it would happen... If the Xbox had killer exclusives, i'm still baffled at how Phil bought all of these studio and Still no games, like Phil had about 10 years to build a killing line up of games, instead he shit the bed and Microsoft decided to go multiplatform, which pretty much killed the brand.
Can't wait for a whole new swath of gamers being exposed to 343 and their weird monetization schemes.
What about Banjo Tooie?
it will come to NSO....eventually
Sounds like it's the last Xbox you can buy. Without exclusives, what's even the point of Xbox?
One of my favorite games of all time. I think this one is already guaranteed to come to NSO eventually.
I'm gonna assume anything that hits PS5 will also hit the successor. While the current Switch getting the collections of older games, hopefully starting with that rumored Gears collection.
They until recently had their next gen console all planned.
So no reason to buy or for third parties to support, then.
These leaks and rumours change all the time, so letโs see. If thereโs two games itโs probably Indiana Jones and Avowed, but Iโll just wait until it comes from Microsoft themselves.
There is no need for hindsight. There is no time in any universe where a sale from Nintendo to Microsoft would be anything but an abominable nightmare. Xbox 360 was a good console that took advantage of the arrogance of Sony with the PS3, but in absolute Microsoft has never changed, it is the Windows assholes who want to crush everything with their money and their ecosystem.
Probably didnโt help that the legal strategy was, โXbox isnโt selling and we canโt make games and we wonโt even come close to surviving if we donโt buy out this company and use it to stay remotely competitive.โ Iโm sure the suits at corporate took that to heart and said, โtime to maximize ROI now!โ
I think XSX is a great piece of tech, I didn't mind buying it, and I love gamepass, I wish it was the industry standard of content delivery, but buying a whole console for games you can also play elsewhere is an increasingly difficult sell.
Microsoft has proven why Gamepass isn't (and shouldn't) be the industry standard. It's simply too expensive, because you're sacrificing individual game sales for a flat subscription fee, and if you want third-party games on the service, you need to pay those third parties out the nose to make it worth their while. And you'll still be losing money so long as the subscriber count isn't enough to offset the cost of getting games on the service in the first place.
Jez Corden is well-known as an Xbox fanboy/apologist. When he's rattled to the extent that even he loses faith in Microsoft, it's a rather unique barometer to measure how badly MS is fucking up.
I think a subscription should be perfectly sustainable, why not? It's much better to have a sustained income than keep operating on a boom and bust cycle. But yeah, you need more subscribers than 30 million to have a sustained drip of hits. Even then, my backlog is pretty big, I still want to play Resi3 and the recent Tales, but I'm prioritizing Hellblade 2.
Game development costs obviously aren't cheap, but the way Gamepass "credits" revenue to top-performing games isn't enough to sustainably recoup the those dev costs. And again, Microsoft was paying third-parties huge sums to put their games on Gamepass for just six months. And this was all done with a blatantly unrealistic goal of 100 million Gamepass subscribers by 2030.
The way Xbox is doing it is completely incompatible with how subscriptions actually work.
Disney+ is only becoming relatively sustainable for the big mouse now that the ad-tier has settled. Microsoft on the other hand is in a rougher spot to do the same with Game Pass.
I meant the song reference
