Killjoy-NL
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Microsoft Business Update Podcast | OT | SEGABOX |
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MonkeyClaw36
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Ehhhh they didn't
Have you actually SEEN the same podcast as everyone else?
I'll take NO for 500 Karen.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Ehhhh they didn't
Have you actually SEEN the same podcast as everyone else?
Yes, but have you ?
Oh I don't know about the seriously part, but multiple posters were definitely hoping for it.
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Killjoy-NL
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That statement is open to a lot of speculation, which I already addressed in a previous reply. Which you said you didn't read because you're in complete denial.
I wonder if that's how you watched the video.
You probably heard "4 games" and "next generation road map" and everything flew by or went way over your head.
skyfall
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You guys are in copesville
They also mentioned consoles will be their flagship
Xbox's Promise to Bring More Games to More Players Around the World - Xbox Wire
Today, on a special edition of the Official Xbox Podcast, we shared an update on plans to continue to bring more games to more people around the world.
news.xbox.com
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
So they say there's a roadmap for the next gen with the biggest leap yet. You've convinced yourself that it could mean a tablet and now you're telling others that thing flew by over their heads.
Go home grumpy cat.
Killjoy-NL
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We're still mid-gen.
And just like Switch, it's technically a console as well.
The benefit of a hybrid.
I think "available on Xbox platforms" is key here.
PaintTinJr
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But a single set of financials doesn't tell the whole story. You'd have to take their initial Spider-man investment with all the other versions on console and PC and check back after 10years after Spider-man 3 releases on PC to see what the ROI was. The game's finances seem to follow the big film releases, where it is a long return on a solid investment so long as the quality is there and the IP/franchise does a lot of the heavy sales lifting too.
Roblox looks like the industry eating itself with a race to the bottom. And given the choice between Roblox infestation in A-AAA gaming or losing Xbox, I'll happily take the future where PlayStation is the unopposed VHS/DVD/Blu-Ray/UHD player to sell high quality blockbuster to indie games on.
Ironically, games like Spiderman would be less risky if there was only one winner in the high-end console space. Xbox's very presence artificially propped up by Microsoft's finances makes it harder for PlayStation to take further financial risks with hardware to expand the market, as was their intention with the $500M risk they took on Cell BE R&D on the PS3 that nearly sunk them as a company.
Killjoy-NL
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Don't worry, I'm fully aware that it could mean a powerful console just as easily.
I'm saying that some sort of digital-only console/hybrid seems more logical, since now that they confirmed basically any Xbox title can potentially go multiplatform after a year, a traditional console will be pretty much DOA.
Little Chicken
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Give us an ARMxNvidia Xbox then, Sarah.
Mephisto40
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"Technological Leap" probably means more games running from the cloud instead of on updated hardware
The fact that they have not even mentioned a new console and are instead going for this "Technological leap" jargon should be throwing up red flags
Orbital2060
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Killjoy-NL
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"Games over a year old"
"Premier experience experience on Xbox"
"If it makes sense"
Low sales due to low installbase and increasing cost of AAA production make for a very sensible reason to make games multiplatform.
Watch it again, there are tiny bits of the puzzle spread across the entire podcast.
It's just a matter of connecting the dots.
It's not like most people aren't aware, it's just a specific minority that is acting obtuse.
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Cyberpunkd
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I think it's safe to say at this point the Xbox management team has absolutely no strategy in place and is just making stuff as you go.
intheinbetween
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From my understanding the technological leap might be related with Generative AI (MS is currently working on their own AI chips), rather than streaming from the cloud
Mephisto40
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Either way the wording coming from Microsoft right now is sounding suspiciously like the "Power of the cloud" nonsense they tried to fool the general public with during the xbox one reveal
intheinbetween
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The wording says very little if anything, and honestly this has nothing to do with the XBO reveal since this is just a "promise" and not a reveal. They will have to show the receipts if they claim it's a truly technological leap when they reveal the new console
Kenneth Haight
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Off topic but Phil looks really unhealthy. He looks bloated AF, guy needs to get away from the CEO chair or sofa and get moving for the sake of his health.
DJ12
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Ultimately they cannot be the biggest third party publisher, if they don't release any third party games.
I believe that's what Sarah said, about being the biggest third party?
Sorry to say if people think it's just these 4 games in the works, they've been sipping from Pinnochio Spencer's furry ball purse for too long.
Take the PR 'business update' in isolation and sure believe it if you want to, however look at everything else from the past week and it becomes clear it's at best economical with the truth.
