EpicRandy said:
I've skimmed through some stuff, did I miss some things? I feel like it was all business as usual and there was not that could be considered bad or smocking gun or anything else. |
No. You didn't, Lol.
The Zenimax line-up is actually very exciting, as long as it still remains mostly true. Sucks for the teams though.
The emails are interesting insights into how the executives think but mostly nothingburgers, it was nice to see how candid Phil was about 2022 and shows how eager he is to avoid a situation like that again.
People are losing their minds at the Nintendo email where Phil basically praises Nintendo as a prime asset in Gaming. How Xbox wants tighter collaboration with them. Talking about having opportunities for further collaboration thanks to a former Microsoft BoD member acquiring shares in Nintendo (which literally anyone in the world can do). But losing their minds at Phil suggesting he would love to acquire Nintendo despite the fact that he said he doesn't see a mutually agreeable angle where they could (as he would want Nintendo to agree to it). But would acquire Nintendo if they did agree to a merger.
Like oh shit, a big company would love to acquire a big company, breaking news! Acting as if their favourite big company wouldn't love to acquire other big companies if they could. But fantasy and dreams are just that, fantasy and dreams, and Microsoft cannot acquire Nintendo unless Nintendo agrees to it and if Nintendo agrees to it then bitch to them too. It's all irrelevant anyway, as the regulators would instantly block such a merger (as they should), Lmao. And I think after ABK that Phil would know this now.
Also it wasn't even Phil who brought the idea up at first, it was another dude he is responding to and agreeing with, Lol. If Xbox wants to acquire some shares in Nintendo though then I don't care...Not any worse than Saudi Arabia acquiring shares in Nintendo. Nintendo will likely see this, have a little chuckle, take the compliment and move on faster than "gamers" will.
Then we have your typical console warriors claiming Xbox is doomed because Sony knows every that Xbox is planning a mid-gen refresh despite the fact that Xbox already confirmed they weren't doing a Pro-console so all Sony learns is that their PS5 Pro which was already planned is going to release around the same time as a Digital Series X. Sony also learnt vague release times for certain games (despite the release dates being totally wrong now). Sony who won't even be able to change plans and react to most of this stuff in the short term just like Xbox wouldn't be able to change the Series X Digital at this stage.
Oh but they also learnt that Xbox is planning a next gen console in 2028 (which everyone expected anyway...) and they learnt that Xbox will use a GPU and CPU, Lmfao. Xbox may use a custom built GPU or a licensed GPU and if they go with custom built then we know fuck all about the performance capabilities. Oh but they may also use ARM (okay, ARM is a big fucking company, which makes tons of chipsets) so that tells us nothing on the specs either.
Half the stuff is too soon for Sony to react and the other half is vague as hell with not enough hard confirmation on plans, it's filled with "we may use this, or we may use that, we haven't even started building anything yet" with the added stipulation that things at 7 years away so new technologies will be available and it's a broad description of what they may use, it's like me saying I'm eating a packet of crips, it doesn't mean you know what damn crisps I'm eating, Lmao.
It was basically.
- Xbox Gen 10 will launch in 2028.
- They'll be a Series X All Digital Edition.
- It'll be nice if we could own Nintendo if possible in my fantasy.
