With Microsoft Distracted, The Xbox Console Experience Is Suffering (Jez Corden)

[Grand Conde]

Another X-Box fanboy/insider shytting all over X-Box.

With Microsoft distracted, the Xbox console experience is suffering

As Microsoft expands horizontally, is the Xbox console experience being forgotten?

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It can be exhausting to be an Xbox customer sometimes, particularly if you're paying attention to the news cycle.

PlayStation 5 sales in the UK have surged by upwards of 369% year over year, while Xbox's have dropped by 11% according to reports. It's a small snapshot of the overall desirability and availability of Microsoft's Xbox consoles, which are increasingly struggling to maintain their foothold in the wider gaming mindshare.

Microsoft has been on the back foot. After an incredible 2021 which saw the firm take home the top publisher award on Metacritic, it seemed as though the wait for Xbox's momentum to kick in might have ended. Sales in Japan were even looking strong, as Microsoft described the market as its "fastest growing" region. This past week, Microsoft didn't sell thousands of Xbox consoles in Japan. Not even hundreds, but instead, dozens. Meanwhile, the PS5 sold almost 40,000 units. That's a dire comparison that is near impossible to gloss over.

 

[levitate]

This is what happens when you focus on acquisitions and subscriptions instead of the core product: games.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Y’all on a roll

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Its bad when the biggest die hards are throwing microsoft in the bushes

 

[badboys11]

They need to merge gamepass with PlayStation and just develop games for Sony like Sega does. It's very clear their gaming department has fallen apart. This new system 3years in and doesn't have a flagship game

 

[ALonelyDad]

Y’all on a roll

 

[Diondon]

Oh noes, not Jizz

 

[Rekkapryde]

This is what happens when you focus on acquisitions and subscriptions instead of the core product: games.

 

[Rekkapryde]

They need to merge gamepass with PlayStation and just develop games for Sony like Sega does. It's very clear their gaming department has fallen apart. This new system 3years in and doesn't have a flagship game

They fumbled their flagship franchise too.

Just all around incompetence.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Oh noes, not Jizz

They turning on him quick lol

 

[ORDER_66]

but but...Sony Stan's

 

[Black Mamba]

eh eh eh

 

[High quality poster]

Imagine what’s gonna happen when FF16, Spider-Man 2, and FF7 all drop within the next few months It’s gonna be a wrap

 

[winb83]

This is what happens when you focus on acquisitions and subscriptions instead of the core product: games.

Those acquisitions are studios and publishers that make games you suggest they focus on so what exactly are you saying?

A lot of y’all try to simplify something that’s actually very difficult. Plenty of companies have tried and failed to make games and consoles.

Microsoft is effectively trying to be a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist because Sony already exist. It’s like when Google tried to make Google Plus. Facebook already existed. Nobody asked for Google Plus. Nobody asked for Xbox.