. Oh man this is hilarious

 

[Urban]

was a good show but now im pretty sure that they will go 3rd party

 

[Famipan]

Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, and two online game that has waned in popularity... Sea of Thieves and Grounded?

 

[KimDongHwan]

Sad to see them name "Roblox", "Fortnite" and "Minecraft" as their main game examples.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Matt saying the only recently realized it's content over hardware explains a fuck ton

Isn't he the head of their fucking studios?

And he just now gets this?!?

 

[KU_]

So most people fell victim to the fake news once again? It's amazing that people continue to get caught up in sensationalist journalism and run with it.

 

[GHG]

Imagine feeling like you need to explain and sugarcoat your business decisions like this just because of the fanbase you've cultivated.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Topher]

Starts the initiative to port games it rival consoles:

The gaslighting has already started.

 

[Dr_Ifto]

helps indy devs get to PC to build their audience? Bitch, most games start there first

 

[NEbeast]

 

[soulbait]

So, a very rough summary:

- 4 games (they did not name names but Tom Warren says: HiFi, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, Grounded), are coming to other platforms.
- Phil says this is not a promise or greenlight for more games in the future.
- Phil specifically name-dropped Starfield and Indiana Jones as game that are *not* going multi-platform.
- All Xbox first party games in the future will continue to come to game pass on launch (they did not mention if CoD games will get an exception for this or not)
- Diablo 4 is coming to game pass on March 28th
- They confirmed a June showcase with more new game announcements. Boooty mentioned that they have 15 games coming.
- No talk of any more BC games coming, they had a 'preservation' segment but that was more about games having cross-saves and progression between console and PC.
- No talk of any new hardware (revision, portable anything)

There was a slight hint to new hardware. Sarah Bond said two things:

1. Something about hardware for this holiday (assuming new controller that was leaked and such)
2. Their hardware roadmap is for the largest jump in power (or something like that)

No true announcements, but shows they are working on stuff.

 

[sendit]

Business update sucked. Bunch of empty words. I want me 23 mins back.

i7

 

[Heisenberg007]

The 4 games, I believe are

Sea of Thieves
Grounded
RedFall
Pentiment
Any future games to be considered will be online GAAS.

Hi-Fi Rush
Sea of Thieves
Pentiment
Grounded.

 

[Mortisfacio]

Its literally a nothing burger

Yup. Sony fans blew this way out of proportion. The only thing of any interest from this that was actually said is there's 34 million gamepass players and ABK games are coming to gamepass starting March 28th.

 

[Yekshemesh]

This is a whole bunch of carefully rehearsed nonsense. Just PR buzzwords after PR buzzwords.

 

[Vlodril]

Everyone drinking on creators is dead.

 

[nani17]

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

6 weeks from now, and that, too, just 1 game. They are so hesitant in putting ABK games on GP, or even announcing ABK games on GP.

I can wait.

 

[Snake29]

So most people fell victim to the fake news once again? It's amazing that people continue to get caught up in sensationalist journalism and run with it.

What fake news?

So far nothing has been fake. The only onces that look fake are those corpo heads on their chair.

 

[Sgt. Pinback]

This is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen come out of the gaming industry.

These three idiots are babbling about nothing, and seem to be oblivious to the reality of their own failing system. Do they really think this is how they compete with Sony, Nintendo, and Valve? By releasing smug, bizarre Youtube videos full of corporate word salad?

This is shit that Microsoft shareholders might be interested in, assuming they aren't laughing/crying too hard. For their customer base? Worthless. Beyond worthless.

Phil Spencer and Matt Booty should both be fired, just for this colossal own goal. What a fucking debacle.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Phil trying his best to say we're going multi platform without pissing off the fanbase Dudes twisting his tongue so much it comes off as nonsense rambling.

 

[Topher]

Yup. Sony fans blew this way out of proportion. The only thing of any interest from this that was actually said is there's 34 million gamepass players and ABK games are coming to gamepass starting March 28th.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

timdog was right

 

[kruis]

Nah, I think it was always going to be a small batch.

The internet an "rumor mill" ran absolutely wild with it.

It's a small batch FOR NOW. MS says it's testing the waters with these games, but then you hear that they want their studios have big audiences, there are games that are bigger than the platform, etc etc. They've made the first step and now they'll keep on walking because they really have no choice. That Indy game will be released on PS 12 months after its Xbox release, mark my words.

 

[DrDamn]

So based on rumours and what they've said I'd say Hifi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves and Halo.

 

[sodstall]

lots of 2014 ideas in this update...like....cross-save aint new guys...

 

[Chuck Berry]