Xbox has repeated the same terrible mistakes for over a decade. The reason is simple: its priorities are back-to-front.
  • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    It is so damning that the entire industry has reacted that way. It’s not that they closed a studio, that cod have been ignored. It’s how brazenly they closed successful studios for being successful while talking out the other side of their mouth to the press.

    It feels gross in a much more palpable way. And with everything else going on in tech it feels so wrong coming from one of the biggest companies in earth.

    I’m 100% over Xbox. I hope their next console is the worst release since ET on Atari.

  • Ashtear@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Xbox buys talent, mismanages it in search of impossible scale, and cuts it loose - be that the 20-year experts of Fable, or the battle-scarred makers of Dishonored, or the invigorating new generation behind Hi-Fi Rush.

    Talking up the demerits of capitalism in the massive gaming industry has been more common as of late (perhaps especially so on Lemmy), and I do think there is nuance in that conversation.

    There’s no reasonable nuance here. Microsoft clearly wants insane return on investment from their studios, and I don’t see how that leaves room for the art of video game design.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Microsoft and Google really aren’t too dissimilar, in a lot of ways. The only reason why Xbox still exists isn’t because they’re so incredibly passionate about it. There was a niche for them to make money, and they’ve created a product in it, that has the minimum viable qualities to complete. Issue is that just as Google does, they stopped caring about it entirely, after the initial pitch

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    Gaming journalists sure want a Sony monopoly of gaming consoles, don’t they?

    If Xbox didn’t exist, consumers could only choose PlayStation. Nintendo has shown they have no interest in making real console hardware to compete with Sony or Microsoft anymore, so consumers will get literally only one console choice. That’s bad. Especially since they could set prices at whatever they want and nobody could challenge it.

    I get journalists hate Xbox, but Xbox needs to exist as a consumer option.

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        The Steam Deck is not a console, it is a handheld Linux PC with “console gaming” TV output as an afterthought, just like the Nintendo Switch is a handheld android tablet with console gaming as an afterthought.

        • mortalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          K… This is just not true. Plenty of AAA games run well on the steam deck. Currently installed on mine, RDR2, cyberpunk 2077, horizon zero dawn, Forza horizon, uncharted legacy of thieves, the last of us, and for funsies I just started another fallout 4 playthrough. I’m sure others have lots of other AAA games they play on their deck.

          If it’s the exclusives you’re missing, like Gran Turismo or something, I think that’s a different argument.

          • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            8 months ago

            Being able to play AAA games is not a qualifier for a console. My PC can also play AAA games, but it is not a console.

            The Steam Deck, and Switch, are both handhelds. It is a subcategory of game console, but it is not considered a game console just the same as a Game Boy is not considered a console, but it is a handheld. Both the Steam Deck and Switch have a screen and internal battery, along with a controller that is built onto the device, like a Game Boy.

            A Steam Machine is a Linux PC, but is more similar to a console than the Steam Deck.