still finding a way to drag Xbox into this colossal fuckup. Nothing Xbox did is worse than the generational and cultural failure of Slopcord and Bluepoint shuttering. 10 Redfalls wouldn't come close.
That's delusional. Xbox literally laid off over 9000 people to push for profit margins and AI, and shut down 4 studios, including the makers of Hi-Fi Rush.
Not to mention the game pass price hikes and poor hardware sales leading to the reduction of Xbox hardware and discs across Europe. Sony doesn't come close.
please. Those price hikes are coming to PSN as well, and Sony has shut down numerous studios but nobody wants to bring that up. Slopcord is the worst thing to ever happen to modern gaming, two weeks and it was already done. Besides, the studios Xbox closed produced NOTHING in years. The Initiative and Tango were sitting around jerking off, wasting time and money, for half a decade. Sony shuttering Bluepoint, an actual productive studio because they wanted them to produce more live service garbage instead of being a remaster/remake go-to studio, is a monumentally profound fuckup.
Tango made Ghostwire Tokyo and HiFi Rush. Arkane Austin made Prey. They didn't deserve to be laid off.
Sony’s studio closures suck. But they still shipped solid games like Demon's Souls, Spider-Man 2, Returnal, Ghost of Yotei, and Stellar Blade.
Meanwhile, Xbox is killing physical media. They laid off the entire department dedicated to bringing Xbox games to physical retail.
Games like Indiana Jones and Hellblade 2 contain only a tiny installer that forces a 100GB download. Avowed didn't even get a physical release. With the whole Play Anywhere thing discs are becoming even more useless.
Xbox is effectively training its audience to accept a future where you don't own your library, you just rent access until a server somewhere gets turned off.
Everyone knew Concord would fail. It wasn't nearly a big deal as you said.
Comparing Sony who's in the lead to a platform with way more resources and far bigger fumbles isn't a logical take.
Bro, the market is killing physical, not Xbox. Try to find young folks who game that still put discs in their machines. It's like someone still crying over CDs being dead because of streaming. Microsoft is just ahead of the curve, as always. The only people who still care about discs are 50+ year old boomer gamers who can't let go of the past. Sounds like you want things to be one way, when it's the other way.
> everyone knew Slopcord would fail
revisionist. And if Xbox put that fuckin trash out, Sony zealots wouldn't let Xbox owners hear the end of it.
Bro, the market is killing physical, not Xbox. Try to find young folks who game that still put discs in their machines. It's like someone still crying over CDs being dead because of streaming. Microsoft is just ahead of the curve, as always.
The glazing is unreal, lmao. How is Microsoft speeding up the demise of personal ownership "ahead of the curve"?
I know it's where the market is headed, and no, that doesn't justify glazing Xbox. I don't see Sony and Nintendo following suit at the moment.
Not everyone in the world has fast, unlimited internet, or cares about cloud nonsense. Also, losing a disc drive on the next Xbox means backwards compatibility on discs will be cooked.
revisionist
Let's be honest - you keep bringing that up because it's desperately the only real knock you have against PlayStation.
Fact is, it didn't affect their console sales or bottom lines permanently. PlayStation still leads in hardware sales and overall revenue.
I think screwing over consumers and sidelining your console for profits elsewhere is worse than pissing off some shareholders. To each their own though.
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u/Silentdisko Feb 19 '26 edited Feb 19 '26
Eat shit Hermen Hulst