@@FortniteOG420 as of June 2024 Minecraft had 172 million players that mont that is a dead game now I know I why don't work for Microsoft I mean 172 million
@NTGJaguar They quite literally increased the player count 10x by doing the right thing and porting it to every single platform instead of locking it down to Xbox and PC as an exclusive, which is 100% what Nintendo and Sony would have done have they bought Mojang. Yet it's somehow "dead" lmfao. People usually just don't think before they speak when it comes to Xbox.
@@digiornopizza3469 i was getting at it wasnt dead 172 million is not a game there read between the lines Im on PC I dont have dog in this race but Microsoft killing Minecraft is slap ass stupid and makes no sense
@@jimmynuetron9255 tango game works was a hidden gem of a studio. What a shame. If Phil wanted his own collection of classics to compete with Sony, they were right there.
Xbox made 20 green metascore games out of 23 first party games since the begining of this generation. Xbox won Publisher of the Year 2021 thanks to the highest annual average metascore ever in History until today ! People should thanks developers instead of lying by saying none of Xbox games is good or good enough ! That's UA-camrs that destroy video games and Xbox, not MS that invest billions in Xbox !
A business does what's best for the business buying studios is the safer bet, especially when it's a purchase that allows you to get cod. Also can take teams from the Activision merger to make new exciting IPs.
That press conference in 2013 was the day I stepped away from Xbox…and moved to PlayStation and honestly I don’t regret it. I got to play games I never got to play and games that I wanted to play!
but you do really, low key you kinda hate having to pay for cloud saves and having the shittier version of game pass and are really worried about playstation's roadmap when concord is what you are being offered, but it's ok, you aren't missed 😂
Gotta love the fact they also decided to now charge 75 bucks a year to play online now, what a joke, shows you how much they actually care about they're long time fans, this ain't the golden age anymore, we are in the dark ages.
You fans didn't care enough to support the brand so what did you expect? Bragging that gamepass was the best deal in gaming, how that turn out in the long run?
The irony. Xbox started the whole "pay for online with subscriptions" and Sony followed suit. Now, Sony raised prices of subscriptions and Xbox has followed suit. Console gaming has fallen.
@@krilzlocc1977 Absolutely comical how everyone bragged about "Day One! Free on GP Day One!" and now most won't even have it day one unless they pay a premium
@@KindofBradAtThis240 USD a year for mid xbox games and okay indie games that would be more cheaper to be buying it than subscribing to gamepass, is so funny to me. theres literally 0 reason to get an xbox let alone gamepass. funny, even the ps5 is useless tbh, just their exclusives are carrying. same with nintendo
Fans be going for that case of mental gymnastics. PlayStation + 35% price increase for 2 hours demos and streaming older gen games. No one bats an eye. Gamepass ultimate goes up by £2 even though it includes day and date exclusives ,cloud gaming ,ea play . Fans lose their mind
@yomamasohot6411 Even though PlayStation is a higher selling console, I'd bet money PlayStation is gonna die first. For instance, xbox knocked it out of the park with their state of play. Most of PlayStations' new games are remakes (aside from stellar blade and hell diver 2) Why was PlayStation so scared of cod being on gamepass? It's pretty simple the console space is made up of 90% casual gamers,who tend to play games like. Fifa Cod Fortnite Madden Nhl Minecraft Why will people spend 70 bucks on one game when they could spend 14.99 a month and get cod alongside 100s of other games?
I am halfway through and I JUST KNOW that this is one of you're best videos yet. I am in love with your editing style, speech, humor and everything. Music and sounds are great and are never at the wrong volumes too. I don't wanna sound like I'm glazing but I love your videos and if I ever start up a channel, yours would be what I would look at as an example
I agree. This is one of my favorite videos about modern gaming and the problems with the industry. Most videos just blame everything on microtransactions
I think gaming is going to go back the physical route. If you look at the movie community a lot of people are dropping streaming services and going back to purchasing movies physically
I have over 2000+ physical games spanning over 40 years on many different consoles and handhelds, but these are the last dying gasps of the physical game. If I were to bet, I'd wager the next console generation will be the last console generation to have physical games.
i like anything the amazing Japanese of nintendo & sony playstation does over anything the americans of microsoft xbox do anyday ...Long Live Japan & Japanese/Asian Games!
@@1moblin2 Japanese devs have been just as stagnant as western devs. Just look at the hundreds of mediocre grindy JRPGs they sh*t out in the last 15 years, who wants to waste 100+ hours of their lives on a game that is just okay?
Someone better pick up the phone because I f***king called it. I had a felling Microsoft was going to take a massive sh1t on the Xbox brand after a stellar reveal of games and Fanboys called me a pony, Sony fanboy, and other stupid names. Microsoft doesn’t care about players everyone is a dollar sign in their eyes.
That crucial part “streaming doesn’t work, look at what they did to music and movies”…. If Xbox wins all gamers will lose. Practically steam, Nintendo and ps are carrying gaming as we know, being different enough to don’t let themselves monopolize the market. But with infinite money glitch Xbox can destroy everything
I remember my uncle only wanting an xbox cause of cuphead but he held off as all his friends were on PlayStation. He was so happy when it came to the ps4 a couple years back lol.
I'm not really an xbox guy, I'm primarily playstation, the bulk of my xbox play time even now comes from playing my rgh 360. So I don't play current xbox games, but I don't want Xbox to fail. That would be really bad. When Sony gets too comfortable like they did with the success of the ps2, we get a PS3 with 20gb at $500 and a 60gb at $600. When they get comfortable, they think they can do anything. Thankfully they capitalized on their success with the ps4 into the ps5, but going into the ps6 I hope they don't get drunk on power again.
They're already getting drunk, I think. The PS5 console in and of itself is awesome, but it's a barren wasteland when it comes to next gen first party titles.
Jeebus, that amount of editing is crazy for just throwing a poob in eggsbox's face. I like that little purple playtatatotopus thingie. Needs some serious headpats.
I believe that Xbox Decline started at 2010 with E3 2010. An E3 they spent 20m on core games and then spend the rest of the time on Kinect and varied apps. This direction Microsoft continued with during 2011 and 2012, which created the meme of Forza,Halo,Gear. Because it seemed like they could only release these games in addition to the Kinect games.
@@Jlacker xbox 360 first 4 year consisted of more then just fps. amped 3 crackdown dead rising viva pinata banjo kazooie 3 fusion frenzy blue dragon lost oddsey your in the movie xbox own buzz games Edf 2017 Project gotham Forza Fable Gun Dead or Alive Lips serie Naruto broken/ Rise Saint row 1 Ninja Gaiden 2 Chromehounds And we can also add the wast amount of arcade And indie games+ all the noone exklusive games. E.x
Xbox fell with the Xbone and never got back up. It's always been a back and forth between Xbox and Playstation. One gets cocky and blows it then the other shows up and takes over. Xbox and PS2 pretty neck and neck but PS2 won out. PS3 dropped the ball, Xbox 360 cleaned up for that gen. Then Xbone dropped the ball, and PS4 cleaned up that gen. Now, both are fumbling. PS5 at least still has games, tho
I hate how xbox people say "Engagement is what's important". Then I come with the PlayStations engagement numbers (3.8 Billion hours/month) and they won't so me theirs. It's not fair.
@@jimmymac2292 That's what I'm thinking about, you are as a gamer you play games and you take the best deals, who gives a fuck about comoany's financial shit
@RealSoulFireStudios sure, you are allowed. But it's weird having emotional connections to studios to the point of not letting go. Furthermore, Zenimax wasn't able to keep them and remain sustainable. Be mad at Microsoft, but it's likely theybwould have been closed even if Microsoft didn't purchase Zenimax
@@ForzaJuventus-z5h But you don’t actually own the games. They are subscriptions. What happens when the game is removed from Game Pass? Or you don’t have internet? You kinda are f***ked over.
E3 1995 ($299) & E3 2013 was greatest E3's ever. Sony completely obliterated all competition. but that Sony 2013 E3 was the most funniest, craziest, most insane, most loudest of people screaming non stop, most out of this world complete destruction of xbox i ever seen. microsoft & xbox still can't come back from what happened to them on that day. i never seen anyone get roasted bad like that in E3...... we will never see another E3 ever again all because Sony stopped coming to the events & yes we all know that E3 was, might as well say, basically created by Sony in 1995 showing off their PlayStation consoles & their games which is mostly the only real reason why people even came to E3 events literally
you could've also gotten into the weird parasocial relationships Xbox execs formed and endorsed with their fanbase - especially Xbox-centric influencers, who have created numerous echochamber communities where they celebrate this weird "sports-team" console warrior mentality. Spencer and Game Pass were literally deified - especially during the ABK deal.
