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no, only twitterWas anyone actually thinking otherwise ?![]()
no, only twitterWas anyone actually thinking otherwise ?![]()
First their problem was Lina Khan, now it's the UK. This little petty Twitter talk between them has to be the most circlejerk, inconsequential, self-masturbation bullshit they've ever done. I assume the worst reactions from them have yet to come.
What the fuck is your problem, British people?
Don't make us bring George out of retirement...
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Kidding.....love you guys
This wasn't even the primal formDidn't Sony buy bungie to start implementing GAAS into their games?
If Xbox gets out of the industry, console gamers are fucked.
Xbox and PS keep each other in check, considering Nintendo is doing Nintendo stuff.
If there is no one to compete with PS, then Sony would get too complicit and would try and exploit their audience.
CMA would have block it before any approval in the USA, assuming FTC don't suddenly drop. The question is will MS have any stomach to take on the FTC in court knowing that CMA have killed it? Whether MS wins against FTC is whatever, but if the FTC don't backdown it will be a messy fight and final decision could go into 2024 in the USA.Uhm CMA has been their first problem, then came the FTC, and now back to the CMA. MS will probably get the deal closed on the US, however it's the CMA the real threat to this acquisition.
I'm on team 50-50, also it's yet to see what would be MS-ABK strategy if all the regulators approve the deal but the CMA.
Xbox don’t have budget to market their console? Why are they being ran like a startup? That Brad Smith pie chart looks even funnier now. How do you sell a product with no advertising?
That Jez Gorden(corden?) guy I think tweeted something to the effect of msn dumping the xbox brand if this deal doesn't happen. At least that the idea was possible. I doubt it myself. The biggest thing I could see them doing is maybe getting away from hardware.Was anyone actually thinking otherwise ?![]()
Yes. I guess you're just living up to your tag?Didn't Sony buy bungie to start implementing GAAS into their games?
Ok?Sony is literally the company that said they are focussing more on online GaaS games, that they have a lot of them in development, and one of the reasons they bought Bungie was exactly for this.
I am convinced if they could have, they would have.make windows not a shitshow. make a windows store not a shitshow.
Bleed out the competition lol. You ignore sony trying to content starve the other side with money hat world tours. Sony went on a money hat world tour before Microsoft bought any publisher. Blame sony for zenimax they wanted to money hat every single zenimax AAA game. Microsoft responded with purchasing zenimax to stop the money hats. Those who cry about zenimax were styling and profiling when sony got deathloop, ghost wire tokyo and on the verge of getting Starfield.I agree and I don’t.
Xbox will keep PS in check if MS is in the game to push the envelope on games and hardware. But they have decided that hw innovation is boring and would rather buy IP than create it. So what’s the good side of that?
Their current strategy of bleeding out the competition will make for a better PlayStation how?
360 vs PS3 days are long gone.
Good thing MS owning ABK wouldn't create a monopoly and would help compete with a dominant Sony.why wouldn't they...
sounds like concern trolling by people cheering on corporate consolidation.
Fuck consolidation, MS with their 'already more First party studios than the competition' will be just fine without trying to create a monopoly.
Microsoft's biggest problem is that it doesn't feel failure and feedback or have to respond to it in ways that normal companies do.
Without the backing of Microsoft, the Xbox division would have been forced to make a choice: Continue with the Xbone strategy and risk bankruptcy, or change to suit the market. We saw Atari and Sega choose not to change and we saw Nintendo and Sony change to suit the market.
Evolution is adapting to the change in the environment, from external pressures and forces. Microsoft have been able to soak up the feedback and charge ahead into what would have been bankruptcy for any other company, but still come out alive because of their financial failsafe.
Microsoft should stop, look around and take note of what the market wants. Stop listening to online shills like they have since the days of Kinect and listen to the fans who got the xbox to where it was at its' peak.
Gamepass is a great service for B-tier, Indie and AA games; a place to nurture and grow new talent. It is the death of AAA games though. We all want free or cheap games, myself included, but it isn't sustainable for Xbox. The Elite pad v1 is the best controller ever made, the 1X was the best console Microsoft have ever made. They need to stop with the split console idea and rushed off-the-shelf hardware and take some real risks like they did with the xbox360 - minus the RROD.
Microsoft can turn the Xbox division around and turn it into a very profitable department, but they need to have a honest and long, hard look in the mirror.
Competition was defined in this thread a couple hundred pages ago as the participants in the brand new "high performance console market." People were emphatically insisting that Nintendo wasn't a part of the market and therefore should not be included in the discussion. Now the same people who were saying Nintendo wasn't competition for Sony and Microsoft are saying there's plenty of competition in the market and are including Nintendo in the charts and graphs related to the market.
It's interesting how easily Nintendo moves in and out of the market depending on the point people are trying to make.
