BRINGING MORE THAN HYPE

>>714501419 (OP)
AND THIS YEAR, PAUL?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_cXBINgd1A

>>714501419 (OP)
>BRINGING DEATH!

>>714501419 (OP)
>Perfect Dark Reboot Cancelled as Microsoft Closes Down Developer The Initiative

>Everwild, Rare's Original Adventure IP, Has Reportedly Been Cancelled

>Microsoft Making More Layoffs at Xbox Today Affecting King and ZeniMax Europe [Updated - Cuts Represent 4% of Total Microsoft Workforce]

>Xbox MMO From The Elder Scrolls Online Studio Reportedly Cancelled

>Forza Motorsport is 'No More' According to Former Turn 10 Dev

>Microsoft veteran believes "Xbox hardware is dead"

>Diablo IV on PS Plus is great news for Xbox

Were we too harsh on him?

>>714501979

Welp.

>>714502506
no, he started all of this

Nobody could fuck up worse than the don
>hold my beer

>>714502506
no way.
he fucked the xbox brand into the ground in the four years he was boss, and when things turned sour he jumped ship to zynga, the guys who make farmville. even there he lasted not even two years before he fucked off.
he's a fucking leech.

>>714501419 (OP)
Can't believe how hard sony won this war lmao

>>714502506
He single handedly lost Xbox the war. After his comment all good will on Xbox was lost

>>714502506
2 shitty front men does not mean the last one was good

>>714504591
>single handedly
Nah. Half of 360 lifespan was shit.

>>714505091
yes, and the big don was a big part of it.
mattrick was lead dev on kinect, and became head of xbox in 2010. xbone didn't release until the end of 2013, months after mattrick resigned.

>>714504591
Phil also mismanaged the brand terribly. Other companies have recovered from bad years.

>>714501979
Seeing all this laid out like a gaming obituary hits different. Xbox went from promising new IPs and studio acquisitions to becoming the Netflix of gaming-with nothing worth watching. It’s not even Schadenfreude anymore, just a weird, quiet resignation.

>>714504527
Being slightly less terrible than Micro$hit isn't anything to brag about, i still haven't bought a PS5 and i used to get their consoles day 1.

I'm genuinely surprised they are actually going to release yet another console in a couple of years.
Seems like the perfect time to pull out.

>>714501979
the only thing i wanted was nitro fueled on pc and they couldn't even manage that.

>>714501979
>Avowed released and was a huge flop
>South of Midnight released and was a huge flop
>Doom The Dark Ages released and was a huge flop
Did we already forget about these games?

Based Phil
sending him my energy for more layoffs and studio closures

>>714501979
>form studio to make a perfect dark reboot
>get it to playable levels, show off footage less than a year ago, looks fine all things considered
>can the reboot and close down the studio before they can even get their foot in the door
amazing management, thank you phil

>>714506713
NO BUT PERFECT DARK WOULD BE A GREAT GAME WITH ANOTHER 3 YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT OF $100,000,000.00

>>714506713
at least they came out

>>714506387
It's been pretty eye-opening that Xbox was apparently never profitable

>>714506591
That's basically what they're doing. The brand new """Xbox Handheld""" is just another company's device with an Xbox button glued on. Don't be shocked if the next generation of Xboxes takes inspiration from Steam Machines, aka a handful of hardware manufacturers offering their own Xbox-branded prebuilts.

Also, this is a tinfoil hat theory, but I think the main reason Microsoft is now allowing Steam & EGS on Xbox hardware is so that they can sue Sony to allow an Xbox storefront on Playstation. Nobody was paying attention, but Microsoft were oddly supportive of Timmy suing Apple, seems clear to me that they plan to do the same.

>>714506907
It was all smoke and mirrors.They weren’t close to releasing that.

>>714501979
>>714501419 (OP)
>your company is about video games
>fail to make a well liked game for 15 years
fuck xbox. seriously. im 100% an Xbox hater now

>>714507302
I think it's yet another attempt at trying to make themselves synonymous with PCs, personally; they're flying very close to the sun in wanting those digital platforms on consoles (legally sold and distributed as consoles, not as PCs), and I imagine they'll get slapped for trying by larger trade commissions and regulatory bodies.

>>714507302
Microsoft does't have to sue Playstation, consumers are already doing that.

>>714507507
Oh, that and Gabe would never hear of it. Guy wants Microsoft to burn in Hell's hottest pit forever.

>>714507510
They do if they want to sell Game Pass subscriptions to snoys. that's all microsoft cares about anymore

>>714507673
Microsoft doesn't need to, consumers already have a suit.

>Moon Studios
Long gone
>MDHR (Cuphead devs)
MIA
>id Software
Gone to shit
>Obsidian
Gone to shit
>Arkane
Gone to shit
>Tango
RIP
>Rare
MIA & gone to shit
>ActivisionBlizzard
Turned into a sad joke before Microsoft even bought them
>Bethesda
Same as ActivisionBlizzard, except now their subsidiaries are dogshit as well
>343/Halo Studios
Lmao

There's literally no comeback from this. At this point the smart thing for them to do is shut down all their studios except Activision and turn Xbox into the COD studio. Maybe once in a while they'll pluck an IP from their graveyard for a soulless adaptation.

>buy 5 quintillion different studios
>the vast majority of games never see the light of the day and the ones that do are flops
>close 4.9 quintillion of the studios you bought
what's the next step in his master plan?

>>714501979
damn sega dodged a bullet by not being bought by them

>>714509221
sailing away on a golden parachute while leaving that new head that was lined up in charge of a shattered and very heavily used toilet

>>714502506
The Xbone anti-disc sharing policy was actually Phil Spencer's idea believe it or not.

>>714507479
source: it came to me in a dream
I'd like to see some proof, sure it's easy to bullshit e3 footage but it just doesn't make any sense to kill off a new studio before they even get a chance to prove themselves to their audience