ITT: unmitigated vidya DISASTERS
Xbros, why is it so fucking hard for replicate the 360 era?

>>714425228 (OP)
The people who worked on the first xbox and the 360 are no longer involved with the company. They were replaced with cheap underpaid indians as it goes with every tech product.

>"You get a lot of publicly traded companies that are in the industry that have to show their investors growth...the side of the business that then gets scrutinized is the cost side. Because if you're not going to grow the revenue side, then the cost side becomes challenged."

soul is gone

any time a game tries to be a piece of art, Gamers slap it down as woke slop

thus, the only way to make money is chasing microtransactions from goonbait

focusing on 5/10 game pass filler like south of midnight, avowed, doom dark ages, indiana jones, etc.

>>714425228 (OP)
The announced vision of the Xbox One was Microsoft's goal all along, when that failed at market Microsoft corporate saw no reason for Xbox's continued existence. Rather than just shut it down immediately they opted for appointing a fall guy to scuttle the Xbox brand.

>>714425228 (OP)
>why is it so fucking hard to replicate the 360 era?

360 won because it had the best hardware of the gen and built up momentum from halo on the first xbox
xbone had bad hardware, bad PR from kinect and DRM, and lost some of the power of halo because halo 4 came out and sucked
after a whole gen of PS4 dominating and xbone losing, they had no momentum, and having the best hardware no longer meant anything because they released everything on PC
PS5 pro, pathetic as it is, now also cucked them out of the spot of most powerful console
not sure why a next gen xbox is still being made as there is zero growth potential and low demand for a higher spec xbox
also game pass murdered actual game sales so that wasn't great for third party support, basically worthless to develop for xbox unless you're trying to get on game pass as most xbox players literally don't buy games

>>714425228 (OP)
they gave up on making good games. the console itself doesn't matter.

>>714426216
360 hardware was garbage glued with old chewing gum
It was easier to code for compared to the PS3 cell processor so ports were better on the first years (late gen games like GTA5 were better on the PS3)

>>714425228 (OP)
xbox 360 had like 100 ms end-to-end latency and horrible 1% lows, no stable fps either

>>714426128
>minor spelling mistake

>>714426562
The 360 was the equivalent of a PC that cost twice as much when it came out, PC caught up fast but in 2005 it was impossible to build something even remotely competitive to 360 performance for the same ballpark price wise.

>>714427232
not correcting OP, just retyped it. i meant "we all know why"

>>714425820
That whole lineup feels like they're pulling from a hat labeled “forgettable AA ideas from 2013.” South of Midnight looks like it's trying to be artsy with no audience, Avowed is just Obsidian doing a Walmart Skyrim, and Doom Dark Ages? Who the hell was asking for medieval Doom? It’s like they’re scared to fund anything ambitious, so we just get the most mid, safest crap to pad Game Pass. Indiana Jones might as well be AI-generated from leftover Uncharted assets. Nothing in there screams “must-own system seller,” just more 5-hour play & uninstall afterthoughts. Xbox is basically a content mill for a subscription nobody even remembers they have active.

>>714425228 (OP)
xbox fired all the cool white gen x people that would tell leadership they were fucking retarded.they hired suits and indians. their soul has been gone for years, and the suits can ship a product. pathetic state of affairs.