Grasping at straws...
I'm sure Microsoft's shareholders aren't looking at a "mixed" rating on the first exclusive from a company they just shelled out billions to buy and thinking "It's still a good rating".
"Likely got put on hold or canceled" yet he specifies that they're working on their biggest project ever as he departs the company... blowing a hole in your baseless speculation.
I know y'all are desperate for a W, but this is getting sad.
Gotta love how the fanboys rush in to try to give their hot take before anything is even known about why he's leaving... He could just be moving on from gaming in general, focusing on his family, could be any number of reasons why he's leaving, but of course, "It's GaaS"! (even though Sony just sacked their former PS boss over that). Nothing short of ridiculous.
"Oh, Uh... There was a ghost! Uh-uh-uh... This is ectoplasm! Did you see the ghost? It ran through here and s-- it slimed me! That wasn't me it was a spooky ghost!"
Add to that, MW3 flopping, and... well... some heads are rolling at the next conference call.
Imagine what Microsoft shareholders are thinking right now after billions spent acquiring Bethesda, and their first game for the platform turns out to be mediocre...
Xbox barely has any killer games to play, so starfield being 8th says more about it being a mediocre game than it being amazing GOTY material.
I don't see why people are disagreeing, Phil said it himself that if GP subs don't dramatically increase by then, Xbox is toast. Logically, the only way to pull that off is for them to go third party, as they aren't just going to magically start selling a ton more consoles. Even a new exclusive Bethesda IP hasn't even started to turn things around for them. They have not far from 100 billion dollars to recoup from all these purchases, and their shareholders will be out for blo...
Probably both.
He sees the writing on the wall, and knows that Xbox GamePass will eventually appear on both Sony and Nintendo's systems.
Elon lets the nazis roam free, and in turn the sponsors roam free as well, away from X. I give it another year, he'll try to sell it once his dream of turning it into an unregulated bank come crashing down around his feet.
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X currently has 225 million daily active users – a decline in tens of millions or 11.6 percent of users from just before Musk acquired the company. Ad revenue is down 50%.
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@spenok, that isn't even close to true. Twitter has lost almost all of its sponsors, and usage rates are plummeting faster than any other social network out there. At least try to look up the facts before you speak.
Both Gamepass and Series X already saw price increases this year. Phil has openly said that more are coming, and that if they don't dramatically increase Gamepass subs by 2027, it may drive them out of business. PS5 slim digital is still the most powerful system in that price range, by far.
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X really isn't much more powerful than the PS5, not in an meaningful way once you factor all the various bottlenecks both systems have in, which is why some games perform better on PS5.
I guess the dust Sony kicks up when they fly by has a salty taste to it, based on some of these comments.
Darth, don't forget the cost of the microtransactions which GT7 lacks... and you can't compare playing a racing game in VR with playing one on a flat screen... it is a totally different experience that doesn't just increase immersion, it actually makes you a better driver, as you can see in full 3D with depth perception down the track to more accurately judge incoming turns, etc.
You also aren't accurately representing the TV... PSVR2 has a HDR OLED screen, ...
a color space mismatch only affects contrast and hue, it isn't going to make the image blurry or any of that. Color space means just that, how the colors are assigned to the bits that define them. We're not saying one looks more colorful than the other, one simply looks better all around.
yay, more Micro(soft)transactions!
New tech that can't even play games but costs half as much as a console outselling a full-fledged console that only costs $100 more... I'd say that's still significant.