ShaiKhulud1989
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Most of XKCDs doodles aged surprisingly well. Sadly.
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MarkMe2525
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XXL
Member
Agreed. But this is a puff piece.
I'm not saying anything major has happened here, I'm just saying the framing suggested that.
XXL
Member
I agree. Check my reply to Adam below you.
Daniel_Mallorca1985
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Freelance Yakuza
Member
It's official then
dmaul1114
Member
Can't see myself buying another Xbox console or a handheld, given I'm leaning strongly toward dropping consoles and moving to PC gaming.
Hope GamePass survives though. I love subscription services as I don't care about owning my games, movies etc. as I rarely revisit things and have never enjoyed collecting things. Subscrption services are way cheaper for someone like me who just plays games once. Though I realize it's maybe not sustainable money wise in the AAA space with how much games cost to make these days. So I'm fine buying those--just way more selective in what I buy given there's always things I'm wanting to get to on GamePass, PS+ extra, freebies I've claimed on PC (can only play non-intensive games on my 2016 gaming PC these days though) etc.
Hope GamePass survives though. I love subscription services as I don't care about owning my games, movies etc. as I rarely revisit things and have never enjoyed collecting things. Subscrption services are way cheaper for someone like me who just plays games once. Though I realize it's maybe not sustainable money wise in the AAA space with how much games cost to make these days. So I'm fine buying those--just way more selective in what I buy given there's always things I'm wanting to get to on GamePass, PS+ extra, freebies I've claimed on PC (can only play non-intensive games on my 2016 gaming PC these days though) etc.
Guardian Monkey
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
$80b in the hole and conditioned less-spend to the consumer will do that to ya.
Kacho
Member
I hope it's something interesting and not an announcement of late Final Fantasy ports. While I like seeing Xbox get more games, since so many miss the platform, the constant third party catchup they're doing for their platform is sad.
But Phil's recent Twitter activity is still interesting. He has far less presence on the platform and that, IMO, looks bad for their future. Even Aaron Greenberg is falling back on retweets more than actual tweets, and his tweets have comments turned off. Why? These dudes seem down bad.
MayauMiao
Member
All I see is a puff piece to make her a target for more firings while Lord Savior Phil Spencer will remain unscathed.
Nydius
Member
Me looking for any new information in that “article”:
As others have rightly pointed out, this is nothing more than a PR puff piece to make Sarah Bond look better. It doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know, doesn’t give us any further insight into Xbox’s future plans, and simply repeats the same vague language they’ve been using all year.
I’d like my few minutes I wasted reading the article back but, alas…
As others have rightly pointed out, this is nothing more than a PR puff piece to make Sarah Bond look better. It doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know, doesn’t give us any further insight into Xbox’s future plans, and simply repeats the same vague language they’ve been using all year.
I’d like my few minutes I wasted reading the article back but, alas…
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
There are few interesting nuggets about portable still being hanging in the air and Sarah not really vibing with Phil though.Me looking for any new information in that “article”:
As others have rightly pointed out, this is nothing more than a PR puff piece to make Sarah Bond look better. It doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know, doesn’t give us any further insight into Xbox’s future plans, and simply repeats the same vague language they’ve been using all year.
I’d like my few minutes I wasted reading the article back but, alas…
splattered
Member
So who killed Xbox... Phil or Sarah?
bitbydeath
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Sarah got the activision deal over the line;Me looking for any new information in that “article”:
As others have rightly pointed out, this is nothing more than a PR puff piece to make Sarah Bond look better. It doesn’t tell us anything we don’t already know, doesn’t give us any further insight into Xbox’s future plans, and simply repeats the same vague language they’ve been using all year.
I’d like my few minutes I wasted reading the article back but, alas…
Sarah got promoted two weeks after celebration to make Xbox more diverse AKA 3rd party;
Sarah struggles to understand Phil.
Those were all new to me.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Stupidity
Kacho
Member
It never falls on a single person in a company as large as Microsoft.
Timberwolf25
Member
The problem with those examples are that both of those portables were actually pretty good hardware wise.
Windows phone couldn't make a dent because it couldn't get devs to make windows phone version of the apps, but the UI was something I thought was better than either android or IOS had at the time.
The Zune was a superior portable media player to the Ipod. MS couldn't do shit against the monoply that Apple had on the music business as they were locked up via exclusives. But the music quality and desktop app were way better functionally than Apple. At the time, I used it as my PC media player because it so good even though I owned an Ipod.
I agree they don't have a good track record with handhelds though.
Little Chicken
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Our Mother,
Who art in Washington,
Sarah be Thy name;
Thy Game Pass come;
Thy Market won on PC as it is on console.
Give us this day a handheld Xbox;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive Freegunners who trespass against us;
and lead us not into PlayStation, but deliver us from Sony.
Hail Sarah, full of Games.
