From an old tweet from Tom Warren, people at Microsoft found the whole concept of putting games day one on the service as stupid but Phil pushed for it anyway. I recall Tom Warren was like "these people didn't see how well it is doing now"
What does that have to do with my hundreds of older, physical games? Nothing. They'll still work, like they always have, without internet. Servers... LOL!Once those servers shutdown.
Really surprised changes have not been made
Oh my goodness
What big company do you think had a good year? When all of them have lost a significant percentage of their value?
The fact is that MS is the one that has performed best, even with the doubts about AI investments. Aside from Nvidia and its boom (which is now declining), it's been a turbulent year for all the Big Tech companies. And no, Xbox hasn't had anything to do with it.
Ladies and gentlemen, a visionary here
LOL, as if predicting layoffs in these times were something worthy of praise.
Anyway, another example of interpreting based on dislike for a brand. The use of a yardstick.
It's a shame your sixth sense for predicting layoffs at MS doesn't work with the layoffs at Sony, the closure of studios, and the massive cancellation of projects... But of course, in those threads you're trying to make people believe they're simple decisions that have nothing to do with the business situation.
That one of the clearest examples of an Xbox hater, whose entire participation in this forum is limited to demonstrating that hatred, criticizing everything that sounds like Xbox, wishing for its end... while not having the slightest critical thought towards Sony, talks about "unserious" people..... Let me laugh....
#only in Neogaf
What changes can they realistically make?
Oh I agree they'll keep around, it's just going to change. It will be what you subscribe to if you want to play back catalogue titles or indies/third parties.
Anything is possible. I just don't see a mass migration to cloud gaming, just like with VR. It serves a niche and that's it. Digital game libraries on dedicated hardware is where it's at. The way you drive people to your ecosystem is with good exclusive games, not services.
Extraordinary take when fairly recently two high profile games HiFi Rush and Redfall, sold nothing ,was put out to die on Game pass with no marketing, and had their studios shut down shortly afterwards.
Trying a clever comeback Huh?
Even the most hardcore Xbox fans who promoted GamePass stacked monthly subs at $1 because they too knew it wasn't worth it full price.
Redfall in particular was hyped massively by online communities for what felt like years. And when It was realised by all that the game was broken, it released with no marketing and sent out to die.
Jez Corden
Well, us
I see more as an admission of defeat. He spent the last 6 years blowing smoke up our ass about how great/successful/sustainable Game Pass was in a effort to convince us to subscribe and it didn't work. This is just step one in their effort to deprioritize it so they can blow smoke up our ass about something else.
It's only gotten worse for Xbox since then, but you decided to focus on the date of the article?
Fair enough.
True, on Xbox.
So who is Game Pass for? Spencer told Variety it can be a "" but he acknowledged that Microsoft isn't trying to get everyone to sign up. ~Eddie's take
~Eddie removed entire sentences from this response not for simplicity but to mutate the contextual nature of his phrasing. He also inserted additional phrasing into Phil's mouth such as 'at least not for Microsoft'
But Gamepass isn't mandatory, you can buy your games, digital of most of times physical too. Sure Xbox is tending to digital only but as Nintendo since Switch 1 and Sony (PS5 Pro without disc drive sku).