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Bumblebeetuna
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We're gonna keep doing this song and dance all this year and next, aren't we ?
The dream never dies
Also what is this in lots of threads about new Xbox hardware this year?
HeisenbergFX4
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ManaByte
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Pretty sure the reason the Surface team is building it is because they're going ARM.
Astray
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When this fails (because Sony isn't asleep at the wheel anymore, even with the GAAS push they secured and are still securing a lot of singleplayer games for the PS5 launch), they will decide that maybe a console with a red ring of death aesthetic will be the one.
They have no clue what they are doing and are chasing ghosts of past successes.
Bumblebeetuna
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Thanks. I saw some people saying “ultra powerful hardware” but this seems like it could just be a redesign or something
Punished Miku
Gold Member
If all their shooters have gyro control I'll buy yet another controller.
Elysium44
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You guys are in copesville
They also mentioned consoles will be their flagship
Xbox's Promise to Bring More Games to More Players Around the World - Xbox Wire
Today, on a special edition of the Official Xbox Podcast, we shared an update on plans to continue to bring more games to more people around the world.
For someone who's got a digital library on 360, including many non-backwards compatible games, it is anything but a convenient experience to find them to redownload them. It would just be nice if they didn't keep lying. Make the actual experience great and then by all means boast about it. (You have to go onto the 360 and laboriously slowly scroll through a very very long list to find them manually.)
On Series consoles it still lacks basic functionality like the ability to disable the stupid quick resume, which means I need to manually 'quit' each game before I power off, otherwise it causes problems with save or achievement progression in tons of games. This sort of thing could be done in five minutes and has been asked for since 2020. I'm sick of their laziness.
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NuclearDiarrhea
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That's what playing Diablo IV non-stop does to you.
HeisenbergFX4
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RoboEight
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Yep it’s the usual suspects as always and the same “insiders” that were wrong and blew all of this out of the water.
ManaByte
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Yet people are still listening to those insiders who are continuing to spew BS just for additional clicks because of confirmation bias.
Topher
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You are overplaying that hand dude. Small uninformed minority of folks doesn't mean much so let's not inflate this into something more than that.
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King Dazzar
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Maybe its the leaked refresh, but just happening later than originally planned or handheld....Thanks. I saw some people saying “ultra powerful hardware” but this seems like it could just be a redesign or something
DJ12
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Did he explain why he made his 'giving Phil a BJ face'
Not listening to a word that clown says.
DaleinCalgary
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If Microsoft is being serious at turning a profit they will need to release all the game studios games they bought on every console available. If Activision Blizzard is worth 70 billion they need to sell a lot of games from them.
ManaByte
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Are you forgetting about how the entire front page of gaming for the last week was nothing but "MICROSOFT IS SEGA AND GOING THIRD PARTY! XBOX IS FINALLY DEAD! LETS PARTY!"
Mephisto40
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I dont think he's got anything to apologise for tbh, it's clear as day these games are going multi-platform, Microsoft are just refusing to talk about it at the moment
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Topher
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Some idiots on twitter is not the "entire front page of gaming" my man. And we were talking about posters on GAF regardless so you can dial back your hyperbole.
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King Dazzar
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Are they not going third party then?
Ass of Can Whooping
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- Insiders leak plans of xbox fp titles going to PS/Switch
- Xbox confirms plans are true
- "See! Insiders were just bullshitting after all"
Can't make this shit up lmao
- Xbox confirms plans are true
- "See! Insiders were just bullshitting after all"
Can't make this shit up lmao
Banjo64
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You missed a step
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
We both saw the amount of posters talking about it here, I'm not even referencing Twitter in general, I don't know why you're running defense for anyone.
There's posters on the last page who are refusing to acknowledge the hardware roadmap.
Basically. Weeks of memes about it and now that it hasn't happened, backpedalling, " well of course no one really expected it".
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saintjules
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Topher
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I'm not "running defense" for anyone. If you want to call out a guy who was saying this was going to be about the cancellation of Xbox hardware then have at it. So where were all these posters claiming Microsoft was going to cancel hardware yesterday? The way you talk there were multiple threads about this. Did I miss them?
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Gameplay Gods Bless
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It can't be the largest leap if it's a handheld. Maybe their strategy is to do what people ask Nintendo to do i.e make a Switch 2 but also make a docked only switch that is like a Series X/PS5. Games will have a high performance mode i.e handheld mode, performance mode i.e home console performance mode and quality mode i.e home console quality mode.