Xbox Game Studios Stupidity Hate Thread Game Pass Edition

They spent over $1billion on repairs and recalling units. And over one quarter of a billion dollars on shipping alone. I would argue that they never actually recovered fully from this. It was a miracle that they even made it out of that generation.
I would say they did recover from that debacle. Sony was playing catch up halfway through that generation. Yes, they had a slight lead over Xbox, but Xbox 360s were still popular then even with the closing gap. Kinect for Xbox 360 was a short term success. 10 million sold on day 1 is nothing to overlook.
Its been a decade out and did the Kinnect or motion controls ever take off? This isn't a skype/zoom situation where Microsoft had the tech and let it die only for it to suddenly become normalized. they went all in on nothing.
I don't think so. I believe it was a fad from the Wii days. XB1's Kinect had Dance Central, Kinect Sports Rivals, a sequel to Fruit Ninja Kinect, a puzzle game... that's it. Nobody was using it after MS and other developers left it be. At least with PSMove, that is STILL being used for PSVR.

VR was DOA, the concept while neat was always going to be a meme. Facebook going full retard on it especially when google glass proved AR won't work is hilariously insane.
Same issue as the Kinect. Nobody has the space to use it properly. Too expensive to risk a full product on it.
 
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I would say they did recover from that debacle. Sony was playing catch up halfway through that generation. Yes, they had a slight lead over Xbox, but Xbox 360s were still popular then even with the closing gap. Kinect for Xbox 360 was a short term success. 10 million sold on day 1 is nothing to overlook.
Yet Kinect was still a shit business strategy by Micro themselves, especially when copying the Wii formula
 
They spent over $1billion on repairs and recalling units. And over one quarter of a billion dollars on shipping alone. I would argue that they never actually recovered fully from this. It was a miracle that they even made it out of that generation.
I agree with all of your post but I have to question this part. RRoD hit consoles at launch until the solder issue was fixed. Despite the launch problems, xbox 360 still sold loads, quadrupled MS' market share in the console space and had some truly amazing games.

They did recover from RRoD and went on to thrive...then shit the bed in 2010 and never recovered from chasing the grandma, gamergrrrl, normiefag crowd.
 
Same issue as the Kinect. Nobody has the space to use it properly. Too expensive to risk a full product on it.
you can use VR seated.... and if anyone doesn't have the space for that I have to wonder how they play vidya in the first place.

you also need failed products to be iterated on and see what works and what doesn't. besides that VR was never about "replacing" pancake gaming (and won't until we go full dive), only dumbfucks (facebook included) ever thought that.

I agree with all of your post but I have to question this part. RRoD hit consoles at launch until the solder issue was fixed. Despite the launch problems, xbox 360 still sold loads, quadrupled MS' market share in the console space and had some truly amazing games.
don't forget the ps3 came out a year later than the xbox 360, if you wanted a "next gen" console, it was the only option.

Yeah, an anti-consumer vision where you'd buy a $500 console to WATCH TV and have the Kinect 2.0 spy on you. Not even spy, but DETECT if there are multiple people in the room to charge the host for license usage. His vision would've destroyed the Xbox brand faster than the RRoD could've with the Xbox 360.
patents don't mean much, they mainly exists so companies can go "we had the idea first, pay up motherfucker". just look at what stuff gets patented and how little gets put into a product.
 
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Wouldn't it be great if any time a journo put out a lie, their hands would be smashed with a hammer? STALKER 2 isn't first party.
Didn't the leaks from the whole buying Activision Blizzard situation reveal that the game is console exclusive for 1 year only, which means you can bet in 12 months its coming out on Ps5 and maybe the switch if they actually want to go through the effort of downgrading the game to run on it.

Then again that all depends on if the game ever comes out, every time they give it a release date, they end up pushing it back. It doesn't help that a beta build got leaked a couple of months back. Which is a shame as I am a fan of the stalker series.
 
Avowed and Indy look like flatscreen mods of VR games. Both look boring as fuck and I was hopeful for Avowed.

Microsoft should leave the industry for the good of the industry, they've been poison for 14 years.
 
Indiana Jones, why did they cast Troy Baker. It's off-putting hearing his voice come out of Harrison Ford's face.

The switch from 1st to 3rd person looks really off-putting. Overall, the game looked very slow. It's like they knew the game really should have been 3rd person but didn't have the knowledge to make one, so just back to 1st person gameplay they are comfortable with.
 
The switch from 1st to 3rd person looks really off-putting. Overall, the game looked very slow. It's like they knew the game really should have been 3rd person but didn't have the knowledge to make one, so just back to 1st person gameplay they are comfortable with.
It's gonna be Perfect Dark Zero all over again
 
Speaking of which, We Happy Few will be added to Game Pass this month.
Late as fuck, but they took 5 years to put a game from a studio they own on their service and expect people to be impressed.
The developer direct was today.

Indiana Jones is first person.......why....


Also, don't expect Indiana Jones to be good if this is who is making it.

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20 seconds in and we already have 2 letter soup individuals plastered on the screen.
Hellblade 2 finally got a date, but after the amazing display of deadlines on the past 2 years I have my doubts.
 
A lot of soydevs during the presentation but I have to admit, the new Indiana Jones game looks pretty good. The first-person view is a weird decision but I just hope that there's no x-ray vision.

Indiana Jones, why did they cast Troy Baker. It's off-putting hearing his voice come out of Harrison Ford's face.
I knew he sounded a lot like Troy Baker...
 
MachineGames did the Wolfenstein reboot. I think first person is a good fit for that game. What I'm worried about is them collaborating with Arkane Lyon again. The last two Wolfenstein games were both dogshit because Arkane had their filthy brown hands all over them.

Avowed looks like shit. No surprise there. It's actually kind of funny that every character in the NPC interactions they showed was voiced by a black person. I can't wait for that game to come out so I can look through the voice actor credits.

I'm glad Microsoft did this to remind everyone not to invest in their products. Hopefully the Nintendo Direct will come soon and we will see some real games.
 
MachineGames did the Wolfenstein reboot. I think first person is a good fit for that game. What I'm worried about is them collaborating with Arkane Lyon again. The last two Wolfenstein games were both dogshit because Arkane had their filthy brown hands all over them.
They also fucked themselves with TNC all on their lonesome. It's been a decade since they've put out anything worth playing. Arkane might be stinky poos but MachineGames is cancer in their own right.
 
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