nope.

Well, if it has no great games what's the point? Game pass is a good idea but it doesn't require owning an Xbox as it's on PC too. I'm wondering what the point of an Xbox is any more to be honest.

edit: yeah I've sold my Xbox, getting a PS5 instead. About time.

so here we are now to the ridiculous point that game websites will start questioning if good games are necessary.

Thank you MS Xbox.

Is this a joke? Games are what define a console. Without them it doesn't matter. Phil Spencer interview showed everyone that he is done. Tired and beaten.

Only amazing games make you buy consoles, services, accessories. Everything. Great games, means huge profit that enable studios to keep pumping huge games.

Imma say no. Because that's the answer. No.

Literally, no. Games define the system. That's why the PS2 & SNES are widely regarded as the GOATs. Period.

Probably possible if it's a great place for 3rd parties

Great games is what makes a generation memorable. If you have great games on one platform and nothing on the other then that other platform is not memorable and is not a great console to own during that generation.

At the beginning of the Xbox one generation I will be the first to say that I preferred the Xbox lineup over PlayStations and I stayed invested in the Xbox ecosystem because of all the promises that never came to be. It's been decades since they developed a great new title that stayed in our memories for longer than a couple months. I still remember gears of war, fable 2, Halo 4 and 3. Nothing at all since then. Bryce son of Rome was a great title that I think needed more enemy variety and better combat system with more diverse weapons and combos.

Xbox can be great and it now has all the studios, that they unfairly bought out without deserving them, to engage in the competition again. But if they allow things like redfall to occur that means they're not taking their promises or dedication to Xbox gamers seriously. PlayStation needs to dedicate itself to PlayStation gamers Xbox needs to dedicate itself to Xbox gamers this shows and the quality of titles that they release.

I want to be wowed in June by the Xbox showcase and starfield. I want Xbox to give me a reason to purchase a Sirius x

No

Exactly.

Is this deadass a serious question ?

Xbone managed to survive AND carry momentum into another gen 🤷

what a stupid topic lol

The console graveyard is littered with great hardware that died because it lacked great software.

this title is so stupid

Is this a real question? Like seriously?

Some people will tell you how great it is but the simple answer is just NO.

No, games are kind of the point of owning a game console.

Can a quarterback be good if he doesn't know how to throw a ball?

Having great or poor games doesn’t change the specs of hardware so on it’s own hardware can be great without games but it would be pointless.

Absolutely not.

Ever since Microsoft showed up, it's been on if sales matter, if exclusives matter, if new IPs matter, if consoles matter, if physical games matter, if great games matter. This is what it's come to with them entering the game industry. Making things all meaningless in favor of services and subscriptions.

Totally not good for the industry.

Nintendo has the best ip's for decades, then you have Sony and Microsoft in second, problem is Microsoft has done nothing with they're best ip's, there is no killer app for ms, and that is not good we gamers need that Sony an ms be in the same level of quality because competicion is always good

Who even possibly writes this shite.

Ahem

Noooooooooooooo

Well, a lot of people think PS5 is a great console. So there's your answer.

Obviously not, no.

Nope. There have always been plenty of great platforms, and plenty of them had no great games and failed. MS is always selling the “promise” of a broad library great games coming soon, as long as they are allowed to keep buying up all of the multi-platform IP.

Despite having solid hardware, they somehow fail to produce content good enough, and at a steady enough volume to overcome the stigma of always on DRM and the distrust they’ve built with a large part of the gaming demographic.

MS continues their crusade of trying to force people to like them by throwing money at the problem of mismanagement. Loyalty to your users goes a long ways, loyalty to your work force of developers would go a long ways too. They failed at both when they starting pushing pay to play services first and dedicated hardware and software for gamers at a distant second.

No, what makes a console special to me are the unique experiences at that point in time that it can deliver since the days of the nes exclusives have helped us have these unique experiences you can get elsewhere.

Otherwise basically just a steam box with a generic controller.

Let's ask ouya,, 3D0 that question.

Why do people ask these extremely dumb questions?

That’s a hard no, yes Xbox has some great franchises with them and their fans will follow with along with gamepass but eventually some of those people do grow old of those series, but people want new (good) franchises, for Phil to say great games don’t sell consoles then why go out of your way to get Bethesda and fighting for activision as hard as it seems at the moment, Xbox claims to have the most powerful game console use it to play great games for your fans and the people who are still behind you after that defeating interview.

It was...... and then they removed retail mode emulation.

backwards compatibility isn't gonna save ms. only people that are into games as an actual hobby care about that feature. if you ask the average person that casually plays games, like cod, or something, if they care about it; they don't. do you think the hordes of people that play cod are going back to play the older ones on a regular basis? no. regardless of how great a console library is, the fact is most people don't care. the average person that buys a ps5 of series x doesn't care about all the great games from the past 20+ years. they want the latest fifa, madden, nba, cod, etc. it's only those of us who actually grew up playing games and follow what's going on in the news that actually care, and we don't make up the majority of the market by any stretch of the imagination. that's way companies like ea, act/blizz, bethesda, and ubi are able to release such trash but still be making billions.

the casual consumer doesn't about micro-transactions or companies being creatively bankrupt. they go, "oh, look, the new fifa's out!".

No, but the games are coming…eventually.

No? What's the point of getting one if not for the games?

No games are what separates your product from the others

There has been loads of amazing consoles, unfortunately died because of no real support. 3D0, Jaguar, Lynx

Another anti-gamer article. At least people know which sites not to consume.

It can, but no use having an amazing box that's capable of so much and having hardly anything to play on it. Even the Dreamcast, despite being a failure of a great console, had some amazing games that are beloved even today, no one will remember the Xone or the Series X with the same affection in the future.

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