Xbox is Falling Apart... 

Of course they do. "We simply don't care."

Is not about having money, is about filling a $70 billion dollar hole that no studio besides Bethesda, Activision and a few others can.

How do you think they got so rich? It sure wasn’t by giving a damn about their employees. Phil Spencer, in that clip, was actively gaslighting fans, claiming he wants to, “foster creativity,” by, “allowing,” studios to make games of a type they don’t usually make. Half of the team that made Redfall, including all of its founders, had already left the company by the time that game was published. Those brave enough to speak out about why they left all said it was because they were being, “forced,” to make a live service game, which they had no experience making. Then Spencer flipped and said it would be a single player narrative, when they were already near completion, forcing them to rework the entire project, with the results we all saw. They had pleaded with Spencer not to force them out of their lane in the first place, into a type of game they didn’t like or believe in ethically, let alone artistically. But their pleas fell on deaf ears, until the Microsoft higher ups changed their minds, when it was already too late. They pleaded even louder with Spencer for more time, but again, deaf ears. He KNEW the game wasn’t ready, yet he outright lied in his softball Q&A sessions, saying he was getting great feedback from all the testers. He had simply calculated that the game would flop but, by releasing it in an incomplete state, he could still watch the calendar for when those quarterly payouts to the shareholders were due and guarantee their payoffs. And how could he guarantee them? Glad you asked. By knowing that he could still make savings at the other end, by firing staff. As long as the shareholders (who don’t play video games or know anything about them) get their money come pay day, everything is fine. And the investors probably don’t even know about these disasters in the community. All they know is that the first day they don’t get their LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE promised payouts, they will move on into another industry and gut that. Which is why, to the public, Spencer says the direct opposite of the truth and gaslights us players about what the studios actually wanted. Most of these people are bound by NDA’s, so the fact that we hear anything contradicting him, or even just challenging his basic assumptions, at all is as a result of brave individuals taking big risks.

You guys need to learn how money works. Microsoft's valuation has nothing to do with revenue and profit. MS had 227B in revenue last year and a profit of 101B. The Xbox division can't spend 10's of billions to acquire studios and operate in the red. Whoever came up with gamepass royally fucked up because now they have to make cuts to cover those acquisitions.

@@GarrusN7 oh no. ONLY 101 billion!!! That's more than enough you dolt.

>Doesn't advertise new games

Literally EA from 15 years ago

> buys up ip property and just holds on to it instead of giving indies a chance. >consolidates studios to help them and then fires everyone for the ip holdings >only work with studios from certain countries as a form of political gate keeping

> Draconian measures in chat lobbies whether chat or voice chat, set of rules and you cannot say certain words otherwise A.I will flag you or ban you. > doesn't like pretty women i.e. D31

This is practically EA playbook right here.

the original wii rvl-001 was really good because it's backwards compatible with gamecube games

yeah 2000 to 2010 was peak gaming sad tosee them go,not even vr gaming able to replicate it

@@gamecubeplayer Its the same model I own and absolutely adored ever since I was a kid

@@shiro3146 😥

It must be an age thing but you've just disregarded the NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo, PS1, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, GameCube etc etc. Also golden age of gaming

hdmi passthru and streaming apps

See the problem is HiFi Rush didn't make xbox any money..... Because that's the problem with gamepass. U subscribe to this service and Microsoft won't make a profit from this game, they'll just get people to buy into their service which has nothing to do with the game. Honestly they should've never made a deal with the devil and maybe released on Sony. This company would've sold a banger with millions of copies

Bruh, Tango was in shambles internally. Shinji Mikami left over creative direction in February and is likely a major factor on why the studio was consolidated

Who killed Hannibal?

​@@jimmymac2292 What do you get from lying? Mikami has been a supervisor for over a decade, creating studios where he can coach younger talent and give them opportunities, so when he feels they don't need him anymore he leaves and creates a new studio with the same idea for new people, He left Platinum after starting it because he believed they didn't need him and he left Tango for the same reason.

