Thread 714371892

>cancel projects
>close studios
>fire thousands of employees
>hire pajeets to use AI to make cheap Goypass slop

what is this strategy called?

>“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)

>hire pajeets to use AI

You don't understand, the pajeets ARE THE AI

>>714371892 (OP)
I can't believe how hard Xbone reveal nuclear holocausted their console business.
OG xbox was good and 360 was great.
If they didn't have infinite microsoft money they would have gone the way of sega a long time ago.

>>714371892 (OP)
Dodge v. Ford Motor Co taken to its extreme

>>714372484
>Xbone reveal
Stop it, he had over a decade to turn this around. Sony managed to come back from the PS3 and Nintendo managed to come back from the Wii-U. MS has no excuse.

>>714372331
Xbox gets more support from third party devs than Nintendo does
They just need to learn to tard wrangle their development studios better, it's crazy that a studio with 300 employees can be allowed to go five years or longer without releasing a single product and there's like ten different microsoft subsidiaries that fit that description
AAA gaming is expensive and time consuming but not THAT expensive and time consuming

Preparing his golden parachute it seems. He's on cruise control until he retires.

>>714371892 (OP)
It's called my boss is Indian and my replacement is a black woman.

>>714371892 (OP)
>use your infinite money to purchase Activision/Blizzard
>don't do anything with it
what is this strategy called? They may as well just buy Ubisoft etc too, which are all massive studios still making slop that nobody cares about.

Dudebros lost

>>714371892 (OP)
Suicide

>>714373068
>20%
I find this very hard to believe.
Nobody gives a flying fuck about Xbox in Europe, never did.

>>714373068
It's weird. They did everything they could to promote their fantasy hand-egg simulator, why didn't yuros flock to xbox?

CAN WE GET ONE MORE?! WHO HYPED?!

>>714372559
Yep. We're hitting the endgame, the stock market has zero relation to the actual health of the economy now. Corporations would drop a nuclear bomb on all their customers if they were told it'd raise revenue by 5% for one quarter.

>>714372831
none of the smaller shit has made a dent for goypass though, that's why they want to focus on the big crap

>>714373680
MUCH HYPE SAAR AI WILL SAVE US SAAR

EVERYONE IS HERE!

>>714373068
where is nintendo? seems dishonest from ms

>>714373783
this is exactly what i voted for

>>714373798
missing a black woman screaming

>>714373680
>buy bethesda for 70 gorillion dollars
>A DECADE LATER elder scrolls 6 still isn't done.

>>714373783
it's fucking incredible, all you have to do is tell people here that AI is replacing trannies and they will cheer on a million million Indians flooding the west

>>714373720
Maybe they should try making different kinds of games instead of the same third person cinematic action/multiplayer first person shooter sloppa

>>714374010
>missing a black woman
She's here.

Phil should be pepper sprayed when encounter in public. Guy is a massive liar and full of shit

>>714373798
Literally who the fuck are half of these studios

>>714372831
Xbox cancelling those 7 year old projects that arent getting made is a good thing, it shows that they're cleaning house and fixing things up.

>>714373798
still sad about ensemble studios :c

>>714373798
Sony has closed more developers than Microsoft did in their entire lifetime, funnily enough.

>>714374293
>fixing things up.
How fucking stupid you are? Xbox is a turd then and turd now. It's Microsoft who is wrangling their studios now

>>714373068
Does it mean they want to buy something?

>>714374413
They fired their DEI trannies and that's a good thing, Xbox is better than ever now.

>>714373798
This proves that Xbox actually hasn't shut down that many studios of note. The only one on here I would say was a mistake is ensemble. If you compare it to EAs graveyard it's incomparable

>>714374023
knock knock

>>714374293
>>714374545
I don't believe they are fixing shit until it has already been fixed. I don't care what corporations say about the future, I judge them fully by what they are right now.

>>714374545
>Xbox is better than ever now.
Nah, no chance hermano. As long Phil Spencer there, it remains a cancerous

Like tears in the rain, all gone.

>>714373390
I know a lot of people who do nothing but play the latest FIFA and Cowadoody and got the Series S because it was cheap

>>714371892 (OP)
it's the we don't care about making games or people happy we just care about making money kind of strategy

ONE MORE ONE MORE IN ME I GOT ONE MORE IN ME

>>714373703
did you say thank you?

