slime wrld

1y

and then phase 4 of the MCU began ⬇️

Nuja

1y

He’s not saying anything wrong but it’s kind of common sense too. Let’s be real, most people have a very warped perception of Xbox because of nostalgia. The 360 won the ps3 and wii era because 1. It wasn’t a complete gimmick like the wii. 2. It wasn’t ridiculously priced like launch ps3 was. People talk about the 360s library as if the same games weren’t on ps3 as well. Only in instances like fighting games can you really say “360 version was better.” Point being is Xbox one shot itself in the foot being snobby about anti consumer practices and Sony capitalized by pretending to be pro consumer by patching out the same day 1 anti consumer practice Microsoft had and wouldn’t have changed had the public reception for Microsoft not been so bad. Sony has always had the better exclusives. Nintendo for the most part has always been good catering to their base. Microsoft is basically 360 nostalgia for people who played COD. At this point exclusives aren’t going to win anyone over. The only reason I have a series x is because it was the available console when I had the money at launch and couldn’t find a ps5. Had I found a ps5 it was very unlikely I ever got one or would have interest in one now. Now mine basically just collects dust and I have 0 interest in anything coming out for it anytime soon.

That being said. Not like Sony has a crazy assortment of s*** coming either. Basically my ps5 will be a Diablo and Street Fighter machine until further notice. Both consoles are dropping the ball, Microsoft’s Ls are just highlighted more

The Krab Season

1y

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Any source on sony having the same anti consumer practice you mention? Xbox has always been and tried to introduce anti consumer practices. They actually started exclusive deals with developers, charging for online which sony eventually did many years later, tried to introduce "always online drm", stop the selling of used games, increase price of live until the backlash...hell even their ssd hardware for the new xbox is exclusive and cant use 3rd party whereas on playstation you can. It could be argued that xbox did not benefit consumers with sony being competition with them

The Krab Season

1y

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Any source on sony having the same anti consumer practice you mention? Xbox has always been and tried to introduce anti consumer practices. They actually started exclusive deals with developers, charging for online which sony eventually did many years later, tried to introduce "always online drm", stop the selling of used games, increase price of live until the backlash...hell even their ssd hardware for the new xbox is exclusive and cant use 3rd party whereas on playstation you can. It could be argued that xbox did not benefit consumers with sony being competition with them

Water Giver

1y

The Reason Why Xbox was Failing Hard From Mid of 360 Era Thru X1 Era 🚨 👇

Don Mattrick is the dude that became the lead of the Xbox division in the middle of the X360/PS3 era. Who then after he set Microsoft's Xbox division on fire; he then went over to the mobile gaming juggernaut Zynga Studios lmfao.

Hes the one that ruined Microsoft's Xbox. In all departments from brand PR to games to funding to studios & to the console itself.

He's the one that created Kinect which ruined a lot of Microsoft budget for its Xbox division.

He also shut down many of Xbox's old studios & threw away many of their 2nd party contracts such as Bioware & Bethesda (Remember when Mass Effect from Bioware & others like various Sega & Square games etc. was a Microsoft exclusive? Skyrim was also supposed to be, until the 2nd party contracts got f***ed by bro). Which is why the X360 exclusives slowed down so much even tho it had hella exclusives in the prior years before him, and why it eventually lost to the PS3 in sales at the end because Sony got their act together & Microsoft lost theirs - even tho they had a huge lead over Sony for a long ass time that era until it got all f***ed up.

He is the one that made the always DRM s*** that was on the X1 from 2013 to 2015 & he is the one that thought console gaming is old news and was shifting X1 to a "multimedia" machine & wanted a bigger focus on mobile gaming.

It is why the X1 had that TV window feature & its godawful original UI where the games section was buried & all the other weird random s*** it used to have in the beginning years. He was let go in either late 2014 or early 2015, which then went to a fill in guy until they got Phil to be fully in charge as the head of the Xbox division in late 2015.
That mess of the idiot Don is what Phil inherented, who Phil is someone thats been with Xbox since the OG Xbox console in various postions from game planner to studio manager etc. Phil when got put in charge of Xbox with the X1 then pushed to bring Xbox back to a gaming core which got rid of the forced Kinect (which also made the X1 significantly cheaper by like $120 once he made them get rid of it) purchase on the X1 plus created Gamepass & took out all the DRM & Multimedia bullshit.

