NobleTeam360 said:
Runa216 said:
I see we're done here. You have nothing of value to add to the conversation.
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Lol, your little short essay basically said nothing while trying to appear as if you did. Have fun trying to justify whatever point it was you were trying to make, Mr. I own an Xbox.
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I said plenty, you chose not to read it. And if you did, you chose not to respect it. Either way, that's on you. I repeat: You have nothing of value to say, all that you can do is go 'waaah, you don't like a thing I like! you must be a FANBOY'. You probably don't feel that way, but that's what your petulant, childish responses tell me.
And you wanna know the reason I care so damn much about Xbox doing well? You know why I keep buying Xboxes even though I rarely like what Microsoft has to offer? You wanna know why it matters so much? IT's because I don't like PC gaming, and Microsoft are fucking everything up by not caring about their console or doing anything to make having their console worth a damn. More and more they're trying to turn the Xbox line into the PC console, so much so that they make it look and act like a PC, by making all the games also on PC, by making all their features also on PC, etc. The more time and effort they put into making their brand indistinguishable from the PC landscape, the clearer it is that there's no reason to have an Xbox...but I'd GREATLY prefer an Xbox becuase I hate trying to fuck around with PC gaming.
They do have a handful of games I like that I can only get on PC or Xbox, but it's not enough to make me want to shell out 500-700 for the next-gen Xbox console. (I'm Canadian so realistically I'm looking at 700-800 after tax, depending on where the final price lands) when I could just use that money on a semi-respectable desktop computer. Everything they're doing is making me chose between getting a better computer and getting an overpriced console...and that's a lose-lose situation. After spending the last month or so trying to set up a basic gaming rig, I was reinforced with the idea that I will NEVER prefer PC gaming to console gaming...but it'd still be better to just get a bigger hard drive, more Ram, and a video card for my PC than spend all that money on Xbox.
I don't want to have to pick between consoles because I'm an adult and shouldn't have to resort to this tribalistic nonsense behaviour. Console wars are stupid, anyone that isn't some edgy teen or working for either company knows this. They're stupid, but there's a reason they persist. I just want to have all three major consoles so I can have access to the potential games for the next 7-10 years without having to pick and chose and struggle over where my money goes, but Microsoft is either forcing me to buy an overpriced console for only a handful of games I might never play or upgrade my computer to play those games on a console I hate playing games on. Like I said, it's lose-lose for me.
Microsoft having 'exclusives' is bad because they have so few their consoles aren't worth it, and it divides the gaming landscape. Sony and Nintendo have never really been competitors as they always had distinct, unique fanbases and ideals. they can coexist...but Sony/Microsoft? They're fighting for mostly the same people, forcing those people to pick sides unless they're rich, which I am not. I'm poor as fuck.
So Microsoft either needs to shape up or ship out. they need to either go third party and drop the facade of being a console manufacturer, or they need to give me enough reasons to buy their console. They have done none of that, this presentation failed to do that, and the more they fail the worse it gets. the more they fail, the worse the console wars get. The more they fail, the more frustrating it is. The worse they fail, the worse it is for me and many others who love console gaming but can't justify buying an Xbox for 3 games. Their business model is wrong and it's infuriating becuase they're not only not learning from their mistakes, but they're doubling down on them, devaluing the Xbox brand more and more.
I would rather live in a world where I can have all three consoles and they all offer me something worth my time. That was the case with the original Xbox and the Xbox 360, but I literally spent more time updating firmware on my Xbox One than I did playing games on it because in 7 years it offered me virtually nothing. Microsoft isn't even trying anymore and you got folks out there like you and this Salesperson touting everything Microsoft does as revolutionary when it's just not.
They are failing in way more ways than they are succeeding. That is a non-negotiable fact. Their franchises are losing brand power, their consoles aren't selling for shit and haven't been for years, their exclusives don't get the sales or reviews they used to, they're not making many new IPs or franchises, and they're giving people next to no reason to buy their consoles. their Gamepass is succeeding, but I'd argue that's literally the only thing they're doing well.
And this presentation did nothing to assuage those concerns.
My Console Library:
PS5, Switch, XSX
PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, WiiU, Wii, GCN, N64 SNES, XBO, 360
3DS, DS, GBA, Vita, PSP, Android