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If I could buy Microsoft hardware that drastically improved on the Nvidia shield and then bundle game pass and Nvidia GeForce now into one price and get PC and Xbox player base on games... Sold!!!

So about the whole PS2 sales thing, Jim Ryan was recently on a podcast where he said that the PS2 sold over 160 million units. That’s where those numbers came from

Thank you for calling out Phil's lack of accountability and the unclear messaging from Xbox. If they would just make must have games, they wouldn't be so far behind.

skillup, love your work but your way off base with xbox. Gotta get outa that 90's console mindset it's 2024 and the console market has been stagnate for over a decade. There is no growth in the console market. nintendo will be fine but both sony and microsoft need to adapt to grow. It's been plastered all over financial news for 12 months. Add the EU digital act and the Apple case to the mix as well. The future will be storefront exclusives, both sony and xbox's storefront will be on everything. Consoles will be loungeroom pc's.

Still no mention of SBI? I waited to see if you would talk about it since it was so big, but I guess you're worried about getting blacklisted. With that being said, I have to unsub. This was my favorite channel to watch for gaming news, and if you can't report on all major gaming news, then this channel is no longer for me.

there's a squad for that ...

The only live service game that makes the playercount worse than it already was

The Joker just doesn't feel right mowing people down with conventional weaponry. He's never been that kind of villain. He does mid-level crimes to lure out Batman and psychologically mess with him, testing Bat's no-kill ideologies, etc. But he doesn't go around just blowing people away with guns (maybe a revolver at most).

@@Hugsloth captain boomerang not using a boomerang is madness to me lol

@@EastyyBlogspot Since they all need relatively similar gun loadouts for.. idk, "balance purposes", all of them have their 'unique' trait locked to melee or a special move, and I agree that's just nonsense.

SAY HELLO TO DEMOCRACY!

Capitalism doing what it's supposed to do.

Because arrowhead focussed on making ther game fun as hell rather than focussing on making a piss-boring grind framework to stuff full of microtransactions.

And helldivers has healthy micro transactions that I don’t feel a need to buy but the option is there for more impatient people lol

​@@Lilliathi *corporatism

At the end of the day it's night

And it seems like ShillUp is not looking at that as well. Phil still answers to others and needs to "sound" like there's strategy in every decision (good/bad/reactive). I agree though that the double speak needs to end or consumers shouldn't be privy to those conversations because it's all corporate dystopia

NOooOo phill is a gamer like meeeee. He is practically a brother to my wifes boyfriend. I trust him.

@@ichibi87Ralph has been duped by Phil for years, biased because Phil is good at relating to people, he's the same way with Geoff Keighley

@@ichibi87 The double speak won't end because it's not profitable for it to end, coming out and saying the Xbox strategy has generally failed and isn't growing so we're going to phase it out over time would make majority of Xbox users start selling their stuff and cancelling their subscriptions. You saw how just the leak of some 3rd party games had sections of people saying they were getting rid, so you need to keep them on board while you move slowly towards that end.

yeah, kinda hard to avoid when you are attached to Microsoft and are the least productive branch of Microsoft at that. I'm sure he has someone staring daggers in his back at all times.

Not really seeing that a good game with some decent content to keep people around. And most of all, it's fun to play. Their is a mountain of games with horrible stories, varying art styles but the gameplay is what usually carries this stuff. Halo infinite for instance

Ironically if you focus on making good games, you have a better chance of making the stockholders happy by making a successful game. Reminds me of "the big short" where the guy who shorted the 2008 stock crisis actually had all his investors demanding their money right up until he was proven right. Most investors have no idea how to actually be successful and are playing politics with the money instead.

@@zuko9085 yeah, it's not really about giving investors the highest possible return, it's about making investors FEEL like they are getting the best return on investment.

​@@Koranthus Xbox is the third most profitable branch at Microsoft, beating out even Windows in profit last quarter.

Jonkler

Jelqer

That’s the most flamboyant Joker I’ve seen and I’ve even seen the 60’s rendition of him! That guy wasn’t even that flamboyant!

I’m the twinkler baby! Hahahahaaa.

The Giggler

Most likely the Penguin will use an arctic animal like…. a polar bear to fly around.

yeah mad hatter

Canonically he killed his universe's Penguin and stole the umbrella

Rihanna a DC villain?

