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Microsoft Xbox Helix My Thoughts

So come at for the following, but this is what I think.

With the recent discussions about exclusivity, the reasons for
Xbox's lack of sucess has been mainly in my view that their 1st party games have been good enough to play on a system you own already, but simply havent been good enough to buy a system for in the eyes of most.
I think the lack of significant impact on xbox system sales from something like Starfield in combination with the fact the xbox games released on ps5 have sold well so far proves that.
Good enough to buy and play on a system they own - but not good enough to buy a new system for.
And even though I enjoy the playstation more, clearly, I do like some xbox stuff, love the 1st 3 Gears games, haven't tried the last few xbox made entries, and I understand the Forza Horizon series is really good, probably xbox's best system seller right now. Of course there's COD, I'm not much into it personally anymore though.
So Xbox, get your studio management together and crank out games good enough to make people want to buy system to play them, and incentivize it by not releasing your games on other systems.
And stop giving your big games away day one as well.
No company got big success in this market NOT doing these things.
And you're a gigantic fucking company, if you can afford to blow 70B on Activision for Phil's career moment, you can afford to figure out how to subsidize this fucking thing and make it affordable.
Oh one more thing: Tell your exec's to SHUT THE FUCK UP for 5 minutes please. Just do your jobs, keep busy until you have something really meaningful to share and do so.
But we dont an interview, x post or whatever for whatever random thought floats through your heads at work, thanks.
It's one thing I like more about the nintendo/sony exec is that they dont yap nearly as much lol.
Not that they dont have stupid exec's as well, i will celebrate when Hulst is fired lol.
 
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Helix DEEZ NUTS buddy.

Fake edit: but real answer, Xbox set itself for failure with Game Pass and trying to ape Snoy with games feeling a bit too much like each other. They also had too many idiotic decisions in the past and their big IPs got stale or shit or both. There isn't a clear path to relevance.
 
Xbox's struggle is attributed to first-party games being good but not compelling enough to drive console purchases. Strong sales on other platforms reinforce this. The argument calls for better exclusives, tighter studio management, fewer day-one releases elsewhere, and less executive chatter to strengthen the brand and boost hardware sales.

Thanks ChatGPT
 
Oh one more thing: Tell your exec's to SHUT THE FUCK UP for 5 minutes please. Just do your jobs, keep busy until you have something really meaningful to share and do so.
I agree with this part. Until there is actual hardware in the hands of actual gamers. I don't want to hear any more CEO anything.
Until they have actual games that are actually worth it, I don't want to hear about exclusive talk either.

I blame Topher Topher He keeps making Xbox threads that have no real information. It's all that guys fault.
 
personally anymore though.
So Xbox, get your studio management together and crank out games good enough to make people want to buy system
It's crazy that this statement is the one valid statement since Xbox One.

Just let that sink in.

SONY fixed their Bullshit in like 5 years.... from that second half of the PS3 era and culminating with the entire PS4 generartion

Today, wound be exponentially harder, expensive and more time consuming to do what Sony did back then.

Everyone knows what Xbox has to do... But they will never be able to accomplish It.

People invested in that brand and their acquired IPs... Just need to pray for MS not to completely destroy them.


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Someone posts a legitimate criticism of your favorite toy and you respond with this?
Ahh yes, the old no xbox criticism allowed song and dance routine.
As if my opinion is isolated lmfao!
Nah, I don't care if someone makes fun of a toy. I just needed some help to make sense of the rambling word salad.
 
People who already play on console have already chosen. They already have a big enough library somewhere and there will be no swapping sides.

And new gamers will choose what's the most popular, PS or PC.

Meaning Helix's golden ticket here is it's PC side. If Microsoft can avoid to restrict the PC side, and still make it feel like a proper console with access to PC stores, then it could grow out of the 70:30 split console bubble it would otherwise be stuck in or worse.

Exclusives build up hype but also pull in more negativity from those left outside. So it's a struggle to handle PR.
Might be better to pull in more people from exclusive features, from allowing access to PC stores, plus 4 generations of Xbox backwards compatibility. If they don't mess up it's going to look very appealing for those not already stuck with a big prebuilt library somewhere else. But luring over PlayStation fans at this point ain't possible.
 
Helix is going to fail no matter what. Xbox is dead and the only reasonable way forward would be to acknowledge it and stop putting out hardware alltogether.
 
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