Peter Moore, the man who led the Xbox 360 to greatness, knew exactly what gamers wanted, SEGA hired him at the end of the Dreamcast's official tenure and sales rose until they finally discontinued it, and then Xbox took him on for the Xbox 360. But then, they hired Phil Harrison whose track record included botching the PS3 launch whose entire premise was "Wanna see me do it again?" (He also went on to launch Stadia if that's any indication of Microsoft's infinite wisdom in choices). And suddenly it became all about making money over making good things. It's sad because they'd only been going up until that point, now it's just a corporations money maker. Not saying the PS5 is any better with its total of zero games that can't be played on a PC and PS4, but Xbox was supposed to be the chosen one. Losing Peter Moore was their biggest mistake, he'd have won them the 8th generation for sure and then, we'd have a Xbox with personality, good games, and fun for all instead of just Microsoft's money maker, discount PC.
Sony: *takes a beloved game from over 100 countries who paid for it and had months to play it only for it to be taken* Everyone: I sleep Microsoft: *raises the price of something that was already relatively underpriced for what it offers* Everyone: *REAL SHIT?*
Pretty sure everyone made a big stink about what Sony did. It forced Steam to refund everyone and people cancelled their PSN/PS+ subscriptions. Now on the opposite side of the spectrum, I expect no one to do anything about this GamePass stuff. They'll still pay for it and most will even get the new premium plans.
They don't want to lose the connivence of it, but the reaility that they all need to understand is that connivence is not guaranteed and Microsoft is going to abuse the hell out of this for all it's worth. Just like literally every other streaming platform out there, they want so badly to make people think owning your game or other media is bad so they actually can go all digital and then nickel and dime you for all your worth. People need to stop making excuses and stop letting these guy's steal their hard earned money.
Omg, I just realized Xbox is the equivalent of Syndrome from The Incredibles. While Sony and Nintendo have a natural aptitude to identify great teams and solid games, there is Xbox with its infinite wallet trying to compete with the supers. Now Xbox is jumping ship to PC, they push closer and closer to having a Sega moment and just becoming a publisher. I hope Xbox recovers with E-Day and Fable and shows the industry they can still foster great games in-house, because without them it lets Sony return to their PS3 arrogance, and no one wants to see that.
@@admiralalyssa Sony has already started to show that arrogance. Apparently, for the upcoming Sonic Generation X Shadow game, they did pay for exclusive content, but it’s what they made exclusive that confused me. The thing that they made exclusive for their platform only was additional prologue cutscenes, I kid you not.
@@MemecastGuy There is no point crying about exclusivity when it has been an industry staple since it's inception and used by every player on the field. You may not like it but it gives the platform the edge it needs. It will never change.
Microsoft being around won't prevent Sony being arrogant. You also gloss over Microsoft overpricing the Xbox 360 and Xbox One when they had actual competition. Typical American.
Fable looks awful, it's only saving grace is MAYBE the gameplay but since we've seen so little of it I'll hold off on that. E-Day is just a CGI trailer proof of concept and judging by the last two GoW games, I doubt they have the vision to even make it work. If those two games are Xbox's last bastion... it's over. Not that it matters, anyway. Ever since the start of this gen, Xbox has wanted to shift to being the Netflix of gaming with its GamePass. Phil already admitted that they don't care about making games anymore, and it's selling less consoles than its competitors. Studios THEY BOUGHT OUT put out a game and then Xbox closes them down. There is no future for Xbox like this.
At so obvious that nobody at Xbox is in sync on when the time is right to cash out. Like obviously that's the whole point of their business eventually. Right now they probably don't make a lot of profit because clearly they are dead last and have a small customer base. So they need be the "good guy" and throw out some bones to gamers to lure them back into the ecosystem so they can start milking them later. But its clear to me that they internally haven't a clear leader on who decides what when that has come. Like why would you make a good deal like game pass and invest a lot of money and time in getting great backwards compatibility that gets people excited while at the same time acting desperately to turn Halo infinite into a microtransaction profit generator or try to sell the most expensive SSDs with a huge markup (I'm talking about the expansion cards) and now jacking up the prices of gamepass. Like if you are constantly flip flopping between "doing great stuff" and "doing horrible stuff" people are gonna mostly remember the horrible stuff and the good stuff might as well be worthless.
Not once have I reached a point where I seriously considered buying an Xbox and it's because of how stupid their decisions can be. Like Sony's not immune to stupid either especially recently but Xbox somehow out perfoms them in that area every time. Ontop of that they never had a defining idenity compared to Sony or Nintendo, if you were to ask a random person what Xbox's best series is chances are they'll either be confused or need a minute to think about it. And the answer will almost always be Halo and nothing else. But if you were to ask that same question for Playstion and Nintendo you'd get a bunch of different answers instantlt. My point is that Xbox does'nt have the first party icons that can draw people in guaranteed, and that's because they spend too much time on what everyone else is doing as opposed to how to build out their core idenity. It's all finally catching up to them and they just refuse to own up to any of it. I want Xbox to still be around but that won't happen if they keep doubling down the path their currently on.
"Contemplating your life and how you got to that moment" That's what I was thinking missing out on all the PS4 Exclusives everyone was raving on about. Now I have a PS5 and found out I wasn't missing much with these Walking Sims and other samey Exclusive games. Also I heard the PS2 had the best games at the time. And it was a dvd player! How could you not be satisfied!
Man. It is quite crazy how Xbox, how they were once a promising console manufacturer, and could be a worthwhile competitor to PlayStation and Nintendo. Has essentially become a laughing stock and the joke of the gaming industry.
I like the point you made about the ps plus game trials but the problem with it is it’s on the most expensive tear off ps plus which isn’t really worth the money especially in Australia where I live.
Halo Infinite was rewarded : * by the international press with a metascore of 87, the best in the franchise in more than 13 years * by the industry and devs with 2 GOTY awards : best action and best multiplayer, at DICE Awards 2022 * by the players with the Player's Voice GOTY at the Games Awards 2021, and with 20 millions players on the two first months (30 millions after a year) Moreover, people created 2.3 millions maps 1 year after The Forge was released in Halo Infinite, which is huge, and which is a proof the game is still living.
I hate how obvious the problems with Xbox are both to see coming and in hindsight. I have 0 experience in corporate yet I could fix the problems overnight, I'd stake my life on it, but because I'm not a bloody soulless suit in the big club I'll never get the chance to prove it.
I just wanna say that I never EVER had any faith in XBox. They’re so “corporate” that they don’t understand what makes gaming GREAT. I saw it when they unveiled the very first XBox. I knew it back then and I’ve been saying it since. I don’t consider XBox a serious contender in the gaming sphere.
@@osets2117 Saying they're "too corporate" is also so idiotic. Do they also think Nintendo is just a small little company of guys making video games for fun and not of the biggest corporations in Japan, literally so ruthless they crush their own fans under lawsuits and cease and desist orders? If they said they didn't like Xbox because they're green it would've been a more profound statement than whatever this is.
@@lSeKToRl This has nothing to do with console wars. Did you watch the whole video? The video explains why xbox doesn't have good new games. They fired game developers
Microsoft wants to replace Xbox with subscription services. EU, UK and FTC ought to just break Xbox away from Microsoft and charge the corporation with anti-trust measures. Screw the MS bootlickers.
What I find interesting is Microsoft has all the time in the world to re start the shut down studios and they also have said it was a mistake to shut down Tango but yet here we are and they're still shut down... The Xbox 360 was so successful because the games were so good and weren't woke, broken or greedy. The Xbox 360 had soul and was made by passionate devs who genuinely liked the games they were working on example Gears Of War devs adding in things like speed reloading that made the game so much better and loved by literally everyone. Halo 3 was so good people literally brought a console just to play that game. No new games are good enough to go and buy a console just to play them and that's part of why console is dying. Great games create great memories and those great memories creates love for those games, franchises, consoles, Xbox brand and the entire company. The reason Xbox is dying at a very fast rate and why people are playing older or old games is because of Greed, Wokeness, Microtransactions, Subscriptions, Memberships, Loot boxes ect... Gamers hate that garbage fact. We don't want any microtransactions, subscriptions, wokeness ect... it ruins games completely and destroys the entire franchise, console, console brand, all respect for the company and the companies reputation. This is why Microsoft is suffering so much financially. No one literally no one wants wokeness, live service games, digital games, lazy broken games, greed ect... These things are the leading causes of why games sell so terribly and why people are just not buying games but until Microsoft learn this they will just keep destroying themselves and Phil Spencer is not the correct person for the position he is in imo. His not a gamer, he doesn't care and just does what Microsoft tells him to do and it's what we currently have which is well.... dog shit. Game Pass is good in theory but in reality isn't purely because Xbox Live access used to cost $80 yearly and then $90 and now $140 for basic Xbox Live access and that's just terrible and bullshit. Microsoft are forcing players to buy Game Pass Ultimate or they get 0 perks but it's $240 yearly.... also there are no good games period. The modern gaming experience is woke, microtransaction and subscription filled broken buggy live service digital garbage so naturally no one wants an Xbox. Backwards compatibility isn't the correct decision to make and never was even tho it is nice but Sony did it right. Just put the disk in from an old or older console and it just works on the new one at a higher or smoother fps it's why gamers love it.
