@yofolkdem1256 the bulk of profit doesn't come from exclusives, they come from other purchases made on the platform. Exclusives are important however to keep people on the platform in the first place, it gives the platform bragging rights. This is why Playstation has so many users and Xbox doesn't, you can get everything on Xbox without having an xbox by going to PC. Even without those details, accepting what Phil said simply as a gamer is insane. He basically told you not to expect the highest quality and you were like " okay " 🤷♂️
@@yofolkdem1256also idk why you care about a corporations profit, the games is all that should matter to you. If Xbox gamers really cared about a businesses performance, they'd have realized by now that Gamepass is the reason Xbox is failing. How can you expect a business to flourish and simultaneously pay the least amount of money possible ? The narratives are so wishy washy with Xbox gamers.
They’ve never managed to top their 360 era, which is baffling. They have the resources and studios, it just seems like incompetence. Like how is 343 still allowed to run Halo through the earths surface, Gears is dead, Xbox’s major expensive acquisitions have amounted to nothing either. I’ve been waiting since the Xbox One first released for them to go back to pushing out solid games. With them being a strong competitor again to keep Sony from going full smoothbrain, but no. I’m still waiting, with only exclusive to come out thats I genuinely enjoyed being Sunset Overdrive and indies.
Microsoft as a whole is a poorly managed, bureaucratic nightmare. Seriously, what have they made other than Windows which hasn’t been a complete failure?
@@DoBap_ Things like the Zune bombing almost immediately decades ago and Xbox in semi-permament 3rd place since the early 2010s does point at Microsoft suffering from corporate bloat, but keep in mind Sony suffered from similar issues in the 90s too and Google is similarly creaking at seams. Late Stage Capitalism.
@@RickEYI other than it’s one successful product (Windows), of which it has a near monopoly over the market. Everything Microsoft does is complete garbage, because it’s a collective, soulless, bureaucratic nightmare. Xbox has had billions of dollars dumped on it off the back of Windows, and all they’ve produced is underwhelming garbage. That’s poor management.
Life lesson....Stop thinking major corporations are looking out for your best interest. Nobody with a working brain should have an emotional attachment to them
Since the inception of Xbox they wanted to acquire Nintendo and Sega just to compete with Sony. They never wanted to develop themselves, just throwing cash at it. The same mistake was repeated when they tried to buy Nintendo again.
Yes I accepted with no denial after May. Xbox doesnt has spark in their own uniqueness. If you play games you shouldn't be on Xbox as their mind is not on games its on making money with multiplatform releases. Do that but provide me with something unique and you didnt you failed. Just wrap it up and release that pc console or fail to PlayStation every time
@@VonDutchNLNo? Don’t get me wrong Sony fumbles a ton, but their situations are different. You might as well have said “Like Nintendo, you mean” cause it would have still not made sense.
@@VonDutchNLthe ps5 generation has been a bit slow yeah but they’re no where near how bad Xbox has been doing I still won’t forgive them for shutting down tango
@@richardquintero1980funny years ago people like you who are mocking the idea that Gamers would want to play big budget and professional titles on the go and that handhelds were a lesser form of system and thus would never compete as well against big boys like PlayStation 5.
@@richardquintero1980 perhaps but Switch is still doing amazing and its game sales are also up from last year. PS5 slightly ahead of where PS4 was at the same point it's cycle. Hell Divers 2 over 12 million sold in 2 months, Nintendo now with 7 Switch titles over 20 million sold (Inc Tears of the Kingdom from 2023), Elden Ring well over 1 billion dollars in sales, Hogwarts legacy over 1.2 bn. The point is, people are still buying games and consoles.
@@davidhujik3422 until they shatter their good will from the ps4 era by taking extremely stupid decisions such as the helldivers controversy that locked half of the world from playing the game, did the same things for all the games ported to pc, forcing censorship into games on their platforms like anime games or Stellar blade while Nintendo, the “platform for kids” allow devs to create the vision they wish to create (+ while allowing the uncensored craps from games like TLoU2 which everyone hated), and not to mention, NO GAMES ON THE PS5 which is a meme that’s still running strong years later. We’re literally almost half way through the generation and there’s only like 6 exclusives on the ps5 and a lot of them are being ported to PC. Adding to this, let’s not forget that they have the same type of mentality as Microsoft when it comes to producing the types of games (as well as forcing DEI into both their gamers and the dev teams). All the games that are exclusives are “story driven cinematic, third person games”. They saw the success of the original TLoU1 and decided to pull a Ubisoft move and make their games similar because “that’s what gamers want right?” Meanwhile there’s so much variety on the Switch. Might not be my type of games but I have more respect for a company that don’t take the most popular thing and runs with it while throwing everything else in the trash. Overall, the PS5 is also going through the same stage as XBOX and their next generation push is not looking good. Managed to trick gamers because of their goodwill from the ps4 era but won’t carry over to their next gen at this stage. Both Xbox and PS5 have no games that warrant spending hundreds of dollars and with their DEI philosophy which destroyed games like TLoU2, they’ve already lost a huge part of their audience. Nintendo and PC (steam deck) is where it’s at
@@dusermiginte4647 Xbox doesn't say how much profit they make lol just like they don't tell gamepass ultimate subs or console sales ..it's cause they all in the dirt
@@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701 if you grew up playing rare games from the nes to the GameCube you would understand what a let down the company has been since Microsoft took over.
@@sandman8920 Rares NES Games are Not that good Dude and during GameCube they we're bought by Microsoft. But I know by First Hand experience how AMAZING their SNES and N64 Games were/are
It's not just him, it's Microsoft pushing their "software as a service" model onto Xbox users. Peter Moore was peak Xbox(360) because he knew what gamers wanted, exclusives and great games. He was too late to turn SEGA around, but we saw what he could do when Xbox hired him in the 360 era. Microsoft just doesn't understand gamers, they rush to meet deadlines, patch everything day 1, think streaming is the future. (In america maybe, but the rest of the world will be left behind and thus will leave Xbox behind) It's sad because I've owned and enjoyed every console since generation 4 for different reasons, but this generation, neither PlayStation nor Xbox have any reason not to just own a PC and a last gen PS4 to get the same experience.
I don't think streaming is a big deal on America, cuz Xbox cannot win even at home. They lose in every country, even here in Brazil where we have a fair lower purchase power.
Xbox has been moving towards a digital/streaming future. They're going to leave the hardware market and license out their games (physical, digital, streaming) to its competition (PlayStation & Nintendo) as well as PC. Think about why they've been pushing so much for Game Pass.
To me, the very obvious signs that unlike the OG and 360 Days under Jay Allard that Xbox is like the rest of Microsoft with not knowing what the hell they're doing...was that one E3 where Phil Spencer was on stage in the introduces their first Japanese game and he described it and "fast pace, a little quirky but we hope you enjoy it." It was Dragonball FighterZ. Dragonball FUCKING FighterZ. If this was Nintendo or Sony this would have been a centerpiece of their showcase and they would have hyped it to the Moon and back realizing that they have basically what Marvel VS Capcom fans want, but with also a huge ass anime audience. Fact that Microsoft looked at this game and proceeded to basically shadow dropped it in their presentation as if it was some weird visual novel dating Sim boggles my mind and shows how out of touch they are with what a lot of Gamers are looking for, especially when it comes to Japanese games, which is why when they closed Hi-Fi rushed I wasn't surprised. Microsoft especially now only understands stereotypical dude bro PC market shit like the elder scrolls and starfield. They don't get awesome. Cool ass. Hilarious Japanese games or even their equivalent American counterparts Which is why ID @Xbox has always been fourth class when it came to indie games.
