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Why aren’t these implemented properly by the content creators?

@@balaam_7087because neither one of the Xbox Two content creators are also proper timestamp creators

@@balaam_7087doesn’t really matter as I do them every week. Let Rand and Jez take care of the podcast and I’ll take care of the timestamps. Enjoy the rest of your week

Why stupid if it's an option? If I want to tip Remedy for making Alan Wake 2 especially with the type of game it is..why is that stupid?

@@tji7046 I would say it's not a good idea because things like that will take time away from making the game; for no real purpose that can't already be served by developers just building a decent game. There are many games that have come out in recent years that have just been absolute flops; already filled with Microtransactions, overpriced game package bundles, the starting price for "AAA quality" even though it comes with so many issues at release, and early access becoming a normal thing. These already big issues that show development is being hindered by a lot of companies in some way and the final product is suffering vs what people want to have seen. So them taking more resources away right now from just making a good game, and adding a tipping model to pop up in-game periodically or at the end of the game. No matter how small seems like adding fuel to the fire, when so many companies struggle to make even a okay initial product right now. That's just my opinion though, I would say if game developers and studious have a great track record with games in recent years ( A good example might be Larian Studios in my mind. Obviously Baldur's Gate 3 was a success but even before that, Divinity Original Sin 2 was also a success and the one before it. When companies have that track record established; they finish the game ON TIME and decide "Hey, lets add a option to send a tip if people would like to support us for our future projects." I see no issue in that regard. Sadly I think those developers though would not be the main ones using it. It'll be Bethesda at the release of their Fallout 76 ordeal and how much of a shit show it started out as. Or Ubisoft with Skull & Bones supposed to be a "Quadruple A" Title which will redefine gaming, and absolutely flopped. Those will be the titles getting this tipping in it when already struggling to make a okay game.

Because buying the game again takes 30 percent of the cut. What's wrong with tipping the company you like directly? Sure there might be a cut but it should be faar lower, that's the way it should work.

They’re losing their minds! 😂

​@@tji7046becosue it sets a bad precedent in gaming people are not om worh MTX but are ok tipping a giant publisher more money which devs would never see lol ok.

Lucky I can afford a game or that it be in my budget and then these guys wanna hand over money to devs like they are eating ramen in a cold studio 😆

​@@tji7046patreon kickstarter indiegogo, ONLYfans, also gets a Share yet people still publicize their projects through those plataforms.

It's always funny how desperate Jez is to paint MS in the most positive light possible, I don't understand it, Rand is a fanboy too but at least he's more open to pointing out MS' stupid ideas.

​@@ethanradd lmao it's hilarious to see seething Sony fanboys like you watch Xbox podcasts, you really have no life

@@jimmythegamer2231 I'm an Xbox fan who doesn't like this leadership that has been failing for over a decade.

Whys it a bad idea.. I'm a poor gamers and definitely can't afford a gaming PC so it's a great idea

How is it a bad idea? Giving us more options is bad idea is it? 😂

PC will get you alot of things but theres still stuff that misses PC its just that most multiplat games don't anymore.

They hide the numbers because they are likely terrible. Third place box + gamepass means sales are terrible.

Lmao keep crying about Xbox Sony shill

I am not sure that Xbox has a strategy. Of course, with all the money they put in gaming they make better revenue. That doesn't mean the strategy works. It doesn't even mean that there is a strategy behind "I buy a business who make money, I will keep it as is, then I will make money too". Sony's strategy works fine, except on first party games, too expensive to be profitable.

@@nex571 that’s not really true tho, everybody highlights Spider-Man 2’s budget and obviously that got away from them, but nobody seems to mention the first Spider-Man game where documents showed they made 860m net on a 160m budget game or ghost of thushima which was made for 60m. They are making profit on games but inflation is making it harder to control costs, that is the area Sony has a problem

I am not saying that none of their games are profitable of course. But I think that multiple remakes/remasters of TLOU is a perfect example of the limits of the strategy. Sony knows that the market is not big enough to make this kind of game profitable. But they have a solution: if you cannot sell the game to enough people to be profitable, you can sell the same game to the same people over and over again. But with TLOU it becomes problematic, and I am afraid it will get worse with the inflation you have noticed.