>>714374910
>buy Valve
>rename them Crowbar studios
>cancel HL3
>lay-off half the studio
>release generic Half-Life shooter game

Sound.
Itll work too, and everyone follows the leader when it comes to making money in video games.

His strategy? Being a gamer.

>>714373853
>where is nintendo
Maybe 2-3 gens behind the rest?

Someone should throw a pie full of Aids Fluid next time he's in public. What a Farce of a Man!!!

>>714371892 (OP)
Crashing the industry with no survivors.

>>714371892 (OP)
Wow, he's aging like shit. Are those liver spots?

>>714372331
This statement is retarded on so many fucking levels.

>>714371892 (OP)
it's called being a stupid fucking retard

>kept ps5 owners safe from starfield
playstation nation strongest ally

>>714375652
that's what gay sex does to you. he probably has aids from all the lgbhiv+ cock holding Xbox does

>>714375805
I wish it was an Xbox exclusive. I don't even want to see that dog shit on steam

>>714375994
he is such a fucking retard

>>714371892 (OP)
the needful

The fact that Microsoft couldn't be bother to port the entire Trilogy of GEARS OF WARS is quite unbecoming. What a shitty decision. Who's the one approve such dumbass decision? Is it Phil Spencer?

>>714375187
this is a good thing. that perfect dark demake would have been riddled with esg and dei faggotry

>>714372331
Phil must be snort some line before opening his mouth or getting a BJ under the table or some heinous shit like that

>>714376139
it's probably his handlers. they're not smart enough to port gears without fucking it up somehow with activist fsggotry

>>714373783
This is acually terrifying. Windows 11 is already a barely usable mess, I use it for work and its a dumpster fire of broken functionality and performance issues. With pajeets at the helm windows is going to become even worse. We're going to enter a technological dark age.

>>714376091
"You expect me to play good GamePass games, Goldfinger?"
"No mister Bond, I expect you to renew"

>>714373783
This happened at a company I knew of and it sounds like it happens at other companies too
>lay off all good workers
>leave the bad managers on
>hire many foreign workers to work for cheaper
>the good foreign workers want raises and higher wages because they are actually good
>good foreign workers quit/leave when they don't get that
>many remaining are just okay workers
>hire back on good workers to fix everything who are overworked
It cost them so much more in the long run

>>714376267
Why are Xbox so incompetent in multiple times? From publishing literally shit no fun games to this retarded decisions.

>>714376512
microsoft has been incompetent for decades and skates by on the monopoly they established in the 20th century and the ability to continually buy out their competition before mismanaging them into oblivion

At this point, people will dab more on Phil & Xbox's game. What a dumbass.

Official Xbox ad.

>>714376483
Long run doesnt matter when you're going off quarterly business statements.

>>714376935
Xbox should be getting negative review or reception everytime they open their mouth or publishing something

>>714374731
They killed internet gaming zone and made Xbox Live unfun. They will regret this

>>714372484
The Xbox One reveal hurt them but it didn't kill the brand. Alot of retarded decisions did.

>Online only

>Making Fable Anniversary a 360 exclusive(which ran like ass)

>Not making Kinect games and the device better and completely abandoning it

>Complete lack of exclusives and destroying their IPs (Halo for example)

>Butchering their backwards compatible implementation

>Not having steam tier sales

>Xbox used to be the dude bro console, 360s were mandatory for military camps
>Microsoft did EVERYTHING they could do to dismantle this free money source

>>714371892 (OP)
>our studios are trash what do we do
>let's buy 20 studios and give them as much freedom as they need
>announce 20 games and everybody is hyped
>5 years later
>those 20 studios have spent those 5 years doing jack shit
>microsoft breathing down phils neck
>quick lay off all the idiots and hope it's good enough

Xbox doesn't realize that there is no sure fire formula that produces great games. They thought that if they give their devs blank cheques they would use that time to make amazing games but instead they were just bumbling around day dreaming, cooking up design documents and prototypes that never went anywhere.

Will we see the death of pajeetsoft in our lifetime?

