Seems like that Buckley quote about Asha, being brought in to "sunset" the Xbox division, may have more merit to it than I originally thought.
My first job is simple: understand what makes this work and protect it.
And that's the reason why you don't really see the name 'Embracer' in back-to-back headlines anymore.
Thousands of people are losing their jobs, but yeah, let's celebrate it because out of the 40 AAA games that come out every year they didn't make 1 you like.
Precisely. No wonder her PR team told her to appeal to the diehard Xbox fans. Only fanatics will make excuses for her decisions; they've already started with the "It's all Amy Hood's fault and not Asha's."
You're seeing and going to see some of the same giddyness in here. Xbox ,the mega-corp, deserves the shit they're getting for years of bad decision-making. They've earned exactly where they are. It's unfortunate that alot of human collatoral damage is going to get caught in this tidal wave, and those people deserve to end up in a better situation( which the way this industry is headed, may be leaving it completely). This is a complete shit-show.
It's either the giddy tone of leakers having news first, or the giddy tone of those wanting Xbox to die/bow out of gaming, or the giddy tone of those who dislike AAA and the west, much like the gentleman above your post.
My guess is they'd also be selling the employee contracts and not the IPs.
It's a brand that's lasted 25 years. And I been apart of all 25 as a spectator and overall gamer.
Totally agree. It's self-inflicted, and it probably needed to happen eventually but uh, idunno, for me a bunch of people who don't like Xbox to begin with on a forum going "good lol, fuck em" is different from some ghoul on social media being like "OOH it's gonna be so awful. No I won't tell you the specifics, but it's gonna be baaad. Remember you heard it from me first!" There's a line of bad taste being crossed there.
Ehh, well, I don't agree with the guy above my post either lol, but he's just here talking with us, he's not out there influencing. There's a difference imo.
He most likely doesn't care because he is looking at it through a social/cultural angle.
Just what happens when you send a retarded kid into a toy store and give him a platin card before.
You're right, alone on GAF his post doesn't influence much, but if he's posting the same thing on twitter then he's one of many, many voices doing so.
I'll never understand that sentiment. They're so many game releases.
Yeah and most of them are garbage these days.
I don't work for Xbox. I will say at the same time, the first half of its lifespan so far has been successful while maybe until 2014, Xbox has been a slow downward trend.
Sucks for you, i guess. Lots of good/great games out there.
If these rumors are true then I predict that Xbox will massively shrink into a very, very safe corner of CoD, Overwatch, WoW, Elder Scrolls, Sea of Thieves, Halo, Minecraft, and Forza.
And Minecraft?