@@Sacr3dHamyeah joker should kill all batman villains and take all their gimmicks and skills so he can be as cool as shadow the hedgehog

One can only hope

Some giants, led by incompetent leaders* There are plenty of triple A studios doing fine

Always has been

Every single industry is that

Pretty sure WB even said that they're doubling down on live service so there's that.

The sad reality that most have yet to learn. We should be tracking the names of developers and designers more than the studios they are tied to.

I mean, is anybody actually excited for something that Bioware is working on? I actively hope that ME4 doesn’t ever come out, because there is about a 2.27% chance that will even be decent, let alone “good”.

@@kode-man23hey I’m excited for the possibility of a Dragon Age remastered collection someday. Sure I made up the idea in my head but there’s some reason to care about Bioware😂

Bioware died w Inquisition and Anthem for me. I played Mass Effect 3 maybe four or five times. I met David Gaider at gaymer x2, really sweet guy but I don’t think he’s there anymore either lol. I miss em but what can we do? Everything changes

Exactly, imagine 8 years for straight losses and thinking your gunna shake that off

Unless they got an unprecedented level of money invested, they will likely be sold at a 1/10 of their highest value assessment. At best, that is.

Rocksteady been dead since the original creators and devs left. You didn’t know

When you slaughter and sell off all your cash cows, you eventually end up stuck with whats left, just like with EA and Dice & Bioware.

They will fire all the developers and give the execs a raise and keep the name until its worth nothing.

and then force a studio known for singleplayer games to make another looter shooter

ah got it 😆

That’s such a good PUNCHLINE….. 😭

"Metaphorically or so annoying the Player would want to light him on fire?" "... Yes..."

You called?

Seriously though The Joker as portrayed in comics is a total twink obsessed with his big burly would be boy toy Batman.

The few lines in this video indicate his dialogue was definitely written by people with rainbow hair who adore sarcasm.

@@chriswihulu”even the gays will hate him, it’ll be a perfect villain!” Is what I imagine they had to have said, otherwise nothing makes sense to me

Which bungie can't do. HD2 is lightning in a bottle that I doubt any AAA devs can capture or replicate.

Xbox lookin' at 343i saying "Why can't you be more like that?"

I see Bungie's executives being replaced with Sony executives. That Sony purchase was a compete and utter failure from Sony's pov since they got nothing out of it except a whole lot of new mess to clean up.

If y'all don't think we're going to see a slew of HD2 clones come out, I've got a timeshare on the South Pole I'd like to sell you too...

Whatever reason? Waller threatens to kill you anyway. Suicide squad had always been "inmates you will do this job. If you refuse you die. If you flee you die. If you fail you die. You may also die trying but that's not guaranteed."

Well, I don't know about your plot/storyline, but it should have been a single player narrative story to begin with. Hell, I would have bought it day one even if it copied Guardians of the Galaxy's gameplay and similar approach to story. The moment live service was mentioned, it sealed the deal for NEVER being purchased for me. I won't even claim it in a Humble Bundle or PS+ free monthly games. I won't give them one iota of statistical data to even share they've gained some kind of player base by claiming and downloading. It's sad when a (hypothetically) free title isn't even worth your time or hard drive space.

when your studio is filled with talentless hacks, they actually do.

@@Senumunu How would that money be a substitute for competency? Do you mean like by buying outside contractors or something? Also, which studios would you say this applies to?

Everybody knows this, what are you talking about?

​@@SenumunuWhen you spend seven figures on Marketing/PR for a game you have to recoup that. They could just as easily pour that money into labor.

@@fionn2220 i mean that companies and productivity are getting drained bcs people are in positions they should not be in.

Its annoying someone let the devil into the party, but not really justified to get upset with him for buying up a few souls now he's in.

Yeah but it isn’t gonna change. Just gotta lie flat

we must have infinite growth, think of the shareholders - phil

@@devilselbowI didn't think people outside of 4chan actually called anyone soy lmao. Nothing I take for granted or enjoy daily require capitalism or wall street to exist. Argue with your diary, not me.

​@@HigherMammal dude came out of 2018 internet thinking he'd OWN LIBS or some shit like that with his INCREDIBLE, RICK AND MORTY-LEVEL IQ.