Having great hardware doesn't mean shit if you dont make software that takes advantage of the hardware. This is XBOX main problem. There making games run on anything possible due to game pass and still supporting the xbox one x. Tell me why would anyone pay 499$ for your shit box ?
I have a PC more powerful than a Series X but I'd prefer an xbox over a Playstation. I don't like Microsoft nor like their decisions. I think they're very stupid. But I'm one of those that don't care about exclusives, I care about convenience. I actually bought an xbox recently because I tired out both ps5 and series x. I just prefered the Xbox. It's all about preference really. It was way more convenient for me, and better deal. Does that answer your question?
I'm primarily a PC player but the Series X made more sense for me because I can play most of my existing Microsoft store library from the couch and play my old 360 and OG Xbox games at much higher resolutions and at 60FPS in a lot of cases. It also replaces my Roku and 4K Blu Ray player.
unbelievable at this point that there are still xbots around who admire phil and his MS-Shitshow. xbox is down but they will also harm a lot of the gaming space for all of us
The mistake here is believing that Phil Spencer was on the side of gamers. It's always been about Microsoft and its shareholders, thinking otherwise was foolhardy.
Stop treating M$ like an innocent person. Its laughable. Remember when major nalson said it was terribly complicated to remove DRM on an auto-updating console. They are a ruthless money hungry company that got into the console market at the dawn of streaming tv replacing cable tv and Web TV had failed. When you look at he life of the xbox as a very expensive effort to make you pay for everything you do with tv.. everything becomes obvious. The 4 billion loss on the OG box scrambling to build an 'Under your TV' brand people would buy into. The 360 refund policy... The XBone TV TV TV disaster. Locking TH-cam Netflix behind XBLive Gold. I could go on and on and on... Ordering pizza though your xbox using your phone.. fsr..... lol. remember that?
First Mattrick with the Xbox One now Phil Spencer with the Series X/S. When will Microsoft stop hiring incompetent employees and set the Xbox ship on the right path?
It’s interesting hearing someone talking about PlayStations 5’s focus on exclusive games when one the common complaints about PlayStation is how few exclusives the ps5 has… I mean, it’s probably more than Xbox, but it still ain’t that many
Growing up in the 90's, It really did feel like the future of gaming was going to be awesome. It wasn't only about graphics. It was physics effects, art styles, a range of gameplay modes, gameplay mechanics, damage effects, environmental interaction, engaging AI to play against in single player mode, CPU bots in offline modes, just good AI in games campaigns. Current video games focus on graphical nitpicking. It seems they forgot how much players enjoyed physics effects & other aspects that make games fun. Quirky graphics can work, if a creative art style is used. Add engaging CPU AI, gameplay modes, the list goes on.. idk what happened? Also: {We have seen that even if companies delay games, it isn't improving the quality of games being released. Which is a sign there is a MUCH DEEPER issue going on with modern games. No excuses, devs used to make great games with much less and they would have given anything to have certain capabilities to utilize that are available today. It just takes actual passion, focus & talent to make great games. Sidenote: It's so crazy how many people are still supporting super mega rich companies putting out unacceptable products.. i don't understand certain people. I don't understand how certain companies can be messing up so badly. It's frustrating that other passionate people are not allowed to make a version of a type of game that we used to have but no longer get anymore.. Yet these huge companies get full control over if an unused game IP gets made & they do everything they can so no other versions of a game idea will ever come out. Even if there's a huge fan base around certain ideas and there's a ton of passionate devs out there dying to make a version of a certain video game idea.. that frustrates me beyond belief}
WHY IS IT THAT NOBODY SEE THE STRUGGLING WITH PLAYSTATION??? Its ridiculous that not talking about all the red flags of Playstation doing now. We keep talking about Xbox/Microsoft that has a swimmingpool with money.
As soon as Microsoft felt like they were in the ditch 2 weeks ago they single handaly come back from the grave by showing more exclusive games for the Xbox then Sony has for the ps5
I feel sorry for Phil. I think he's a good, earnest guy trapped in a soulless company. It wasn't his decision to pull the rug out from under the acquired studios, in service of Microsoft stockholders, rather than Xbox or its users.
@@vornamenachname5589 actually, he did not have any say this. These decisions came from above him. The fact is, Microsoft as a company favors the investors more than the gamers that actually buy their systems and games. Not understanding that without those gamers, there’s no system or games. It’s backwards ass thinking. Phil has to answer to the people above him, and the people above him want more movement and more profits. They spent a lot of money acquiring all of these studios and financially, they have little to show for it. You can understand it from a business perspective. Here’s the thing, though… I think too much focus has been put on GamePass and the acquisition of all of the studios to support it. Instead of putting the focus where it should have been in the first place… making great games that make gamers want to buy the system in the first place. As many others have said, system is only as good as the games that support it. We are at 3 1/2 years of this system being out and Hellblade 2 is the first game to show us visually what can be done with the system, if they focus on making a game that takes full advantage of it. The problem with that game is the fact that it’s essentially a graphics showcase and little else. The gameplay is repetitive and on rails. It’s not a bad game per se, it’s just not what Xbox gamer want. We won a first party game that not only takes full advantage of the system, but is also fun to play. Something revolutionary that couldn’t have been done on last generation systems. I understand that this generation started during a pandemic and a worldwide fiasco as far as shipping was concerned. So there’s extenuating circumstances. But, it didn’t stop game development and after many of these games started being worked on and 2018, 2019… We still have very little to show for them. We still haven’t seen much of anything of the Rare game, which showed promise. Fable seems to be experiencing some difficulties in development as we’ve seen very little of it. Hopefully we’ll see more on June 9. Perfect Dark has been radio silent. It just seems like Xbox was focusing on putting the cart before the horse with game pass. Because, again… Without games showcasing why people should be buying the system, why should they buy the system? While Game Pass is a great deal, it means nothing without high-quality games to make people want to sign up to it. Instead of Microsoft buying all of these developers, why not put those billions of dollars towards building high-quality AAA games that match or exceeded Sony’s first party offerings? Again, Microsoft, not realizing that if they make those games that people want to play that showcase the system… They are not only going to sell more systems, they are going to sell more Game Pass subscriptions. They truly seem to be cock blocking themselves. The latest decisions came down from corporate. I do see Phil as responsible for the decision to focus on AA quality games, instead of AAA quality games. As a gamer himself, he knows that it’s Sony‘s great first party games that sell those systems. Yet, for whatever reason he can’t get it through his head that if they don’t do the same… They are never going to sell more systems or Game Pass subscriptions. They can put out all of the AA quality games they want… but ultimately they’re only delaying their untimely death. because gamers are ultimately going to either buy a PC and be done with it or buy a PlayStation. Because they know when they do, they are going to be able to play the games that they want to play. And I’m sure many Xbox gamers don’t want to do that or can’t afford to go to the PC route. But until Microsoft finally gets it, what’s their choice?
Xbox ran their gaming company like a true American born corporation. They came in swinging their massive "D" and told everyone there was a new boss in town and that nothing can stop their stride. Hubris at its best. Their loyal fans never deserved any of this, and I feel bad for them being lied to year after year and yet somehow some still stayed loyal. At this point, if you're still drinking the Kinect Kool-Aid, thats on you. No corporation is perfect, and they all make dumb and sometimes massive mistakes, that includes Sony and Nintendo. But what those companies have also done is spent decades organically growing their brand and not expecting overnight success like Microsoft.
"Making sure to dress in jeans and a t-shirt to show that he was one of us." The fact that people fall for this crap is amazing. It's like how Mike Rowe suddenly became a "blue-collar expert", simply because he cosplayed as a blue-collar worker on his show Dirty Jobs.
the major problem with the backwards compatibility is they focused on that for years rather then games and if it wasn't that it was the new controller of the week
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Microsoft is so stupid. 1. They let Bungie go independent, if anything they should have supported them with their Destiny IP, that could have been a Microsoft IP used to pull people into Xbox, but it being multiplatform and Sony having PS exclusives really disuaded people from the Xbox brand. 2. Xbox One releveal was really disheartnening and Don Matrick killing the Xbox brand before its release. 3. Microsoft's lack of focus of growing IP, they have a ton of unique IP but not growing it, they cull it before reaching its potential. eg) Recore, Sunset Overdrive, Hi-Fi Rush, etc. Sony doing the same with Gravity Rush. It takes time and effort to build a franchise from scratch. A lot of investment and good direction is required. Tehn like a plant it has to be carefuly tended to.
It just feels like you're making a case in the favor of console/platform exclusivity. Consoles are dying out, because the PC is the superior machine and gaming platform by not even close.
I’ve given up on the new systems. I’m currently playing my snes and megadrive. My n64 won’t work so I’m fixing that too. I can’t see my getting a modern system apart from whatever Nintendo reveals. Everything is just wrong now the games are rubbish. Pandering to the so called modern audience has ruined gaming
i think it’s time to get rid of phil, game pass is going everywhere and it’s destroying the brand. we’re also seriously lacking in any good new xbox exclusives for this generation. the series x is one hell of a console but we have no good exclusives that truly demonstrate its capabilities. there’s little drive to buy an xbox console, and you’re right. if the brand goes console-less the sense of community won’t really be there anymore. xbox hasn’t been the same since the 360 days where they churned a game out every month or so, constant new releases. exclusive after exclusive. we need that back, that’s what made xbox be xbox.
Imho Xbox putting their exclusives on other platforms (PlayStation and Switch) takes away the incentive to buy the console. I would rather they have exclusives than not, because without exclusives, who would be incentivized to buy it? From my viewpoint, it seems as though Xbox is moving away from consoles, despite what they’ve said about making a next-gen console.
The Kinnect might have actually been way more accepted and successful if the tracking wasn't so terrible, but the final version of that product was severely downgraded from its initial design and concept.
i know you probably didnt mean this, but at 10:10 you say that games like starfield were not exclusive and then proceed to say some games have gone to Playstation, which is not the case of starfield. so it kinda hard to follow.
Not really.... the real reason is the shift towards Gamepass. - Gamepass shifts consumer behaviour towards a game rental model over ownership. It also does not do developers any favours, a new AAA game releasing on Gamepass misses out on the typical new release sales spikes. Its essentially equivocal to a 10 year old indie game on a budget of 0. - Xbox bringing games to pc also means it devalued and dilutes the platform. No need to own it anymore - the Activision acquisition was the last straw. Spencer likely believed it would be an unconsequential purchase. But either he forgot microsoft is a business or he lied. The former is honestly more likely. He didn't understand that Microsoft would be expecting a huge return to make up for this acquisition
Naw. You can thank Don Mattrick for that. Phil at least dug the ship out of the wreckage and put it in a better direction. At this point in this generation, both sony and Microsoft arent doing so well.
1. Save Xbox. Kill GamePass (which Microsoft will not do) OR 2. Break Xbox away from MS to be a 100% independent separate company. ($100 billion provisions) MS can keep its Gamepass and go full 3rd party.
Xbox makes as much as Windows now, how is that ruining anything? Xbox has so many successful games and their ecosystem is amazing. Every company goes through ups and downs but it's always doom and gloom when it comes to Xbox. Hence the Xbox Tax narrative. Xbox has a massive ecosystem and consoles sales don't mean that much at all now. It's about the MAUs and bottom-line which Xbox is killing it in that department. Phil actually saved Xbox after the Xbox One launch. Xbox is in a phenomenal place right now, I don't understand the naysayers.
LOL... You live in a dream !! "so many successful games"...could you give us a few please ?? XBox is still alive thanks to MS because it's far away to be profitable. They lost 70 dollars for each Series X sold (A Greenberg) and GP should have to reach 100-110 millions subscribers before to become profitable (Bloomberg)...
@@Khrist75 GamePass alone makes a quarter billion a month. COD alone will make more than most single player games. Consoles do not make the money anymore, service, software and microtransactions do. Look at Warzone, it's free.
@@deiradinn Do you know what is a financial result ?? gain, loss, ... it speaks to you ?? If you earn 250 millions dollars and spend 300 millions for it , is it a balanced business for you ??
My gaming days started with Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Consoles was in central europe too expensive and single purpose in that time. Then I was PC gamer back in days of first 3D games, first 3D accelerators and RTS, but it starts to cost too much in new millenium. So after some hiatus i bought Wii and it was a big fresh change for me and introduced my now wife in to gaming. I still own and occasionally play on same Wii, those games are still great, but yet again, i want something new, something HD. So i bought Xbox Series S in 2021 with game pass ultimate for 3 years (conversion trick). Now i am hoping that there will be handheld variant of Series S with all backwards compatibility as Series S have.. Not everybody have (or willing to spend) big money, so i am really happy that Series S exist. But i understand, why "hard core" gamers want more powerfull console and why ecosystem needs exclusive titles. I hope that the xbox will continue to live and the future S will stand for "Switch" (if you know what I mean). P.S.: the only thing I'm not used to is the FPS on the controller, I still need a keyboard and mouse for that. P.P.S.: in practice, neither cloud gaming nor remote play worked for me, despite the fact that I have fast optical internet available, both are full of glitches. I don't think it will ever fully replace local HW. But Game Pass is excellent for those who don't know what they want to play.
Phil is the one in charge of Xbox and u ppl forget that he reports to Satya his boss in Microsoft and if anyone he’s more blame than Phil, Phil is the scapegoat for Satya while he makes these “business” moves
Before your closer, you just answered I think everyone’s dilemma. It is fun to play games on your exclusive console, but when you make the games available to everyone else and leave your own console behind, it does open the door for others, but it closes the one that was open to those exclusively. And I agree if someone says just buy the system that plays everything which is true, but I think you lose something in doing that as part of the exclusivity. You lose that competition, that individuality of owning something unique. Idk the word for it but that atmosphere or community in time will be gone. Sad to say I think that’s the future where it’s just one console and one developer… to some extent
Microsoft can rise to the #1 spot in gaming (cloud, platform-agnostic, subscriptions) and still lose their core audience and identity because they are willing to decimate the community in favor of an omni-present apathetic gaming industry with no passion and certainly no loyalty. Then more and more people will start to realize that indie is the new gaming industry and AAA have abandoned us long ago.
As a Series X owner I disagree backwards compatibility is better than paying for switch online to access old Nintendo 1st party titles because they closed down the E shop. Gamepass allows us as consumers to try out the games before buying them in an era where video games since the 2010’s to present have been releasing at full price broken i can’t see how thats a problem. Also Xbox has dropped more 1st party games in the last few yrs than sony or Nintendo who are putting out more double A games than triple A games. If i can play more of sony’s and Nintendo’s 1st party games via emulation why would i invest in these other platforms so no i don’t think phil spencer or Xbox have let us down.
