Well, I assumed that the thread would be about misery and complaints. Constructive criticism is fine, but we need a place for meltdown and misery too in order not to pollute other topics.
And I mean seriusly, nothing wrong with wanting Xbox to do the same things as Sony. I wanted a banner with Starfield in the mall!
UK/USA checkbox checked They had some AoE marketing in USA and UK.
But thatâs again more Youtube/Twitter oriented market. On Twitter Xbox is doing just fine.
Sony put a banner on a new generation of Lithuanian (or Latvian donât remember) tram (made with soviet technologies)âŚEven grandmas will know that characterâŚ
Honestly, weâre not looking for meltdowns or misery over a hobby because you want it to sell things to you better. We try to not over moderate but those who continually feel the need to make sure threads are dominated by their anger at not being marketed to properly arenât part of the board anymore.
It depends on the tone, what is a thread like this looking to accomplish? Sony started in Japan, has a huge European presence. Xbox started in the US and while they dominate globally with certain products have never been focused marketing-wise the same way Sony has. PR has now moved under Phil, does that mean changes or more of the same? None of us can or do know, so having a âlets only be negative about thingsâ thread is only a negative. There is nothing positive to come out of this even if it means âless negativity in other threadsâ. Negativity is fine if youâre looking to be constructive about it.
A wonderful aspiration for a problem that shouldnât exist. This thread will not pull everything out of other discussions because there are things to be negative about that relate to them from time to time. Having one massively toxic thread is not going to change that.
I think considering in the past it was better (I saw Xbox commercials during 360 gen and early X1 gen), it means the current leadership is accountable for that (the timings are too precise) and itâs also a big reason why Xbox struggles outside NA. I think also itâs cost sensitive and thatâs why I donât expect huge changes, they are good enough with the small steps strategy outside what they consider the core countries.
But it is unfair to compare to Game Pass access simply becuase those 18m will be the sales rather people trying the game in subscription service they already have. But I donât doubt it will reach 18m in sales faster than Horizon Zero Dawn (it was around 20m right after a couple of years which is also a lot).
It appears some of yâall still canât know what criticism is. Iâll tell you what it isnât though, itâs not dismissal. You can criticize things that are missing or arenât done well, but donât dismiss a lot of whatâs been done or move the goalpists to dismiss them.
But bringing engagement number is not the valid argument. Rainbox Six Extraction got 5m, but it does not mean that if Horizon wonât get 5m during the same time frame, RS:E would be more successful (though Horizon might reach those numbers)
Denying this or feeling hurt about this statement, that is a fact. Means that thereâs something wrong with you actually.
This chip shortage was a godsend for Xbox and Microsoft to have enough time to put their and in motion without Playstation overtaking this gen. This is a fact.
Itâs a bad thing in general but helped Microsoft ultimately.
Thereâs a TON of things Microsoft needs to address before being truly big in gaming.
These type of âthere is something wrong you withâ statements are highly insulting. I already stated before I do not believe anything is a certainty in a scenario that didnât and has yet to ever actually happen.