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thismeintiel on 19 September 2019
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Ganoncrotch said:
thismeintiel said:

I think a lot of Xbox guys have jumped ship or are jumping ship. One channel I watch is MBG. Not a big channel, but he has about 33K subs. I came across him this year. I decided to look at his old videos, and it surprised me because they were all positive Xbox vids. Apparently, he jumped ship earlier this year. I think a lot are following.

And there's a reason their PR for Gears 5 rings hollow. They gave the game away for a month for $1. Of course, people are going to jump at that. I'm surprised it wasn't more than 3M honestly, as it's on PC, too. I mean GOW and Spider-Man sold over 3M in it first days at $60 a pop. That's $180M+ in revenue compared to probably just $17M from retail/digital* and the rest from Game Pass promotions. It's obvious that MS is taking a hit on this game in order to push Game Pass. I just don't think it's going to work when the promotion is up and their aren't more huge titles on there.

* Gears 3 sold 3M in its first week. In the UK, it did 20x the amount Gears 5 sold. If we say that averages out to 15x, with other regions probably doing better, that's just 200K units sold. If we are being generous and make the digital ratio a high 42%, that makes 284K units sold, $17M in revenue at full price.

It's not even about game news and info from Dunkey that I love, it's the comedy as a personality I find him hilarious, I think a lot of people look at what he does in terms of "that's not a good argument" and miss the fact that the majority of his viewers watch Dunkeys content because of his messed up sense of humour, it's the same as Red Letter Media for me, "are they the best movie critics in the world?" no absolutely not, "are they funny as all hell and a joy to watch regardless of what they're talking about" absolutely.

Personality = popularity on youtube, not those videos where they do the nitty gritty to make sure everything is 100% fact checked, most people just want to watch someone with a good sense of humour or a sense of humour that is as messed up as their own, for me that's all sorts of jokes that would get me banned from here after a single posting of one... possibly permanently

Oh, I definitely agree. Even though I like Knack, I can't help but laugh my ass off at "Knack, baby!"

RLM is equally as great. Science Man for MVP.

gergroy said:
Video was just a list wars of a brief snapshot in time. Xbox has fallen from their peak, but every console maker has gone through dark periods of time. Sony and Nintendo have both experienced prolonged periods of time with they faltered as well. This has been a terrible generation for Xbox, that is definitely true, but I wouldn’t throw the towel in on them yet. They appear to building towards something great. They seem poised to come out swinging next gen and are probably the best positioned console maker to capitalize on the inevitable digital future in games.

The big difference is that Nintendo still had the very popular DS and 3DS going for them while the Wii U was flopping, and still tried to provide the Wii U with quality SW. Sony worked it's ass off to gain gamers back throughout last gen with a steady flow of quality exclusives.

MS, on the other hand, has lowered its output of exclusives to a trickle and many of them have been mediocre. Without really giving a reason to stay with them, they're still telling Xbox gamers to please be excited for next gen. Sure they bought some good studios, but many are developing multiplats, so who knows how long till we see MS exclusives from them. Or if they will be of high quality.