“the majority of those laid off worked in quality assurance testing”
Oh yeah, that’s a he death knell for developers. 🙄 They are probably moving to an outside company for QC testing nothing to see here,
“constant lay-offs and greed”
It’s almost like gaming is controlled by a few giant corporations and not a bunch of great folks who are your friends.
Meanwhile, on PlayStation, everyone is having the best time.
Trading in your Series S only passes that problem onto someone else.
PS5 digital is $400. That’s the budget console you should get.
“Is it demonstrably provable that they would lose money?”
Yes, and proving it is surprisingly easily. Did Xbox make $70B this year? No. But Microsoft spent $70B to buy Activision/Blizzard games for Xbox.
“The reason why i love Gamepass is because MS is footing the bill for the Xbox Division when it loses money”
This is 100% true and also 100% concerning for the console market. How long before MS drops the hardware in favor of the sweet profit margins that comes from software?
“the Xbox brand is stronger than ever thanks to Phil”
I assume this was meant to be /s. Going from 80M unit marketshare in Xbox 360 era to this, well, it sucks.
“Crisp Fall Weekend”
I know AI wrote this because it was 90°F this weekend. Not at all crisp.
“in terms of confirmed exclusive titles”
With enough caveats, you can make anything look good.
The sales of actual current gen Xboxes is even worse. Less than 50% of new Xbox sales are series X consoles. Xbox Series X sales are in WiiU territory
I’m sure gameluster.com has no incel issues.
Better than New York City in Spider-man 2?
Can you blame them? $500 for an Xbox Series X is major, once in 8 year investment for most people. Those folks aren’t going to buy a $400 PS5 digital just so they can play Sony’s exclusive. They don’t just want the best games for their system, they need them! What crosses the line from consumer advocacy to insanity is needing the other system to lose games. Admittedly, I see a lot of insanity in “gaming culture”.
No. Competition is good for us consumers. It means better products and lower prices. Beware harmony among competitors.
About 9000 employees. Assume an average of about $100,000/year per employee in salary and benefits. That’s at least $1B/year in labor costs. That’s a lot of micro-transactions to buy.
“No fun first party games”
Yeah, right. Because Ghost and Tsushima and Horizon Forbidden West are a bad time.
“Less live service nonsense, I hope.”
Don’t bet on it. All the top grossing games are live service games. It’s apparently where the masses want to spend their money.
If you want to casually play Starfield over a year, $70 < $204.
“Detroit Become Human” can end this way. 3 playable characters and all of them can die prematurely if you make the right/wrong decisions. Most of my family played it and we all had wildly different endings. These games take a lot of work. I’ll be patient,
All quadrillion of them? No. Not yet.