The latest Xbox layoffs are about a long history of mismanagement as much as recent overexpansion
  • ZeroOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, remember when we had a proper alternative to twitch that had a better & faster Streaming Protocol called Mixer. Which was actually focussed on Gaming ??

    Yeah it was run by Microsoft & then they killed it.

    Then Glimesh revived it in a way& now it’s dead too. Shame, it was OpenSource too

  • mrfriki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    But that is the whole point. You don’t buy studios to make games, you buy them to get rid of competitors.

      • Chronographs@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Has Zenimax even released any xbox exclusives? As far as I know they’ve all been cross platform.

        • arudesalad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Excluding steam because even playstation release exclusives on steam now, Starfield is (was? I don’t know if it released on ps later on) xbox exclusive. Out of Zenimax’s library, that is probably the game that you would want the least as an exclusive but at least it is something (they needed something after spending US$7.5 billion on them)

          • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            4 months ago

            You don’t spend 8 billion dollars on a company to then shrink their market. Microsoft was never planning on making any of these properties they bought fully exclusive. The transition to third party you’re seeing now has been in the making for 5+ years at this point. Youre all just looking at this through the old console war lense when they’ve been over that ever since Gamepass released and they realized they make more money putting that on everything (larger market) than playing the exclusives game (smaller market)

    • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Maybe I’m missing context on this, but halo slop?

      Infinite came out 3 years ago and though they’ve done updates and general live service garbage there haven’t been any major releases since. Halo isn’t a yearly release schedule, charging full price for the same game every year like sports games, so i’m not seeing the slop…

      • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Ever since 545 take over from Bungie, halo fans hasn’t been eating good. 4 is really bad, 5 is subpar, infinite is just ok. Not to mention the spinoff and tv series.