But to date it has not.
We are 4 years into the gen, to date has been stable. What is the cutoff line for this concern for this gen?
Yeah I don't get the ecosystem replies. People are buying their games at Steam, not on XCloud or Xbox store, or even subbing to GP in huge numbers
When half of Sony users still are on PS4, I don't think generations mean shit anymore. Maybe for better, maybe for worse.
Forza Motorsport is bad but Forza Horizon is doing really good
And that's before you count all the missed opportunities they've had from Spider-Man/insomniac to Killer Instinct to MiHoYo stuff.
Cool gamer shirts have a hypnotizing effect I guess. He's had a lot of excuses that would have gotten a lot more pushback coming from other companies with far less resources, saying stuff about even if they released a good game it wouldn't matter and the multiple years straight saying wait until next year. Of course it matters if you release good games but one of their problems was going for too long without releasing anything/much noteworthy. Good noteworthy. And if 8th was a bad gen for Microsoft to lose what did the Wii U do cause it certainly didn't win yet Nintendo didn't harp on about it.
Things can change for any service, to date they have not.
It should also be remebered that last years of X360 were really Kinect heavy with very few big exclusives, while on the other hand last year of PS3 was full of big titles (TLOU, GoW Ascension, Beyond Two Souls, GT6...).
So has PSN (drastically), Netflix, groceries or whatever.
That was a big factor of when I got rid of my Xbox One last gen. Sony and MS pretty much provide the same box and gaming experience with a vast majority of the same games, so it really is just which exclusive you care about or where your friends are playing. I would read posts amused as the "winner" was decided by DF videos finding things that most of us would not have perceived.
Or, stick with me here, it's just a shirt. Maybe Gamers should stop taking EVERYTHING as some sort of cryptic tease.
The man needs to vet his wardrobe with the gaming community. It's the only sensible way to avoid so much anger and confusion.
I think "fans" wanted that war chest to be opened for exclusives. If most of their acquisitions remain multi platform from a consumer perspective things don't change all that much.
yeah unfortunately fans didnt realize if you open the warchest too quick and too wide, you'll startle daddy.
I agree. They make big bets hoping for massive returns because they can, knowing that the whole corporation will not tank if something fails. It's in their culture. Microsoft could've killed off Xbox during the previous generation without another ambitious plan like Game Pass.
I'm not sure who these fans are that dreamt about that for decades, but I do know that the ones cheering on the "war chest" were doing so under the assumption of exclusivity and industry dominance, neither of which is looking like the way forward for the Xbox brand.
That shirt thing was a clear rebrand of his public image. Too bad they didn't bother to try as hard with the system/games. It is kinda funny in a way how he gets a pass and is seen as Gamer Pal on here when in nearly every other thread people are screaming that all executives are evil/none are your friend. I'm guessing it's because he has/had an account and that's why, partially, up until the layoffs there was not much "negatively" said about his tenure. Not enough anyway. Especially because he was the big proponent of TV TV TV but it gets pushed on Matrick solely.
