I’m so sick of hearing about Xbox. You know they haven’t done anything that interest people for over a decade now, you know their consoles aren’t worth it if you care about exclusives, you know Game Pass ruined their platform and you know they are incapable of putting out good games. And even if they made a push to get stuff out few IPs Xbox is still pushing are washed up relics from late 2000s that only appeal to the perpetually nostalgic 360 crowd. They have nothing to offer to 90% of gamers. So why oh why are we still talking about them?
Ok, why are we so focused on an ass company’s just as ass subsidiary then? We get more games per year than ever before, insisting on talking about the rotten corpse of the old guard is pointless.
Any press is good press as the saying goes. Big names drive more clicks for personalized ads. Continuing the conversation keeps them relevant, and they can certainly afford to get continuing coverage.
The media loves headlines that frame the wealthy as victims of unfortunate circumstance - oh it’s just the market or it’s the weather, the economy shifted etc… In this case the headline reads like xbox is a victim and is responding rationally - rather than this being a predictable consequence of their own shitty actions. So it’s also branding for them.
The reasons are shitty too, but they’re still valid.
Who cares about the IP they own? Whatever they funded or bought over the years had their time in the spotlight and the world moved on. Even if Xbox was doing well they were never gonna be making another Blinx the Cat or Voodoo Vince. They were going to pump out the slop they put out in a more refined form like Sony does. So get over it already. Gaming moved past the 360, it’s about time you do the same.
I do the same? What do you mean? I don’t even like Xbox. But that’s why you keep hearing about them, they own so much stuff and lately they’ve been making it all worse
I’m so sick of hearing about Xbox. You know they haven’t done anything that interest people for over a decade now, you know their consoles aren’t worth it if you care about exclusives, you know Game Pass ruined their platform and you know they are incapable of putting out good games. And even if they made a push to get stuff out few IPs Xbox is still pushing are washed up relics from late 2000s that only appeal to the perpetually nostalgic 360 crowd. They have nothing to offer to 90% of gamers. So why oh why are we still talking about them?
I guess it’s because it’s part of Microsoft, which pressure Xbox to make money. Unfortunately for us, Microsoft is ass.
Ok, why are we so focused on an ass company’s just as ass subsidiary then? We get more games per year than ever before, insisting on talking about the rotten corpse of the old guard is pointless.
Any press is good press as the saying goes. Big names drive more clicks for personalized ads. Continuing the conversation keeps them relevant, and they can certainly afford to get continuing coverage. The media loves headlines that frame the wealthy as victims of unfortunate circumstance - oh it’s just the market or it’s the weather, the economy shifted etc… In this case the headline reads like xbox is a victim and is responding rationally - rather than this being a predictable consequence of their own shitty actions. So it’s also branding for them.
The reasons are shitty too, but they’re still valid.
Because they own so much IP now and they jeep cancelling and shuttering it all.
They have done this since the Rare days
Who cares about the IP they own? Whatever they funded or bought over the years had their time in the spotlight and the world moved on. Even if Xbox was doing well they were never gonna be making another Blinx the Cat or Voodoo Vince. They were going to pump out the slop they put out in a more refined form like Sony does. So get over it already. Gaming moved past the 360, it’s about time you do the same.
I do the same? What do you mean? I don’t even like Xbox. But that’s why you keep hearing about them, they own so much stuff and lately they’ve been making it all worse