How Microsoft Can Fix the Xbox One in 2016

The Xbox One is a paradox of sorts. It has sold at a far faster clip than previous Xbox consoles, which should be celebrated. But it's also been outsold by as much as 2-to-1 by the PlayStation 4. So "fixing" the Xbox One in 2016 is tricky: Microsoft will need to continue with what's working while making the platform more appealing to a wider audience.

[dreadz74]

This E3 is one of the most exciting yet lets see what transpires. I am down for new consoles with PC like HW performance.

[Kingthrash360]

I'm excited for every E3 and plan to come to this one. While I do want to see new console I'm thinking we'll only see a slim xbox. Nintendo already said no nx and neo is now rumored to come at Paris game show....neo is still a rumor so it's a rumor of a rumor wrapped in wrapping paper with the word rumor on it to gamers from a rumor . As for xbox I'm hopine gears isn't their main event...I hope they surprise gamers with a totally new game like Sony did horizon.

[Docknoss]

Yes I agree, Theirs a few minut things that can be fixed but other than that it's almost perfect.

[freshslicepizza]

1. microsoft could make a bold move and come out with an xbox one slim design with no disk drive for $199.

2. buy capcom or some high profile publisher

3. team up with steam

4. show new ip's and a real commitment to the future of their games division.

5. prove the cloud works with crackdown 3 and other games.

6. push windows 10 and cross play/save features and one purchase requirement to unlock the xbox one and windows 10 version

[jb227]

@moldy

All of your suggestions are rock solid aside from "Buy Capcom". I just can't see a world in which that is a sound investment, or good for gamers overall in any way.

First off, the amount of money it would take to buy Capcom & all of it's fairly huge licenses would be staggering, and what would it net the MS gamer at the end of the day? You'd still have the same devs creating the same games that we would all receive w/ or w/o an MS purchase. All of that money could be spent towards making the next Mega Man or Resident Evil, all in house as first party Microsoft IP's. Beyond that, those new ip's could essentially create a future cash cow, whereas Capcom's IPs have had their day in the sun, and they will never be any bigger or better than they once were.

Just look at what happened with Rare, MS paid no doubt a huge sum, then MS gamers ended up with what, 2 or 3 decent games since then, amongst a handful of less than well received stuff? Meanwhile, most of the key talent that made Rare what it was left, and MS gamers are only now seeing the true potential of what the studio could possibly do with Sea of Thieves, over a decade later.

With that amount of time & money spent, MS could've went straight to the source head hunted up & coming developers and created their own studio with Rare sensibilities, and an astronomical budget to play with. End of the day, it's guys & studios like those that are going to create the next Goldeneye or Banjo or Resident Evil or Mega Man, not the old studio that has seen it's day in the sun.

Buying Capcom would ultimately amount to buying a bunch of names, and gamers can't play names. You may think it'd be a smart mega long term business proposition, but it would ultimately set MS & gaming in general back for companies to keep chasing old dragons instead of creating the future.

[ShadowKnight]

@Moldy that's a lot of things lol

[noksucow73]

@jb227
Well said. It seems like a lot of the times, when these companies like Microsoft buy a developer, the talent has already left. At least the key talent. Then people say Microsoft i holding Rare back. I'd do what you said if I was Microsoft . Spend the $ on a big, popular ip, and make it exclusive. They should have forked out the $ and kept TR a exclusive. People usually don't mind timed exclusives, or I don't really think timed exclusives are system sellers. I remember when Mass Effect went to the ps3 back in the day and I thought , wow , that was a huge 360, console exclusive that they should've kept. I Know It would cost , But they need to go big If they want to try and compete against the likes Of Sonys first party teams.

[XanderZane]

@moldybread

They how would games be able to play their B/C Xbox 360 games or Blu-Ray movies? Yeah, they do need to acquire a couple of big publisher/developers. They should have bought SEGA a long time ago. Not sure who they will grab next. They also need to stop cancelling games. Show more games that utilize Cloud tech & DX12. I'll be interested to see what the XBox Next looks like.