It’s gamepass man. It’s gamepass. I told people game pass is destructive years ago. It is detrimental to studios who want to sell games. People just pay a few bucks play their $30- $60 game and then cancel.

Physicality in general is decreasing…

That's pretty much only been a Gamestop thing and it rarely happens anymore if even. The last time I lined up for a midnight release was for Red Dead Redemption 2 and it was great. Couple of us in line talked to pass the time and we recommended a bunch of games for each other

It will happen again with GTA6

@@jase276 RDR2 was my last midnight release as well! A few people actually dressed up like John Marston and outlaws! But that game was 100% worth it! It's still my favorite game by far!

@@jase276 I am sure it can still happen, but probably less than five titles a generation.

Pretty much summed it up. I wait a good while before I buy a new game because I do not trust these companies to buy it on day one.

Bingo.

It's honestly scary how quickly ldiots will shovel money into these corporations pockets. Critical thinking and patience are dead.

Yep, shit like that is turning me into a misanthrope, because ppl are just plain dumb, always moving in herds and never question anything until it's too damn late.

2k, gacha, and COD killed gaming

Well they made Halo but the newer games just suck from what I’ve heard.

Tango Gameworks needs to build their own studio. They're the worst option to get rid of.

Truth, but Ghostwire was mediocre though

Infinite wasn’t that bad tbh

@@kuyagab4444 can they restablished as the same company again (but indie)?

What did 343 do?

Fr

​@@NoNameTaken117 absolutely nothing notable since they took over halo, so they should of been one of the 1st to go

@@NoNameTaken117 they ruined the Halo series

@@NoNameTaken117 they attempted to make halo 4, halo 5, MCC and halo infinite. Right now it is rumored we are being threatened by another halo game from them

Blame dev companies for having spineless ceos and even more spineless devs.

DEI quotas ruined gaming.

*American companies

microsoft always rests on its laurels when its at the top. and when it actually has to compete it doesnt know how to.

Suits ruin everything

yep, and it doesn't look likes it's going to get better.

Man this is the truth!!! My homie literally just told me yesterday “bro you have been seeming a little depressed” I’m just like how can you not be life is just bullshit nowadays

Capitalism.

⁠@@1stCMcook shut up, communism would lead to worse circumstances. like it always has in history. we need a new system entirely if youre gonna $hit on capitalism

It's called late stages of capitalism..

Playing crysis 2 on the Xbox 360 was an unforgettable experience

Can't wait for Gen Alpha to say the same thing about the Xbox one And series X.

God of War 3... Halo 3... Legende of Zelda Twilight Princess... We didn't realize just how good we had it back then.

I remember people during that time saying snes/genesis was. Legit people have nostalgia rose glasses

LMAO no it wasn’t. It was the beginning of the absolute state the industry is in.

oh man, unfortunately AA studios are more affected RIP

BlameTruth couldn't be anymore right abt his

This*

Its why indie devs are the future over these greedy companies

Meanwhile Nintendo:

Back then everybody was talking about halo 4 all the time and looking for clues in the game then Microsoft took a massive shit on the franchise

A few years ago I had awful internet that would also shut down randomly so I got used to the idea that internet is something that I can't rely on for everything so I would spend extra money buying all my games physically and I still do to this day.

better than nothing

Worst case maybe you could sell it online lol

They gave them severance packages lol. Do you think that's just xbox swag lmao

​@@user-jh1jt9lo7ixbox is bothing, that is what they got

“Sorry we’re firing you, play our console still tho? UwU”

Well, it’s self explanatory. Indie devs make good games; AAA release predatory, micro-transaction filled slop

They never will be either. Cloud gaming, game pass and all these sub models need to die if anything

One of their biggest mistakes was getting rid of xbox live gold, forcing people to pay monthly instead of annually for online.