>>714376483
>>good foreign workers quit/leave when they don't get that


You meant sent back to their country lol.

>>714371892 (OP)
>what is this strategy called?
Do you remember those threads where people asked "what would you do as a CEO of Xbox with a trillion dollar budget" and people answered "destroy it from the inside"? Well, he took that advice seriously

>>714372331

He's totally lost it. He can't even talk English right.

>>714378185
It didn't help that they bought these studios after they were past their prime and expected them to function as in their peak days and could rely on that studio's management to tard wrangle the employees

>>714372385

How does this comment not have any replies.

WTF LOL!

Imagine being retarded enough to own an xbox and expecting it to actually have games

>>714378768
CEO of Microsoft Gaming Studios for longer than Don Mattrick btw.

>>714378862
They were literally throwing money at the problem and now they are shocked that it didn't work. Like they really believed that devs, if given all the freedom and tools they needed, would producing quality.

>>714378975
Phil was also head of Xbox first party studios when they all began to collapse into total dysfunction or just making Kinect shovelware

>>714377880
Honestly playing on the Xbox 360 is depressing at times knowing that we didn't know how bad the Xbox design would get. Grant it I enjoyed my Xbox One but was mostly for GTA V and 360 games. The 360 UI was just so good compared to the PS3 and even in it's final dashboard it was still good. The Zune era was where it should've been heading.

>Make game, keep it under close
>Announce game
>Release it within 6 months of announcement
>profit

It just works. Pragmata doesn't count ok.

>>714371892 (OP)
>what is this strategy called?

being buck broken by microsoft, and not being able to figure out how to get game studios to produce.

>https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/06/13/announcing-contraband/
>Contraband trailer has been set to private on YouTube
BANG, BANG, BANG
>https://www.ign.com/articles/update-romero-games-employee-says-whole-studio-subject-to-layoffs-after-microsoft-pulls-funding-for-new-shooter-from-doom-co-creator-john-romero
>John Romero project with Xbox is dead
ANOTHER ONE, BANG, I GOT ANOTHER ON IN ME. CANCELLATION IN 3, 2, 1 LET'S FUCKING GO! XBOX BRAND TOTAL DECAY. PHIL SPENCER HELL YEAH MOTHERFUCKER, BEST SONY INSIDE MAN.

That's too bad, I was actually planning to buy a Xbox SeX

>>714373783
>lays off 817 and hires 6,327
they really need at least 7 jeet programmers to replace 1 western one, jeez

>>714373390
Most likely that number is mutts stationed in Europe

>>714374252
Gah, this chick is so ugly not even her eyes wanna be a part of her face.

>>714375994
What the fuck is that last paragraph?
His tongue and brain got rotten from all those years doing management spewing buzzwords or what?

Honestly Im starting to believe Phil is a fucking retard. I'd say he came this far just because of his looks and charisma.

>>714387567
Halo is no longer the cultural force it once was, and Xbox itself seems to have lost direction.

>>714387954
>starting to believe
>>714379595

>>714379768
Man, Xbox 360 was so good. I never owned it, but I always played couch multi-player at a friend's house, thats how I ended up playing it so much. It was probably the last generation Xbox was a gaming console instead of a live service money extraction machine

>>714388119
>Halo is no longer the cultural force it once was
That's because it started sucking

>>714372331
both look fucking garbage on this stupid image
asian art isn't pretty, end of story

>>714388721
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h77gcgE1b8 still not buying Fable Xbox reboot

>>714388215
please, all of the worst industry practices were introduced by ms during that gen

and the 360 was a piece of shit, at the peak it had a failure rate of more than 50%, i knew a guy that went through 7 systems or so...
realistically no product should survive something like that but gamers are retards and ms has fuck you money

>>714371892 (OP)
Something definitely happened to Phil’s health and he stopped giving a fuck. Look at him

>>714388879
why the fuck are you replying to me you absolute moron
go fap to your shitty drawings and anime some place else, thank you, i don't give a shit about your "ugly" art

>>714391041
turns out getting raped daily by the CEO pajeet for the failures you bring on the company , isn't so good for your health

>>714386643
An American developer might earn 160k while an Indian developer might earn 20k-40k. The first one wants raises, the second one says "good morning saar, redeeming the Pajeet Scrolls this afternoon"

>>714371892 (OP)
You forgot

>retire with billions of dollars

>>714373680
>>714373798
Isn't this worse than EA by now?

