He is objectively a good interviewer. People just like to hold internet grudges because of something he said years ago.
There is a lot of rumors out there and it seems everyone gravitates towards it. Xbox has not said they are going full third party. This rumors and subtle tweets almost feel like a way to push gamers into accepting an idea that has not been confirmed.
The June showcase will have full on answers when everyone interviews Phil and the Xbox team and when they have to face fans in person.
The same folks that make a big deal about third party marketing deals suddenly don’t think having the biggest one (CoD) is going to move the needle in terms of sales for Xbox consoles.
Honestly, the Xbox console is dead crew on social media have nothing insightful to say since they’re repeating the same opinions and thoughts in decisions made months and months ago on a tri-weekly basis almost. It’s fine if you think Xbox consoles are dead or whatever but just… move on to PS, PC, or Nintendo or whatever. We don’t need the same takes from months ago hidden behind “jokes,” satire, or sarcasm.
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Guessing you might mean the Twitter-sphere / gaming media but I said something similar above, that I don’t think there will be huge console sales between now and next generation.
To clarify, it’s not that I think Xbox is dead, or that CoD won’t have an impact, it’s more to illustrate that Game Pass subs and third parties won’t be skipping Xbox anytime soon as it’s got a critical mass even if it’s not up with PS5.
I do think both Xbox and Sony will sell a decent number of consoles before next generation, but that we’re likely past the halfway mark or further in sales already, given the overall counts are likely to be down compared to last gen.
But it’s why I’m interested to see the next generation plans - it seems Xbox have some big new ideas, and I think that’ll help shake up the market even more than CoD etc. with everyone doing their own thing
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It’s looking bad in terms of sales for Xbox, but hopefully a new all digital Series X, COD bundle, and lots of games till the end of the year will help a bit as I’m sure there are still lots of gamers on PS4 and Xbox One looking to make the switch to next gen and there will definitely be a surge in sales next year with GTA6 so MS needs to capitalize on this.
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More likely, with console sales shrinking on every platform, these companies will push content and services over hardware.
Will be curious to see how all three proceed over the next few years.
Switch is still selling well though this far into the console’s life and the upcoming Switch will probably breathe new life into their sales. PS5 will either slow down or eat away at Xbox sales in the US, which is why I think MS still needs to do their best to retain the console base from last gen as most Gamepass subscribers are on consoles so if they are to keep pushing services they really need those console users. PC is an avenue for growth and cloud as well but at the same time I don’t think they want to lose the market share they already have as the Steam monopoly on PC means Gamepass PC is a hard sell for a majority of users.
And to be fair, he did acknowledge he was wrong on an episode on Unlocked
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Oh did he? I feel bad now as I thought he kept tripling down.
To be fair I use it as a slight ribbing, not in a venemous or snarky way.
He’s never going to live that down, and nor should he tbh. Such a ridiculous thing to say.
While true, people tend to forget that the Switch hasn’t sold much more than half of what Nintendo sold when they had separate home and handheld consoles.
With increasing competition from smartphones/tablets and handheld PCs (and probably Xbox/PS as well) I don’t see the Switch 2 selling anywhere near as well, unless they can come up with some sort of unique function again.
I hope that wasn’t Nick or Jez. Because Playstation has shown time and time again they do not have their fingers on the pulse (HD2 just the tip of the iceberg)
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only jez can have such a bad take 
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https://twitter.com/pierre485_/status/1787766089742500211 They don’t care. They’ve completely managed to avoid the HD budget trap because low budget stuff like Mario Party can sell 20 million units, and the budget for that simply isn’t going to be drastically different than the Switch 1. Scope creep doesn’t apply when half their 10-20 million sellers are going to be party and fitness games - oh, sure, 3D Mario and Zelda budgets are going up, but they haven’t trained their entire playerbase to only give a shit about their big budget titles - Mario Party is worth 60 (soon to be 70 dollars) see, because that’s what it’s listed as and its never going to go on sale. What are you going to do, buy the 3rd party minigame collection without Mario in it? Good joke. Their profits are higher than ever - they’ll dip during the transition, sure, but Switch 2 will likely:
- Be drastically cheaper than PS5 and Xbox
- Launch with a shit ton of highly anticipated and highly rated exclusives (3D Mario, new Mario Kart like a month after launch, that new Pokemon will probably have a graphics mode on Switch 2, Metroid Prime 4 better be there, etc)
Frankly, it’s PS and Xbox hardware that are probably in critical danger if the Switch is even barely powerful enough to recieve ports - 8th gen games are within the territory of “they look good enough” that the casual market just is not going to give too much of a shit about any further graphical leaps beyond proper ray tracing, which isn’t happening properly until next gen. The smartphone market was already mature by 2017 - but that didn’t prevent the Switch from exploding and still continuing to sell well in its 8th year, clearly competition hasn’t stopped the Switch from selling despite the gigantic power gap - it hasn’t even gotten a single price cut! On the contrary, the better selling model is the more expensive version these days.
And the handheld PC market is growing, sure, but it is still incredibly niche. The LTD sales of the entire industry is liable to be outsold by the Switch 2 in a month or two.
All good and valid points. But I was just pointing out that console sales are down across the board, including Nintendo. Which is also a valid point. Well, in my opinion at least. 
If your user base keeps shrinking, at some point you’re gonna run into problems. It’ll likely take longer to hit Nintendo, but it’ll still hit them.
And they better have backwards compatibility in the Switch 2, otherwise it might hit them rather quick.
yeah -30% for Xbox AND PS (every month this year) roughly 15% for Nintendo. Users are shrinking but spending is still increasing, people are still hung up on hardware though, its not always translating to follow-through on software.
Shows a shift towards PC and Mobile.
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I think the multiplatform idea was needed for Hi-Fi but it appears that it failed and well, here’s the consequences.
The HiFi rush situation makes even less sense now. Guess we won’t be getting a sequel either… Hope those devs find work.
Especially from someone who works that long in the industry and talked so many times with developers…what a ridiculous thing to say.
The fact that Switch sold this much in an era where almost everyone has a device that can play videogames on them is a tremendous success and achievement (you don’t have to like what Nintendo is doing to admit this I think), 2017-2024 is a completely different gaming landscape when compared to the DS era and trying to compare the two periods is disingenuous at best. And this doesn’t include the amazing software attach rates and overall sales of their 1st party software on the system…at those prices too.
There is no need to be so fast in declaring console gaming as dead (we’ve heard that so many times at this point) so we can excuse Xbox’s potentially full on multiplatform plans, the Sony Too/Nintendo Too damage control theories don’t work at this point because being first at doing something even if is the right thing to do doesn’t always leads to success…guess who was first at the always online and TV TV TV party and is still paying the price, I am pretty sure that Don Mattrick wasn’t an idiot and looked at numbers and pies back in 2012 too that “justified” his plans for the Xbox One launch/generation.
Having the right/logical plans for the future is one part of the equation the when and how is the second and maybe even most important part as well…especially now that gaming is entering uncharted territories where F2P is slowly suffocating almost everything else in the industry - while at the same time affecting the P2P industry from game design (rpg/grinding elements in a lot of games) to player expectations (game length over replay value), AAA publisher plans (risk averse decisions favoring familiarity over innovation) e.t.c.
This was their only studio in Japan. This is a really bad look. I just hope this doesn’t lead to more Japanese publishers distancing their games from Xbox.
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