​@@FlamespeedyAMVNo. For now they serve a purpose, hardware is unbelievably expensive right now to certain economies, a 4060 is two months of my salary and i work in college degree level. Gamepass and GeForce Now are 2% of my salary.

​@@tiago.suares from the sound of it, u could easily just go for lan cafe and will still be fine and also supporting ur local , the reason why the gamepass is bad is because you do not own any of the games, issue with netlfix and spotify is that you dun own any of the song or the movies once u paid the subscription fee.

​@@FlamespeedyAMVIt's either sub models or micro transactions. I prefer the former.

But we have hades 2, so it single handedly balances everything out

😢

more like 2024 feels like the worst gaming year for microsoft

Yeah the AAA industry is imploading…

The annoying thing is, some of them (like Helldivers or Dragon's Dogma 2) are legit good, it's just the suits at the top that had to ruin everything

Microsoft is pure evil

maybe their spirtual successor devs will work on them still

​@@joshallen128 yeah but given xbox track record on continuing franchises without the og devs I wouldn't be so sure.

@@ostanki what was to be seen is now gone, what was to be had is now empty. i think a good franchise moves around every company you know ive contemplated doing a gathering of publishers joke where the ip is owned by multiple companies. instead of publishing rights its developer rights insteasd

We still have Arkane Lyon but who knows if they'll still be able to work on Dishonored 3. I wish I could say the same for Tango Gameworks, but with the whole studio axed, we'll never get to see new IPs or installments from them. I thought they'd be alright if it was just Mikami who left, but the whole studio followed after.

Arkane Lyon is the studio that made the Dishonored games. Arkane Austin made Prey and Redfall. One niche hit and one massive failure.

Ironically the new Xbox console makes you feel like you are in a dystopian future

Except the Matrix wouldn't take 10 minutes to boot.

@@FlamespeedyAMVI hate the series S even it’s controllers are crappy

that's what I loved about the original xbox

Designer like a Porsche or Aston Martin.

Phil* Also, not to defend Xbox, but they probably were forced by Bethesda, not Spencer himself, since Redfall was in development before they bought ZeniMax.

Phil

@@tentinquarantino876Devs thought that when they got acquired MS will listen to the devs and cancel the game. So I still blame MS and Bethesda

​@@tentinquarantino876 Phil Howard and Todd Spencer.

Actually Microsoft approved continued development of Redfall it was supposed to be canned when they got purchased and Arkane Austin wanted to work something else.

I don't game nearly as much as I used to, and it's a shame seeing where gaming is going. Microtransactions, studios being shut down, loot boxes, etc; it's so sad.

​@@ambiarock590 honestly i havent been gaming as much because of how bad the greed has gotten, i cant dedicate so much money to play a game the same amount as i used to when it was a one-and-done purchase game go play deal

​@@ambiarock590loot boxes are fricking extinct already. 2023 was one of the best years gaming has ever had, and 2024 is also being insane. I do not understand this wild gamer doomerism.

What we're seeing has always been the the goal to some extent, probably wouldve been worse if people didnt give some pushback sometimes, but the pushback is always only temporary, and these big companies will find sneakier ways to fuck us (the consumer) over, and them (the developers) all to max out profit projections to please their real customers (the share holders, invested paries like tencent, and other corporate suits) with little actual effort on their end. sucking any creativity out of creating games too, since the only time they truly succeed is if they follow the trends of making the consumers trickle money out for each game past buying the product while hoping we're too dumb to notice. Being a trend, a pattern that has to be learned, its only a matter of time before one of these big publishers start using AI to generate games as well. as has happened already in other professions where creatives are being kicked out. ...Yeah, so it kinda fuckn sucks

I've been playing retro games because modern games are too shitty.

yup, it was a really nice game.

The first game had sooo many problems, but still loved it for what it was. But damn evil within 2 was such a leap and became one of my favourite survival horror games ever, no one ever really talks about the 2 games which is sad.