[freshslicepizza]

@jb227
"All of your suggestions are rock solid aside from "Buy Capcom". I just can't see a world in which that is a sound investment, or good for gamers overall in any way."

never said it was feasible but it would give them some leverage at building up their portfolio and more importantly they would then have something to help sell the xbox to japan gamers. i also think capcom has gone downhill a lot and maybe microsoft could do something with all those ip's they own because right now capcom is in a big mess. do i think this will ever happen microsoft buying them? no but i do think it could help them be more marketable around the globe.

"First off, the amount of money it would take to buy Capcom & all of it's fairly huge licenses would be staggering, and what would it net the MS gamer at the end of the day? You'd still have the same devs creating the same games that we would all receive w/ or w/o an MS purchase. All of that money could be spent towards making the next Mega Man or Resident Evil, all in house as first party Microsoft IP's. Beyond that, those new ip's could essentially create a future cash cow, whereas Capcom's IPs have had their day in the sun, and they will never be any bigger or better than they once were."

not sure what it would cost but i dont see the company as valuable as before but they do have a lot of valuable ip's just sitting there or have been used poorly. konami could be another option since they don't seem too keen on console gaming or pc gaming. japan isn't exactly open and warm about stateside takeovers though.

"Just look at what happened with Rare, MS paid no doubt a huge sum, then MS gamers ended up with what, 2 or 3 decent games since then, amongst a handful of less than well received stuff? Meanwhile, most of the key talent that made Rare what it was left, and MS gamers are only now seeing the true potential of what the studio could possibly do with Sea of Thieves, over a decade later."

i agree although i did really enjoy kameo and viva pinata but you're right, they are not the same rare as before but sea of thieves looks very interesting. a lot of the original talent left rare so its hard to keep that magic and microsoft screwed the pooch with rare for too long. let's hope phil has more trust ans allows them more freedom.

"Buying Capcom would ultimately amount to buying a bunch of names, and gamers can't play names. You may think it'd be a smart mega long term business proposition, but it would ultimately set MS & gaming in general back for companies to keep chasing old dragons instead of creating the future."

maybe but i just don't see the xbox brand ever being as marketable around the globe unless they did something drastic like that. it takes many years to build in house studios and get big games out the door. what i do think to be more rational is them continuing to partner themselves with other studios like insomniac and remedy. studios that are already in place and microaodt working directly with them. just like sony did with bloodborne and nintendo with bayonetta 2. to me that is a lot more feasible than building studios from scracth but microsoft needs to do that too but that will take years. this way they already have the teams in place. the problem is those teams also have to justify if its beneficial to them knowing the ps4 is double the potential software sales.

[freshslicepizza]

@ShadowKnight
"Moldy that's a lot of things lol"

let's be honest, microsoft has a lot of work they need to do. they cannot keep relying on their few known ip's like halo, forza and gears of war. they need to buold their portfolio but this business is all about profits so when games like viva pinta fail to sell well or kameo then they get scared and go back to what's familiar and try to remake old classics that may not have the same impact now. what nintendo does well is use familiar assets but give gamers a totally new experience because they tailor them to the hardware. if all sony and microsoft do is provide better graphics to old ip's then you have a stagnant market. at least sony is willing to invest in new ideas like detroit and horizon and if they are not huge sucess stories they have many other games to keep them going.

microsoft does have quite a few ip's they don't use much but could revitalize if they choose. on consoles and pc's,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

personally i think cancelling black tusk's new project in favor of a new gears of war game shows how much pressure there is in the industry for aaa gaming. to me it's far too commercial and when you start doing things like that it blocks creativity and you are essentially just building assembly lines, not game studios.

[Ashlen]

1. microsoft could make a bold move and come out with an xbox one slim design with no disk drive for $199.

