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[Magic-DEI-Hire]

For me, the answer is simply summed up in two words:

Could Xbox/ Microsoft do anything to earn you as a new or returning customer? If so, what specifically?

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Fire Phil

 

[sharp weiner]

yeah sure.
I like to allow myself a little flexibility in life.

 

[reinking]

It depends on what you mean by returning customer? If you are talking about games, I never left. Consoles? Probably nothing at this point unless they removed day one PC.

 

[Rival]

The only reason I'm a customer now is to play backwards compatible games. And that's not really that enticing to me anymore.

 

[Magic-DEI-Hire]

It depends on what you mean by returning customer? If you are talking about games, I never left. Consoles? Probably nothing at this point unless they removed day one PC.

The original intent would have been consoles, but really anything about their ecosystem at this point (game pass, their games, etc).

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Time travel back to 2006 and launch the 360

The only Xbox I ever liked

 

[Topher]

Pretty much the same as what reinking said. As things are, Xbox consoles are pointless. I'll continue to be a Microsoft customer when there is a game I want to play. Then I'll sub to GP for a month or rent through Gamefly if it is available.

 

[bender]

Bring back the GOAT.

 

[Humdinger]

Sure.

1. Fire Phil, Sarah, and Matt. Install people who are competent.
2. Do what consoles are supposed to do - offer a wide variety of high-quality exclusive games that you can't get elsewhere.
3. Drop Day 1 giveaways from GP and scale back the service to legacy catalogs or games at least a year old.

That would do it.

I estimate the chance of that happening to be about 0.001%.

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[mayham2199]

They would have to go back to full console exclusives and even then I'd probably wait a while because if I'm being honest they really haven't released anything I care that much about. I never even tried Starfield when I had a gaming PC I just didn't care.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Offer hardware that's the best place to play my preferred GAAS titles.

Steam integration.

They have a shot with me.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

I have never seen a brand so abused like Xbox. Thanks to their shill strategy, it's very hard to know how many YT channels and influencers are actually genuine. But I wonder how online sentiment would have been without the Green Army pushing PR, fake hype, and enthusiasm. I mean; no one is making videos about OUYA or Stadia. In a world without shills, probably no one would have been talking about Xbox for quite some time now

 

[Rob_27]

360 Mini. Whisper quiet.

 

[Magic-DEI-Hire]

I have never seen a brand so abused like Xbox. Thanks to their shill strategy, it's very hard to know how many YT channels and influencers are actually genuine. But I wonder how online sentiment would have been without the Green Army pushing PR, fake hype, and enthusiasm. I mean; no one is making videos about OUYA or Stadia. In a world without shills, probably no one would have been talking about Xbox for quite some time now

Or if they didn't have the $3 trillion warchest of Microsoft behind them.

 

[bighugeguns]

Stop having so many weirdos around xbox.

 

[Skifi28]

Greenberg onlyfans. Just make it happen and I'm yours forever.

 

[cormack12]

I'd like them to become more exclusive by becoming more expensive.

 

[Superbean]

Make good games it's literally all they have ever had to do. They are clearly just not capable of that anymore

 

[rm082e]

I moved to PC in 2011 as my main platform. I have been willing to buy some consoles for true exclusives (Switch for Mario Kart, PS4 for Bloodborne, PS5 for Demon's Souls). Microsoft never gave me a reason to buy any Xbox hardware after the 360, and I don't see that changing now.

The only Microsoft game I've heard about that I might be interested in is Gears E-Day. I'm not interested in more Halo, Forza, Fable, etc. I also feel nothing when I think about the idea of a new Fallout, Elder Scrolls, or Diablo. At this point, I don't think the leadership at Microsoft is capable of launching a new kick ass IP.

I mean maybe if they got rid of the current leadership team, got a whole new suite of creative people, gave them a boat load of money to come up with a bunch of new IP, etc. But they kind of already tried that with that Perfect Dark studio, and that was a big waste of time and money.

 

[Gilgalaad]

Is there anything that Xbox could do?

 

[Die Namek Ability]

Make killer games that I don't have access to on other platforms.

 

[Artistic]

I never left.