"Our pillars already outdated and leagues behind the competition, Microsoft." Those were Sony's own words after the closure of the ABK deal, not mine. Even Sony themselves disagrees with you. Microsoft's strategy is the only commercially viable strategy in the long-term, hence why Sony keeps following Microsoft.

@@jimmythegamer2231 what MS strategy are you referring to, the only thing that is working for them is the strategy of buying big multiplayer games like Minecraft, COD ect and folding those numbers into their business. They can only do that because they are a trillion dollar company, Sony can’t make those moves. Everything on the traditional side from Xbox is struggling hardware, software, services all aren’t really moving the needle much

Xbox is giving mediocre games and Online games like Elderscrolls online to PlayStation to get more revenue for the Bangers like Hell blade and other games that are only on Xbox. PlayStation got mlb on Xbox lmao .

@@baharv4575 MLB got MLB on Xbox stop it lol

Little nightmares i just don't remember if it's part 1 or 2. Cool little game tho.

F*** EA!!! They won't ever see money from me again!

God eater I believe

​@@NothingButTime_ Thank you!

How'd it go? Was it sanded down?

@@EddiXP I can honestly say that it was in pretty good shape 👍🏻

@@thegenuinenintendogeek5507 hell yeah man. I don't know what their deal is with that. It's always hit or miss.

Unless access to external stores Is a feature of Game Pass

@@sethgarfinkel There would have to be some legal issues with that, right? 🤔 Charging to access 3rd party storefronts would get so much backlash that MS's head would spin. I could still remember the issues they had when they forced people to get LIVE in order to access RU-vid and Netflix

@@kthebarbarian8223 totally agree. I was only suggesting that would be a way to make money on it. Actually I’d be more worried that this forward compatibility is being built in order to be able to dump the console and move the Xbox environment to Windows. That would really piss off regulators who suggested they could make such a move and control may more screens. I just want my game pass and my console. However that works out. I work with computers for a living and don’t want to game on one too. Of course if the hypervisor was licensable to third parties… oh boy would the CMA and FtC blow a fit

@@sethgarfinkel It would certainly change the landscape and MS's approach for sure. There are so many unknowns and emergent technologies going into the next generation & honestly that's making it more interesting compared to this one. Now the major question is, when does MS pull the trigger.

Lmao exactly make u wonder why Xbox doesn't show profit 😐

​@@spectrexr1 Lmao you keep that same energy for Nintendo? Why don't they show profit margins as well?

@@jimmythegamer2231 😂 Nintendo...they games sell 45 million, and look at they games they cost 50 bucks and a pack of jolly rangers to make 😂😂 . . It's well know they profits are fine .no one selling 35 million copies of exclusive that cost 30 dollars to make and sell them at full price and they don't go down in price. Come on brah . That why Nintendo never in these conversations. Cause only them can do what they do

​@@spectrexr1the fact that no one calls Nintendo out on their pricing and how anti consumer they are is insane. But yeah they have smaller overall revenue than Sony and like only a little bit more than Microsoft (in gaming), but def have the best margins

To be fair Microsoft isn't transparent about ANYTHING. Their Financials and quarterly reports only share the bare minimum. And giving them the benefit of the doubt they are a stupid big company. The size of their core businesses and number of subsidiaries is wild and then everything is reported under one consolidated entity. Even in just gaming originally everything was scattered (like it's literally hurt last year we got Age of Empires on console) and post ABK even after layoffs they are still the biggest gaming corporation by number of employees. And we don't see specifics for any of their businesses including Azure which is carrying MS right now. I don't think any company shares that much in specifics. AFAIK we only know Sony's due to leaks from insomniac (the whole incident). Nintendo probably has the best but still doesn't report there's. The fact that Xbox doesn't report them isn't itself an indicator their's are terrible no more than we think Nintendo is about to go under. Microsoft has also invested a lot in gaming (like more than any other tech business now) and they've proven time and time again they wouldn't do so without current success in the market. Google Stadia (and like every other Google and Microsoft product) is proof how risk adverse these trillion dollar companies are. But all that said, if Xbox's margins are shit then what contradiction is there? Jez has always used Sony's margins as a "this strategy isn't working", so if the king of high quality consistent exclusives isn't seeing success with their strategy..., why should xbox follow it?