It was only successful due to am*r*c*nts buying everything and the PS3 being released too late, not because of the games. Even the Xbox One had a better launch than the 360 despite having no games, but unlike the 360 it didn't had the kinect to save it. Most of the thing you complain about like microtransactions and propaganda were all started by the Xbox 360 and the Original Xbox.
One more thing I want to point out. Nintendo didn't take pay cuts and refuse to fire employees out of the goodness of their hearts. Japanese protection laws are in place to stop this from happening, it can still happen but they'd have to go to court and convince the judge that this is indeed necessary. They didn't lay people off and fire them because doing so would have been illegal.
@@tio8194 I didn't insult anyone, I'm stating facts. And do you really think he would have taken that pay cut if the law didn't basically force him to?
@@MrEffectfilms i looked it up before i commented and everywhere it says he did it “willingly”. The Wii U was a massive failure and id bet he couldve fired employees within the confines of the protection law but the japanese have a different work culture than the west. I forget the actual quote and i cant find it but he essentially said “how can i expect employees to do their best work if they feel like their job is threatened?”. And look at them now
@@MrEffectfilms i know the video game industry is cutthroat and greedy af but is it so crazy to believe there is ONE man out there who cared? Say what you want about their business practices and how they sell their products, they definitely can be petty af lol, but Miyamoto was an artist and had a real love for gaming.
@@tio8194 It's entirely possible he's a saint in a world of scum, yes but I don't know him and so I'm hesitant to make such assumptions. All I know is that he didn't fire anyone and Japanese job protection laws likely wouldn't have let him anyway.
I'm convinced they're killing the day one tier over time or at the very least jacking up the price to the point where it doesn't make sense. Standard is what Gamepass should've been to be sustainable. Sony had the right idea with their tiers: offer first party games that aren't selling well anymore on the subscription over time. Sony double dips with their model: they keep their cheap audience on the hook with the subscription while the people who want the games upon release can pay full price as usual.
I feel like there's a way to reconcile having Game Pass as an all-time deal while not anhilating developers. First, I think they have to abolish the day one release strategy 100%. I would stay subscribed even if AAA games came out several months after release because Game Pass is best for games that you would like to play, but wouldn't spring the money on normally.
This explained a lot. Makes me incredibly worried for all the other studios under Xbox's control... Also I found out through this video that Arcane Austin were the people behind Dishonored. That makes me wanna cry, dishonored is one of the best stealth games I've ever played :(
So the Arkane thing is really interesting and confusing for a few people! To make it even simpler for people: Lyon: Dishonored 1, the DLCs, Dishonored 2, DOTO, Deathloop Austin: Dishonored 1, the DLCs, Prey, Mooncrash, Redfall While Dishonored will exist without Austin, they’ve lost Harvey Smith and Ricardo Bare. Smith was co-director on Dishonored and director on Dishonored 2. Bare worked on Dishonored and was the lead on the Daud DLC AND lead designer on Prey! Unbelievably dumb move on Microsoft’s part
the 360 was pretty much the last good Xbox console, overall I know the Xbox series X|S is very powerful basically the same as the ps5, but they screw everything up in this console gen. Microsoft ruined Minecraft by um, “better fucking together update”
Man, can't we just all play on whatever we want on and not summon these haters who watch a 33 min long video about someones opinion. Xbox and PS are both consoles, pretty much the only difference between them is that PS has more exclusives, which is not that big of a deal.
Ive always been an Xbox gal, less by choice and moreso because I've had my account since the 360 days and really dont wanna move platforms and lose everything I have in the Xbox ecosystem Every year though its harder and harder to defend them. They keep buying and closing studios, ruining series I like, claiming to be pro consumer and game preservationists despite constantly showing the opposite Just please get your act together y'all
@@kickusernamei wish I could but for my family and me Xbox is always cheaper, and also I’ve been a Xbox bro since the original Xbox *I didn’t get it on launch day but it was my first console since I was pretty broke*
@@nothingtoseehere8336 Dude. My first console was a 360 and an OG Xbox. And I switched to PS+PC. Brand loyalty is stupid, they don't care about you. Lol ''Xbox bro''. Buy what suits your needs, not because of some loyalty.
@@nothingtoseehere8336 That's fine then. I was just saying. Buy what suits your needs. That's Xbox. For the controller and the games. My point is, don't buy something out of loyalty.
From what I remember, Don Mattrick wasn't kicked out, he left for Zynga without telling anyone. One day, everyone at Xbox just woke up, and the CEO was gone lol
Didn't Phil Specter learn anything on his way up the ladder? 'I'm the King of the Hill now and with billions of dollars at my disposal' all the while twisting the ends of his mustache like some cheap dime-store novel villain. 'I know, I'll buy the competition and make their IP's mine and then fire all the dev's and call it 'restructuring' - genius. I've always owned a Playstation and now with the buy out of Bethesda Studios to Microsoft and they are making their IP's exclusive to Xbox. This is the first time I'm considering buying an Xbox.
You saw Starfield and you still want Bethesda's products? Bethesda STRONGEST tool, their modding community, is giving up on Starifeld because they refuse to drop the modding kit and the game is just bad in general. The modding community. Bethesda's modding community is literally the strongest and even THEY gave up? Bethesda is done. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize, I almost got a Series X just for Starfield, too, but then it dropped. Doesn't help that Bethesda only releases one game every decade.
videos like these are very fascinating. gamers are finally realising that the industry is dead in the water, and are attempting to diagnose why. point the finger at loot boxes, microtransactions, live service, whatever. the problem is you. its always been you. gamers are terrible game critics, and woefully uninformed (ignorant) consumers. gamers, in general, dont know what does into making a game, how much it costs, how the industry works, they couldnt tell you what makes a good game good and a bad game bad (that, or theyre bad at articulating it). things cannot get better if the consumer does not even know what better means.
In my opinion Xbox needed to wait on announcing new games like GoW EDay and Doom until 2026 when they announce a new console. They already accepted defeat for this generation, so they should have only mentioned games they previously announced so that in 2026 they could come out swinging for next gen.
MS hasn't cared about Xbox sales this generation. Ultimately, getting their games onto every tv via streaming is their main goal and has been for 4 years. They want billions of people paying for crap in their catalogue of games, not just millions.
I feel Xbox set a terrible precedent that every AAA corpo follows. You no longer own your games in PS5 even used games do nothing since you no longer own it, you just own a license that can expire at any time they want. The PS5 became what the Xbox One wanted to be at launch. An online only nightmare
Why does this lie keep spreading lol The majority of ps4 and ps5 games comes in the disc which doesn’t require internet to install and play, try GoW Ragnarok, Elden Ring, Baldurs Gate 3, The Last of Us they all work right out of the disk But some minority do require online, like CoD, FIFA (sports games I assume all work like this) and even Gran Turismo 7 requires online to play
Care to explain? I still own all my PS5 games that I bought on Bluray. Now, arguable, it's sad how unfinished some games are on those discs, and how some of them are very buggy without the day-1 patch... but the one thing that the disc definitely gives me is ownership.
@@Raigeki-SC And Gran Turismo is a PlayStation franchise. There's also the PS5 slim that requires the internet when you swap your drive and Sony focusing on online-only games. You can't deny they're following Microsoft's path.
Ill always have slight hope for a new HALO game, the new Perfect Dark looks amazing imho, and DOOM DA looks awesome also. Fable looks promising.........but until they release the games and theyrte genuinely good games consistently for years, people wont have hope in the brand.
Idk about yall but I don’t really give a shit about this weird corporate stuff, probably because I still play original Xbox and 360 games a lot. But yeah, every company does shady corporate shit, very common. So honestly, just choose the console you like.👍
Phil doesnt make the final decision at the end of the day even if he is "CEO" of xbox still answers to Microsoft and share holders. All he can do is try to pursade them to his side.
Here after the Avowed delay which they all but said they delayed because they have too many games coming this holiday. I'm almost wondering if this delay strategy is part of their monetization effort to get people subbed months out just to not play a game they expected to. They're just so ass at keeping a schedule its crazy.
@@KindofBradAtThis Yeah. My reason for that boils down to that it has more games on it that pique my interest. As good as the online services of the Xbox 360 were at the time, I always saw the Xbox brand to be something that's really only special if you're into first person shooters. (which I'm not) Until very recently with games like Hi-Fi Rush, if you aren't into FPS games, there's not much else that Xbox offers that PC and other console brands don't.
I had a 360 and I will tell you I'm not blinded by the nostalgia to say that ps2 was a better product to have than the 360. because of xbox we have to pay to play online across the board because people will continue to pay and not question why a basic feature is locked behind a pay wall. I admire that pc players didn't let this slide when xbox tried to pull this with them
They may suck eggs now, but the _single_ thing that’s carrying them is the BC (backwards compatibility) program. But for how much longer now their goodwill is imploding?
I don't care about game pass. But the online should be free or have a cheap option that just gives you multiplayer access. Xbox has gone out of their way time and time again to screw over the old guard that made the brand what it is today and honestly, I think it's time to move on to pc.