All you had to do was see its a looter shooter, there was no reality it would succeed, gearbox can't even get looter shooters right anymore, why on earth would rocksteady

The game makes no sense, it doesn't even respect it's own continuity. The fact that the entire justice league (excepting Wonder Woman) get captured by Brainiac before the SS even gets captured is ridiculous, how the hell did the Arkhamverse Batman get captured before Harley Quinn? Lex Luthor, a supervillain known for his immesearuble ego among many other things, praising the Amazons was also funny considering how horribly the Amazons treat men. This game is simply a very elaborate out of season April fools joke that was 8 years in the making.

Yeah it was so bald faced & apparent months ahead of time, I remember being in the subreddit briefly just to poke the beehive a little & saw the usual "I'm having a blast" or "it's a pretty good time for just playing a little!" The copium existed, but the honeymoon phase wasn't over yet. Once it was, it catered really hard & the playerbase figured out they were just a mark, & they fell for the con

@@StarchieHalothat’s really true. I finished the campaign for Borderlands 3 and then stopped lol. Just bring Battleborn back tbh

I think, every subreddit of any game that is a bit of a trash fire at launch is full of copium. But hey, don't call them stupid, they're often just people who don't game that much or are otherwise ... naive? hopeful? Mostly because they're not the people who watch youtube videos about gaming a lot, if ever. We're in our own little youtube bubble of gamers who are in the know. Sometimes I'm so surprised how little some of my friends of colleagues really know about certain industry developments or just games in general, despite playing a lot of video games. Often times these are people who spend a lot of time on one multiplayer game with the occasional hype single-player release thrown in. I remember the Starfield subreddit having a similar arc. People were posting pretty screenshots of standing around with a couple planets in the background, saying how much fun they're having or whatever... which then turned into everybody posting, what completely new functionality they wish the developers would add in future patches (oh my sweet summer child, maybe in a year or two, but probabaly never) ... which then turned into a more defeated/occasionally angry "so many missed opportunities" tone. Then it all calms down a bit, because patches and mods turn it into a more polished experience and people become more aware of what the game is and what it isn't. Eventually the same will happen with Justice League. Either Rocksteady shuts it down in a year or two or they manage a recovery similar to Fallout 76 or Battlefront 2 (2017). We shall see,

I wouldn't really call that a prediction more like a given

It's hard to follow a legend, Kevin did better than most

If they really didn't want to do a normal Joker, 60's Joker would've been leagues better than what we got. Maybe they could've even tried getting his voice actor from Brave And The Bold.

Cesar Romero is the best live action joker, fight me

That's no Joker. That's the Giggler, at best.

You are right. There was a credits break down, and id go so far as to say zero people from the OG batman games worked on this crap. The studio is simply a shell of what it was.

​@@jakeryan2805 oh my god really? 😂

The original team for the arkham games were mostly nerdy white dudes and I know that as a black guy Im supposed to be obsessed with diversity and “representation” but if hiring a bunch of non nerdy guys and even more women who barely play games results in this trash, call me a bigot because im over it lol

​@@Thorn_416I don't think race has anything to do with this. the industry has become a behemoth financial machine and the culture has changed so much from where it started. if anything, indie devs and games are where the true heart of gaming still lives and needs to be the direction the industry heads towards if we want to stop the oncoming trainwreck

​​​@@Thorn_416 It's often not about race or gender or even interest in video games. Please don't blame this on the people who worked on the game. The reason popular franchises tank in quality is because the execs decided to step in and try to milk it for all it's worth. I guarantee you the team didn't want most of the sht in this game but they have a contract to fulfill. Making video games is an artistic job but that doesn't mean you don't still have higher up's telling you what to do. And beyond the money, sometimes those higher ups tell you to do something you KNOW you have no experience with and are not going to do well, but it's your job...what are you gonna do, not have a job? So the end product ends up sht, but you knew it would be sht, because you don't have the experience, but...you didn't have a choice.

I thought it was Ellen DeGeneres.

an extraction shooter with hero characters... a niche within a niche on an IP most don't really care about AND they've already laid off a significant portion of their creative talent? are they in a death spiral?

Ain't valorant just a counter strike clone with hero powers? Lol

An extraction shooter is nothing like Valorant.

