Isn’t console speculation always kind of overblown?
The community was freaking the duck out and it was seriously the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.
People defending exclusives and berating MS for taking their games multiplatform, IGN claiming that Xbox was on fire and dying as a brand, people pissed that somehow Xbox was answering loyal fans…
The whole thing was so overblown.
smeg@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Aielman15@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The point is, Xbox is performing very badly, with the latest metrics suggesting not only that PS5 blew them out of the water, but also that XSeries is selling less than its predecessor. Coupled with rumors about exclusives going multiplatform, people feared that it meant that MS didn’t have enough faith in the brand to keep going, and that Xbox would end like Windows Phone.
The concern was real and, in my opinion, perfectly justified. MS telling them to wait a week for an answer, without dismissing the rumors was the weird part. They saw the community on fire and said, “This is fine”. All-around incompetence.
Specal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Except if anyone paid any attention to Microsoft over the last 5 years they’d already know that Microsoft don’t want exclusives because they want to bring PC and Xbox together.
People need to stop being baited by shitty journalists. Grow a braincell or 2.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Those games are already available on PC, nobody was freaking out about that. People were wary of MS exclusives being ported to other console platforms.
Consoles live and die by exclusives. Porting those over suggests a lack of faith in the brand and would be like admitting defeat. It wasn’t clickbait rage journos baiting people, it was people reading the room and realising that the Xbox brand wasn’t as strong as they thought.
Specal@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean I guess? Exclusives are anti-consumer so I don’t know why people defend them. Sounds cultish to me