Xbox Thread (Like/Hate) - Mainly focusing on the lackluster exclusives, weak points, or strong points of Xbox consoles

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Übertroon said:
I honestly think Microsoft is going to do mostly fuck all with all their franchises. They bought half the IPs in the industry and still struggle to release more than a couple of games each year.
Those IPs are now just assets so that nobody else can use them.
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They leaned way too far into <CURRENT DAY> Western videogame dev ideology. Everything is derivative as fuck, all it has to have is a cast of "diverse" characters to get games journos interested and stuff keeps getting delayed because the people they have working for them are lazy/incompetent fucks.

You can buy all the studios you like but when they are filled with trannies and people who actively hate/have no interest in gaming then you are sort of fucked from the get-go.

The Japanese have been eating their lunch and now even some of the other Asian countries and Euro-jank devs are getting their shit together as well. Western devs still make the odd gem but it is almost a surprise when it happens at this stage. Xbox being the main platform of most Western developed stuff ended up being a death sentence for it.
 
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I actually love my Series S as it's basically my Arma, Hell Let Loose and MCC machine. Only complaint is the storage as they advertise it as 500GB but in reality you only get about 370GB.
 
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Chapalapachapa said:
the 360 was badass after that there hasnt been any good xbone. rest in piss and take all the DEI shit with you
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I remember me and my bros at work all sat around a monitor at work to watch the unveiling of the xbone. We seriously wanted to pre-order the one. Once Don unveiled it and it got deeper into the presentation, we all had a wtf look on our face. All you had to do was not make the console so consumer hostile and just show us new Halo/GOW/Fable/Forza and shit would have been great.

2013 E3 killed the 360 momentum that they had and never been able to get it back.
 
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PotatoInMyAss said:
I remember me and my bros at work all sat around a monitor at work to watch the unveiling of the xbone. We seriously wanted to pre-order the one. Once Don unveiled it and it got deeper into the presentation, we all had a wtf look on our face. All you had to do was not make the console so consumer hostile and just show us new Halo/GOW/Fable/Forza and shit would have been great.

2013 E3 killed the 360 momentum that they had and never been able to get it back.
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Earlier than that. When MS went hard into Kinect and the PS3's programming pains were more or less solved in 2010 was when everything flipped. Even then, the early 360 sales figures are heavily marred by people buying a second or third console because the extended RROD warranty didn't start until a couple years after launch, so the Xbox brand's good years have a bolded asterisk.
 
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Super Hans v2 said:
Earlier than that. When MS went hard into Kinect and the PS3's programming pains were more or less solved in 2010 was when everything flipped. Even then, the early 360 sales figures are heavily marred by people buying a second or third console because the extended RROD warranty didn't start until a couple years after launch, so the Xbox brand's good years have a bolded asterisk.
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Xbox also dropped support about a year before their new console dropped.
So while 2013 saw PS3 get Last of Us, Gran Turismo 6, God of War Ascension, Ratchet and Clank: Into the Nexus, Xbox was completely barren in an attempt to make the Xbox One launch offering look less meager.
But this had the effect that for about 12 months PlayStation would overshadow Xbox.
 
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How it started... how its going.

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I don't see Xbox dropping out of the console market yet, think the next Xbox will be something sold for a profit, rather than the loss leader strategy they have been using and will be targeted at gamepass users who want a console to natively play games, rather than to get a PC or use cloud streaming. A more niche product that won't sell a lot of units, but also won't lose money. Hell wouldn't be shocked if they made it compatible with native PC games, so 3rd party devs don't have to invest lot of time or money getting their games to work on it, because otherwise lot of 3rd parties may skip it when it does Wii U like sales.
 
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I've seen people trying to compare Xbox dying to the when the Dreamcast died and Sega went multiplatform, but the difference is that Sega was actually respected amongst hardcore gamers during that time period and had plenty of quality games released on their "failed" system. Xbox, in comparison, is a pathetic shell of its former self. The Series X is so shitty and worthless that it makes the Xbox One generation seem good in comparison which seemed like shit compared to the 360 generation. Comparing the Series X and Microsoft in 2025 to the Dreamcast and Sega in 2021 is a huge insult to the Dreamcast's legacy.
 
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What's more embarrassing?

  • Microsoft adding the PS logo to their showcases
  • Sony fans celebrating the release of mediocre Xbox games on their platform due to lack of first party software, or
  • Modern day console gamers thinking everything is fine and better than ever?
Answers on a postcard.
 
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Mister Fister said:
Not to mentioning Valve focusing on a normie friendly steamOS. This is another asteroid coming.
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not that much, MS makes most of it's money from businesses to the point they gave the home version of windows away for free. one way or another you gonna have to deal with windows, MS office, exchange and if your IT department is lazy internet explorer edge.

it might break the chicken/egg problem even more that it might threaten MS down the line, but that's a big if and a slow process.
 
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