Windows 10 is taking center stage. Xbox will be a service within that ecosystem. Scorpio isn't going to be what you think it will be.

What is a "live service model" anyway?

As long that I have an Xbox / MS console to buy and play from , don't care what they transition into .

Lol

We've been telling Xbox gamers this for years.

It was so painfully obvious that this company never really wanted to back new intellectual properties from their main teams, it was always some half-measure.

Microsoft has a huge issue with commitment and it was pretty clear that they had no interest in internally developing and supporting any new property that was not Halo or Gears of War.

From the announcement of the xb1, this console lacked identity and clear direction. The recent news, the scorpio all seem to continue that.

We make a big deal about it but it's not like BIG NAME SONY EXCLUSIVES haven't had the same fate. Deep Down anyone? I'll be nervous after E3 if they get shown up again

Once again everyone jumps the gun before anyone has a clue as to what is really going on at MS. First its no surprise MS is transitioning into a service, they themselves have said so many times. Sony is taking a much slower route to a service oriented theme and I think, taking a wait and see approach. As for Scalebound, it really does suck, even though I thought the game looked a little shallow.

I wonder if people are still going to $#!+ on Xbox after it becomes what everyone wanted Steambox to be? That's obviously where this is headed. Xbox as a platform will be reduced to an app, like steam, or maybe even a special boot-mode of Windows 10. The "consoles" will then be merely various pre-made gaming PCs for various graphical settings.

Scalebound gets cancelled all of a sudden people are acting like this is the end of Xbox. Seriously people now days do anything for attention.

I don't like this and I'm a huge Sony fan. PS NEEDS COMPETITION make no mistake

If you listen closely you can almost hear the sound of Microsoft driving the nails in their own ...Xbox. Hopefully its not true. Competition drives the market and makes gaming better for everyone.

Both consoles from Sony & MS are all about offering services to the base. Anyone not understanding the drive behind PS+, Gold, PS Now, EA access, VUE, and music / movie rental on both needs to pull off the blinders. Sony and MS don't just want you buying games....they want you subscribing to their services as it makes it harder to leave the economy system and you likely will spend more.

Xbox are going in a direction of a long boring path. Deadbeat sequels and microtransactions are a nightmare, pure cancer to gaming.

As much as I dislike ms, it's sad to see this happening. Without competition sony will become complacent and won't push hard like they are now

yes this is a good direction for MS, always believed they were more a software company.

BUT, but I don't think Windows 10 store will be successful just like windows live wasn't successful.
Steam owns the PC gaming service market. Unless MS teams up with Steam, I don't see them going far in the PC realm.

Great. Another horrible move by microsoft, this is starting to get ridiculous. I own both systems but prefer my xbox, it's getting to the point where I'll be playing my ps4 a lot more. They just keep making dumb decisions, just like that stupid one that if xbox doesn't get a game first or exclusive content, they don't get it. I don't care about feeling special, I'm a gamer I just want the damn games.

It's funny, I don't recall comments like this when Sony cancels a game or even closes a studio. Yet it never fails to garner overreactions from people whenever Microsoft does something. Could it be Scalebound was becoming too expensive and too ambitious? The games engine was supposedly running terrible and had a lot of frame rate problems.
But let's go ahead and read a bunch of nonsense into it because the industry is full of PlayStation fanboys who grew up with a PS1 or PS2 as their first console.

Does nobody else see the double standards that arise whenever something bad happens to Microsoft versus when something bad happens to Sony? Cancelled games happen all the time, closing studios happens all the time. Sony does it too. Heck, Sony bought a streaming game service but you didn't hear everyone run for the hills and say "Sony is trying to get out of hardware, they want everyone to stream their games!". The overreaction is strong.

Wouldn't be surprising. The world is going to the service/subscription model. Even Cadillac has a subscription service coming soon. It's the future like it or not.

I think it's also because Sony has created a culture where it's ok to try out new games that aren't established IPs. They kind of pushed that years ago with their PS Plus offerings. MS just saw it as another revenue stream. Games like Rocket League and Thomas was Alone would have never found their audience without PS Plus. When you're primary gaming focus is first and third person multiplayer shooters and you build your audience and marketing around that, don't complain when they don't buy anything else.

They bring out Tomb Raider. It's an exclusive, it's not an exclusive, it's on PC, it's not on PC. That was ridiculous.

Then Quantum Break, the marketing for that was underwhelming.

Gear of War 4 - Disappointing single player. Anaemic multiplayer

Master Chief Collection - Buggy and still not fixed

Halo 5 - Horrible single player. Sold on the strength of its IP considered the weakest in the series.

I mean I been saying this will hapen for 5 years. Don't think many are surprised.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau