I wonder what took them so long to make a response. The community was turning against them and they took an entire week to tell them that no, they do, in fact, want to keep making video game consoles.

Nothing announced in the video is ground-breaking, nor did it require so much time to prepare.

(Honestly, Pentiment and Hi-Fi Rush going multiplatform in place of Starfield is a huge win for PlayStation users lol)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The community was freaking the fuck out and it was seriously the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

People defending exclusives and berating MS for taking their games multiplatform, IGN claiming that Xbox was on fire and dying as a brand, people pissed that somehow Xbox was abandoning loyal fans...

The whole thing was so overblown.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The point is, Xbox is performing very badly, with the latest metrics suggesting not only that PS5 blew them out of the water, but also that XSeries is selling less than its predecessor. Coupled with rumors about exclusives going multiplatform, people feared that it meant that MS didn't have enough faith in the brand to keep going, and that Xbox would end like Windows Phone.

The concern was real and, in my opinion, perfectly justified. MS telling them to wait a week for an answer, without dismissing the rumors was the weird part. They saw the community on fire and said, "This is fine". All-around incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Except if anyone paid any attention to Microsoft over the last 5 years they'd already know that Microsoft don't want exclusives because they want to bring PC and Xbox together.

People need to stop being baited by shitty journalists. Grow a braincell or 2.

Edit: The braincell part not directed to the commenter above me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Those games are already available on PC, nobody was freaking out about that. People were wary of MS exclusives being ported to other console platforms.

Consoles live and die by exclusives. Porting those over suggests a lack of faith in the brand and would be like admitting defeat. It wasn't clickbait rage journos baiting people, it was people reading the room and realising that the Xbox brand wasn't as strong as they thought.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

I mean I guess? Exclusives are anti-consumer so I don't know why people defend them. Sounds cultish to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Isn't console speculation always kind of overblown?