@@carbagehealth9634 agreed, while I like the first game I don't think it's anywhere near as polished of an experience. The second game imo is one of the best this genre has to offer. Any fan of survival horror should at least try it even if they were put off by the first game.

Sadly the 3rd one won’t happen, both games felt like a Constantine movie. Hopefully we get something similar to it for a AA game. If I had to choose which survival horror is my favorite I’d go with either re2 or evil within 1

Uninstalled because sebastrian is too slow

Agreed 1000%! Competition breeds quality, so once some of the biggest studios (like Blizzard!!!) started to have to bow down before their supreme over lords.... it signaled the end of an age coming to pass. And, sadly; I feel it will be a very, very long time before the revival of gaming actually comes a pass, as these big studio conglomerates continue trying to dig deeper into their customers' pockets. All i see is epically failing releases..... Since anything worth playing is going to just be endless cash grabs, as they are so out of touch with their customers that they don't even know what makes a good game anymore. All they know now are different formulas to milk more money out of the people who are still willing to actually play their crap... Sad times indeed. I miss WoW...

Just look at Sony they aquire more smaller studios because they're easier to manage

We just gotta somehow get congress to break up xbox and its studios even tho its a herculean task

​@noahmcarthur5955 don't worry. There is another. The EU hates monopolies and loves flexing its muscles.

@@lucasfragoso7634 can't forget when EU had spit on Apple

Yeah I thought it was a 2025 title.

Fans are begging Microsoft to actually advertise Hellblade 2 on Twitter. PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR ADS.

Microsoft enemy of gaming

The verge published a report that choice was based on studios that has nothing in the works at the moment…

@@KnowThatIDontKnowYou -heard the previous devs already left as soon as Shinji Mikami left the studio since last year(?)-

​@@SL4PSH0CK that was supposedly debunked

Lol gta6 might compete with 5 if SBI don't kill it lmao

Any way these companies can sue to due to arbitrarily killing their former company

Which sucks cause Xbox from performance standpoint is better, even after Sony had a nice bath in our greenbacks...

I always say it was like they got hit in the jaw and never got up they got the spaghetti legs

it;s all gamepass's fault.. microsoft went all in on cheap budget little unpolished games.. they really thought that was gonna pique people's interest.. look at it now.. gamepass is the reason people are losing their jobs

Yeah they never really recovered after that. It’s so confusing too… they had no real reason to go in the direction they did.

@@donfanucci1766To be fair, game pass to some degree makes sense from a profit and consumer standpoint. The issue is that this pay model grossly mirrors the music and movie industry now, where everyone wins except for the people actually making the content.

Seems like Nintendo’s winning this one.

@@BladerKev Valve too

@@MrProg-ey3tl Actually Valve is beating Nintendo ever so slightly.

​@@BladerKevNintendo? The company that actively hates every one of its fans and is so anti-consumer that only smoothbrains are still handing them money? No, they are the absolute worst of this shit pie.

How is PS losing the console war?

Yeah seeing the Xbox could play RU-vid moved me about as much as seeing a Samsung touch screen fridge. They act like people don’t own phones.

They didn’t think games were dead, they thought that they could get your grandma to buy an xbox. Similar to PS2 and DVD or PS3 to Blu-Ray its not games are dead its trying to branch to other markets But funny enough by the time Xbone came out I already had a roku tv that cost me like $400 so there was no way they would get not gamers to buy the system.

The idea of streaming of games was dead from the start, when 90% of the world doesnt have access to normal internet speeds, let alone low latency. You can put an Xbox into someones apartment and let them play games, but you cannot defy the laws of physics and just make picture go faster to someones home on thousands of kilometers long wires when there is like a billion of devices that could interupt that experience...

It's why I prefer paying for the full game over buying a subscription service to play the same game.

I do wish old Xbox back then was free to play online...