You can buy a USB external Blu-ray for 35$. In bulk I doubt MS is paying more than 10$ it's not going to drop the price by much. Why would you ask to give consumers less options this type of decision only benefits Microsoft by forcing people to buy digital. This has basically no benefit for the consumer.

2. buy capcom or some high profile publisher

This seems unlikely considering they just closed 9 studios because they didn't want to invest in them.

3. team up with steam

Why would they team up with Steam when their big push is UWD and and the Windows Store?

4. show new ip's and a real commitment to the future of their games division.

This is something they could actually do.

5. prove the cloud works with crackdown 3 and other games.

I'm sure it works. But the question no one asks, is it cost effective? This tech will require tons of globally positioned dedicated servers with specific software that can provide ultra low latency connections. What they are proposing is basically the most expensive game server architecture to date. If it was cheap and easy you'd see other comapnies like EA and Activision etc jumping on the bandwagon, which they are not.

6. push windows 10 and cross play/save features and one purchase requirement to unlock the xbox one and windows 10 version

This is likely to happen.

[littletad]

In my opinion it's Microsoft's best console ever, only after it was changed to what it was now. The bc has proved gamers love going back to their favorite hits. The xbox one elite controller is perhaps the best console controller ever produced, I have 2. They've done a lot of things right, only after they did so many things wrong. And while I still don't think the 720p/1080p is as big a dichotomy as fanboys claim, it's still surprising that microsoft is the slightly less powerful console this generation. They simply need to keep producing games, make better guidelines and partnerships with indie developers, and stop closing down studios

[Kingthrash360]

The Xbox 360 is the best MS console very easily.
Like you said look at BC...consoles like the wii, wiiu, ps3, and even ps4 has some sort bc with psnow...even though it's streaming and the worst way to play last Gen games this gen. But out of all these consoles xbo need it most to even compete. The 360 and it's huge amout of games early on complete with better performance and resolution than its direcr competitor clearly makes it a better console...in both content and quality. Where xbo is the opposite of that. It's the lower end of games performance and quality and when compared to ps4 it's games line up is very small...the recycling of games pioneered on the 360 and the og xbox. The xboxone has done nothing but ride the success of the Xbox 360. It still hasn't made a flagship game or made a name for itself. Sadly fanboys ignore the problems of the xbo when ms is listening most! To say it's the best console ms has ever made is an insult to ms and the 360....period. lose me with the fanboy talk...I'm no fanboy I'm a real gamer who wants to see real new games from the people who made halo gears and forza. Frankly I'm not seeing any innovation or anything from ms....I see them giving up. It's sad to see.
Also the elite controller needs batteries lose me with that overpriced controller...if it cost half of the console I shouldn't need to buy batteries or a battery pack for it.
While features and updates are nice gamers want games....and still having to wait 30 minutes for a game to install from a disc when it takes the ps4 less than a minute is just ....shameful....for the love of god fix this ms....all these features and update, update that! Dear god I get upset to come home with a new game thinking I can just pop it in and be playing in less than 2 Minutes like all other console....and I see the install time of a Simpsons episode is just so deflating.

Michel...first, do you know what I mean when I say new games right....NEW...LIKE NEW NOT A SEQUEL. Ms isn't Giving a xbox one it's flagship game. The Xbox would sale more if it had more reasons to buy it....with more if it's exclusives going to pc it's just less of a reason to buy one... so far this year...get this....it has no games that came out only for xboxone. Every single game one xbox one was on another platform...it's not a good way to sell console to get more devs a reason to make exclusive games. Every single game on your list isn't a exclusive. Just last year...literally a year ago ms and it's fanboys were saying the Xbox one has the most exclusives. ..now it's like none and you shove a list of games...most of which were indies (which are awsome to me...but on launch day xbox gamers were calling the ps4 the 'indie station'...'member that?) Also windows intergration??? Dx12??? Really? You don't feel it odd that your list of exclusive features are longer than your list of exclusive games? Really. Then you call me bias. How am I bias? Wanting games? Really? Actually looking at what the Xbox really is and what it's really missing?...fuck man why do YOU want the Xbox not to have the games it deserves? Almost every game on your list I'd on pc...are you being bias for pc? Man the struggle is real bro...wake. up.
Oh and killer instinct is a 2 year old launch game...just because the dlc is coming don't make it new or upcoming.
Tropico5 is free on psn and I haven't even downloaded that shit. Man you kill me with that funny list of games......is that the games xbox represents? Old pc games? Old 360 games?

