I mean several developers have gone public about struggling with the parity clause xbox requires for the S. Combine that with the fact that it has considerably lower player count than all their competitors, it seems like a no brainer why they just wouldn't see it as worth it sometimes, especially for Japanese devs whos games barely sell on Xbox

Good idea hopefully they use this well

The only thing I personally feel the Xbox Series brand was and is heavily being promoted with is Game Pass and its day-one feature.

And that's fine.

As a physical edition buyer, this didn't and won't catch me.

Even if Nintendo or Playstation would be doing the same. Noone would catch me with this. I am old-school, stubborn and not into renting games.

So what do I distinguish next is - games.

PS5 and Xbox Series share almost the same games. Apart from exclusives, wether they are 1st, 2nd or 3rd party deals.

It's the same distinguishing it has always been in the console market.

They both haven't been playing their best cards yet. But I can't see a superior line up on the Xbox Series side since 2020.

So, what's left?

The sole fact that CoD is now an IP owned by Microsoft doesn't let me bite, either. Why would It? It was a huge business consolidation for obvious reasons. Same with Zenimax.

And if I didn't want to jump ship onto a next-gen-specced console, I could have stayed with One X or PS4 Pro. The Series S went completely out of my sight the first time they announced it. And that parity clause was a "Oh boy, that's gonna be challenging for a console cycle of up to 8 years." right away compared to the specs of Series X and PS5.

So, yeah. It is the way it is. No bashing, just stating.

Let's see what their Xbox Next will be all about.

A decade late,
$100b short.

They could move more units.
How?
Instead of spending billions by buying studios, they could lower the price of the console making it more competitive. The install base is so low that it’s almost not worth porting to Xbox.

I can't understand for the life of me why a company would maintain a failed CEO for so long?????
Usually big companies are ruthless, if the CEO isn't bringing great results for too many years, they have no problems replacing him. But Phil Spencer has been there for over a DECADE already, for no tangible results. It makes no sense. He's destroying Xbox.

Equivalent to shooting myself in the feet then asking why no one‘s bet on me to win the race.

Series s and because you mfs won't let folks be creative. They can't be that blinded by being legends in their own minds right? Lmao

Series S and no sales, don' t need to be a rocket scientist

Not enough console sales
Not enough game sales on consoles
Prioritizing game pass

From a consumer standpoint. My choice to Ditch xbox leads to less sales and less dev support.
The reason I left is the lack of first party exclusives, im not meaning because they're also available on pc. Im not a "pc" gamer even though I do own a steam deck, I'd much prefer gaming on my TV on xbox.
Im talking about out right lack of releases, xbox has almost no reason to exist anymore. The games they do have, im interested in are from Bethesda which will most likely still be available at some point on my ps5/ps6 and so on.

It's not that deep. Devs are avoiding the platform because consumers are avoiding the platform.

Really Microsoft?!?

I really hope that Xbox can maintain a strong presence in the console industry. Competition is definitely great for consumers and, even though I'm primarily a PS gamer, I actually do want Xbox to give me some great reasons to invest in their consoles like I did with the original Xbox and the 360. I just love playing good games, no matter the system.

Gamepass, Series S, and the smallest pool of players that don’t buy games. That combo is horrible

This is the problem, if they still don't understand why, they really have no clues what they are doing...

Does Microsoft wanna be greedy with the games or something? ain't zenimax and Activision enough?

series s

How could they not know why developers have been skipping them altogether by now?

Do they really need feedback to see the obvious ?

Due to the Xbox Series S, developers are forced to create two versions for a much smaller console user base compared to PlayStation and Nintendo. Additionally, Game Pass, despite what people say, encourages players to wait for a game to become available on the service rather than buying it.

IF there is another Xbox console, Microsoft need to keep it simple:

- ONE PLATFORM. Easier for developers to focus on instead of wasting valuable resources “optimizing” their games (read: dumbing them down). If they insist on offering a “digital” version, then offer double the amount of storage.

- A SIMPLE, UNIQUE, AND EASY-TO REMEMBER-NAME. Xbox Ninja or Xbox Dreamweaver or whatever is easier to say in conversations than “Series ____”.

- UPDATE THE CONTROLLER. The ergonomics of the standard Xbox controller are starting to feel obsolete and outdated compared to Sony’s DualSense and Nintendo’s Switch Pro controllers. Include haptic feedback and improve the thumbsticks.

It’s simple, you ruined your brand, sales for games are abysmal on your platform, and I don’t have a clue why you can’t look at your Xbox 360 generation and try to replicate that success. You had bangers after bangers, you led the forefront with online dashboards, achievements, social gaming, and I honestly preferred the Xbox 360 over the PS3.

I know Xbox One was a complete and utter disaster with your focus on media because y’all became greedy pigs and lost the focus that the 360 was all about games and putting the gamer in the center of that… hence the 360.

You’ve made incredibly bad decisions for the last 2 generations. The brand is toast. Gamers can play some exclusives on other platforms that offer more.

