ChorizoPicozo
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Phil Spencer: announcement this week
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Halo is Back
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If the rumors were false, they probably would have denied it by now.
bitbydeath
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FunkMiller
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So, you think all of this is all planned do you? You think a multi-billion dollar company leaks information to every outlet without any official confirmation, as its way of imparting a planned for, and deliberate strategy?
Because guess what slappy... I used to work for one of these multi-billion dollar corporations in their communications department - and they don't fucking do that at all.
Clearly, an internal struggle has been going on, and equally clearly the losing side has panicked about what's happening, and gone to the press.
The fact Phil is waiting an entire fucking week to address the situation is indicative of how true everything is. There's no fall of Rome going on here. Microsoft are fine and dandy. XBox though? Different story.
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Mister Wolf
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I'm speaking specifically about performance not quantity or quality.
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Aguero9320
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Not shocked to hear you ‘used to work’ for one
Can’t imagine why they got rid of you if you are so weak and indecisive that you think going from investing $69bn 100 days ago to throwing the whole business out the window is solid strategy…
Topher
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R3claimer117
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This is probably the best take on this. Most of the rumors were guided as Xbox is considering bringing this or that. I’m sure if they were going forward with this they would be addressing this now waiting a week means that they feel the reaction is unwarranted. The most likely outcome is Sony and switch get some older games. Also how they are going to handle integrating ABK into gamepass. Microsoft now seems like they want to continue growing their gaming business and be the biggest publisher in the industry. They cannot continue to acquire if it’s seen that they’re holding everything to themselves. But with everything in gamepass it’s going to work that way. Fanboys cheering now will be on the opposite end of troll post when those games start charting on npd from Sony and Nintendo sales.
Ass of Can Whooping
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You're getting sacked next week hahahahahah
Syphon Filter
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you're in denial, the tweet itself is saying its true.
Tiago Rodrigues
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So the rumors are true.
If they werent he would deny them. Clearly the leak wasn’t in the cards
If they werent he would deny them. Clearly the leak wasn’t in the cards
Ramz87
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Hahaha someone needs to quote that legendary ‘green rats’ post again.A few more attempts, lol:
FunkMiller
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Nope. The whole thing smacks of someone high up in the MS system who is unhappy with the strategy moving forward, and wanted to get it out to the press as truthfully as possible, before Phil was able to spin it with PR speak, the way he has with everything else.
And now he and the rest of them are scrambling to put together a coherent response that admits the truth of the leaks, while at the same time 'reassuring' the Xbox community that 'everything is actually fine - pay no attention to the man behind the curtain'. The fact a lot of them will buy the BS again is fairly depressing.
hepfom
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Like Nokia and Windows Phone.
Putting my tin foil hat on...Microsoft PR will help play up the idea of "all exclusives coming to PS and Nintendo" and Uncle Phil parachutes in to save the day. Then walks back and announces only a few are actually going there then the fanboys will applaud him for "listening to the fans". I swear they do this shit every time.
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This is all pretty remarkable. Strategic plans A, B, C, and D over 20+ years have all went bust. Whatever they announce, it will be an attempt to salvage the current situation. If the goal all along was just to become a profitable multiplatform mega-publisher, then they took the long route and wasted many billions to do it, so this is not where they set out to be.
I think it's clear what has happened, and it's why in hindsight the Activision acquisition will probably rank as one of the all-time greatest industry blunders. I think what happened was Microsoft envisioned securing Call of Duty exclusively on Xbox as a sort of knockout punch over Sony, but the regulators stripped it away. Microsoft refused to give up primarily due to the reputational damage in having to abandon such a big deal that it so publicly sought. Then, once they acquired Activision without exclusive rights over Call of Duty, they found themselves straddled with a monstrous asset that they paid a market premium for, and an asset that was only valuable to begin with because it sold millions of games on non-Xbox hardware. So, swallowing Activision without free reign over Call of Duty was a total poison pill. Nadella and the board of directors then demanded a complete change when they realized that Activision was not only unprofitable on Xbox hardware alone, but also worth a fraction of the $69 billion they paid for it.
I think it's clear what has happened, and it's why in hindsight the Activision acquisition will probably rank as one of the all-time greatest industry blunders. I think what happened was Microsoft envisioned securing Call of Duty exclusively on Xbox as a sort of knockout punch over Sony, but the regulators stripped it away. Microsoft refused to give up primarily due to the reputational damage in having to abandon such a big deal that it so publicly sought. Then, once they acquired Activision without exclusive rights over Call of Duty, they found themselves straddled with a monstrous asset that they paid a market premium for, and an asset that was only valuable to begin with because it sold millions of games on non-Xbox hardware. So, swallowing Activision without free reign over Call of Duty was a total poison pill. Nadella and the board of directors then demanded a complete change when they realized that Activision was not only unprofitable on Xbox hardware alone, but also worth a fraction of the $69 billion they paid for it.
Topher
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"so go ahead cocksuckas and pull the trigger, enjoy you green rats filled neo[redacted
sewers."