[RosweeSon]

Your first line says it all Xbox 360 the best look at BC... Yes let's look at BC Xbox one is so amazing and the best Xbox console ever but it's games are pretty dire and dried up currently so we'll play all the last gen games? So it must have been pretty good last gen ;) Xbox 360 is Microsofts best console they'll have to do something special to ever beat the 85 million ish consoles they sold.

[Automatic79]

@Kingthrash

"I'm no fanboy I'm a real gamer who wants to see real new games from the people who made halo gears and forza. Frankly I'm not seeing any innovation or anything from ms....I see them giving up. It's sad to see. "

I want to add to this discussion in a civil manner, First and foremost your comment stating you want to see new games from the people who made halo gears and forza. Halo 5 says hi, Gears of War 4 says hi and Forza 5 and 6 plus Forza Horizon all say hi. Further, to your second comment "Frankly I'm not seeing any innovation or anything from ms....I see them giving up. It's sad to see." Okay so you claim no innovation here are a few since you forgot

New Windows 10 OS intergration
Xbox One to PC streaming
Game Sharing
16 Person Party Chat
Early access
External Harddrive support
Elite Controller
DX12
Crackdown 3 cloud compute/destruction
Forza avatar
Xbox 360 BC
Cortana coming to Xbox One
DVR coming to Xbox One

Why are you bias towards Xbox One is beyond me. Additionally, your comment gamers want games

What do you call

Ark Survival Evolve
Layers of Fear
Oxenfree
Solus Project
Flood and the Flame
Blues and Bullets
Quantum Break
Subnautica
DC Universe Online
Rocket league
Raiden V
Killer Instinct Season 3
Cobalt
Roblox
Steredenn
Dungeon of the Endless
Fortified
Stranger in Sword City
Tropico 5 Penultimate Edition
SUPERHOT
Elite Dangerous Horizons launches in June
We Happy few releases in June
Below releases this summer

Its amazing how you claim Xbox One has no games and all I been seeing since the New Year is continuous games coming out every week. Now if you don't prefer them that is another issue but stop spreading fudge for the sake of getting people to agree with you because it is not working.

[2v1]

You just ok been treated like a second class gamer MS need to gtfo

[RosweeSon]

In 2-3 years Xbox one won't be seen in the same nostalgic light that the Xbox 360 will be it was a truly fantastic console not many keep me hooked in for 8-9 years (ex gamerscore whore) and multiple consoles what with elite upgrades and faulty disc drives being repaired to come back with RROD and then to just get swapped by me (lost the faith a little) grabbed the Star Wars edition faith restored console still working but been packed back up in the box for a year or so now probably getting on for 2 but it was a truly great console even have Sony a run for its money, no one has ever done this. Sure Wii did great selling 100 million but they were after a whole different market kids again mums sisters, nans Wii fit just dance many more dribble including games. However Xbox 360 because it was easier for Devs ended up being the lead platform and PS3 was technically a better console just tricker to master sure the great games came in the end and Sony levelled things off towards the end of the generation but Xbox did push Sony hard and did a great job after the truly horrendous first couple of years with their repair bills, however people kept with it because... It was a great system, Xbox one has no where near these levels of support and despite how it may be getting spun it's not selling more than Xbox 360 did totalled 80-90 million over 9-10 years that's 8-9 million a year Xbox one has sold 21 million Max! So far that's barely 7 million million a year as we've got 5 months left and 2-3 of those are the summer when hardly any consoles are sold. Microsoft don't release facts so it's all guess work but the Xbox is not selling more than Xbox 360 and certainly won't continue to do so the way it's going. 50 million max lifetime sales for Xbox one. Much more reliable than Xbox 360 it seems... They got soemthing right.

