trikster40
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He's just playing the "Woe is me" card to try to influence whatever hope the ABK acquisition still has. "Look, we really need this, or we can't compete."
I think is becoming obvious that their strategy always was the gamepass service push and that they were not invested in creating great games as the ultimate goal, instead buy studios that could pump as much games as it could to feed the gamepass machine, the ABK aquisition must have always being the plan as COD would be the ultimate gamepass killerapp and CMA shut down that hard... now that they have to create great games to compete they just dont know how and/or simply dosent care because its not what they were planning for...If they were to go third party then it would be all about the games.
And that doesn't seem to be an area Phil excels in or has a deep desire to excel in based on his statements.
It's best they keep things the way they are for now until they can get someone in who knows what the hell they are doing with regard to managing creative teams and processes.
duh have you seen an apple consumer switch away?
is much more simple than that:There are several things xbox can do to help the situation.
1) adjust your games back to 60 dollars. Enough of the 70 dollar games. Too expensive.
2) Gamerscore needs to mean something. They need to institute a reward system where your gamer score can earn you swag... either real life or virtual
3) release an honest timeline. They need to focus on games that are here are will be here this year. Enough of showing games that will not be ready for another 2-3 years.
4) Simplify your naming system and stick with it. Enough of the S, X, one X, Series X... What in the actual fuck?
5) they need ambassadors to come out and show off the console... bring it to the masses to let them play with it and test it out. You can never do too many product demos.
6) they need a pack in game or free game with every console. I would throw the newest Halo in ... as the engine is good enough to bring in players as a reintroduction.
focus on fun. MS is always trying to be serious and overly complex... just make it fun.
And finally... please redo the User Interface. It is overly complicated.
But have you heard of gamepass ??? ...People thinking creating great games won't change anything are fucking morons.
Imagine an alternate reality where instead of Take Two being the creators of the GTA and RDR, it was a Xbox IP and was developed by their own internal studios, so every GTA and RDR ever made was a first party Xbox exclusive.
Do you think the market split wouldn't be a bit different?
Step into fucking reality.
Halo 1/2 alone propelled the original Xbox and made the 360 even possible and that console gained marketshare.
Why? Because great exclusives games matter.
Nintendo literally to this day lives off of Mario, Zelda and a few other IP.
Why? Because great exclusives games matter.
This is kind of scary, it seems some of you guys have literally been fucking brainwashed by this campaign Xbox has been on for a while now.
Wake the fuck up.
Great games or the absence of them is really the only thing that matters in this industry.
I am too deep in the Apple ecosystem to switch plus simply hate Androidduh have you seen an apple consumer switch away?
Timdog tweets always read like he’s having a stroke.
I did in 2015, but I will be going back to Apple this year (for phones). Mainly work related.
Oh god, he reproduced.
is not his.Oh god, he reproduced.
You don't need to be on top to be very successful. Look at Apple, Windows and Andriod dominate the market but Apple is still very successful.It's like what they say in Professional wrestling, if your goal isn't to be the World Champion then you shouldn't be in the business.
His little one. Just said that so people don't critic his art.
That's not surprising at all. Since he's in charge he's focused on one thing : making money, not great or even good games. It explains ALL his actions. And yes I know big companies are here to make money, Sony, Nintendo, all of them, but MS is the only one going "all in" in the micro transactions, GAAS, and those kind of shit, and nothing in producing awesome games like they were doing on OG Xbox and 360.This is honestly embarrassing
That interview was insane. The guy who runs Xbox doesn't even have confidence in Xbox or the staff he has producing games.
I did in 2015, but I will be going back to Apple this year (for phones). Mainly work related.
His kid is around 18 by the way..........like father like son.
His kid is around 18 by the way......like father like son.
Lay off the copium. The battle lines have changed in gaming overnight many times.I know people are going around using this argument because benji sales mentioned it, but he glossed over things and simplified it and it's not a good example IMO.
I agree that BOTW, Mario Kart 8, and Mario Odyssey were a triple-combo from hell that did wonders for Nintendo in 2017, but to be able to deliver that, you need a few things in place that Xbox didn't have.
- The market at large thought the Wii-U was an upgraded Wii. It was the worst branded big-three console ever and is hard to compare anything to.
- Even so, the Nintendo games themselves sold fine, even on the tiny install base, this shows how incredibly strong those franchises are. They just needed a different console to thrive on.
- Halo and Gears, the big Xbox franchises, got absolutely decimated during the Xbox One lifecycle, they were not console sellers anymore.
