Add GamePass being stagnant at ~30M to bolded and it'll need quite some mental gymnastics to support the claim that the brand is strong...
Good to hear you enjoy GamePass, which by itself is fine ofcourse.
Honestly nothing much has changed. The X is a nice machine, but you still have the S there. And the games ....
Deluded for what? For believing Phil Spencer isn't ruining Xbox? For comparing it to the same brand 10 years ago full of TV, TV, TV, KINECT, SPORTS, CALL OF DUTY?
No, while I agree with the Jim part.
Having more on offer doesn't mean Spencer is doing a good job or people are migrating to the Xbox-ecosystem more than last-gen, because the opposite seems to be the case.
Define good.
They have started to finally release games now. And yes, adding to the arsenal does help. ABK is a massive gain.
He's got an up hill battle because for the last decade he went down the hill in record speed ruining Xbox.
seems like they mean business this decade
i like what i see over there.
seems like they mean business this decade
LolWTF. If all those games had been amazing people would think differently!!! NO FUCKING SHIT SHERLOCK.
Bu he was the one person in the whole world who could/had the chance to not have that gap! That's literally his job!
You do what you want. I like what I see.
I want you to do what you're talking about. Wait until the games are released before given props
It's Phil's job to make sure they have the bangers, he is the top dog. He can hire, fire, and restructure anything necessary to achieve this goal. When Nintendo had problems, Iwata didn't cry that it's not his fault because of his teams. He took a pay cut and rolled his sleeves up. Iwata was no footnote, he took direct responsibility for the performance of the company because he knew that responsibility belonged to him.
343, a studio completely formed, owned, hired and intended by MS to make Halo games. But it's not MS's fault they suck, it's just that 343 sucks. This is nonsensical. In fact, the more past evidence there is of 343s failures, the more ridiculous it is that they would allow it to continue without fixing the problem. Newsflash, 343 is simply Microsoft and Phil has complete jurisdiction to roll heads over there if he needs to. And he needed to after MCC, which itself should never have happened.
When days gone had shitty MC nobody faulted sony for that, they were all saying that bend wasn't as good as other sony first parties.
I see what you're saying, But even though their not responsible for making the games, they get blamed for the bad or get praised for the good because their in charge of the company.
Haha, I first read the "to meee" part with a scream of scream of frustration-voice but it reads way funnier if imagined being sung a la Bohemian Rhapsody
Well this is mostly SongGAF, so it’s no real surprise.
Our debate apart, i think days gone sold enough and had enough fans to greenlight a sequel without much fuss between real players (so no woke journalists or console warriors).
I honestly think Spencer is doing the best he can do given he's just a MS corpo guy and Xbox is never going to be great since their direction comes from a company that doesn't have gaming in its DNA.
That's why I'm not talking about Xbox as a console but as a brand. As a console it's never been as profitable or as successful as the competition, except for the 360 era.
An uphill battle that he largely created. He had been in charge for over 10 years at that point.
Sounds more intimidating and more likely to get results than "good guy Phil"
Yes, but Xbox has largely earned it. If I trusted MS to properly manage these studios and they had a history of doing so I would absolutely 100% be singing their praises. But the fact of the matter is that they have totally shit the bed as far as studio management. Phil has been in charge of Xbox for 10 years and he hasn't come remotely close to fixing this. There is no reason why Xbox shouldn't have 1-2 system selling exclusives being released each year by now. None. That falls on shitty leadership. Buying a publisher for $7.5 Billion and securing one exclusive from a legendary studio doesn't change that. I hope I am wrong and that this is the start of something good. I really do. Sony badly needs the competition. But the same people who ran Xbox box into the ground: Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, Aaron Greenberg are still there and I have yet to see a company with shitty management all of the sudden become competent.
Say what you want about Don Mattrick, but his Xbox One had games early on such as Dead Rising 3, Ryse and Killer Instinct. Were those masterpieces? No, but they were fun at times.
Tbf this is not the proper context.
I know the "SonyGAF" reputation but honestly, it appears to me most people give Xbox a fair shake, in fact a higher % of people here probably have a Xbox console than the general public/gaming audience.Well this is mostly SongGAF, so it’s no real surprise.
I mean, I'll admit I lean Sony, my main gripe is that if MS is going to gobble up half of the beloved IPs of the entire industry I just want to know that they're actually going to do something with it rather than letting everything languish in mediocrity. I had a Series S and got rid of it, but I'd still like an excuse to play Gamepass on my PC and as such I'd like to see them succeed in making some decent games.
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