Microsoft announced today a new digital game rental service called Xbox
Game Pass. Microsoft boasts that it will contain over 100 Xbox One and Xbox
360 Backwards Compatible games to be played on your Xbox One or Windows
device.
As consoles go, the SNES has quite the family friendly image. But, just like a Pizza Hut when you look at its hygiene rating or taste its pizza or breathe inside a restaurant, it’s not always good for everyone.
Even as the company sets out to overhaul the very definition of Xbox, cuts at its studios risk creating a negative image reminiscent of EA's worst era
I appreciate the article but this guy must be living in a delayed universe, The reputation was ruined 10+ years ago and hasn't recovered since. As such people have voted with their wallets and stopped buying Xbox products in large amounts.
Their reputation was lost way before that. From the moment Microsoft said they entering the console business, we all knew it would be a downgrade.
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Rumors of Turn 10 being either shut down or hit with massive lay offs is on the horizon.
The issue is MS will do something right only to do something very, very wrong. And they do this what seems calculative at this point. Doesn't matter what they do the Investors and leadership want more and more money an endless bottomless pit of purr insatiable greed. A company that acts like it's broke or hurting is what really, really infuriates me. They've surpassed apple again well over 3 trillion who acts like they're a million dollar company is fk stupid. Pivots and changes for no reason and can't do things for more than a year with out a pivot or changing their metrics.
That would be really bad since Phil just hyped up next year as a big Forza year at Summer Game Fest.
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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:
Switch 2 – 140,026
Switch Lite – 5,212
Switch OLED – 5,110
PS5 – 3,581
Switch – 2,442
PS5 Pro – 1,676
PS5 Digital Edition – 749
Xbox Series S – 107
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 47
Xbox Series X – 37
PS4 – 28
Nintendo - 152,790 units
PlayStation - 6,034 units
Microsoft - 191 units
Nintendo selling 25x as many units as the next closest competitor.
“ Nintendo Switch 2 still dominating in Japan”
Such a strange headline. I mean it’s a brand new console released on June 5th. It would be weird if it wasn’t still dominating in sales.
I figure its dominating everywhere. I stopped with consoles this gen sticking with PC and the switch will get 99% of the games this way.
Going strong sales! The Switch 2 was launched here in Southeast Asia on June 26. I was among those who pre-ordered. I got my unit the same day with Cyberpunk 2077, and there was a long line of people getting their pre-orders, not as long as the line when a NBA 2K series launched, but it was different because it will be released on all platforms.
I want to see how well the June and July world wide sales.
I am curious if this will impact their games with gold offerings. Meaning if they will have games overlap or if GwG will have games not offered in game pass each month. OR... if game pass would mean the end of GwG....? That would suck but if given a choice of $10 a month (I know there are cheaper rates) for 4 games (and online play) vs $10 a month for 100 games... I may drop the online play in favor of more games per month.
I don't really play much online anymore anyways. Hopefully there will be a yearly option as well.
It seems like the looked at EA-access and decided to bower some ideas for it, then offer to include other companies. The main differences here being the price and lack of a vault. The added benefit is obviously access to a larger variety of games from multiple publishers.
I would have preferred if they gave a yearly payment option. When you renew, you could pay $130 and call it Xbox platinum... obviously replacing the current Xbox platinum and put gold back to $50.
It's a rip off that's what it is, providing games that you would find on eBay for cheap on a subscription, yes that's right another subscription.
Don't be suprised when they start rolling out new games with subscriptions to continue playing as it's already been discussed. Not a season pass, a monthly fee.