I've switch to steam for a majority of my games. Mostly for trying out a new platform, but seeing this slop of a company, I don't know if I wanna play Xbox anymore. Sure, steam is another company by the same shitty practices. But it's better for the moment. I do play live service from time to time, and that's fine, but mostly, I'd like to own what I pay for, not a ever rising in pticr subscription that can be revoked at any time; If I can find it and run it, I use GOG. I want to own my games. The only reason I use steam and Xbox, is cause they have games that are not on gog yet. It better yet, I mostly play Xbox because I love For Honor, but because Ubisoft is a giant shitstain, and refuses to support cross progression, moving to another platform with the game erases all the hours and characters I earnednin the game.
Sony should absolutely swoop in and pick up tango Gameworks or the people that worked there and on the rights to the evil within and go ahead and make the third game PlayStation exclusive!!! All this bullshit from Xbox ... I don't even care anymore. All I do is play older games anyways... Xbox shutting down tango game works was the dumbest thing they could have because it was one of the few developers that made games that felt like exclusive AAA quality ?!?!?!?!? Both the evil within one and the evil within two were awesome !!! I have both of them on PS4 and on Xbox!
@@Tactical_Kitten I hate that it feels like this company tricked me into being a supporter for 20 years now and I was born in 2003. Respectfully, I’m done dumping money into this trash fire
Absolutely worth talking about too! SONY/PS aren’t angels. As I said, they only care about cheddar and as we see with the HD2 account thing, they have big issues, but at the end of the day, they make great games.
Don't recall him defending Sony much at all in this video except for the justified point of how the PS4 humilated the Xbox one simply by not sucking as much. But that's the thing as stupid as Sony can be sometimes and god you don't need to tell me how stupid they can be. Microsoft always somehow manages to do even worse than Sony every single time.
@@Cloud-dt6xb nah I’m not saying he is but I be seeing hell of people come for Xbox and yeah fasho they do fuck up a lot but coming from somebody that’s been wit ps they whole life they fuck up a lot especially with the recent shit
In the early 2000s I wanted the PlayStation 2 over original Xbox. All of the JRPGs were what I was more into at the time, and those were all on PlayStation 2.
microsoft is making bad moves,But at least we have better game preservation than sony and nintendo. they let us play some banger 360 titles disc or digital like all the old cods Mw2-Bo3,fight night champion, gta4 with all DLCS.
True but I could just you know download ROMs before they disappear and if someone want them I could possibly give them the ROM (but I'm not saying I have the ROMs for legally reason XD)
@alexjackyperson101 pirating is a good skill to have, but xbox backwards compatibility actually enhances the frame rate and resolution in alot of thier titles along side it being validated with your own copy of the game. worth supporting imo.
Hey, guys, here's a secret. Come closer. A little closer... A liiiitle bit closer... VOTE WITH YOUR GOD DAMNED WALLETTTT!!!!!! Now that I've got your attention, seriously, vote with your wallet. Companies won't listen to some damned video. They only listen to Dollars. Or Yen. Or even Euros. The point is. Is you ACTUALLY wanna try and make a change, vote with your wallets and tell everyone how convenience over buying physical media and supporting small creators can be harmful. And also how just chasing the mainstream is bad for the growth of smaller content creators who're not directly from tiktok. I'm sorry, it's the truth. Unpopular opinions do exist and we need to embrace them. We need to be our own unique selves, and embrace art and be our own goddamned compass in this. Not ever support dogshite.
However; a decade or so back a company called swrve got ahold of some of this data for mobile games at the time and published a fun breakdown. www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/ 2014/03/01/why-its-scary-when-0-15-mobile-gamers-bring-in-50-of-the-revenue/? sh=4941df240659 0.15% of a games total user base accounted for over 50% of the money generated.
@@KindofBradAtThis Indeed. Because micro transactions and people are dumb. They're complaining and supporting bad practices at the same time. The best we can do is send the message by voting with our wallets. And making our people aware of the dangers of falling for conveniency and popular games over the better existing stuff out there.
Microsoft killed Minecraft, they killed Conker, they killed Viva Piñata, everything Microsoft touches dies
once microsoft touches me ill die
Well said Walter
@@FortniteOG420 as of June 2024 Minecraft had 172 million players that mont that is a dead game now I know I why don't work for Microsoft I mean 172 million
@NTGJaguar They quite literally increased the player count 10x by doing the right thing and porting it to every single platform instead of locking it down to Xbox and PC as an exclusive, which is 100% what Nintendo and Sony would have done have they bought Mojang. Yet it's somehow "dead" lmfao. People usually just don't think before they speak when it comes to Xbox.
@@digiornopizza3469 i was getting at it wasnt dead 172 million is not a game there read between the lines Im on PC I dont have dog in this race but Microsoft killing Minecraft is slap ass stupid and makes no sense
I have officially awarded this channel the highest honor I can bestow: Watching while eating.
lets. fucking. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Congratulations on the achievement
Xbox: We need more good games in the future to make money
Also Xbox: *Buys every single studio and immediately shuts them down*
@@jimmynuetron9255 tango game works was a hidden gem of a studio. What a shame. If Phil wanted his own collection of classics to compete with Sony, they were right there.
@@OogLavaStudio thats why the OUYA is the best console ever 🤷♂️
@@OogLavaStudio its in this video
@@jimmynuetron9255 “THIS is for making better games than we EVER will!!!!”
Xbox made 20 green metascore games out of 23 first party games since the begining of this generation.
Xbox won Publisher of the Year 2021 thanks to the highest annual average metascore ever in History until today !
People should thanks developers instead of lying by saying none of Xbox games is good or good enough !
That's UA-camrs that destroy video games and Xbox, not MS that invest billions in Xbox !
"Don't be an Asmongold."
I gotta subscribe now.
I vow to never have a bet cockroach!
@@KindofBradAtThis Or smearing blood to his walls and left it there because he is too lazy to clean them.
Subbed, too. Asmongold and Luke Stephens are the worst.
@@petrelWoo what’s wrong with Luke? I get asmongold but I think Luke has insightful opinions
Solid take ngl
I just hate how Xbox chose the lazy route and instead of making interesting new games they buy COD and Fallout.
And then the next fallout is 10 years away minimum 😭
@@KindofBradAtThisbruh didn't fallout 76 come out in 2018... Wait that's been 6 years already. Damn fallout fans about to wait 16 years ☠️
You must have missed the last decade of cool games and the showcase from june
says south of midnight indiana jones.. on and on stop it with the lies
A business does what's best for the business buying studios is the safer bet, especially when it's a purchase that allows you to get cod. Also can take teams from the Activision merger to make new exciting IPs.
That press conference in 2013 was the day I stepped away from Xbox…and moved to PlayStation and honestly I don’t regret it. I got to play games I never got to play and games that I wanted to play!
@ConnerFilms Playstation sucks two where are the games they are really no different then xbox you think Sony is the holy grail
@@ConnerFilms you're joking right? That was loke 12 yrs ago and you're still on that? Lol
@@ConnerFilms Xbox360 and PS4 is the combo to have. I have enough games and backlog to last me a lifetime.
And now you have to move to Xbox again because PS releases games like Concord...
but you do really, low key you kinda hate having to pay for cloud saves and having the shittier version of game pass and are really worried about playstation's roadmap when concord is what you are being offered, but it's ok, you aren't missed 😂
Everybody seems to forget how they buried Project Spark, and Fable Legends
@@Logan-bd6fq I didn’t. And fable legends getting canned made my friend put xbox one last on his list of consoles to buy at the time.
Phil Spencer?
More like Feels Pettier (than any other living human)
@@Litnigmkween and here I thought Lies of P was just a game name
Fail Spencer!
6:12 Okay not gonna lie, the crowd being dead silent at that segment was actually hilarious
Playing Glover is my favorite past time. Shitting on Xbox’s bizarre business decisions is a close second.
If this comment gets 5k likes, I'll make a video about Glover
@@KindofBradAtThis I don’t think there are more than like 5 Glover fans in existence tbh
@@KindofBradAtThis This is outrageous. It's unfair. How can you say you'll make a glover video and demand likes for one.
@@TJOEL20 if there are 5 glover fans in the world, I’m one of them.
If there are NO glover fans in the world, I’m dead.
@@ryanseegmiller225 Bradith giveth, Bradith taketh
Gotta love the fact they also decided to now charge 75 bucks a year to play online now, what a joke, shows you how much they actually care about they're long time fans, this ain't the golden age anymore, we are in the dark ages.
You fans didn't care enough to support the brand so what did you expect? Bragging that gamepass was the best deal in gaming, how that turn out in the long run?
The irony. Xbox started the whole "pay for online with subscriptions" and Sony followed suit. Now, Sony raised prices of subscriptions and Xbox has followed suit. Console gaming has fallen.
@@krilzlocc1977 Absolutely comical how everyone bragged about "Day One! Free on GP Day One!" and now most won't even have it day one unless they pay a premium
huh? it's still cheaper than ps+ and prices naturally go up over time... what more can u ask for?
