This is what happens when you bet your future on a subscription service. There is nothing wrong with the tradition of 'blades & razors' that Nintendo started back in the mid 80's, MS should have never abandoned that business model to focus on subscriptions.
What type of gamer is even in the Xbox ecosystem at this point? Why buy an Xbox One or Xbox Series when there are superior alternatives?
They clearly never did, hence why they spent so many BILLIONS on other publishers as a last resort.
Don't believe his lies. Everything he says the opposite is true.
EA games are about to get even worse, which is hard to imagine.
No amount of science can explain this person's stupidity.
Couldn't even let them finish the major update that was supposed to come out this month for a game that desperately needed an update? Spencer is such a douche.
"Now"?
How about "ever"?
They closed so many of their dev teams during the second half of the Xbox 360 era. Have we forgotten history so quickly?
Dummy fake journalists acting so surprised over these recent closures, when this is something that's been going on for well over a decade now with MS.
This is how I felt back when the Xbox One was revealed. It was an absolute embarrassment.
They had no idea what they were doing, and clearly still don't. I miss the Xbox era from 2001 - 2010, good times back then. Alas, they're long gone now.
He's still trying to figure out how to power on his iPhone since Windows Phone died all those years ago. 🤣
The gamer community is doing that, the Xbox brand has been sinking year on year.
It shouldn't have to be an 'either or' situation. Its okay to have both.
Maybe a cheaper model and a premium model on launch day.
I have been paying attention for past 11 years. That's why I made my fully accurate above post.
You're the one who hasn't, thus you made that completely worthless post.
- I don't care about a rental service for mid-tier (or any tier) games.
- I don't care about streaming services, I play on actual hardware.
- What is Perfect Dark at this point? Its just a name trying to have an easy win with nostal...
I've been complaining about these very issues for the past 15 years, but people brushed me off all the time. No one wanted to see the very obvious snowball effect it was going to have.
There are still good games being released, but its mostly in the mid to small budgets tiers. Only a small number of big budget games are worth even thinking about these days. These days I mostly play older console generations from the NES through PS3.
Many Activision employees will be on the chopping block later this year or next year.
The only good news about seeing MS firing developers is now that they're free from MS's grip and can start a new company, such as what Mikami will likely do soon, and finally get back to making GOOD games again, which is almost impossible under Philly Spency.
Anyone with a shred of talent wants to get away from MS, so getting fired is a roundabout way to have it ...
Hopefully the devs join Mikami at a new studio, and then get a similar deal with Sony, where they remain independent like what Kojima got back in 2016. That would mean we get to see a happy ending and a new beginning for Tango Gameworks (under a new name).
Microsoft is trash for sure, but there are companies out there that have continuously committed human atrocities. Which I would grade as worse than firing people.
"Right now"?
But not 11 years ago with the disastrous Xbox One reveal which they NEVER recovered from?
Man are you slow on the uptake.
Never forget Scalebound.
Never forget that Spencer claimed canceling Scalebound "would be good for Xbox."
Let's think back since that cancellation happened. Xbox has been in the toilet since then. Yeah, Philly, its been real 'good'.
Its hard for companies out side of Japan to purchase a Japanese company. MS had ONE Japanese studio that made good games, and in their infinite wisdom shut it down. Idiotic behavior if I've ever seen it. Now it'll be extremely difficult to get anymore Japanese talent, especially when they can look back and remember how Tango was treated.
At this point, only an ignorant moron would want to sell their company to Microsoft, do it only if you want to see your company cr...
I ran into the quest glitch where if you die on the giant crab boss, it never respawns again, and thus you can not complete the quest, making the platinum trophy or full achievements impossible.
That was extremely annoying, and I straight up quit the game. Bethesda never patched this bug even 3 years after release. What good is such a massive game with tons of quests, if its partially broken?
Bethesda needs to make smaller games with less content, but act...