If you said back in 2005 that the Xbox 360 would be pushing more units than the most popular video game console of all time (PS2) did at a similar point in its life cycle most gamers would dismiss you as either misinformed or a lunatic.
By putting Black Ops 6 on Game Pass, Microsoft plans to gauge its growth, pricing, and monetization changes, at the cost of less game sales.
If they have follow up games that are bangers, then this strategy will work. But if it’s Call of Duty followed another dead period then it won’t last.
When the game does not hit 1 Billion in revenue in under two weeks they will wonder why and the next thing you know; Season Updates will no longer be free.
subscribers go up, execs celebrate win, get bonus, price goes up, subscribers go down,
execs dont care, got their bonus,
If it works CEOs and shareholders get a payday and if it doesn't even more studios get closed by MS so CEOs and shareholders get a payday.
It will sell on PC & PS but as long as COD is for rent on Gamepass it will not sell well on the XB platform. Most folks such as myself that like COD just for the campaign would rather rent it for that month instead of paying $70 plus tax for the game.
The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.
Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)
Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke
Really good video.
I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.
Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.
Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue
I found this video painful to watch. Can someone list them out?
Top 10 for me from are:
1. 2013 reveal presentation
2. Bundling Kinect 2 with Xbox One
3. RRoD or why rushing to market with hardware is always a bad idea.
4. Buying studios only to close them.
5. Ads on the Home Screen
6. Letting Halo die.
7. Letting Geard of War die.
8. Every console name
9. Charging for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 when Sony let PS3 players play online for free.
10. Cancelling release of OG Xbox games after the Xbox 360 launched.
Microsoft recently revealed its plans to incorporate Copilot directly into video games, with Minecraft being the first showcased example.
F*** AI
"Hey Copilot, what's a good meme to prove I dislike AI".... https://giphy.com/clips/sou...
Two trillion dollar company that just can't wait to put as many people possible out of work as fast as possible.
It feels like every single thing they do is making gaming worse and destroying the industry.
Why all the hate? Im actually excited about this! Always wanted this kind of immersion, and an AI companion with me all the time helping me out knowing the status of my skills/inventory/progress and giving me tips on the best approach or how to craft something specific is game changing for the industry.
Hate all you want about AI, but this is just the start and I can see the potential already. You wont be complaining in the next 5-10 years about this, but rather complain if a game hasn’t implemented it.
Don't see what the big deal is. MS was #2 last gen and they are still #2 this gen. Nintendo and Sony switched places. Nintendo and Sony both have console gen wars championship belts around their waste, MS does not. Nintendo is a 3 time champ, Sony is a 2 time champ, and MS has never won that title. MS's fanboys knows this so they make up a new title by saying "Xbox is the #1 HD console". By saying "HD" they can exclude the Wii who is the true winner this gen.
Instead MS's fanboys try to change and create titles and change words to make their God MS look like a champion. It used to be all about exclusives(remember when they said "PS3 has no games"?), and now they say exclusives don't matter but they desperately try to make MS have exclusives that came from the PC platform and coined the term "console exclusive".
They said "I have a console to play games" when the PS3 released with media features and now they are all to happy to pay to use Youtube and Facebook on Xbox.
When people complain about the lack of games on Xbox they post links to MS's financial reports as if we can put that in our console and play it.
When the PS3 released and consistently sold more than Xbox each year they started to only count sales in America.
Because MS can't support their own console with exclusive content like Sony and Nintendo they spend money on DLC to come to Xbox 30 days early and coined the phrase "timed exclusive".
1 year gap over PS3, and only +1 milion units.
this is a fail.
I predicted 360 dead upon the arrival of PS3, no matter what that price was. PS3 was a certainty in most people's minds following the unstoppable might of the previous 2 generations that Sony had comfortably stomped the opposition to death. The truth is people thought Sony were going to do a repeat of what they'd done so comfortably before and they didn't- far from it in fact
Considering rrod as well, MS has done remarkably well and their might now in America is an enviable position. I backed MS last gen but i had no faith to be honest 360 would make any impact so it's rather shocking it's doing so well
Nobody could have predicted how much pie Sony would lose this gen and on top of this, Japan isn't taken quite as seriously anymore by gamers and that's a bigger deal that people think concerning Sony. No matter how you look at this, MS has done superbly well and Sony rather less so this gen
Personally i'd rather there was just the one format and so it's nice how things have become more even
People can argue all day long, it really has no effect. I think the Playstation right now is the better system, there, I said it. That doesn't matter because most of these lunatics here on N4G that bicker back and forth are nobodies and are actually just the minority out there with loud voices.
We need competition, we don't need one company dominating. Sony decided to price the Playstation 3 up to $600. That wasn't Microsofts fault or Nintendos.
One thing I will give major props to Microsoft is making Sony more accountable. Now consumers have a much better choice this gen and will going into next gen. I like having choices but it's clear on N4G who they continue to root for. Problem is, who's listening?