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Interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil

Forza is the best racing game. Xbox will continue to work hard to create Japanese titles.

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crazyCoconuts895d ago

I wonder how the gamers in Tokyo feel after Phil's email came out about how much he'd like to buy Nintendo.

XiNatsuDragnel894d ago

Nintendo is probably laughing rn since they're winning and doing amazing my friend XD.

fr0sty893d ago

"Forza is the best racing game. Sure, it has fewer tracks and no VR, but it's better. Promise."

Einhander1972893d ago

fr0sty

And it's cars and tracks cost money and there is a battle pass, but it's better.

IRetrouk893d ago

3 Mt's were enough to send this place into lockdown with gt, no doubt every dlc car will be an Mt in this just like the last forza, I expect the same outrage👀....its better though.

Abriael894d ago

I'm in Tokyo right now, and I can pretty much promise you that the vast majority of gamers in Tokyo don't give a flying F about that.

Jin_Sakai894d ago

Probably because the vast majority don’t even know about it.

badz149893d ago

they probably don't even know xbox exists

Christopher893d ago

What about a driving F? You know, because Forza and all?

Abriael893d ago

@Christopher: Sorry, I'm more into Microsoft Flight Simulator😁

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StormSnooper893d ago

They are trying. they will buy anyone they can.

Jin_Sakai893d ago (Edited 893d ago )

I’m sure they wouldn’t want Nintendo owned by a Western mega corporation that can’t even figure out what to do with their own gaming division.

porkChop893d ago

Outside of places like this no one really cares that much. Anyone with some common sense knows it ain't happening. Nintendo's investors would never go for it, and regulators would never approve it. No console manufacturer will be able to buy another. Even if MS were to go software-only, with Bethesda and ABK they'd be way too big to allow that purchase.

The most we'll likely see is further collaboration between the two. Maybe a bespoke version of Game Pass to stream games that otherwise aren't available for purchase on Nintendo systems. Or maybe Nintendo will use Azure to revamp its online infrastructure.

S2Killinit893d ago

Fu€k spinster and his company

StormSnooper893d ago

at this point, I don't blame you. MS really showed us they cannot be trusted.

raWfodog893d ago

I’m surprised more people didn’t comment on his confirmation of Game Pass price hikes. Maybe because we all know price hikes are inevitable for these subscription services.

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purple101894d ago

Oh boy.
. Here we go.

3 bags of microwave popcorn at-the-ready

purple101894d ago

Here's a gem

"First, regarding PC Game Pass, since it is on the same PC platform as Steam, we believe that it provides users with a choice. The choice of which library to build is left to the user's discretion."

I've heard this term before from him..."build a library"

Only your comparing steam to gamepass. On gamepass once you stop paying your library is gone so not really a library like steam which you can always go bac, to play your purchases built over thr years, without paying a penny more.

Saying gamepass is a library implies this, but as we know, it's nothing like this.

Keep using this word 'library' sits wong with me.
It's a collection. A library in something you can reference and go back to to look at your dusty booka you loved as a child. With gamepass m$ can yank any title, at will and throw it in the bin,

No one would do that in my library.!

ApocalypseShadow894d ago

Of course. With Phil it's 10 percent truth and 90 percent lie.

It's like you said, stop paying and you play nothing because with game pass, you own nothing. There's no library.

Only truth was that it's on PC and a choice between it and Steam.

Lightning77894d ago

You mean like how all Subscriptions work? You think you get to keep all those PSN+ games after you unsubscribe? Netflix Hulu, you still think you get to watch movies after unsubscribe?

"Only truth was that it's on PC and a choice between it and Steam."

Which is exactly what he just said and exactly what he meant. Congrats you read it but failed the comprehension (so close). Either have GP library or build it on PC or steam since games hit day one their.

Sonic1881893d ago

5 percent truth and 95 percent lie. But Jim Ryan lies a lot too. They both can go imo

Lightning77894d ago

Gee it's almost like Xbox games release on Steam day and date and ppl can build their xbox games library on Steam. A choice of which library to build. Either on GP in which yes you pay for or Steam a PC games platform where they pay full price for games.

That was easy another failed gotcha moment on your part.

purple101894d ago

Gamepass is not a library in the true honest sense though. That's why it sits wrong with me.. your steam library is a library though.. point still stands.

Lightning77893d ago

Being concerned over what's a library and what's not in your own weird definition is weird thing to be "concerned" about.

