Some are saying the Xbox 360 was "the best ever". That doesn't mean it didn't make some huge mistakes on the way - so ScreenCritics decided to take a look back at the 10 biggest!
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
Microsoft & Xbox have shut down Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks to lay off more workers, insinuating that they're not in the game anymore.
They're headless for a long time because closing tango isn't exactly a good move
Everyone's acting now that game companies care about games and Xbox is committing the Ultimate betrayal, they are all like this and you have just been quiet about it for far too long
I wonder if Microsoft do pull out of the console market that it might open the door for valve to relaunch the Steambox. Competition is good for the industry but Microsoft don't even seem to be trying anymore.
“Your game has won some pretty significant awards and is a show piece for where we want to go in the future.”
1 hour later.
“We’re gonna have to let you go. You can’t cover our 100 billion dollar acquisition. Oh and take your awards too 👍🏾”
Sega has released its financial statement for the 2023-24 fiscal year, and profits may be up, but it's mostly not down to video games.
Faceplates and the core? Had to dig deep there. And launch day stock shortages? Gonna hold that against the Wii as well? RROD and the live outage are real issues. The HD DVD didn't really hurt anyone. It was an option but honestly as a consumer I would never pick a side in the middle of a format war.
I think this should have been a 5 point list. The 'core' edition, DVD scratching, RROD,Kinect obsession and subscriptions for subscriptions. The last being the fact that using some subscription based services like Netflix and free services like Youtube are behind the XBL Gold paywall. Absolutely bonkers.
RROD. I've never had a console die on me in 11 months. Never went back and bought a PS3.
The most glaring issue was the lack of quality exclusives compared to PS3.