Honestly? just start dropping them and put up a blog post from Booty
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I would say you are partially right as I don’t think it’s a good thing for everyone or that it is about losing interest really. For some of the twitter warriors sure, but the rest of us? There’s no Us vs. Them thing beyond some friendly competition and banter. Having attachement to a brand is not exactly the full extent or the best description of it either, it can be memories of good times, circumstances in peoples life, escapism, experiences and other things we don’t know which creates this attachment, not to the brand or corp behind it, but the sum of all the parts and what they might mean to people.
Of course it’s about the games, but all those things around the games is what gives the sense of something more. Be that community, making friends, memories of playing Xbox with your dad or a thousand other things. Why would anyone applaud what they see as the beginning of the end of that which provided those things?
Does it have to be the end? No, but the uncertainty and percieved threat of that is obviously enough for a lot of people to feel disillusioned. Does all the reactions make sense? No, but emotions are rarely rational.
I just don’t think it’s as easy as “lol play games” all the time.
(These are my opinions and I don’t claim to represent everyone out there)
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Yeah, I suspect as much too.
Wtf is wrong with people? I’m not even a native English speaker, and that is not what he said or how he said it.
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If console sales slow down this much I don’t see why any of the console manufacturers would make this gen even longer than previous ones; I would actually think they’d make them shorter and blend generations so that it’s not anymore about exclusive content on the newer systems, but better performance and that’s it. At this point what matters is how many players are in your ecosystem and have access to your content, not how many people own which specific version of your plastic box. Just make the development tools support that and you’re golden. I understand some people worry that titles won’t be able to squeeze every last drop of the latest systems, but I think it’s a good compromise.
If GTA6 doesn’t do magic for console sales next year, I wouldn’t be surprises if MS and Sony fast track next gen to be honest.
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I am only just catching up on Twitter today.
The sad part is this is just one of many:
https://twitter.com/chaosprimeZ/status/1761842469950435778?t=3sMO7CpS_OBlHImcdnBu-A&s=19
There are a good 50-100 more just on my feed along with links to Reddit and a thread on IconEra.
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There’s no way this game isn’t exclusive. In fact, everything will stay exclusive for quite some time, especially the big hitters, and slowly released on other platforms as they see fit. People are going to end up so disappointed thinking the floodgates have been opened as I think they couldn’t be any further away from the truth. ES6 would make sense elsewhere as it was previously available on other platforms in the past, but MS isn’t stupid and will milk the exclusivity period with all of their games. Big titles will most likely stay exclusive the longest.
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On their way out of what? lol. Again not going to tell people that they are wrong for not being ok with this move, even If I did I am not going to convince them other wise and neither are you. No use attempting to change anyone’s mind about this if they dislike it.
MS is definitely “ahead of the curve” when it comes to killing their own momentum. Nobody excels at it better than they do. Coming off of a successful Developer Direct to pivot right into to this now? Before their next major exclusive drops, before their summer showcase. lol.
They’ve managed to steer the conversation away from their upcoming slate of games and Gamepass releases, every outlet and podcast is discussing what Xbox games will come to PS5 and will be for the foreseeable future. It just is what it is. Now everyone wants to turn their nose u at xbox fans who don’t like this move and tell them they’re wrong for feeling the way they do. No it’s perfectly understandable. The irony is now people are mad at so called “fanboys” for not being on board with what the console maker is doing.
Even funnier to me is they cultivated this so called “rabid” fanbase for years and now they want to undo what they themselves created. (Though I realise this is more of a Microsoft thing than an Xbox thing. I’ve always been an Xbox fan in spite of MS not because of them. It’s clear many in the company wanted the division shuttered for years but we all know that story.) They are the ones that built the so called “fanboys” up to begin with. Sony’s been doing the same for ages in their own way.
There should always be competition in this space, that is what breeds innovation and keeps the other guy in check and is ultimately best for the consumer. Don’t believe me, look at the ISP situation in the states. To a lesser degree the outright anime streaming monopoly that Sony has now unchecked, buying the competition and raising prices.
You can sugarcoat it all you want, this is MS just throwing in the towel because they couldn’t beat Playstation. The crazy part being they didn’t even really try. They could have maybe waited to see the impact that ActiBlizz would have on console sales, maybe advertised a bit and got more people on board with Gamepass. Maybe put more effort into cracking Europe. All the coulda woulda shouldas don’t matter now though. As I said before, the hardcore fans are the ones buying the hardware day one.
If they’re truly done with xbox, It will be interesting to see how Phil and co will bring them back.
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Who’s done with Xbox? The trolls on Twitter that pretend to be fans and have “allegedly” switched? The anecdotal “all my friends have sold their Series X and bought PS5s” that are supposedly happening everywhere? That conversation isn’t happening anywhere in the real world, sorry to break it to you.
MS didn’t create fanboys. I remember very well the days of Saturn/N64 and PS1 and PS players shitting on Saturn or on the N64 because it was for kids. MS didn’t nurture anything special in terms of hardcore fanboys compared to the competition.
I also do not see how they messed anything up. All this mess was created by the press which amplified all of this mess to extremes when it was barely anything. All 4 games could have been announced as it happened in a blog post and not made big, just like Ori for example. Instead, this very site, Tom Warren, Jez, everyone basically calling themselves insiders and trying to get some game started spreading g tons of rumours around and all of a sudden, everything was apparently on the table and in the works for all platforms, until we learned it was only 4 games. The people online made this mess, not MS. People made up that everything will be brought over, not MS. People are assuming that MS were getting out of the console business, something MS denied immediately.
