What the FUCK is going on at Xbox???

They are going full scorched earth

>>714415115 (OP)
>buy a million studios
>see zero return
>gut a million studios

>ruins the industry

>>714415115 (OP)
Buy an ad.

>>714415115 (OP)
why did they buy up half the western gaming industry just to close studios and lay off thousands?

Would have been Concord 3

>>714415307
uuhhh what?

>>714415307
>Wah!! Wahh!!! This isn't a political or cumbrain thread!!
Fuck off and kys retard subhuman

Line must go up so board can buy new yacht

>>714415254
>Ruins western industry
Fix it

>>714415504
But wouldn't releasing games make line go up?

>>714415365
because bubbles only ever inflate, never pop
money only ever begets more money
spending now means more profits tomorrow
investing tomorrow's profits in next week means more more profits next month

we made a lot of money in 2020, there were not any extenuating circumstances, therefore INVEST NOW

>>714415579
Not for this quarterly.

>>714415115 (OP)
>jewish bluesky goblin wants me to feel bad for the project
The game was probably shit and had it coming

>>714415115 (OP)
>Booty
LOOOOL THAT MEANS ASS

>>714415115 (OP)
>Matt Booty
Heh

>>714415254
>Charge $10 a month and give players unlimited access to your entire game library
>People stop buying $60, $70, and $80 games because it's on game pass
>Years later wonder what the fuck went wrong and why your company was bleeding cash amidst massive layoffs.

Like when my friend told me about this shit like seven years ago I thought it was retarded and no way Microsoft could afford it in the long run.

People actually thought that big daddy Microsoft would be cool with Xbox burning through their money forever because they could afford it.

>>714415539
>western
American. Euros are doing fine.

>>714415606
Can't allow the bubbles to pop anymore because it will ruin the economy globally.

>>714415115 (OP)
that cast lol

this nigga called Matt Booty lmao

>>714415365
eliminating "competition"
Microsoft would rather burn the whole industry down than risk offending the left by actually making any successful games

>>714415365
M$ has been doing it for 30 years. They buy their competition and shut them down so they don't have to risk losing market share. Regulators used to give a shit, but now whatever makes money is lawful by definition.

>>714415115 (OP)
indian CEO. legit fired like 2,500 and replaced them with 7,000 indian h1bs

>>714415115 (OP)
matt assy

>>714415365
indian CEO and fucking retarded money management. they bought at the top of the market when interest rates were basically zero and then forced DEI shit into games and now that the market is down from 2020 they are getting raped

>>714416190
>smokes 11k american jobs since january
>requested over 14k H1B pajeets
>moved almost all AI projects to india
lmao MS is literally indian asset company and american gov does nothing about that.

>>714415115 (OP)
>full scorched earth
but they are keeping the dei halo staff so it's not all gone. maybe they just want to strategically lose money instead of always losing money this financial year.

>>714416347
yeah, straight up anyone who hires h1bs should have all their wealth seized and should be deported to el salvador

>>714415115 (OP)
nooo not the mmoslop

>>714415115 (OP)
>Schreier

>>714416291
This is the Indian style of management.
>Get promoted to CEO.
>Spend like a fucking retard on non-profitable garbage for years.
>Company goes to shit because of irresponsible spending.
>Immediately start firing all of the employees.
>Immediately start excessive clamping down on useful tools used by dev's.
>Start Indian maxing with cheap H1-B's and investing in India.
>Existing dev's forced to make up for the now massive deficit on good workers (replaced with horrible Indian ones).
>Blame existing dev's for not making up for the removed employees.
>Fire them as well after they train the replacements.

>>714416037
>Microsoft would rather burn the whole industry down
based

>>714416468
Its funny how everyone is hyper focused on "AI took ur jobz n shieet!!" but no one will call out elephant in the room. They are hiring more than ever before while laying off their local american staff lol. Its not just MS importing pajeets in mass while laying off americans too.