Sounds like your just paying to demo games and Xbox are double dipping on it's fans , you sound like the perfect consumer they want the ones willing to pay monthly and pay for the games they already have access to They laughing all the way to the bank , how about instead you tell them you ain't paying for gamepass and you want free demos of the games like we used to get Worst argument for gamepass you could have given
In xbox defence, the ps5 isnt worthy buying either. No games and those few that exist are also on ps4 and pc. In this gen the only thing u need is a pc and a Switch
You do realize that a lot of the PS games are now available on PC. So how is Sony making PS exclusivity truly exclusives? after all, why would I buy a PS shi#box when a PC spec dominates and can play most of the PS games? It's all chaos ppl........just buy a PC!!! consoles are going the way of the dodo bird!! Sony has hacking issues so I would never even plug in a toaster with a Sony logo on it.
I whould recommend microsoft splits under the "Microsoft Gaming" Umbrella, Bethesda, Activion / Blizzard and Xbox as seperated identities. Make Bethesda and Activision / Blizzard multiplatm and XBOX esclusive to XBOX without PC. Rename Xbox Game Pass to Microsoft Game Pass and make the Xbox Devision totally focus on the Xbox as Console, not as Service and bring the best Game experience on it with Halo, Gears of War, Forza, Forza Horizon, Avowed, State of Decay, Psychonauts, Lost Odyssey 2 and and and
I love the Xbox Series X hardware and the backwards compatibility program (I already own a ton of compatible Xbox and Xbox 360 games) and it went a long way towards driving my decision to go with Xbox again after switching to PS4 and PC last gen, but A few things... A. Microsoft has horribly mismanaged all of their exclusive IP that made the OG Xbox and the 360 so great. They did absolutely nothing with all of the Rareware games, let Fable die on the vine until recently and botched a lot of the Halo games after Bungie spun off. Halo Infinite is a pretty fun game now but it's inexcusable how long it was horribly broken. They lack exclusive single player story games and they have the IP in their catalog to make it happen if they had competent people running the show. Instead, they seem to be putting out a few half baked releases that are behind schedule and then they close studios. B. The name of the consoles is terrible. Just call it Xbox 4 and 4 Elite. Nobody cares that it's Xbox 4 vs PS5 or they could have pulled a Windows 10 and skipped a number for all I care if they were that concerned about version number optics. C. Put a disk drive on the cheaper console and increase the price by the extra $20 that costs. Being able to buy cheap used games and play my old stuff at much higher resolution is a huge value add that saves a lot of money over the life of the system. In my mind, the Series S is worthless compared to the Series X for this fact alone. You'll make up that $150 in game savings in short order and you get a more powerful console to boot if you go with the Series X.
Xbox has a Microsoft problem. But to us, the gamers who were cheering for Phil and Co - they now seem inept and defeated...because Microsoft, as is now 'customary' - have decided to get too involved in their gaming department...with their sole aim being to make as much bank as possible. A very business-like approach has taken over at Xbox...and a gamer-first approach has taken the backseat. While I can't fault a business in its pursuit to make money, I fee that - Ms being so rich - could have watched Xbox from a 'safe' distance to get their thing going, and only move in when things go too far. Maybe it wouldn't have been instantly successful...but I believe it would have picked up - especially with the rapport Phil and Co had established with us. Microsoft have their hands a little too far up Phil's rear end, puppeteering him and Co to make some of this gen's puzzling decisions that run counter to the Xbox they were when the gen began. They are now unrecognisable and easy to dislike and mistrust. Microsoft has always treated xbox as their 'hustle on the side'...and it shows that they are just moonlighting in the games industry...not here to stay. At least ALL indications lead most of us who like/d xbox to think that way. In stark contrast, their Japanese competition seem to really give a SH!T about Playstation.
I sold my xbox and I feel free freeeeeee wooo go ahead phil sink the company it doesn't bother me anymore ive broken the xbox shackles of oppression and I'm freeeeeee
Idk yall xbox fans gad any trust in Microsoft. When they wanted thr xbox always online snd make ot more of a video box that should of been the cue to jump ship. They only cared about money not the art of video games. It was obvious to me over ten years ago!
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I gave up when Phil said that making great games wouldn't 'move the needle'.
I thought he was just saying that to facilitate the Activision-Blizzard purchase: if he really meant it, he should have been removed.
If the opposite was true, PlayStation would be increasing profit not losing it.
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@yofolkdem1256 the bulk of profit doesn't come from exclusives, they come from other purchases made on the platform. Exclusives are important however to keep people on the platform in the first place, it gives the platform bragging rights.
This is why Playstation has so many users and Xbox doesn't, you can get everything on Xbox without having an xbox by going to PC.
Even without those details, accepting what Phil said simply as a gamer is insane. He basically told you not to expect the highest quality and you were like " okay " 🤷♂️
@@yofolkdem1256also idk why you care about a corporations profit, the games is all that should matter to you. If Xbox gamers really cared about a businesses performance, they'd have realized by now that Gamepass is the reason Xbox is failing. How can you expect a business to flourish and simultaneously pay the least amount of money possible ? The narratives are so wishy washy with Xbox gamers.
They’ve never managed to top their 360 era, which is baffling. They have the resources and studios, it just seems like incompetence. Like how is 343 still allowed to run Halo through the earths surface, Gears is dead, Xbox’s major expensive acquisitions have amounted to nothing either. I’ve been waiting since the Xbox One first released for them to go back to pushing out solid games. With them being a strong competitor again to keep Sony from going full smoothbrain, but no. I’m still waiting, with only exclusive to come out thats I genuinely enjoyed being Sunset Overdrive and indies.
Gears 4 & 5 did a brisk enough trade and Gears 6 is on the near horizon (not to everyone's taste but far from dead).
Microsoft as a whole is a poorly managed, bureaucratic nightmare. Seriously, what have they made other than Windows which hasn’t been a complete failure?
@@DoBap_ Things like the Zune bombing almost immediately decades ago and Xbox in semi-permament 3rd place since the early 2010s does point at Microsoft suffering from corporate bloat, but keep in mind Sony suffered from similar issues in the 90s too and Google is similarly creaking at seams. Late Stage Capitalism.
@@DoBap_ the most valuable company in the world is poorly managed, you can't make this shit up.
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@@RickEYI other than it’s one successful product (Windows), of which it has a near monopoly over the market. Everything Microsoft does is complete garbage, because it’s a collective, soulless, bureaucratic nightmare.
Xbox has had billions of dollars dumped on it off the back of Windows, and all they’ve produced is underwhelming garbage. That’s poor management.
what's funnier is they bought the company that asked " do you guys not have phones?"
Life lesson....Stop thinking major corporations are looking out for your best interest. Nobody with a working brain should have an emotional attachment to them
Xbox killed Rewards so yes that'd apply here. Too good of a deal so they cut the only benefit to them
Since the inception of Xbox they wanted to acquire Nintendo and Sega just to compete with Sony. They never wanted to develop themselves, just throwing cash at it.
The same mistake was repeated when they tried to buy Nintendo again.
This is Microsoft's culture.
Yes I accepted with no denial after May. Xbox doesnt has spark in their own uniqueness. If you play games you shouldn't be on Xbox as their mind is not on games its on making money with multiplatform releases. Do that but provide me with something unique and you didnt you failed. Just wrap it up and release that pc console or fail to PlayStation every time
It’s time to stop worrying about Xbox and move on. They’ve ruined everything.
Like PlayStation you mean
@@VonDutchNLNo? Don’t get me wrong Sony fumbles a ton, but their situations are different. You might as well have said “Like Nintendo, you mean” cause it would have still not made sense.
