[GameSpot] Xbox Is An Increasingly Unstable Platform For Anyone To Invest In

Likely their last generation of hardware coming up

And this is coming from a known Xbot
Here is the rub, and while I agree with you that this is their swan song and it wont be cutting edge top of the pack hardware and the PS6 will suffer from this move by Microsoft, I have to ask why are they even going to go down this road? they have screwed over their hardcore fanbase, they have screwed over developers and their AAA big titles have performed more like AA title releases, and just fill GamePass Quotas.

Why would anyone buy their new console or handheld? Knowing full well the writing is on the wall?
 
They'll be repeating all of this next gen and the gen after that, buckle up.

Be nice. They are looking out for us and saving the games industry ( or at least they think so)


What's more played out….The old Xbox " wait till next year" gag, or the 'Xbox is dead, I need to talk about it one more time… again" post.


In the meantime I'll keep playing new games and my backlog with my friends on the 'dead' platform. 😅
 
That slop made up 60% of Playstations bestselling games recently. The key is to not play them all, just the good ones. You're welcome.
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Here is the rub, and while I agree with you that this is their swan song and it wont be cutting edge top of the pack hardware and the PS6 will suffer from this move by Microsoft, I have to ask why are they even going to go down this road? they have screwed over their hardcore fanbase, they have screwed over developers and their AAA big titles have performed more like AA title releases, and just fill GamePass Quotas.

Why would anyone buy their new console or handheld? Knowing full well the writing is on the wall?



Possibly because they don't want new Xbox users. Xbox Gamers are being transitioned to PC gamers. I'll get what I can play my backlog in with my friends. I'd imagine that will be the case for most Xbox gamers. The nature of their next console suggest that much too.
 
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Here is the rub, and while I agree with you that this is their swan song and it wont be cutting edge top of the pack hardware and the PS6 will suffer from this move by Microsoft, I have to ask why are they even going to go down this road? they have screwed over their hardcore fanbase, they have screwed over developers and their AAA big titles have performed more like AA title releases, and just fill GamePass Quotas.

Why would anyone buy their new console or handheld? Knowing full well the writing is on the wall?
If memory serves, their next hardware is meant to be quite decent based on what we know. If the PS6 rumours hold, it'll keep up and then some even if it launches earlier.
That might get them some early adopters looking for the latest kit to run multiplats at their best.
 
Alternate thread title: Xbox trolling greatest hits, infinite repeat.

Literally one of his main points is referencing Ralph Constantino, the failing developer that bombed at retail with Arkane at Zenimax so badly that his teams were forced to make GAAS and roguelike games, bombed with his indie game Weird West, despite taking payouts from subs 3x, and is now complaining that he's not getting yet another bailout.

Zero new information in the entire article. Softcore porn for PS fans to click on.
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Yeah, it seems nuts to buy a game on the Xbox.

All you need to justify the console is game pass. Buy everything else on Switch 2 or PC.
 
Alternate thread title: Xbox trolling greatest hits, infinite repeat.

Literally one of his main points is referencing Ralph Constantino, the failing developer that bombed at retail with Arkane at Zenimax so badly that his teams were forced to make GAAS and roguelike games, bombed with his indie game Weird West, despite taking payouts from subs 3x, and is now complaining that he's not getting yet another bailout.

Zero new information in the entire article. Softcore porn for PS fans to click on.
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Copium injection needed....
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Alternate thread title: Xbox trolling greatest hits, infinite repeat.

Literally one of his main points is referencing Ralph Constantino, the failing developer that bombed at retail with Arkane at Zenimax so badly that his teams were forced to make GAAS and roguelike games, bombed with his indie game Weird West, despite taking payouts from subs 3x, and is now complaining that he's not getting yet another bailout.

Zero new information in the entire article. Softcore porn for PS fans to click on.
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@XBots
These threads aren't just to laugh at your dying platform, it's frustrating for many people just how badly Xbox has been managed, what could have been and how much damage is being done to the industry, it's quite a big deal.
To think we lost Sega consoles to end up with this.
 
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this remind me of its like how foreign investor hesitate to invest on unstable country.

cant blame them.

