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When it’s revealed someone at Microsoft leaked this to media on purpose to show the backlash to higher ups and they pivot

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love how most people on resetera are going “this is great! how are people annoyed by this??”

like people that have invested in Xbox hardware and software for the last 10+ years aren’t getting f***ed over by this when their entire digital library (and back compat access given how that works on Xbox) is likely to disappear in the somewhat near future, once the platform enters its death spiral

This is great for everyone BUT Xbox gamers

It’s a spit in the face to anyone who has a library / invested in buying games on Xbox

it's ok guys we still have palworld

Rest in piss.

GamePass is not, never was and will never be sustainable and this proves it

Xbox f***ed themselves and we all saw it from a mile away

Xbox will become a publisher only soon enough

Phil Spencer needs to go
And take Sarah Bond and Matt Booty with you!
All that Xbox stench gotta f***ing GO

GamePass is not a problem, the problem is the Xbox brand since the Xbox One fiasco, they can't move hardware and now they're panicking because they don't want to do the work to catch up with hardware sales so that GamePass can be sustainable in the very long run. This is them saying "Our hardware doesn't move, and it doesn't make any money because we eat a loss" but it feels like they're giving up too soon instead of trying to right the ship like they said. Sony took an entire generation to turn the PS3 around.

Microsoft and Xbox is not hurting financially, this just seems like a bailout move to steer away from gaming console hardware to basically be like the Netflix of gaming and have their GamePass service everywhere.

This might be beyond them now

The fact it came out of nowhere signals this came from higher up than them to me

I don’t think Game Pass is the problem bruv
It’s the fact that there’s f*** all to play on Game Pass.
I’m speaking from the perspective of casuals and someone who already owns a PlayStation.

It’s Philover

re: out of nowhere
Idk man
Anyone keeping tabs on the gaming industry these last few weeks have heard the rumours of Xbox exclusives being ported over to the competition, but yeah a tentpole exclusive like Starfield on PlayStation does seem like a massive change in strategy; that I agree with.

Jaffe with another braindead take

No wonder he hates the new GOW games. Bro doesn’t have a functioning brain

Bro is mad his character had character development he been brain dead

Going on e dating servers to find a chronically online PlayStation gamer to grab their gameshare from to make up for all my multiplats being on Xbox. Wish me luck

Lol at the idiots saying who cares.

Xbox is finished. Anyone buying a Series X for ES6 wont or Fable or w/e tf.

Sony monopoly so so soon

When their 2023 major releases all flopped one after the other (critically and/or commercially), I knew something had to give..

And those desperate fire sales for Series X during the holidays? Yeah it seems like that didn’t even move the needle for the Xbox brand in general.

This “lack of worthy exclusives” problem at Xbox has been going on for far too long under Phil Spencer (since Crackdown 3 at least).

It’s a shame cus they know how to nail hardware.

I’m watching the latest State of Play, walking away unimpressed at nearly every game showing tbh..
Now with this seismic shift in strategy from Xbox, PlayStation doesn’t have to lift a finger to gain access to your wallet

Starfield sold really well, RedFall was a flop, and GamePass has brown in subscribers. I don’t think their AAA releases have flopped in 2023, they have a lot of momentum right now, the problem is they expected those AAA releases to move console units like hotcakes, and that’s not something that’s going to happen short term.

Xbox is in prime position right now to keep dropping exclusives, building customer faith, growing GamePass amongst the current community and eventually the console sales will come (once again, think Sony with PS3 except Sony was wayyyy more desperate and bleeding financially). There is no excuse for Xbox to be pulling this Hail Mary move, they’re not hurting financially, PlayStation is in a huge lul content wise, Palworld is a gaming phenomenon right now and they have a hefty lineup planned for this year. This just seems like a bird brained decision from someone at the top that wants to rush the whole idea of actual gaming consoles are gonna be a thing of the past.

i’m standing 10 toes down and not saying sony won

Xbox has all these IPs, a great subscription service, unlimited resources and they’re basically saying “fuck it” instead of putting in the work for long term success. They’re basically waving the white flag as a hardware developer and using this to go completely subscription based/software. Bad day for the gaming community.