Man, this is literally the dumbest decision I’ve ever seen in gaming. Xbox revenue was considerably bigger than Activision, because of their hardware, subscriptions and software sales.
Now they dropped all that, and are focusing solely on getting Sony’s and Nintendo’s 70% cut that they get from being third party. While none of their other games will sell nearly as well as cod on PS. What a braindead idea. There’s no way this would increase MS revenue, even short term.
The reason Xbox hasn’t responded yet is because they’re investigating who’s leaking this information whether it’s an actual employee or a disgruntled employee who was laid off.
In order to find out, you start leaking information around and see which one starts to spread. Lot’s high level organizations use this tactic when there is a PR crisis.
No day 1 sounds like something the XBLG price hike crew would do so I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s already not Day 1 for the really big releases anyway with the early access option.
Nah because these leaks are what is causing the PR crisis.
Yeah, let the biggest PR crisis in the history of your company happen for days so you can find a leaker. Makes sense.
If this was all self inflicted by MS management themselves, they’re even dumber than I thought.
This is the frustrating part, we are only just starting to see the exclusives from some of the studios they’ve acquired.
Ninja Theory, Obsidian, Inxile Undead Labs etc.
Now we finally get them after repeatedly being told wait until next year this happens.
IMO if they go down this route it should be 6 months for GamePass and 12-18 months minimum for other platforms. I still think it would tank their hardware sales.
If they drop Game Pass day one I’m done with Xbox. But I think this is just TFMA (tales from my ass)
I’m crying and shaking rn
Could of been the plan for a while I guess.
Probably was their backup plan if they didn’t move enough consoles.
So they didn’t think about how all those day 1 in GP games would potentially make it too costly ??
I feel like someone is having a good laugh with all this.
Let’s just forget they plastered Xbox exclusive after the teaser, come on, I really hate this “we always said it”, because it’s not true, they lied if it’s true.
This is the sort of news they’ll drop on a Friday
It is good that MS games come on playstation in 2024. Thus, there will be 1st party games on ps5 this year.
They are the biggest market cap of the world. They do things that matter and make sense.
Big companies miss all the time. The Xbox One launch is proof of that.
Until they show the numbers, we have to believe that it made sense and it makes sense still. We saw how far Gamepass grew with it and maybe we need more acquisitions to have a monthly tap. Increase the price of Gamepass by another 5 or 10 bucks would be worth it. Take COD off PS next gen as well. The regulators wont do anything to MS.
They have that market cap because of their enterprise products. They’re consumer products have not moved the needle in the slightest and many of them have just been money they’ve set on fire.
Agreed.
Still, they play the long run race and we all know Sony position is unstainable. Go figure.
Does anyone think that with all these rumours and such a sudden change that the next gen xbox has been cancelled by MS leadership?