If true, then stop making consoles then?

Yet their delusional fans will keep spamming, starfield is going to skyrocket series s to 1st place all by its self.

Bots down bad rn

if you have "lost the console wars" just go 3rd party etc

Microsoft is pathetic, debasing themselves to appear desperate to buy a 70 billion dollar publisher in order to be able to compete. The irony remains how much you could actually invest in your studios and creation of new games with that kind of money.

LOL!! While smh.

In other News: Water is wet

We have lost the console wars so we are going to try and buy all the games that sell best on our competitors platform to try and make them lose too.

POS company

Thanks for stating the obvious..

Well DUH....They lost it years ago actually.

lmao I can't believe they actually wrote it that way. They're lost in their own sauce.

microsoft losing the console war is like saying water is wet

“Lost”
But…
Still making boatloads of cash. Not bad for last.

Oh boohoo poor me M$ don't want to invest in our own studios so please let me buy up the competition.

ugh

the theatrics of it all. like how pathetic can you be. even in court documents haha.

its funny tho, cause xbox was the only one that kept playing the "war" publicly.

you never hear "console war" out of Nintendo or Sony

This is the equivalent of throwing games in football to get the best draft pick next year, except with much larger immutable ramifications.

Xbox lost because they didn’t make enviable games after CliffyB left Gears, unless you really loved Forza…

Xbox doesn’t deserve to buy back into the market with THE biggest *media* purchase EVER, because Xbox hasn’t demonstrated an ability to do what Sony and Nintendo manage just fine: consistently develop enviable AAA games from scratch in 6 years or less, each.

Xbox has been buying their way out of dry spells for a LOOOOooong time, and it shouldn’t be sustainable forever with Microsoft Office money.

What kind of an argument is this? We only have 16% of the market. Let us use our $2.5 trillion to buy our way to the top!!

I know MS wants to look weak for the courts, but is that something investors like to hear? To top it all off, this statement is in writing, on a legal document.

So by Microsoft's logic if you lose a race you should be allowed to shoot the other competitors in the legs to win rather than learning from your mistakes and working to improve yourself?

You gotta love this stuff 😆 Sony painting themselves in a desperate light. MS painting themselves in a bad desperat le light. Alwhile both profiting billions and thriving very well. Sony like "we won't survive without COD 😢" MS like "ya huh, we in 3rd place yall beat us race been over" I'm siting back wit my popcorn 🤠

I will say this was a good defense by MS look at the comments here, they got ppl convinced Xbox is living pay check to paycheck barely surviving 👏🏾 well done. 3rd place sounds bad till you stop to see the billions in profits its coming with.

MS: Woe is me…

Me: please stop lying. Its pathetic.

So if by their own admission they are incapable of competing at the top level and have been for 20 years, why would we give the tribes provisions to the village idiot?

They're asking us to let the worst look after the most. They are stockpiling IP yet they can't hold onto talent. Nothing about what they're doing that benefits anyone but them. Forget about publishers they're trying to monopolizes entire genres. How many first person shooters would they be in control of that they didn't make? Doom, cod, overwatch, etc etc.

Why should they be allowed to have that much power that they didn't earn only bought?

I mean it's true after all. And mcsft needs to make themselves look as bad as possible for the acquisition and the thing is, it's all true that they're at the bottom.

Damn poor Microsoft feel so bad for the poor little start up company.

I feel even more sorry for Phill Spencer. He is such a nice guy and he one of us the gamers.

I can only imagine what he will be like when he takes the stand. I can only imagine would go something like this.

Your honour, We here at Xbox are on our knees. Brink of bankruptcy. Them nasty terribly bullys over at Sony and Nintendo. Keep releasing banger after banger after banger. Year in and years out. It's not fair! We here at this tiny company called Microsoft feel bullied by this baggillion doller powerhouses. We don't stand a chance.

Sure we may have owned legendary studio Rare for 21 years now. But we could only afford to give them $20 a year and half a curley wirly. Its why they have hardly released anything since we owned them.

It's not our fault it's only in the last year or so that we where meant to actually make any games. We thought gamers loved watching TV from there consoles.

We also have a fanbase that don't like spending money. So we decided to release this thing called gamepass and release all our games on it day one. De-valuing our games. Even then we still couldn't get the gamepass numbers we wanted. So had to start begging non subs to sub for £1 a month. It didn't help us in terms of consoles sales. As the bullies Sony and Nintendo still outsell out each and every month ITS NOT FAIR!!!!

So we thought let's start buying publishers. So we can take some legendary series away from Playstation like doom, elder scrolls, Fallout. Still didn't help in terms of popularity or sales.

So we thought we try and buy Activision who just happened to own the call of duty IP. This IP is always one of if not the top selling IP is each and every year. But your honour we don't want Activision for that no no we are just really big fans of Candy Crush honest no lies here.

