@looken
This sentiment of “Microsoft doesn’t need Xbox” had suddenly just arrived by the time they were taking over Zenimax, ABK, going multiplatform eventually “case by case” and also throwing an expensively funded GP at people.
And why were they doing all of that? Because the Xbox brand poured in hundreds of billions of dollars in operating profit so they could afford any of that?
Of course not.
Because, although Microsoft as parent company didn’t need the Xbox brand (because it never was profitable to even begin with), they needed to buy out Zenimax, ABK and throw GP at people to, in a last attempt, to prevent the Xbox brand from being a total financial disaster after 20 years of mis-executing this brand.
Luckily for them, Zenimax and ABK had gotten greenlit eventually. Can you imagine the state of Xbox right now if ABK and Zenimax had stayed third party legally?
I am upset because Microsoft are making fools out of everyone that’s been supporting the Xbox brand. Can’t you see that?
Did they publically tell anyone before Nov. 2020 that they really had nothing prepared for the Series generation?
And what’s the fanboy community doing ever since?
They are applauding Microsoft.
For ramping up a paywall like GP, even if you buy the games digitally (it’s just a license), they are applauding Microsoft for day-one releases, buying out complete publishers and franchises like CoD, TES, Doom, etc., they are proudly representing them as “Great Xbox 1st party games” now (give me a fucking break already) and they are shouting tears of joy because at the end of this year, Microsoft want to share further details about the ‘Xbox Next’ already. They forgot about the fact that they were teasing them Indiana Jones would stay exclusive. Only to screw them over again 6 months later over a dollar.
That’s just bonkers. Or, if you bought it last year or this year first, you can be quite certain that nothing will be coming around anymore for Xbox Series before they will pull the plug completely. Every IP will be multiplatform, with the exception of Halo & Gears (perhaps).
I am upset about the audacity and pure ignorance that’s sitting in a statement like “Sony needs playstation microsoft does not need xbox.”
Right, exactly – Sony needs Playstation.
Because the brand has been the leading videogame brand on several occassions in terms of revenue, units, games sold for decades and it’s even making f’n profits. Which company doesn’t need profit?
That’s why this whole statement of yours and every Xbox die-hard is just a complete charade, a distraction.
Because the Xbox brand has nothing but failed miserably financially ever since for Microsoft. And THAT’S why they actually don’t need the brand.
And not just financially.
Because we are gamers, right? What fucking milestone of a videogame had they had prepared over the past 15 years for their fans? I can’t take it anymore reading about Forza here, Forza there.
They fucked up. And still people are applauding them. It’s just nuts to me.
I should stop it right here. It annoys me that I get upset about any of that. But from time to time I just can’t take this.
Microsoft are laughing about the stupidity of all of it. And about that people still buy into this work of a brand it has always been, because people in charge didn’t even care about their fans and videogames at all.