⁠@@danialyousaf6456I’d rather save myself 50£ for a potentially bad game

Piracy is your friend.

I make sure to keep the number I have low. Subscription services are garbage.

It used to be that publishers help with Marketing and Distribution of games, which was really important pre-youtube becoming mainstream and when physical copies of games were the main wah they were purchased. After RU-vid and other video sharing sites became popular it became a lot easier to generate excitement for a game as long as it looked good by sending out review copies to popular creators. Once physical media started rapidly being replaced by digital downloads it massively reduced the upfront cost needed to actually sell the game, and with the rising popularity of Steam it became extremely easy to self-publish. The only reason I can think of to want a publisher in the current environment is if they act as an investor to allow you to hire more staff. There's almost no reason to have one for marketing or distribution anymore but because of how long they were necessary most of the popular IP's are already owned by a studio or publisher.

yea, and by now you'd think people / game studios would've noticed the ever repeating pattern, and stay away from it.

Because in a lot of these cases of takeovers, it's a package deal. Microsoft wanted Bethesda, well, to get Bethesda, they also needed every other studio that was under the Zenimax umbrella. Too bad for them, Microsoft had probably already decided to axe them long ago.

Unfortunately money is the only thing a lot of studios care about. And we’ll be seeing a lot more ip gatekeeping/goldhoarding in the future.

that’s how it always goes. music distribution companies and record labels, massive movie studios nowadays, etc

Damn, Microsoft be making the worst possible decisions so that Sony can be ahead with its recent PSN drama with Helldivers 2.

Idaf about hi fi rush but Evil Within was fking great. Too bad we won't see evil within 3.

The fact that you have no idea that they made ghostwire. Tokyo a repetitive game that was a major flop Speaks wonders about how much of a failure that game actually was . I Also look up the achievement data. Most people did not even make it past 30 minutes of Hi-fi Rush

@@mariobadia4553 ghostwire tokyo came before hi-fi. They had one unsuccessful game out of 4 and that game wasn't even received that poorly.

​​@@DanielFerreira-ez8qdNope, beyond good and evil 2 Also did poorly sales wise. Despite the awards and heighype, the majority of people that played hifi rush did not make it past the first 30 minutes before dropping it According to achievement data..

Gatekeeping and goldhoarding. It’s all about gate keeping the ips

SMH

Fr

I got com banned for 6 months for saying fuck in a message

To be fair, the word should probably not be allowed. But yeah, they take it way to far over a cuss word.

I mean he was never a hero. He had great charisma, but he never did anything positive for Xbox all this time. Just constantly shut down projects, let 343 continue butcher Halo, and never pushes for any new games.

@@whichDude I mean gamepass, backwards compatibility, ensuring Bethesda games stay on xbox. Rare and Obsidian are free to make games they're passionate about which are both successes. Im not disagreeing with what you said but to say he never did anything positive for xbox is simply not true

​@@monki9941Gamepass isnt what Id call good. Its a step in the direction of gamers owning nothing

He hasn't done anything to be a HERO either!

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@zelohendricks51 I disagree. No one’s who has it is told or assumes that they own the games under Game Pass by buying a subscription. Unlike buying a game digitally. I personally use it to try/discover games that interest me. If it’s not for me I move on. No money wasted. If I end up beating the game and/or really enjoy it I go and buy a physical copy. It’s dope. I also think backwards comparability is pretty huge, though. I can currently play every Xbox game I’ve ever owned from Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One on my Series X just by popping in the disc and I don’t need to subscribe to an additional service. On top of that all of the games play/look better than they did on their original consoles. Like the guy you responded to I’m not disagreeing with what they said, but again to say he didn’t do anything positive for Xbox is blatantly untrue.

I don't wanna make some central banking tangent but as long as currencies are continually added to the economy you should expect profits for larger corporations to go up but the buying power of those profits are reduced.

They lie

@@Bananazz.z you think these multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies are lying?

