RIP 2001 - 2013

>>717060058 (OP)
Microsoft went full retard the nanosecond Kinect went to retail, and never recovered since then.

>>717060058 (OP)
Daily reminder that PC gamers all have cuckhold fetishes and most will never own a house, get married, or have kids.

>>717060058 (OP)
Good riddance.

Another nail in the coffin

>>717060831
Why did they do that? It's terrible optics.

>>717060058 (OP)
WORKS ON MY MACHINE

>This is how you share games on PS4
That little skit was the kill shot. Sure XBone already was getting reamed by the internet but then Sony came in and made fun of them. That cemented the PS4 as the winner of last gen and the Xbox brand as a joke.

>>717060217
BUILT FOR CUDDLING, HANDHOLDING, AND KISSING

>>717060217
>>717061192
Nope. We all know what "she" wants.

>>717061150
Nintendo also screwed up that generation, and they still were able to recover with a new console without backwards compatibility. Microsoft is just very retarded, and with lots of money to waste.

No internet access? Buy a 360!

So...are they gonna be a better third party company than a first party one?
I've seen people say they'll quit and sell their vidya assets but I doubt they'd give up Minecraft

>>717062279
At best, they'll drop the hardware, but I doubt they're leaving the video game industry. They make bank out of it.

>>717062094

Why did they kill the 360s last year? I was still playing!

WTF XBOX!

>>717062459
>They make bank out of it.
They own Activision AND Bethesda now
It's the Xbox brand itself that appears to be a weak link amongst the three pillars

>>717062094
No internet access?
Buy a PS5!

>>717062279
They might go publisher, if they do expect Bobby to be back.
I think they are gonna focus on streaming. Getting Game Pass on all platforms including PS/Nintendo systems.

>>717062279
No. They are fundamentally opposed to quality at an ideological level. They needed to skim money off of every transaction made by others because they can't make anything of value themselves. They will hilariously be an even worse publisher than hardware maker and will give up entirely soon.

>>717062094
This cuck just gave Sony the W

>>717062563
They still have plenty of studios under the Xbox brand.

>>717062094
If this happened in a movie people would complain and say it's too unrealistic

>>717062279
They're gonna be the next Sega

>>717062771
Yeah but given the layoffs and closures, how many of them can you confidently say are "safe"

>>717062843
Sega kept making great games after they bowed out of the console war. Microshit ruins everything they touch.

>>717062872
Fair enough. Then again, Bethesda and Activision studios aren't safe either. Tango Gameworks was a Bethesda studio.

So they bought Blizzard and Bethesda for no reason?

Just two more weeks.

>>717063245
I think it was a move to strengthen Game Pass
You know how Disney bought out Fox to bolster Disney+ only for the buyout to leave a gaping money hole that became an actual problem when COVID came long?

>>717063245
It prevents others from having them. If you view every move microsoft makes in the lens of "how will this make the world a worst place" you will find reason in everything they do.

Xbox was already dead when the kinect launched, we just didn't know it yet

>>717063470
kinect was okay, I think wii gimmicks were way worse

>>717063534
The problem with kinect is that microsoft pivoted so hard into it that pretty much nothing else came out in the latter half of the 360's life cycle. Once the fad died they had no remaining momentum

>>717060058 (OP)
Xbox died when Peter Moore left.

>>717060831
This doesn't mean anything anymore since PlayStation games are coming to Xbox, both are dead.

>>717063728
They're not. They're coming to PC, but not Xbox.

>>717063679
>literally the only competent Xbox executive EVER

>>717062843
That's both Microsoft's and Sony's future

>>717063818
Someone missed the news

>>717062968
I think the most frustrating/concerning thing is that being good isn't enough to avoid closure/shut down
Sure I get why the Initiative was a failed experiment and Everwild was going nowhere but at the same time, Tango's shut down as a tragedy
It's not just about being profitable, it's about if you're "profitable enough"

>>717062843
SEGA unironically became a better publisher when they went third party (they got worse as a developer though)

>>717062563
>They own Activision AND Bethesda now
And are still trending to lose money on both

>>717063245
No, they still make Microsoft a lot of money I’m sure. But I don’t think they’re selling Xboxes.

>>717063728
This is what "brand synergy" looks like in corporate speak - they're all just storefronts for streaming libraries now. PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, it doesn’t matter. The platform war is dead, the content war replaced it. Doesn’t matter where the game plays as long as it funnels you into some live service sub tier.

>>717066389
And who do you think they'd jettison to save money?

