Xbox's Plan Is FINALLY Coming To Fruition, But Few Trust Them
Xbox FINALLY have games! Their showcase went down well, but there’s an undercurrent of worry, given their readiness to slash teams and close studios.
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That Diablo trailer, man. I'm pretty sure even Satan winced at that one.
Ot was a great showace, but the vibe I got is Microsoft has gaven up on selling the Series X or S. They announced a lot of games, but nothing exclusive to their console. There just isn't really a reason to buy their console with everything being avaliable on Steam and Gamepass being on PC outside of cost. I can see gamepass subs increasing as people return and a handful of new users check out the service as games rollout, but I don't see Xboxs flying off shelves for games that can be played elsewhere.
I dont think anyone from Xbox claimed that Hifi Rush was a commercial success to be fair and it wasn't, it sold poorly. They said it exceeded their "metrics" which is typical Xbox double speak.
15:00 Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory hahaha
"Trust is not a commodity to be bartered for."
Does the amount of “A”s in the title of the game studio rank refer to the amount of developers helped make it every A is 1000? Or is it based on the budget used to create the game? Why do we keep adding A’s?
Nope don’t trust em a bit. The more this crap keeps getting pushed the more I hate the idea of it. Wish I had seen this kind of strategy before the acquisition. I won’t be playing call of duty anymore.
It's like you're allergic to praising Xbox in any way. They just had a fantastic showcase and all you can do whinge
As far as the show goes, that was probably the best showcase I've ever seen from any game company. Nonstop games. However, we will have to wait and see how everything turns out.
I never have and still don't see a reason to buy an Xbox when PC is a strictly better Xbox and Playstation has better support and exclusives. But I hate the concept of exclusives.
"Loving" how the term "AAAA games" is already normalized…
I had no idea about the new Age of Mythology. Sweet!
i feel like xbox biggest problem is lack of exclusives, almost every single title from that presentation waslisted on steam for wishlisting they need titles only for the series family of consoles for the rest of its gen also put a larger focus on bringing back retro comp specially for key titles not available anywhere else, i played some of them on my x so much fun and loads of great memories, they need to expand on that, more exclusives and celebrate its own historic titles, and im sure all of us agree we need a proper banjo kazooie adventure
Wait when did AAAA become a term?!?!?!
That Perfect Dark fall from the balcony at @33s is so incredibly scripted – the early 2000 vibes are back, lmao
Clearly you are a grifter, since in your thumbnail it says they have games. It's not like Xbox owned 3 publishers with Xbox game studios, Bethesda softworks and Activision Blizzard for around a year. You just shill for those videos. Just like dreamcastguy. You don't believe in anything you say.
Anyone in here that has GamePass? I'm curious, doesn't that suffer from the same issue as buying several games at the same time, where you just paid more, and basically end up engaging with only one of them?
showcase n game release are completely different things.
the consistent release of quality titles will build the trust.
it won't happen over one game or showcase
Anybody who trusts Microsoft as a platform is willfully blind at this point. They don't like you. They want control over everything you see think or do so it can make them more money, and there is little or nothing that they will stop at to get it.
This has nothing to do with the games they're making. Their platforms are toxic, and people should be abandoning them.
There's a difference between things going rough and absolutely needing to make cuts to survive, and a game being absolutely beloved, that technically sells well, and MS having enough money to give Kotick enough money to keep an entire studio open 17 years "rough"
This applies to both Xbox and PlayStation, where I lose trust in. In this case it's the political issues that these large developers like to push upon others, I play games to escape the real-world issues, not to deal with it in the game. Arrowhead, for example, did it perfectly. Problem with Arrowhead now is what PlayStation did and their balancing issues.
Right now, indie games are where real creativity is. Selaco, for example, shows that creativity in crazy detail in destructive mechanics and weapons. Compared to AssCreed… where they make up false history without using WHAT US INFRONT OF THEM, it was a chance to release something cool, but instead, they folded over to the polically charged environment that is pushing people away, because again, games are a means to entertainment, not a means to bring awareness.
I should also add that when PlayStation or Xbox, even other publishers like EA, decides to drop support for a game or even a dev team, paints a globally negative picture on their name. People would go out of their way to ignore that brand, even if there are exclusives tied to it. EA being a prime example here as there are countless attempts to make gaming into a gambling mechanic, or just not fix what is wrong with the game and drop it entirely… looking at you Mass Effect Andromeda.
I just (15 minutes ago) finished a complete rewatch of BSG on BluRay <3 So say we all!
StarField looked real good in trailers to. I dont care until people get their hands on the game.
Yeah, wooohooo, mid games. Only Age of Mythology, and Stalker 2 are interesting the rest we all they fail before they are even released.
'Games'
More like 'modern audience' consoomer product
Intentionally or not, Microsoft put Hi-Fi Rush's head on a pike as a warning to other dev studios looking for a publisher: "Do not accept any offers from Microsoft, because they'll kill your studio no matter how good you perform."
