The original Xbox ushered in a new era of gaming for millions of people, and it introduced us to some of the most famed franchises and memorable characters, some of which we still enjoy to this very day. While it was a revelation for developers, gamers and global culture, the system ended up costing Microsoft quite a bit.
Xbox growth continues to disappoint, and interfere with its exec's pay bonuses, as Microsoft's CEO stops counting Game Pass entirely.
Puts things into perspective when Spiderman 2 managed to sell 2.5 million copies in 24 hours only on the PS5, a single platform.
...so does this mean MS will punish gamers even more now by taking away even more multiplatform publishers to try and make this turd a viable service model? They have proven over the last two and a half generations to be totally creatively bankrupt to bring anything new to gaming and all they do now is take.
Missed the goal but still showed growth.
Dom: It dont matter if you grow by a point or a percent... growing is growing.
Imagine theres still miniscule growth after call of duty is on gamepass? That would be hilarious.
Mena Sato Kato was previously the Vice President of Mobile Business for Sony.
"VP of Mobile Business"... could be beneficial once the ABK deal closes.
Good Xbox's new approach to Japan has been refreshing, and I'm hoping that this means more JRPG's come to PC through Xbox!
Here's how Xbox is supporting LGBTQIA+ communities this year - including a partnership between Xbox Game Studios Publishing and GLAAD.
This is cool. There is going to be hyper-correction of past idiocies and then things will level out.
Ouch MS that was a lot.
Majority of that lost come from that stupid Nivida deal they had at that time .
original xbox was awesome though
that generation ps2/GC/XboX was legendary
That's in today's money NOT the end towards 2005.
Xbox is still around so i'm not fussed..