Jez wrote a post on X saying that Xbox had been planning this business update since last summer and then canceled it. Really weird…
https://twitter.com/JezCorden/status/1756578788211601616
Getting off Twitter before the official word. It must be bad. Stay strong all!
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I’ll put it like this. Samsung and Apple each sell over 200 million phones a year at way higher than 500 dollars. Also like I said consoles sold is not equal to users especially with a lot of the hardcore buying maybe 2 or more of the same console. Then there is the report from Game industry. Biz on how Playstation consoles sold 17% less and Sony slashing production in half. What more you also have Mat Piscatela saying this year will be all about making it to next year. Also when I look from my perspective i just don’t see much going on in gaming.
At first I just read that as not around for a while today, so just saying peace to his buddies? Meh.
We’ll see.
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classic jez. its bad the xbox community have to rely on such people that cant be trusted to be clear with their sources and messaging. what even does that mean. Is it because he has a personal problem or is it because of the business event? Of course he isnt clear about it to farm engagement as usual
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Of course everyone will be reading into it like the ultimate riddler quest. He is a person. Leave him alone and stop making 9/11 conspiracy look sane.
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Probably more likely for personal reasons or Twitter toxicity than anything. Jez wouldn’t get off Twitter because of whats going to be announced, if it was bad he’d be there vocal about it lol.
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that’s what i am thinking because that could be huge engagement for him what ever is being announced
High end consoles will always be here and will have a massive audience as long as they are the simplest way to play games for the mass market, and they still are, maybe smartphones in the next 5-10 years are powerful enough and compete with consoles but that remains to be seen.
I will believe this when it happens, this console is already at 50+ million sold and it was heavily constrained by stock issues for years, they haven’t even gotten next gen games yet from a ton of their studios and hell GTA6 hasn’t hit yet, a game that won’t even be on PC at launch, the mass market who already love PlayStation will see it as a PS5 exclusive, that game alone can easily move over 30 million PS5s and that’s likely underestimating it, thinking that the PS5 will have a hard time reaching 100 million is naive, this console hasn’t even peaked yet in terms of software, upcoming huge third party games will make sure this thing reaches PS4 numbers easily.
I’m sorry but I have to laugh whenever I see this, game streaming on TV eliminating the use of console is something I will believe only when it happens, and even if it gets to that point consumers have to actually be interested in the concept and abandon their digital console libraries they’ve been spending money in for years, maybe 20 years from now a significant portion of the market will consider it, streaming is simply a hope Microsoft has or had, a way to try to reach hundreds of millions of gamers they can’t reach through consoles alone but it doesn’t mean it will ever take off in the masses, too many things have to happen before it gets there, most people don’t have the internet necessary for it to work and then there’s also the possibility that the masses who are already deep within the PlayStation ecosystem don’t care about streaming until Sony themselves does it.
As for people owning multiple consoles, that is true but mostly in the hardcore but they are the minority, the casuals don’t buy that many consoles and they are the vast majority.
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Maybe we could just wait and see just like normal people instead of speculating based on imagination, it’s only one day until next week.
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That’s just a lie. Starfield was marketed brilliantly.
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Interesting timing, that makes it sound like this is them setting into place their plan once the Activision acquisition closed. Plus, y’know, game ports don’t come out of no where - if Hi Fi Rush is coming anytime soon this been in the works for a while.
I do wonder if part of all this is to do with the on-going FTC drama behind the scenes, the most recent complaint from the FTC was related to Xbox’s argument that they would be in a good position to divest Activision if they lost the ftc case (when arguing why a temporary injunction was not needed) - maybe that’s why we haven’t seen any of their titles hit gamepass.
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no one cares about the ftc anymore. They are irrelevant
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If English isn’t your first language (which is perfectly fine!) please let me know because I can rephrase things to make it easier to understand.
But I wasn’t speaking about the sales figures for the Series console hitting that amount. I think it’ll easily exceed that. I was speaking to the amount needed for third parties to be perfectly comfortable in porting games over.
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Microsoft and the FTC are still duking it out legally behind the scenes so yeah, I think they care.
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I’m not convinced it will hit 40 million this gen. But as for third party support, the ‘next gen’ console initial sales will depend on that, I think if it doesn’t hit 5 million in it’s first year that’s when third party support starts to fade.
Third party support is kind of locked for this gen at least, they have sold enough consoles to be relevant to third parties no matter how much more PS sells and between Game Pass, the time it takes to make games and costs it doesn’t make much sense for Series to be skipped
Next gen however is more uncertain, people currently on Xbox will likely still stay on Xbox as it’s the console they have for this gen but whose to say next gen they don’t just get a PS instead, that’s the danger for third parties
However, if it’s true that they are doing some kind of handheld in 2026, I’d imagine Series S is the kind of power it would be around by that point and if they are very close in specs, it’s an easy port between series and the handheld, everything would still be cross gen at that point anyway and for even longer than this gen so you’d have 30m+ series consoles at that point + whatever they sell for this handheld/next-gen in 26, still a sizeable audience to appeal to for third parties but I guess we will see
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Laugh all you want but game streaming is here, however I think Samsung is the only one that has adopted it. In any case it wasn’t the big point. I’m saying it’s only a matter of time before we get TV’s capable of natively playing our games out of the box. As for streaming I’d ask you to try Geforce Now. I think streaming technology is there, I just don’t know if the server capacity is up to the vision. I also don’t see why one has to abandon their library Geforce now for example allows you to stream your library if it’s on PC. Perhaps more is that streaming can be a good addition that reaches people who are not interested in consoles.
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That’s being a little silly. People can live without a console a mobile phone is now almost essential and a part of everyday life but even the mobile phone market is saturated there is no much growth there
PS5 is on track to beat the PS4 and that’s one of the best-selling consoles of all time. Xbox fans do themselves no favours when they try to downplay the success of PS5.
If Xbox had sold over 45 million consoles 3 years in. We wouldn’t be having this debate at all let’s face it
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True. Its doubtful that Xcloud even being minutely successful on mobile will be toppled by a $700 PS6.
Joke? Everyones projecting it to triple in size in the next 5 to 10 years.