I lives on a farm and my internet was so shit that I could go days without a connection. That E3 made me not by an Xbox One, even after they walked it back.
He let almost every big third party publisher that Microsoft worked with go away
The Xbone had more games at launch but past launch it was utterly pathetic
Thanks to making no moves the only noteworthy things to come out of Xbox the entire gen were Forza Horizon and Ori
I love this picture so much.
It's such a perfect image, the best angle/framing/focus everything is just exactly what it needed to be.
Matrick's slightly off posture, his hand lamely guiding towards the Xbox One, the vacant corporate expression and smile, the man blamed for a disaster pointing right at it like a child saying "I did that".
Microsoft has a very bad habit of being correct years before the trend comes to take place.
They were absolutely right, the majority of fricking morons buying consoles for the past few years are literally poor fricking troglodytes who want to run Fortnite, Warzone and Apex (all which are always online games). No one bothers going to game stores anymore, everything is digitally purchased.
They were right about mobile and everything being one device years before iPhone as well but they are shit on design, presentation and attention to detail so Android beat them out of what should have been a natural position in the market for them
Even besides that there was other huge frickups. The mandatory camera, MS closing a bunch of first party studios, basically completely pulling out of Japan, being a lot weaker than the PS4 but being $100 more.
but the Xbox One was forcing always online at a time before the 'benefits' of being always online was a thing. Back then always online meant I can't play Diablo 3 offline for no reason other than frick you, now it means I get a new battle pass and new content at a frequent basis.
the benefit was supposed to be "you can sell your digital games"
i would have been a shitshow mind you, yet kinda groundbreaking for all digital products
The thing is, as somebody who has owned every Xbox and bought the One at launch, I don't really believe it. They talked a lot of talk but execution was never a thing. Do you remember THE POWER OF THE CLOUD? They went on and on about how the cloud could make games so much better and there would be improved visuals and performance thanks to the ALMIGHTY CLOUD. I fricking can't remember the cloud ever doing a single thing outside of holding my saves.
>I fricking can't remember the cloud ever doing a single thing outside of holding my saves.
The POWER OF THE CLOUD stuff was an always online feature, so when the console was changed to be offline that feature got killed. It's part of why Crackdown 3 took so long.
well they had agreements with the major publishers
like i said, it would have been a shitshow
power of the cloud thing is like a new nuclear plant, it can work (and they'll get there eventually), but the moment the project is greenlit the budget and time to complete ballons up x3/x4
His whole gimmick is to be a "nice guy" but isn't actually doing anything. Xbox exclusives release in blatantly unfinished states, he's buying dozens upon dozens of studios and yet there is not a SINGLE Xbox exclusive game slated for release in 2022, Xbox showcases have become centered on Game Pass shovelware from fricking indie devs, 343i is still a complete embarrassment and let Halo Infinite die, games like Scalebound and Phantom Dust were cancelled under him
They’re caught between promoting game pass because they think that’s how they beat Steam long term and trying to sell a console with no games that’s destined to lose to PS5. The approach is to try and buy success rather than starting with a vision for their games
Shane Kim was the last guy who actually had games under Xbox but mostly second party, Ed Fries was all about first party development, he claims he would have saved Rare kept Bungie and managed all of Microsoft's teams better but all executives from other Microsoft divisions kept interfering
>Sony and Microsoft just keep swapping who's going to sit on the moron seat each gen
The frick is up with this shit anyway?
Though I'd be surprised if Sony can recover from throwing away their japanese ties
failing upwards.
it's how business careers work, sadly.
when hiring, people seem more interested in how big the project they handled was, rather than how successful it was. i don't get it either.
Is Jim Ryan the Don Mattrick of Sony? He seems to be making just as many dumb decisions, and clearly neither one of them actually give (or gave) a frick about video games. I don't know why these corporations keep promoting people who don't care about the hobby to these positions.
He warned the world of the future to come
Now we have actual SINGLEPLAYER games with Online DRM
It's almost been a decade and Xbox still hasn't even remotely recovered, Mattrick really did ruin a brand in a single hour
At this point Xbox can never be a "global" brand like PS or Nintendo. Microsoft is literally too incompetent to fix it.
They fricking use machine translations for anything that isn't English and do 0 marketing outside of the US.
This is the biggest reason Xbox will never catch up to PS/Nintendo, because MS is only interested in the American market.
he looks like a cryptoisraelite I used to go to school with. proof gay ming has been ~~*infiltrated*~~ for many years now.
He's a Leaf
I lives on a farm and my internet was so shit that I could go days without a connection. That E3 made me not by an Xbox One, even after they walked it back.
xbox still has not recovered
they had so many chances, i honestly don't know why they keep fricking up
it's legitimately sad how hard he sabotaged the xbox and it was still the best console of its generation
At least it made them try harder this time
The games drought he instated is a hole Xbox STILL hasn't recovered from
Matrick didn't start the games drought. Xbone had more games at launch than the series x right now.