@@Bananazz.z you think these multi-billion dollar publicly trade companies are lying?

@@Bananazz.z you think a publicly traded company is lying?

The indie/arcade section of the 360 can’t be forgotten

All they had to do is update gears and halo to modern times

You can still find Gears of War 1 Online Matches on X360

Imagine... just imagine being an Xbox 360 owner during its golden years, being able to look into the future and seeing just how badly the following generations of Xbox consoles have become. Yikes!

@@dineshn that’s exactly what they did and it was the problem

And legit killed Sega hardware 🤣

@@Enigmalake Nah, the 32x & the Saturn killed SEGA.

@@embracerodusk2537 Sega Saturn was my first console, my so-called friend talked me into getting one instead of a Playstation cos he had a Saturn and he wanted to be able to borrow games from me, I still haven't forgiven him, God I hated Sega Saturn literally the lamest console ever and the lamest games ever, I have never hated a game as much as I hated Sega rally.

Nah people are always just behind and close minded. It was right where it should be

@@RealestKneeGrowWhy can’t everyone think like this?

The restart is controlled, it won't be in our favour. Unless Microsoft, Sony, EA, Ubisoft all get shutdown. Gaming wont return

Gotta go evil a.i. mode and save it by destroying it

The industry is far from collapsing, it's restructuring, in a very bad way. The video game industry at this point, is literally too big to fail, the video game industry brings in more money annually than the movie and music industry combined. The problem is, the games that are bringing in those huge profits are the few unicorn games like WoW, Minecraft, War Thunder, CS, LoL, and so on, games that have successfully become live service games, and every company is chasing a piece of that pie. I say this as someone who works in the industry.

​@fillsbury8304 oh well, why don't you play some metal max return on the snes since that won't disappear and is a better open world game then far cry somehow

Yeah man just fuck everything up let’s go back to the Stone Age since we like restarting everything.

Nonchalant

This is exactly what u Xbox fanboys get 😂😂 PS5 will always be superior. You bought all these companies just to run them into the ground. They should’ve stuck with Sony, now those same companies are going bankrupt lmaooo

They started marketing af now though..

​@@Drogas3653the ABK deal is the final nail in pisstations coffin.. Wonder why Square Enix is going to Xbox.. hmmmmm 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@dusermiginte4647 if you think the ABK deal was a bad one, then you don’t know what you’re talking about 😂 what activison exclusives are coming out in the next 4 years? Overwatch 3? A spyro game? They have nothing to offer, while COD is GUARANTEED profit. Sony won again and gave Microsoft the scraps lmaoo. You have 0 good exclusives

They could make it cost $1 a month, and I still wouldn't do it.

it is worse, because some still care about sonic and similar sega related games once xbox disapears, no one will care, all is somewhere else already, almost since year one, like halo on pc

​@@betag24cnI mean anything is possible at this point it's possible gaming as a whole is gonna be gone one day gaming just hasn't been the same anymore compared to back in the day etc That's actually not true because I grew with Xbox so if it's gone one day I'll definitely care and be sad just like many others will just cause you don't doesn't mean everyone will forget or not care about Xbox so thats a false statement

@@RayGun4200 based on number of sales, quality of games, ammount of burned houses and billions lost, no one will drop a tear if you have fond memories with it, i bet you didnt had rrod, i had it, 6 times that is how it went

Except SEGA was strictly a games company, and when they lost power in the games industry as fast as it did, they lost it all and have been trying to claw their way back to major relevancy since 1999 when they had to dip out of home console sales. In fact Sega would not exist today if not for their merger with SAMMY co., a gambling arcade machine manufacture. which is why today Sega is actually known as SEGA/SAMMY. Microsoft (and Xbox by extension) are literally to big to fail, and in the event that Xbox does fail, Microsoft can and will go on like nothing happened. Same with Sony.