>>717067782
Nintendo won, Valve is taking Microsoft's place with a mainstream Steam Deck 2, Sony will slowly fuck off as well. Microsoft will stop making hardware before Sony and go full third party first, Sony will do it either sometime during or after gen 10. Making a PS6 handheld is suicide given the Switch 2 exists and the Steam Deck 2 will exist.

>>717060831
And the whole game isn't even on disc. You need to download it. A remaster of a remaster that is practically the same fucking shit and yet they can't even be bothered to properly put the entire game on disc.

>>717060058 (OP)
Xbox died with Kinect

>>717060217

>>717060058 (OP)
Imagine practically having the market in your hands and fumbling it after how badly Sony fumbled with the launch of the PS3. Microsoft's loss to Sony is akin to the Falcons vs Patriots super bowl. Microsoft blew an enormous lead only to completely kwab with the one reveal during e3.

>>717060058 (OP)
>Buy up all of those studios
>Own all of those IPs
>Do nothing with it
What is the point then?

>>717060117
Nah, they just got way ahead of the curve and the average minority retard Snoy just isn't smart enough to see the bigger picture. Right now over half of the top 10 selling games on PS5 are MS studios.

People for whatever reason, cling to exclusives when there really hasn't been a killer app since like Halo 3. MS spearheaded killing exclusivity, and it is a good thing.

I say this as a PC gamer. This gen has been great because most games are multiplatform and crossplay.

Commobros...

>>717069217
>>Do nothing with it
If you're talking about Rare, they don't want to go back to old IPs and Microsoft is open to other devs who want to work on them

>>717063245
It's about publishing and gamepass. Most money is made from subscriptions and the publishing rights. They bought those companies so that they woudl get money from virtually all popular games, regardless of what platform they are on. If you look it is working exactly as planned:

https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/xbox-games-are-dominating-ps5-sales-charts-but-another-game-reigned-supreme/2900-6827/#1

>>717069339
>Microsoft is open to other devs who want to work on them
Only to get fired and have their game cancelled. That's the impression they're giving to game developers. Why anyone would ever work for them is beyond me at this point.

>>717069460
>Only to get fired and have their game cancelled.
We got Killer Instinct that people liked and that Battletoads reboot people didn't like
If you're talking about Perfect Dark, that was a first party studio and the game got canned because it was a mess

>>717060058 (OP)
2008

>>717069217
Bro, virtually half of the bestselling games on PS5 last quarter were MS published.

MS has put Sony in the cuck chair and is maintaining eye contact.

I have series s.
I like it.

Killer Instinct devs would rather make shitty Invincible game rather than the new Ki, grim

>>717069460
>only to get fired
Even the troons at Obsidian aren't having problems because they actually fucking release games. The people who got laid off couldn't produce anything more than a trailer in 7 years. Do your job and you are fine.

>>717069897
So tango gameworks should've been already making another game instead of taking a small vacation after hi-fi rush release?

>>717069787
Wasn't the studio literally made by Skybound itself?

>>717070010
Tango lost a massive amount of their workforce after hi-fi released, in particular leadership was almost entirely gutted. They would have needed to rebuild the studio from the ground up and it was just better off to close the doors. And MS did find an exit plan for those who stayed by selling them off to another publisher.

>>717070010
That’s what he said, they were pitching not developing and they lost the entire draw to their studio when mikami left

I know it's a meme but I genuinely think that unless Nintendo and PlayStation can make 10/10 games again the console business is doomed to crash.

>>717060831
they get the inferior "remake"

>>717063619
gaylo > everything on the right

>>717070329
Not Reach and definitely not 4.

>>717070675
Reach was a better game than 3, more content on release too

So Rare's safe right?

>>717070796
I would love to see Rare die, 10 years on some woke slop? Deserved death

>>717060217
Man I wish she was my gf so I could have her getting fuck by a big black man with a thick and veiny cock while I watch and record everything.

>>717069498
It's crazy how hard they managed to screw up with Battletoads when Killer Instinct and Shovel Knight got their cameos so right just a few years earlier.

I keep hearing they did something crazy, what was?

>>717060058 (OP)
They're doing pretty well and are ahead of the curve in many ways, unironically.

>>717070796
As long as Sea of Thieves lives

>>717060831
do we know how much it sold? I don't think sonyfags ever gave a fuck about gears.

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what in the fuck

>>717073094
Not out yet

>>717073094
Forza sold 4 or 5 million on ps5 lol.

My favourite part of playing video games is TV TV TV and SPORTS SPORT SPORTS.

>>717073641
>2025
>still stuck in a moment a decade behind
Deranged snoygger.

>PS5
>no games

>>717073641
bruh phil spencer fumbled xbox brand way more than dom mattrick ever dreamed of

>>717073719
hmmmm

>>717060058 (OP)