WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING

>>715507243 (OP)

>>715507243 (OP)
They won
>b-bu-but Snoy!
Doesn't matter. They can outlast them

>>715507243 (OP)
No games

>>715507243 (OP)

>>715507243 (OP)

>>715507243 (OP)
Crashing the industry with no survivors

>>715507293
>They can outlast them
They can but they seem very determined to fuck things up to the point they can justify shutting it down.

>>715507243 (OP)
>Xbox
>Their logo is an X orb
That was their first mistake.

>>715507243 (OP)
They're playing the long game. And winning.

>>715507243 (OP)
Trying their damndest to kill gaming by whatever means necessary.

>>715507895
>Lose 1 billion
>Make $500 Million
Success!.

Giving me a platform to game on that isn't PS or Steam

>>715507243 (OP)
Their initial foray into the gaming industry failed, so now they're sticking around to prevent a resurgence.
Imagine the drop in shareholder confidence if Microcuck leaves the market and suddenly everything improves, even if the low IQ shareholders don't blame Microsoft for the decline, they'll still view leaving a thriving market as a bad management move.
The normalization of the 360 controller alone is a massive detriment to game development that is so internalized by now that even developers don't realize it.

>>715508227
Shh nobody tell him.

>>715508519
> Failed

Ridiculous Snoyfag. Master Chief and Marcus Fenix sold so many fucking combined games for a solid decade that calling it anything but a massive success is disingenuous hater shit. Worry less about Xbox and more about Slopcord being the biggest cultural and commerical flop in modern gaming history and now you have the possibility of Slopathon being shelved eventually, which would be another massive loss. Can't wait to play Spider Man and God Of War on my SeX.

>>715507556
Top half of the image should be pajeets

>>715507243 (OP)
Nothing of note since the 360. (Since they changed from NXE to kinect dashboard on the 360 I would argue.)

>>715507243 (OP)
I have no idea. No, I mean i actually have no Idea what Microsoft is doing. I don't have an xbox and I don't use Windows. I'm Microsoft free and it feels great

>>715507293
>They can outlast them
It doesn't matter if the parent company has 3 trillion market cap and enough money to waste 100 billion on slop churning publishers. If investors see no value and no return on their money from the Xbox division then $MSFT will simply shut it down.
PlayStation is Sony's bread and butter so they'll do anything and probably sacrifice the rest of the company before shutting it down.

>>715507243 (OP)
Trying to speedrun bankruptcy with infinite money. It's quite entertaining actually.

>>715508770
>Instantly brings consolewars slop into it
I don't even care, consoles as a whole have failed.
Face it, Xbox had no staying power after 2010 and Microsoft failed to split the computing market into an office and a graphical API segment (the original intent of the DirectXbox and something that they were at least partially pushing for during 7th gen).
By all metrics Xbox has failed, at this point they can only maintain shareholder confidence, manage their decline and sabotage their competition.

This thread will sure age like shit when the next gen Xbox will be basically a gaming PC and completely crush PS6 and shitty prebuilts

>>715509356
>a shitty prebuilt will crush shitty prebuilts

Not happening, dude.

>>715509406
Unlike shitty prebuilts, it will have backwards compatibility with your entire Xbox library and will have Xbox features like quick resume
And you can just actually set it under your TV and it will just work with a great interface
Even the current Xbox UI absolutely BTFOs the shitheap that is the PS UI, not to mention hooking up a regular Windows PC to your TV and trying to use it with just a controller lmao

>>715509341
>I don't even care, consoles as a whole have failed.
Maybe if you live in some third world shithole and have sour grapes because you can't have one
>>715509356
the 999$ windows box with no exclusives isn't going to crush the 599$ PS6 where everyone, their friends and exclusives are.
Just drop the pretense and buy a PC or PS5 already

>>715507243 (OP)
The right decisions, finally.
>wait, so you mean to tell me your game has been in development for 7-10 years with nothing to show for it?
>Bye!

>>715509554
>Just drop the pretense and buy a PC
I would if you could get one in a Series S form factor without paying $3500 and if it actually had a good TV interface
Luckily the new Xbox will be just that but at $999

>>715509625
B-but how will they make their "a day in the life of a Microsoft game dev gurl :3" tiktoks now?

>>715509507
>Unlike shitty prebuilts, it will have backwards compatibility with your entire Xbox library
How will it have full backwards compatability if its a windows computer?
>and will have Xbox features like quick resume
It already exists on PC for the last 20 years and it's called alt+tabbing. This is literally what your xbawcks currently does
>Even the current Xbox UI absolutely BTFOs the shitheap that is the PS UI
The Series X UI literally looks like the windows 8 tiles, how is supposed to be good looking?

