Despite the debut of the Wii U, Microsoft's Xbox 360 was the best-selling system in the US for the 16th consecutive month in November, selling more than twice as much as any competing system. The Xbox 360 was also responsible for over half of all money spent on new retail game software for the month, according to a new report from market tracker NPD.
TSA asks what is the future for Xbox.
They clearly never did, hence why they spent so many BILLIONS on other publishers as a last resort.
Sure, a plan to be a more hated game company than EA. Ubisoft were recently giving them a run for their money but I think Xbox have really knocked it out the park with their latest stunt.
Absolutely not, their whole plan is at odd with what MS wants
Phil wants GP to become big
MS wants to sell games and make billions
GP can’t be sustained with AAA games which take 3-5 years and 7 figure budgets. Only go put those games on GP day one. Why do you think games are coming out on other platforms?
People want a change and want Phil gone without realizing if someone new comes along they may want to change everything again so we just keep going in circles. Phil has to realize that and give clear message on the direction of Xbox
There are two reasons why all those Bethesda studios closed, and neither of them have anything to do with Bethesda (directly)...
Game Pass and Activision.
The guy confirming what we've all (well, most of us) been saying since the latest purchase.
Honestly i think Bethesda needs to buy themselves out of zenimax/MSs hands and do their own thing, i honestly think that would fix a lot of issues and save them from a potential closure.
Ah, we can see how the Microsoft media machine works.
Every article I read now is some kind of attempt to shift the blame off Microsoft and paint them as the victims or convince people that Microsoft mistakes were just some kind unforeseeable unfortunate twist of fate.
The shills are out in full force today.
It's greed. MS has the IP's it wants now it's dumping the studios that it's raided, MS will still make money from Tango's games unlike the people that made them. If anyone follows MS outside of gaming you'll see this is what they do, buy companies take what they want consolidate some of the workforce and shut them down. I don't know why people are acting so surprised when this is Microsoft being Microsoft.
MS is a three trillion dollar company, if it enters a market it has no need to compete, they take what they want and with the financial influence it can bypass laws that are meant to protect the consumer and the workforce. Just look at how they are cornering the AI market right now with buyups and investments.
Back when the Xbox 360 launched, Microsoft pushed the big budget game as a differentiator. Following all the recent layoffs, it’s clear this strategy has run its course.
The Microsoft shill take on the Microsoft causing the death of big budget gaming...
The whole driving force for growth in gaming both technologically, creatively and financially was all nonsense, and it was definitely not because Microsoft ran the industry into the ground with obviously bad decisions and creating an unprofitable business model that massively disrupted consumer spending habits. /s
LOL, this article is a big pile of dog crap...
Spencer has been constantly telling ppl that NO they would not go the route of having games like TLOU, Uncharted, etc because Playstation exists and prefers to focus on a diverse portfolio.
How many years have we seen Xbox as no game and we don't want small games like ORI, Pentiment, Grounded, etc.?
That's the real tragedy and why lots of gamers are mad at MS right now
because they have been championing smaller titles and yet fired the ppl delivering exactly what they were proning about.
So no the only nonsense is that MS seems now to be going BACK to AAA popular titles..sorry, I meant refocusing effort on core established IP where broken GAAS might be rewarded versus praised and rewarded work.
They really need to start specifying Regions in these kind of headlines, it's misleading and borderline flame bait, especially with the language used i.e. "dominates". Like a 13 year old kid wrote it.
Imagine their sales if online was free.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft's November sales in America will be enough to pull them out of last place this generation, now that Sony has overtaken them and shows no signs of slowing down.
They dominate the U.S because MS has the pricing edge (the entire gen for that matter) against the PS3. PS3 had limited bundles for $199 which sold out then the cheapest PS3 you can purchase is $270 I believe while MS has tons of Xbox bundles for $199 and if any bundles sell out you can still get an Xbox for $199. Why Sony has limited quantities of $199 PS3 bundles? Due to higher manufacturing cost than the 360 Sony in need of making profit per console so they didn't want to take much of a hit. That's why they never dropped the price of the base model PS3. Next-gen they will learn from their mistakes.
The title is misleading because it's just the U.S and UK. Everywhere else PS3 dominates. Why do you think PS3 is on path to surpass 360's install base...they are only a month behind. All these NPD's cloud people's minds
The US is dominated by MS.. Why? i dont know but everyone is infatuated with Halo & COD on it out here.. I personally see no value in owning xbox or its services.. I will be skipping 720 if theres no killer exclusives & only go with PS4