@@r.e.z9428 Sony with Jim Ryan is/was the worst generation ever.
@@r.e.z9428 But seems like you're just a Pony
@@VonDutchNLthe ps5 generation has been a bit slow yeah but they’re no where near how bad Xbox has been doing I still won’t forgive them for shutting down tango
When Bond said the game industry is 'flat' it was simply a lie. Nintendo up 10% rev year on year. Switch still shifting 16m units in 7th year.
Nintendo switch a exception it is as much a handheld has a home console that's a big advantage
@@richardquintero1980funny years ago people like you who are mocking the idea that Gamers would want to play big budget and professional titles on the go and that handhelds were a lesser form of system and thus would never compete as well against big boys like PlayStation 5.
@@richardquintero1980 perhaps but Switch is still doing amazing and its game sales are also up from last year. PS5 slightly ahead of where PS4 was at the same point it's cycle. Hell Divers 2 over 12 million sold in 2 months, Nintendo now with 7 Switch titles over 20 million sold (Inc Tears of the Kingdom from 2023), Elden Ring well over 1 billion dollars in sales, Hogwarts legacy over 1.2 bn. The point is, people are still buying games and consoles.
PlayStation makes money on consoles now to. Both Nintendo and PlayStation show they are very much a business but they bring out games we love.
@@davidhujik3422 until they shatter their good will from the ps4 era by taking extremely stupid decisions such as the helldivers controversy that locked half of the world from playing the game, did the same things for all the games ported to pc, forcing censorship into games on their platforms like anime games or Stellar blade while Nintendo, the “platform for kids” allow devs to create the vision they wish to create (+ while allowing the uncensored craps from games like TLoU2 which everyone hated), and not to mention, NO GAMES ON THE PS5 which is a meme that’s still running strong years later. We’re literally almost half way through the generation and there’s only like 6 exclusives on the ps5 and a lot of them are being ported to PC. Adding to this, let’s not forget that they have the same type of mentality as Microsoft when it comes to producing the types of games (as well as forcing DEI into both their gamers and the dev teams). All the games that are exclusives are “story driven cinematic, third person games”. They saw the success of the original TLoU1 and decided to pull a Ubisoft move and make their games similar because “that’s what gamers want right?” Meanwhile there’s so much variety on the Switch. Might not be my type of games but I have more respect for a company that don’t take the most popular thing and runs with it while throwing everything else in the trash.
Overall, the PS5 is also going through the same stage as XBOX and their next generation push is not looking good. Managed to trick gamers because of their goodwill from the ps4 era but won’t carry over to their next gen at this stage. Both Xbox and PS5 have no games that warrant spending hundreds of dollars and with their DEI philosophy which destroyed games like TLoU2, they’ve already lost a huge part of their audience. Nintendo and PC (steam deck) is where it’s at
Xbox has been dying a slow death for over a decade and the mainstream is finally starting to see that
Hmmm is that why Xbox makes more revenue and ALOT more profit than playstation?
@@dusermiginte4647 Xbox doesn't say how much profit they make lol just like they don't tell gamepass ultimate subs or console sales ..it's cause they all in the dirt
@@spectrexr1 they do say though..
I refuse to support gamepass. Also rare is useless compared to the glory days with Nintendo
I don't support gamepass or ps now while both are great for consumers it's bad for game developers.
Rare is NOT useless... Just different
@@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701 uselessly different lol
@@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701 if you grew up playing rare games from the nes to the GameCube you would understand what a let down the company has been since Microsoft took over.
@@sandman8920 Rares NES Games are Not that good Dude and during GameCube they we're bought by Microsoft.
But I know by First Hand experience how AMAZING their SNES and N64 Games were/are
It's not just him, it's Microsoft pushing their "software as a service" model onto Xbox users.
Peter Moore was peak Xbox(360) because he knew what gamers wanted, exclusives and great games. He was too late to turn SEGA around, but we saw what he could do when Xbox hired him in the 360 era.
Microsoft just doesn't understand gamers, they rush to meet deadlines, patch everything day 1, think streaming is the future. (In america maybe, but the rest of the world will be left behind and thus will leave Xbox behind)
It's sad because I've owned and enjoyed every console since generation 4 for different reasons, but this generation, neither PlayStation nor Xbox have any reason not to just own a PC and a last gen PS4 to get the same experience.
I don't think streaming is a big deal on America, cuz Xbox cannot win even at home. They lose in every country, even here in Brazil where we have a fair lower purchase power.
I think Phil started with good intentions but he has clearly been corrupted as a Microsoft Board Member.
He is a board member? Since when?
Lol no
@@oo--7714, well, that's what Saigon is implying.
Xbox has been moving towards a digital/streaming future. They're going to leave the hardware market and license out their games (physical, digital, streaming) to its competition (PlayStation & Nintendo) as well as PC. Think about why they've been pushing so much for Game Pass.
They peaked with the 360 and haven't done anything since. Literally. We've clearly all moved on, based on their sales.
I love how Fail Spencer is radio silent ever since these studio shutdown... Guy's body is probably floating somewhere and no one can find him
Hahahah best comment 😂
Well I suppose its not his job anymore. Sarah Bond was his replacement, after he got promoted.
In 2023, there was still hope. In 2024, I abandoned the Xbox. No more Microsoft and Xbox.
Lok, yeah right, thats bs poony.
Why
To me, the very obvious signs that unlike the OG and 360 Days under Jay Allard that Xbox is like the rest of Microsoft with not knowing what the hell they're doing...was that one E3 where Phil Spencer was on stage in the introduces their first Japanese game and he described it and "fast pace, a little quirky but we hope you enjoy it." It was Dragonball FighterZ. Dragonball FUCKING FighterZ. If this was Nintendo or Sony this would have been a centerpiece of their showcase and they would have hyped it to the Moon and back realizing that they have basically what Marvel VS Capcom fans want, but with also a huge ass anime audience. Fact that Microsoft looked at this game and proceeded to basically shadow dropped it in their presentation as if it was some weird visual novel dating Sim boggles my mind and shows how out of touch they are with what a lot of Gamers are looking for, especially when it comes to Japanese games, which is why when they closed Hi-Fi rushed I wasn't surprised. Microsoft especially now only understands stereotypical dude bro PC market shit like the elder scrolls and starfield. They don't get awesome. Cool ass. Hilarious Japanese games or even their equivalent American counterparts Which is why ID @Xbox has always been fourth class when it came to indie games.
Elder Scrolls is not shit...
Having great hardware doesn't mean shit if you dont make software that takes advantage of the hardware. This is XBOX main problem. There making games run on anything possible due to game pass and still supporting the xbox one x. Tell me why would anyone pay 499$ for your shit box ?
I have a PC more powerful than a Series X but I'd prefer an xbox over a Playstation. I don't like Microsoft nor like their decisions. I think they're very stupid. But I'm one of those that don't care about exclusives, I care about convenience. I actually bought an xbox recently because I tired out both ps5 and series x. I just prefered the Xbox. It's all about preference really. It was way more convenient for me, and better deal. Does that answer your question?
I'm primarily a PC player but the Series X made more sense for me because I can play most of my existing Microsoft store library from the couch and play my old 360 and OG Xbox games at much higher resolutions and at 60FPS in a lot of cases. It also replaces my Roku and 4K Blu Ray player.
unbelievable at this point that there are still xbots around who admire phil and his MS-Shitshow. xbox is down but they will also harm a lot of the gaming space for all of us
The mistake here is believing that Phil Spencer was on the side of gamers. It's always been about Microsoft and its shareholders, thinking otherwise was foolhardy.
