Even I have my limits.
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I don't know about this article. I mean if Xbox division is making money then who cares, if does make money. The whole most units thing gets tiresome. If they are profitable they will probably be around.
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Microsoft has a problem with Xbox that it can't buy its way out of..
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Even I have my limits.
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I don't know about this article. I mean if Xbox division is making money then who cares, if does make money. The whole most units thing gets tiresome. If they are profitable they will probably be around.
Thank you for the figures Zhuge. No wonder MS has stopped reporting hardware sales numbers.
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Even if he doesn't have a source for the exact figures, due to his job, he has enough information to be able to give a damn good close approximate
Is it really that low? That's like half of what the PS4 is doing.
Look at it this way, PS4 is 40M ahead of xbox. The gap is only going to increase...
Thx. Already forgot that numbers.
Not so hard to get that. Microsoft stopped show numbers because of this.
Gonna agree with this. The difference between when the Xbox One was revealed to now is a huge difference, but they still get thrown under the bus. The changes they've made have shown they listen to consumers a lot. Some people are just console warriors.
35 is 8M a year, I'd wonder where they were all going if it was much more than that.
Xbox One was outselling the 360 until very recently. Its not like they are doing piss poor. The PS4 is just doing extremely, extremely well. Though with MS being the newest to the console market I'm curious how people will treat the next console release after their poor E3 reveal several years ago.
Is the Xbox one still selling better than the 360 or has it fallen behind during the same time frame
No, it lists way MS can try to buy its way out of, but and why none are really that realistic
No... And this is a serious problem for the Xbox brand...
Yeah, exactly. And I'd love if MS reaches out to bring in a great diverse range of games that'd be other great fits to it. Mid-tier arcade games, for example, that wouldn't have a home as $60 AAA releases but would also need more than $10/$15 indie pricing to recoup costs over time. Quite a few of those games I'd like to play at home.
Game Pass could be used to ease away the need for paid XBL, because people are definitely going to see the value in having all those AAA games at their fingertips, in full, playing locally vs. streamed, for the cost of like a Netflix sub (if even that much, but we'll just say that much to be safe).
Isn't that number from a pretty long time ago? Certainly can't include the holiday NPD numbers of recent, b/c I remember seeing that 35 million around holiday 2016 or such.
Thing is, an XBO-2 wouldn't need to be a super-massive jump over XBO-X, just enough to compete w/ PS5 on specs and not be in a situation XBO was to PS4 early on. Besides, if it were, say, a massive jump over XBO-X (and a sizable amount beyond PS5), games would still be developed with the PS5 in mind, not really taking too much advantage of the XBO-2's additional power, unless they were first-party of course.
And I think, despite what people feel right now, being more powerful isn't as big a deal as it seems. PS4 lucked out in that respect, but traditionally, Sony's never had the clear power advantage with any of their other systems other than the PSP and Vita (both handhelds). They go for a more balanced approach, PS4 just lucked out w/ the extra GDDR5 being available at the time. There's nothing preventing MS from taking that approach because in a way it's kind of what they did w/ the 360, the only difference this time would be them launching alongside Sony instead of a year ahead.
So it'd take more than being more powerful to give them the edge there, that's where things like Game Pass can come in, along with solid marketing deals and exclusives. And for MS's sake, I hope they are at work on some exclusives right now in time for an XBO-2's launch in 2020, they will be necessary.
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I don't think so either... PS4pro get a nice price drop(at least in holyday), if Microsoft don't do the same is very hard to archieve that.
The Xbox brand just doesn't have anything exciting. That's the problem and it's not solely exclusives.
No doubt the PlayStation Brand has excitement thanks to it's exclusives. As does the Switch, but it's not like Xbox dosen't have exclusives. It's just Gears and Halo are so tired and past the cultural phenom that they use to be. They aren't pushed as significant single player experiences either so they miss the spotlite that Sony exclusives gain. They also haven't caught the e-sports crowd. Gears 4 was safe and Halo has doubled down on being well Halo and it's not catching fire like it use to. Doubling down on your backstory and lore is kind of a double edged sword. Sure you keep your old fans "happy", but you run the risk of not appealing to new people which is what Halo 4 and 5 have done. Gears was just a cookie cutter sequel. Boring. These big games needed new directions. They did nothing to help the Xbox brand feel exciting.
PUG could have helped and no doubt has somewhat, but sadly Fortnite kind of has hurt that game's spotlight on consoles.
New IPs or resurgence of loved ips could have helped, but MS has been terrible at that. None of their games have been in line with trends. Sony gets away with these movie games like Uncharted. Sure, but people praise it because it's uniquely a video game. Quantum Break was a great game, but at this point in time no one gives a fuck that you made live action scenes when we can digitize actors. Such a misguided project.
Crackdown 3 is a constant question if it's canceled, not the constant hype that it will bring the series back to the heights of one.
