Meanwhile, they broke a record during holiday 2023:
PlayStation made $9.8 billion in holiday 2023, a new historic all-time high
Sony's PlayStation games division generated a record-breaking $9.766 billion in holiday 2023, driven by strong hardware and software sales and mTX.www.tweaktown.com
PS5 is also carrying the console-market hard.
You took the bait
Actually curious what they say, listening now
Why does this look fake and real at the same time?"We're putting a lot of effort into creating an Xbox Series S/X version of a game where to be honest with you the market for us is PC and PS5."
Below is a photo of said executive getting interviewed by Dring.
switch is a console.
"hybrid"
It was more that they couldn't sustain two seperate ecosystems (Wii U didn't just lack AAA games, it lacked AA games too).
A hybrid console
If the common denominator between all these unproductive studios is that they are operated by Xbox managers, then that is the real problem. The popular narrative coming out is that Xbox managers have no idea what a bad game looks like, so they couldn't notice an incoming disastrous release if it punches them in the face.
The complaints are twofold;
is really quite simple:My big question is….why is MS allowing this leadership team to continue on?
What the hell has Matt Booty or Sarah Bond done to keep their jobs?
You want to argue Phil should keep his job? I 100% disagree but what ever….
I mean how much worse can it get? You’re seeing Hail Marys being thrown right now….and this is supposed to be good?
Get new voices in there, get them out…it can’t get much worse.
I’d actually be interested to see what a new leadership team could do with XBox.
Welcome friend from an alternate universe where Xbox didn't get budget and support.
Who is this quote from? Does it even matter?
What is the percentage of contract work vs. full time? every company has contractors, I don't think that's an example of no money. It's more an example of bad management.
Motorsport is absolute trash. It's a decent driving game wrapped in a mobile f2p package you had to pay full price for. Some of the recent updates have even made the game worse, it's yet another series that's been sent out to die under Phil and all the marketing lies about "from the ground up" only made things worse.
is not about "no money" is about not being committed to the medium and the industry.
we can go back and forth on this. 360 and kinenkt showed MS how successful it can be and they did put a lot of money into Xbox One, they had top devs like Insominac doing exclusives like Sunset Overdrive, etc. I don't think they pulled the plug before Xone, it's just that it did so bad then they thought about it, and now they basically poured so much money into Xbox you can't deny that they are not given what they need to succeed.
I don't care about meta scores of reviewers that might not even play sim games. Feel free to point at the score when everybody stops playing the game even though GT7 is still hugely popular. I'm a huge Forza fan since the first game and I've played over 60 hours of this shit trying to overlook all the major issues while focusing on the gameplay and I still can't. I eventually gave up regretting both my purchase and the time I spent hoping there might be something more to it. It's trash on fire, they spent 6 years to make something so much worse than Forza 7 it's not even funny.
Because MS doesn't understand what it takes to be successful in this business.
Halo was a shit show in part thanks to MS's policies.
commitment to this medium and industry goes beyond just money. that's the point.
but isn't it clear now that with the acquisition of Bethesda and AB, that they are?
I will put it in this way:
I don't care about meta scores of reviewers that might not even play sim games. Feel free to point at the score when everybody stops playing the game even though GT7 is still hugely popular. I'm a huge Forza fan since the first game and I've played over 60 hours of this shit trying to overlook all the major issues while focusing on the gameplay and I still can't. I eventually gave up regretting both my purchase and the time I spent hoping there might be something more to it. It's trash on fire, they spent 6 years to make something so much worse than Forza 7 it's not even funny.
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I mean, the game barely came out and it's already dead. GaaS and all. This is what the people that play these games actually think of it.
B.. But the metascore..
60 hours is a drop in the ocean for a game such as this, I have hundreds if not thousands of hours on most other Forza and GT games. Yeah, I really wanted to like it thus I gave it a fair chance. I'm sure the opinion of those that played two races on gamepass and never touched it again is more valid than mine.
Horizon 5 is also available on gamepass and released in 2021, it has 15k users right now on steam vs 400 on motorsport that is barely 6 months old. If that doesn't tell you anything about the actual state of the game, then perhaps you should be looking at your own bias.
Booty and Phil are proof that some people can keep their jobs no matter what. But hey, they promoted Sarah Bond to make themselves look more diverse right?
Haha, I just can't. MS gave Phil everything. he is not bad at his job because MS neglected him he is just bad at his job. MS would have done better to cut the son and find a long lost relative at this point.
FM is a disastrous flop lol, you can't argue with facts. T10 don't have any future it will be either closed down or thrown into the cod slave factory there is no other possibilities
