Maybe we should begin to call it Xbox service, not platform or console.
Lesson number γ: Don't put in years of hard work trying to build a wonderful, loyal, and unique community of users only to ruin it in a short time by turning it into a nest of morons with no principles or sense of community.
Lesson number δ: Don't put marketing people from fashion, banking, or cosmetics companies in charge of your product. They only see monetary results at the end of the season and have no interest in understanding the technology behind it or its services.
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It is impossible to buy an Xbox Series X on Xbox.com in Europe, you have to go to retailers, so you can't fully use Xbox Rewards. Microsoft makes it difficult to buy their own main product, so, yes... it is dead as a console and as users community.
If only this game had a good one player campaign... and multiplayer as an added option... but Bioware is not Bungie (well Bungie is not Bungie anymore).
And Call of Duty is not growing anymore, with its worse ROI ever in the sagas. Highest investment and lowest return, for the moment. Maybe Black Ops 7 wins users next months... and the money goes into Microsoft's pockets... or maybe not. For now, Microsoft continues putting more resources than they get back, with cloud costs increasing every month that passes.
It is a lot of money expend on Xbox brand for years... and no sign of invest return for decades... How can a company survive something like this?
AI can be the best, but... well, it depends o who uses and implements it.
PS5 is 349$ right now... Cybermonday. A dream price. But Steam Machine/SteamOS catalogue is monstrous, above anything but a regular Windows PC.
If it has RAM slots, SSD slots... it is already a Pro version (to be populated)
ASAP
dveio is an alias of Phil Spencer?
dveo is an alias of Phil Spencer?
[Spoiler] Does not reduce Windows’ overhead more than usual Windows 11 game mode.
This CoD is a mess... but it will be fixed, for sure... when we forget that it exists, like every year. One more year, one more CoD, one more windshield wiper effect. I miss the Modern Warfare years and Xbox 360 paying the bill to other platforms.
This is a PlayStation.
Theory: Microsoft buys some of the best studios and editors. Fact: Microsoft pays too much for them. Effect: Staff is fired and the best of them go to other studios and editors. Postmortem: Microsoft buys empty franchises and kills them.
Chris Barrie is Simon, again. Good point. Good games.
Well.. about this twit from Griesemer... Maybe the reason to make Halo Combat Evolved again (how many times has it been made, official and unofficially?... It is because it is cheap to produce and it will sell on PlayStation 5 and Switch 2, for sure, making money for Microsoft.
"Probably not. But I’m not sure what the point is of a “remake” anyway. Nostalgia? A new generation of fans? Occupying an enormous art team while you figure out what to do?"
Game preservation... the pay twice version. Also, emulation is good for streaming... more titles available with minimum effort.
Remember, a 30% of what's sold on PlayStation 5 goes to Sony, Xbox Studios games included.