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Notice how XBox is quietly doing well?

I remember it was exactly 2 years ago - Scalebound was cancelled and everyone was losing their shit. Trolls were ecstatic, predicting XBox was going to be sold off, etc.. 2 years later, XBox as as profitable as it's ever been, reputation is good and they've still sold 25% of the consoles in this generation despite the games problem.

One thing I do not notice very much anymore are trollish comments that predict XBox will be sold off any day now. Even the die-hard PS4 fanboys accept Xbox is not going anywhere. That alone is a victory.
 
I'm still waiting on the day microsoft announces a recuperation of their $6 billion loss on the xbox gaming division. Seems they have accepted that loss and intend to keep xbox alive in the long term. It's a market penetration success. Financially it's akin to military spending in peacetime.
 

Vawn

Banned
Very quietly in the sense that no exclusive software worth talking about.

But very noisy from the PR perspective. They're constantly promising the moon without results, but that's been their status-quo for a long while now.
 

Sub_Level

wants to fuck an Asian grill.
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ODESZA

Member
Was Scalebound even that important? would of been a great exclusive. But I doubt it would of made a difference.
 
Scalebound would have been a huge, open-world JRPG exclusive to XBox. Yes it was a big deal. That's why the rumored Fable game is important.
 
Why is this thread worthy?

because hes a fanboy i guess?. xbox isn't doing great, microsoft is . its easy to make profit off digital platform investment. tho they are making the right moves for next gen .

for now. in my books and many others. xbox one is the worst game console since probably sega saturn. even the staurn might actually have more high profile exclusives than the xbone

if consoles had no exclusives. I'd literally buy a good gaming laptop. and just hook up the HDMI to the tv whenever I want to play a game instead of buying a dedicated machine that takes space. exclusives are incentive to invest in a platform which makes sense.
 
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This might be one of the cringiest things I've seen in so long. The fucking cult of personality around Phil is hilarious. I think Phil is great, and has really helped the Xbox brand but people are weirdly obsessed with him. He's a corporate leader not your best friend.
 
One thing I do not notice very much anymore are trollish comments that predict XBox will be sold off any day now. Even the die-hard PS4 fanboys accept Xbox is not going anywhere. That alone is a victory.

I don't want to be overly mean, but I think this is because nobody cares anymore, this isn't even a race anymore... sorry
 

AgentP

Thinks mods influence posters politics. Promoted to QAnon Editor.
Doing well by what metric?

Sales? Positive posts on Gaf?
 

Barakov

Member
I think they turned it around pretty well, not as well as Sony did with the PS3 but pretty good. Xbox exclusives being on PC I think has done more harm than good for the brand.

What is it about the Xbox brand that makes certain people want to constantly shill for it?
Xbox 360 nostalgia, I bet. Also, I think some people still prefer the controller and generally just want Xbox to be healthy again. Honestly even with the Xbox 1 X, that thing still kinda sucks to use, UI wise. The metro UI was and still is a clunky, cumbersome mistake that should be thrown in a dumpster.
 

lynux3

Member
I haven't noticed anything. First party studios still in limbo with another promise they're going to do better in the future, Xbox console sales are at an all time low and Microsoft investing a good amount of money into their Project xCloud using the worst version of their current console. The same current console that Digital Foundry has mentioned over and over again recently about how games are progressively getting worse and worse as the generation comes to an end. I have faith their first party studios are going to start looking a bit better here in the next 2-3 years, but they have a lot of ground to cover. Buying a bunch of a mediocre to decent studios isn't exactly confirmation they're doing well.
 

Z..

Member
What is it about the Xbox brand that makes certain people want to constantly shill for it?
I have to assume patriotism plays it's part in this considering how prevalent this sort of thing is here vs the ResetEra more liberal leaning xbox fandom. I've noticed most extremely pro-xbox types tend to lean right and hail from the US.
 

Airbus Jr

Banned
Latest global hardware report from last month/ January 5th 2019

Nintendo Switch : 434,421
PS4 : 356,566
Xbox One : 85, 458

Indeed the Xbox One is quietly doing well so far op I'm so happy for them 😍
 
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bitbydeath

Member
Latest global hardware report from last month/ January 5th 2019

Nintendo Switch : 434,421
PS4 : 356,566
Xbox One : 85, 458

Indeed the Xbox One is quietly doing well so far op I'm so happy for them 😍

All numbers are too low for a month.
That’s probably a week.
 

Airbus Jr

Banned
The brand is pretty dead outside of the US.


The issues is that vgchartz uses completely made up numbers. I still don't understand why that site got unbanned from GAF.

Like people said around here they re copying numbers from other sources

Problem is I don't know the source/website for that

I'll be glad if someone here can help us know about it
 
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