He’s insecure. It’s something he’ll decide when he’s ready to go on cam when he feels comfortable enough to do so.

Just like Steam Deck, Xbox boot up with xbox ui, if user want play steam games well user have tweak their device. But first they presented Xbox UI in first place.

I don't get why getting steam on Xbox would suddenly fix iI. I think it would cause the problem to be bigger because now people would be buying on steam and not Xbox

@barcster2003 this method pressure closed ecosystem to become open ecosystem like apple / Playstation on government side.

I think that's way more effective. Want to tip the dev buy it for someone else or get them to buy it.

@Arzeefy the question would be why wouldn't you just skip Microsoft and go straight to Steam? On top of that Steam has no incentive to help Microsoft.

Are you done for the night? Or do you need a 4th separate comment?

This man listens to a 4 hour Xbox podcast to come talk ish in the comments. I can't imagine a more shallow existence.

not completely out of question. Geforce now is full blown PC and publishers block it.

@@bbajrbecause it's a cloud service - all M$ have to do is have the OS available for PC and handhelds Windows console version and they can't do anything.

@@j_dun4830 i want them to go all in on windows version that runs on xbox too. yep. if that happens, it's all gg. but u see it would be going against so many other microsoft partners.

I would love to know where people like you come up with this shit.

@@AmedeoEnglenis he wrong. Why else would Xbox be putting their games on other platforms if they didn’t need to?

@@Amearielike Sony?

@@j_dun4830 Sony been putting games on pc since the consoles existence but Sony strategy works without canalizing its console sales hence why they port their sing-player games 2/3 years and can put its few day and date live service on pc it’s genius.

@@j_dun4830 name a game from Sony on Xbox. Other than MLB

By that logic, nobody wants a PlayStation either. Sony's biggest gen (by a long shot) was 20 years ago...I'll say it again, for you slow learners...20 YEARS AGO!! Sony is still playing tic-tac-toe, but Xbox is playing chess. Xbox is making more money than ever, even if by acquisitions. Sony is struggling so much to keep their closed ecosystem relevant, that they too are now a PC publisher, also having gone 3rd party. Cope harder. LOL.

⁠@@fishboots639Xbox isn’t playing chess tho, they didn’t have a choice. He is not wrong, Xbox does not sell, and they are going third party. Whatever you just said doesn’t change that fact.

@@Amearie Oh, no doubt Xbox always sold less than Playstation. But consoles are a tiny market, and Xbox is looking beyond console sales while Sony is stuck in the past. Sony's been slowly dying for 20 years, but Xbox is making moves to continue to succeed in the GAMING industry, not the niche CONSOLE market. Sony sells consoles, but now, more than ever, Microsoft sells WAY more games on more devices, while Sony is floundering on how to stay relevant...hence them going 3rd party too.

@@fishboots639 Xbox don’t sell more games tho. Even with pc their sales don’t beat PlayStation games. That’s why Xbox never say how much games they sell, they say how much players they have. Because of gamepass. All I’m saying is the original commenter is right. Stop trying to make it seem like Xbox is the smart one, they are still around because of Microsoft. Put it like this, if PlayStation was run under Microsoft and Xbox was run under Sony, Xbox would be sega right now. Xbox have daddy’s money, but they need to get their management and vision right.

@@Amearie Believe what you need to sleep at night. Sony is looking for pennies on the floor (100mil console players, down from 150mil 20 years ago) while MS is grabbing the $100's on the table. Xbox wanted billions of players, and they actually have them now. Sony just can't hold a candle to the amount MS is making. All that COD money is now MS. Candy Crush...MS. WoW subscribers...yep, MS. Battlenet...you guessed it. Don't kid yourself that Sony sells more games now, it's not even close. BUT that doesn't take away value from Playstation. MS is fully behind Xbox, and they've made big moves to stay profitable in the gaming market. You should be happy with Xbox's recent moves, as it'll make Sony fight harder. Competition is good for consumers; enjoy the fight and reap the benefits of the battle. There's no need for diehard loyalty. Even if you're 10 years old and can only play on the box mommy buys you for Christmas, you can still enjoy the push in advancement competition brings.