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Dallinor said:

I get the feeling, beyond the horrible mismanagement of resources, that perhaps there's something from higher up that's impeding the Xbox division. I mean, they can afford 2.5 billion to purchase Mojang to try to secure something along the lines of Lego for the future of the company, but they can't fund a single third party exclusive outside of Tomb Raider?

It might be tied to their position. When MS had Sony against the ropes last gen, it seemed as though the Xbox division had a blank cheque and could reach into their prodigious war chest whenever needed to gain an upper hand. Untold hundreds of millions spent on marketing deals, developing and pushing Kinect, fixing the RROD fiasco and securing numerous exclusives.

It's like as if there has been a serious overhaul to spending at Xbox HQ. Droping any studio not making money, not paying for exclusives, and pushing everything on as many platforms as they can to make the most money.

That's all namely to do with Crackdown being delayed and the dismal state of Xbox first party in 2017. Which ties in with what you're asking. They have Forza, and a few multiplats. Will it be enough? Hardly.

Yeah. I think the same about this situation. Because the problems started when Satya Nadella beacme the CEO of Microsoft. It seems that he isn't really interested in spending money on Xbox business. At least he seems to not care about being #1 in this sphere. He just wants to make as many profit out of Xbox as possible without spending a lot of money on it. I think that Windows 10 initiative was started because he wants every Xbox owner to migrate to Win 10 PC so they won't need to waste money on producing gaming hardware anymore.