/S

I could go on but I wouldn't be surprised if we heard this is what is actually said in court word for word in a few days time lol.

They were trying to win? Too bad they did not have a better hand to play than cash and overpriced executives leading them straight into a brick wall.

Xbox has never won a console war in any generation.

Even with a year head start and all that propaganda they were spewing.

Everyone know this, but it also makes billions of dollars a year, so while the fan boys are raging MS is Scrooge McDucking it swimming in money.

Don't fall for it. It's a manipulation tactic. They want the courts pity and make all these promises until they aquire the business, and then like everything else they do is reverse their policy and take it back because the damage is done. Its ask forgiveness now and then screw you over later. They're doing everything they can now pulling ever stunt they can and playing every trump card they can to get the deal done. $70 billion is pocket change compared to what they'll make once they acquire Call of Duty and then make mountains of money. Activision makes so much money, I can't figure why Activision even wants to sell, they don't need to. Still, it looks like PlayStation's getting ready with a counter move to acquire Squaresoft (surprisingly not Konami and Capcom as well). But, this is a pity card to seem weak to the court, but its manipulation trick

The day Satya moves on is the day Phil’s goose is cooked. They thought this purchase would be wrapped up in a year lol. Board cannot be happy.

wow, that takes coconuts to admit you lost. Maybe next time they have a much better plan to attack. Guess they didn't learn from what made the 1st xbox awesome.

Xbox has lost the console war. So now no more ps5 sux articles as by admission xbox has lost

It looks like they shafted their consumer base for another 10 years...

Nowadays Microsoft acting like the typical rich mf that think they can pay to change who they really are and cry n moan cause the money spending didn't change em 🤣🤣 Xbox is a dope console but I'm not even surprised MSFT underutilized it from the beginning, restricting their devs to be creative, smh 🤦🏾

You can't always use being 3rd place as an excuse to allow big publishers to be bought. >.<

Yup basically to the fanboys, Xbox sucks from Phil.

I mean they keep buying studio after studio while Halo is in the toilet, 90% of Rare's most popular IPs have been dormant for 20+ years, Rare's current new game is lost, Perfect Dark is in development hell and their big new flashy studio couldn't even hack it alone among countless other issues including with The Coalition where I think 3 projects got shelved.

Is it any wonder people keep skipping the console?

Don't get me wrong I love my Xbox but my PS5 has given me more reasons to use it.

They should just sell the division to Samsung. Their phones and TV's are amazing. Imagine a console designed by them.

Can't wait until this whole deal has either closed or fallen through.

Of course they lost. They got smashed in every metric. Now they want to spend 70 Billion to get games that were already coming to their platform in the first place.

Time to check Twitter. lol.

Microsoft has only themselves to blame. Unlike nintemdo during gamecube and wii they had major 2rd party support. You don't think people remember the game drm, always online, or the 24 hour check in etc. Yea people don't forget sh like that.

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

Helix will be expensive but it's still a day one for me.

Oh, my days...
So Nadella meets with the US president multiple times to ensure AI regulations are minimal if any at all, donates to the inauguration and ballroom, and his boy not only won't regulate AI as farmers lose land and billionaires/corporations buy up farmland to build data centers...but because he's insane and compromised, he starts a war on behalf of a rogue colonial zionist state and [further] destabilizes the Middle East, restricting component access and helium supply.

Now the head of Xbox is saying the hardware pricing "could impact" next generation hardware pricing? Asha,...your boss at a minimum played a direct role in this. What are we even talking about?

Yea because a $3 trillion company can’t absorb the majority of the cost to keep the product lower for consumers.

Expensive… oh no, here comes another flop.

Could? Strange how prices rise for virtually everything we buy, yet when things settle down, prices don't come down. This has been happening in the UK probably before I was born. With that, how much is a next gen console going to cost? Look at the price of the PlayStation 5 Pro, which has been a flop for Sony. On that note, we don't need the next consoles for another 5 years.

I guarantee if people just stopped buying this kinda stuff all together. This would all be sorted within 2 weeks and everything would be back to normal.

We seen the exact same thing through the COVID period. Companies just jumped on the bandwagon realising that they can get away with charging far more under false pretences and fear mongering.

Consumers now have this fear of "you know what, I only live once. I'm going to spend all this money I earned through my hard work" Or "I only live once I'm going to take a loan out and enjoy my time here".

Silicone Valley spends literally billions of dollars researching how much they can push society to the limits to increase spending. You can research it yourself. There's published written documentation about it. Have a look for yourself into their group research into subscription programs to see how evil they are and why it's such a giant focus of current civilization. Its the very essence of corporate capitalism.

Just delay all new consoles. I could easily go another 5 years with my base PS5.

could? it's already affecting current gen pricing.

It is greed. Apple are selling at the same price, while Microsoft Surface increases 500$ per unit. Karma will tell.