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[RetroGamingUK]

How did anyone using the xbox platform want this? We wanted a healthy platform and eco system which xbox nailed on all fronts apart from rhe most important.

They didn't have games like last of us. Astro bot. Spider man etc that gains excitement and high metacritic scores to drive fans to feel excited about the platform.

There's tens of millions who enjoy gamepass and xbox games which is proven by sales on all platforms. They just didn't have the 92 plus metacritic games and that holds a lot of weight in today's world.

Exactly this

For many people it's those big Metacritic darlings that get them to go out and buy a console.

When was the last time an Xbox console had an exclusive like that, Gears of War 2?

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

How is xbox games/console stock in your part of the world?

In the UK it's seems both are stocked but at low levels.

In Dallas, TX, in my experience both PS and Xbox games sections are ghost towns while Switch is stocked and typically 2-3 times as large as the other two. This started happening maybe a couple of years ago.

Hardwire wise kind of the same situation. Loads of Switch consoles of all types, barely anything for Xbox or PS. I guess because of numbers, we know PS hardware is selling, Xbox hardware just isn't coming in.

Software in general is kind of going through what I saw with DVD and CD media.

 

[skyfinch]

Final Fantasy just came out. Xbox consoles are flying off the shelves. No wonder you can't find them anywhere.

 

[Connificent]

 

[djjinx2]

I'm here for the Xbox fans concern.

 

[EN250]

No way they can increase the price of GP this year. That has to be a 2026 thing. You can't raise the price of the console, games, and subscription service in the same year.

As if 2026 would make any difference, rising prices will piss off consumers no matter the day/week/year

Don't think they will, but if they need to, there is no "sensitive time" to do so

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

no xbox in shelves, no shills in Europe either

 

[DenchDeckard]

Excusing everything Xbox ever did wrong, being deliberately blind to anything bad happening and shifting the blame to everyone else instead (mostly Sony, which by the way you are also doing right now) and viewing Phil and gamepass as a Prophet that can do no wrong. All these things directly led to the current situation, maybe it would have turned out different had some of you tried to hold them accountable for their failures and ask for more all these years. In the end, you reap what you sow.

This is silly. Please dont lump people who play all platforms and enjoy games and chose xbox as their platform from 360 to other crazy fanboys (which exist for all companies) who only play one console and devote their entire gaming existence to that platform.

Ive said it multiple times but i have always played all platforms. I just chose poorly, many would say on where i chose to build the majority of my console library. ( i have shit loads of games across all platforms) but my preference from 360 was xbox and their online / controller.

yes, i do find myself feeling like i need to defend MS for the things they've done right. But, it doesn't make it hard to not like them for what they've done wrong. Hired that potato marketing guy. Green turd or whatever his name is.

Anyway. Ill Just leave it at that. Ill always be a fan of what xbox did with the og xbox and 360. They had some good games on xbox one but that console was an embarassment and when they finally had great hatdware in series x and spoilt it with a poor launch line up and pretty much a shit first couple of years of releases.

The series S was a great idea but they skimped out on memory and fucked that console up too.

Exactly this

For many people it's those big Metacritic darlings that get them to go out and buy a console.

When was the last time an Xbox console had an exclusive like that, Gears of War 2?

This so much. They haven't had a game that shuts up the haters and makes the industry focus on them for a long, long time. No one to blame but themselves for that.

 

[Sooner]

Europeans and Asians have pretty much abandoned ExBox, as have retailers.

As have Microsoft

 

[RetroGamingUK]

This so much. They haven't had a game that shuts up the haters and makes the industry focus on them for a long, long time. No one to blame but themselves for that.

We thought acquiring Bethesda would give them that, instead they did the opposite and went fully third party.

A change of strategy all due to the Starfield flop.

In hindsight, Starfield is one of the most important games of all time, the entire future of Microsoft gaming was hanging on it.

 

[Steve Holt]

Thanks uncle Phil

 

[AJUMP23]

Everything is an Xbox, so yes they sell them.

 

[clarky]

Can confirm no consoles here in Antarctica.

 

[m14]

Exactly this

For many people it's those big Metacritic darlings that get them to go out and buy a console.

If Sony exclusives drive console sales then why do so few people ever finish the campaigns?
If Sony exclusives drive console sales then why does the PS5 games by MAU look like this?

https://newzoo.com/resources/rankings/top-ps5-games

 

[Ar¢tos]

I went to a big electronics store here in Portugal and there was a single Xbox console in the bottom shelf of a Nintendo display unit. There were about 10 games next to the Switch games.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

If Sony exclusives drive console sales then why do so few people ever finish the campaigns?
If Sony exclusives drive console sales then why does the PS5 games by MAU look like this?

https://newzoo.com/resources/rankings/top-ps5-games

Well done for listing evergreen multiplayer games.

No ones cares about ExBox, it's dead, let it go.

 

[m14]

Well done for listing evergreen multiplayer games.

It's curious how none of those evergreen games aren't made by Sony, isn't it? Not even one.

No ones cares about ExBox, it's dead, let it go.

That's not true RG. You are obsessed by Xbox.

it's dead, let it go.

