This is exactly what they need to do to get players back: Hard Xbox reboot, keep their exclusives “exclusive”, ship the full game on-disk, free online multiplayer, go back to the $50-$60 dollar retail price point per new game, charge less for the digital editions of games since they don’t have physical distribution and disc production, make games for less (don’t spend a fortune) and that way you can keep a steady flow of content made in less time than what is now the 3-7 years development industry standard, make budget games too, put all your IP under the Xbox exclusive slogan (Call of Duty, Doom, Overwatch, etc.), don’t make a console with an above $500 price point, bring back the “plug in and play” philosophy of yesteryear, drop DEI produced slop, and finally, apart from having a Blu-ray Disc drive, make the console to be solely focused on gaming.
"Modern" games are infested with TheMessage™, so im not even going to consider it. The hardware could be bought if it was open for me to develop and install linux freely. Its all shit. The company, the console, the games.
The real problem isn't about video games--that's insignificant.
What this hiring illustrates is the overwhelming in-group preference "certain" races are permitted to have without comment. This Indian woman wasn't hired and the far more experienced non-Indian woman passed over for any reason other than racial nepotism.
It's destroying our industries, big and small, denying opportunities to qualified and capable people, and signalling a hostile alien invasion of our lands, jobs, and dreams.
Anyone recall that viral video from a Canadian warehouse where EVERY SINGLE worker was an Indian?
It's not going to stop until we make it stop. And that's never going to happen if we sit down, shut up, and be good little not-racists while every other racial group pillages us blind, assaults our women and children, and murders us in the streets for noticing.
EDIT: Camp of the Saints, a novel every bit as prophetic as 1984, but about the now current brown invasion of Western lands rather than government surveillance, is back in print.
To be fair, it was Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond who drove Xbox into a hole; whatever her background is, she’s making the right opening moves to win back some trust.
Lowering the price of Ultimate is good, because they went too high for the market.
Recommitting to hardware is good, because the “Everything is an Xbox!” strategy they’d started on left everyone wondering if there was any point in owning an actual Xbox console (spoiler alert: There was not). Hell, the only thing keeping most people around at this point is their digital game libraries (a pull factor that Gamepass explicitly undermines, it should be added).
I agree that the biggest question is whether Microsoft can make first party exclusives that actually compete with Sony’s, but that will take years to answer. Stuff in the pipeline already is what it is. Anything started now we won’t see for years.
If you put someone who cares about the product, it becomes too customer-focused and shareholders lose value.
And we can’t have that.
"shareholders lose value."
It takes laser focus on shareholder value to cut out all the product value.
"Pajeet MS CEO puts Pajeeta in charge of XBOX"
Won't buy. I don't like consoles much, anyway. I've had many of the early ones: Sega, Atari, Colecovision.
Tried Xbox a long time ago. Didn't like it. Don't care. PC master race.
Colecovision was awesome.
This is exactly what they need to do to get players back: Hard Xbox reboot, keep their exclusives “exclusive”, ship the full game on-disk, free online multiplayer, go back to the $50-$60 dollar retail price point per new game, charge less for the digital editions of games since they don’t have physical distribution and disc production, make games for less (don’t spend a fortune) and that way you can keep a steady flow of content made in less time than what is now the 3-7 years development industry standard, make budget games too, put all your IP under the Xbox exclusive slogan (Call of Duty, Doom, Overwatch, etc.), don’t make a console with an above $500 price point, bring back the “plug in and play” philosophy of yesteryear, drop DEI produced slop, and finally, apart from having a Blu-ray Disc drive, make the console to be solely focused on gaming.
"Modern" games are infested with TheMessage™, so im not even going to consider it. The hardware could be bought if it was open for me to develop and install linux freely. Its all shit. The company, the console, the games.
Microsoft is doomed.
I aged out of video games. None of this matters to me at 59 years old.
What would it take for me to buy a Xbox? For it to be a PlayStation.
The real problem isn't about video games--that's insignificant.
What this hiring illustrates is the overwhelming in-group preference "certain" races are permitted to have without comment. This Indian woman wasn't hired and the far more experienced non-Indian woman passed over for any reason other than racial nepotism.
It's destroying our industries, big and small, denying opportunities to qualified and capable people, and signalling a hostile alien invasion of our lands, jobs, and dreams.
Anyone recall that viral video from a Canadian warehouse where EVERY SINGLE worker was an Indian?
It's not going to stop until we make it stop. And that's never going to happen if we sit down, shut up, and be good little not-racists while every other racial group pillages us blind, assaults our women and children, and murders us in the streets for noticing.
EDIT: Camp of the Saints, a novel every bit as prophetic as 1984, but about the now current brown invasion of Western lands rather than government surveillance, is back in print.
Buy it .
Read it.
Share it.
The Bean Counters strike again
To be fair, it was Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond who drove Xbox into a hole; whatever her background is, she’s making the right opening moves to win back some trust.
Lowering the price of Ultimate is good, because they went too high for the market.
Recommitting to hardware is good, because the “Everything is an Xbox!” strategy they’d started on left everyone wondering if there was any point in owning an actual Xbox console (spoiler alert: There was not). Hell, the only thing keeping most people around at this point is their digital game libraries (a pull factor that Gamepass explicitly undermines, it should be added).
I agree that the biggest question is whether Microsoft can make first party exclusives that actually compete with Sony’s, but that will take years to answer. Stuff in the pipeline already is what it is. Anything started now we won’t see for years.
The Steam Box is going to hit hard.