Christopher, you're fighting a block wall here - Ein will continue twisting and contorting any remark to fit his self-created narrative.
"Game Pass failed because from day one it was maintained by subsidization"
I do agree with Eonjay here - *if* Microsoft got the subs they want, Game Pass could have worked. Microsoft assumed people would buy into a subscription service like they already do for TV and Movies and Music.
But that didn't work out, at all, with the catastrophic consequences that we're seeing today.
"Microsoft actually said they were go...
I think 2022 killed the Series X.
2021 was a good year for Xbox though and maybe the best in a long long time, hardware and software and as a publisher. Halo Infinite launched to popularity, Forza Horizon 5 blew everyone away, Psychonauts 2 was so well received, Flight Simulator on console, Deathloop even on PS5 & PC.
But they followed that up with next to nothing. Then 2023 with Redfall, a disappointing Forza, Starfield, and 2024 leads with closures ...
Jim Ryan also went on a world tour to celebrate *himself* days before shutting down London Studio.
But - that was then, this is now, Jim Ryan isn't there anymore, Spencer is, and this isn't about Ryan, this is about Spencer and yet another failure among many others under his leadership and whatever the heck Matt Booty is doing.
I know, right?
And the former head of Turn10 became the head of Xbox Game Studios only back in November. What a load of pride and accomplishment
I pre-ordered the game on Sunday on Steam before all this madness. Having it through Game Pass, I know I'll install it on Xbox to compare console vs Ultrawide on PC, but PC is where I want to play and I was compelled to buy it for how astounding of an experience the first one was to me.
Considering the time they were allowed to work on something only 8 hours long, I'm highly hoping that these are going to be some of the most well-polished 8 hours of the generation s...
Or they could compete with Mad Catz
The article on how to double jump would be twice as long
I mean, it was available on Steam in far many more regions than PS is so it maths out there alone.
What did happen to Obscure?
Arrowhead's CEO is awesome and so transparent; they're demonstrating they're a gamer-first studio and will stand by our side even with a publishing partner as big as Sony.
I haven't seen anyone blaming Arrowhead except the dumb "but you knew!" takes... Which are useless, it's still the publisher that listed it for sale in unsupported countries.
Their first-announced Series game going out like this. Their marketing so far has just been a daily tweet or two the last week.
And now this will overshadow everything up till and through its release. Maybe Ninja Theory will get the same dignity as Tango and bow out with a better PS5 port.
Sony's tried taking aim at direct access to titles they list in countries they don't have any intent on actually providing support to.
And yet you're still arguing about cleavage being "censored" from one outfit when there's still more revealing outfits in the game.
I will not be less of an asshole when *this* is the molehill you're choosing to make out to be Everest. You're clearly not playing the game.
I'm gonna take the word of the director over the word of lonely bitter losers crying about digital cleavage.
Again. If you play the game instead of posturing and whining about it, you too can enjoy far more risque outfits than the stupid bunny outfit you're having a tizzy over.
The outfit I'm wearing in that game is far more revealing than what they "censored".
Unstable fanboys making a victim of themselves for not having the slightest clue what "censored" actually means.
Helldivers 2 controversy - justified. Anger at the MS news today - justified.
Stellar Blade's 10th most revealing outfit getting a bit more cloth - what kind of loser do you have to be to throw a hissy fit over tha...
If they're to keep anyone, I'd hope it would be Sarah Bond. She's at least consistent, constantly doing quick tweets with green emojis where she can, repping the brand, saying the next hardware will be the biggest leap ever (whatever that means).
Phil Spencer openly minimizes Xbox by going out of his way to congratulate competitors and talking about how great playing non-Xbox devices are; if only Xbox had someone that could even pretend to like Xbox for being Xb...
Phil needs to go. His time is over. When you oversee layoff after layoff after studio closure after studio closure, it's impossible to keep going forward and have people - employees and fans alike - trust you in any way.
Especially after HiFi Rush hit their metrics. I guess we know what to expect for Ninja Theory next once Hellblade is out, and Machine Games once Indiana's out & Todd Howard focuses back on ES6.
Phil needs to step down. What kind of usual spin do you want?
More and more people lose jobs but the people at the top stay the same. Hardware sales tank despite billions and billions spent. The math is plain and simple.
... so they announce it on a Tuesday? 36 hours after Sony cleared up everything?
You people care more about the next conspiracy than anything else.
Nevermind that Sony followed the golden rule of minimizing impact by announcing horrible news on a Friday.
Bethesda greenlit Redfall, launched Fallout 76 in the condition it was in (and the fiasco with the bonus bag), and spent all that time on Starfield finishing it as it was with that same engine. Wolfenstein Youngblood exists because of them too, not Microsoft.
Are you *sure* leaving them alone would actually result in a better outcome, not just a different one?