Who art in Washington,
Sarah be Thy name;
Thy Game Pass come;
Thy Market won on PC as it is on console.
Give us this day a handheld Xbox;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive Freegunners who trespass against us;
and lead us not into PlayStation, but deliver us from Sony.
Hail Sarah, full of Games.
Kacho
Member
Still have my Zune. Amazing hardware. Love it.
nowhat
Member
You know why that was (that there was no developer support)? It was because Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, tied the OS to a particular SOC. So you had "partners" like Samsung producing Windows Phones - you want the next version of the OS, well fuck you, because you need the next chipset. It was the most braindead decision I've ever seen in corporate management. It's like they wanted the platform to fail.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Our Mother,
Who art in Washington,
Sarah be Thy name;
Thy Game Pass come;
Thy Market won on PC as it is on console.
Give us this day a handheld Xbox;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive Freegunners who trespass against us;
and lead us not into PlayStation, but deliver us from Sony.
Hail Sarah, full of Games.
Little Chicken
Member
Fess
Member
Sarah hasn’t made things better yet that’s for sure. But all the higher ups are to blame. And having nothing new and exciting in 2 years is going to be a mountain to climb when PS5 Pro and Switch 2 are out.
bitbydeath
Member
Agreed. People often don’t look back on these but their TGS conference will probably explain the reasoning for this article’s release.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
- Sarah and Phil are not friends and clash a lot
- GP running costs are around 1bil a year
- Mobile is not so hot and ABK King deal is suffering because of it
- Xbox is not meeting internal metrics and expectations
- 3rd party releases was mainly Bond's idea along with huge concessions to navigate the ABK deal
- Portable is flying around, but at the moment it's on a stage of an early idea, than some cocnrete product
- Bond T-mobile background really helped during ABK deal phase because she used to work with erratic CEOs
Feel free to steal this, OP
cireza
Member
We already most of this, or it is irrelevant, is what I meant. But thanks for the effort.
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Well it's from more or less verified source this time, I guess.
The whole piece reads like Phil's final hoorah and some straw for significant hardware repositioning.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Reads like Phil's power was basically demoted.
Daneel Elijah
Member
Shit.You got me to read the article. Last year it was Brad Smith that got the Activision deal accepted by the regulators. This year it is Sarah Bond. In 10 years one of her interns will reveal that they got the idea that magically got the CMA to back up?
Beyond the biography of Sarah Bond, and the fact that yes, she is a gamer that can give her dad advice on the phone about Super mario bros(
) I loved how each time they put her and Spencer in the same sentence she is praised and he is not. The guy got to sleep and she stay to work. The guy is white so he does not get heat from gamers as she do. And she recently got a great meeting about the future of Xbox and how much grow they can have. Honestly this is where they got to far for me. If there is one thing where Spencer can't be beat is on being positive.At least they admited that she was not good in her interview with bloomberg a few months ago. Curious to see what they plan to do at TGS and how they will make the transition between her and Phil Spencer happen.
Kacho
Member
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Our Mother,
Who art in Washington,
Sarah be Thy name;
Thy Game Pass come;
Thy Market won on PC as it is on console.
Give us this day a handheld Xbox;
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive Freegunners who trespass against us;
and lead us not into PlayStation, but deliver us from Sony.
Hail Sarah, full of Games.
The holy father, mother and the prodigal child.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Well said sir
Team Andromeda
Banned
No interest in shitty handheld gaming but can't wait for a beast of a Xbox console and also have no issues with subscription based gaming.
Killjoy-NL
Member
It's beyond retarded.
They might be able to compete with Steamdeck, which sold like what? 3M units?
That's a complete joke, but something Xbox could manage to beat.
If they're going to compete with Nintendo? Well, all the best luck to em.
SEGAvangelist
Member
I think that's a dub in this case.
clarky
Gold Member
It all comes down to games. Which Xbox are sorely lacking. Simples.
Astray
Member
My gut feeling is this is a set-up for Sarah Bond to succeed Phil.
Which honestly speaking is probably better than Booty taking over.
XXL
Member
I agree 100%
The direction they went with this puff piece is more telling than anything she said directly.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Ok, so now they are preparing the fanboys for a transition and we can see the Istituto Luce style propaganda machine whirring up… as they expect people to just lap it up.
Xbox’s President on Handheld Consoles and Subscription Gaming
A relative outsider, Sarah Bond is leading a high-stakes transformation of a company that’s lagging behind Sony and Nintendo.www.bloomberg.com
In doing that they are giving us some true gems:
Do they realise that this makes them look like complete buffoons?
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Killjoy-NL
Member
Doesn't even matter anymore, since they're going 3rd party.
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clarky
Gold Member
It does matter if your games are shit.
March Climber
Member
Time will tell if she was put in this position as a set up to be the fall guy on a sinking ship, or if she was put in position because she knows how to turn a ship around.
Killjoy-NL
Member
Sure, but that's a different matter.
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