@@daSEGAfanatic sega did both, in fact, they made 3 tjings, arcade, consoles and develop games, i still miss the old dreamcast, it was a impressive console

they do care, but 25 years of failures, it is not 1% of what microsoft gets per year, it is the end

It's weird. They're buying the studios not to sell Xboxes, but to sell Game Pass subscriptions. And it's not working, and it shows they have no confidence in their hardware. Xbox is going to die if they don't support it with real games. This current crop of executives do not understand what consoles are and why they exist.

No they didnt which is why nobody pissed and moaned at all when sony aquired like 15 studios over the years, nobody batted an eye when embracer group started buying up until they started closing recently. Gamers have an extremely short memory and only are now recently saying its bad. I guarantee if sony had bought bethesda or activision and closed studios there would not be very much outcry.

@@xstonedsoberx There's a big difference between acquiring independent studios and buying ENTIRE holding companies. Sony's acquisitions are nowhere near the same level as Microsoft's. Near enough all of their studio acquisitions were studios mostly made PlayStation exclusive games aside from Insomiac whose catalogue is again mostly PS exclusives and Housemarque who by the time Sony acquired them were making nothing but PS exclusives.

​@@xstonedsoberxSony acquired small STUDIOS, yes... Often building them up to be much bigger and better than they were, some VR studios have been closed recently but nothing has ever been as drastic as Xbox buying entire publishers up and shutting down studios as a result, gamepass being the main consolidation problem in gaming. Both Sony and Microsoft are arseholes, corporations built on self preservation at any cost - however, one is moving very very differently to the other. Microsoft in general are an extremely dangerous company when it comes to monopolizing and consolidation, they've been doing it far longer than Xbox has existed and only now are they implementing that strategy into Xbox for the reasons Muta explained - Xbox is now a noticable division in Microsoft's armoury. Sonys biggest purchase is 1/25th the size of Xbox's biggest purchase. The difference is astronomical.

@@xstonedsoberxsony didnt acquire juggernauts like xbox (bethesda and blizzard), buying small studios isnt bad when they are actually making games that are good

Sony doesnt buy big franchises to deny them from the competition. Thats what microsoft and epic games does.

What a sage man 😎

Those were the days

@lexzeyfercronus seriously man, it was an era

did you bring it? xbox? yeah lets do halo co op 4 player couch the xbox live had voice masking which was funny

This happens with a majority of companies and take-overs... nothing new or out of the ordinary.

@@sarkaztik3228still ass though

The whole "If you don't migrate your account we will delete it :)" thing was one of the most criminal things I have ever seen happen in gaming history.

I spend more than a HOUR to properly set up a Nintendo/Mojang account on my niece's switch just to play Minecraft online. I sweared so much Infront of her because how ridiculously hard it is 😂

Don't forget how Monjang still does that crapy "vote on this new mob" for us to add.. instead of just adding al three which wouldnt take much at all to do. Let alone how many years have they had to add basic QOL stuff many mods already do?

Xbox original also had that for games like tony hawk and burnout. Such a fuckin cool feature

Yup original xbox did it first. I used to rip a ton of cd's to my og xbox and then while I was cruising around on vice city, I could play my custom tracks on the radio in game in any car. So damn cool!!😀

Ok. I thought OG xbox had that too but the OG and 360 years of my life kinda blend together so i wasn't 100% sure.

Funny. As a PC gamer since toddlerhood, that feature stood out to me. First time I recall playing on a friend's 360, being able to play your own music was the closest thing to 'feature parity' I'd noted (between PC and Console)

Hear hear

Just general corporate dumbassery.

Same here. He is controlling Xbox and would rather take profits from GAAS games and COD rather than unique titles.

I would rather trust Apple now 😢

@@Indie_Better_than_AAA i wouldn't trust any company to be honest, considering that anyone can take that approach if they see it works in terms of profit

In fairness to Satya Nadella, he gave Phil Spencer plenty of time, money and authority to turn Xbox round. But Phil failed and here we are.