[Rookie_Monster]

Agreed. It has everything MS fans wanted. What is there to change?

[lelo2play]

"How Microsoft Can Fix the Xbox One in 2016"

More AAA exclusives... more AAA exclusives.... more exclusives.

Until now (we are almost at the middle of the year), Microsoft only launched 1 AAA exclusive for the X1, Quantum Break, and it's not even a full exclusive since it's also on the PC. That's way too little for a company that wants to compete with the PS4.
Sony has already launched 4 AAA PS4 exclusives so far this year: Street Fighter (also on PC), Uncharted, Ratchet, MLB... not even counting indie games like Witness, Alienation, Shadow of the Beast, among others.
Microsoft has to work much harder and do way better job then they have been doing until now.

Positive notes for the X1: BC and XBL Gold offerings (better then PS+)... but that's not enough.

[CaptainObvious878]

MS was apparently going to be spending 1 billion dollars on games, but where did it all go?

Does that include all there outrageous marketing campaigns?

[Destiny1080]

the xbone has not a single exclusive game over 90% on metacritic while the ps4 has 5 games over 90%

[RosweeSon]

Sure it's not all about reviews but yeah that's a pretty good indicator hate it or love it there's many people averaging out scores and they all saying the same Wii u/ps4 plenty of high 85-90+ Xbox one just hasn't got em.... Yet! Sure they could start flashing the cash ala Tomb raider again and I'll be seriously considering and Xbox one but I guess we'll just have to wait and see for E3

[Movefasta1993]

If a game for example Forza Horizon 2 is a 9 or a 10 to a gamer,does it matter?

[Khaotic]

Metacritic is how sheep choose games. I mean seriously with twitch and you tube why do I need metacritic for a game I'm indecisive on. But if people need numbers to validate their existence or choices by all means have a party

[hiawa23]

I agree , never have I bought or even looked at metacritic when buying so it is irrelevant to me to based that on anything.

[GrubsterBeater]

I would never use Metacritic as a gauge to wether or not I would purchase a game..

What Metacritic DOES do is compile an average score based off critics and users to forma score that shows how many people gave it a high score.

Surely nobody is using Metacritic to decide to buy a game, but I'm sure you already knew that, and that wasn't the reason you commented that... You commented that in an attempt to downplay the validity of Metacritic's scores because you know very well that they don't have anything 90+ for your system...

Aside from that, I have played games I loved that didn't have a 90+ Metacritic average. I have also played many, many games that I loved that DID happen to have high Metacritic scores...

[senorfartcushion]

Strange choice of words.

Wouldn't the thing that needs "fixing" be the consumers? Because they are the ones who choose what they buy.

[TheColbertinator]

Its the consumers fault. Microsoft should increase the Xbox1 and Live prices to punish them for their insolence.

[senorfartcushion]

See, you didn't get my comment.

[Khaotic]

Is there a problem with choosing what you want instead of what a few dbags on the internet think you should buy

[2v1]

Hot potato ¡!!!!!!!¡

[RosweeSon]

Duff Tomato.

[Max-Zorin]

1. Give their studios more freedom. Stop being a dictator and have some faith.
2. Form more studios to make new IP's. If they can spend billions on Minecraft, they can invest in several studios and of course give them freedom.
3. Bring back some IP's they're just sitting on.
4. Give Halo, Gears, and Forza a break. Let those studios that make those games form new IP's. I'm pretty sure they're capable of it.

Just some things I'd like to see.

[CaptainObvious878]

How do we know it's out pacing the 360 when MS has been too prideful to release official sales numbers in almost 2 years now?

I keep hearing this all the time, but I never see any proof.

[ShadowKnight]

It's nothing wrong with the Xbox one. They just need to make more exclusives

[DLConspiracy]

Some of these points don't make much sense. Some do.

