@Michiel1989 Thank you Michiel for being one of the only people to recognise my superior genius. I was not having a great day but your kindness has made everything better. 🫡
What did Halo: Infinite sell?
I wonder who got the $50,000,000?
This is some major revisionism as ‘Major Nelson’ was a corporate face for a corporation who was regarded as soulless and insincere. He was part of Xbox’s image problem outside of the US. There were videos of him fake smiling for fans who wanted photos, then his expression turning into a scowl! I saw him at E3 2013 outside the expo centre with a team of young staff and he just looked so pissed off - but then he and Xbox were under a lot of pressure that year! I’m not saying he is a bad person,...
In the comments for last week's chart I said: "In four years time this Mario Kart game will still be in the top ten."
The haters downvoted but it won't stop the long term sales of this game.
https://n4g.com/news/267377...
He’s actually a brave man for speaking up. This is what Google Gemini said about the job cuts that Microsoft told the ABK hearing WOULDN’T happen:
‘During the hearings and regulatory reviews for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft made various arguments and assurances regarding potential job losses.
Primarily, Microsoft's argument to the courts and regulators, particularly the FTC, was that the acquisition was a "vertical" mer...
@OptimusDK + Obscuron Reaper. Microsoft is now the biggest games publisher in the world by revenue precisely because of its purchase of ABK.
Because some people have willingly become the gaming equivalent of welfare claimants. They will pay for Game Pass but don’t value any games you have to pay for. They get angry at the prospect of paying for a game - they don’t realise they are responsible for the death of their favourite platform.
@Tacoboto. Who? I’ve noticed that over the past week with most of these hugely negative Xbox stories o they/them has been oddly absent. I suspect the pain has been too heavy a burden to bear, and they don’t want to be challenged on all the things they got wrong. So likely they/them had been using an alt account!
It could’ve been worse; the Xbox executive could’ve pitched laid off staff use Microsoft Copilot.
My advice, don’t hire the Perfect Dark or Everwild project managers.
Good guy Phil.
Dogs and cats living together... what is the world coming to? To be fair this is still aligned with Sony's plan to have online games as multiplatform and isn't the same as bringing a single player game like God of Tsushima to Xbox.
But will Xbox players actually spend the money to buy a new game like this when they have Halo Infinite included with Game Pass?
It looks like whatever division is making a loss or has no chance of making a profit, then Microsoft is being financially strict in approach and cutting the risks of making more losses. What does this mean for the next Xbox hardware platform if it costs billions to launch a new console platform at a loss, and take years to recoup the costs? In this new financially frugal climate I suspect Microsoft manufacturing its own new console is now too high a cost for Microsoft to bear - the next mainl...
In four years time this Mario Kart game will still be in the top ten.
Mario Smash Football.
The Xbox PC X and the PS6 will be more powerful than the Switch 2.
DreamcastGuy - cloying demeanour that he has aside, was one of the first to criticise it.
They’re welcome to it - it looks doo-doo.
The catch is that not all the games are on the disc.