the xbox one has failed because it had to be modified because of the sheer dislike that people had for it when to first came out. also because of microsoft flip flopping on what the xbox one is.

Every company slips from time to time.

It's the reaction that counts.

and we've had great response from Microsoft.

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Nah, the problem is that the Xbox One as a console cannot seem to get rid of the bad image that people still have in their minds regarding DRM and lack of ability to play regular hard copy games...People actually believe that still...

It's a great console with brilliant features. It's selling no where near the PS4 but it's still a very successful console. I think MS is doing a great job; just take a look at all the user requested features that they've implemented, take a look at how much GWG has been improved with the console. The console is getting great support from MS so I'm not sure why there are so many articles titled like this one.

No, I dont feel that way. I feel its more of so called journalists and "fanboys" are the ones that take things and cherry pick them out of context and run with it. What Microsoft has done with the XBox one since Phil Spencer took over is nothing short of phenomenal. Its now a good system and I am happy to have it.

Yes, MS is the problem, and has been for a long time. It's been a problem of their corporate DNA pretty much from the start. Thank goodness there are alternatives. :-)

Xbox One has failed in sales and trust because MS invented horrible policies and Sony played on that and it stuck in everyone's mind. MS has made a 180 and got back to what matters, the gamer. They're pushing system features out the door monthly and first party support by the big studios plus they're bringing many Xbox 360 titles to One via backwards compatibility like Black Ops 1 and Halo Wars. It's now a great console, especially with the $299 price. I only paid $250 for my new Xbox One in fact. I own PS4 for multiplats, friends, and exclusives, its my main console but my Xbox One is coming in the mail soon and I'll use it for the exclusives and backwards compatibility catalog that I miss so dearly! And I won't have to pay to play games I own like that PS Now junk. All the platforms are awesome, but we must brush aside the lie that Xbox One is what it was 2 years ago, its not. Don Mattrick and the crew killed the brand but it can be redeemed. I think the changes in MS/Xbox leadership as well as listening to the community feedback have helped MS. They're still MS, but they're a redeemable MS.

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(I own PS4, Xbone, & PC so don't call me a fanboy.)

When MS was putting out statements talking about getting rid of the xbox last gen, what makes anyone think that it would sell well THIS gen?

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I currently own no next gen console, although that may change after tomorrow.

I also like to add that all consoles have great games on them, exclusives merely need to focus on the strengths of the consoles to prove the worth of the games and the consoles they are on.

I think the consoles problem, that three years later it is still negatively affected by Don Mattrick's vision and media biased. Phil Spencer had to spend over a year digging the console out of a PR hole, things are turning around, but old negative PR and recent PR issues still linger. MS could invest more into first party titles, especially since they are focused on Windows 10 gaming in addition to Xbox One.

Nope.

The problem with this notion is the idea that Microsoft can't handle their own product, and thus, its existence is cursed because they themselves exist. But it only exists because they exist and seeing as how it's sold enough to still be relevant, i'd say that rules them out as the doomsday of the xbox one brand.

Microsoft had a plan and it backfired. So they back peddled and are now pursuing different avenues. They want profit, they also want a happy consumer base. Are they succeeding? N4G would have you think if it's not Sony, it's dead in the water. But truthfully, Microsoft is like any company, they see what can and can't be done, and what the consumer is okay with. Heck Sony's ps3 wasn't anything impressive but if I had come across an article that asked the same question, I'd give the same answer, that being a no.

I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but I in no way am fuelled by hate and this disgusting behaviour of insinuating that everything they do is destined to blow up in their face. I personally don't like their exclusives. Remember that idea? When you followed a platform based on what it offered. To me, as a gamer, they don't offer the gaming experiences I prefer. Otherwise, what they do, what their console becomes and what it offers, that's on them. They created the bloody thing. They are the ones best suited to handle its lifespan.

Despite all the negativity and doomsday talk, Microsoft isn't bowing out. They aren't their own worst enemy. You want to know who is? It's you, the negative nancy who thrives off this idea that everything they do is evil. it's just like the toxicity towards Nintendo and their new platform.

Is this community really this pathetic? Are people online so lost in themselves that the moment they see an article about Microsoft or Nintendo, it better be negative or bring on the wrath?

So. I disagree with this article. I disagree with the hostility. And I disagree with the disagrees.

Xbox One is ahead of the 360 given the same time, failure it is not. Failure is what the Wiiu is. Is the 1 doing PS4 numbers, no, but MS has turned things around and they just need to stay the course.

