I think it's premature at best for any journalist to suggest MSFT will sell the Xbox division in the event of the deal falling apart, but I also think Phil Spencer is full of it to categorize the deal as "not a linchpin" for the long term future of Xbox because I hate to say, but at $69 billion, that's exactly what it is. They saw that GP model and associated cannibalization of 1st and 3rd party sales is eating way too much into their financials. The turmoil at Activision prior to the deal was a godsend/perfect storm for Microsoft. Make no mistake, they need (needed?) this deal to go through in order to further support this GP promise they've foolishly committed to. These recent 3rd party sales data are abysmal.
Without CoD and without the 3rd party revenue stream they unnecessarily kneecapped, where does the funding for future 1st party titles come from? Microsoft played themselves.
They don't see Nintendo as competition but yet they've directly said to regulators that Sony can become more like Nintendo should the Activision purchase go through.
Makes you think doesn't it.
Lol I’m not trying to start a console war because everyone has a preferred taste of course…I think you maybe right about everything but the xbox controller! You absolute heathen!
Also fellow uk player!3060 is an awesome card so you can enjoy all the good xbox content anyway.
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Lol I’m not trying to start a console war because everyone has a preferred taste of course…
But asymmetrical sticks are objectively better. Even Nintendo knows this lol.
I’m sorry for my words though, be gentle with me.
It sure does.
Funnily enough, MS does pretty well with those "boutique" and esoteric games - I mean Pentiment and Hi Fi for example. It seems to me that is the way MS can go - cheap consoles, handhelds, suit the games they can make successfully. Instead they chase after Sony which is a riskier proposition and that MS are struggling with.
I also don't get why if you're 3rd of 3 - you try to just jump straight to first with a disproportionate acquisition. If MS really thought about Nintendo (and they probably should if only to learn how to be successful) they'd go after them first, lock down 2nd place, then move on first.
They never said that their goal was to realease one AAA game every month. The entire industry combined doesn’t achieve that. Those games take 5 yrs to make.And funnily enough it's the games of that size that are more suited to gamepass if you want to have a steady pipeline.
It would be much easier to pump out 1-2 high quality games a month of that scale with the studios they have than it would be to pump out 1 AAA game a month from those same studios. The only way they get to a point where they can have 1 AAA first party game a month coming from a studio they have is through owning a lion's share of the industry. But I guess that's how and why we've arrived at this junction, they know it themselves as well.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.Gorilla...?
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Well damn Sherlock you sure showed me.A preferred taste is "objectively better"? Uh.....joke?
Well damn Sherlock you sure showed me.
Yes it was a joke, good on you for finding it.
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Well damn Sherlock you sure showed me.
Yes it was a joke, good on you for finding it.
Asymmetrical is still better though![]()
Leave him and his asymmetrical hands alone.Just giving you the benefit of the doubt, man. No need to bring out the horns.![]()
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Like an English Kuze.
Leave him and his asymmetrical hands alone.
Microsoft's biggest problem is that it doesn't feel failure and feedback or have to respond to it in ways that normal companies do.
Without the backing of Microsoft, the Xbox division would have been forced to make a choice: Continue with the Xbone strategy and risk bankruptcy, or change to suit the market. We saw Atari and Sega choose not to change and we saw Nintendo and Sony change to suit the market.
Evolution is adapting to the change in the environment, from external pressures and forces. Microsoft have been able to soak up the feedback and charge ahead into what would have been bankruptcy for any other company, but still come out alive because of their financial failsafe.
Microsoft should stop, look around and take note of what the market wants. Stop listening to online shills like they have since the days of Kinect and listen to the fans who got the xbox to where it was at its' peak.
Gamepass is a great service for B-tier, Indie and AA games; a place to nurture and grow new talent. It is the death of AAA games though. We all want free or cheap games, myself included, but it isn't sustainable for Xbox. The Elite pad v1 is the best controller ever made, the 1X was the best console Microsoft have ever made. They need to stop with the split console idea and rushed off-the-shelf hardware and take some real risks like they did with the xbox360 - minus the RROD.
Microsoft can turn the Xbox division around and turn it into a very profitable department, but they need to have a honest and long, hard look in the mirror.
Some people just have asymmetrical hands it seems. I was born with the fingers in the same places so symmetrical just works better.
McDonald's sells the most "burgers" as well, so...Seems like the majority of controller manufacturers know that asymmetrical is the best, but hey there's always a few freaks out there.
Seems like the majority of controller manufacturers know that asymmetrical is the best, but hey there's always a few freaks out there.
