>Xbox e3 2013
>Complete disaster
>Always online Xbox
>Used games no more
>TV device
>"If you want to play offline, go with the Xbox 360"
>Promise of steam like sales
>Kinect integration

If Xbox actually decided to stick it out despite the bad press, what would have happened? Considering the state of the brand now over a decade later, could it have been worse? Perhaps having introduced game pass at e3 2013 would have softened the blow. It would at the very least be a different landscape today if Xbox stayed its course.

The anti disc sharing policy was extremely scummy and evil but even if they went through with it it would have been basically irrelevant by now as almost all games are downloaded now.

>>714638780 (OP)
>If Xbox actually decided to stick it out despite the bad press, what would have happened?
Whats happening now would've happened slightly sooner.

It's over

>>714638780 (OP)
It dies anyway. People forget we've gone through multiple phases of Xbox since Spencer took over, but the core issue has always been that MIRCOSOFT CANNOT MANAGE THEIR STUDIOS. Xbox only got through the 360 with some lucky deals and I'm fairly certain them pushing away Bungie with meddling scared them so damn bad that they refuse to intervene anymore and just hope the games turn out good. The fact the Initiative lasted 7 years is insane! Everwild spent 11 fucking years between all of its different iterations, how do you not step in sooner? You know why Obsidian keeps releasing games at a steady pace? Because they're used to being independent and get games out the door because they used to have no money to work with.

Remember when Halo Infinite was supposed to LAUNCH with the Series X and got delayed a year? How the FUCK does Phil keep his job after that, let alone 5 more years of incompetence at every level.

>>714638780 (OP)
>If Xbox actually decided to stick it out despite the bad press
No such thing. Marketing is everything and that’s why the overheating piece of shit + Xbox Live membership box called the Xbox 360 became a direct competitor to the PS3 despite the PS2 dominating last gen. The PS3 was marketed fucking horribly even though it was better than the 360 in every way. Xbox could’ve stayed a direct competitor if they didn’t pull a horrible marketing stunt.
>Your question: If Microsoft didn’t fuck up everything and decided to make good decisions???
The Xbox would stay a competitor and find ways to be competitive. A lot of their current decisions would’ve helped them out more in staying a direct competitor. They still would’ve kept buying studios but wouldve made Minecraft and Zenimax Media games, PC & Xbox only, because their other exclusives are going to shit. They wouldn’t increase the price of their shitbox. Gamepass would’ve been a huge thing and Sony would copy it if the Xbox was still a good competitor.

>>714638780 (OP)
I want a good timeline when sony were the ones that introduced always online bullshit which sony actually built in to ps4 unlike xbox

>>714639930
>but the core issue has always been that MIRCOSOFT CANNOT MANAGE THEIR STUDIOS
but that only started to happen under Phil Spencer. Don Mattrick greenlight so many games D4, scalebound, phantom dust remake, fable legends, project spark, which all got canned by Phil. We didn't even hear about cancellation of games under xbox until fable legends

>>714641876
Wasn't Scalebound cancelled due to mismanagement and demands from Mattrick era Microsoft? Also Xbox did have a few major cancellation before Fable Legends. Namely B.C (Lionhead). Project Milo (Also Lionhead) and pic related.

>>714642123
that didn't even affect the studios. With Phil it's always studio close down or massive layoffs. Of course True Fantasy Life is memoryholled, Level 5 moved on like nothing happened