They are a cult and believe all the bs from phil spencer instead of calling him out.Always funny seeing comments like this. Like yeah, no shit dude - believe it or not there was a point in time when Xbox was actually run by competent people who were actually clued into the industry.
The good old days of discovering and playing Braid, Dishwasher and Castle Crashers on XBLA - Geometry Wars being re-released as a 360 launch title! The accessibility of Japanese visual novels was unique too. They had freaking Chaos;Head exclusively?!
GPInjector, Photo Parties with the boys come midnight, Hacked Betas - you remember these things right? M2AF?
The good old days when Xbox people had a pulse on game development and were sealing up now classics like BioShock and Mass Effect for exclusivity deals. When Xbox were early backers of console eSports through THEIR OWN IP with Halo and Gears through MLG / Gamebattles.
All that magic and soul pissed away by this idiot;
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The only people who defend this current regime are Xbox zoomers who have never watched a Final Boss set or never attended an X/360 midnight launch in their life.
That's my disjointed Xbox fan rant over after thinking about the good old days
Competition was defined in this thread a couple hundred pages ago as the participants in the brand new "high performance console market." People were emphatically insisting that Nintendo wasn't a part of the market and therefore should not be included in the discussion. Now the same people who were saying Nintendo wasn't competition for Sony and Microsoft are saying there's plenty of competition in the market and are including Nintendo in the charts and graphs related to the market.
It's interesting how easily Nintendo moves in and out of the market depending on the point people are trying to make.
Part of me wants the acquisition to be stopped just to see what kind of absolute monster Sony create by objecting to it. They think losing CoD would be a big deal? How about they lose every single AAA third party multiplatform game for it’s first 12-18 months for next 20 years. $70+ billion is a lot of money for Japanese third party moneyhat’s…
They should ask Nintendo about creating monsters by fucking other big companies over.
Good thing MS owning ABK wouldn't create a monopoly and would help compete with a dominant Sony.
Thank you. If Xbox closed up next week it would be a benefit to Microsoft, as the Xbox department posts multi billion dollar losses every quarter.I think this is a really great post that nails it on the head. Xbox is so insulated with cash, they don't have no real skin in the game. If Microsoft closed up Xbox next week, it would probably be a small dent in Microsoft overall checkbook.
The more I think about this post, the more it makes sense. Why do most MS studios have an issue with delivering games. Could it be a lack of hunger?
Maybe Microsoft should let Xbox be run like a more independent company, with consequences in all.
Part of me wants the acquisition to be stopped just to see what kind of absolute monster Sony create by objecting to it. They think losing CoD would be a big deal? How about they lose every single AAA third party multiplatform game for it’s first 12-18 months for next 20 years. $70+ billion is a lot of money for Japanese third party moneyhat’s…
They should ask Nintendo about creating monsters by fucking other big companies over.
Part of me wants the acquisition to be stopped just to see what kind of absolute monster Sony create by objecting to it. They think losing CoD would be a big deal? How about they lose every single AAA third party multiplatform game for it’s first 12-18 months for next 20 years. $70+ billion is a lot of money for Japanese third party moneyhat’s…
They should ask Nintendo about creating monsters by fucking other big companies over.
you know what? honestly speaking. i don't think they deserve to be around anymore.
Xbox lacks identity and with buying up publishers to have their big IP's, you are not getting this identity.
It's embarassing that they can't compete with the studios they have. Your comment shows that "taking the biggest MP game away from the compatitor will let us "finally" compete".
Why is he even saying this?
Or just answering a question he was asked by agenda driven journalists. It’s not like he randomly woke up and said if you know.That sounds like hes starting to give up on that ABK deal
And you know where that started? Regulators defining new market segments that don't include Nintendo to bolster their cases. Including Nintendo makes the acquisition look less impactful to the overall market. This graphic could be true in a narrowly defined segment like "high performance consoles." But people don't seem to like the visual so now Nintendo needs to be back in the game and on the pie chart to balance things out a bit.Ad algorithms are trolling these days.
Next one will be an ad to buy the whole xbox division
Jez happy or sad with that ad?
Got it all from this guy
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When MS don’t put Nintendo on their charts <mumble mumble>, why should anyone else?
Is ‘identity’ the new ‘character’ now?
People play games, not ‘identity’.
Still baffles meOr just answering a question he was asked by agenda driven journalists. It’s not like he randomly woke up and said if you know.
And you know where that started? Regulators defining new market segments that don't include Nintendo to bolster their cases. Including Nintendo makes the acquisition look less impactful to the overall market. This graphic could be true in a narrowly defined segment like "high performance consoles." But people don't seem to like the visual so now Nintendo needs to be back in the game and on the pie chart to balance things out a bit.