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Yep, Xbox Is Bleeding Out
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Microsoft just messed up the whole naming convention after the 360 I think. You had the Xbox "one" which was a name people often used to refer to the original Xbox. Then you have an Xbox One S. Then Xbox series X which is a genuinely terrible name. Oh, and the Xbox series S which is not the Xbox One S. Sony to their credit got it right from the beginning. Simple 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. No medals for guessing what the name of the next Playstation will be.
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But what if we cram it full of AI bloat/spyware? Could we entice you then? - Microsoft, probably
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I think it’s more about tsunamis of content now. Graphics have been on a track of diminishing returns for ages now. Today it’s all about generating hundreds of skins, weapons, badges, hats, drops, whatever. It would explain why everybody’s salivating over generative AI.
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After Xbox one, I was unable to understand what the next version was. And when people can't even name the product, then yeah.
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Microsoft is an empty shell of a company drifting on the momentum of it's achievements from 20 years ago. It's another victim of shareholder sharks. It's taking time to die, but it's getting closer. There's hardly any Microsoft products that are worth a damn these days.
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they put all thier development into AI, and they are frantically trying to cram it into everything else,.
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Neglected Pixels? Lol, truth is they were always poorly made midrange phones sold at high end prices. Google has never made good hardware, not even accidentally.Literally never heard this opinion before. Why are they bad?
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Neglected Pixels? Lol, truth is they were always poorly made midrange phones sold at high end prices. Google has never made good hardware, not even accidentally.Don’t worry, they’ll kill off and abandon the pixel line soon enough. Remember Nexus? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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I’ll play out my remaining games that I purchased for my Series X and then bail for the PlayStation (or maybe steam box) ecosystem. I’ve never owned a PlayStation or steam computer, I went straight from Dreamcast to Xbox and have been buying each generation. They got online gaming right, but now they’re so rudderless it’s astonishing. What a shame, after the 360 they had all the momentum and squandered it.
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Next victim of their downward spiral: gamepass and with it, the Xbox brand and the IP they own. I wonder who will they sell it to or if they'll sit on it.A couple months ago when the Game Pass price hike was announced, I checked my profile to see what tier I was in: how much I was paying. Turns out my account had expired, was tied to a credit card I haven't had for a while. I really only play single- player games and apparently nothing on Game Pass interested me.
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But what if we cram it full of AI bloat/spyware? Could we entice you then? - Microsoft, probably
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Neglected Pixels? Lol, truth is they were always poorly made midrange phones sold at high end prices. Google has never made good hardware, not even accidentally.My pixel 1 phone was fine. Went back to Samsung after that though.
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Don’t worry, they’ll kill off and abandon the pixel line soon enough. Remember Nexus? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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We’ve seen the buyout/burn down methodology against a lot of smaller companies; it sounds a bit like Microsoft is doing that internally to Xbox division. It’s all I can think of to explain so much of the intentional damage. So, the console war is now basically Nintendo, Sony, and Valve.
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One of the main retail store in my country always had a big fucking toys catalog for Christmas. 100s of pages. It has like 15 for gaming this year. One reference to Xbox. Only one. It's not the console. It's not an accessory. It's not a game. It's the ROG handheld. It's wild how low it is. Even when people mocked PS3, it was still fine.
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Microsoft just messed up the whole naming convention after the 360 I think. You had the Xbox "one" which was a name people often used to refer to the original Xbox. Then you have an Xbox One S. Then Xbox series X which is a genuinely terrible name. Oh, and the Xbox series S which is not the Xbox One S. Sony to their credit got it right from the beginning. Simple 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. No medals for guessing what the name of the next Playstation will be.Yeah, as someone who has never owned an Xbox I have little to say about the Original, I remember the 360 as an unreliable red ring of death piece of junk, the One had that galaxy brained name. That's the kind of decision you can't make snorting normal people cocaine, you've got to have that Fortune 500 executive cocaine to name the third product in a series the "One." The "One" was announced as being a privacy invasion machine that might someday have video games patched onto it; always on internet connection and a required Kinect. That got backpedaled, and everything else I know about that console was Yahtzee saying there weren't any games for it then he stopped mentioning it. After the "Please stop calling it the XBone", was there a One S that isn't the Series S? And the Series S and Series X are almost as bad as Linux software names. Best Buy employees across the English speaking world have to stop to enunciate "The Series ESS, or the Series ECKSS?" It's like they watched Nintendo kick themselves in the dick naming a console the Wii U, and took it as a challenge. Microsoft has done an amazing job generating apathy for their gaming division.