I mean, I can go on and on. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out and YES you can turn it around, but it won’t be an overnight fix. You will have to take the time, be consistent with banger exclusives, get back to innovating how we use games socially and connect as a community, maybe offer some innovations, take more chances, and eventually over time you can get to a place that you have struggled significantly on getting back to.

That’s why!

Because games don't sell on Xbox?

Series S is a huge problem. Microsoft should have built a handheld instead with 16gb of ram instead.

Also the forced DEI in practically everything. And they are banking on service games when they should have these studios churning out reasonable times every 2-3 cycles with mid to high budgets and increase creativity in games from developers and succeeding that way rather than chasing fads.

The two biggest problems for Xbox is firstly the Series S holding it back eventhough it's cheap and lots of people like affordability, the second is the controller being really uncomfortable to use compared to Dualsense. Its so lough and clicky that I found myself super annoyed at it more than I am focused on the games I am playing. It is especially annoying in Dead Space where its tense and every noise is meant to scare you but then this loud click click click sound from the thumbstick is making it worst.

Hmm...Could it be.... Microsoft?

Well the current standing is, If you wanna look like a total chut, get in bed with Microsft.

They soon will skip their platform anyway!

Microsoft has turned off some developers from the platform by turning their backs on the Xbox console.

For the past 2 years, Microsoft has been focusing on gamepass. In the generation prior Sony got a lot of credit for showcasing games in their press conferences while Xbox was talking about other things in their conferences 80% of the time.

They have shifted to showing a bunch of games in their Xbox directs, however, those games are featured on the Xbox gamepass service which is available on multiple platforms rather than the console itself. This erodes confidence and mind share from not only the gamers but the developers as well. There is also public statements from Phil Spencer saying you can't out console Sony which gives off the impression that he himself doesn't have confidence in the Xbox console ecosystem. This is him giving up before even trying. The last time Xbox gave Sony a run for their money was when they released the Xbox 360. Back then they had a focus on developer relationships and high quality exclusive titles. Right now there is an obvious shift from that and Phil Spencer and Xbox needs to understand that in order to thrive in the console space, you have to compete. Following Nintendo and carving out a niche is not the way to go because Nintendo already has a background of providing family friendly games that are easy to pickup and they already had a monopoly on the handheld market prior to the switch release.

The mass market has now decided that PlayStation is the default console.

Seems easy...you have to make games for the S and X, gamepass cannibalises sales, and not enough poeple buying xbox.....as xbox made it so there is no reason to buy an xbox...tada

All comments here are proof that users on this site think so much of themselves, they are asking developers not you people.

Very low console base, parity clause, and dev's make more money sticking with PC, Switch and PlayStation as all three have a larger install base. Also, it seems when dev's do want to work with Xbox communication lines are poor and non-responsive as recent articles have pointed out.

They can pay me to tell them instead.

Oh that's a easy one. Well since Microsoft over the last few years have been telling its fan base that you dont need a Xbox to play there games. As well as brainwash them that gamepass is the future why buy games when you can rent them. So if the majority of the install base don't want to purchase games in hope they end on gamepass what's the point in spending millions porting these games to Xbox when there is no guarantee to break even on that investment?

1. Low HW Sales
2. Series S
3. Xbox owners are used to getting their games through GP.

The fact that Xbox has to ask why devs avoid them says plenty. Out of touch corporation.

I don't know the specifics but I keep hearing they are not only difficult to collaborate with but difficult just to get a game on the platform. Recent example being Enotria: The Last Song specifically calling out how they were essentially ignored.
They seem to not have a good line of communications or process for getting games onto the system, which is fundamentally one of the most base level things they NEED to get right.

Xbox dev environment is annoying and often janky feeling. It's not a very nice software toolset vs the competition like steam/PS neighborhood/etc...

Then games also don't sell well because less people have xboxes

Very weird that we are in year 4 and they are just now implementing this? Must be to address for a stronger launch next gen.

In no priority but the reasons I think are for current gen Xbox:

1) Idiotic name - Doesn't convey anything to buyer
2) Brand recognition / awareness is low outside the US
3) Zero exclusives - No incentive to buy
4) No innovation in hardware such as controllers or a new way to play, everything is a copy or refinement at best
5) Two SKUs at launch complicates buying decision
6) Top performance SKU behind competition's top SKU
7) Heavily lenient on Game Pass and subscription, complicates buying decisions (to own or rent by sub?)
8) Less games vs competition due to complicated development environment due to two very different level SKUs
9) Marketing / Mission / Values confusing to consumer
10) Hard drive space additions are non-standard
11) Low attach rate vs competition - due to above reasons

why you asking the devs and not the players? hello?

I can answer this for them: your console is selling like shit, the attach rate for buying games at full price is awful and gamespass is only viable if you are going to pay us pretty much the full Dev costs + some profit otherwise we are taking quite a risk as we potentially lose our on pc sales aswell by coming to games pass. So for all the big AAA titles it's not viable unless you have no faith in it and are trying to minimise risk by having MS cover a massive part of dev costs and relying on playstation to make up the rest in sales - but that might turn out to be an event bigger gamble.

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