shikamaru317 17 hours ago
| WoodenPints said: I still don't know what their reset plan is or what they expect it just sounds like less games in general, less games in Gamepass, less exclusives and no new IP and none of that makes me want to keep investing into Xbox as a platform and I doubt any non Xbox owners will see any reason to either with $800 Series X and $1000+ next gen consoles on the horizon. |
The reset seems to be:
- Less focus on Gamepass and multiplat releases because the increase in revenue from those didn't compensate for the loss in software sales or Xbox hardware sales
- Trimming the fat off of and streamlining development which has grown over middle managed and over bloated in general
- Focusing primarily on core franchises with high sales (Halo, Gears, Forza Horizon, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom, Wolfenstein, etc.), after about two dozen new IP or revived IP gambles in the Spencer years that didn't pay off (new IP/revived IP from 1st and 2nd party that underperformed or were cancelled in the Spencer years include Scalebound, Project Spark, D4, Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break, ReCore, Phantom Dust, Zoo Tycoon, Crackdown, Bleeding Edge, Battletoads, Tell Me Why, As Dusk Falls, Ara History Untold, South of Midnight, Keeper, Kiln, Avowed, Towerborne, and Perfect Dark). For all those new and revived IP that underperformed or were cancelled in the Spencer years, they had just 4 successes as best as I can remember, Ori and the Blind Forest, Sea of Thieves, Age of Empires 4, and Microsoft Flight Simulator, and of those only Sea of Thieves actually produced truly large revenue figures for them, the others made more than their budget but not so big as to be considered huge successes for a corporation that deals in the quantities of money that Microsoft does
Yes, the hardware will be expensive, that is unavoidable for both Sony and Xbox these days, that is likely why they are focusing on core franchises and exclusives, if Halo and Forza Horizon as full exclusives, and possibly even timed exclusivity on Elder Scrolls 6, can't move the $1000+ Project Helix, nothing can.
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