Microsoft rarely stick to one thing at a time. they keep changing stuff and not hesitate to do clashed among their own approach. they are severely impatient and too hungry for instant domination success. often chasing trend in fear they not first.

only one thing they consistence for long period of time is maintain same unperformed leader on their division. they seems prefer someone that could act as 'mascot' than actually deliver the result.
 
Glanced over and its pretty much on the money.

I cant picture what they are going to try and do with this next gen. Going to be an interesting watch.
 
Article is shockingly written well imo. Much better reasoned than a lot of the slop we get here from The Gamer or Gamerant.

Will definitely not be the last though. No management team gets to do 3 pivots in one gen, buy up studios and publishers and fire thousands of employees from those same studios and publishers and then get a clean slate again. It genuinely feels like the media has largely stopped grading Xbox on a curve.
 
What stands out for me is the wasted opportunities. What could have been.
After the incredible success of X360. They had the studios, the 3rd party, the 1st party games but more importantly the fans. They blew it all away with XBox One and the direction they took.
Hell, the fans even stuck by them after the shambolic release of DOA hardware which ofc was X360 and its red ring of death and even Disc destroying DVD drive.
I know I was one my 5th x360 because of the RROD.

They threw it all away. What a waste.
 
Glanced over and its pretty much on the money.

I cant picture what they are going to try and do with this next gen. Going to be an interesting watch.
Yeah, unless they are happy with Wii U sales numbers their next gen device will almost certainly flop. I'm not sure I see the point.

If it's about backwards compatibility I don't see why they couldn't repackage the Series S with a disc drive and sell it for $199 with its own tier of Gamepass as the "Xbox Legacy" console or whatever. Then they could make a clean break and switch to pc for the new high end stuff.
 
Qute the contrast with recent Sony report, to say the least.

Personally I think that MS need to finally stop toying with dedicated hardware and start improving Windows for gaming, because for PC-based handhelds Linux is the current king if the hill. And this was unimaginable 5 short years ago.
 
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Still shocked they are giving it another go, honestly.
There are like 25-30-35(?) million paying for what once was Gold, so it's not like there isn't money to be made in the business, Uncle Phil gambled everything on Gamepass when they could have gone the traditional route with an actual effort like in the X360 days and things would have gone differently than what we're witnessing right now
 
Alternate thread title: Xbox trolling greatest hits, infinite repeat.

Literally one of his main points is referencing Ralph Constantino, the failing developer that bombed at retail with Arkane at Zenimax so badly that his teams were forced to make GAAS and roguelike games, bombed with his indie game Weird West, despite taking payouts from subs 3x, and is now complaining that he's not getting yet another bailout.

Zero new information in the entire article. Softcore porn for PS fans to click on.

Seek help

Seek therapy
 
so…nothing really new. Just the usual clickbait slop.


The section on GamePass is especially silly. Apparently the service is now 'anti-consumer' because they essentially took the price up by $5 a month.

With what we now know about the state of Perfect Dark and Everwild, no real surprise they got canceled.
 
I think they have a better shot with this upcoming PC hybrid. I'm interested in it if its a pain-free box that allows me to tweak games just like PC and provided access to my Steam library.

The only question is the power and how soon the refreshes will come. I like to upgrade often.
 
Hey, I was just surprised to see someone who had many posts (some with multiple quotes) make fun of someone for the same reason 🤷
sure when you're replying to me I quote and respond but "many posts" isn't the same as "the same number of posts". Rickmaster had many more posts than me when you made that incorrect statement about "he has the same number of posts as you" and now you're talking nonsense about how you're "surprised", how you meant "many", and "quotes in 1 post" because you made some shit up that you're trying to make excuses for. You could have very easily counted the number of posts on your fingers and you still failed to do it. I'm not here spamming NBA gifs either on the conversation of others, I was mostly responding to people like you who have directly quoted me and still had less posts than him. My comment wasn't about the number of posts, so what are you surprised about exactly?
 
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I find myself ínvesting'lessin online ecosystems as it is. Pretty much Steam is the only place I'll buy digital games for. Everything else is just subscription. Same with movies ... I've bought a few from Amazon Prime, but for the most part it's just watching subscriptions and buying the occasioanl BluRay.

