Liam at BoxPlay ponders the question of why anyone would want either Xbox or PlayStation to fail. Discussion on how competition benefits the consumer, and the worrying trend of negativity in the gaming community.
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As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".
"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
It's never ending of Console War. People want to win even they have to get rid of their competitors by any means necessary to climb to the top. For someone like @naruga and @donate are both want each of their competitors to fail miserably. "Sigh" I remember how much I freaking piss off of these two. @Naruga is like the Sony fanboy who hate Microsoft from get go, even that he completely hate Western Games and Superhero games which I find his hate is completely ridiculous. And @donate, the guy hate Sony from get go even Sony made one or tiny mistake he will go even further to hate Sony. I read his comments and he really want to get rid of Sony like for real. "Sigh" Like I said, people will do anything to win and want their competitors to lose.
And don't get me started with GreenGangsta aka Rookie Monster who is psychotic spamming Xbox fanboy. I have to deal with that freaking son of ****** for very long time.
I don't want Sony to fail and shut down. I just want them to leave the console gaming industry permanently.
They can keep making TVs and cameras but leave gaming to Nintendo and Microsoft. This arrangement would work out better for all gamers and the industry as a whole.
The time has come for us to embrace innovation and prosperity. Microsoft will lead us to a bold future.
Lots of people on this site would be jumping for joy if the Xbox went away
i think we need both companies to compete, this would be great for the consumers.
as much as i dislike ms as a company (just look at the bs we have to deal with using windows os, word, excel, etc). you have to recognize they did good (generally) with the xbox. but given half a chance they would turn full ms on you, just look at the bs they tried to pull when they first annouced xbo.
regardless we need xbox to do well to keep sony honest. seriously after the huge success of ps2, sony was being pretty arrogant as well. not ms level bs, but given the chance? sony's refusal for crossplay for me is indefensible. and i think their refusal to bc (while i dont care so much about this) is also not consumer friendly.
Xbox did good (and bad) for the gaming industry, but sony is no angel.
ms is doing a bad job for Xbox one so far, but they have reacted by doing a lot of consumer friendly moves, which is great.
but all in all sony is just killing it right now, with the awesome quality games they got releasing on ps4. they deserve to be doing well.
but i hope Xbox will improve and keep the competition going. as consumers we going benefit from the competition