Thread 'Xbox has announced a multi-year agreement with AMD to co-engineer new silicon chips for the next-generation of Xbox consoles'

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[mckmas8808]

it has been tease last week. even from Jez (Super Blogger) himself.

This is hard for me to believe. Maybe it's PC Gamepass increase only.....

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

This is hard for me to believe. Maybe it's PC Gamepass increase only.....

could be, or/and only Game Pass Core

 

[mckmas8808]

could be, or/and only Game Pass Core

Oh yeah! Probably $12.99 for Core, $17.99 for Standard and $22.99 for Real GamePass

 

[Shmunter]

I saw the corner deli use a Series S to weigh down the butcher paper

 

[MisterXDTV]

Don't worry, they just announced a new partnership with AMD

People are already in line

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

There is a store on one of the "gaming store sites" here that have 3 shelves: one full blue for PlayStation, one full red for Nintendo and one green for Xbox. Today they use the green shelve to sell board games.

Wonderful job Microsoft. You should name the next console Xbox-Infinite and abandon it in a year with only store prices increases.

 

[mayham2199]

My go to Target is out of stock. Every other target has stock but they all say only 2 left in stock. For the Xbox series X.

 

[ReBurn]

In the US - Arizona, full.

Too hot out there to go shopping right now

 

[Slothbeing1209]

No one in my country use xbox. I don't think I've ever seen a xbox series X/S in real life.

 

[Gambit2483]

Oh yeah! Probably $12.99 for Core, $17.99 for Standard and $22.99 for Real GamePass

I'm guessing more like $24.99 for the Real Gamepass. There's way too much overhead on all of these 1st party games, plus the bags they're giving out to bring 3rd party games to Gamepass? Yeah, anything less than $24.99 isn't worth the inevitable anger and won't do shit for any potential profits (if they're even making any)

 

[Plague Doctor]

This is all part of the grandmaster strategy to take over all of gaming.

When common sense says you go left, you dig a hole and go diaganal right. When people say to market more, you instead make a more peripheials.

This is 5D Pachinko Laser Tag and Uncle Phil is fucking nailing it!

 

[rofif]

Demand must be high.

They are not buying ff16 because they can't get them Xboxes

 

[reinking]

They do not need Xbox in the store when it will be coming to your desktop or preferred handheld soon.

 

[Artistic]

They are not buying ff16 because they can't get them Xboxes

 

[Artistic]

I personally want a physical FF16 edition though.

 

[damidu]

dont worry folks, next one is the one, bwahaha

 

[demigod]

In Dallas, TX, in my experience both PS and Xbox games sections are ghost towns while Switch is stocked and typically 2-3 times as large as the other two. This started happening maybe a couple of years ago.

Hardwire wise kind of the same situation. Loads of Switch consoles of all types, barely anything for Xbox or PS. I guess because of numbers, we know PS hardware is selling, Xbox hardware just isn't coming in.

Software in general is kind of going through what I saw with DVD and CD media.

Stop your lying dude, i live in DFW.

 

[Artistic]

For the most part, I always see Series S consoles in stock. It's the Series X that is limited and had to get at retail.

 

[kazuyamishima]

How did anyone using the xbox platform want this? We wanted a healthy platform and eco system which xbox nailed on all fronts apart from rhe most important.

At least you finally admitted what we all knew, that you're a filthy green rat Lol

 

[Ashamam]

no xbox in shelves, no shills in Europe either

Df sold just at the right time…

 

[Plies]

In Brazil, they're still pushing Sega systems.

 

[Perrott]

Glad that I got my Series X with disc drive last week while there were still some remnants of stock out there.

Table Tennis is indeed an awesome game.

 

[newtypepilot]

1) puts all eggs in gamepass basket
2) tells your declining userbase to not buy your games or hardware
3) they stop buying your products
4) retailers stop carrying your stuff
5) ???
6) profit

 

[thismeinteil]

MS: Hey, I have a great idea. Let's dwindle our presence and brand down to near zero AND then release new HW.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

everyone is going digital. nice!

Nah, this is not good. Less choices for consumers, no ownership, more control for greedy corporations and higher prices.

 

[Super Lemon Drop]

Empty shelves: "Demand is so high!"

Full shelves: "We're fully stocked!"

 

[DavidGzz]

Shadow dropping the Series Porque No soon.

 

[Crayon]

They didn't have any at the bar or the motel 6.

 

[Kumomeme]

 

[spons]

no xbox in shelves, no shills in Europe either

Good riddance, all these "social media workers" did was translate posts from US accounts. Zero targeted shit.

 

[Hudo]

In Brazil, they're still pushing Sega systems.

The B in Brazil stands for Based.

 

[scarlet0pimp]

I bought a new series x as an upgrade for my s since I got a new TV in that room. Was looking for a few months early part of the year and it was actually pretty tough to get one, that wasn't from a scalper. Even the Microsoft store didn't have them. Lots of places would show them as in stock but when you add to basket you couldnt get it. Got one from smyths toys in the end luckily on the day they announced the price rise so got it at old price.
Not looked recently as no need but wouldn't surprise me if they are keeping stock levels very low.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Good riddance, all these "social media workers" did was translate posts from US accounts. Zero targeted shit.

Jizz Corden to the other Twitter shills