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Indie devs! Showcase your game at E3 2018 in the PC Gaming Show

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If you're working on something exciting, let us know and it could appear on stage this year!

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‘I think Xbox hardware is dead’, says Microsoft gaming veteran

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One of the founding members of the Xbox team has questioned Microsoft’s multiplatform gaming strategy, and said they believe the Xbox hardware business is effectively “dead"

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Goodguy0121h ago

Think that rumor that they'll still make a new console but at a profit at $1000 will be true though. The series consoles will remain their cheap alternative throughout next gen I would say. Keep in mind that game pass and pretty much going 3rd party is their main focus. They want to bring xbox everywhere.

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GamerRN46m ago

If they don't maintain some kind of console presence, I think they will lose gamepass subscribers and just become a 3rd party publisher who eventually sells everything off

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Futureshark9h ago

A slow, painful and public death too.

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Elda9h ago

LOL!

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MaximusPrime_9h ago

Well she's not wrong. Most of us agree Xbox's future is already on a path to nowhere..
Sounds like she regretted helping MS to compete with Nintendo and Sony in computer gaming business

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dveio9h ago

They've tried, but died.

The best years I remember Xbox ever had were between 2008/9 to 2011.

(Ironically even then, when they've pushed software, they suffered a hardware flaw.)

They are definitely exiting the console hardware business the way they see fit.

But ultimately, Microsoft/Xbox are still going to try to push Sony Playstation out of business. I can already feel the next bitch move incoming.

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Don't agree... best years were 2004 to 2008 with Halo 2, big E3 shows and announcements, exclusive titles, risky bets, support for the developers community, a friendly platform, innovation, catalogue and a lot to do with Xbox, as well as esports, indies, big titles, big partners... those were the years. After 2008 it was a decline and following others... nothing really to be proud of as a supporter of the Xbox ecosystem.

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dveio7h ago

"Don't agree."

That's absolutely okay, and actually, your explaination is quite right.

In my thoughts I just came from from the direction of "the Xbox brand turning into a healthy business decision for Microsoft with growing reputation".

But ofc, looking from a fan perspective, your point of view is correct, too.

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rudero0m ago

The majority of Microsoft’s push were third party deals, early content on third party games, marketing and advertising.

Take away their third party deals and they had next to nothing besides halo, fable, and forza.
That “push” of the 360 launch was all to gain market share… they succeeded, then cut Peter Moore and the rest is history.

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I agree with both of you. Xbox best years where 04 until about 2011 when they started the whole kinect rubbish.

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Kinect was when I switched off.

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dveio4h ago

And I agree here, too.

It's no myth and ain't no legend of ill will - but it is what it is:

When the Xbox One was being prepared, their executives, driven by totally unrealistic, non-gaming related business decisions, failed 7 years of a console generation even before D1.

(And they did so again with X|S.)

That's life.

When I go too late to any appointment or even to a store, I can't blame anyone else but me if I'm not let in anymore.

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Bingo dveio

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gold_drake8h ago

which is sad, they have all the resources in the world and still.

its just ridiculous how badly they've been doing since and right after the 360.

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1Victor20m ago(Edited 19m ago)

@gold: “its just ridiculous how badly they've been doing since and right after the 360.”
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They got struck with the 3rd console curse, a few things got wrong for ps3 and Xbox2/360 got in first and cheaper giving them a massive ego boost to release their 3rd console however they wanted regardless of their customers wish same for their 4th console (current).
I hope they eventually get it right although it seems now that big daddy(MS Corporate )got the credit card bill he’s is now approving everything and mom( investors) wants to see results fast it’s highly unlikely to see another console unless the next one is a MASSIVE SUCCESS in the like of the Wii or the switch. 🤷🏿

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Nothing new, nothing to see, look away.

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drivxr8h ago

engagement farming

I have lost count of how many Xbox funerals I've attended over the decades.

Yet the Xbox keeps spawning new hardware somehow.

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MaximusPrime_8h ago

What new hardware? Dont tell me it's that ASUS Rog handheld gimmicky ?

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3h ago

"Only these 4 games"

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She doesn't need to engagement farm lol, she's literally one of the reasons the original xbox and 360 were so good...