>>715509507
The fucking optimism on you. Word of advice, hide all rope and sharp objects in your house the day before the announcement.

>>715507243 (OP)
>microsoft going rampant with dei for the 9th year now
>anon only notices it now
lmao

Rolling a dead grave

>>715509701
Will you rope when we have a repeat of 360 Vs PS3?
>>715509698
>How will it have full backwards compatability if its a windows computer?
Microsoft is literally setting up a BC team right now to tackle this
>It already exists on PC for the last 20 years and it's called alt+tabbing. This is literally what your xbawcks currently does
Wow you're a clueless retard. There wouldn't be enough RAM to keep everything loaded at all times. It actually writes the game state to the internal SSD from memory and loads it when quick resuming. It's like a save state in emulators. The new Xbox PC will have it and your shitty prebuilt won't.
>The Series X UI literally looks like the windows 8 tiles, how is supposed to be good looking?
It's not about how it looks but the functionality. It's quick, easy to navigate, and efficient. The PS UI is flashy but it's a bitch to do anything in.

>>715509639
>you could get one in a Series S form factor without paying $3500
PS5 is my main platform and I could absolutely build a computer in the Series S form factor or smaller, for 600 or less

>>715509856
>PS5 is my main platform and I could absolutely build a computer in the Series S form factor or smaller, for 600 or less
Yeah and it would have the same performance AT BEST as a base PS5, because you'd have to use a low profile GPU to fit in the case, at the moment that's a 5060 with 8GB VRAM at best.
There's the ASUS ROG NUC with RTX 5080 and 16GB VRAM but that costs over $3k.

>>715509856
I see how you carefully said "computer" and not pc on par with the playstation since you'll be gaming on the igpu.

>>715509841
>Microsoft is literally setting up a BC team right now to tackle this
Explain how this will work. If you are so confident about this being real you'd have some knowledge of how it works.
>Wow you're a clueless retard. There wouldn't be enough RAM to keep everything loaded at all times.
Alt+Tabbing deprioritizes RAM and resources just enough to keep the game running at a minimum. Your quick resume does the same thing
The new Xbox PC will have it and your shitty prebuilt won't.
If its a windows computer then I don't see how another windows computer without the xbox sticker won't be able to do this

>>715507243 (OP)
Before they close Xbox I want them to acquire the MSX Library. lol

>>715510024
You can actually fit a low profile 5060 into it but will have to undervolt and underclock it because the thermals will be shit. Still faster than an iGPU but not great.

>>715510105
Not on a $600 budget. And not enough vram to be on par either way.

>>715510081
>Explain how this will work. If you are so confident about this being real you'd have some knowledge of how it works.
Compatibility layers, like Proton on Linux, but instead of a Windows compatibility layer on Linux, this will be a 360/Xbone/Series X compatibility later on Windows.
>Alt+Tabbing deprioritizes RAM and resources just enough to keep the game running at a minimum. Your quick resume does the same thing
It literally doesn't do that. Holy shit. Xbox is running games on a hypervisor so it just saves the state to disk. There's a limited amount of disk space set aside for this so that's why you only have 2-4 games at a time on quick resume.
>If its a windows computer then I don't see how another windows computer without the xbox sticker won't be able to do this
It will be a custom version of Windows that Microsoft will make sure only runs on their Xbox SKU.

>>715507293
Hilarious delusion.

>People say nobody buys Xbox anymore
>Work in electronics at my wagie job
>Haven't had a shipment of Xbox consoles in over a month now
>Have had people asking either in person or over the phone
>Don't know what to tell them

Something is going on at Microsoft. They must be slowing down production or something. It's strange that we've gone so long without a regular shipment of them. We always got more PS5's than Xbox's in, but we've never gone 4-5 weeks without getting any Xbox's in. There was a "conspiracy theory" that Microsoft had halted production of Xbox consoles in 2025, but I don't think that's true.

I just wonder if places like Walmart and Gamestop are still getting them in? I did have a customer tell me they tried calling Wal-Mart and they said they didn't have any other. So it's clearly not just my store, but other stores in the area. I wonder if it's the entire city? How far out does it spread? Is it a regional thing? Weird.

>>715510220
We will witness mass snoy suicides near the end of this decade.

>>715509960
Are you retarded or just trolling? the series S is a 1080p60fps machine. If you want more performance you just throw money at the problem
>I see how you carefully said "computer"
PC and computers are the same thing, did you know MacBooks are PCs too? Gaming PCs even if you install steam on them
>and not pc on par with the playstation since you'll be gaming on the igpu
Like I said, you throw more money at the problem. for 300$ you can get something worse than the series S and for 600$ when you throw a 4060/5060 in an equivalent or better than PS5 experience

>>715510335
Series S form factor doesn't mean Series S performance, idiot.

