Xbox Xbox Series X Thread

[XtremelyBaneful]

Microsoft CEO's new $79.1 million pay package represents a massive 63% increase despite a year of layoffs and cybersecurity failures

Beats a pizza party and a complimentary mint, doesn't it?

www.pcgamer.com

And I was just writing in the Palestinian thread about how much I hate microsoft.

 

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[XtremelyBaneful]

Wow. That'll definitely help console sales. Now imagine if they win in for GTAVI, too.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

more Microsoft acquisitions = more bad news

 

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[XtremelyBaneful]

By that logic, you can already play playstation games on Xbox

 

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Phil Spencer says Microsoft's PC-heavy lineup this year is 'historical' and an 'anomaly', so don't get used to it

"We want our games playable across as many screens as possible."

www.pcgamer.com

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

The console wars are not over

Phil Spencer says Xbox will "definitely do more consoles" as he seems to take a jab at the PS5 Pro: "We don't need to do incremental hardware for our own benefit"

Shots fired

www.gamesradar.com

 

[Teelie]

Considering how little they've done with this generation of hardware, they have plenty of time to iterate on a new version.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Considering how little they've done with this generation of hardware, they have plenty of time to iterate on a new version.

Current rumor is a 2026 release date.

 

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Xbox Cloud Streaming Of Own Games Launches Today

Microsoft has announced that Xbox Cloud Streaming of games you own is launching in beta starting today, November 20.

insider-gaming.com

 

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Microsoft says it’s built an Xbox game store on Android but can’t launch it

The technology exists — but we’re still waiting.

www.theverge.com

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/business/microsoft-ftc-investigation/index.html

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Microsoft doesn’t want physical goods or digital games licensing. They want everything to be a subscription service like Microsoft Office / Game Pass with forced and required online connectivity.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Microsoft doesn’t want physical goods or digital games licensing. They want everything to be a subscription service like Microsoft Office / Game Pass with forced and required online connectivity.

I was just coming to post about this, now.

Xbox Fans Plead With Microsoft: 'Don't Forget About Us Physical Gamers'

Avowed to be frustrated

www.purexbox.com

 

[Iceman]

Ha, I’ll take a bento box and cat box.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

Posted this in the Squid game thread, but it's also relevant here

Game Over: Xbox Unveils Controllers and Fan Activations for Netflix's "Squid Game" Season 2 - Xbox Wire

As the highly anticipated Season 2 of the global sensation "Squid Game" approaches, Netflix and Xbox have teamed up to offer fans an exciting way to immerse themselves in the Squid Game universe.

news.xbox.com

 

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An Xbox Series S May Have Just Saved Someone's Life

On Twitter, a user shared a story of how an Xbox Series S console may have saved their life following a road collision.

insider-gaming.com

 

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Microsoft and Google are fighting over the future of Xbox

Microsoft wants to launch an all-new Xbox app on Android.

www.theverge.com

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

I'm not sure if I agree with the premise of this article. If Xbox can be considered ahead of PlayStation & Nintendo just because of their software, then they might as well ripoff the bandaid and start releasing all of their software everywhere because that would maximize the point this article is trying to make.

How ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Call of Duty’ Are Pushing Xbox Ahead of PlayStation, Nintendo in a Next Gen Console-Less Holiday Season

For lots of avid gamers this holiday season, there will be Indiana Jones — and then everybody else.

variety.com

 

[Iceman]

I'm not sure if I agree with the premise of this article. If Xbox can be considered ahead of PlayStation & Nintendo just because of their software, then they might as well ripoff the bandaid and start releasing all of their software everywhere because that would maximize the point this article is trying to make.

How ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Call of Duty’ Are Pushing Xbox Ahead of PlayStation, Nintendo in a Next Gen Console-Less Holiday Season

For lots of avid gamers this holiday season, there will be Indiana Jones — and then everybody else.

variety.com

I think releasing everything everywhere has been the plan for a good while (from the higher execs rather than the Spencer level ones), but they knew it would be too much to jump all in in one day after decades of traditional console exclusives (look what happened when the X1 did too much in one go). Microsoft as a company started becoming platform agnostic with Office and moving to the subscription model led to great success - and they are trying to emulate that in gaming, whether it eventually works or not is another matter.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

I think releasing everything everywhere has been the plan for a good while (from the higher execs rather than the Spencer level ones), but they knew it would be too much to jump all in in one day after decades of traditional console exclusives (look what happened when the X1 did too much in one go). Microsoft as a company started becoming platform agnostic with Office and moving to the subscription model led to great success - and they are trying to emulate that in gaming, whether it eventually works or not is another matter.

I totally get what you're saying and it makes sense if Microsoft themselves just flat out said that they aren't competing the console space anymore. but they still are. and it doesn't help that a headline like this further pushes console wars just by wording it as "Xbox ahead of Playstation". they know exactly what they're doing with that.

like yeah, they are ahead in that sense because of the software, which is made by Bethesda & Activision. but by that logic, Bethesda & Activision were ALWAYS ahead of Playstation in terms of software. but obviously, no one ever looks at it that way because Playstation and Xbox are primarily household names as hardware.

 

[Iceman]

I totally get what you're saying and it makes sense if Microsoft themselves just flat out said that they aren't competing the console space anymore. but they still are. and it doesn't help that a headline like this further pushes console wars just by wording it as "Xbox ahead of Playstation". they know exactly what they're doing with that.

like yeah, they are ahead in that sense because of the software, which is made by Bethesda & Activision. but by that logic, Bethesda & Activision were ALWAYS ahead of Playstation in terms of software. but obviously, no one ever looks at it that way because Playstation and Xbox are primarily household names as hardware.

Clickbait title is surprising?

Even if the event being reported was that an intern at a studio farted, the title would be console 1 now ahead of console 2 in big letters (on intern farting metrics in small letters later in the article).

The headline “Indiana Jones is doing well” isn’t as enticing/provocative to most readers to encourage them to click, unless they were already looking for that kind of article.