Sea of Thieves could be a good game, but we had our NMS already. It feels a little late and hardly as exciting.
Things like BC are nice, but honestly BC is irrelevant. You speak to the choir with that. Old things don't really get people buzzing about the future of your brand.
You're PC initiatives while great for the consumer also make the consumer think more about the PC and not about the xbox.
The xbox brand just lacks something.
No doubt the PlayStation Brand has excitement thanks to it's exclusives. As does the Switch, but it's not like Xbox dosen't have exclusives. It's just Gears and Halo are so tired and past the cultural phenom that they use to be. They aren't pushed as significant single player experiences either so they miss the spotlite that Sony exclusives gain. They also haven't caught the e-sports crowd. Gears 4 was safe and Halo has doubled down on being well Halo and it's not catching fire like it use to. Doubling down on your backstory and lore is kind of a double edged sword. Sure you keep your old fans "happy", but you run the risk of not appealing to new people which is what Halo 4 and 5 have done. Gears was just a cookie cutter sequel. Boring. These big games needed new directions. They did nothing to help the Xbox brand feel exciting.
PUG could have helped and no doubt has somewhat, but sadly Fortnite kind of has hurt that game's spotlight on consoles.
New IPs or resurgence of loved ips could have helped, but MS has been terrible at that. None of their games have been in line with trends. Sony gets away with these movie games like Uncharted. Sure, but people praise it because it's uniquely a video game. Quantum Break was a great game, but at this point in time no one gives a fuck that you made live action scenes when we can digitize actors. Such a misguided project.
Crackdown 3 is a constant question if it's canceled, not the constant hype that it will bring the series back to the heights of one.
Sea of Thieves could be a good game, but we had our NMS already. It feels a little late and hardly as exciting.
Things like BC are nice, but honestly BC is irrelevant. You speak to the choir with that. Old things don't really get people buzzing about the future of your brand.
You're PC initiatives while great for the consumer also make the consumer think more about the PC and not about the xbox.
The xbox brand just lacks something.
In the US, when launch aligned, yes.
The One X got off to a really good start.
I also think at least in the 360's case the numbers are somewhat inflated due to the RROD and E74 and other problems that the systems had. I bought 3 different 360's all brand new, first one died before the 3 year warranty thing started up so I bought a second one after they started that and eventually put that towards a slim when those came out. I am far from the only person who bought multiple XB360s, I worked at Gamestop for nearly a decade all during the RROD shit and the amount of consoles that were bought by people trading in their old systems after they died was absolutely insane, were talking at least 1 system sold every day that was to replace a dead system, it ramped up massively once the slim came out because a lot of people were just tired of dealing with it. While yes a ton of people got replacements by sending them in, those replacements would eventually die as well.
It wasn't just 360 either, the PS3's Yellow Light of death on the first model was also fairly common, it wasn't as well know or reported as the RROD but it had a host of similar sales/trades of that as well. I bought 2 PS3's because of that as well a 60gig and then eventually the 500g slim. The last generation had really big hardware issues much more so then any generation before and after and despite that a lot of people didn't give up gaming or their system of choice (some people did switch to the other though, I had one guy who bought more then 10 new PS3 and 360 systems himself, each. He would literally buy one, play it for a month or more then trade it in and buy the other one, always bought them new) so a lot more systems were sold because of that. I couldn't even fathom exact figures but I'd say its significant, maybe 10% of the total systems sold were replacements and I think I'm being rather conservative on that estimate and I think thats why hardware sales were as high as they were last generation at least it was a significant contributing factor in the case of the 360.
Given how people seem to be souring on Sony recently for things like no BC and not allowing some crossplay, I could buy a narrative of scrappy underdog Microsoft pulling the rug out from arrogant, bloated Sony next generation. History doesn't necessarily repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
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Indeed.
Some people in this thread are too concerned about making sure we're aware the PS4 has a lead over the Xbox One. Something we've known since 2013.
That's really impressive to me, given the extra price, and not really having 'launch' games like the Pro felt like it did with stuff like FFXV and TLG.
I can see it from both sides though, on one level, it would seem to show there's a greater market within the Xbox community that are ready for a higher spec Xbox, which bodes well for a real next-gen system. On the other hand, it also means more of them will have splashed out more recently, and at a larger cost than their Pro peers.
The whole PC argument is strange to me. I can see people with gaming PCs say there's no reason why they'd buy an Xbox, but that doesn't seem to be what MS are even trying to do with their PC support. I see it more as a dedicated gaming HTPC alternative. You could buy a SteamMachine, but spec wise, for the cost you're not getting as good of a box. You have a larger library, but if all you care about is TV/gamepad experiences, it's not as big a difference on a practical level as it first appears.