"I say 60 but now we say 70 for some reason" lmao
THEY LITERALLY MAKE MORE PER SALE NOW THAT EVERYTHING IS DIGITAL!!!! RAAAHH
I wish I could still pay 70$ for a game (crying in Canadian dollars)
@@foufoufun atleast you’ve got Tim Hortons 🥲
@@KindofBradAtThis Yeah, Tim Hortons is great... when they are not out of crispy chicken.
Raising the gamepass price is so annoying
Paywalling day one games is definitely a strategy
@@KindofBradAtThis240 USD a year for mid xbox games and okay indie games that would be more cheaper to be buying it than subscribing to gamepass, is so funny to me. theres literally 0 reason to get an xbox let alone gamepass. funny, even the ps5 is useless tbh, just their exclusives are carrying. same with nintendo
Fans be going for that case of mental gymnastics.
PlayStation + 35% price increase for 2 hours demos and streaming older gen games. No one bats an eye.
Gamepass ultimate goes up by £2 even though it includes day and date exclusives ,cloud gaming ,ea play .
Fans lose their mind
@@rhysoneill7399 Have fun watching your beloved Xbox die a slow death. I'll be sipping tea playing Xbox games on my PS5.
@yomamasohot6411 Even though PlayStation is a higher selling console, I'd bet money PlayStation is gonna die first.
For instance, xbox knocked it out of the park with their state of play. Most of PlayStations' new games are remakes (aside from stellar blade and hell diver 2)
Why was PlayStation so scared of cod being on gamepass?
It's pretty simple the console space is made up of 90% casual gamers,who tend to play games like.
Fifa
Cod
Fortnite
Madden
Nhl
Minecraft
Why will people spend 70 bucks on one game when they could spend 14.99 a month and get cod alongside 100s of other games?
“Sucks” would be an upgrade from their current status.
The “ always online feature” is the reason why I switched over to Sony. I actually like to own the games I pay for 🤷♂️
I am halfway through and I JUST KNOW that this is one of you're best videos yet. I am in love with your editing style, speech, humor and everything. Music and sounds are great and are never at the wrong volumes too.
I don't wanna sound like I'm glazing but I love your videos and if I ever start up a channel, yours would be what I would look at as an example
Wow, thank you! This just made my day
I agree. This is one of my favorite videos about modern gaming and the problems with the industry. Most videos just blame everything on microtransactions
I think gaming is going to go back the physical route. If you look at the movie community a lot of people are dropping streaming services and going back to purchasing movies physically
no they're not
Nope.
I have over 2000+ physical games spanning over 40 years on many different consoles and handhelds, but these are the last dying gasps of the physical game. If I were to bet, I'd wager the next console generation will be the last console generation to have physical games.
I definetly hope so, it's helping that these companies just keep showing why you don't want a digital only future.
Physical is 99% gone.
Digital is very much more profitable and easier for consumers.
I hate it personally, but I'm not surprised either.
Nintendo and Sony are shady but they know how to do their job to shut us up.
What multi-billion company is not "shady"?
@@bellissimo4520 exactly, what I meant they aren’t incompetent.
They have satisfying rebounds after few slowdowns or letdowns.
i like anything the amazing Japanese of nintendo & sony playstation does over anything the americans of microsoft xbox do anyday ...Long Live Japan & Japanese/Asian Games!
Sony, not so much these days. Nintendo, yes
@@1moblin2 Japanese devs have been just as stagnant as western devs. Just look at the hundreds of mediocre grindy JRPGs they sh*t out in the last 15 years, who wants to waste 100+ hours of their lives on a game that is just okay?
Fun fact Xbox is going to get sued see there is a rule with buying Activision that they cannot raise the price for game pass...
Do you really think they didn't plan for that? The base game pass is still the same price, the deal had nothing in it about multiple plans.
@@osets2117 mate when I bought PC gamepass it was 11.99 a month but now it's 14.99
you really think a company worth 3.3 trillion dollars would lose a lawsuit with so many obvious loop holes like multiple plans.🤣
@@ShawnSmith-420 the same people think Microsoft wouldn't be able to purchase Valve
@@osets2117 hey you should watch this whole video cuz then you can learn something it's called they raise the price.
Someone better pick up the phone because I f***king called it. I had a felling Microsoft was going to take a massive sh1t on the Xbox brand after a stellar reveal of games and Fanboys called me a pony, Sony fanboy, and other stupid names. Microsoft doesn’t care about players everyone is a dollar sign in their eyes.
That crucial part “streaming doesn’t work, look at what they did to music and movies”…. If Xbox wins all gamers will lose. Practically steam, Nintendo and ps are carrying gaming as we know, being different enough to don’t let themselves monopolize the market. But with infinite money glitch Xbox can destroy everything
I remember my uncle only wanting an xbox cause of cuphead but he held off as all his friends were on PlayStation. He was so happy when it came to the ps4 a couple years back lol.
Only to learn that it is so god-damn hard that he'd never get past the 1st level...
I'm not really an xbox guy, I'm primarily playstation, the bulk of my xbox play time even now comes from playing my rgh 360. So I don't play current xbox games, but I don't want Xbox to fail. That would be really bad. When Sony gets too comfortable like they did with the success of the ps2, we get a PS3 with 20gb at $500 and a 60gb at $600. When they get comfortable, they think they can do anything. Thankfully they capitalized on their success with the ps4 into the ps5, but going into the ps6 I hope they don't get drunk on power again.
Well said
@@MegaDrainProductions Yeah, seriously. Sony can get comfortable and end up churning out garbage. Competition is good!
They're already getting drunk, I think. The PS5 console in and of itself is awesome, but it's a barren wasteland when it comes to next gen first party titles.
Jeebus, that amount of editing is crazy for just throwing a poob in eggsbox's face. I like that little purple playtatatotopus thingie. Needs some serious headpats.
Game pass ultimate is at 20 dollars a month now, this aged like fine wine
I believe that Xbox Decline started at 2010 with E3 2010.
An E3 they spent 20m on core games and then spend the rest of the time on Kinect and varied apps.
This direction Microsoft continued with during 2011 and 2012, which created the meme of Forza,Halo,Gear. Because it seemed like they could only release these games in addition to the Kinect games.
It always sucked, most games on it were mere FPS for casuals.
@@Jlacker
xbox 360 first 4 year consisted of more then just fps.
amped 3
crackdown
dead rising
viva pinata
banjo kazooie 3
fusion frenzy
blue dragon
lost oddsey
your in the movie
xbox own buzz games
Edf 2017
Project gotham
Forza
Fable
Gun
Dead or Alive
Lips serie
Naruto broken/ Rise
Saint row 1
Ninja Gaiden 2
Chromehounds
And we can also add the wast amount of arcade And indie games+ all the noone exklusive games.
E.x
Xbox fell with the Xbone and never got back up. It's always been a back and forth between Xbox and Playstation. One gets cocky and blows it then the other shows up and takes over. Xbox and PS2 pretty neck and neck but PS2 won out. PS3 dropped the ball, Xbox 360 cleaned up for that gen. Then Xbone dropped the ball, and PS4 cleaned up that gen. Now, both are fumbling. PS5 at least still has games, tho
I hate how xbox people say "Engagement is what's important". Then I come with the PlayStations engagement numbers (3.8 Billion hours/month) and they won't so me theirs. It's not fair.
Show me MAU numbers
I will never forgive them for closing Tango Gameworks. It’s that simple.
Same with Sony but for Japan Studio
I think you need help. Business of any sort are not worth being this emotional about
@@jimmymac2292 That's what I'm thinking about, you are as a gamer you play games and you take the best deals, who gives a fuck about comoany's financial shit
@@jimmymac2292 I'm allowed to be upset at a successful game studio that I really liked closing for no reason, my dude.
@RealSoulFireStudios sure, you are allowed. But it's weird having emotional connections to studios to the point of not letting go. Furthermore, Zenimax wasn't able to keep them and remain sustainable. Be mad at Microsoft, but it's likely theybwould have been closed even if Microsoft didn't purchase Zenimax
I hate subscription based. They did it with Autodesk and Adobe. Those companies used to have One-Time Purchased products.
Lol Gamepass is the greatest thing in gaming history
@@ForzaJuventus-z5h But you don’t actually own the games. They are subscriptions. What happens when the game is removed from Game Pass? Or you don’t have internet? You kinda are f***ked over.
Yes. Microsoft sucks. They are trying to keep up with Sony's constant Ls.
Xbot hate for PS is real. lol
Xbox one and the win 8 is huge mess that they bricked a world record of destroying a successful thinks in a seconds
E3 1995 ($299) & E3 2013 was greatest E3's ever. Sony completely obliterated all competition. but that Sony 2013 E3 was the most funniest, craziest, most insane, most loudest of people screaming non stop, most out of this world complete destruction of xbox i ever seen. microsoft & xbox still can't come back from what happened to them on that day. i never seen anyone get roasted bad like that in E3...... we will never see another E3 ever again all because Sony stopped coming to the events & yes we all know that E3 was, might as well say, basically created by Sony in 1995 showing off their PlayStation consoles & their games which is mostly the only real reason why people even came to E3 events literally
you could've also gotten into the weird parasocial relationships Xbox execs formed and endorsed with their fanbase - especially Xbox-centric influencers, who have created numerous echochamber communities where they celebrate this weird "sports-team" console warrior mentality.
