It's been more than a decade but I still think about this lmao

it's been more than a decade but I still think about this lmao.
what the actual fuck were they thinking? The xbox brand basically collapsed and never managed to recover even to this very day.

Hubris from the 360, and since then it's pretty much all been Spencer's Mickey Mouse shit about playing anywhere. Nice guy, but he doesn't have that competitive spirit.

Mattrick killed any chance of xbawks competing with anyone

Xbox has pretty much always been a budget gaming PC

It could have recovered tho by now but the current fag is even a bigger fucking retard. No exlusives and taking your first party stuff to fucking sony? He should have been fired long ago for this insanity, but the xbox division has been run by literal retards since all the og gamers left since 2010

True, but he also inherited Moore's goodwill. In Spencer's defense he was left to lead scorched and salted earth.

Yeah... imagine a company doing that again. Won't it be funny?

I'm not sure how much of it is Phil's fault, the CEO of Microsoft wants to put software first and not focus on hardware locking things. He put Microsoft Office on Macs long before Xbox games were on Playstation consoles.

The Activision Blizzard acquisition was too big for Microsoft not to adopt the software first approach to Xbox, Call of Duty makes the majority of its revenue on Playstation. They'd have been buying Activision Blizzard to make them lose all their money which doesn't make sense.

How do you fix it? My plan would be to go all in on toxic masculinitiy, make Xbox the MAN BRAND. Have a bunch of hot oily muscles promote it, get mountain dew and matcha people to get discount codes.

The Activision Blizzard acquisition was too big for Microsoft not to adopt the software first approach to Xbox, Call of Duty makes the majority of its revenue on Playstation

What a fucking retarded take. No shit because barely anyone had an xbone. Make it an xbox exlcusive and everyone would have bought the console just to play it.

Mattrick basically GAVE the current generation at the time to Sony, who had a show not more than an hour later and instantly capitalized on the mistake of their competitor earning them millions of overnight consumers and fans.

Everyone at Xbox knew it was a disaster but to think they never recovered from this blow in an entire decade of business is just insane. Spencer just seems to care less and less and less these days, i wonder if he even knows they can't recover or have just lost their consumers.

ugly as fuck VCR-like design

all the first parties went to shit except gears and forza

unironically ruined the achievement system they themselves pioneered (360 let you earn stuff offline; xbone makes you play online for achievements to pop)

forced kinect

what a shitty console i miss the 2000s

He publicly conceded years ago. To him, losing the gen with Xbone was critical to consumer habits/commitment. The momentum Sony gained that gen was so critical that people are still buying PS5s despite it having like 4 games, tops. He's been coping ever since.

He was just too early. Almost everything he tried to push has since been accepted as the new normal by the regular consumers.

If Microsoft bought Pokemon, do you truly think tendies would buy an Xbox to play it? It's even worse with FPS games because there's so many f2p options that people can swap to instead.

Tendies are mentally ill cultists. CoD fans are the biggest normalfags in the entire world. If they can only play the game on Xbox they'll buy one, they dont give a fuck about brand loyalty and console wars, it means absolutely nothing to them.

No, they will play Apex instead because some of their friends won't upgrade to play CoD with them and playing with friends is much more important than playing CoD specifically.

Consider me detached from normal societal values or whatever but 24 hour online connectivity checks, even for single player games, are normal now? The inability to purchase ANY disc copy and sell it back hassle-free is normal now? Mandatory installations of an external camera staring at you at all times is normal now? I can accept the underlying implications of some of these as acceptable now but certainly not Xbone's implementation. It earned the ire it drew.

No, they will play Apex instead

You have no idea how these people work lmao, look up the reactions when ms bought the studio, 90% were like fuck this shit I have to buy an xbox now too

The videogame market experienced a soft crash in 2012 that only somewhat recovered years later, so everyone was launching their consoles with basically nothing. This was a natural consequence of the shenanigans pulled by publishers in the 2000s in response to 7th gen console adoption not increasing as much as it did in 6th gen.

Budget PC

Xbox has always been garbage that you buy on an integrated payment plan, it's not even worth being called a budget PC.
There was basically nothing to recover. Consoles ended after 7th gen, so whoever debuted second was going to inherit all of the momentum.

