Is their plan to make the worst games? Yeap, very unique plan.

Unique? Is that what they call it. I call it "BS"

Shit loads of mediocre games, but its on game pass so its ok?

Microsoft's First-Party Game Plan is... Crackdown.

... Uh, what plan?

It is a known fact, that PSN Now owns a large portion of the stake in that line of business. GamePass, while great, and has done many things to make itself more marketable, it does not bring in the revenue that PS Now does. This is coming from someone who owns all the systems and not bias. Google it, you will see that for a streaming type of offerings, and revenue brought in $, GmaePass is not the market leader. Sorry, but some of you listen to fake news.

Yeah it's so unique because their first party titles are bad compared to others.

One can make the argument that because MIcrosoft were hammered for the first three or four years of this generation, the company decided that it "doesn't play by the rules anymore" and gave up giving straight numbers of how many consoles and games were actually sold. Then it figured out that there was another way to obfuscate the numbers and we got Game Pass and viola!, Microsoft is sucessful again according to themselves and some willing journalists especially now that they added three or four new studios even though their products will not even factor in on this generation most likely.

The fact is that Microsoft has done nothing much this generation except release 2 editions of a console and one new console masquerading as an upgrade. Calling the 'X' a new console would diminish the consoles and buyers of the Xbox One and the One 'S' and beg the question why Microsoft needed to release a new console just 4 years after the previous one? I won't go into the answer here, but it has less to do with the original console and more to do with games, or rather the lack of. Which brings us back to why Microsoft bought some new studios. Because many of the the studios Microsoft already had had been decimated for one reason or another or were simply not considered able to deliver. So now that "The company re-defined its playbook to compete on a different level..." we shall see what happens. We shall see what gets counted as 'sales' and whether this will make a difference in the long run.

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