Spencer and Game Pass were literally deified - especially during the ABK deal.
Peter Moore, the man who led the Xbox 360 to greatness, knew exactly what gamers wanted, SEGA hired him at the end of the Dreamcast's official tenure and sales rose until they finally discontinued it, and then Xbox took him on for the Xbox 360.
But then, they hired Phil Harrison whose track record included botching the PS3 launch whose entire premise was "Wanna see me do it again?" (He also went on to launch Stadia if that's any indication of Microsoft's infinite wisdom in choices). And suddenly it became all about making money over making good things.
It's sad because they'd only been going up until that point, now it's just a corporations money maker.
Not saying the PS5 is any better with its total of zero games that can't be played on a PC and PS4, but Xbox was supposed to be the chosen one.
Losing Peter Moore was their biggest mistake, he'd have won them the 8th generation for sure and then, we'd have a Xbox with personality, good games, and fun for all instead of just Microsoft's money maker, discount PC.
I grew up with Xbox I hope they'll be okay
Sony: *takes a beloved game from over 100 countries who paid for it and had months to play it only for it to be taken*
Everyone: I sleep
Microsoft: *raises the price of something that was already relatively underpriced for what it offers*
Everyone: *REAL SHIT?*
Pretty sure everyone made a big stink about what Sony did. It forced Steam to refund everyone and people cancelled their PSN/PS+ subscriptions. Now on the opposite side of the spectrum, I expect no one to do anything about this GamePass stuff. They'll still pay for it and most will even get the new premium plans.
It's incredible how people create conspiracy theories to criticize the least good thing about the Xbox...
They don't want to lose the connivence of it, but the reaility that they all need to understand is that connivence is not guaranteed and Microsoft is going to abuse the hell out of this for all it's worth. Just like literally every other streaming platform out there, they want so badly to make people think owning your game or other media is bad so they actually can go all digital and then nickel and dime you for all your worth. People need to stop making excuses and stop letting these guy's steal their hard earned money.
Omg, I just realized Xbox is the equivalent of Syndrome from The Incredibles.
While Sony and Nintendo have a natural aptitude to identify great teams and solid games, there is Xbox with its infinite wallet trying to compete with the supers.
Now Xbox is jumping ship to PC, they push closer and closer to having a Sega moment and just becoming a publisher. I hope Xbox recovers with E-Day and Fable and shows the industry they can still foster great games in-house, because without them it lets Sony return to their PS3 arrogance, and no one wants to see that.
@@admiralalyssa Sony has already started to show that arrogance. Apparently, for the upcoming Sonic Generation X Shadow game, they did pay for exclusive content, but it’s what they made exclusive that confused me. The thing that they made exclusive for their platform only was additional prologue cutscenes, I kid you not.
Sony is also focusing on PC . Whats your point?
@@MemecastGuy There is no point crying about exclusivity when it has been an industry staple since it's inception and used by every player on the field. You may not like it but it gives the platform the edge it needs. It will never change.
Microsoft being around won't prevent Sony being arrogant. You also gloss over Microsoft overpricing the Xbox 360 and Xbox One when they had actual competition. Typical American.
Fable looks awful, it's only saving grace is MAYBE the gameplay but since we've seen so little of it I'll hold off on that. E-Day is just a CGI trailer proof of concept and judging by the last two GoW games, I doubt they have the vision to even make it work. If those two games are Xbox's last bastion... it's over. Not that it matters, anyway. Ever since the start of this gen, Xbox has wanted to shift to being the Netflix of gaming with its GamePass. Phil already admitted that they don't care about making games anymore, and it's selling less consoles than its competitors. Studios THEY BOUGHT OUT put out a game and then Xbox closes them down. There is no future for Xbox like this.
At so obvious that nobody at Xbox is in sync on when the time is right to cash out. Like obviously that's the whole point of their business eventually. Right now they probably don't make a lot of profit because clearly they are dead last and have a small customer base. So they need be the "good guy" and throw out some bones to gamers to lure them back into the ecosystem so they can start milking them later.
But its clear to me that they internally haven't a clear leader on who decides what when that has come. Like why would you make a good deal like game pass and invest a lot of money and time in getting great backwards compatibility that gets people excited while at the same time acting desperately to turn Halo infinite into a microtransaction profit generator or try to sell the most expensive SSDs with a huge markup (I'm talking about the expansion cards) and now jacking up the prices of gamepass.
Like if you are constantly flip flopping between "doing great stuff" and "doing horrible stuff" people are gonna mostly remember the horrible stuff and the good stuff might as well be worthless.
Not once have I reached a point where I seriously considered buying an Xbox and it's because of how stupid their decisions can be. Like Sony's not immune to stupid either especially recently but Xbox somehow out perfoms them in that area every time. Ontop of that they never had a defining idenity compared to Sony or Nintendo, if you were to ask a random person what Xbox's best series is chances are they'll either be confused or need a minute to think about it. And the answer will almost always be Halo and nothing else. But if you were to ask that same question for Playstion and Nintendo you'd get a bunch of different answers instantlt. My point is that Xbox does'nt have the first party icons that can draw people in guaranteed, and that's because they spend too much time on what everyone else is doing as opposed to how to build out their core idenity. It's all finally catching up to them and they just refuse to own up to any of it. I want Xbox to still be around but that won't happen if they keep doubling down the path their currently on.
"Contemplating your life and how you got to that moment"
That's what I was thinking missing out on all the PS4 Exclusives everyone was raving on about.
Now I have a PS5 and found out I wasn't missing much with these Walking Sims and other samey Exclusive games.
Also I heard the PS2 had the best games at the time. And it was a dvd player! How could you not be satisfied!
Man. It is quite crazy how Xbox, how they were once a promising console manufacturer, and could be a worthwhile competitor to PlayStation and Nintendo. Has essentially become a laughing stock and the joke of the gaming industry.
Xbox is solely the reason why I’m about to become a PlayStation guy instead of an Xbox guy
I like the point you made about the ps plus game trials but the problem with it is it’s on the most expensive tear off ps plus which isn’t really worth the money especially in Australia where I live.
Halo Infinite was rewarded :
* by the international press with a metascore of 87, the best in the franchise in more than 13 years
* by the industry and devs with 2 GOTY awards : best action and best multiplayer, at DICE Awards 2022
* by the players with the Player's Voice GOTY at the Games Awards 2021, and with 20 millions players on the two first months (30 millions after a year)
Moreover, people created 2.3 millions maps 1 year after The Forge was released in Halo Infinite, which is huge, and which is a proof the game is still living.
I hate how obvious the problems with Xbox are both to see coming and in hindsight. I have 0 experience in corporate yet I could fix the problems overnight, I'd stake my life on it, but because I'm not a bloody soulless suit in the big club I'll never get the chance to prove it.
I just wanna say that I never EVER had any faith in XBox. They’re so “corporate” that they don’t understand what makes gaming GREAT. I saw it when they unveiled the very first XBox. I knew it back then and I’ve been saying it since. I don’t consider XBox a serious contender in the gaming sphere.
Just admit you're biased lil bro. Even if you hate them, you'd only stand to lose as a Sony/Nintendo consumer from watching them go.
Saying they're not a real contender is being moronic
@@osets2117 Saying they're "too corporate" is also so idiotic. Do they also think Nintendo is just a small little company of guys making video games for fun and not of the biggest corporations in Japan, literally so ruthless they crush their own fans under lawsuits and cease and desist orders?
If they said they didn't like Xbox because they're green it would've been a more profound statement than whatever this is.
@@digiornopizza3469comparatively, Xbox has 3x more employees
@@KindofBradAtThis comparatively, xbox is also owned by the richest company in the world so they are naturally gonna have more employees
Bro jumpscared me with the bright space online assignments.
@@senrey6625 doing one right now 😔
As someone much older and has been following the gaming industry since this youtuber was a dipers. I can say. This diper reeks of fanboyism.
Fries in the bag gramps. We don’t do console wars here
@@KindofBradAtThis Farming console war views is what this video is. LOL.
@@lSeKToRl This has nothing to do with console wars. Did you watch the whole video? The video explains why xbox doesn't have good new games. They fired game developers
I still like my xbox and i just want to play games as long as you enjoy games its all good maybe xbox will try and at least fix things i hope
For somebody that grew up with PlayStation 4, I am proud of sony
Microsoft wants to replace Xbox with subscription services.
EU, UK and FTC ought to just break Xbox away from Microsoft and charge the corporation with anti-trust measures. Screw the MS bootlickers.
What I find interesting is Microsoft has all the time in the world to re start the shut down studios and they also have said it was a mistake to shut down Tango but yet here we are and they're still shut down...