- Xbox's studios from the 360 era degraded during the Xbox One era and lost a lot of talent and momentum.
Xbox did not have big games to push Xbox Series S/X. And I know that you would answer with: "They need to have a higher standard, it's on them if they can't make better games" or something like that. But the truth is, the Xbox studios are not on the level of Sony Santa Monica or internal Nintendo studios. Those studios took years and years to become who they were, you just don't put together studios that can make 95+ games out of nothing. It's a long process and Xbox had nothing like that, the prime-era early 2000s Bungie was the closest to that they ever had.
Imagine this, a huge triple-A game usually takes 4-5 years, so to have any sort of gigantic transformative Halo or Gears game ready for the Series consoles, Phil and Xbox would have had to build top-tier studios in 2014 or 2015. That is when Phil Spencer took over. And even then, that they would be able to build top-tier studios on that scale and that their first game would be a 95+ game, is not realistic.
Even if he somehow managed to put together a top-tier studio in 2015, they would likely just be done with their first game around these times, to be honest. The point is, Xbox lost their capability to build the sort of Halo games they needed when Bungie left, and Gears had ran its course. So his point that Xbox would struggle to out-console Playstation and Nintendo in 2020 with the Series X/S is likely the right take, but it's a stupid thing to say in public.
Oh it's alright, we don't have to agreee. Words can be readead in lots of ways.This is not what he said at all. You can expect good games.
I don't understand why everyone is willfully twisting his words. I suppose it's another example of social media getting people to jump on fake narratives because it's more fun to hate.
I understad what he said but just comes out as lame, and I wonder if he would said the same if GTAVI were exclusive to Xbox. lolI see commentary that if you just build great games, everything would turn around. It's just not true that if we go off and build great games, all of a sudden you're going to see console share shift in some dramatic way.
Oh god, he reproduced.
GOTY Contenders™ even.Look, Xbox doesn't have to make great games. What's all the fuss over great games? Look. I just like a box branded with that specific logo and playing a backlog of old games. You guys really, really, really are obsessed with getting new great games. Personally, I think what Xbox is doing is smart. They are lowering expectation so when they have just mid games, they appear to be classics by comparison.
Don't @ me console fanboys!
Watch the interview, and don't read the skewed nonsense in the OP.Oh it's alright, we don't have to agreee. Words can be readead in lots of ways.
I did. Bought my first Macbook in 2005 and the first iPhone in 2008 - switched (back) to PC in 2012 and bought my first Android phone in 2013. I will never go back to Apple products.Would never happen...ever!
I have a load of them in my offices, and they would NEVER go android no matter what.
Oh god, he reproduced.
Yeah i found that really disturbing. I hope he was saying some nonsense to reassure us about Starfield without even understanding the implications of what he was saying.This is from the Xcast interview.
Does this mean that Starfield was behind Redfall in terms of production milestones? But it's releasing only 4 months after Redfall.
Am I reading this correctly, as in this is a big slip/deal and can indicate that Starfield is also likely coming hot? Or am I totally misreading it and this bears no importance?
He's been having a complete meltdown on Twitter for the last few days, people are even wondering if his account was compromised.Timdog tweets always read like he’s having a stroke.
And they need Hellblade Senua’s Saga to be great.There are several things xbox can do to help the situation.
1) adjust your games back to 60 dollars. Enough of the 70 dollar games. Too expensive.
2) Gamerscore needs to mean something. They need to institute a reward system where your gamer score can earn you swag... either real life or virtual
3) release an honest timeline. They need to focus on games that are here are will be here this year. Enough of showing games that will not be ready for another 2-3 years.
4) Simplify your naming system and stick with it. Enough of the S, X, one X, Series X... What in the actual fuck?
5) they need ambassadors to come out and show off the console... bring it to the masses to let them play with it and test it out. You can never do too many product demos.
6) they need a pack in game or free game with every console. I would throw the newest Halo in ... as the engine is good enough to bring in players as a reintroduction.
focus on fun. MS is always trying to be serious and overly complex... just make it fun.
And finally... please redo the User Interface. It is overly complicated.
So I'm not crazy (yet).Yeah i found that really disturbing. I hope he was saying some nonsense to reassure us about Starfield without even understanding the implications of what he was saying.
You just unlocked an old memory I forgot I had...Gamerscore needs to mean something. They need to institute a reward system where your gamer score can earn you swag... either real life or virtual