This is what MS always does. Show a bunch of videos with no game play. All empty promises. Go back and watch a Kinect showcase, About 80% of the games never came out.
Many of these games didn't look like real gameplay. A lot of this stuff looks like it's years away. The roomers is that Perfect Dark just got rebooted again.
Xbox had great trailers but sparse details. Almost no release dates. Be careful of overhyped people.
not sure with how xbox console is being thrashed by playstation console, why would ms approve a handheld xbox? more loss per console attempt to compete against a broken asus ally, and a working steam handheld.
I'm one of those still without gamepass but damn after some of these drop it may be too difficult to resist that for $10 a month on pc. Once they come out that is, a lot of these big ones are 2025 or no date.
I would by a Microsoft hand held so I could take WoW and Diablo on the go plus all their others and I have never bought an Xbox.
Should be clear indicator " all we want is games "
If Microsoft was cutting studios based on merit 343 would not have made 3 terrible halo games.
On Tango. Maybe the relationship just didn’t work, or it was a studio with some deep deep work culture issues. Phil isn’t going to air that stuff publicly.
They shut it down, if it doesn’t make sense from the visible financials, it might have been other stuff and he’s being a professional by not answering openly.
Sometimes there’s stuff you just can’t say in public.
No idea though. HiFi Rush is awesome. Terrible to lose that team :(.
Geoff showcased smaller games because he had NO choice. All the big publishers hold their own shows as well as some smaller publishers like Devolver Digital and Ghost Ship Publishing.
I'd be down for like a Windows 11 X handheld device. Like Steam OS, it boots first into an Xbox flavored front end where you can select your games. But it also has an option to switch to a desktop mode, which is just some version of Windows 11. I know there are a million things that could go wrong with it, and I still would prefer to use my Steam Deck. But having been a Windows user since the days of 98, It's just what I'm more comfortable using.
And I'm not interested in the Ayaneo device line. It's just a little too pricy for me at the moment when I can play everything I want to on other devices. But a dedicated Xbox device that is guaranteed to have a minimum level of quality does sound appealing.
Xbox has been a punching bag for the better part of the last decade. Unless they can consistently pump out 3A games the way Sony has they're going to continue falling behind, forcing them to continue with their multiplatform death.
How can they axe Hifi rush devs but still make SOD3…
Personally, I don't understand the HUGE mindshare that PlayStation is this incredibly superior machine. Even people who don't play video games want a PS just because it's "The best (if not only) console". I really hope Xbox is able to flip that mindset around, but I think they messed up soooo bad last gen that it made everyone label them as phonies.
Bellular is exceedingly forgiving with his Xbox coverage as per usual. I actually really enjoy the bound worship to Phil Spencer, who is an inveterate liar. But brain damage does that.
I trust all their games will be on ps so I'm glad they have a great show so I can play some of these games!
Love to hear people complain about growth slowing down. This is only a problem for people who have more money than they can have in the bank: People who own capital, whos money are growing more slowly than before.
Would be interested to see whether at some point WOW will come to Gamepass, so you could play it by having gamepass subscription. Would feel like a great way to lure in more players
Sorry but I have some opinion to these UR5 games. They look like more and more same game with different skins at the moment. More soul-like game, fine, but why downgrade your CG like a slideshow ? Draw the weapon by left hand, just for transfer it to right hand… Who designed that brain-dead action ? And I didn't mention those ''respected scene'' yet. Either these guys are blind or uncare of, all the bad trend rushed from smartphone game back to consoles. If someone think I focused any one of them, then I think I am.
Easily one of the best showcases ever; however, you can’t play a showcase. If Sony had shown something similar, I would’ve been beyond excited, but given Xbox’s travails, I’m just hopeful for now
After they ruined Arkane Studios with Redfall and closed so many studios and let people go, well, I will never trust Microsoft again in any case.
Not to say that I still be able to be convinced by passionate work of game developers and their craft.
So when there will be good games it is not because of Microsoft and their masterplan but because of great talents and artists which they haven’t fired yet.
Phil Spencer and co. Can go to hell, I mean, their bank account make it a very sweet and pleasant arrival if they once leave the gaming industry.
This „I am a gamer since“ blah. Nope.
Don’t trust it anymore.
Microsoft are a bunch of very greedy people with absolutely no interest in games whatsoever.
But luckily some of their employees are.
I hope for lovely games and good projects for the people.
So they can leave for better companies.
The obvious answer RE: Tango is that Microsoft was planning to close it before Hi Fi Rush came out, and that the reason it was shadow dropped is that the studio was winding down. Both Tango and Arkane Austin lost a lot of key talent that made them what they were so it isn't really that shocking. It is a bad situation all the way around really
What does texture streaming have to do with a continuous online connection?
One thing most forget, we as customers in the end will never truly give a fuck about how companies are being ran, we just care about getting good games that most pay for, trying to talk about morality has no place here, if people cared about shit like that then we would still be using pagers and walk barefooted to gather our berries and roll the boulder to close our cave for the night.