>>714383320the kids really don't know how good they have it now with Steam, back then it was still kind of shitty and mostly to push Counter Strike binaries.
The worst part about Xbox dying is that it won't actually "die" as a brand. It will just morph into a shitty cloud gaming service that the MBAs will run and get their pennies from instead of actually innovating. The only places they can shave the pennies is in storage and physical media at this point. MS would rather ship "live pixels" than dead ones, so streaming will take precedent over downloadable games.
I remember talking a couple of devs who were building an MMO for Stadia, their game environment was literally the size of South America and the asset count was in the trillions (mostly procedural placement of course). 6TB of game assets, and they weren't even done with development. This was in 2020. When you played you'd only load a tiny subset of that 6TB, but you could fast travel to anywhere with a short load screen.
5 years later and cloud gaming is still trash, Stadia is dead, Microsoft only just now released a portable and didn't even design it themselves. There are no truly innovative titles, game AI is fucking trash despite us literally having AI available everywhere.
>>714384189>They're just going to become a software developer only, making pozzed games for Sony and Nintendo.This is the good ending. The bad ending is they continue to make (shitty) hardware as well.
The best thing they could do at this point is literally retire the Xbox as a gaming brand or sell it to a hardware developer, and then bring all of their studios under "Microsoft Game Studios" and just make games for whatever platforms their devs want, and lay off the DEI/political bullshit.
