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Cerebralbore101 on 04 October 2017

So you wake up one day and you're the guy in charge of Xbox. Your bosses tell you to bring either the Xbox 1 or a sequel console back to the glory days of the 360. What do you do to bring sales back? 



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Rocketjay8 on 04 October 2017

My checklist
NO NUTS AND BOLTS
NO NUTS AND BOLTS
NO NUTS AND BOLTS
NO NUTS AND BOLTS
NO NUTS AND BOLTS
NO NUTS AND BOLTS
NO NUTS AND BOLTS



konnichiwa on 04 October 2017
Bandorr said:
Depends how much money do I have? If I have Microsofts wallet I do two things.
1) Make a ton of studios
2) Make great relationships with Japan.

If I'm stuck with the money xbox has now? Cry. They can't drop Halo/Forza/Gears because that is their entire fanbase. But clearly they don't have the money to go after a new fanbase with cancelling games like Scalebound and Fable

I would immediately stop investing money into getting games MS is already getting. Oh and start working on JRPGs. You aren't getting the fanbase without trying.

They not got the fanbase when they tried though..

Remember how they tried to gave away FFXIII Xbox 360 away at an convention and the people booed?






pokoko on 04 October 2017

Buy exclusives. "Second party" games are the future. It hasn't always worked out? So what, it's worth the risk.

Talk to the best development studios and put it out there that you're looking to invest. The problem, of course, is that the best studios want to own their best ideas but I think that can be worked out. Bloodborne is a good example.

New blockbuster IP is what made the 360. That's the most important thing. There is no substitute for that.

Also, wait for Sony and Nintendo to screw up. It will happen.



JRPGfan on 04 October 2017
Cerebralbore101 said:

So you wake up one day and you're the guy in charge of Xbox. Your bosses tell you to bring either the Xbox 1 or a sequel console back to the glory days of the 360. What do you do to bring sales back? 

Open new studios.

New Fable (rpg), Banjo-Kazooie game (platformer), Lost Odyssey (rpg), Blue Dragon (rpg), Mechwarrior (action/simulation or rpg), ReCore 2.



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konnichiwa on 04 October 2017
Bandorr said:
konnichiwa said:

They not got the fanbase when they tried though..

Remember how they tried to gave away FFXIII Xbox 360 away at an convention and the people booed?

Did not remember that no, wow.

I was thinking more Eternal Sonata, Blue dragon, and Lost oddessy. Not a huge group but a nice little group that keeps those games from bomb automatically.  That way they would be considereed for multi-plats at least.

I still think its weird they are getting KH3, but not 1.5, 2.5, or 2.8.  So maybe I'd try to get those.

This past Tuesday I was present at the Final Fantasy XIII launch party in London Oxford Circus, in which the producer Yoshinori Kitase and art director Isamu Kamikokuryo were present. Before the signings were held from the producer and art director, they held a competition on stage. When the presenter Alex Zane announced that the prize was an Xbox 360 Final Fantasy bundle, the whole crowd erupted with boo's. Keep in mind that the crowd was full of nothing but hardcore Final Fantasy fans. 

Our full coverage of this Final Fantasy XIII launch party will be up later. We have exclusive interviews and pictures from the party, so make sure you check it out.

http://n4g.com/news/490634/final-fantasy-fans-boo-the-xbox-360-at-final-fantasy-xiii-launch-party#c-3436530

Video is down;

And I would love MS spend more money into JRPG's they had a small fanbase but it basically only cost them money.

Edit: found the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2lyyBkX_kQ






AngryLittleAlchemist on 04 October 2017

Make blanket statements like "Focus on first party" as if it were that easy.



Errorist76 on 04 October 2017

I’d probably start by going to the net and doing a deep research in what people actually expect from the brand and what they actually think they’re doing wrong atm. I can’t help but think MS don’t do that very often.



Porcupine_I on 04 October 2017

Sell it to Sony for a dollar.



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

PEEPer0nni on 04 October 2017

Sell Halo/Forza/Gears for 10 billion dollars.