DenchDeckard
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You are right. It's the microsoft way. It will be so confusing.
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When do MS actually go public with the messaging on third party?
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You are right. It's the microsoft way. It will be so confusing.
RickMasters
Member
Man....even the explanation will sound like a long worded way of saying nothing.
Phil should explain himself because he is the person most responsible for this debacle.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
I just can't believe they haven't said anything at this point. It's freaking insane.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
I love not giving a shit about any of this
Papa_Wisdom
Member
I wouldn’t have minded sega going 3rd party back In the day if they’d only managed to carry on making there own hardware.
I know the whole reason they stopped was because there hardware almost bankrupted them but the hardware industry without them has been shit.
spons
Gold Member
I can't believe it either. Was Phil hoping this all scoots by unnoticed while playing some Diablo? Fucking hell.
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
At this point I need it. I really want to hear how Microsoft is going to run with or play this. Too much drama to not have some resolution.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Most of them have gone radio silent here.Have you not seen the meltdowns? This isn’t about Sony gamers being thirsty. This is about some of the big named Xbox faithful in full on meltdown mode.
A lot of the alleged leaks are coming from or getting more spotlight from people who make their living praising Xbox. And their hardware struggles are pretty well known. This isn’t run of the mill 4chan leak nonsense.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Because it’s become bigger than just a rumor on Twitter.
kungfuian
Member
What I think will be interesting is which of their particular executives will be the Fall Guy or girl. I expect that they might use Phil to deliver the poison pill then throw him under the bus or get rid of him after. Of course he would be aware of this in advance, maybe get a nice golden parachute n retire off into the sunset.
Then they can replace him with some new face who gamers won't be able to be angry with because they just came in and inherited the situation.
I just think that's the PR move they probably go for.
Outside of that I don't see why it's so hard to understand that the Xbox division and Xbox hardware in particular is not that important to their larger games division objectives. We might still see some Xbox branded hardware but it won't be anything traditional maybe more of a streaming digital fire stick kind of thing or even a cheap streaming portable. Something that lets people use game pass and buy games from their store.
They just aren't any good at the hardware business and it's a bit of an albatross around their neck at this point. For anyone paying attention you can see from a thousand miles away they were always going to pivot away from the traditional console market. I just think the plans been accelerated because of all the steps they've taken to build up their new business strategy has eroded that base much quicker than they thought. They have unsuccessfully pivoted and the revenue stream from the traditional Xbox gamer will need to be replaced in a hurry. I give it a year or two backs until they've fully transitioned.
What they should do is try to be clever, maybe just have like a commercial with a world war II scene playing out, with people fighting in trenches, green against blue, and then after a while everybody just stops, the green ones reach out their hands and start giving the blue side game cases, and then it just clips to some kind of 'games for everyone' campaign slogan followed by a 'starfield coming to Playstation fall 24' yada yada...
Then they can replace him with some new face who gamers won't be able to be angry with because they just came in and inherited the situation.
I just think that's the PR move they probably go for.
Outside of that I don't see why it's so hard to understand that the Xbox division and Xbox hardware in particular is not that important to their larger games division objectives. We might still see some Xbox branded hardware but it won't be anything traditional maybe more of a streaming digital fire stick kind of thing or even a cheap streaming portable. Something that lets people use game pass and buy games from their store.
They just aren't any good at the hardware business and it's a bit of an albatross around their neck at this point. For anyone paying attention you can see from a thousand miles away they were always going to pivot away from the traditional console market. I just think the plans been accelerated because of all the steps they've taken to build up their new business strategy has eroded that base much quicker than they thought. They have unsuccessfully pivoted and the revenue stream from the traditional Xbox gamer will need to be replaced in a hurry. I give it a year or two backs until they've fully transitioned.
What they should do is try to be clever, maybe just have like a commercial with a world war II scene playing out, with people fighting in trenches, green against blue, and then after a while everybody just stops, the green ones reach out their hands and start giving the blue side game cases, and then it just clips to some kind of 'games for everyone' campaign slogan followed by a 'starfield coming to Playstation fall 24' yada yada...
XXL
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XXL
Member
It was on a podcast. I'm sure there will be articles/tweets soon.
schaft0620
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Mowcno
Member
It was a tweet saying that Phil Spencer was going to be on "Closing Bell: Overtime" on CNBC tonight. It seems it was fake.
ByWatterson
Member
"If you want to play our exclusives, we have a console for that, it's called PlayStation 5."
I know its not even 9 yet in PST, but still really surprised they have been so quiet this morning. This narrative could cripple their brand by itself if they don't get ahead of it.
Question for those who may remember when plans to double the price of gold were revealed before the public reversal. Did they allow that news to fester this long before publicly reversing?
Question for those who may remember when plans to double the price of gold were revealed before the public reversal. Did they allow that news to fester this long before publicly reversing?
just_jr
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Chuck Berry
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Matsuchezz
Member
They are lt gorman right know
saintjules
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RoadHazard
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Run goat, run!