Ultimately, how many boxes MS sell doesn't matter. It's how many games, Gold memberships, Pass subscriptions, etc that actually matters.
Not really when they are making a ton of money from digital services and content; More than what they made during the 360 gen.
Edit: Looks like ZhugeEX already stated this.
The beta saw huge interest from big youtubers and twitch streamers.
This game could potentially be really big.
If Game Pass takes off, it paves the way for Microsoft to launch a discless SKU (alongside a disc drive one) next gen.
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Is this the weekly Xbox is doomed thread
Four years. Four years claiming Microsoft is going to kill the xbox division next month and put out all their games on other consoles. Four years being wrong. Don't you folks ever get tired of this?
It's even more baffling when people say gamepass is the biggest indicator they're going to go PS4/switch because "streaming". Do you people even know what gamepass is?
Four years. Four years claiming Microsoft is going to kill the xbox division next month and put out all their games on other consoles. Four years being wrong. Don't you folks ever get tired of this?
It's even more baffling when people say gamepass is the biggest indicator they're going to go PS4/switch because "streaming". Do you people even know what gamepass is?
Kinda hard to be a Netflix type service on "any platform" when you're trying to sell the same games as the platform you're on. Microsoft needs a platform of their own because neither Sony or Nintendo will allow an app on their systems that sells third party game access outside of their stores. So MS would have to be a steaming only service for smart TVs or something. PC already has a Microsoft game store on it.
Microsoft needs a console if they actually know it or not. Otherwise why'll be killing off millions of dollars in Live subs, third party game sales and the etc.
We're speaking about hardwares... not about 'how money they made'. I know Microsoft made money for differentes services: Xbox, Azure, Office, Windows,etc...
The problem is... Xbox started really bad and so bad then they had to change the strategy much more than the original Xbox 360 era. Their answer is: forget the numbers, we make money and that's what matters.
Think about: What the next slogan of the next gen Xbox? Same as Xbox One X? ''The most powerful console ever, but hey we made money from diferente sources''... Microsoft stopped showing numbers a long time ago. They made money from Xbox? Of course they did, but use this as a excuse to not show numbers is a bad move in many levels.
Why so defensive? If you do not like these types of topics then do not even post work. I like numbers and sales figures. Wonder if Microsoft has come up with several of those forum topics that we can not mention and absorbed all the feedback and made the Xbox better with it.
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I think the Game pass is the key that they are focusing on going forward, its just a matter of getting third parties on board with it. I think what they are doing right now by setting it up for their own games is a way to see just how successful it could potentially be as a gambit to present towards third parties and get them to do the same, I think EA would be an easy lock for the service at least for their sports titles with how much money they are already making from the Ultimate Team modes and what not but the question ends up being is if EA will join Microsoft's service in some kind of joint deal or just make EA Access a bigger thing from it. At this point while I'm sure Microsoft would love to nail down a few more exclusives in some way I think that they are thinking 5 years from now and making plans around how they can reach that now or put in place systems to support that future goal rather then worrying about their immediate future in this generation.
The funniest thing people say is that MS fixed the hardware problem with the xbox one x. making another $500 system does not fix the problem for 30+ million inferior xbox ones that are out there. People really need to stop saying that. The xbox one x is a premium product and is not the main product for the xbox line. its not even 10% of the xbox user base. Till this day xbox one will always have the most inferior system out there, shipping the xbox one x doesn't just remove that.
When this guy says the xbox has a problem he's implying that xbox has so little sales momentum it will never catch up with Sony and it will be over taken by Nintendo.
MS market share shrinking from 30% down to 20% in 2 years would be disastrous.
MS though has one thing indirectly going for it that could bear fruit this year.
The gpu price inflation might force people to buy an xbox because it would be a cost effective alternative for cutting edge graphics.
But we won't know for sure until the middle of this year. By then it will be confirmed if nvidia is releasing a new series of cards and if they implement measures to ensure gamers are more likely to buy them over miners.
MS market share shrinking from 30% down to 20% in 2 years would be disastrous.
MS though has one thing indirectly going for it that could bear fruit this year.
The gpu price inflation might force people to buy an xbox because it would be a cost effective alternative for cutting edge graphics.
But we won't know for sure until the middle of this year. By then it will be confirmed if nvidia is releasing a new series of cards and if they implement measures to ensure gamers are more likely to buy them over miners.
Ehh, MS brought a lot of the problems they are facing on themselves but I think at this point the core/ERA style gamer's ambivalence has turned a bit toxic and whatever MS do they will be crucified, they could buy a publisher and take shit for it, they could get out of the hardware business and they'd take shit for it, they could develop more studios then take shit for how long it'll take those studio's to get a game out. Hell they took shit for making all first party titles cross compatible with PC, and that can only be a universally good move for the consumer.