Always has been. A lot of you guys probably think I don't like Xbox. Not true. I had XBOXOG and bought all my multiplats on it. I persisted with 360 even after having 4 of them right up until it stopped producing in favor of Kinect in a time period where they showed when they are on top that they are ever the bully. And I even plan to still get a XBOne for the right game. Likely quantum break.

No it's MS and how they do things that I don't like. Never happy to just compete, they always want to change the industry to suit their needs and better their chances to monopolize. They don't ask us what we want, they tell us what we want. And when things don't go their way they pick up their bat and ball and go home early.

They did it their first gen. They did it their second. They're doing it now and if they have another console it will probably be like a steam box. Always trying to change console gaming to something we didn't ask for.

TBH when I think about Microsoft I think about Windows OS and a company with lots of money.

A lot of X Xbox gamers have been saying this very thing for a very long time. Microsoft can't get out of their own way. Microsoft can have a great thing but Microsoft being Microsoft kills it in the end because they just can't stop themselves.

Other way round, is Microsoft biggest problem the Xbox One it's self.

And the answer is yes. A console with no true identity with very weak specs.

No they go hand in hand and am okay with both plus they have my support

I find it odd that people keep bringing up the "Xbox isn't gaming focused" excuse. Isn't Xbox the only games console with multiple games on the pro circuit.

Aren't all these games that have come out for the console so far in development long before X1 was even heard of? How is it not gaming focused.

Isn't the PS4 the only gaming console with a commercial about a TV app?

People need to quit with that. Cause it doesn't line up with reality.

Goes without saying really.

I personally believe that Xboxs biggest problem was Don Mattrick.

Now that he's gone.....things are much better.

I still doubt much would change regardless what they did.. Japans support is very very important of a console being successful.. A system cant just have NA 3rd party games.. Who knows and it really doesnt matter.. What matters is how they tackle the future of the brand.. If they dont make some good changes, xbox will be less and less popular..

This writer said he loves Microsoft.

My only gripe with Microsoft is that they hurt themselves when they have great momentum going. While letting the wrong areas of the public influence their decision making.

I find it ironic that the PlayStation VR uses both the camera, and Move controllers. Yet, we had the same audience that's going gaga over it tell the world they only wanted a gaming console that didn't force them to play different.

Many of us who do see Microsoft's Xbox brand as one of the best in gaming history. Never listened to that nonsense. Microsoft didn't stick to their vision by delivering content that made the direction they wanted to go in relevant to gamers and the audience that buy into the Xbox brand.

You can't blame the camp that's scared to death of all the great progressive ideas that Microsoft brings to console gaming. Like the above mentioned hypocritical stance on motion control gaming.

Microsoft with the Xbox brand needs to stay lazer focused on the gamer and features that relate to growing outward from there. They tend to think outside and don't get the friction that they bring along with not fully fleshing out what is central to gamers first.

The marketing would be sooooo much easier for them if they only could recognize who's who in the audience. Talking directly to that consumer who is pro Xbox would save them a lot of PR headaches. They much rather take an unfocused mainstream approach that is way to broad of a hit target. This is why they miss their mark at the most critical of times in a gaming cycle.

no its the gaming media spreading lies & misinfomation

n4g should have live video chat conference. those paragraphs you guys write are just to big for my dumb brain. but i wouldnt mind listening and watching live debates. you listening n4g owner guy??.

I think MS has really been trying, but they shot themselves in the foot early on and only have themselves to blame for that. At least the XB1 is a decent system now thanks to their efforts, but it kind of ended up being a poor man's PS4. Still, it has some decent exclusives, and it's really the disaster of the early reveal and the decision to declare war on the consumer (who would be buying their product) that took them out of the running for first place this console war. On the plus side, thanks to their backpedaling and putting someone who isn't a buffoon in charge of promoting the XB1, it has managed to achieve decent sales. So, maybe MS was the XB1's biggest problem, but MS has been the solution too.

Articles like this are asinine...

Sony was somehow able to concentrate on hardware and games yet still have all the feature's that Microsoft possessed eventually. At the end of the day it was just bad gambles that didn't pay off. They bet in Kinect. Sony bet on games. Sony slowly introduced their fan base to virtual reality as a great second option.

finally an article title I can agree

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Maybe they can give CoD a 2 year release window, for 2 years keep doing season and adding new stuff, it's cheaper, and brings in more money from DLC.

First year buyers pay $70 like normal, after that year, anyone not willing to buy it can get it on GP, and if they retain some players they can boost the player base and spend money on DLC.