The Xbox 360 was so successful because the games were so good and weren't woke, broken or greedy. The Xbox 360 had soul and was made by passionate devs who genuinely liked the games they were working on example Gears Of War devs adding in things like speed reloading that made the game so much better and loved by literally everyone. Halo 3 was so good people literally brought a console just to play that game. No new games are good enough to go and buy a console just to play them and that's part of why console is dying. Great games create great memories and those great memories creates love for those games, franchises, consoles, Xbox brand and the entire company. The reason Xbox is dying at a very fast rate and why people are playing older or old games is because of Greed, Wokeness, Microtransactions, Subscriptions, Memberships, Loot boxes ect... Gamers hate that garbage fact. We don't want any microtransactions, subscriptions, wokeness ect... it ruins games completely and destroys the entire franchise, console, console brand, all respect for the company and the companies reputation. This is why Microsoft is suffering so much financially. No one literally no one wants wokeness, live service games, digital games, lazy broken games, greed ect... These things are the leading causes of why games sell so terribly and why people are just not buying games but until Microsoft learn this they will just keep destroying themselves and Phil Spencer is not the correct person for the position he is in imo. His not a gamer, he doesn't care and just does what Microsoft tells him to do and it's what we currently have which is well.... dog shit. Game Pass is good in theory but in reality isn't purely because Xbox Live access used to cost $80 yearly and then $90 and now $140 for basic Xbox Live access and that's just terrible and bullshit. Microsoft are forcing players to buy Game Pass Ultimate or they get 0 perks but it's $240 yearly.... also there are no good games period. The modern gaming experience is woke, microtransaction and subscription filled broken buggy live service digital garbage so naturally no one wants an Xbox. Backwards compatibility isn't the correct decision to make and never was even tho it is nice but Sony did it right. Just put the disk in from an old or older console and it just works on the new one at a higher or smoother fps it's why gamers love it.
It was only successful due to am*r*c*nts buying everything and the PS3 being released too late, not because of the games. Even the Xbox One had a better launch than the 360 despite having no games, but unlike the 360 it didn't had the kinect to save it. Most of the thing you complain about like microtransactions and propaganda were all started by the Xbox 360 and the Original Xbox.
One more thing I want to point out.
Nintendo didn't take pay cuts and refuse to fire employees out of the goodness of their hearts. Japanese protection laws are in place to stop this from happening, it can still happen but they'd have to go to court and convince the judge that this is indeed necessary.
They didn't lay people off and fire them because doing so would have been illegal.
How dare you insult the great Miyamoto, he took a 30% pay cut willingly along with other board members
@@tio8194 I didn't insult anyone, I'm stating facts.
And do you really think he would have taken that pay cut if the law didn't basically force him to?
@@MrEffectfilms i looked it up before i commented and everywhere it says he did it “willingly”. The Wii U was a massive failure and id bet he couldve fired employees within the confines of the protection law but the japanese have a different work culture than the west. I forget the actual quote and i cant find it but he essentially said “how can i expect employees to do their best work if they feel like their job is threatened?”. And look at them now
@@MrEffectfilms i know the video game industry is cutthroat and greedy af but is it so crazy to believe there is ONE man out there who cared? Say what you want about their business practices and how they sell their products, they definitely can be petty af lol, but Miyamoto was an artist and had a real love for gaming.
@@tio8194 It's entirely possible he's a saint in a world of scum, yes but I don't know him and so I'm hesitant to make such assumptions. All I know is that he didn't fire anyone and Japanese job protection laws likely wouldn't have let him anyway.
I'm convinced they're killing the day one tier over time or at the very least jacking up the price to the point where it doesn't make sense.
Standard is what Gamepass should've been to be sustainable. Sony had the right idea with their tiers: offer first party games that aren't selling well anymore on the subscription over time.
Sony double dips with their model: they keep their cheap audience on the hook with the subscription while the people who want the games upon release can pay full price as usual.
I feel like there's a way to reconcile having Game Pass as an all-time deal while not anhilating developers. First, I think they have to abolish the day one release strategy 100%. I would stay subscribed even if AAA games came out several months after release because Game Pass is best for games that you would like to play, but wouldn't spring the money on normally.
Calling Gotham City Impostors slop is actually insane.
@@PlaXeZ yeah fr
you know xbox in trouble when alot of xboxers are playing older classic titles cos newer gam3s are poo
This explained a lot. Makes me incredibly worried for all the other studios under Xbox's control...
Also I found out through this video that Arcane Austin were the people behind Dishonored. That makes me wanna cry, dishonored is one of the best stealth games I've ever played :(
So the Arkane thing is really interesting and confusing for a few people!
To make it even simpler for people:
Lyon: Dishonored 1, the DLCs, Dishonored 2, DOTO, Deathloop
Austin: Dishonored 1, the DLCs, Prey, Mooncrash, Redfall
While Dishonored will exist without Austin, they’ve lost Harvey Smith and Ricardo Bare.
Smith was co-director on Dishonored and director on Dishonored 2.
Bare worked on Dishonored and was the lead on the Daud DLC AND lead designer on Prey!
Unbelievably dumb move on Microsoft’s part
@@KindofBradAtThis ok so theres still a chance for dishonored to come back, nice. Still, that's awful man, they made awesome games!
the 360 was pretty much the last good Xbox console, overall I know the Xbox series X|S is very powerful basically the same as the ps5, but they screw everything up in this console gen. Microsoft ruined Minecraft by um, “better fucking together update”
Man, can't we just all play on whatever we want on and not summon these haters who watch a 33 min long video about someones opinion.
Xbox and PS are both consoles, pretty much the only difference between them is that PS has more exclusives, which is not that big of a deal.
I'm still salty that the Phantom Dust remake got canceled.
REAL
Ive always been an Xbox gal, less by choice and moreso because I've had my account since the 360 days and really dont wanna move platforms and lose everything I have in the Xbox ecosystem
Every year though its harder and harder to defend them. They keep buying and closing studios, ruining series I like, claiming to be pro consumer and game preservationists despite constantly showing the opposite
Just please get your act together y'all
Just switch to PS
@@kickusernamei wish I could but for my family and me Xbox is always cheaper, and also I’ve been a Xbox bro since the original Xbox *I didn’t get it on launch day but it was my first console since I was pretty broke*
@@nothingtoseehere8336 Dude. My first console was a 360 and an OG Xbox. And I switched to PS+PC. Brand loyalty is stupid, they don't care about you. Lol ''Xbox bro''. Buy what suits your needs, not because of some loyalty.
@@kickusername I mean Xbox does suit my needs, I always loved the controller and the games were always so fun
@@nothingtoseehere8336 That's fine then. I was just saying. Buy what suits your needs. That's Xbox. For the controller and the games. My point is, don't buy something out of loyalty.
From what I remember, Don Mattrick wasn't kicked out, he left for Zynga without telling anyone. One day, everyone at Xbox just woke up, and the CEO was gone lol
Didn't Phil Specter learn anything on his way up the ladder? 'I'm the King of the Hill now and with billions of dollars at my disposal' all the while twisting the ends of his mustache like some cheap dime-store novel villain. 'I know, I'll buy the competition and make their IP's mine and then fire all the dev's and call it 'restructuring' - genius.
I've always owned a Playstation and now with the buy out of Bethesda Studios to Microsoft and they are making their IP's exclusive to Xbox. This is the first time I'm considering buying an Xbox.
You saw Starfield and you still want Bethesda's products? Bethesda STRONGEST tool, their modding community, is giving up on Starifeld because they refuse to drop the modding kit and the game is just bad in general. The modding community. Bethesda's modding community is literally the strongest and even THEY gave up? Bethesda is done. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize, I almost got a Series X just for Starfield, too, but then it dropped.
Doesn't help that Bethesda only releases one game every decade.
videos like these are very fascinating. gamers are finally realising that the industry is dead in the water, and are attempting to diagnose why. point the finger at loot boxes, microtransactions, live service, whatever. the problem is you. its always been you. gamers are terrible game critics, and woefully uninformed (ignorant) consumers. gamers, in general, dont know what does into making a game, how much it costs, how the industry works, they couldnt tell you what makes a good game good and a bad game bad (that, or theyre bad at articulating it). things cannot get better if the consumer does not even know what better means.
In my opinion Xbox needed to wait on announcing new games like GoW EDay and Doom until 2026 when they announce a new console. They already accepted defeat for this generation, so they should have only mentioned games they previously announced so that in 2026 they could come out swinging for next gen.
MS hasn't cared about Xbox sales this generation.
Ultimately, getting their games onto every tv via streaming is their main goal and has been for 4 years.
They want billions of people paying for crap in their catalogue of games, not just millions.
Swan Lake is so fitting for this video. Watching Xbox is equivalent to watching the Soviet Union's collapse.
The Resistance series was the best shooter series that generation. I played every Halo and Gears game, and I think Resistance was better.
The only thing worse than the final Xbox 360 marketplace sale is the editing and commentary in this video. Absolutely horrendous.
10:15 the Dark Ages were a scary place
You and KingThrash should team up. Similar stances, different entertaining deliveries.
I feel Xbox set a terrible precedent that every AAA corpo follows. You no longer own your games in PS5 even used games do nothing since you no longer own it, you just own a license that can expire at any time they want. The PS5 became what the Xbox One wanted to be at launch.
