bitbydeath
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Bloomberg: Xbox is planning major layoffs next month, as new CEO Asha Sharma confronts a bleak picture and plans what she calls a "reset"
Guardian Monkey
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Do what the terminator couldn't!
Topher
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TrebleShot
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The cost of console exclusives
II_JumPeR_I
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Xbox just isnt fixable anymore. Go full publisher and stop that clown Show.
LordCBH
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gametimedecision
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Did they kinda imply that the past 5 years have been horrific? 4 of those years has had project latitude, I guess the decision to go all in on third party…and yet still try and make consoles with 0 major reason to own your hardware was a failure…who could have seen that coming.So they decided to make Gears last minute exclusive, ignoring a playbase of 100 millions of PS5, while KNOWING that they're about to fire people cause the business isn't businessing?
I lowkey like that this team is more real and honest then the "evreything is fine, we're making more money than ever crowd" But this almost doesn't seem fixable, hope for the best.
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Topher
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Asha's career moment
RickMasters
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LordOcidax
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Signalis
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And fuck us over like the Series S is doing. That's why so many games skip Xbox, because the Series S is making it difficult to actually make games now or they have to gimp and cut a lot of stuff on all versions, to get it running on the more shit versions of a console. Now we'll have 2 SKUs holding developers back.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Asha's balls in my throat?
nial
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I don't think anyone gives a fuck about this anymore.
LordCBH
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Guardian Monkey
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They are going to need this guy to try to pull that off, seeing that Nvidia has a much higher Market Cap.
LordCBH
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My money would be on Double Fine. And I'm not happy about that. They're weird, but I dig their brand of weird even if I don't like everything they put out.
Killer8
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Xbox desperately need to restructure their whole development pipeline. It will have taken almost 7 years to release Fable and State of Decay 3 following their announcements, and 7 years to release Gears E-Day after Gears 5. Perfect Dark didn't even see the light of day after 5 years and the Blade game is missing in action after almost 3.
Development times are longer now, yes, but these are still well above average waiting times, turning studio output into a once in a generational event. If they want to keep people as Game Pass subscribers, they need to get serious about rapidly releasing content on the fucking thing.
Exclusivity also matters a lot here, not so much for the reason of selling a specific piece of hardware, but because a subscription service's library will snowball and increase in value over time. A Game Pass sub granting instant access to dozens of top first-party games goes out the window the second MS just prostitutes them to competitor's devices and services (they gave away Grounded: Fully Yoked for free on PS+ this month ffs).
Development times are longer now, yes, but these are still well above average waiting times, turning studio output into a once in a generational event. If they want to keep people as Game Pass subscribers, they need to get serious about rapidly releasing content on the fucking thing.
Exclusivity also matters a lot here, not so much for the reason of selling a specific piece of hardware, but because a subscription service's library will snowball and increase in value over time. A Game Pass sub granting instant access to dozens of top first-party games goes out the window the second MS just prostitutes them to competitor's devices and services (they gave away Grounded: Fully Yoked for free on PS+ this month ffs).
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We're not talking about Sony here...
ChorizoPicozo
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We need to reassess the balance between these and our investment priorities for the next 5 years.
but our annual revenue has declined nearly half a billion during that time," she wrote. "Going forward, this cannot continue."
"Let's reset for a stronger XBOX and build the #1 gaming and entertainment company.
Asha and Matt"
If this is their ambition, they will fail catastrophically.
but our annual revenue has declined nearly half a billion during that time," she wrote. "Going forward, this cannot continue."
"Let's reset for a stronger XBOX and build the #1 gaming and entertainment company.
Asha and Matt"
If this is their ambition, they will fail catastrophically.
H-I-M
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The first bullet point of her email is literally that
" Over 1 billion players choose to play XBOX and our games each year, for a total of 72 billion hours across Console, PC, Mobile, and Streaming (excluding much of China and a few other properties). Our franchises are also among the largest and most beloved globally and are now breaking records in TV and film. Going forward, our competition is attention. There are more great games, TV series, franchises, creators, content formats, apps, etc., than ever before."
Next 100 Days: XBOX Reset - XBOX Wire
news.xbox.com
memoryman3
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LordCBH
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We need to reassess the balance between these and our investment priorities for the next 5 years.
but our annual revenue has declined nearly half a billion during that time," she wrote. "Going forward, this cannot continue."
"Let's reset for a stronger XBOX and build the #1 gaming and entertainment company.
Asha and Matt"
If this is their ambition, they will fail catastrophically.
ChorizoPicozo
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MS is just (if not more) woke than Sony. So....
nial
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Sony hasn't gone broke, so it checks out.
LordOcidax
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Microsoft is broke? Damnit
HeisenbergFX4
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ChuckeRearmed
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Hope they will remove all those color hair people
Guardian Monkey
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We know that from Phil himself, that quote is from 3 years ago too.
gametimedecision
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I think they feel like the only chance the brand has at survival is exclusive content going forward. Clearly evreything else they did was wrong. Notice they even mentioned 3rd party exclusives….weird to mention if you only have two exclusives in the pipeline.
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nial
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Less than 35M consoles sold worldwide, 3% accountability margin, oh and "our business isn't particularly healthy so we're introducing 1 or 2 exclusives".
Joel Was Right
If you smell burning, it's probably the generators acting up. Report it anyway.
Is Timdog @Asha right now to stop talking again?
PauloRoberto
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3% of profits ?!
Are you fu**ing kidding me ?!
Are you fu**ing kidding me ?!
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Because microslop isn't a woke cesspool yeah
LordOcidax
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Microsoft is backing Xbox, they are not losing money they are just making less money… Don't worry about Microsoft financial issues, they are more than ok. We have to worry about the quality of the games that they are making, and by looking their latest "E3" showcase, i am satisfied.
gametimedecision
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I mean..it's also pretty woke.
nial
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Nothing of what you said changes the fact that the Xbox division isn't in a financially good state. Sharma said as much.
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Ass of Can Whooping
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Binning sarah bond was pretty based
That ain't gonna work either, you can't release 3 skus and see how 1 or 2 just bomb while the last one is the real seller, manufacturing, shipping, product placement and advertisement for the damned things are also added to the equation
You're right, FAILGAMES and HORIZON LANDWHALE ADVENTURES didn't come out yet...
MS is just (if not more) woke than Sony. So....
Touche, I don't pay much attention to MS games other than their triniry since this whole gen has been a disaster so i'm out of the loop, just happy I can play Halo, Gears and FH on PS, so they're cool in my book