Yesterday, the servers went down when a cancellation stampede hit all at once. Gamers are the best LOL.

30 bucks a month for mediocre games from an ever diminishing roster of studios xbox has given the axe to....no thank you. I'm out. Xbox is finished.

Ruined by sheer incompetence, if they had maintained the 360's momentum, they would have been fine today. Instead, they kept trying to toss money at their problems without creating any games, then they tried to squeeze out their competitors with acquisitions and Gamepass, Xbox made multiple blunders, and worst of all, they didn't learn from them.

They really are like the next Sega.

this is so odd. consoles make up 85% of gp subscriptions. the xbox is the gateway to the service. if you kill the console, then subscription growth will crater.

It still won't be sustainable and it's definitely going to increase again in the future.

$30 a month is just unreasonable

I don't get how they plan to sell gamepass without Consoles unless they release it on Playstation and Nintendo and it gives full cloud support

I play XBOX more then my PS. But now with new price hike, I will play my XBOX library on my PC, with PC Gamepass @ $16 a month. This is such a sham. Because PC Gamepass gets day and date also. Ain't no game service worth $30 a month!!

This is MS plan to get out from under gamepass, if they just stop it people will freak out so they will make everybody quit.

I always liked good competition in gaming over the decades. But Microsoft is not a likable company. Nor do they play by the rules and have always tried to control a particular industry. They have lied and they mislead their customers and the industry as a whole.

I'm happy for their demise. Good riddance. It's why I don't need to post much as they have only themselves to blame for their destruction. All that money and they did nothing with it except lie to gamers. Could have been more games made than Nintendo and Sony combined. Bye Xbox.

Watch how “suddenly” game sales will matter again, and will be reported with high enthusiasm. Thst is if people say true to canceling their subscriptions like they were saying yesterday.

When your games sell better on the competition than on your own console they had to find a way to sour the milk to ween people off the service and back to actual game sales. The amount of people playing a specific game is cool and all, but I’m sure the stockholders would rather hear how many copies a game sold as opposed to played.

Sold my Series X back in 2022 and never looked back. Go to EB games and what was once a wall for box games is now reduced to a little floor shelf on wheels. I don't like streaming services I tried Gamepass when they did a month for $1. But at $34 Canadian a month for 12 months that's $408 yeah no I'm not touching that with a 10ft stick. Microsoft just put the final nail in the Xbox coffin.

I'm just appreciating how right I have been over the years.

Microsoft laying people off, hiking the price of game pass, their console and were complicit in their participation in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians. They deserve all the smoke from everyone.

I love games to death and never pledged allegiance to a manufacturer even though I primarily played xbox. After these few months of totally disrespecting gamers with price hikes on consoles, subscriptions, and an overpriced handheld...I am so over Microsoft gaming division at this point. This is not only pushing players to subscribe to PS+, but ultimately lure console gamers to PC. They included CoD in the ultimate gamepass along with EA Play and Ubisoft+ but you still can't justify $360 a year. That amount comes to 6 AAA titles a year which most of us usually buy anyway. Especially when 2026 looks like it's going to be turning point of gaming we expected this generation instead of remasters. To all MS subscribers..CANCEL IMMEDIATELLY. The same way people canceled Disney and forced them to put Jimmy Kimmel back on air

Aren't they trying to get out of the console/hardware business and focus on becoming a games developer and publisher?

Costco is no longer carrying XBoxes, right in time for the Holidays….

This is exactly what they deserve, trying to monopolize everything, to later hike up the prices, it was obvious from the beginning if you paid a little attention. Thank God I was never in that eco system.

Let me guess MS, the tariffs made you do it…

I've tried built in gamepass streaming. I subbed for one month, played the few exclusives I wanted to play, and then quit my subscription. So $19 total was my spend with Microsoft. Where as Playstation I've spent thousands. I really don't think microsoft has a good strategy going here.

It doesn't matter to them.
The shareholders are swimming in money while the employees face structural layoffs.
I do believe in many capitalistic principles but this is just plain out crony capitalism.
Pure evil greed.

Welcome to the next step in the industry of capitalism.