they went in the console opposite direction they should have
Customers will still come out ahead.
They are doing poorly but surely not zero.I don't know man,
They are being outsold 10:1 in hardware and their consoles are disappearing from shelves because nobody wants them
What consumers are you talking about, exactly???
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Xbox is milking customers or customers milking Xbox?
This is getting confusing.
Something people don't like to look at too closely is that the target consumer market has been shifting to the top 10-20% of earners. They are going where the money is, so to speak.
Whether this will work in the gaming market is up in the air, but there is such a divide in the US that we have a large chunk of the population that simply can't afford things and a smaller but still significant slice that would not even sneeze at a $10 price increase.
All my Xbox bros are cancelling. It's dead.
I'm good for 2 more years, but I probably won't resub. I have 2 Xbox consoles (one for the wife), so I'll buy MP games there. Most of my gaming has switch to Nintendo lately, though, so I'm not worried now. If some kind of OEM device can play PC games too down the road, I might consider it along with a PC Game Pass sub, but for the most part, I've recognized Xbox is dead starting with "just 4 games."Same. My phone was blowing up with group texts from my Xbox friends livid and showing off their cancellation screens. Or complaining that they can't get through to cancel because the site is FUBAR. Really makes me wish Helldivers 2 and Borderlands 4 had cross-progression because I only bought them on Xbox because that's where my friends were and I didn't need to resub to PS+ as I already had Game Pass. But with all of them cancelling, and the likelihood that I'm going to downgrade to Essential, I'd just as soon go back to PS+ and play over there. But I really don't want to start over from square one on either game.
My guess is that Phil was told to make Xbox profitable in every area or it's gone. Two console price increases in a short time followed by two Game Pass sub price increases along with the attempted $80 Outer Worlds 2 say this to me.I think they want it to fail so they can go back to selling games at full price.
No they didn't.Sony jacked PS Plus prices to the moon
Regular consumers(besides the 10% hardcore nerds(us)) buys an average of 8 games per gen. It doesn't worth and u can get any ms game with 50% off in 1 year.In Brazil, it's R$120 per month.
A new game, released at full price (without promotions), is R$400.
A year of Game Pass buys four games at launch.
It's ridiculous; only a lunatic idiot would subscribe to Game Pass at that price to rent games, as opposed to buying physical media, which can still be resold and traded in.
Taking promotions into account, I believe it's easy to buy at least 10 games in Brazil with a year of Game Pass.
Yeah you rise the price of a product/service in proportionally with its success. The Xbox hardware flops = they rise the prices. The Xbox Games flops = they rise the prices. Now the Gamepass is bombing (I never knew 1 PERSON (and I speak to many different gamers on a daily basis) who sub to GP more than 1 month... THEY DOUBLE THE PRICES IN LIKE A YEAR. At 30$ it has no future.I think it's dead.
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Regular consumers(besides the 10% hardcore nerds(us)) buys an average of 8 games per gen. It doesn't worth and u can get any ms game with 50% off in 1 year.
No they didn't.
PS+ Extra costs $100 for an entire year.
The alternative, to be fair, would be just like Hollywood, a nameless actors and actresses who could literally turn the table and change our lives. Unfortunately, the modern industry can't afford to make that at the scale of thousands small and big games productions, it's doable but money alone can't solve the problem right now.Xbox are the biggest joke/disgrace in the gaming industry. Phil spencer is the worst gaming CEO of all time and a walking embarrassment of a man who single handedly destroyed the xbox division with gamepass. Everyday he wakes up and looks in the mirror the only thing staring back at him is a clown because that's what he is and always will be for what he did to the xbox brand.
Missed that bump but I wouldn't consider it to the moon.Sony raised prices by like 35% a few months ago chief, the discounted annual rate for essential went from $60 to $80, extra $100 to $135, Premium $120 to $160.
You're not worthy yet, you can't express opinionsAm i banned from taken polls or why cant i take them?
Missed that bump but I wouldn't consider it to the moon.
im trying to figure out what i lose downgrading from ult to prem. right now im just playing rematch and mechwarrior 5I'm only subbing to PC Gamepass. I left Ultimate back in 2023.
I don't need the Cloud. Nor do I need an xbox console
I assume that the new handheld fullscreen experience on the ROG is considered PC gamepass???
Seems like a stretch.In reality and in practice PS+ has seen a 150%+ price hike as Sony also barred and discontinued retailer and third party cards within the past couple years. Retailers fairly regularly sold annual cards at 50% discounts. Lot of people were pay $30/yr for essential and $60 for premium. That is where the to the moon qualification comes from.