They have had a pretty shitty 18 month slump with a sparse first party lineup and a few notable cancellations but that 18 months still included Forza Horizon 3. Sony did a fuck of a lot worse at the beginning of the gen with a long ass period in which the most notable game was Infamous. So it cant just be the no games narrative.
Also everything being equal that narrative should change this year with the release of Sea of Thieves and Crackdown 3 (hell it'll be at least as good as Infamous) but only if the gaming press and the enthusiast community actually give a fuck, actually me being the cynic I am I think Sea of Thieves could be a goddamned masterpiece and a lot of people still wont bother with it because its an MS game.
On a completely different note, If they were going to buy someone specifically for exclusives I hope its Bethesda, apparently they are looking to be purchased. They seem like a good fit for the xbox crowd, I don't think there would be too many shits given by many of the PS4 gamers. There is no PS nostalgia there since they were primarily PC developers back in the day and the IP they have picked up has usually been very western. There are no licensing issues and their big hitters will beget hardware sales.
They have had a pretty shitty 18 month slump with a sparse first party lineup and a few notable cancellations but that 18 months still included Forza Horizon 3. Sony did a fuck of a lot worse at the beginning of the gen with a long ass period in which the most notable game was Infamous. So it cant just be the no games narrative.
Also everything being equal that narrative should change this year with the release of Sea of Thieves and Crackdown 3 (hell it'll be at least as good as Infamous) but only if the gaming press and the enthusiast community actually give a fuck, actually me being the cynic I am I think Sea of Thieves could be a goddamned masterpiece and a lot of people still wont bother with it because its an MS game.
On a completely different note, If they were going to buy someone specifically for exclusives I hope its Bethesda, apparently they are looking to be purchased. They seem like a good fit for the xbox crowd, I don't think there would be too many shits given by many of the PS4 gamers. There is no PS nostalgia there since they were primarily PC developers back in the day and the IP they have picked up has usually been very western. There are no licensing issues and their big hitters will beget hardware sales.
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At least Minecraft will continue to bring in easy revenue. So they've got that going for them.
This is exactly what I said they would be doing. I believe at the beginning of next Gen they get rid of the multiplayer paywall. They'll have GamePass that would have been gaining their exclusives over the next 3 years (that a good number of people haven't played) and day one you'll have Xbox V exclusives, all for $10 + system (which I do think will be $399-$499). Lowering that bar of entry will be an easier sell as long as they have the games. Each of their exclusives having an Enhanced version for the next console will also help (since they have PC versions already, upgrading wouldn't be too difficult). Let's say they release at the same time and Sony doesn't have a GamePass and assume (I know, lots of assumptions) they come out $399 each.
Xbox 5= $399 + $10 (100s of games and all launch day exclusives)
PS5 = $399 + $60 (PS+) + $60 (game)
Even if they did keep XBLG (though I don't think they will), it would still be cheaper on day one to play games. That's why they are setting up GamePass now with their exclusives. Grow it to set it up for the next generation and on launch, have big exclusives (Fable) that will showcase the new system. They are clearly doing that but I still think that they will get rid of the multiplayer paywall.
This is MS's plan. This generation is lost but it's one battle of many. Sony needs to have an equivalent by the time the next generation begins and I'm sure they are looking very closely to it.
Not sure about much of this posy, but sea of thieves seems a lot more excitingthan NMS did and is getting more prerelease praise for sure.
I am pretty sure the X is the last console we will see from MS. They have ran out of gas. No passion. No innovation.
If they release something after that, it will more or less just be a Windows 10 box with the windows store.
I would not say no to MS being replaced by Sega.
If they release something after that, it will more or less just be a Windows 10 box with the windows store.
I would not say no to MS being replaced by Sega.
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get rid of live, live peeps are now spending $120 per year instead of $60, but you get hundreds of games plus day one first party for $60 more. so you save money but MS gets a steady revenue. where the competitor, one 1st party and PSN network is $120, per year. I love it.
Eh, Xbox is not going away anytime soon. This generation reminds me of the PS2/Xbox/GC one, whereas Sony was the dominant company by far, the other two were doing pretty well. Would be nice to have the same level of Xbox exclusives as back then though.
Seems like SoT is the opposite of NMS: When it was first revealed at E3, there was a mixed reaction. No-one really knew what the game was about and people almost dismissed it straight away. When the betas came around, there was a lot more buzz and positive reactions in the lead-up to release. Unlike NMS, where hype levels raised the roof, turning into disappointment once the streamers/YouTubers got their hands on the game just before it came out.
Seems like SoT is the opposite of NMS: When it was first revealed at E3, there was a mixed reaction. No-one really knew what the game was about and people almost dismissed it straight away. When the betas came around, there was a lot more buzz and positive reactions in the lead-up to release. Unlike NMS, where hype levels raised the roof, turning into disappointment once the streamers/YouTubers got their hands on the game just before it came out.