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[BRiT]

@Widey85

Lol I’m guessing Sony will be called geniuses and fêted as pro-consumer for this (despite no doubt revealing only their own batteries will work and probably have an RRP of £50 I bet) - all despite Xbox having had options since the start:

Would not be surprised if battery life was even lower.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

Going Live

[Kals_Els]

September Now & Next | What's now and what's next with Game Pass?

[Haven (Victor)]

@Kals_Els

saw this earlier and I think it’s a really nice program to inform Game Pass gamers. Neat and to the point.

[Sparda3g]

@Haven

saw this earlier and I think it’s a really nice program to inform Game Pass gamers. Neat and to the point.

Especially next month or this month now will be stacked with first party titles.

[RolzRavz]

@TimPhoeniX

[PROTOTYPE] is still available on Steam and Xbox, I suppose PS4 version is up as well. But there are new updates on Steam version that people ara datamining.

EDIT: It’s possible that new PC version is in the works to provide a version for PC Gamepass, and better compatibility with modern PCs. It’s just that they added wrong credits version on Steam.

i want a full remake from the ground up with a better story. The gameplay is phenomenal, it just needed proper curated story mission variety and set pieces

[Staffy]

LMFAO @ those shields in Borderlands 4 that get all…well…excited when enemies hit the player. My brother has one and that female AI voice really gets off on that. It’s freaking hilarious.

I wonder what his wife must be thinking at times when she hears that.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

Going live

[SheepDip]

@Staffy

LMFAO @ those shields in Borderlands 4 that get all…well…excited when enemies hit the player. My brother has one and that female AI voice really gets off on that. It’s freaking hilarious.

I wonder what his wife must be thinking at times when she hears that.

I had that shield and legit had to equip something different when my kids were in the room. That thing was dirty!

[Staffy]

@SheepDip

I had that shield and legit had to equip something different when my kids were in the room. That thing was dirty!

Hahaha oh man, I can imagine. It does get a bit much after a while, if only they had recorded a huge amount of different lines, lol.

[SheepDip]

@Staffy

Hahaha oh man, I can imagine. It does get a bit much after a while, if only they had recorded a huge amount of different lines, lol.

And like, maybe have a line trigger every minute or so, not every 10 seconds.

[Kals_Els]

Behold: The Lego Game Boy has already been modded to play games for real

[toddborn]

Not vibing with Xbox and their decisions these days.

[GamepadX]

@toddborn

Not vibing with Xbox and their decisions these days.

Same.

[GamepadX]

Someone over on Reddit made the observation that with a new Simpsons Movie in 2027 maybe Xbox should make a Simpsons Hit and Run game.

Hopefully they’ve already been making the game for a few years now, but knowing Xbox, they probably haven’t been.

I did make this AI a few weeks ago for fun.

[FacelessSamurai]

@toddborn

Not vibing with Xbox and their decisions these days.

It’s really hard to understand why they’re doing these moves to be honest. Wanting to maximize profits is one thing, but it’s all in bad faith in the eyes of consumers. They’re on track to have their 2nd worst generation ever and the way things are, I’m guessing less people will stick next gen than this one.

Really hope the spreadsheet decision making will pay off for them, as while I like the ecosystem, they are making it harder by the day to keep loving it.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

@FacelessSamurai

It’s really hard to understand why they’re doing these moves to be honest. Wanting to maximize profits is one thing, but it’s all in bad faith in the eyes of consumers. They’re on track to have their 2nd worst generation ever and the way things are, I’m guessing less people will stick next gen than this one.

Really hope the spreadsheet decision making will pay off for them, as while I like the ecosystem, they are making it harder by the day to keep loving it.

They are having their most successful generation ever, making money. It isn’t even close, that is why they are doing this

[Titan]

@FacelessSamurai

It’s really hard to understand why they’re doing these moves to be honest. Wanting to maximize profits is one thing, but it’s all in bad faith in the eyes of consumers. They’re on track to have their 2nd worst generation ever and the way things are, I’m guessing less people will stick next gen than this one.

Really hope the spreadsheet decision making will pay off for them, as while I like the ecosystem, they are making it harder by the day to keep loving it.

Xbox is growing more than ever, it’s bigger than ever, and it’s more more money than ever. The problem is thus. They don’t really have competition, none of the consoles do anymore. They don’t really compete with each other and they also all see the writing on the wall with no significant influx of new gamers. So it all comes down to nickel and diming their existing consumers as they milk mature products that are inevitably (not today or even ten years but eventually) going to die out. They have no reason left to subsidize costs or to offer the most value to consumers. In fact after 10 years of offering the most value to consumers (and Xbox was REALLY generous with benefits earlier on), Xbox just constantly got chastised by media and their console market share never significantly grew. If it worked and the Series X and S sold gangbusters because of game pass or Xbox rewards or having the cheapest next Gen console, then things would be different. None of that happened though. The market spoke and Microsoft is very far from a charity. The cold cruel business machine wasn’t seeing enough return on their investments. Now the focus is on Xbox to grow beyond the console and they just don’t care about offering the most value on console anymore.

[FacelessSamurai]

@Doncabesa

They are having their most successful generation ever, making money. It isn’t even close, that is why they are doing this

I mean, just like Sony and their record revenues, if we adjust for inflation I’d like to see how it would actually fare.

Also, a lot of those revenues on MS’s side come from stuff like ABK and Minecraft which aren’t necessarily « Xbox » revenues per se, even though they are gaming revenues in the end.

So yes they are making more money, but not from « Xbox » itself imo. It’s a combination of things and how don’t know how successful we can attribute this considering it’s a lot from stuff they’ve bought over the years that had nothing to do with Xbox in the end.

MS was successful with their services like O365 and selling windows because they’re somewhat of in a monopolistic situation there and are able to offer way more than the competitors, making it an easy choice even if sometimes it’s more expensive. On Xbox though it’s not the case, so that same strategy doesn’t apply.

Like I said I hope they know what they’re doing as I’m invested in their ecosystem and I want it to succeed. Like I don’t see myself as a rich person, but making 6 figures I consider myself lucky and yet, even I find they’re starting to price me out, so I can only imagine how it is for the rest of the world right now.