MS doing permanent damage to console gaming. Dipshits couldn’t dominate, so they are setting fire to everything.

Will Microsoft drop direct x? If they want to develop games for other platforms than why would they use direct x, since vulkan works on windows too.

I'm proud to say I never "paid" for Windows, never have never will. I get it for free, been doing this for over 20yrs never had any issues with updates either. Windows 11 I'll get when I'm good and ready LOL.

Xbox is always gonna be here. You playstation guys are the one who help keep it alive because you're always talking about it. Xbox future isn't as bleak as some of you try and make it out to be. While some of you talk about games going here and there the sinilar things are happening at sony with PC. Guess who also benefits when games go to PC. That would be Microsoft.

This is where Nintendo is amazing. They are still very very shrewd in their own way, BUT they still play the long game. They understand and do respect their IPs. Microsoft likely looked at games as a natural place to expand 25 plus years ago when they were planning Xbox. The problem is games are similar to music in that somewhere someone has to truly care and love their craft be it music or games or other similar things. Microsoft just never truly was invested in games being in their blood. Miyamoto was or still is in many ways the face of games for Nintendo. He started with making great games. He rolls up his sleeves and is involved with his experience. No one at Microsoft can say such a thing. Another problem is video games is what Nintendo does. Microsoft, and even Sony, games are just another part of a larger company. Sony has been infinitely smarter. Maybe because they are Japanese, maybe because they took more cues from Nintendo in terms of how important it is to have exclusives that help define and represent your company. Microsoft had it with Halo and Master Chief, but they failed in 25 years or so to truly embrace the creation of video games. And so now they are likely destroying Xbox and will just become more or less a publisher with Activision and the other developers they own that they don't close. It is sad to me really, but they are using only corporate thinking. Nothing else. No pure love for games, their creation and understanding that that is what it should be about at the end of the day really.

Microsoft Xbox as grown and spent too much for it to service just a small group of Xbox gamers. Games Pass for the past 3 years as had flat growth. The potential base of core gamers that would even sub to a service such as Games Pass not being large enough to offset costs they need to go wide. Microsoft Xbox future as always been to become a publisher of games for all platforms which aligns with how all their other businesses are run. Only the worst of the worst console warriors suffering from self inflicted ptsd from some fictional warfare are opposed to Xbox's survival by going wide.

Sony has the same goal. They also want to publish on all platforms. They don't say it publicly but their actions are proving it. Neither is making any real money on the hardware. Sony just hired 2 CEOs and you don't do that if you are doing the same things you've been doing for the past 20 years. Their long term vision will most likely involve more Playstation titles on PC and anywhere else that's gonna benefit them in the long run. That includes putting certain games on xbox as well.

Xbox needs new leadership, once they open that door and port Xbox games to PlayStation, it won't be easy to close that door again in the future. In addition to this, it would be a massive betrayal to all the persons who supported the series consoles.

I bought a Series X back in 2022. My main reason was because I wanted to catch up on all the games I missed out on last Gen as I was gaming mostly on PS4. Microsoft also had a great conference back then however, to this date, those games haven't been released. Most don't even have a release date.

One of the main selling points of gamepass over PS Plus extra or Premium is that you get 1st party releases day one but one thing people have been overlooking is that those first party games are few and far between. This is why I never joined the crowed to pressure Playstation in copying the gamepass model.

Xbox branded PC's and handhelds I can see happening in the future. Both will obviously run windows so both will be classed as a pc rather than a console. However, I would love to see Microsoft attempt charging pc gamers for Xbox live again that was fun to watch back in 2007.

The Oracle has spoken. Welcome to all live service cloud gaming and mobile gaming.

Once streaming becomes viable and they have hoodwinked their consumer base. MS is going to make even more money and lock up PC gaming completely.

Wolfenstein, Doom, and COD are all a good bet to release on PlayStation, they always have and Microsoft is going to make more money selling these games on PS than holding them to try to sell Xbox hardware.

Fable, Gears, and ES6 I expect will be exclusive.
These decisions, what games stay exclusive and what go, will be deciding factors of the health of the Xbox brand next generation. They will keep releasing Xbox hardware, that would be brand suicide. It is very interesting this information hasn’t been hyped by Phil already, which leads to one answer why—they still don’t know what is staying exclusive and what isn’t, and the timeline for these games is still unknown.

Just be honest Xbox, and do it quickly before internet rumors erode your brand integrity even further.

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.