​@NotTheGaslighter Valorant isn't an extraction shooter. Extraction shooters require you to get to an extraction point to succeed. Valorant just requires you to defend or attack until you win. Besides Decieve Inc and Payday 2/3 I'm not aware of any actual multi-player games for that genre but then I'm not paying a lot of attention so who knows.

We can hope.

It's already shuttered in all but name probably Any good Devs probably left in the long development time

And that uncle Phill is just a gamer like the rest of us.

As he's Australian does that make him a winter child? 😂

they're owned by WB so they'll make some layoffs and restructure. the co-founders left the company already if that tells you anything. once again another developer chewed up and spit out by a major studio.

It was Greg from the back cubical at Rocksteady, and he has already been fired after this shit game bombed.

Even Bethesda is a better example, they bought them after the Fallout 76 disaster caused Zenimax/Bethesda to fall into distressed debt. And then left them alone as soon as they bought them... Like Phil Spencer apologised for Redfall, he said it was a red flag to him when it was announced it wasn't going to be 60fps on XBox... not the fact studio lost over 70% of its staff during development, or the internal QA reports were terrible. No his only red flag was the 30fps wasnt up to XBoxes mandate, so did he do anything about it. Nope! When the PC preview also got flagged, at no point did he follow up on any concerns he or management or the games media had for the preview. Even after its disaster release did he do anything to follow up that empty apology to uplift the game or refund customers, or change the direction of the studio. NOPE. He left Todd Howard alone to screw up Starfield's release too. He is so hands off on any of the studios its more baffling to me why he is even in charge at this point?

Not really, the problem is that they pick up these studios mid or end production on games and then don't really have much ability to input on them before release. Not to mention their usual hands-off approach to their studios. Best examples are Redfall and Starfield, which were already heavily developed by the time the mergers finished(keeping in mind the "hey we bought this company" news hits the presses quick but the actual transitioning of studios and developers and shit takes much longer. He did say that they are going to be more hands-on with some studios after their more major failures.

@@Koranthus The hands off approach is a double edged sword for them and they know that they need to change. Some times it produces bangers like Hi-fi Rush, Pentiment, and Grounded, but most of the time it's Redfall.

​@@KnowThatIDontKnowYou Hands off seems to work for indie or experimental stuff. These big AAA experiences are the ones struggling the most.

I think he had 68 billion reasons for sell

No, that's the Giggler

I MUST JONKLE

With the dark knights metal being exactly that , I'd play the shit out of that

Bruh. If you need some shyte to do, I got some documents I need summarized. I’ll pay you lol

@@MisterK-YT He says while scrolling & commenting on a youtube video, not doing his documents.

Yuk bro you have no life. Go play with yourself

Yeah sus he hasn’t talked about it

@@inuclearpickle8628Not really, he's being smart. He chooses not to attract the crazies.

Skillup doesn't seem to report on the issues Sony has as often as MS for some reason. Granted he also knows that console fanboys will brigade like his video if he namedrops the console they don't like having issues.

​@@Koranthus Does Sony/PlayStation have a lot of really bad issues right now? (as in this week) The Xbox brand is literally collapsing right now, that's news worthy.

@@Koranthus “duhhhh xboxtax!” 🤤

​@Koranthus sony seems to be fine. They actually have great exclusives on their console

@@Koranthus He covers them when there's bad news to report like a few months ago with bungie or their low profit margins. Meanwhile Phil keeps doing interviews and sticking his foot in his mouth every couple weeks it seems leading to endless speculation about the Xbox brand. Sony on the other hand is always pretty quiet and you will rarely hear from Jim Ryan or Hiroki Totoki who just took over

"If the actual profit numbers are completely irrelevant compared to the profit growth then there is something fundamentally flawed with your business" Dude, this is not a MS problem, this is exactly what the entire global economy is based on.

They make billions in profit but I’d appreciate if you could grant that most of that is not from Xbox directly

@@devilselbowkeep trying Mr. Redpill. You’re SO much smarter than everyone 😂😂😂 touch grass kiddo

🤪🤣@@devilselbow

Just because Microsoft is very profitable doesn't mean Xbox is

Damn when's Lethal Company getting the update.