Our lord Gaben made the Steam Deck symmetrical. Because we aren’t mutants. Praise our lord, DenseDeckard!Seems like the majority of controller manufacturers know that asymmetrical is the best, but hey there's always a few freaks out there.
Seems like the majority of controller manufacturers know that asymmetrical is the best, but hey there's always a few freaks out there.
I won't necessarly say that "asymetrical" is the best. But personally what I like is having the left stick up so it is directly under my thumb. The Wii U symetrical configuration with both stick up was fine for me. The asymetrical way of NGC, Xbox and Switch are fine too, i'm just not really a fan of PS, sticks being both under the buttons.
Yes but was hard to understand the muffled sounds from the ball gagsNo news yet from Sarah Bondage camp?
Yep. I can use either or without issues because my brain works. All other debates around it just crack me up.Whatever works for you. I'm amazed when folks actually try to debate personal preferences.
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Obviously not but it shows Microsoft top brass would commit an absolutely obscene amount of capital to win market share from Sony in the gaming space.You think MS transferred 70B into Xbox’s bank account or something?
They never said that their goal was to realease one AAA game every month. The entire industry combined doesn’t achieve that. Those games take 5 yrs to make.
The most aggressive I’ve heard them be was one AAA game every trimester.
That moment when Cope morphs into anti-British sentiment.
Obviously not but it shows Microsoft top brass would commit an absolutely obscene amount of capital to win market share from Sony in the gaming space.
If MS can’t outright buy a huge collection of studios and IP in one go then I’m sure they’d be willing to commit even $5 billion of the $75 to strategically go after the exclusive or timed exclusive deals which would hurt Sony the most and give them the best shot at gaining market share. Think CoD, Battlefield, EA Soccer, From Software games, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter etc. Absolutely nothing would be off the table when you’re talking about that kind of money including any so called loyalty the Japanese third parties apparently have with Sony.
I don’t understand why people wouldn’t think they’d do the above if the acquisition didn’t go through. Do you actually think they’re just going to go back to accepting being trounced every generation all the while their market share shrinks from 30 to 20 to 10%?
MS don’t have Nintendo’s IP or imagination in terms of something out of left field hardware wise to gain market share.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Unfortunately you are 100% accurate.Halo Infinite budget and results proves that ultimately Microsoft doesn’t know how and isn’t interested in creating games. They want to own the platform be it a physical box or game pass and make content providers pay the toll. Essentially their old windows dreams with UWP and the windows store.
The problem is you sort of need incredible games to pull people into the platform and they’re being outcompeted by Sony and Nintendo. Purchasing Activision is all about making competitors less desirable by consumers.
I fully believe if they don’t get Activision they’ll be looking for buyers. Game pass is not getting into the subscriber numbers they need and their hardware platform isn’t doing well neither. No point in continuing to subsidize gamepass if it doesn’t lead to a Netflix like market position.
Nah, dude. I switch between the two very often, and I don't find one to be better compared to the other. If you struggle, then that is a YOU problem.Lol I’m not trying to start a console war because everyone has a preferred taste of course…
But asymmetrical sticks are objectively better. Even Nintendo knows this lol.
I’m sorry for my words though, be gentle with me.
Nah, dude. I switch between the two very often, and I don't find one to be better compared to the other. If you struggle, then that is a YOU problem.
My preference is towards symmetrical having played on it more but I don't find it to be "better" and I certainly do not struggle when I am playing on the Xbox.
Not surprisingly, Destiny is the game I play on both systems, as evidenced by the fact that I have the most hours on it on both haha (I have shared the stats in the past). As for the controllers hurting, I feel like that can happen with both controllers because when I have played Xbox more, I feel the same way and that also applies to PlayStation when I play it more but when I feel like this, there are usually other factors, like if I did a lot of other physical work and switched to gaming. On a low key day, I generally have no issues with any of the controller types hurting. So I don't think one is better than the other... you may get to prefer one over the other but....having used both so much, I just don't see how anyone can say one is "objectively" better.Right on... i actually do struggle with symmetrical a bit though. Like playing Destiny 2 with friends... Xbox all day long but when i switch to Playstation and do something like intense PVP it really hurts my thumbs and my accuracy sucks because it's a bit painful.
Yes. I guess you're just living up to your tag?
Ok?
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Wait, you dont want the hit?Oh hi, daddy.
What would gaf be without the weekly Phil Spencer thread.
He is a very relatable millionaire .Actually a pretty good interview. I like how he doesn't act like he is above everyone. It's crazy how many companies reach out to interview him.