>>715510210
>Microsoft will make sure only runs on their Xbox SKU.
Wouldn't Microsoft want people to buy older Xbox games from their Microsoft store on windows and play them there? I don't see the point of restricting features on an overpriced box maybe 2 or 3 million will buy at most.

>>715510401
I meant the whole turnkey Xbox UI experience. I'm sure you will be able to just run the games on normal Windows. And even the Series X sold over 30 million, this will outsell the PS6.

>>715508770
The heyday of Halo and Gears is almost 20 years ago. How's Halo Infinite doing? Microsoft has colossally mismanaged their biggest franchises.

>>715510176
an underclocked 5060 with 8gb of VRAM will be as good as a PS5 considering it will also be running at 1440p 60fps like your mini PC
>>715510371
Like I said, just throw money at the problem if you want more performance? are you illiterate or just straight up retarded? the Series S form factor is not an impossible task, it has a low cost entry and can scale up as much as you want

>>715507293

>spending over $500 on hardware for an inconsequential hobby that's a complete waste of your time anyway

>>715510284
Obviously Australia's not a major player in the video game industry, but I live in a capital city for reference.

>>715510445
>I meant the whole turnkey Xbox UI experience
Wouldn't Microsoft want this on the 1 billion personal windows PCs already in existence and with access to the Microsoft store? it makes more sense that they'd offer this to people who already have a laptop or desktop and want to spend money there

>>715510335
>PC and computers are the same thing, did you know MacBooks are PCs too? Gaming PCs even if you install steam on them


Holy shit if you don't understand the comment try getting someone to help you with it. Hint: it's a full sentence try again without the unneeded breakdown.

>>715510564
Maybe. But I think they'd keep it on the box as a differentiator. We'll see I guess.

>>715510284
I noticed the same thing with my local Walmart ever since before the Switch 2 launch. But I just went in yesterday and they restocked again with 2 XSXs and like 8 XSSs. So maybe their shipping distributor switched up.

>>715510480
Lower texture quality and putting up with harder dips and stutters from running out of vram is not "on par".

Xbox is a huge tumor on the 3tn empire and the investors probably want it gone. It served its purpose of multiple post-covid stock bumps.
Further, elephant in the room is the ccp likely offering huge infrastructure and manufacturing deals if they kill the brand and leave a gap for Tencent/Nease in the West. Something that will also fail, but MS doesn't give a shit. They just want the money.

>>715510603
Also xbox continues to lose marketshare to Sony even if they have 2 SKUs (with most buying the cheapest one). I don't see how pricing out their customers while at the same time locking away features for a total of 3-5 million customers makes any financial sense.

>>715510631
I don't think it's too much of an issue at 1080p

>>715507293
Microsoft makes hundreds of times more money than Sony and Nintendo combined, but they also do not give a shit about gaming and if they think the money spent on games would be better spent elsewhere they'll shut it the fuck down. That's basically what's happening now, they've been given extremely high mandates to try to sell as much as possible to demonstrate xbox is a profitable part of microsoft's future, or else.
Meanwhile Nintendo and Sony need gaming to live, they're dead without them.

>>715507243 (OP)
Xbox is the perfect example of what DEI will do to your once successful and profitable company

>>715507243 (OP)
They just had to make good games(or at the very least make people think they do).

How can a trillion dollar company fail at doing such an easy task?

>>715510926
>I don't think it's too much of an issue at 108-ACK

>>715507243 (OP)
This is what happens when you put women in charge

>>715511302
ok so that's more of a reason to stick a base PS5 as it BTFOs medium end PCs

Listening, which is what no one else did.

>>715511361
5060 is low end as fuck

>>715512043
>300$ is low end
Holy shit the state of PC gaming is sad. I could buy a good medium end card for 1440p card for 350$ in 2016

>>715509356
They're both going to flop, Microsoft and Sony played themselves.

>decide that making sales and being pro-consumer is more important than autistic console wars and fanboy brand image
>NO YOU CAN'T DO THAT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>715512546
The state of everything has gone up since then, retard

>>715512043
its high end at 1080p, retard cum guzzler

exact same performance at 1080p that a 5070 Ti a $1000 card offers at 1440p

i shit you not, nigger. please have some common sense next time.

>>715512956
>high end at 1080p

lol lmao. It can't max games out at 1080p. It's not high end in anything.

>>715512956
>5060 is high end at 1080p
Do poor people really?

>>715513020
maxing doesn't mean shit. i could toast my 5090 at 720p in some unreal engine 4 title if i wanted to, by using cinematic preset and screenpercentage 200, aahistory 200, csm res 16384, -15 lod bias, 10x draw distance.

what the 5060 offers at 1080p is fucking insane. you are basically living like a god at 1080p on that card as long as you aren't fucking retarded and have common sense.