He let almost every big third party publisher that Microsoft worked with go away
The Xbone had more games at launch but past launch it was utterly pathetic
Thanks to making no moves the only noteworthy things to come out of Xbox the entire gen were Forza Horizon and Ori
I love this picture so much.
It's such a perfect image, the best angle/framing/focus everything is just exactly what it needed to be.
Matrick's slightly off posture, his hand lamely guiding towards the Xbox One, the vacant corporate expression and smile, the man blamed for a disaster pointing right at it like a child saying "I did that".
He also wrecked Lionhead and almost Rare too.
This shit still sold 51 million which is unbelievably high for what a frick up it was
This is why
American market
He was a Sony plant right?
Microsoft has a very bad habit of being correct years before the trend comes to take place.
They were absolutely right, the majority of fricking morons buying consoles for the past few years are literally poor fricking troglodytes who want to run Fortnite, Warzone and Apex (all which are always online games). No one bothers going to game stores anymore, everything is digitally purchased.
They were right about mobile and everything being one device years before iPhone as well but they are shit on design, presentation and attention to detail so Android beat them out of what should have been a natural position in the market for them
true
Even besides that there was other huge frickups. The mandatory camera, MS closing a bunch of first party studios, basically completely pulling out of Japan, being a lot weaker than the PS4 but being $100 more.
but the Xbox One was forcing always online at a time before the 'benefits' of being always online was a thing. Back then always online meant I can't play Diablo 3 offline for no reason other than frick you, now it means I get a new battle pass and new content at a frequent basis.
the benefit was supposed to be "you can sell your digital games"
i would have been a shitshow mind you, yet kinda groundbreaking for all digital products
The thing is, as somebody who has owned every Xbox and bought the One at launch, I don't really believe it. They talked a lot of talk but execution was never a thing. Do you remember THE POWER OF THE CLOUD? They went on and on about how the cloud could make games so much better and there would be improved visuals and performance thanks to the ALMIGHTY CLOUD. I fricking can't remember the cloud ever doing a single thing outside of holding my saves.
The power of the cloud "upgrading" games was completely fake, like that "Milo" game for Kinect.
>I fricking can't remember the cloud ever doing a single thing outside of holding my saves.
The POWER OF THE CLOUD stuff was an always online feature, so when the console was changed to be offline that feature got killed. It's part of why Crackdown 3 took so long.
well they had agreements with the major publishers
like i said, it would have been a shitshow
power of the cloud thing is like a new nuclear plant, it can work (and they'll get there eventually), but the moment the project is greenlit the budget and time to complete ballons up x3/x4
>just buy a xobx360
how can you frick this shit up ?
Phil Spencer isn't much better.
His whole gimmick is to be a "nice guy" but isn't actually doing anything. Xbox exclusives release in blatantly unfinished states, he's buying dozens upon dozens of studios and yet there is not a SINGLE Xbox exclusive game slated for release in 2022, Xbox showcases have become centered on Game Pass shovelware from fricking indie devs, 343i is still a complete embarrassment and let Halo Infinite die, games like Scalebound and Phantom Dust were cancelled under him
Yeah, they need to get back Peter Moore.
They’re caught between promoting game pass because they think that’s how they beat Steam long term and trying to sell a console with no games that’s destined to lose to PS5. The approach is to try and buy success rather than starting with a vision for their games
Shane Kim was the last guy who actually had games under Xbox but mostly second party, Ed Fries was all about first party development, he claims he would have saved Rare kept Bungie and managed all of Microsoft's teams better but all executives from other Microsoft divisions kept interfering
TV!
Sports!
Water cooler!
And he would be seen as a visionary now and nobody would bat an eye
Unironically ahead of its time
And all they had to do to make gamers accept this was replace gamers as an audience.
>Sony and Microsoft just keep swapping who's going to sit on the moron seat each gen
The frick is up with this shit anyway?
Though I'd be surprised if Sony can recover from throwing away their japanese ties
Phil Harrison is a big part of the answer
>In charge of launching PS3
>In charge of launching Xbone
>In charge of launching Stadia
What a resume
how does that homie still have a job
failing upwards.
it's how business careers work, sadly.
when hiring, people seem more interested in how big the project they handled was, rather than how successful it was. i don't get it either.
Terrible to think his vision came true regardless.
Is Jim Ryan the Don Mattrick of Sony? He seems to be making just as many dumb decisions, and clearly neither one of them actually give (or gave) a frick about video games. I don't know why these corporations keep promoting people who don't care about the hobby to these positions.
No it didn't, it was only a few years ago. Stop this right now