 

[Sticks]

A magic dei hire from 2013

 

[Come On Tars]

I mean anything's possible.

 

[Gilgalaad]

Dropping fantastic new game on the service. Like …

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Throw in a hand job from Sarah bond and I'll buy.

 

[Josemayuste]

To finish Perfect Dark
Release Fable

 

[Magic-DEI-Hire]

A magic dei hire from 2013

I'm still more liked than Sarah Bond (I think )

 

[baphomet]

Releasing an insanely high end console with fully exclusive games that take advantage of said hardware.

Anything less than that is a no.

 

[Hydroxy]

If they give away their console for free, I'm in.

 

[DarkShadowXI]

If there were exclusive, high quality games on the Xbox...I would've kept the damn thing!

 

[ReBurn]

Sell something I want to buy.

 

[Crayon]

I have never seen a brand so abused like Xbox. Thanks to their shill strategy, it's very hard to know how many YT channels and influencers are actually genuine. But I wonder how online sentiment would have been without the Green Army pushing PR, fake hype, and enthusiasm. I mean; no one is making videos about OUYA or Stadia. In a world without shills, probably no one would have been talking about Xbox for quite some time now

They might have been better off. Reading into Phil's emails, I thought he was believing too much of it. Eating his own shit.

It was maybe most intense in the middle of last gen when the army was saying exclusives don't matter. So phil just let that problem get worse. Meanwhile, the 6tf Xbox pro was the most important thing in the world, when irl buyers didn't care that much.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Release a non-woke sequel to Jet Force Gemini.

 

[TheMule1983]

Fire the entirety of the current management.
New management doesn't interact with the cult like shills that have ruined the Xbox fanbase.
Exclusives. True exclusives. PC comes later no more day and date.
Less focus on Game Pass.
Somehow bring more games back for the back compatible program.
Fire all extremely woke devs that have plagued their studios.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Nah.

Now that I've seen what their true game plan is with the gaming industry I'll never support them by buying their products. They don't give a shit about gaming, they just want to turn us into Cloud subscribers they can milk like with all their other services. No matter how many times they do a reset at Xbox they are never going to abandon their real strategy of turning us into milked subscribers that rent games for eternity that we will never own.

 

[RafterXL]

Literally nothing.

 

[Hohenheim]

A FromSoft exclusive. Simple as dat. Oh, wait. I'm still subscribed to Game Pass.

 

[SJRB]

20 minutes alone with Sidney Sweeney.

Or Bloodborne 2.

 

[poodaddy]

Sure, I'm easy. Just offer me a compelling product. That can mean compelling value, compelling experiences, compelling hardware, compelling benefits, but offer me something compelling.

They, and to be fair every one in the game space, have struggled to offer me anything compelling for years.

 

[simpatico]

Buy Valve
Make Xbox 2

 

[Unfortunatecookie]

No. Nothing they can do at this point.

As long as all of their games are available on PC, I have zero reason(s) to get the next Xbox. The same applies to PlayStation; they've gone down the Xbox stupidity path, so the PS5 Pro will be my last PlayStation.

 

[Jimmy_liv]

If they released an exceptionally powerful hybrid console PC which was far superior graphically than any competing consoles then I would be all in.

I really don't want the hassle of pc gaming but I would pay a premium for a proper high end gaming machine.

Currently have an XSX and a PS5 Pro.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Nothing they do now will get me to go back to them because I'm already fully on board with PC.

 

[PauloRoberto]

They never got me a consumer to begin with, so...

 

[BennyBlanco]

If they release a console I can access Steam games through for a good price I would buy one for the living room. No interest in their walled garden.

 

[Sooner]

Sure. They could make all their games exclusive to Xbox, introduce a more powerful Series X Pro priced at $299, drop this GamePass nonsense completely, make online pay free, make better games, keep AAA games priced at $60, fire Phil Spencer.

 

[Klayzer]

Pretty much the same as what reinking said. As things are, Xbox consoles are pointless. I'll continue to be a Microsoft customer when there is a game I want to play. Then I'll sub to GP for a month or rent through Gamefly if it is available.

The only real answer. Always the games.