Stop treating M$ like an innocent person. Its laughable.
Remember when major nalson said it was terribly complicated to remove DRM on an auto-updating console.
They are a ruthless money hungry company that got into the console market at the dawn of streaming tv replacing cable tv and Web TV had failed.
When you look at he life of the xbox as a very expensive effort to make you pay for everything you do with tv.. everything becomes obvious.
The 4 billion loss on the OG box scrambling to build an 'Under your TV' brand people would buy into.
The 360 refund policy...
The XBone TV TV TV disaster.
Locking TH-cam Netflix behind XBLive Gold.
I could go on and on and on...
Ordering pizza though your xbox using your phone.. fsr..... lol. remember that?
So true!
Yep too many people forgot all kinds of shady things M$ tried for Xbox's growth. Never forget M$'s EEE motto Embrace, extend, and extinguish.
I switched to PS this new Gen cause last gen XB was terrible. The exclusives are more appealing to me on PS than XB atm
So many great games on PS4 and PS5 you just missed out on PS4 because you were hopeful to Xbox.
Tbf. Could always go back and play them. Most ps5 games are on ps4 too
You chose terrible
@@dusermiginte4647 we chose correctly
@@davidhujik3422 yeah because only one first party exclusive last year and zero first party exclusives this year is "correctly".... Good for you. 😂
Half this Video is about End of 360 era to X1 reveal... *Why though!?*
This Topic has been BEATEN to Death multiple Times!
First Mattrick with the Xbox One now Phil Spencer with the Series X/S. When will Microsoft stop hiring incompetent employees and set the Xbox ship on the right path?
It’s interesting hearing someone talking about PlayStations 5’s focus on exclusive games when one the common complaints about PlayStation is how few exclusives the ps5 has… I mean, it’s probably more than Xbox, but it still ain’t that many
Growing up in the 90's, It really did feel like the future of gaming was going to be awesome. It wasn't only about graphics. It was physics effects, art styles, a range of gameplay modes, gameplay mechanics, damage effects, environmental interaction, engaging AI to play against in single player mode, CPU bots in offline modes, just good AI in games campaigns. Current video games focus on graphical nitpicking. It seems they forgot how much players enjoyed physics effects & other aspects that make games fun. Quirky graphics can work, if a creative art style is used. Add engaging CPU AI, gameplay modes, the list goes on.. idk what happened?
Also:
{We have seen that even if companies delay games, it isn't improving the quality of games being released. Which is a sign there is a MUCH DEEPER issue going on with modern games. No excuses, devs used to make great games with much less and they would have given anything to have certain capabilities to utilize that are available today. It just takes actual passion, focus & talent to make great games. Sidenote: It's so crazy how many people are still supporting super mega rich companies putting out unacceptable products.. i don't understand certain people. I don't understand how certain companies can be messing up so badly. It's frustrating that other passionate people are not allowed to make a version of a type of game that we used to have but no longer get anymore.. Yet these huge companies get full control over if an unused game IP gets made & they do everything they can so no other versions of a game idea will ever come out. Even if there's a huge fan base around certain ideas and there's a ton of passionate devs out there dying to make a version of a certain video game idea.. that frustrates me beyond belief}
Don was responsible for Xbox 1 launching with more exclusives than PS4, not Phil.
WHY IS IT THAT NOBODY SEE THE STRUGGLING WITH PLAYSTATION???
Its ridiculous that not talking about all the red flags of Playstation doing now. We keep talking about Xbox/Microsoft that has a swimmingpool with money.
Exactly.
As soon as Microsoft felt like they were in the ditch 2 weeks ago they single handaly come back from the grave by showing more exclusive games for the Xbox then Sony has for the ps5
I don't think that this is a Phil Spencer issue, I think this is a Microsoft issue.
I feel sorry for Phil. I think he's a good, earnest guy trapped in a soulless company. It wasn't his decision to pull the rug out from under the acquired studios, in service of Microsoft stockholders, rather than Xbox or its users.
Oh yes, he is only head of xbox. He had no say in this matter for sure.
@@vornamenachname5589 actually, he did not have any say this. These decisions came from above him. The fact is, Microsoft as a company favors the investors more than the gamers that actually buy their systems and games. Not understanding that without those gamers, there’s no system or games. It’s backwards ass thinking. Phil has to answer to the people above him, and the people above him want more movement and more profits. They spent a lot of money acquiring all of these studios and financially, they have little to show for it.
You can understand it from a business perspective. Here’s the thing, though… I think too much focus has been put on GamePass and the acquisition of all of the studios to support it. Instead of putting the focus where it should have been in the first place… making great games that make gamers want to buy the system in the first place. As many others have said, system is only as good as the games that support it. We are at 3 1/2 years of this system being out and Hellblade 2 is the first game to show us visually what can be done with the system, if they focus on making a game that takes full advantage of it.
The problem with that game is the fact that it’s essentially a graphics showcase and little else. The gameplay is repetitive and on rails. It’s not a bad game per se, it’s just not what Xbox gamer want. We won a first party game that not only takes full advantage of the system, but is also fun to play. Something revolutionary that couldn’t have been done on last generation systems. I understand that this generation started during a pandemic and a worldwide fiasco as far as shipping was concerned. So there’s extenuating circumstances. But, it didn’t stop game development and after many of these games started being worked on and 2018, 2019… We still have very little to show for them.
We still haven’t seen much of anything of the Rare game, which showed promise. Fable seems to be experiencing some difficulties in development as we’ve seen very little of it. Hopefully we’ll see more on June 9. Perfect Dark has been radio silent. It just seems like Xbox was focusing on putting the cart before the horse with game pass. Because, again… Without games showcasing why people should be buying the system, why should they buy the system? While Game Pass is a great deal, it means nothing without high-quality games to make people want to sign up to it.
Instead of Microsoft buying all of these developers, why not put those billions of dollars towards building high-quality AAA games that match or exceeded Sony’s first party offerings? Again, Microsoft, not realizing that if they make those games that people want to play that showcase the system… They are not only going to sell more systems, they are going to sell more Game Pass subscriptions. They truly seem to be cock blocking themselves. The latest decisions came down from corporate. I do see Phil as responsible for the decision to focus on AA quality games, instead of AAA quality games.
As a gamer himself, he knows that it’s Sony‘s great first party games that sell those systems. Yet, for whatever reason he can’t get it through his head that if they don’t do the same… They are never going to sell more systems or Game Pass subscriptions. They can put out all of the AA quality games they want… but ultimately they’re only delaying their untimely death. because gamers are ultimately going to either buy a PC and be done with it or buy a PlayStation. Because they know when they do, they are going to be able to play the games that they want to play. And I’m sure many Xbox gamers don’t want to do that or can’t afford to go to the PC route. But until Microsoft finally gets it, what’s their choice?
Xbox ran their gaming company like a true American born corporation. They came in swinging their massive "D" and told everyone there was a new boss in town and that nothing can stop their stride. Hubris at its best. Their loyal fans never deserved any of this, and I feel bad for them being lied to year after year and yet somehow some still stayed loyal. At this point, if you're still drinking the Kinect Kool-Aid, thats on you.
No corporation is perfect, and they all make dumb and sometimes massive mistakes, that includes Sony and Nintendo. But what those companies have also done is spent decades organically growing their brand and not expecting overnight success like Microsoft.
