How Xbox Became Microsoft's Greatest Failure

[winb83]

The chickens have come home to roost. At this point there's going to be nothing left of what was for a very brief period a powerhouse brand in gaming but Activision Blizzard, Mojang Studios, and Bethesda games under Microsoft's umbrella releasing 3rd party games. A bunch of companies that were already putting out games just purchased and doing that under new ownership.

Xbox still hasn't confronted the issue that in about 2 decades they haven't created much in the way of valuable long lasting IPs.

I could see if they were successful making hardware and selling it but decided they wanted even more reach so they put their games on other platforms. That's a decision coming from a position of strength. This is an abject failure coming from a position of weakness because they never learned how to create anything of value.

They'll be able to coast for a while off stuff like Call of Duty that they purchased that already had value but since they didn't solve their issue of creating new popular valuable IPs even if they transition into being a 3rd party or whatever that still follows them.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Microsoft hasn’t created a successful IP internally since forza horizon. Thats nuts.

 

[Dre Space Age]

this mofo mattrick single-handedly ruined xbox as a brand. like ive never seen anything like it in gaming.. microsoft still trying to recover.

 

[King Sun]

Hedging their bets on being Netflix for gamers and buying major studios as a ready box solution is crazy.

 

[winb83]

Hedging their bets on being Netflix for gamers and buying major studios as a ready box solution is crazy.

Again Netflix has stuff like Wednesday and Night Agent. Netflix has a deep understanding of the content it's audience wants. Xbox doesn't.

 

[Killer Instinct]

Y’all really think the Xbox is a failure?

 

[winb83]

Did these fools in Q4 2023 sell less than a million systems? The sales are so slow they aren't going to be able to justify keeping any games exclusive on the console because the install base won't support AAA games budgets. The decision is being made for them by the market to force them to embrace full 3rd party.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Did these fools in Q4 2023 sell less than a million systems? The sales are so slow they aren't going to be able to justify keeping any games exclusive on the console because the install base won't support AAA games budgets. The decision is being made for them by the market to force them to embrace full 3rd party.

The biggest issue is that their services arent growing because of the install base. They are betting big on cloud and subscription and they’ve both stagnating because they are highly dependent on hardware

 

[winb83]

The biggest issue is that their services arent growing because of the install base. They are betting big on cloud and subscription and they’ve both stagnating because they are highly dependent on hardware

The market isn't interested in their hardware anymore so it's a dead brand. They can't turn that around. They might as well just pull the plug on their hardware business right now because they'll be forced to put games on all platforms day 1 and that will accelerate their hardware's demise. No point is dragging out the inevitable. Their business model completely collapsed due to their own incompetence at creating software and they're a software company.

Somehow Meech will try to spin this into it being a W. For shareholders yeah but gamers have permanently lost any real semblance of competition in high end console gaming.

 

[Black Mamba]

fukking dogshyt ass system

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

its funny because the thing they fought so hard to make them competitive (ABK) is the thing that will ultimately force them into going third party. But they will still be competitive revenue/profit wise, just not in the hardware space

 

[winb83]

Countdown until Double Fine and Ninja Theory are closed down. Maybe if we're lucky they get the Toys For Bob treatment and get to go independent as Microsoft transitions into a mega publisher and becomes Activision Blizzard instead of the other way around. They don't need developers like Double Fine anymore. They'll only really care about AAA mega-titles. It's a lot of dev teams at Microsoft nervous as fukk right now.

 

[SymbolicOne09]

Naw, XBOX WON with 360. That whole gen destroyed Sony.

XBOX WON again with Game Pass. They getting closer and closer to taking over.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Countdown until Double Fine and Ninja Theory are closed down. Maybe if we're lucky they get the Toys For Bob treatment and get to go independent as Microsoft transitions into a mega publisher and becomes Activision Blizzard instead of the other way around. They don't need developers like Double Fine anymore. They'll only really care about AAA mega-titles. It's a lot of dev teams at Microsoft nervous as fukk right now.

Ninja Theory they can get away with. If they dissolve Double Fine it will be bad for them, way worse than closing down Tango. Tim Schafer is too beloved a figure in the game industry for them to do that

 

[winb83]

Ninja Theory they can get away with. If they dissolve Double Fine it will be bad for them, way worse than closing down Tango. Tim Schafer is too beloved a figure in the game industry for them to do that

Gamers don't care. They'll cry about it for a week and move on.