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AlfredoTurkey on 16 February 2016
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Mr Puggsly said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

Microsoft didn't hire people who were passionate about gaming. They hired Don Mattrick. They were trying to do a bait an switch, and failed. Putting Phil in place was a move to improve their gaming division, sure. But I don't believe they're interested in competeing in consoles anymore. If they were, you wouldn't see them letting their biggest and best IP go to PC. You wouldn't see them letting Titanfall go. You wouldn't see them letting the COD marketing business go. The Xbox platform is owned by the richest company out of the three by miles. They could afford to spend big, but they're not. Why? To me, it's obvious. There's no "winning" by doing what they're trying to do. They're not even competeing anymore. 

And as far as units sold, it does not equal failure or success, profits do. I use to think just like you, but recently, I've come to realize that it's foolish and arbitrary to use "units sold" as a means of judging a companies successes. Nintendo is making a killing. They're doing better than either company when it comes to gaming. So, really, who's the victor? The company that sells the most pieces of plastic? Or the company that makes the most money? Ideally, those two things should go hand in hand, but they obviously don't and we're all foolish for buying into the pissing contest of "unit sales".

So Don Mattrick represents all the passion in gaming at MS? This is why I say you have an anti Xbox agenda. You say crap like that and give no credit to people at MS that make notable games.

It seems like your idea of competing is money hatting Titanfall 2 and buying the marketing of CoD. You don't want to give them credit for making or funding good games I guess.

MS does spend a lot of money. They have a lot of games coming, I assume more games will be announced this year, we don't know what marketing deals they have planned with 3rd parties. It sounds like you aren't happy unless MS is wasting an endless stream of money.

Nintendo's success right now has more to do with the 3DS, not Wii U. By the way, you're very critical of MS not competing enough. But you boast about NIntendo even though they are barely relevant in the home console market. If NIntendo is doing so well right now financially, maybe you should criticize them for not buying Titfanfall exclusivity or CoD marketing. :-p

Microsoft never wanted to or cared about making great games and being in the console business. It was about stopping Sony. They said so themselves. It was always a trojan horse platform, set to exploit gamers on a course to owning the living room. That totally failed with Xbox One and now, I believe that they're switching gears and moving the platform into other areas where it can be successful. There's many reasons why I believe this but one of them is again, letting their biggest IP leave the platform. You just don't do that if you're interested in having a hardware platform. That's what software companies and third parties do.......