First the word "fix" is a buzz word. If your opinion of fix is to sell more consoles than their competition than that's a hard road to travel. There is no fixing that at this point. Sure more power helps but in all honesty they should let Sony speak first about their specs and then beat their specs. Smarter to wait it out than risk being behind again. More exclusives would also help but it's not as bad as most devour and mock it for.

Also external storage isn't exactly a bad thing. It's faster than the internal. I feel external is very consumer friendly as last Gen we were being charged a 100 dollars more to buy their proprietary bullsh*t. That was not "elegant" in the least. It was extravagance for no reason. So I'm glad they chose to stay out of proprietary hard drives like they did with the 360.

My main complaint with them is that for every big thing they fix on their OS 10 little things go wrong. When they then fix those 10 things 1 big thing messes up. I do have the power supply noise or I should say used to but it's stopped for a long time now. Also my controller for whatever reason disconnects when my electronics are near. I'm not sure if that's because of the direct WiFi they chose to use or something else. Whatever send the signal out to the controller on my personal xb1 is messed up. So it gets under my skin to take out my rechargeable battries and then unplug my headset frequently. It may just be my particular console but it's fockin irritating. Especially with my Astros. Constantly disconnects.

[ScorpiusX]

E3 can't wait

[RosweeSon]

This new fangled AAAA games would be amazing but jokes aside just some seriously no arguments great games. Sure been a few good decent and ok games I'm talking epic timeless classics and talked about in years to come greatness.
Games!!!!!

[RosweeSon]

Sorry moldybread but when they were trying to charge £429 for them 2-3 years ago on launch there is no way they are gonna slim it down ask even now minus Kinect charge the price your trying to get $199. As for all the windows 10 stuff great for PC owners and sure a lot of Xbox gamers are PC gamers on the side come hand in hand with Windows but I'm not interested in the slightest it's the complete opposite reason as to why I buy these games consoles... To avoid PC's sure PC's have their benefits like some really cool mods and can have some ultra high defo resolutions (if your upgrading your stuff every other week) when the next bit new component comes out... No thanks I like buying a games console knowing it plays games knowing what I'll get from it not having to worry about the PC having too much other stuff going on and slowing down my game or making stuff crash or using keyboard and mouse sure you can use a Xbox controller on PC but again... No I'll play it on the games console that the controllers come free with. I have absolutely no interest in hooking up or mergin a PC to a games console other than to take photos and music from one to another. Games consoles are for Games! And if want games I'll get a games console not a PC/Xbox One-windows10 edition.
Also if you have a Xbox one and get the Windows 10 edition why do you need both they be exactly the same on the same controller and everything if you want it for mods and such just stick to the PC other Xbox it I don't see why people would want 2 copies of the same game each time surely you'll only play one before something else comes along. I understand cross buy for say ps4 (play it at home) Vita (take it with you) but you can't exactly put either your Xbox one or PC And Monitor and just take it out with you.

[RosweeSon]

To drop the console to $199 they'd have to slim it down and make it cheap... The complete opposite of what they need as what they really need is Xzibit to come in and Pimp their ride and Jazz it up a bit give it an update and relaunch it as such. If they do a just a slim can't see it going well.

[hiawa23]

MS just needs to keep doing what they are doing. The guys are hilarious who say they should just drop the price of the X1 to $199. How do you even arrive at that price? That certainly doesn't make for good business. Hell the 10 year old X360 is selling around that at retail so those who think the X1 will be at that price is on something.

You will see a $199 X1 when you see a $150-199 Wiiu at retail. Not going to happen. There is simply nothing MS can do to erase the bad launch, which has partly allowed Sony to get the jump on this gen.

I prefer the X1 over the PS4 although I game on both, as I enjoy PS4 exclusives lIke Uncharted, Killzone.

X1 is on par or better than X360 at this time so MS needs to continue as they have been, and just be happy with that. If they do plan on doing an X1 refresh they need to make sure it is at least on par or better than the Neo, spec wise, so at least going foward, the games have the same or better performance.

