Do you guys not have internet?
Do you guys not have internet?
I can fart for sixteen reps in a row
They hated him not because he was wrong, they hated him because he was right. All the haters had internet connections, therefore they should have pre-ordered an Xbox One. Plain and simple. Only somalians without internet should have stuck with the Xbox 360, white men had NO excuse!.
sony were going to do the same thing until they saw the backlash
Wild how much bad PR this gave xbox. They are still dealing with the consequences.
Thank fuck this lily-white faggot's proposition for "always online" died on the vine
Kill Yourself.
Why the fuck would you need internet for a single player game?
Of course they were. Just like every corporation is salavating at the mouth watching people eat up the new mario kart being $80 + tip.
Don won.
I don't
Yeah it blows my mind we're over a decade removed from this and they STILL haven't recovered from this, one of the all time most nightmarish PR nukes
XBOX GO HOME
Nintendo is doing this now and there is no backlash.
I don't
what the fuck is the internet?
to download the license retard
it`s been more than a decade but i remember watching it live and shitposting about it here so vividly
Wild how Nintendo is getting away with the exact same thing.
Licence for what? You already have the disc
Go be a cuck somewhere else
Having to connect every 24 hours to be able to use your console isn't the same thing as having to connect once to perform an update to play your games. We don't even know if it's for all games or just OG Switch games
The problem: he wasn't a Nintendo employee, otherwise everything would be fine.
After all, it's okay when Nintendo does it.
Microsoft was right the whole time. About everything. Not just this.
"Pointless external checklists" are now a standard. Gaystation faggots love their trophies. Even Steam has them.
Endless criticism about "bbbuh what about my used games!!?". Nobody fucking buys physical games now. And they knew you wouldn't so it didn't matter, but everybody sperged out about muh rights.
We already have a system for people who don’t wanna pay $80 for shovelware. It’s called the switch 1.
this had nothing to do with why xbox failed by the way
Switch 2 rn
Consolefags still need to pay to access the internet on their consoles. That's like way worse.
Not an argument idiot
This had everything to do with why it failed. And unfortunately tendie cultists will make the switch 2 successful when it also deserves to fail.
Ugh. I really don't like Don Patrick.
Its okay when Nintendo does it isn’t one either yet there you went trying to make it into one.
Not for long, Xbox is reinventing itself as a part of Windows and getting rid of the home console for a dockable handheld.
My internet isn't reliable
"Its okay when Nintendo does it" it's not an argument, it's a fact.
Just remember when Sony tried to kill the PS3 and Vita online. Remember the backlash? Now, remember when Nintendo did the same with the Wii U and 3DS online? Nothing happened.
It's FACTUALLY proven that Nintendo is threated with kiddy gloves.
No one does.
xbox failed because they did nothing with the temporary success of 360-era online shooters where xbox became synonymous with gaming through Halo and Xbox live
their lead evaporated not even during the xbox one era but at the end of the 360 era when Halo died and online shooters were less culturally relevant and more spread out so that owning an xbox wasn't needed anymore and Sony had been building up their library of exclusives for years then
don't reply to me if you're a clueless redditor, clueless redditor
nobody cares about your aggressive idealism, Microsoft failed because they didn't know what to do with their
With their what?
Don't leave me hanging.
Why did American products drop so much in quality?
youtube.com
KILLS XBAWKS GO HOME
At first I didn’t understand why a tendie was trying to rewrite history. Then it hit me. Nintendo is doing exactly the same thing so you needed to carry water for them. Grim.
Their lives went to shit after 9/11
Maybe unironically someone should've told them to forget 9/11
Wait do some people have problems with achievements? I’ve always liked them, they give you pre-established challenges to pursue in the game beyond those in the game itself and you have no obligation to engage with them if you don’t care.
Xbox is reinventing itself as a part of Windows and getting rid of the home console for a dockable handheld
Streaming video games sucks big fat knotted dog cock with wifi, they're idiots if that's their plan.
