Yeah, but it's hard to say anything else. If you don't intent to win, why even compete? Same with sports really, every single coach in football (soccer for Americans) say they want to win in their pre-match press conferences.
I agree. The problem is him now saying they aren't trying to win and third place is the best they can do.
Or fourth place. Depending on who they feel like counting as competition on the day.
Who, the reporters or Xbox?
10 years live reaction.
This thread is 44 pages deep. Go get 'em, tiger!
GamePass only makes sense if it's the only thing you play. Like, you spend the money, and every single game you play is on GamePass, and when it leaves GP you forget it ever existed, and you don't play any of the games too long. Because if, say, Flight Sim or Age of Empires or Forza or whatever becomes an obsession it makes more sense to just buy the game outright and cancel your sub and play that game.
Exactly. My backlog on PS5 is long enough that it made no sense to keep game pass around just for flight sim.
will reset and people will forget that they still have ”no games” to play. 
Same.
I really want to play that on the Switch......
I'm waiting to see what Fable 4 is like as well. If it ever comes out at all. I mean seriously. I bought the Switch simply because of Zelda. There are many great games as well. But great games do sell consoles.
Microsoft offered them a 10 years contract to not lose patience.
I know a losing battle when I see one. lol
Exactly. I’ve been saying the same thing forever yet no one seems to comprehend it. Sony are purely diabolical when they acquire “temporary” third party exclusives of games and franchises that normally sell really well and best on PlayStation, but it’s perfectly fine when Microsoft purchases entire publishers meaning they will own those games forever if they please. The hypocrisy is definitely outstanding.
Selective anecdotes aren't proof as much as your bias wants you t believe so. People can, and have done the same thing in reverse posting screens of it out of stock.
Stop with the fake shortages. Folks just aren’t willing to pay $559 for the Series X when you can get a PS5 for $499. If you’ll look at the 2nd photo, it appears that ms has stopped shipping the non bundles to retailers.
Supply and demand is the reason. More so on the latter which does impact what you supply.
lol ign, really?
That's not how logistics works. The S is moving what it needs to, the whole Series set of consoles is designed to sell together targeting audiences that in many cases don't join together, so it is unreasonable to see the S not making up for all potential X sales and then claiming that's fire sales aren't moving the needle.
Again, this isn't how logistics works but my question which I raised previously is, why are you guys continuing to falsely entertain the idea that the consoles are readily available, meaning that the console X is available broadly, yet several companies with insight keep saying the opposite?
You don't fire sale a product that exceeds demand. You fire sale a product when you have more supply than demand and need to desperately move units. Especially when you are supposedly losing up to $200 per unit.
Xbox used to be American as fuck, though. Giant console, giant controller called the DUKE, loud, ear-splitting sound when you turn it on. It was garish, fat, loud, expensive, and quintessentially American. Xbox was were you and your bros go on Live to yell slurs at strangers while driving around and shooting aliens together.
Keep dreaming pal, there is no demand for the series. It’s not anecdotal when i or anyone can find it in stock on any given day for the past 5 months. If you can’t find it in stock you’re either lying or not trying.
I never said this, you are avoiding the points I made and ignoring them in favor of creating a different argument. The X is the subject of the conversation, X is not on fire sale. Your reply is barely on the same topic.
This isn't a rebuttal, it's not discussion, it's a half-insult that doesn't address anything.
I said this. The rest is just noise.
Multiple people saying out of stock? Can you name those people?
They didn't just have an identity before, they were hungry as well. OG Xbox through mid 360 you could feel it. Spencer might have just been positioning the company to best navigate the regulators, but it comes off as real loser talk, like they and others haven't turned things around before. Part of me feels they need Peter Moore back.
Which wasn't what the discussion was about. You are still providing no answers and changing the topic. If you don't have an answer say you don't. You're trying to trick people into forgetting what we were talking about, which wasn't the S. Nor did anyone claim the S had demand exceeding supply, it's something you completely made up.
Are you being disingenuous? I even mentioned a recent example, the recent UK thread on this very forum.
No, I am just calling out where you claim availability every time it's looked into, is anecdotal. The demand just isn't there.
Everything you're saying is distorted.
You went off about the S and a false claim that I said that the S had unprecedented demand because you can't actually answer the underlying question, so you had to act like I said something else. There's nothing difficult about this, if the X is broadly available and stock isn't the problem why are reports still mentioning the shortages out of the blue without any involvement from Microsoft? Is every company reporting this lying? No.