>>714415115 (OP)
He's killing as many games as he can before it becomes illegal to in Europe.

>>714416347
Did Microsoft unironically fall for the "saar i am mircosaft saport saar" scams???

>spend a ton of money to look busy
>not making money for kike shareholders
>have to fire a ton of people to free up money before you get accused of being an antisemite or mysteriously wind up in the epstein papers
simple as

Best part about outsourcing to India is the fucked up scheduling for meets due to timezones.

>>714416760
fucking leaf land has had higher pop growth the past few years than literal sub saharan african countries due entirely to importing indians while the average canadian is too poor to afford meat most days. it's a shame the dems won't push the anti replacing US jobs with h1bs shit, I might actually vote for them then

>>714415115 (OP)
Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

>>714416347
>american gov does nothing about that.
They did quite the opposite of "nothing", they fully enabled and abetted it.
High tech jobs get sent overseas so we can close down sweatshops and mines in China and bring them home. You'll own nothing and your kids will be corporate serfs for Halliburton, hope it was worth it piggy.

Kamala lost. Get over it.

>>714415115 (OP)
>Blackbird was a third-person, online looter-shooter, not unlike the popular game Destiny, set within a new franchise. It had a sci-fi, noir aesthetic — similar to films like Blade Runner

Well that's the information I've been waiting to see after fuckin Jez said it was a fantasy MMO. RIP that mysterious sci-fi game I saw concept art from work months ago. I could see where it might have just been considered redundant, but that art looked cool.

>>714415254
not only because of layoffs but also because people started treating videogames even more like a one-night stand than actual goods that can be replayed and be super fun to get deeper into.
Microsoft is really just a parasite in the industry

>>714415115 (OP)
He was rage playing. He was indistinguishable from /v/irgins who so shit like play Concord or Battleborn just to post how bad it was. Journalists did the stereotypical
>but he played it right so he must like it
to the wrong person.

Based Phil.

>>714415115 (OP)
>game called Black bird
>features black bird on the left in the picture
>gets cancelled
All is right in the world

>>714415221

Microsoft has always been the place where good companies goes to die

>>714415115 (OP)
>Phil Spencer, a guy who notoriously has 0 idea what video game enthusiasts actually want, played a game so much that they had to ask him to stop so the meeting could continue
Absolutely nothing of value was canceled.

>>714415115 (OP)
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

>>714416037
>burn the whole industry down
Doing everyone a favor at this point.

>put ESO on the backburner and let it get worse and worse for no reason
fuck ZOS

>>714415115 (OP)
Capitalism is retarded

>>714415365
Because they're the heroes we deserve, but not the ones we need right now.

>>714420085
without it none of these studios or games would exist in the first place

>>714415115 (OP)
I look forward to the day Xbox dies and SEGA returns

>>714416347
>and american gov does nothing about that.
Who do you think approves all those visas?

Poogate when

>>714420723
I know about MIGA. Make Israel/India Great Again it goes.

>>714415221
Thought ZOS with ESO were solid moneymakers though. Not like they were pulling in mad stacks, but enough to make it worthwhile.
Who knows, maybe behind the scenes the studio was a headache and not as profitable as it seemed

>>714421123
I dont think they want "solid moneymakers" everyone just wants the next warzone/fortnite/minecraft tier megahit

>>714421123
>maybe behind the scenes the studio was a headache and not as profitable as it seemed
zenimax were the ones that started that game union and made big headway a month ago. 100% pain in the ass for microsoft.

>>714421123
ZOS and ESO are still alive. They just got rid of all the devs working on the new MMO. The fact they didn't shut the whole studio down must mean they're satisfied with how much ESO brings in.

>>714415365
They thought these studios would have the same output as before, when in reality people don't want to work unless they have to

>>714421405
>ZOS and ESO are still alive. They just got rid of all the devs working on the new MMO
Oh! Got it, thanks for the clarification. Makes more sense now.