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This was a smart first move for the CEO. Happy for the price drop, especially since I don’t care for COD.

Huge W. Good move. Finally something went down in price this generation!

Would have liked it to be $20 for Ultimate but any price drop is better than none. Still a great value and service for my needs.

Hoping that all big single player games like the next Wolfenstien game are not available for free on Gamepass day 1. Single player big budget games needs the sales to cover the expensive cost of developing these games .

They realized how much money is lost on games not being bought. Call of duty prints money and you gave it away on a sub. Especially for something that was going to sell anyway. If you ask me, Forza Horizon, Gears, Halo, and other flagship games shouldn’t be on there. It should be for games that may struggle with sales or don’t have that impulse buy attraction. Microsoft would make more money and gamespass wouldn’t have to go up to offset losses.
I am personally over call of duty and have been for years. Having a lower price and excluding it is a great deal for me. Now if they’d give a year bundle with a discounted cost….

Edit** after seeing some of the comments, they basically realized what Sony already did. Day one games HURT financially when it’s a big game that sells. That’s why PlayStation plus does games coming to the service AFTER they had their sales run. Like Spider-man 2 and god of War 2 for example. It’s a nice thing, having day one games, but ultimately paying that high monthly sub to KEEP playing was you paying for games and continuing to pay past the worth of the game. Buying simply saves you in the long run. It’s why I bought Hollow Knight 2 for example rather than play it on games pass. Not enough interesting games on there and I don’t have to pay to keep playing. My gamespass has been cancelled since the price increase and I felt no pain because I buy my games. Otherwise I’d have to keep paying JUST to be able to play something.

I would like a tier without Ubisoft + and EA Play. I play games from those two publishers once in a blue moon.

if you wait a month or two it will probably be half price, with call of duty included

phil needs to rehire himself

This is a good move at the end of the day.

Now it’s at least worth considering but still too pricey to stay subscribed rather than subscribe one month at a time when a big game releases.

I guess losing the title of best selling game of the year to BF6 last year really hurt their pride

Last paragraph “we’ll continue to listen and learn” lol why are the Xbox leadership always talking about wanting to learn? Have some confidence man, I remember Phil Spencer always mentioning he’s going to try to keep learning in his answers during his interviews.

People are dumb. It was 19.99 July 2024. It went to 29.99 Oct 2025. Now it’s 22.99 and somehow that’s a win?! That’s $275.88 a year and a year of PS Plus Premium is $160.

Anybody who thinks this is a win needs to see a doctor.

Oh btw - not charging $29.99 mean less revenue/profit. You wanna know how Microsoft Helix will make up that difference? Enjoy the flood of ADS you’re about to see in your console. Morons.

Clever.

How do you manage – ideally without too much pushback from the community – to remove one of your highest-grossing IPs from a subscription service?

An IP that they bought at great expense just a few years ago and included in D1 specifically ‘to’ promote that very subscription?

I’m sure this move had been decided on for some time.

(… and another move they were able to make in the same breath: ultimately, to push through a price increase. With less content.)

“We will continue to listen and learn.”

… oh yes, of that I am absolutely certain.

lol
thats a drastic move but probably the best.

gonna make those billions back somehow

This is great news for everyone that never wanted CoD in Game Pass. We all know that anyone who wants it will buy it full price. For those that never cared for it, get a discount on the price. I think this will help Xbox keep their subscribers. Plus, most of the more recent CoD games are still having lobbies to play in.

That's cool, price drop is price drop, but wasn't ultimate PC like 10 bucks a month originally? Personally, I am not into having so many subs anymore. I had all and played practically nothing in them, the original sub of random games made "Free" Monthly was far better to me, because bare minimum I ALWAYS had access. Heck, I still have games from 360 they gave me and I don't have a sub at all anymore.

Now I left gamepass and have nothing, I think I will just stick to fewer subscriptions and just buy games as I desire.

People wanted a price drop but there was always gonna be some sort of tradeoff for it. They're not gonna keep CoD on Game Pass forever KNOWING people are gonna buy it anyway simply because it's CoD. People continue to buy it every year without questioning its quality and MS knows this.

But hey GP is cheaper... until the next price increase.

Sold more in one week on PlayStation than they sold in 3 years on xbox and pc.

Ok… so what were the numbers it sold?

Microsoft would be crazy to not see the power of PlayStation and seriously consider going full multiplatform.

Lmao for all the hate PlayStation users give Xbox games, they sure seem to sell well on PlayStation.