>>715513160
>what the 5060 offers at 1080p is fucking insane. you are basically living like a god at 1080p
This would be true if you were talking about 5060 Ti 16GB

>>715507243 (OP)
what is it now?

>>715510284
I know they raised the price not long ago. Stores might be backing away from them due to already low sales numbers, even protesting the increase. Have you asked around or noticed anything else recently, like more stock for PS5 and Switch? Has your store tried to order them?

>>715513160
>gods have to be picky with their settings because their card is too weak to handle the resolution with ease

Not everyone thinks gods live like homeless people, bro.

>>715513630
Bro really said "living like a god" while slider-juggling shadows and praying DLSS 4.0 doesn't crash the game at launch. If your GPU needs a PowerPoint presentation on settings optimization to hit 60fps at 1080p, it ain’t divine, it’s just poor.

>>715513875
Now THAT'S a literal GPT post.

>>715507243 (OP)
Cancelling all their games

>>715509625
Exactly. Everyone cries about how cruel and greedy Microsoft is being but Microsoft is actually too lenient and clearly that doesn't work.
>no crunch
>no limit on budget
>no deadlines
>no corporate meddling of the direction of the games
>no limiting freedom of expression or creativity
>the one condition is they have to make a good video game
>everything bleeding heart game journalists asked for
>in motion they just collect paychecks and jerk off
>push out multi million dollar budget 10 year turds
>no one plays them or spends money on them or they get critically panned and lukewarm reception
>devs hold out their hands for the paycheck of their next 10 year turd
>Microsoft says no
>cry and beg for a second chance
>bleeding heart game journalists cry again

>>715516241
Hellblade is genuinely good, but not exactly would say a system seller.

I wonder if they'll actually win this game of chicken with Snoy to see who crashes harder first or Nutella will just get bored and shut it all down.

>m8 the xbox portable will crush everything, trust me bro
>turns out to be a Rog Ally with an xbox sticker, no native xbox games or BC
History will repeat itself with the next gen "console" and people will still be shocked.

>>715516454
And I didn't hear anything about Hellblade getting layoffs. Oblivion is pumping out like 20 games this year and look at how there aren't any layoffs there. Rare just had a game that was in development hell since 2014 mercy killed but no layoffs since Sea of Thieves is still very profitable. Anyone who's being honest can see Microsoft is just delousing itself.
Yes even including Tango. Tango didn't make a break into the Japanese market like it was intended to and Microsoft didn't want to deal with the overseas communication and management anymore or wait for another not system seller. None of these bleeding hearts bought Hi-fi Rush. No one cried when the devs that made Redfall went under or when "King" who most people probably never heard of experienced layoffs. And realistically a lot of people that got fired were in administrative positions.

To act like the Borg. Eventually once the assimilate everything, they'll be successful eventually. Resistance to layoffs is futile.

>>715517265
More like the demons from Idaten that destroy literally everything around them until there is nothing left and they die of starvation themselves.

>>715516763
They're clearly restructuring the brand into a platform like Steam. No more dedicated console. Just consolidating the Windows store and consoles into "Xbox". Everything just works on "Windows". Did you not notice the constant "this is an Xbox" and "play Xbox anywhere" branding? They're already making a stripped down Windows purely for gaming. They'll probably have set standardized spec requirements and make a "Xbox" mini PC with stripped down Windows that all their in house games are guaranteed to run well on. Then license out the OS to other third party pre-build PC companies to make their own "Xbox" products like they're already doing now with the handheld.

>>715517805
Probably helps they are also hiring the Xenia devs in making 360 games compatible on Windows.

Making money on software I think? Forza sold over 2 mil in a month on PS.

>>715507243 (OP)
It's quite simple anon.

>>715507243 (OP)
not making games
naming their consoles retarded titles
just blowing all the money on coke and hookers after firing the devs of studios they bought lol

Turning into a publisher

>>715507293
Based
I don’t know a single person with a ps5.

>>715522460
you didn't have to out yourself as a transgender

>>715507556
phil spencer is the best nintendo hired hitman to destroy xbox from within.

>>715510480
Every RTX 5060 8g VRAM prebuilt costs over $1,000. You don't know what you're talking about. You seriously have zero grasp how expensive PCMR has become. And 8GB cards are ewaste.

>>715509507
source trust me bro

>>715507274
Holy fucking shit. PM is kinda a higher up role than I thought useless diversity hires would get. I hope she was part of the recent firings.
>>715509356
Sex is already stronger than base ps5 but weaker than ps5 pro, because they started just porting everything to PC and some to ps5 anyways. It's already happening