You're just doing what you always do Complain just to complain about absolutely nothing at all.

purple101893d ago

Library definition

COMPUTING subsect:

"a collection of programs and software packages made generally available, often loaded and stored on disk for immediate use."

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Julion0715893d ago

Agree that’s all they do

outsider1624893d ago

He's right though. GP isnt a library. PS plus as well. They're just collections. Only steam is because you can go back and forth to download your games which you bought without having to worry about them leaving from your library.

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Popsicle893d ago (Edited 893d ago )

I have rented books from the library. GamePass is similar in that it is a rental service, no?

Chevalier893d ago

Except library books are free and available to everyone. Gamepass isn't available to everyone and cost money. So not the same.

Profchaos893d ago

Will the library take away books after 6 months because the contract with the book publisher has lapsed.

Popsicle892d ago (Edited 892d ago )

@Chevalier checking out books at the library is not free. The library, library services, and books are funded by tax payers in the community.

The thought process you just presented is similar to the people that consistently say they are going to wait for a game when it is released for free on GamePass. Almost as if they forget they are paying for GamePass, GamePass services, and the games in the library.

Both services cost money and eventually I have to return my book or game because despite paying in, I do not own either.

PhillyDonJawn893d ago

It is a library, you sound ridiculous

S2Killinit893d ago

I can fix this. Gamepass is a library card. Not a library.

Profchaos893d ago

I think the catch is you can buy the same PC games from the windows store and access them via the Xbox app however when dealing with windows apps they are a huge pain and may aswell be running games for windows live I consider the Xbox app the modern equivalent because Microsoft never abandons ideas it tries to trojan horse it another way

ChasterMies893d ago

Microsoft can easily market PC GamePass to new PC gamers who don’t have a Steam library. But what will really move the needle for Game Pass subscribers is forcing Game Pass on folks who want to play Call of Duty, Diablo, etc. That’s the end game for Microsoft,

VincentVanBro893d ago

Also, even if you continue paying, Game Pass titles are rotated into and out of availability. So, "library" isn't even close to an appropriate term.

Popsicle892d ago

Not true. Libraries are typically publicly funded and with expansion often being too cost prohibitive, they will sell or donate less popular literary works to make room for new literary works. This is a necessity seeing that shelf space is not unlimited.

VincentVanBro891d ago

@Popsicle hilarious that you would equate Game Pass to a public library. Not even remotely similar. Keep sucking that MS teat.

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purple101894d ago

"No. That's not it. What we want to offer is choice. Xbox isn't just about Xbox Game Pass."

Yeh that's why you release a console with no disk, and now another one leaked

isarai894d ago

Not to mention he literally said if Gamepass number don't improve significantly by 2027 MS will pull out of the gaming business and dissolve XBOX all together.

Plague-Doctor27893d ago

I think this is very unlikely even if they don't hit their targets, but them leaving would be terrible for the industry. Shame they are gambling everything on a very high risk subscription model

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Profchaos893d ago

Sure there's a choice buy digitally at our prices or subscribe to a service where we may pull your access at any given time also remember don't swear or do anything to violate our tos as we can ban you for anything we now seem offensive and we're listening

aconnellan893d ago

Doesn’t PS5 have a digital only version as well? What does that have to do with Game Pass

Profchaos893d ago

Sure does and comment still stands digital only systems lock gamers into a walled garden be it PlayStation or Xbox. You're at the mercy of the digital store pricing and connectivity which as we know can mean outages

Destiny1080894d ago (Edited 894d ago )

i don't know who should be more worried, after that pathetic leak, phil or the xbox fanboys

next year when xbox is releasing its all digital nightmare, sony will have somehow doubled the power of the PS5 and showing jaw dropping uncharted footage

XiNatsuDragnel894d ago

Sony is actually got ideas but xbox I'm not very sure.

Sharky231893d ago

Xbox will just through money around like the soulless company they are.

Profchaos893d ago

Jim Ryan's leadership has me pretty concerned tbh I don't think he has the PS community's best interest in mind.
PS plus price jacking (from what I understand this is how they have been acke to reduce the cost of a ps5 system)
Barebones psvr2 support which relied solely on third parties
Investing a huge portion of the budget in gaas titles despite the community heavily favouring narrative driven experiences

PS was untouchable under Shawn laydon they need to go back

VariantAEC892d ago

@Profchaos
Aside from the price hikes coming earlier on PS... only for everyone to follow anyway including Nintendo who has massive prpfit margins.
What has Jim Ryan done that is so darned bad?

Name one thing. Just one.

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