I'd imagine subscriptions or streaming YouTube, etc are how most people are consuming content these days. And FTP too like Fortnite, Roblox, etc.
 
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sure when you're replying to me I quote and respond but "many posts" isn't the same as "the same number of posts". Rickmaster had many more posts than me when you made that incorrect statement about "he has the same number of posts as you" and now you're talking nonsense about how you're "surprised", how you meant "many", and "quotes in 1 post" because you made some shit up that you're trying to make excuses for. You could have very easily counted the number of posts on your fingers and you still failed to do it. I'm not here spamming NBA gifs either on the conversation of others, I was mostly responding to people like you who have directly quoted me and still had less posts than him. My comment wasn't about the number of posts, so what are you surprised about exactly?
OK, he had more posts than you. My mistake, I only paid attention to the pile of posts you have in the thread...

The fact is that the "same number of posts" is secondary; the main thing was the substance. And yes, the substance is the surprise I get when someone who also has a ton of posts in the same thread, responding to every comment or reaction that doesn't fit with what he likes, mocks and points the finger at someone else for posting a ton of posts defending his opinion or approving of someone else's opinion. And if your problem with him was that he used GIFs of baskets and dunks... dude, you get that kind of reaction every day, every minute. All the posts with mockery, insults, jokes, and contempt you can imagine in every thread on this forum, and you have people with 15, 20, or more posts almost in a row in other threads, and, "Surprise!" I don't see you with the need to make the same mockery or discredit? Indeed, is that in those cases, the narrative being defended is another one more to your liking, and you don't have the same eagerness and impetus to discredit or mock the subject in question??. It is what look like🤷


In short, why am I going to lie to you? I said "I'm surprised" sarcastically... I wasn't surprised, honestly. It was just amused and disappoint even more so when the double standard come from someone who, I could think, intends to bring some seriousness to the discussions on this forum with tons of examples of console wars every moments. 🤷
 
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I can see their next console being their last. Xbox is such a small piece of the MS business.
 

I used to love my man Miku but recently he's been going hard with that resentfulness and bitterness, every other post now is some kind of pun, must be after all those years of Xbox trolling and cyber bullying in here...

At least, he and the other green fans are finally getting their "revenge" and e-victory® they so desired with all the latest "Sony going 3rd party" news 😁
 
Another day, another Xbox is failing thread. Shit……. Fine…. Xbox is failing. 🥱… heard this all before. Why so much concern for the trillion dollar company y'all love to hate? PlayStation won. We all acknowledge it. And Xbox ownwers still don't care. Why are we still talking about this?

Don't worry Ricky boy, hang on tight 'cause apparently, Sony has also decided to self-immolate following the "4-D chess Nostradamus move®" (where's my man M MicTyson at) by MS.

They're all failing so it's all good brother, next up : Nintendo (in about 10 years from now as per my man's Miku's prophecy in another thread).

Gimme that glorious mushroom kingdom toddler shit in 4K so I can play it on my laptop Xbox PC
 
Yeah, unless the uk gov sees sense, but in this they've decided that sending details (face pic + passport details) to a company in Cyprus is how you "validate" you are over 18 - just awful.
Passport details too? I guess this won't work…

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Passport details too? I guess this won't work…

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Apparently for the full ID check you need a face scan and a passport details page or driver's license - I've not done it. I guess steam/psn etc know you are 18 if you have a credit card on file with them (as you cannot get a credit card unless you're 18).

But for general browsing (not ecommerce) and other network services, they're making this a clown show - apparently vpns harm children. I only have to use them for work...
 
I like my Xbox Series X but as a consumer their last 8-10 years of middling releases and constant strategy shifts makes me wary of buying digital games on the platform because I can't say with any degree of certainty where (or even if) those games will be accessible 5 years from now.

If I were a developer, I'd be hard pressed to limit myself to the Xbox console platform, no matter how much Microsoft money they slide across the table to do so. Cutting off the largest console player base for short term Microsoft money gains would be lunacy. The only way I would entertain such a move would be if it was a short, time limited, exclusivity window (say, like, 6 months tops). If I'm developing a game, I'd want it on as many platforms as possible.
 
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