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PurePlatinum said:
Definitely possible - I have a hard time thinking they are pulling their existing retail presence, retailers are filling the gap w/ PS and Nintendo, and then are going to open it back up when a new Xbox comes out.

That seems unlikely to me.
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That's kinda what Sega did with the Saturn in the West way before the Dreamcast launched.
 
Even if they build a new Xbox their latest price models show that they are out of touch. $800 for a Series X? They must be smoking crack! Their new console would cost more than a high end PC.

They need an entirely new leadership from the top to the bottom. The current leadership has ran the X box name into the ground. Too much focus on DEI and not enough focus on Quality.
 
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GrayChild said:
Never doubt the greatest gamer of all time!

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His shit eating grin is behind the entire downfall of Xbox.
 
Could this be a result of a formal Sony announcement that they will be having a new handheld? Could they have jumped into the handheld with a system that wasn't going to be up to par with Sony's, and they wanted to reset and possibly redesign some things?
 
foamdino said:
I mean given what has been happening I can't say they won't have another brain fart and decide to ditch bwc for the next-gen machine - but then it really isn't a console *at all*
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Once they use a Windows version and hardware standard enough to run regular unmodified PC versions then they'll struggle to call it a console.
Backwards compatibility has been gone before on consoles so that has nothing to do with it.
 
Dorfdad said:
Could this be a result of a formal Sony announcement that they will be having a new handheld? Could they have jumped into the handheld with a system that wasn't going to be up to par with Sony's, and they wanted to reset and possibly redesign some things?
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It would take both engineering and legal genius to outdesign a Sony handheld. It's not impossible, but Sony have decades of experience and patents that make a truly dedicated Xbox handheld a difficult proposition.

Xbox had no answer for the PS Portal. If we assume that the PlayStation handheld will be a supercharged version of the Portal -- untethered gaming, compatible with past and future software, all of the DualSense features including new features like buttons that light up -- then Xbox are in big trouble.
 
Humdinger said:
At least back then, MS was willing to stand behind their customers and support their product. It's the opposite of what you're seeing now.

I had 3 different RRODs. Each time, MS replaced the console for free, shipping included. Granted, they gave me another console that crapped out in 6 months, lol, but they were willing to eat billions in costs, just to try to make up for their mistakes. That was a very different MS/Xbox.
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Because they were forced to do so.
The RRoD problem was known before, as far is i know.
Boris Schneider-Johne worked from 2002 on for 8 years as Xbox PR Manager and Product Manager and said something in a podcast.

Imagine the shit storm, without MS "consumer friendly support" because of the RRoD.
I had a RRoD 360 too and they replaced it, because they were forced to so and not because they liked me.
 
venomnik0 said:
I'm expecting this article to age very poorly soon.
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I am almost sure that Amy Hood or new MS business chief will do the maths and when they see that new Xbox will lose billions regardless, they will pull the plug on dedicated hardware very swiftly, even cosidering the termination fees. If it sinks and lose money anyway, why wait. It's easier to write-off the losses till AI bubble in not busted, at least you can soften the blow with free hype Copilot money.
 
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It is astonishing how much Don Mattrick fucked Microsoft. The Xbox One / PS4 gen was the most important generation to lose, since that's when customers started to get locked into the ecosystems by building their digital libraries and shit. And then Phil phinished it off by looking at fucking Netflix of all places and thought "what if Netflix but gaming!".

And even more astonishing is that Steve Ballmer and Satellite Nutella just let everything happen.
 
Hudo said:
It is astonishing how much Don Mattrick fucked Microsoft. The Xbox One / PS4 gen was the most important generation to lose, since that's when customers started to get locked into the ecosystems by building their digital libraries and shit. And then Phil phinished it off by looking at fucking Netflix of all places and thought "what if Netflix but gaming!".

And even more astonishing is that Steve Ballmer and Satellite Nutella just let everything happen.
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2025 and we still blaming Don. It has ALWAYS been Phil.
 
Already posted this in another Gamepass thread but pertains to Hardware as well:

By raising the price of Gamepass by 50% ($20 to $30) they are just trying to make as much profit off the backs of their existing user base now, because in 2 years they won't have a user base.

When PS6 is announced people will be clamoring for Xbox to announce their next console, and they will pretend for 3 months like they have something coming, and then it will be Dreamcast all over again. They will announce there is no next console, and Gamepass is cancelled, and they are just a games publisher now. They will make a lot more money selling COD and Bethesda games and Blizzard games for $80 each on PC and Playstation and Switch 2.

They needed Gamepass to become ubiquitous like Netflix and it didn't happen. This Price increase Guarantees it will never happen and proves they aren't even trying anymore.
 
Ramiro_Rodriguez said:
Because they were forced to do so.
The RRoD problem was known before, as far is i know.
Boris Schneider-Johne worked from 2002 on for 8 years as Xbox PR Manager and Product Manager and said something in a podcast.

Imagine the shit storm, without MS "consumer friendly support" because of the RRoD.
I had a RRoD 360 too and they replaced it, because they were forced to so and not because they liked me.
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I recently listened to Steve Kent's History of Video Games volume 1 and 2. In the second volume he goes into great detail about the RROD. Caused due to Microsoft going cheap on testing the hardware from a Canadian company, they didn't want to pay for it and broke the contract. So they did like 10% of the usual amount contracted and called it a day.

They also knew internally about the problem for a while, but their engineers couldn't figure out the cause. So they lied to the public pretty much and tried to put on a straight face. Until it spread too far and was too well known. Some famous guy went through 5 RROD consoles.

The story has been spun in the past decade about MS being heroes and doing it off their own backs.
 
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