Arrogance from the 360 suscess

Sadly its not even close

what the actual fuck were they thinking?

they didn't understand their target audience

His problem was he was honest about his product

outsold by PS3

success

Xbox has lost every single console gen because it's always an inferior console which only americans are stupid enough to buy

The Xbox One didn't even do that bad it sold 60m which isn't great but it wasn't really bad either.

They basically had a bad year and a half at the start and decided to put all Xbox games on PC which was the nail in the coffin,They had a slight brand rebound when they announced Xbox One X/game pass but it didn't last

the ps3 only beat it around the end of the gen because of price cuts and marketing.
the xbox was a better console to buy since it was cheaper and played the same gaymes.
The only issue was the red ringing later on but they fixed it with the black model.

i unironically believe that the design of the og ps4 led to its success

the funniest thing about that famous clip is that the interviewer didn't even bring it up he just started talking about the products #1 flaw out of the blue

make online free and let people dual boot windows on it for steam and emulation (the console is literally already a windows computer).
This would make xbox THE console to buy, especially if they start making good gaymes again.

360 smoked PS3 until it threw the lead away with a Kinect focus. PS3 got it together, 360 lost it, and they basically ended neck in neck. Also, PS3 was still relevant a few years into PS4's life.

make deal that Call of Duty has to be a multiplat for 10 years with the platform holders and regulatory agencies

lmao never mind I'll just make it an exclusive right now

Are you fucking retarded?

“We decided to stop selling games. We are going to sell internet access.”

*dies brutally, laughed at by others and dragging down anyone involved crying and screaming*

Mattrick basically GAVE the current generation at the time to Sony, who had a show not more than an hour later

No he didn't, the Xbone reveal was done so far ahead of anything Sony was doing, it gave Sony time to backtrack on a lot of stuff they were planning for the PS4. That shit would've had as much online-only crap if Mattrick wasn't so desperate to get the first-to-market advantage again.

the xbone reveal showcases that the system will be online-only

sony see’s this fuckup and walks back similar things in order to gain an advantage and ultimately dominate

the switch 2 reveal showcases games costing $80 as the new norm

sony and microsoft see’s this fuckup and uses it as the go-ahead to jack their game prices to $80 as well

It’s impressive how the industry has learned all the wrong lessons

microsoft and sony know nintendo fans are retarded cocksuckers that will eat up anything so it's the perfect time to jack up prices alongside them.
Nintendo is an enigma because of their complete domination of the handheld market. The console market is basically just sony at this point too so it makes sense for them to force the change now.
Microsoft I don't even know what the fuck they're doing, they should be lowering prices not raising them kek.

I'm hardly sympathetic to the plight of these corporations but when you see all the shit happening to the global economy right fucking now, it's pretty savvy of them to use that as cover to raise prices. I hate them for it, but it's smart.

Funniest part about the price hike is that it was nintendo who got hit with the negative press instead of microsoft

microsoft: we’ll be bumping our game prices to $80

everyone: wtf nintendo, look at the new norm you set. This wouldn’t’ve ever happened if you weren’t so greedy to pull the trigger

Microsoft has been buried in obscurity for so long now that this is probably the most newsworthy thing they've done since launching Starfield. They shouldn't get away with it, but at this point hardly anyone remembers they're even around.

i went from a 360 to a ps4 but it was due to microsoft attempting to package an always-on microphone with the xbone. i know they ended up removing it but for me the damage was done

it's been over a decade

xbox one

Fuck off the 360 came out a few years ago

Turns 20 in a few months, my dude.

this thing, the gamecube and the xbox series X are the nicest looking consoles ever

360 is older than most of this board now

ship a model without an HDD

what the fuck were they thinking? my parents had no idea what a hard drive was back then so i ended up with the core pack for christmas. played the intro to NFS most wanted like a hundred times until i could find a 20gb HDD kek

Then why even fucking buy them not like fucking sony could have afforded them, phil is a fucking retard

Fortnite is Epic game store exclusive but you dont see people moving from Steam to EGS despite EGS having more store exclusives than Steam and all of this is free. What makes you think people will drop $500 minimum for a new console for exclusives? You're retarded.

reminds me of playing the ps2 without a memory card because my older brother didn't let me have his lmao

It's an american company, they thought americans wanted TV stuff and sports and beer on the couch rather than games
And they were probably right you know

never 4get