At this point they might as well throw everything at the kitchen sink, as their company will not rise or fall on the outcome of the Xbox platform.

[DopeTech]

Well, Xbox One is doing good nonetheless but to make it do better than good you'll need these things at E3:

1. Announce a new Xbox One Slim, priced at 249$ for 500GB HDD and 299$ for 1TB HDD.
2. Announce more new 1st party IPs and make it ONLY on Xbox.
3. Show off Crackdown 3's Cloud-based destruction and make more Ads about it, that would get people's attention.
4. Announce a new more powerful Xbox One, must be as powerful as PS4 NEO or more powerful at the same price tag and have some killer feature that will make people jump to Xbox 1.5.
5. Announce some changes to the Gold subscription model, If you're not subscribed to Gold, you can still play online for FREE but without the party chat and the free games and other goodies, and If you're subscribed to Gold then you'll get better games and more BETA access to games, make some special offers for Gold to attract people's attention into actually subscribing to.

If all these things that I've listed got announced at E3, you'll see a BIG jump to XBOX sales and attention, MARK MY WORDS!!

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

I think they should just have s cheaper version of Gold that doesn't include games with gold .

[ninsigma]

Your 5th point is very interesting I must say. Certainly something that would resonate well with gamers I think.

[DopeTech]

If Microsoft announced the Gold changes then It'll make gamers love and gravitate towards XBOX even more, this could be the bullet point of the show.

[ninsigma]

I think making it all out free would better serve that purpose but then that moves away from what ms loves which subscriptions. Your proposed changes keeps the company happy because most will still pay for online to have those features and gamers who just want to play online with nothing else will be very happy to not have to pay. I wouldn't say it would make gamers gravitate to xbox but certainly a lot of good will would be afforded to Ms and there would definitely would be an up tick in the number of users which is what they want.

[Trez1234]

I think the xbox need to attract a wider audience and that means more quirky/Japanese games ( AAA or AA). Those games have a very hardcore following especially around the world.

stop listening to its fans that keep dismissing those games. The " blockbuster only" mentality has to go and Spencer being a gamer means there's hope. I had a smile on my face when I read that article about Phil feeling the passion for banjo kaz.

[opinionated]

I think "appealing to a wider audience" is what got them into the shit in the first place. Joe Shmo doesn't give a flying crap that he can connect it to his cable box. If there is a steady stream of good games then the price doesn't matter. Don't aim to reach a wider audience, milk your core customers with great products. The growth will come naturally.

How to catch up: games, games and more games.

[T-Dawg6]

Aside from a slimmer system. What's to fix? The Xbox One is a great console they just need to keep doing what they are doing now.

[FallenAngel1984]

An Xbox console will never sell at a faster rate than a PlayStation console. Microsoft's gaming brand doesn't have as expansive a global appeal as Sony's gaming brand.

Microsoft should just be happy that their current console is their fastest selling one yet

[SegaGamer]

Saying the word fix imply's that it's broken, but it's not broken.

[MCTJim]

If they continue what they are doing, they will be fine. I don't think anything has to be fixed. I'm quite happy with the X1. With the team they have in place, the X1 will continue its success. Everything cant happen overnight.

[RedTfox]

You know what, if it's not broken, don't try fix it.
The truth is, yes the launch was bad because the leadership at the time was a bad one.
After Microsoft change his President (thank god) for Nadella and Xbox get Phil as new chief all i see are changes for the benefit of all of us consumers, much more than the competition.
Yes is true, they are in a position that they need of those changes, after so many bad decisions on the yearly days of Xbox One, but with the new heads on charge, they are really starting to listen their fans and changing for us.
I don`t see Microsoft like a "bad" corporation that only want our money, because in the end, all the companies want our money.
I`m excited for the E3, and i know that MS see Xbox as a division that has a great importance, no matter what haters say about it.