Nintendo hasn't implemented them yet so they're shit
because nigtoddlers are stupid
I really just don't understand it. The only PC games that pull that scam are MMOs, and they are dying off for a reason.
Monopoly and anti-trust laws stopped getting enforced. The government tried to bust up Microsoft back in 1999, only for it to get reversed the year after.
Microsoft was never right about anything. They predicted market trends based on pure copiates, but not what would make for good videogames or even a stable and functional market.
Consequently in the current publisher and business major run hellscape of the AAA industry, we are seeing morons mindlessly rubberstamp Microsoft's terrible ideas on everything.
I don't give a shit about physical games, but you can't launch a console without physical games if you're not willing to give your audience full administrative control over it.
Digital games on PC function because I can do whatever I want to with the files and ideally don't have to deal with DRM, but that's not the case on consoles.
Xbone failed because it launched into a dead market.
the first xbox did too, given how hard sony owned the marketplace at the time
but they had games and a certain attitude that attracted a playerbase
if the xbone had done the same thing rather than pulling a PS3 in terms of arrogance, it would've worked
they could've also just shut the fuck up about the always online shit, too
This is the corporate clownworld we live in because America won't even genericize trademarks anymore
No, this is their plan
in 2027 release heavily locked-down Windows-based Xbox handheld that looks exactly like the Nintendo Switch 2 with BC but no access to third party storefronts and console-level optimization and updates that equal to the Xbox Series S in power but with AI upscaling
in 2027, for graphic/PCwhores release a $1000+ home console with BC and access to third party stores through the Microsoft Store but the console won't be sold at retailers like the handheld, only on the Microsoft Store
Xbox-branded partner devices fully running Windows made by third parties
first party games on other stores and consoles but mainly saved by rising prices of hardware chips
Xbox Cloud Gaming moving to Windows for streaming devices
That's basically it, handheld will be native.
for graphic/PCwhores release a $1000+ home console with BC and access to third party stores through the Microsoft Store
too expensive.
Might as well get a $1000 PC that allows ultimate freedom to do whatever you please.
I'm afraid things will get worse for PC. I mean it hasn't yet but Gaben has fifty yachts and I'm sure he wants his fifty one. Fat fuck and his bs censorship
It will steadily get worse yeah. New windows versions suck more and more ass compared to the previous, and linux is too fragmented and unfocused to ever be a real competitor. Even right now the 'best' way to play on linux is to use a bunch of programs that just fake windows calls.
That's the point, Microsoft is trying to intentionally kill the Xbox home console and replace it with an affordable dockable handheld at the same price as the Nintendo Switch 2.
What about SteamOS?
Steam has said its not going to be developed as a desktop OS, even if you technically can use it as one.
No I have a chip in my head that lets me mentally scream packets of data at passing government satellites and receive data by piggybacking off of botnets running on people's outdated IoT devices and internet enabled dishwashers.
If they made good games they'd have recovered just like the PS3.
The fragmentation and "lack of focus" is why it's such a good competitor.
All that companies have done by acquiring and centralizing other companies has been negative. At best they acquire a company only to shut down their software. I'm sure everyone just loved using Skype after Microsoft acquired it and "focused" it.
In the Linux space you can generally at least rely on someone maintaining something if it has any use, rather than killing it intentionally.
It is just Arch that doesn't trust the end user to not fuck up. To anyone with any sentience it can easily just be replaced with one of the more user friendly Arch derivatives.
test.
Almost like Wii U and 3DS were old news and the Switch has the games of the former already. Hell the only people that really complained were Splatoon 1 fans.
I'm not even a tendie but this is a non-issue in 2025. Fucking everyone has internet now, even if you live in rural bumfuck nowhere you can still get internet via satellite. If you have absolutely zero internet access, you must live in a remote village in Cambodia or something. In which case I doubt you'd be able to buy the Switch 2 in the first place.
paying extra to use your own internet with your shitbox "console"
indian post
Microsoft is trying to intentionally kill the Xbox home console and replace it with an affordable dockable handheld at the same price as the Nintendo Switch 2.
