>>719764601
>80 billions dollar funding on top of the 7-8 years spent on building a new studio in California
>On top of also paying Crystal Dynamics to support your new studio
>Just tip me 80 billions more! USAID money ran out!
Joanna Dark. Perfect Dark Reboot. You CHUDS DID THIS by doing nothing! It's all your fault!

Perfect Dark Zero reboot was cancelled. Fable reboot is still coming in hot. Western devs still in the ring.

>>718391034
This post fails to mention the people who manufacture the cards aren't Nintendo, but groups like Hylix and Samsung. Do you complain that solid state drives don't come in 120GB or 64GB factors anymore? Of course not. The cheapest and lowest factor for MicroSD Express (which cost up to 200 dollars for 1TB) is the 64GB they can sell bulk to Nintendo/3rd parties at Nintendo. That's all there is to it.

Let me put it in another way, do you think Nintendo derives sexual pleasure from buying 64GB cartridges to fill only 16GB like Donkey Konk Bananza and Mario Kart World (probably 25GB)? Nintendo 1st party games, including Switch 1 enhanced games like LoZ BoTW and LoZ TOTK, are nowhere near maxing out 64GB Switch 2 cartridges.

Your post is painfully uninformed about the math and scalability in addition to how recent MicroSD Express are. Sony and Xbox are using SSDs on their last consoles, but they aren't new tech, SSDs have been a thing since the early 2000s but most people (90% of the consume market) couldn't afford it. We're just now making SSD the standard for PC gaming and even that's not a done deal. MicroSD Express are an early adoption tech. The reason is Nintendo for whatever reason is deadset on following the example of Sony and Xbox with data transfer speeds, which MicroSD Express can do without an install.

The biggest thing people are missing out in this thread is also the size of games. What's the size of the most popular games today? Fortnite is 100GB, Call of Duty is 200GB, Final Fantasy games are 100GB, ATLUS games are 50GB, and so-forth. If you buy 4 digital Switch 2 games that's going to eat into 200GB of your internal storage. If the games were physical, you don't have to eat the full cost and just worry about the pesky patches. When some anons were arguing about resell, the convenience of not filling up the Switch 1/2 is not talked about enough. I own 100 physical Switch 1 games and I survived that gen with 120GB MicroSD expansion storage.

>>717176527
The Xbox Series consoles were engineered at a cost of 600-700 dollars production for Series X. With the Series S possibly 500 dollars. There were times were Xbox price dropped them to 150-300 dollars (infamous Christmas sale at Costco). Fast forward today and Xbox
>isn't sold in most European countries
>Walmart Canada doesn't carry it
>Costco in America doesn't even have Xbox on their online systems
>Middle East retailers don't carry it
>The EU localization branches were laid off
>8 year old Nintendo Switch 1 outsold Xbox Series in America last month NPD Circana sales
Probably a good estimate of 25-32 million consoles sold. Is this indicative of next general? We're now in a post Xbox is a third party publisher pivot, prospected customers would know now that Xbox has no desire to make exclusives. The big hailmary that Xbox diehards (paid marketers) have proposed is Xbox PC fusion. The leaked ASUS Rog Ally with an Xbox sticker costs 1,100 Euro dollars. lol. Anyone with above 10IQ recognizes that third party OEMs need to markup their products like prebuilt PCs because they don't get money from Steam/GOG/EpicStore marketplace. There's also this huge issue with online being free on PC, which means GamePass won't grow because why pay for online on console? All of Xbox issues keep snowballing out of control the more you think about it. We didn't even get a chance to talk about Microsoft cancelling Rare's games, Perfect Dark reboot, and that Fable reboot game is delayed (going into 8 year dev cycle now).

>>715281414
>it's just mocap
thinking.

>>714877249
>>714877571
OP thoughts on
>“We’re not in the business of out-consoling Sony or out-consoling Nintendo. There isn’t really a great solution or win for us. I know that will upset a ton of people, but it’s just the truth of the matter. When you’re third place in the console marketplace and the top two players are as strong as they are and, in certain cases, have very discrete focus on doing deals and other things make being on Xbox hard as a team - that’s on us, not on anybody else...But we’re not in a position - and I see out there, I see commentary, that if you just build great games everything would turn around. It’s just not true that if we go off and build great games, all of the sudden you’re going to see console shares shift in some dramatic way.
>....I see a lot of pundits out there that kinda want to go back to the time when we all had cartridges and discs and every new generation was a clean slate and you could switch the whole share. That’s just not the world that we are in today. There’s no world where Starfield is an 11/10 and people start selling their PS5s. That’s not gonna happen.”
Phil Spencer (CEO Microsoft Xbox Gaming)

>“We’re not in the business of out-consoling Sony or out-consoling Nintendo. There isn’t really a great solution or win for us. I know that will upset a ton of people, but it’s just the truth of the matter. When you’re third place in the console marketplace and the top two players are as strong as they are and, in certain cases, have very discrete focus on doing deals and other things make being on Xbox hard as a team - that’s on us, not on anybody else...But we’re not in a position - and I see out there, I see commentary, that if you just build great games everything would turn around. It’s just not true that if we go off and build great games, all of the sudden you’re going to see console shares shift in some dramatic way.
>....I see a lot of pundits out there that kinda want to go back to the time when we all had cartridges and discs and every new generation was a clean slate and you could switch the whole share. That’s just not the world that we are in today. There’s no world where Starfield is an 11/10 and people start selling their PS5s. That’s not gonna happen.”
Phil Spencer (CEO Microsoft Xbox Gaming)

>“We’re not in the business of out-consoling Sony or out-consoling Nintendo. There isn’t really a great solution or win for us. I know that will upset a ton of people, but it’s just the truth of the matter. When you’re third place in the console marketplace and the top two players are as strong as they are and, in certain cases, have very discrete focus on doing deals and other things make being on Xbox hard as a team - that’s on us, not on anybody else..."
>"But we’re not in a position - and I see out there, I see commentary, that if you just build great games everything would turn around. It’s just not true that if we go off and build great games, all of the sudden you’re going to see console shares shift in some dramatic way."
>"I see a lot of pundits out there that kinda want to go back to the time when we all had cartridges and discs and every new generation was a clean slate and you could switch the whole share. That’s just not the world that we are in today."
>"There’s no world where Starfield is an 11/10 and people start selling their PS5s. That’s not gonna happen.”
Phil Spencer (CEO of Microsoft Xbox Gaming, 10+ years)

“We’re not in the business of out-consoling Sony or out-consoling Nintendo. There isn’t really a great solution or win for us. I know that will upset a ton of people, but it’s just the truth of the matter. When you’re third place in the console marketplace and the top two players are as strong as they are and, in certain cases, have very discrete focus on doing deals and other things make being on Xbox hard as a team - that’s on us, not on anybody else...But we’re not in a position - and I see out there, I see commentary, that if you just build great games everything would turn around. It’s just not true that if we go off and build great games, all of the sudden you’re going to see console shares shift in some dramatic way.

I see a lot of pundits out there that kinda want to go back to the time when we all had cartridges and discs and every new generation was a clean slate and you could switch the whole share. That’s just not the world that we are in today. There’s no world where Starfield is an 11/10 and people start selling their PS5s. That’s not gonna happen.” - Phil Spencer (CEO of Microsoft Gaming, 10+ years)

>>713169064
> I'll never understand this pish for realism
Same.