An online only nightmare
Why does this lie keep spreading lol
The majority of ps4 and ps5 games comes in the disc which doesn’t require internet to install and play, try GoW Ragnarok, Elden Ring, Baldurs Gate 3, The Last of Us they all work right out of the disk
But some minority do require online, like CoD, FIFA (sports games I assume all work like this) and even Gran Turismo 7 requires online to play
Care to explain? I still own all my PS5 games that I bought on Bluray. Now, arguable, it's sad how unfinished some games are on those discs, and how some of them are very buggy without the day-1 patch... but the one thing that the disc definitely gives me is ownership.
@@Raigeki-SC And Gran Turismo is a PlayStation franchise. There's also the PS5 slim that requires the internet when you swap your drive and Sony focusing on online-only games. You can't deny they're following Microsoft's path.
Ill always have slight hope for a new HALO game, the new Perfect Dark looks amazing imho, and DOOM DA looks awesome also. Fable looks promising.........but until they release the games and theyrte genuinely good games consistently for years, people wont have hope in the brand.
Someone hates Phil
2:43 At long last, a youtube video that puts the PROPER amount of anguish into the Hi-Fi RUSH grieving!
Idk about yall but I don’t really give a shit about this weird corporate stuff, probably because I still play original Xbox and 360 games a lot. But yeah, every company does shady corporate shit, very common. So honestly, just choose the console you like.👍
Phil doesnt make the final decision at the end of the day even if he is "CEO" of xbox still answers to Microsoft and share holders. All he can do is try to pursade them to his side.
Here after the Avowed delay which they all but said they delayed because they have too many games coming this holiday. I'm almost wondering if this delay strategy is part of their monetization effort to get people subbed months out just to not play a game they expected to. They're just so ass at keeping a schedule its crazy.
“This’ll get em to subscribe next month”
As just a regular gamer, I really dont care what studio closes.
Gamepass is still a good value at $20 a month.
3:53 I mean... I honestly prefer the PS2 over the Xbox 360 TBH.
Edit: Grammar fix
lowkey the right answer
@@KindofBradAtThis Yeah. My reason for that boils down to that it has more games on it that pique my interest.
As good as the online services of the Xbox 360 were at the time, I always saw the Xbox brand to be something that's really only special if you're into first person shooters. (which I'm not) Until very recently with games like Hi-Fi Rush, if you aren't into FPS games, there's not much else that Xbox offers that PC and other console brands don't.
Also that startup screen alone
I wish I could play my PS2 games on something else than a ps2 or ps3 right now but there isn't
I had a 360 and I will tell you I'm not blinded by the nostalgia to say that ps2 was a better product to have than the 360. because of xbox we have to pay to play online across the board because people will continue to pay and not question why a basic feature is locked behind a pay wall. I admire that pc players didn't let this slide when xbox tried to pull this with them
They may suck eggs now, but the _single_ thing that’s carrying them is the BC (backwards compatibility) program. But for how much longer now their goodwill is imploding?
I don't care about game pass. But the online should be free or have a cheap option that just gives you multiplayer access. Xbox has gone out of their way time and time again to screw over the old guard that made the brand what it is today and honestly, I think it's time to move on to pc.
Playing on Xbox always required a subscription. It's been a thing since the first shitbox.
perfect syncrhonization with the game pass price increase
They can’t make their own games they had to buy already successful titles, which is sad
I've switch to steam for a majority of my games. Mostly for trying out a new platform, but seeing this slop of a company, I don't know if I wanna play Xbox anymore.
Sure, steam is another company by the same shitty practices.
But it's better for the moment.
I do play live service from time to time, and that's fine, but mostly, I'd like to own what I pay for, not a ever rising in pticr subscription that can be revoked at any time;
If I can find it and run it, I use GOG. I want to own my games.
The only reason I use steam and Xbox, is cause they have games that are not on gog yet.
It better yet, I mostly play Xbox because I love For Honor, but because Ubisoft is a giant shitstain, and refuses to support cross progression, moving to another platform with the game erases all the hours and characters I earnednin the game.
Sony should absolutely swoop in and pick up tango Gameworks or the people that worked there and on the rights to the evil within and go ahead and make the third game PlayStation exclusive!!!
All this bullshit from Xbox ... I don't even care anymore. All I do is play older games anyways...
Xbox shutting down tango game works was the dumbest thing they could have because it was one of the few developers that made games that felt like exclusive AAA quality ?!?!?!?!?
Both the evil within one and the evil within two were awesome !!! I have both of them on PS4 and on Xbox!
Well ps and xbox can now agree with something, that there greats suck now
@@train_go_boom2065 what does this mean greats? Did that mean games or something
Literally within 10 days of releasing this, they jacked the price of game pass from $16 to $20
And you get ads on the dashboard which is ridiculous
@@Tactical_Kitten I hate that it feels like this company tricked me into being a supporter for 20 years now and I was born in 2003. Respectfully, I’m done dumping money into this trash fire
Don't act like Sony isn't doing the same...
Gamepass ruins games value .. yes it's good for consumers but is it good for the games? For the developers?
Gamepass more like lamepass 😆 (so many amazing game studios are being shut down, truly a tragic situation)
@@MagicMonkey96 it's not gamepass this point was the drm granted Xbox needs the games.
but your psplus is great right, gamepass is lightyears better then your psplus shit
@@Xdenge420 salty Xbox fanboy spotted. This isn’t about ps plus this is about how Xbox is closing down all of the studios they buy
Gamepass🤓
Such a cringy company💀
Gaystation+
Now let’s talk about how trash ps is cause that shit is ridiculous especially how so many people worship Sony
Absolutely worth talking about too! SONY/PS aren’t angels. As I said, they only care about cheddar and as we see with the HD2 account thing, they have big issues, but at the end of the day, they make great games.
Hate on Xbot. lol
Don't recall him defending Sony much at all in this video except for the justified point of how the PS4 humilated the Xbox one simply by not sucking as much. But that's the thing as stupid as Sony can be sometimes and god you don't need to tell me how stupid they can be. Microsoft always somehow manages to do even worse than Sony every single time.
@@Cloud-dt6xb nah I’m not saying he is but I be seeing hell of people come for Xbox and yeah fasho they do fuck up a lot but coming from somebody that’s been wit ps they whole life they fuck up a lot especially with the recent shit
In the early 2000s I wanted the PlayStation 2 over original Xbox. All of the JRPGs were what I was more into at the time, and those were all on PlayStation 2.
Xbox doesnt suck, we just need talented game developers at game companys, but we dont have them anymore like back in the good old days.
Microsoft died when Bill Gates left as ceo back in 2008
microsoft is making bad moves,But at least we have better game preservation than sony and nintendo. they let us play some banger 360 titles disc or digital like all the old cods Mw2-Bo3,fight night champion, gta4 with all DLCS.
True but I could just you know download ROMs before they disappear and if someone want them I could possibly give them the ROM (but I'm not saying I have the ROMs for legally reason XD)
@@alexjackyperson101 oh yeah I Sail the 7 seas myself but my post was in regards to which of the big three is doing game preservation the best
@@SwerveNation I only pirate games that I can't get or they cost to much (the pokemon games from the ds)
@@alexjackyperson101 same, I never pirate small studio games or new games
@alexjackyperson101 pirating is a good skill to have, but xbox backwards compatibility actually enhances the frame rate and resolution in alot of thier titles along side it being validated with your own copy of the game. worth supporting imo.
Have an Xbox and PC, enjoying both. Enjoy the consoles you want to play on and don't clown others for playing on their preferred platform!
XBOX AND PC? You wasted your money. You basically have two Xbox consoles.
Blud literally shitting on every company in existence
Hey, guys, here's a secret. Come closer. A little closer... A liiiitle bit closer... VOTE WITH YOUR GOD DAMNED WALLETTTT!!!!!! Now that I've got your attention, seriously, vote with your wallet. Companies won't listen to some damned video. They only listen to Dollars. Or Yen. Or even Euros. The point is. Is you ACTUALLY wanna try and make a change, vote with your wallets and tell everyone how convenience over buying physical media and supporting small creators can be harmful. And also how just chasing the mainstream is bad for the growth of smaller content creators who're not directly from tiktok. I'm sorry, it's the truth. Unpopular opinions do exist and we need to embrace them. We need to be our own unique selves, and embrace art and be our own goddamned compass in this. Not ever support dogshite.
However; a decade or so back a company called swrve got ahold of some of this data for mobile games at the time and published a fun breakdown.
www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/
2014/03/01/why-its-scary-when-0-15-mobile-gamers-bring-in-50-of-the-revenue/? sh=4941df240659
0.15% of a games total user base accounted for over 50% of the money generated.
@@KindofBradAtThis Indeed. Because micro transactions and people are dumb. They're complaining and supporting bad practices at the same time. The best we can do is send the message by voting with our wallets. And making our people aware of the dangers of falling for conveniency and popular games over the better existing stuff out there.
@@HappyMultiMediaMan The point of the comment above is vote for your wallet doesn't work.