>>714371892 (OP)
It's the endgame of publishers and other IP holding corporations in an environment that enforces global IP law.
As they get larger business administration becomes more profitable, but business administration is so far removed from actually developing a profitable product that they collapse under their own weight if not kept upright by external factors.
>>714372385
>Anonymous Indians

never bought xbox console in my life
95% of microsoft games are garbage
i literally couldn't care less about all this

>>714395370
i farted

>>714373364
>that nigga

>AI meme
>entire remaining workforce is jeets
>games, services and hardware are overpriced slop
why does anyone care about xbox again?

>>714394976
nothing is worse than EA, they killed a ton of beloved/legendary studios

and now they are complaining that they got absolutely nothing going for them other than all the sports shit and that's not really growing

>mfw I've lived long enough to see the collapse of atari, sega and now xbox in the console space

the ride truly never ends

>>714372331
>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.
We'll never know because you never even tried this solution phil.

>>714371892 (OP)
What I really hate is that when this shit invevitably fails, these people will just pay themselves a huge bonus and then let their company die.

>>714371892 (OP)
The "i'm out next year, good luck"

>>714396001
they traded bg3 for starfield it will never not be funny

>>714384572
At one point I was really considering getting either a Series S or X as a dedicated emulation and back compat machine

>Hype a console up
>Promised games stolen
How is that fair

>>714397012
>getting either a Series S or X as a dedicated emulation
its not even good at that. most of the emulators havent been touched in years and the UX is dogshit. Just get a steamdeck.

>>714378185
It doesn't help that they just shut you down the moment you release a game too, so you're incentives to stay in a perpetual state of "we'll release soon" but never actually releasing. Arkane Austin was literally one of the most talented studios in the western games industry and they let it fucking dwindle away into a shadow of it's former self before shutting it down entirely. Tango was a very talented studio too, and also shut down the moment they finished working on a popular and successful new IP.

>>714397178
>buy a console for games that don't even exist yet
amazing

>>714371892 (OP)
The jewish classic.

>>714375187
What is he supposed to be doing, crying?

>>714397431
>arkane austin
They worked over 5 years on Redfall and scrapped it halfway through. If they had had a strong vision instead of going back and forth on the design they could have made an amazing game and would be well on the way to the sequel now.
>tango
Same shit. They promised a Resident Evil spiritual successor that returns to the roots and then they delivered a Silent Hill with RE4 combat set in a fucking dream world. It sold but the sequel didn't and Ghostwire flopped even harder. Xbox is not EA and Tango isn't Bioware.

>>714397178
TIM DOG STATUS?

>>714376483
I had this happen at my company and it's the same shit of
>chart must be green at all times or investors angry
>fire expensive devs
>oh shit we lost the devs that can actually code
>hire jeets and overwork the leftovers

I wish more CEOs and CFOs would catch bullets.

>>714382687
Lmao I distinctively remember watching the Contraband trailer and thinking “This is never gonna come out”

>>714373680
>If ES6 flops Bethesda will actually be shutdown
Actually I think they will anyway. their sitting on two valuable IPs and can't make a good game out of both of them, but Microsoft will just give it to a studio who will trap them in Poojeet Dev hell

>>714374731
>They had California and Europe at one point

>>714375147
>His smile and optimism
Gone

>>714375187
What alcohol is he drinking?

>>714399942
The Game Awards 2024.

>>714397012
Don't bother with a steam deck. Get a mini PC and install something like Holo or Bazzite if you want an emulation machine.

>>714376935
>Elon Musk renamed twitter to X because Xbox has no Box and will buy the letter X for.....ONE TRILLION DOLLERS

>>714397178
>Buy a console for a game with no gameplay
YOU DESERVE IT CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

>>714373783
>If Democrats won
>Flood the country with illegal aliens crossing the border

also

>When Republicans won
>Flood the country with Indians using H-1B

You just can't win politically in this country. We are screwed.

I moved to PC a while ago and I’m glad I did

second vidya collapse speedrun strat