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Ofourse she needs views, anyone posting vids on youtube does, your using engagement farming in a negative way, like what she's saying has no merit because she has a youtube channel.... she has more knowledge of the industry than all of us commenting combined, xbox isn't what it was or what she helped build anymore, and she has a right to express it if she feels🤷‍♂️

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IRetrouk2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

Isn't that her point?
Also playstation posted a record breaking fy result, and announced their profits are higher at this point in the gen than all previous playstation gens put together... only ones been falling apart....not the industry.

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2h ago

Ofcourse they have, just like any company, if something isn't working it's axed, sad, not nice, but true🤷‍♂️
The simple fact is it's not the industry that's been struggling, it's xbox, that's why we have xbox games on playstation, everything is an xbox and this whole exclusives are bad narrative at the mo....

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MetroidFREAK218h ago

Been dead since 2013

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Exthun6h ago

She made some fair points, but missed others. At Microsoft, “openness” means a multi-store ecosystem—not embracing open-source like Linux. And I’ve said it before: without exclusives, why buy a new Xbox? Other consoles offer stronger exclusives, and you can still play Xbox games elsewhere. Add in layoff rumors and the shift toward cheaper hardware via partners like ASUS, and it feels like Xbox is drifting from its first-party identity. As someone who’s invested in this ecosystem for over two decades, it’s honestly disheartening to watch.

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anast5h ago

The Oracle was right.

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Aloymetal5h ago

Yup. She whispered...''You' re not the one'' Have a cookie instead...

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hollabox4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

I knew the Activision deal was going to cause ripples. I figured they would go third party publishing through Activision given the cost of the purchase. Like, it would take decades to make up the difference. According to Tweaktown, Xbox profits last quarter was only $790 million off $6.5 billion in revenue. That's roughly 11 cents profits for every dollar earned. I think the cuts coming this week or next week will seek to push profits up to 15 cents for every dollar earned. If Xbox gets up to $3.2 billion in profits per year, it will take about 20 years to pay for the Activision purchase. Xbox as we know it is gone. The whole Xbox everywhere advertisement was done to soften the blow.

With that said, Xbox everywhere is a joke. Xbox Cloud painfully slow, blurry, and artifact heavy. I've tried it on my TV using the Xbox app, on my Xbox 1X, and my Xbox Series X. All suffers extreme lag, macro blocking artifacts, and they were all blurry. Like, try Ninja Gaiden 2 Black on X Cloud. Wow, it couldn't keep up, and that game you need quick twitch response time. Indiana Jones was ok, slower game, but it was extremely blurry. I tried another random game I don't recall, and the lag made it unplayable. It felt like dial up lag from the 1990s. Unless they improve performance, Xbox everywhere is going nowhere. Maybe non gamers are ok with that level of performance? I certainly did not find Xbox Cloud performance acceptable and don't recommend it.

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Knightofelemia3h ago

The writing was on the walls the 360 was Microsofts hay day. After the 360 things started to go down hill after the XB1 things really went down hill for Microsoft. Two major purchases, jacking up the price of an Xbox, Xbox not appearing on store shelves for months in some areas, being dead last in sales, Microsoft shutting down studios. Hopefully that Asus Xbox does well I am thinking about one. But if it fails I see Microsoft going the route Sega chose just skip the hardware and focus more on the software side. Use Xbox as a studio brand with Xbox studios appearing on games cases like Sony using Playstation studios on game cases when they port games to other machines.

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New Flight Simulation Hardware Revealed by Moza

Abriael|1d 6h ago |News|0|

Hardware manufacturer Moza debuted several new hardware peripherals for flight simulation at FlightSimExpo 2025.

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PlayStation Plus-Exclusive Weekend Offer Launches on PSN This June 27

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The PlayStation Plus-exclusive PS Store Weekend Offer has some big-name franchises discounted for a limited time.

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raWfodog1d 19h ago

Cyberpunk 2077 finally hit that sweet sale price for me so I went ahead and picked it up. I just started playing Dragon’s Dogma 2 though so it’ll be a while before I delve into Night City. Looking forward to it though.

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