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Its not unrelated. I am kind of laughing at how people dismiss the cost of infrastructure, i.e. servers, and how none of that shit is made in the US anymore. FFS the article in this OP cites that as a major driver.I'm still laughing over the fact that Gov. Newsom blamed the price hike of a subscription service on tariffs.
Say what you want about the guy, but he built his empire on his sheer cutthroat talent
Kotick should be running Xbox now. They'd be right in the black and doing things that the majority of gamers actually want.
The part I really don't understand about using "Orange Man Bad" as a response or an excuse for everything is that the Orange Man is only going to be President for 3 more years. What exactly are the Democrats and the tech megacorps (same thing really) going to do after 2028? Do they even have a plan for the day when the Orange Man isn't around anymore to be blamed for literally everything?
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Explicitly trying to blame tariffs and even roping in the Governor of California by getting his intern to make a Twitter post is an openly political way for MS to try and excuse their price increases. But yes you are right, I won't mention it again since no politics rule
This is, by FAR, the most idiotic thing ive ever read. I can 'accept' a startup trying to seduce a venture capital investiment firm with this like of phrase and the only real proof being' trust us, bro'. A public listed company doing this is shows an absurd level of incompetence and lack of due diligence.
Yeah he doesn't look great in this photoEvery hundred million he loses the company he has to take off 5 lbs of his own weight.
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FWIW this is what my dad started to look like when he learned he had cancer… I hope for his sake that isn't the case.
the pressure sure has to be insane. He just needs piss off and let this clusterfuck behind.Every hundred million he loses the company he has to take off 5 lbs of his own weight.
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FWIW this is what my dad started to look like when he learned he had cancer… I hope for his sake that isn't the case.
Allot of companies today are just using tariff issue as escape goat to cover there blunder and mismanagement.
It's a lost cause. This MF really believes the game world orbits him and his decisions, and he KNOWS he will go down into game history books as the worst execute ever, even with a bunch of yes-men around him (including some idiots here). He probably is just waiting his last paycheck and his golden parachute (if im being honest, Id wait it too).
i think he wants to frame his exit in a good light, as an achievement and triumph. And the the only way he can even attempt to do that is with a new console relase and new marketing cycle. (on top of his golden parachute)
I can say it right now... that will be the most stupid thing they can do. Which just means they are definitely going to do it. They have a $600 handheld on the market that absolutely no one asked for. And even with the bleeding that has happened with the XB1 and XBS generations, they are still thinking about making a new console? Even after having gone full multiplatform?
one weird aspect of social media is how we've come to see that, when it comes to any number of relatively big issues, it consistently turns out that many of us seem to have a better grasp of the consequences of a number of policy choices & decisions than the select group of individuals directly responsible. it's absolutely a bizarre phenomenon, & one of the reasons for a number of conspiracy theories, predicated on the idea that there must be some other 'agenda' at work that isn't being stated (tho, in this instance, i'd just put it down to a serious miscalculation based in greed & the need to dominate)...
What? buy Nintendo?