Nobody wants low-spec garbage. Nintendo only succeeds because of their high quality kiddie games with a cult following. If Microsoft tried the same thing it would flop so hard. Xbox fans aren't interested. PC players aren't interested. Sony players aren't interested. Nintendo players aren't interested. Normalfag phone/pad users aren't interested. Simple as.
I don't understand how Microsoft got so cocky after the 360 when Sony eventually beat them anyways.
"Its okay when Nintendo does it" it's not an argument, it's a fact.
Steam has said its not going to be developed as a desktop OS, even if you technically can use it as one
Proof?
You can still download your 3DS and Wii U digital purchases on those systems.
fucking hell
I still seethe at this
I genuinely cannot fathom caring about this.
We can't. MAG7 must carry the future of America's financial institutions (and the 401k sunce we got goyed into eliminating the pension system)
if this system implodes then there will be blood on the streets.
Xbox could have recovered from this fiasco, with some minor course corrections.
The man who truly killed Xbox was Phil "great games dont sell consoles" Spencer.
cancelled Phantom Dust 2 and Scalebound
Xbox Studios were forced to make tons of mediocre, undercooked games to fill the Gamepass catalog
wasted billions by acquiring studios like Bethesda and Activision, only to still release their games on other platforms
killed Tango
etc.
Saddly he is not from Nintendo, otherwise he would be fine.
i still cant believe how this blundered the GIGAHUEG advantage that M$ and xbox had over snoy and ps3
its one of the biggest fuck ups in gaming history. everyone went to ps4 and all the e3 clips of yushida or w.e. his name is sharing games and saying they allow offline literally ruined M$ xbox division for eternity
Self respect is a pretty killer excuse, but you wouldn't know about that
Phil Spencer not being all that competent either surely helped, but if there's no future Xbox console I'd give him most of the credit.
you're not lily white?
microsoft seeing themselves forced to abandon consoles is totally not a failure
Yeah, retard.
what do you mean flying across the sky on a piece of metal is going to kill you in 1825? I saw a guy do just that in 2025 and he was fine
You're not very bright, are you? You probably won't even have any idea what I'm talking about.
Quality is hard and adding diversity gets you just as much positive reinforcement, so they focus on that, because hiring a bunch of monkeys is relatively easy.
When Microsoft does it: END OF THE WORLD!
When Nintendo does it: That's fine.
gaben has a yacht rental company what an idiot
Kill yourself.
they did nothing with the temporary success of 360-era online shooters
There was nothing they could do. All of the 360 era online shooters were rapidly killed due to concessions made to the fact that they were console shooters. Lobby based P2P matchmaking, low playercounts reduced verticality, low FoV, huge viewmodels, aim-assist, etc. all contributed to genre fatigue, especially when the console audience dragged PC standards down with them.
Console shooters were shit and only sustained by an audience with an increasingly lukewarm intellect.
Shooters have always been the territory of PC, especially online shooters that can actually support dedicated servers and map editors.
Nobody wants low-spec garbage
Nobody wants to pay $900+ for a home console, PCs have a reason for costing that much but a console costing that much is suicide and Microsoft and Sony are going to be pushing for that when it comes to set-top boxes in the future. Telling Graphicfags to fuck off is a good thing, it'll also get rid of normies as well.
Xbox should have been Windows out of the gate, why does the PC Microsoft Store have more freedom than the Xbox Microsoft Store? Why is Microsoft competing with itself, it's stupid?
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Everyone is poor, no one liked the $500 and $600 PS3 either. Home consoles are fucked.
Profit at all cost.
I can't believe Nintendo got away with this...
Call others poorfag.
Buy consoles.