Thread 715777814

Curious to see how things are going in the country where it sells the most, the USA. As a European, I know maybe three people who have it.

What's the mood of the fanbase?

>>715777814 (OP)
It's dead and functionally only running to push GamePass.
>Everything is immediately ported to PC then later Switch and PS5 so there's no reason to specifically go for it.
>Every single first-party showing that we know of for the past generation has underperformed or had a terrible reception if it didn't.
>They're constantly announcing games, waiting like 4 years without showing off anything, and then either shadow dropping them or cancelling them.
>Activision and Bethesda are functionally the only things keeping them afloat barring Sea of Thieves.
>GamePass is causing tons of issues in general with it deeply affecting sales of games on the platform even if the service itself is supposedly profitable.
https://insider-gaming.com/game-pass-killed-by-first-party-development-costs/
https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-game-pass-criticism-unsustainable-impact-on-industry-arkane-studios-larian/
>Games aren't even coming on the disks in increasing numbers ever since the Series generation started.
>Japanese developers avoid Microsoft like the plague not only due to their restrictions as seen with games like Gal*Gun but then also due to things like the Capcom leak showing how MS sales figures are like 1/5th or lower than Playstation numbers and even lower than Nintendo numbers. This leads to significantly less choice on the system giving even less of a reason to opt for the system.
>They take an eternity to update the UI and it's still the worst of the three with by far the worst screenshot/video recording systems.

It's likely going to become the equivalent of Sega going forward with them going multiplat and Sony and Nintendo will be the main competitors. Even people who run business-based magazines like Christopher Dring attest to that and the multiplat sales are necessary to justify a lot of the first-party development costs.
>(This was before Xbox started publishing fully on PS5. Studios can now make stronger margins on premium sales as a result of that move)

>>715778967
Great post. It's amazing how MS money can sustain a dying brand, but at the same time I think it's the typical MS mentality that brought Xbox to the brink, They try too hard to find solutions and alternatives, only to then change again and again without finding their own path or at least following a well-trodden path.

>>715779457
At the end of the day the way they're going to go forward is going to be weird because they have to keep GamePass afloat but Nintendo and Sony are not going to allow it. It would just massacre sales and funnel money to Microsoft. That means Microsoft is going to have to keep pushing it on Windows and do something like a Steam Deck if they have any hope of retaining public consciousness for the brand in any way and even then I don't know how long they can hold out like this.

>>715778967
not even gonna defend xbox but
>Christopher Dring
>taking his word seriously after he's been proving wrong EVERY TIME

>>715780318
I only know that he runs a magazine and he was chiming in on the controversy of GamePass. I imagine he doesn't have all the information but he at the very least has to have some minor info about Microsoft to comment like that. The entire reason he's talking at all is because of Arkane saying GamePass cannibalizes sales.

>>715780382
> The entire reason he's talking at all is because of Arkane saying GamePass cannibalizes sales.
and then he corrected himself, he doesn't know shit. You should stop giving those fake journos any attention

>>715779457
It's really just the results of them being retarded as fuck and focusing on making the Xbox this vast media center instead of just doing what made the Xbox and 360 sell like hotcakes in the first place: making a videogame console people want to buy. They're also doubling down on the retard shit by trying to get people to buy into cloud gaming but the problem is they haven't given anyone a reason to switch to PC/cloud gaming.

What they were supposed to do is convince everyone to fuck off PS and Nintendo and come back to Xbox. Then when everyone is back on Xbox, then you destroy Xbox and force people onto PC/cloud gaming aka WINDOWS. But instead they did it in reverse and there really is no reason to bother with anything Xbox related when it'll get ported to PC or PS5 anyway. Basically they're fucking brain dead as fuck and just burning money. The only reason they even sell consoles is because of GamePass...but that shit isn't sustainable.

>>715780805
To be fair, it seemed like the pivot to PC ports was out of desperation rather than trying to get people to Windows. They were hemorrhaging money throughout all of the Xbone era into the start of the Series era and were desperate for any way to make up money from any avenue. I imagine that thought process is also how GamePass came to be because it's a subscription service with promises of AAA games made by Microsoft.

>>715780805
>THE POWER OF THE CLOUD™

Never forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwA2OaVsbts

Maybe Phil Spencer is thinking that they can use Kojima's OD to start shilling Cloud gaming as this big thing again, but I'm a bit cynical that a scrapped Google Stadia project that's apparently an episodic horror Telltale-esque game will be the thing to do it, Kojima or no.

>>715778967
Damn moose, I knew you were retarded but not this retarded.

>>715777814 (OP)
Always was