>>714420394
They should have stopped with it in the 90s and agree it is enough, the intensifying consolidation and publicly traded company retardation since then has only been detrimental for gaming.

>>714415579
They saw the funny green line wasn't going up steepily enough

"This game was too good. Let's kill it."
Phil Spencer is really such an idiot, huh?

>>714421385
why are they trying to paint zenimax as a small dev studio? they literally own bethesda and id software

>>714421123
Doesn't matter whatever they made or make, the xbox division is most probably losing money hand over fist since the only successful things they have are eso, cod and wow, every single game they have released in the past years has failed, so they just gutted everything that wasn't close to the finish line, simple as that.
Plus, you have to remember that M$ is the inventor of the hype and fall business strategy, they spend lots of money creating hype for a thing, investors buy lots of stocks and the stock market skyrockets, then when the stocks are nearing their limit and lose value, they fire almost all people, and the stocks rebound to a lower price than before but higher than when the hype started, then rinse and repeat ad nauseam.

>>714415254
>make netflix of games
>quality is just as horrible as netflix
bellissimo.

>>714421889
you can stop
get out of here and live your life without gaming

>>714415115 (OP)
All of the regulatory shit around the Activision buyout, alongside the staggering amounts of money involved, drew the gaze of Daddy Microsoft to Xbox, and Daddy Microsoft didn't like what he saw.

>>714415115 (OP)
have you seen the kinda of games that Phil was impressed and got actually released?
I think it is fair to say that this guy has no taste

>>714415115 (OP)
Jason looks more and more like a stereotype every day.

>>714415365
I think they have little or no knowledge of game development.

>>714415115 (OP)
>scorched earth
that was a good game, unlike any xbox tranny nigger shit

>>714421123
Eso still has sexy female characters and costumes.
its a big task to uglify it. Might as well kill it.

>>714415115 (OP)
>>714415254
>buy a million studios
>zero returns
>gut a million studios

>>714422724

>>714415726
It wasn't supposed to last this long. They were hoping to take over the market completely and get rid of physical games so they could be the only game in town and jack up the prices.
You should be paying $80 a month for gamepass at this point.

can't have men in their 30s sitting at home playing videogames all day.

>>714415115 (OP)
>screencap of Jew journalist, talking about a bloomberg story about an interpretation of what someone else said
videogames??

>>714422924
>They were hoping to take over the market completely
They were never going to do that by keeping everything on PlayStation. The retards didn't even try. Imagine a Call of Duty game being released only on an Xbox. No PlayStation, no PC, no Nintendo.

>>714416725
The trick is recognizing the situation and mass-quiting while refusing to train the replacements.
Then banding together to form a competitor, beat your former employer into economic submission until they die, and buying back the name.

See also: Commodore. (Though in that case the actual route taken consisted of quite a few more gnarly twists.)

>>714423131
>Imagine a Call of Duty game being released only on an Xbox. No PlayStation, no PC, no Nintendo.
and what do you think would have happened?
it would have flopped, people would just play the old games on other platforms or play other similar games

>>714423378
We'll never know. But I think the average normalfag would buy a Series S and potentially subscribe to Game Pass the second he found out it would be exclusive. They have zero self control.

>>714423378
it's literally the biggest game in the industry, it would definitely shift things relatively quickly

>>714415115 (OP)
Xbox only gave a fuck because sony let you install linux on your ps2 and ps3
that scared them as sony actually has fuck you capital
sony only did it to circumvent having ps2 and ps3 labelled as luxury electronics by EU and instead got them labelled as upgradable personal computers. MUCH much less taxes to pay that way.
the law got removed halfway through ps3's life, and sony removed linux from ps3 overnight and microsoft stopped giving a fuck about xbox from then on.

>>714417047
>it's a shame the dems won't push the anti replacing US jobs with h1bs shit, I might actually vote for them then
both political parties have been fully captured by big business in the US. they both want the same things, speaking from a fiscal standpoint.

>>714422480
thought he was wearing a kippah kek