| aTokenYeti said: I have been following Xbox news in some capacity for 21 years, and in those 21 years I think the only week Xbox has had that was was from a PR standpoint than the last 7 days was the 2013 E3 reveal of the Xbox one. I genuinely cannot think of any other point that comes close |
I wasn't apart of gaming forums during X360 gen and in some ways it's better, in other ways not.
But Xbox One reveal was worse, I don't even think that was the worse though, Lionhead being closed was absolutely the worst period and Press Play was shutdown in the same month along with Fable Legends being cancelled, this all happened in a single month, it was awful.
Around the same period there were rumours from genuine insiders that Xbox has received a large budget cut hence why everything was being cancelled and shutdown. The year before that, Phantom Dust was cancelled which led to the studio who was creating it to be shutdown, the year after Lionhead was Scalebound being cancelled, it was about 3 years of horrible Xbox news, Lol.
And of course, very few games and what did release, more likely than not was poorly received, Halo 5 had an awful reception alongside TMCC being broken for years, it wasn't until Game Pass in June 2017 where things started looking up and then the recommitment to Xbox by Microsoft in 2018.
There was even heavy talk that Xbox was maybe about to be shutdown and genuine fear of that happening, Phil essentially confirmed that fear was true when Satya asked him why Microsoft is still in Gaming and Phil had to sell him on a new idea to commit to Gaming again.
Now, eh, they'll have stumbles, literally every single publisher in the world has stumbles, but I'm optimistic for the future overall and I have no fear about Microsoft pulling the rug on Xbox anymore, Satya has made his commitment clear and Gaming is too large now for Microsoft to dump it, thanks to Phil turning it into a $16bn revenue business.
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