Drama - Cringe - It's funny when people are getting banned for console warring while some of the mods are console warriors
First of all to any mod reading this, if your mom was fucked by one man only don't delete this thread, even at era they don't delete anything unlike the green trash you have here that delete a lot of posts and threads, covering their tracks or what do you have to hide? Now to the malignant cunt...
I'm not putting it past Phil Spencer to do that very thing. You are right. He's done it before.
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Lions Gate
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is she visiting a patient at psychiatric ward ?
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Nydius
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Not shocked to hear you ‘used to work’ for one
How is expanding their software to a massively larger player base where people buy games "throwing the whole business out the window"?
Xbox as a hardware brand is a dismal failure. 2024 Q2 was the first quarter in a year that saw Xbox hardware revenue increase and that increase was an anemic 3% because they had put the Series X on deep sale for an entire quarter. In 2023, they were pummeled by double digit hardware revenue losses every quarter. At the end of 2023, they were being outsold by Sony 3:1 despite having a significantly cheaper console option. Game Pass clearly isn't bridging the gap; If anything the cost of running Game Pass is a hindrance. Think about how much they have to pay for third party games like Persona 3 REload to show up on the service day one. Think about all the people who have used loopholes to get several years of Game Pass Ultimate at a fraction of retail price.
Expanding their reach to sell more software after spending $70B on ABK makes a hell of a lot more business sense than limiting their reach to Xbox and PC only.
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Synless
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You went that far and couldn’t edit the name? Cmon now.
Fox Mulder
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They already killed console exclusives putting games on PC day one, they have some on Switch. Put the games on PlayStation and make money.
James Sawyer Ford
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Aaron Greenberg rn
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I would pay good money to look at the group chat with Pete Hines and his old head Bethesda buddies, you just KNOW he is talking shit in there 24/7 on Phil, probably bitches every single day about how his boss was an absolute clown. From the lawsuit emails it was just so apparent he was all around pissed at Phil's grand plan and thought it made no sense.
Kokoloko85
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Him saying we hear you might mean they are listening to xbox fans, And not going multiplatform.
Otherwise why would he say that?
Ass of Can Whooping
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Bruh i just found out timdog is 66 he's going to have a heart attack hahahahahahahahaha
Arsic
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Aguero9320
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You completely missed my point, which was just that whatever is happening now is (at least largely) what they planned to happen when they closed ABK, not some panic fuelled decision based on Starfield not reviewing that well… I was responding to the nonsensical view that ABK ‘broke’ Xbox. Whether people actually like it (whatever it turns out to be) time will tell, but it’s highly unlikely to be as reactionary internally as some are trying to paint it.
They didn’t accidentally spend $69bn a couple of months ago and regret it now. They knew what they were getting into.
And that is not even considering that no one knows what is actually happening right now, but so many people are posting like they do…
Surely there must be others who think the absolute speculation over the last couple of days is a touch on the insane side? Not one attributable quote, or one person willing to put a name to any of it - just lots of ‘I hear’ from the ether…
And I’ve been consistently anti-exclusive across the board, so I’m not one of those people. I agree with Nadella - a world without exclusives is a better world for gamers.
Chuck Berry
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Dick Jones
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My favourite moment of all this is MS paid compensation to Disney to keep Indiana Jones off Playstation, and will still release it on Playstation. Inspired lads.
nordique
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Frwrd
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Their AI is working overtime trying to come up with the right buzzwords and spins to try to avoid the inevitable.
Chuck Berry
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Xbox Department of Emotions
What’s greater is I bet that position actually fucking exists in some form.
FunkMiller
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Exactly. I think some of the more ardent XBox fans are confusing Microsoft with Xbox at the moment. I do absolutely believe that a massive strategy change for Xbox is happening, due to the current state it's in.
Microsoft Gaming will be fine.
The XBox is fucking dead as shit.
Frwrd
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Tal Shiar Agent
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We are seeing this play out in real time.
Timdog is hosting a call on Twitter and it's fucking hilarious at the amount of coping.
Timdog is hosting a call on Twitter and it's fucking hilarious at the amount of coping.
Frwrd
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XXL
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I just realized....
The PS5 is going to sell sooooooooooo many consoles (Pro and Base Model) when GTA VI arrives.
Microsoft just handed them a gift from God at an absolutely perfect time.
Playstation RN
They are about to get so many games and sell so many consoles its not even fucking funny.
The PS5 is going to sell sooooooooooo many consoles (Pro and Base Model) when GTA VI arrives.
Microsoft just handed them a gift from God at an absolutely perfect time.
Playstation RN
They are about to get so many games and sell so many consoles its not even fucking funny.
Kokoloko85
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Crayon
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I just realized....
The PS5 is going to sell sooooooooooo many consoles (Pro and Base Model) when GTA VI arrives.
Microsoft just handed them a gift from God at an absolutely perfect time.
Playstation RN
They are about to get so many games and sell so many consoles its not even fucking funny.
Oh god I did't think about the timing with GTA5.
Topher
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I listened to a little bit of that. Wasn't pretty. They even started trashing the strategy of Xbox Series S. You'd think it was a bunch of PlayStation fanboys on a "Let's talk shit about Xbox" call.
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