This man literally ruin the entire new generation of console and gpu’s. Everybody playing with new gen hardware with last gen graphics thanks Phil
This aged well
Spencer and nadella destroyed xbox. I like the xbox. Sad
Lol, look again...
I helped to ruin gaming by buying an Xbox..
then they brought the current lady president who gives word salads when pointed out on her failures LOL
Xbox has had a MS problem since near the beginning that's only gotten worse.
Just bought a pc with a i9 rtx4090 and called it a day consoles are done
Most of the people who buy consoles are casuals who don't care about PC or specs and only want something to plug & play.
It's a real shame...
"Making sure to dress in jeans and a t-shirt to show that he was one of us." The fact that people fall for this crap is amazing. It's like how Mike Rowe suddenly became a "blue-collar expert", simply because he cosplayed as a blue-collar worker on his show Dirty Jobs.
Least we got our xbox 360s if they didnt catch a case of red ring of death
So pretty much if your Xbox 360 was manufactured in like 2009 or later
the major problem with the backwards compatibility is they focused on that for years rather then games and if it wasn't that it was the new controller of the week
Phil Spencer Saved XBOX & The Entire Gaming Industry!!!!!
Man this is such a great discussion video, im suprised that not enough people subscribe to this channel. Looking forward to more video games discussion! Keep it up mate! 👍👌😉
Microsoft is so stupid.
1. They let Bungie go independent, if anything they should have supported them with their Destiny IP, that could have been a Microsoft IP used to pull people into Xbox, but it being multiplatform and Sony having PS exclusives really disuaded people from the Xbox brand.
2. Xbox One releveal was really disheartnening and Don Matrick killing the Xbox brand before its release.
3. Microsoft's lack of focus of growing IP, they have a ton of unique IP but not growing it, they cull it before reaching its potential. eg) Recore, Sunset Overdrive, Hi-Fi Rush, etc.
Sony doing the same with Gravity Rush. It takes time and effort to build a franchise from scratch. A lot of investment and good direction is required. Tehn like a plant it has to be carefuly tended to.
Bruh, Destiny 2 is dog shit and that's Bungie making the decisions.
Yeah, the biggest company on the planet is.......stupid.. 😂😂😂😂😂
Xbox: we’ll give you our exclusives.
PlayStation: WE AINT GIVING YOU JACK!!
13 views in 1 day. Bro fell off.
Subscribed anyway.
Me too. Great analysis
It just feels like you're making a case in the favor of console/platform exclusivity. Consoles are dying out, because the PC is the superior machine and gaming platform by not even close.
I’ve given up on the new systems. I’m currently playing my snes and megadrive. My n64 won’t work so I’m fixing that too. I can’t see my getting a modern system apart from whatever Nintendo reveals. Everything is just wrong now the games are rubbish. Pandering to the so called modern audience has ruined gaming
i think it’s time to get rid of phil, game pass is going everywhere and it’s destroying the brand. we’re also seriously lacking in any good new xbox exclusives for this generation. the series x is one hell of a console but we have no good exclusives that truly demonstrate its capabilities. there’s little drive to buy an xbox console, and you’re right. if the brand goes console-less the sense of community won’t really be there anymore. xbox hasn’t been the same since the 360 days where they churned a game out every month or so, constant new releases. exclusive after exclusive. we need that back, that’s what made xbox be xbox.
Imho Xbox putting their exclusives on other platforms (PlayStation and Switch) takes away the incentive to buy the console. I would rather they have exclusives than not, because without exclusives, who would be incentivized to buy it? From my viewpoint, it seems as though Xbox is moving away from consoles, despite what they’ve said about making a next-gen console.
The Kinnect might have actually been way more accepted and successful if the tracking wasn't so terrible, but the final version of that product was severely downgraded from its initial design and concept.
i know you probably didnt mean this, but at 10:10 you say that games like starfield were not exclusive and then proceed to say some games have gone to Playstation, which is not the case of starfield. so it kinda hard to follow.
This started well before phil spencer
Not really.... the real reason is the shift towards Gamepass.
- Gamepass shifts consumer behaviour towards a game rental model over ownership.
It also does not do developers any favours, a new AAA game releasing on Gamepass misses out on the typical new release sales spikes. Its essentially equivocal to a 10 year old indie game on a budget of 0.
- Xbox bringing games to pc also means it devalued and dilutes the platform. No need to own it anymore
- the Activision acquisition was the last straw. Spencer likely believed it would be an unconsequential purchase. But either he forgot microsoft is a business or he lied. The former is honestly more likely. He didn't understand that Microsoft would be expecting a huge return to make up for this acquisition
Naw. You can thank Don Mattrick for that. Phil at least dug the ship out of the wreckage and put it in a better direction. At this point in this generation, both sony and Microsoft arent doing so well.
Excellent video. Well researched 😊
How is it all about the games when he had 4 different years w/o releasing a game 😂😂😂😂😂
Xbox was already ruined before he got there
Phil needs to go
1. Save Xbox. Kill GamePass (which Microsoft will not do)
OR
2. Break Xbox away from MS to be a 100% independent separate company.
($100 billion provisions) MS can keep its Gamepass and go full 3rd party.
Its not Phil's fault its mostly Microsoft preventing Xbox from doing their own thing its basically a civil war over there
Xbox makes as much as Windows now, how is that ruining anything? Xbox has so many successful games and their ecosystem is amazing. Every company goes through ups and downs but it's always doom and gloom when it comes to Xbox. Hence the Xbox Tax narrative. Xbox has a massive ecosystem and consoles sales don't mean that much at all now. It's about the MAUs and bottom-line which Xbox is killing it in that department. Phil actually saved Xbox after the Xbox One launch. Xbox is in a phenomenal place right now, I don't understand the naysayers.
LOL... You live in a dream !! "so many successful games"...could you give us a few please ?? XBox is still alive thanks to MS because it's far away to be profitable. They lost 70 dollars for each Series X sold (A Greenberg) and GP should have to reach 100-110 millions subscribers before to become profitable (Bloomberg)...
@@Khrist75 GamePass alone makes a quarter billion a month. COD alone will make more than most single player games. Consoles do not make the money anymore, service, software and microtransactions do. Look at Warzone, it's free.
@@deiradinn Do you know what is a financial result ?? gain, loss, ... it speaks to you ?? If you earn 250 millions dollars and spend 300 millions for it , is it a balanced business for you ??
Xbox will always be favorite no matter what. Phill did one thing good only making the gamepass, but im sure xbox will get through all of this .
Phill didn't do anything.. hes just a pawn in corporate greed..
My gaming days started with Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Consoles was in central europe too expensive and single purpose in that time. Then I was PC gamer back in days of first 3D games, first 3D accelerators and RTS, but it starts to cost too much in new millenium. So after some hiatus i bought Wii and it was a big fresh change for me and introduced my now wife in to gaming. I still own and occasionally play on same Wii, those games are still great, but yet again, i want something new, something HD. So i bought Xbox Series S in 2021 with game pass ultimate for 3 years (conversion trick). Now i am hoping that there will be handheld variant of Series S with all backwards compatibility as Series S have.. Not everybody have (or willing to spend) big money, so i am really happy that Series S exist. But i understand, why "hard core" gamers want more powerfull console and why ecosystem needs exclusive titles. I hope that the xbox will continue to live and the future S will stand for "Switch" (if you know what I mean). P.S.: the only thing I'm not used to is the FPS on the controller, I still need a keyboard and mouse for that. P.P.S.: in practice, neither cloud gaming nor remote play worked for me, despite the fact that I have fast optical internet available, both are full of glitches. I don't think it will ever fully replace local HW. But Game Pass is excellent for those who don't know what they want to play.