I think phil pulled xbox out of the grave that was the xbox one launch. But right now the big dogs at microsoft are pulling the leashes tighter and tighter. Not saying Phil isnt to blame but i just feel like there is more to this than just Phil fumbling. Wont suprise me if he is sacked here soon

@@noobndenial7551agreed Microsoft as a company doesn’t know how to compete. They either buy the competition or tepidly enter a segment and then silently exit it, much like Google. It’s been like that since the 90s

​@@noobndenial7551 I dunno man, power corrupts. Maybe Phil Spence just isn't a good person anymore maybe he never was. I mean, ya kinda have to be a bastard to be in his position anyway.

@@kjj26k i mean thats true we probably never will truly know his actual intentions. Im just being optimistic

@@noobndenial7551 Everything you said happened because Phil s**** at his job. MS gave him ample amount of time and more than $100 billion dollars to clean up the mess of Xbox One. He has no results to show for it. Do you know how difficult it is to raise that kind of money? Do you think Sony and Nintendo can do that? Phil is an absolute failure. I don't understand how people like you worship him.

I think that was the joke

Forcing the realistic nut version into the cartoony world would actually seem interesting, like "who framed Rodger Rabbit" just with different types of mental illness.

What are you talking about?

It's a bit reductive to call a system that can run Witcher 3 a 'tablet', don't you think?

The mobile whales paid for your 10 hours of gameplay. You must not underestimate the insane amount of money grown men will spend on gacha games,.

Don't forget if your not the right level or can't grind...Joker is 10$

You didn't, but they fleeced someone with poor impulse control out of their home so you could enjoy that "free" content. I hope it's worth it !

I don’t think using gotcha games as an example of something better than suicide squad is a good idea.

Their value proposition could be: “We invest in the future”. This doesn’t mean that they should abandon Double and Triple A flagship games, but it provides them with an identity that could compel consumers to purchase an xbox. We all know Nintendo’s identity and Sony is carried by it’s ridiculously valuable flagships. This suggestion also works with xbox’s subscription service. Literally copy Apple Arcade’s business model but apply it to indies. This should give the flagship titles breathing room between each release and allow them to implement delays if maybe their development timeframes are too ambitious. Sell some indies wholesale -> move them to the subscription service after a time -> drop a massive flagship. Rinse and repeat.

Huh, I did discover a few game through Gamepass, that I would likely never have touched on their own, if I couldn't at least try them out. Might be the best strategy going forward, as I hope they won't discontinue the brand.

The logistic and administration will be a spaghetti nightmare tho. Not impossible but the complexity could lead to more problem than result.

@@teeman7137 Of course there’ll be complications but it’s possible. Xbox needs a moat (Warren Buffett reference).

That's NOT what she said

Yeah we don’t believe you but that’s okay homie, we love ya. ❤❤❤

If I know your girlfriend speaks the truth then I'd say you've arrived earlier

@ARK-tn2yp You're right, she's always fast and she know it 🤷🏻‍♂️

what records lol? the most amount of people busting to the MC in the first week?

​@@masoclevine836 Lol undercover SBI employee

Game looks legitimately good. I hope it eventually comes to PC and the port isn't hot garbage.

@@masoclevine836 it’s been reported that the preorders have broken a record, if I recall correctly.

@@Kepesk same

You can love something that is logically bad for the business. Bringing other storefronts on Xbox means Xbox losing more of their revenue. Even if the revenue split is changed, Valve, Epic etc. would be fine with it since before Valve/Epic couldn't make any money off of console players and now they can. Anything is better than 0 for these stores. Xbox gains nothing because anyone who wants these storefronts uses PC so they are not going to buy a console.

@@yomamasohot6411 The ulterior motive and long term plan is unknown though. I would not be at all surprised if the console gen after the next is the last in their current format. I can see future consoles not being the hardware thing that actually runs games at all...but an interface device with a cloud gaming streaming service like a Microsoft version of Geforce Now/Stadia. People won't download or store anything, it'll all be run remotely...people will pay a subscription to access it...buy games on built in platforms and stream it via MS gamepass services with tiered pricing based on usage like how Geforce Now do it. Actual hardware that plays the games could be a thing of the past. After all, they have signed deals with cloud gaming providers, they have their own beta Xbox cloud thing going now...there was clearly a reason the UK CMA had concerns over the MS/Activision deal specifically in relation to cloud gaming. I don't think it's a total shot in the dark to think that's where MS focus in the next decade and a half is going to go.