All this shit that’s been going on is due to the stupid discourse online because apparently, everyone has sources now and knows more than even the Xbox executives.
This has been a big orchestrated farce to be honest, and I don’t have any other words for it except to say that people who overreact over this or overthink it are, quite simply, stupid. They can buy a PS5 to play PS5 games if they want, but I can guarantee they won’t be playing all of the titles coming out of MS’s 30+ studios in the future.
MS isn’t throwing no towels, that’s you assuming things, and assuming quite wrong in fact. Actiblizz will have no impact as all of it is already multiplatform and there is nothing in the pipeline coming out shortly anyway. Adding them in Gamepass this year and in upcoming years for the new COD games will have whatever effect it has no matter what happens right now.
As far as we know, nothing has changed for the time being and MA is just trying to get new customers elsewhere with hopes of rallying them over to Xbox through Gamepass/xCloud or an upcoming Series console sale. They literally just laid out their strategy on their podcast, this wasn’t some mind game they were playing, there wasn’t some tricky fuckery going on in there, it was plain as day!
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WOW. Seriously I do get your point, but I don’t think they’re done but I do think sometimes they do need a wakeup call or reality check and this just might be it. I also do think Xbox is made up of mostly hardcore gamers that tend to be in tune to some level of what goes on, so seeing all this I do imagine will result in some hit to their business. It could be Game Pass which I think is all that is holding Xbox right now. I do feel that they are having some deep discussions on all this and how to curtail as I think it would be difficult to have any event without clearing the air. The last thing they need is the uncertainty surrounding games. For me though I think if they could come up with a way of getting the entire platform on PC and other capable devices like Steam has done with the Deck it would be a big step to righting things.
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They didn’t create fanboy but they built a community and Peter Moore on IronLords pretty much said it’s just something you have to do when you’re the underdog. As for messaging they are aware of how things are done in this industry, they aren’t new so they should have known messaging was key and they have in some ways bungled it. I do think to some extent the Xbox console consists mainly of hardcore and News does spread fast especially when it is misinformation remember 2013. I don’t think the situation is as bad as some see it.
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They could have killed the craziness when it started, however, they let it go to Halo, Gears and all stuff being developed for ps5. Being reasonable on social networks doesn’t exist, it was certain ppl would take advantage to viralize content, especially in a time any idiot can be an insider. Then they came with the business update thing, which, in my opinion was a big damage control scene.
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The thing is it doesn’t matter if they tried to kill it. That’s exactly what they did with the podcast announcement, yet people now are still trying to twist things and push the narrative that it’s all a facade and that they’re lying.
Because they are the underdog you have quite literally the equivalent of Russian troll farms on the web, but instead they are Sony troll farms made up of fanboys and all they do is push their crap online non stop. I see it all the time on Twitter, even on Eurogamer Facebook posts I see people with freakin accounts dedicated to their PlayStation personas shitting on Xbox at every occasion.
MS could open up their summer showcase and say that Call of Duty is now exclusive moving on and you’d have every website out there claiming this is just PR due to the way Phil was blinking his eyes rapidly as he was saying it and that it’s definitely a lie. At this point they understand that all this social media fanboy bullshit is all this is, bullshit, and that instead of jumping on and playing the trolls’ games, they just execute on their plan and let the results speak for themselves, which is what any smart and sane company executive would do.
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I agree with you that whatever they say it will always be ppl twisting their words (fanboys, websites, etc), but in part because their message is never clear enough. Can we trust what Phil Spencer says? He said sony uses their store tax of MS games to fund 3rd party deals, still they decided to broaden Xbox games on Playstation. I dont think they are done by any means (on console, maybe, I don’t know), but in the end of the day is a money matter. If they see that a game will make more being on PS, they will put it there at the expense of Xbox brand. Lets see how this will pan out for them.
I see a lot of people say this but I actually have a different take.
This is more of a reaction to the overzealous government regulators. Xbox and Microsoft have decided to prop up the competition because frankly saving PlayStation and Nintendo is what the regulators are worried about. Microsoft is a big company with big ambitions in AI and Cloud. The gaming division is just going to have to take this one on the chin so the larger company can move forward.
People do need to understand that Xbox has shifted its gaming plans in a big way. At this point, Microsoft isn’t acting logically for any sort of money reasons when it comes to Xbox. They are going to prop up PlayStation and Nintendo, that means exclusives are all debatable going forward. Most likely timed exclusives.
It is what it is . At this point there is tons of confusion about the future direction of the Xbox brand. Obviously Microsoft is all in on gaming because of how many studios and ip Xbox owns… but… it definitely feels different now. To me it seems Xbox is committed to helping the competition rather than competing with them. Technically it is about “money” but it’s not about Xbox’s money, it’s about Microsoft’s money, if that makes sense.
Let’s not forget Microsoft has been here before. Microsoft helped save Apple back in the day.
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Would you say they were all in on it? 
I guess will see. Some of the people you label are the ones that attend their fan events and show cases and here from them not so much the casuals. If they are uncertain of things, I think it’s a problem. Also, Xbox own staff seemingly had similar reactions so much they had to be addressed in a town hall meeting. So, I don’t think this is a nothing burger. Only time will tell now.
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Does this person work at Microsoft? https://twitter.com/Delilah_HD/status/1761925443618234434
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120FPS on PS5 but not on Xbox Series X| Pentiment
Great export!
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