Then towards the end of X1 era Xbox FINALLY made a positive profit for THE FIRST TIME that entire era thanks to his Gamepass initiative (along with making the X1 cheaper by taking out Kinect, cutting the Kinect program & repairing consumer relations little by little starting with getting rid of the toxic as f*** overblown always online DRM from Dom).

Which then convinced Microsoft execs to NOT SHUT DOWN the Xbox console and department (before Phil turned things around and came up with an actual gameplan, the Microsoft general higher ups were going to kill the Xbox division & leave the console space after the X1 era), and they finally let Phil have the budget to buy studios & make actual games that arent just Halo or Forza sequels - which Phil was trying to convince them to let him do since the day he took over Xbox.

Now the XSeries is doing decent & its way WAY more successful already than the X1 era in its entirety. And its actually having a positive return, which the Xbox division didnt at all in the X1 era (outside of Gamepass) & the last year or two of X360.

This man Phil is the main reason why Xbox even still exists today and why its hanging on little by little while slowly fixing the console's no games issue & the brand's consumer trust issues that was created 10 years+ ago by another man's f*** ups: Don Mattrick the idiot

GoodbyeCarl

1y

Yeah but the difference was the Sony online system was s*** compared to xbox. Don't forget PSN was hacked at such a large scale

GoodbyeCarl

1y

https://www.reddit.com/r/playstation/comments/ifucsu/sony_is_the_biggest_liar_when_it_comes_to_drm/

This is for only digital games basically with DRM

Nuja

1y

He’s not saying anything wrong but it’s kind of common sense too. Let’s be real, most people have a very warped perception of Xbox because of nostalgia. The 360 won the ps3 and wii era because 1. It wasn’t a complete gimmick like the wii. 2. It wasn’t ridiculously priced like launch ps3 was. People talk about the 360s library as if the same games weren’t on ps3 as well. Only in instances like fighting games can you really say “360 version was better.” Point being is Xbox one shot itself in the foot being snobby about anti consumer practices and Sony capitalized by pretending to be pro consumer by patching out the same day 1 anti consumer practice Microsoft had and wouldn’t have changed had the public reception for Microsoft not been so bad. Sony has always had the better exclusives. Nintendo for the most part has always been good catering to their base. Microsoft is basically 360 nostalgia for people who played COD. At this point exclusives aren’t going to win anyone over. The only reason I have a series x is because it was the available console when I had the money at launch and couldn’t find a ps5. Had I found a ps5 it was very unlikely I ever got one or would have interest in one now. Now mine basically just collects dust and I have 0 interest in anything coming out for it anytime soon.

That being said. Not like Sony has a crazy assortment of s*** coming either. Basically my ps5 will be a Diablo and Street Fighter machine until further notice. Both consoles are dropping the ball, Microsoft’s Ls are just highlighted more

Barry Gibb

1y

I cannot wait for the shambles when Starfield releases as a buggy s*** show just like all Bethesda releases

Empty Throne Yuil

1y

I feel like Xbox should just focus on themselves and stop trying to compete with the PS5

Ain't nothing wrong with being 4th place

BnBallinToo

1y

4th? whats 3rd? lol

BnBallinToo

1y

4th? whats 3rd? lol

hoopsplayer21

1y

once again, sony cucks down bad for whatever reason. Activision purchase soon, game pass on the PS5/6 soon after that

octopoop

1y

if playstation were to ever adopt gamepass then xbox sales would just tank hard

hoopsplayer21

1y

which wouldnt matter lol, consoles barely turn a profit, which is the POINT!

slime wrld

1y

exclusives are the sole reason a console still holds its influence over the gaming industry though Nobody cares about console power because the differences are minuscule and you’d already have a PC for that. In general sony has mainstream IPs that hold people over, even when they take an L like forespoken, FF16 & spiderman 2 is dropping this year lol. Microsoft has no cushion like that, their legacy franchises are dead and gamepass is their main focus. aquiring studios with no actual direction outside of starfield is just the bill gates budget being put to use.

They lost all personality after the 360 era and deluded people from this past decade who actually thought they caught up to playstation can’t even defend xbox anymore because the man who speaks for them just admitted it was over in 2013, just promises and vibes, so even when sony gets complacent they have multiple titles from recent times that satisfied majority of audiences they can point back to like “when the next sequel comes out, at least you know what console you’re happy to have” lol