Great video but they did show gameplay for avowed
Yeah you HATE Xbox i get it 🙄
Phil is the one in charge of Xbox and u ppl forget that he reports to Satya his boss in Microsoft and if anyone he’s more blame than Phil, Phil is the scapegoat for Satya while he makes these “business” moves
Phill spencer giving us the games now but he giving it to playstation also
Before your closer, you just answered I think everyone’s dilemma. It is fun to play games on your exclusive console, but when you make the games available to everyone else and leave your own console behind, it does open the door for others, but it closes the one that was open to those exclusively. And I agree if someone says just buy the system that plays everything which is true, but I think you lose something in doing that as part of the exclusivity. You lose that competition, that individuality of owning something unique.
Idk the word for it but that atmosphere or community in time will be gone. Sad to say I think that’s the future where it’s just one console and one developer… to some extent
Microsoft can rise to the #1 spot in gaming (cloud, platform-agnostic, subscriptions) and still lose their core audience and identity because they are willing to decimate the community in favor of an omni-present apathetic gaming industry with no passion and certainly no loyalty. Then more and more people will start to realize that indie is the new gaming industry and AAA have abandoned us long ago.
The Kinect is super cool for detecting ghosts... that's about it
As a Series X owner I disagree backwards compatibility is better than paying for switch online to access old Nintendo 1st party titles because they closed down the E shop. Gamepass allows us as consumers to try out the games before buying them in an era where video games since the 2010’s to present have been releasing at full price broken i can’t see how thats a problem. Also Xbox has dropped more 1st party games in the last few yrs than sony or Nintendo who are putting out more double A games than triple A games. If i can play more of sony’s and Nintendo’s 1st party games via emulation why would i invest in these other platforms so no i don’t think phil spencer or Xbox have let us down.
Sounds like your just paying to demo games and Xbox are double dipping on it's fans , you sound like the perfect consumer they want the ones willing to pay monthly and pay for the games they already have access to
They laughing all the way to the bank , how about instead you tell them you ain't paying for gamepass and you want free demos of the games like we used to get
Worst argument for gamepass you could have given
Lmaoooo this aged terribly 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Remember Scalebound? That was hyped to being the next big thing. …then they cancelled it.
In xbox defence, the ps5 isnt worthy buying either. No games and those few that exist are also on ps4 and pc.
In this gen the only thing u need is a pc and a Switch
Xbox has lost its sight since 2017...
I disagree with you. Phil is in a right way. From now everything gets better.
Also the mistake with series s lmfao
You do realize that a lot of the PS games are now available on PC. So how is Sony making PS exclusivity truly exclusives? after all, why would I buy a PS shi#box when a PC spec dominates and can play most of the PS games? It's all chaos ppl........just buy a PC!!! consoles are going the way of the dodo bird!!
Sony has hacking issues so I would never even plug in a toaster with a Sony logo on it.
then they killed the 360... xbox 1 has ruined xbox
I whould recommend microsoft splits under the "Microsoft Gaming" Umbrella, Bethesda, Activion / Blizzard and Xbox as seperated identities. Make Bethesda and Activision / Blizzard multiplatm and XBOX esclusive to XBOX without PC. Rename Xbox Game Pass to Microsoft Game Pass and make the Xbox Devision totally focus on the Xbox as Console, not as Service and bring the best Game experience on it with Halo, Gears of War, Forza, Forza Horizon, Avowed, State of Decay, Psychonauts, Lost Odyssey 2 and and and
One minute of outro music? Bro?
Stop crying about consoles and build a pc
Great video.
Redfall was more lifeless than a vampire's victim 🤣 that was brutal 🤣
Dude woh THE EFFFF! cared for Redfall???
I love the Xbox Series X hardware and the backwards compatibility program (I already own a ton of compatible Xbox and Xbox 360 games) and it went a long way towards driving my decision to go with Xbox again after switching to PS4 and PC last gen, but A few things...
A. Microsoft has horribly mismanaged all of their exclusive IP that made the OG Xbox and the 360 so great. They did absolutely nothing with all of the Rareware games, let Fable die on the vine until recently and botched a lot of the Halo games after Bungie spun off. Halo Infinite is a pretty fun game now but it's inexcusable how long it was horribly broken. They lack exclusive single player story games and they have the IP in their catalog to make it happen if they had competent people running the show. Instead, they seem to be putting out a few half baked releases that are behind schedule and then they close studios.
B. The name of the consoles is terrible. Just call it Xbox 4 and 4 Elite. Nobody cares that it's Xbox 4 vs PS5 or they could have pulled a Windows 10 and skipped a number for all I care if they were that concerned about version number optics.
C. Put a disk drive on the cheaper console and increase the price by the extra $20 that costs. Being able to buy cheap used games and play my old stuff at much higher resolution is a huge value add that saves a lot of money over the life of the system. In my mind, the Series S is worthless compared to the Series X for this fact alone. You'll make up that $150 in game savings in short order and you get a more powerful console to boot if you go with the Series X.
Xbox has a Microsoft problem. But to us, the gamers who were cheering for Phil and Co - they now seem inept and defeated...because Microsoft, as is now 'customary' - have decided to get too involved in their gaming department...with their sole aim being to make as much bank as possible. A very business-like approach has taken over at Xbox...and a gamer-first approach has taken the backseat. While I can't fault a business in its pursuit to make money, I fee that - Ms being so rich - could have watched Xbox from a 'safe' distance to get their thing going, and only move in when things go too far. Maybe it wouldn't have been instantly successful...but I believe it would have picked up - especially with the rapport Phil and Co had established with us. Microsoft have their hands a little too far up Phil's rear end, puppeteering him and Co to make some of this gen's puzzling decisions that run counter to the Xbox they were when the gen began. They are now unrecognisable and easy to dislike and mistrust. Microsoft has always treated xbox as their 'hustle on the side'...and it shows that they are just moonlighting in the games industry...not here to stay. At least ALL indications lead most of us who like/d xbox to think that way. In stark contrast, their Japanese competition seem to really give a SH!T about Playstation.
Lol,yeah right, thats why sony release all those games huh? 😂😂😂
Solution: trash all your consoles build a pc and install steam
Great video 😊
I know one thing about Xbox I know I will not buy the new Xbox system when it releases I don’t play 3rd parties games at all 😂
'Just 4 games' 🤣🤣🤣🤣 no sir you are lying, the flood gates are open.
I sold my xbox and I feel free freeeeeee wooo go ahead phil sink the company it doesn't bother me anymore ive broken the xbox shackles of oppression and I'm freeeeeee
Don Mattrick > Phil Spencer >>> Bill Gates
After hellblade2 im worried wbout the new fable game. Thats not a great thing to have are gamers worry about the quality of your games.
Since Xbox sucks so bad will someone donate your Series X to me? I can't afford one so I'll take it off your hands.
Look around for used ones. I've seen Series X for under $200 on FB Marketplace.
Ive never been interested in anything xbox has to offer anyway so whatever happens it wont effect me.
Idk yall xbox fans gad any trust in Microsoft. When they wanted thr xbox always online snd make ot more of a video box that should of been the cue to jump ship. They only cared about money not the art of video games. It was obvious to me over ten years ago!
You bugging he can only control so much it’s the shareholders that are responsible
More like Ex-Box amiright?
(Original joke. Do not steal)
Riiiiiiight because revenue and profit doesnt matter.. 😂