Anyone who thinks Xbox is still going to be worth anything is a fool. They overspent on gaming studios, didn't produce anything of value, gamepass value went down, and now everyone hates them for the constant enshittification. Even stepping back from "This is lemmy and we all hate microsoft" they have done some horrible business moves with Xbox. I don't know anyone who is positive about the brand. They have ran it firmly into the ground.

At some point you have to be impressed by Microsoft's dedication to ruining their own products

I've got 2,000 steam games I haven't played yet. The era of the gamer has a big enough buffer to not end for years.

Im surprised they gave up so easily. Like they have huge pockets and this is one of their signature products. It had 1 bad generation and they were just like well i guess we're cooked. There is so much to "innovate" on. They could have copied steams approach and had given their console a desktop mode that runs a stripped down but still fully functional version of windows. They could have made a console with good hardware.

Oh well at the end of the day a loss for Microsoft is a win for everyone else. They wont be missed by me.

Don't you love it when you are working for a big company, and they announce that the new CEO is from Coke or Pillsbury or Ford or some other industry that has nothing in common with yours, but somehow just doing the same job as the last know-nothing that they fired, using the same current popular experimental business strategies, is going to be better this time?

And then they pay them millions to fuck it all up, while they pay you a pittance to try to keep it together, as they fuck it up.

I think if anything this proves the Gamer Era has just begun: Free of corporatocracy.

The health of video games shouldn't be measured by what Microsoft does. That's like measuring the economy based on how a bunch of big companies are doing.

It's inaccurate as hell and doesn't actually take into consideration the small folks who make up the majority.

Microsoft can just go on doubling and tripling down on bad decisions indefinitely and make it everyone elses' problem because they have so much money that it barely matters if they fail.

XSlop era.

So. In the other post they promised not to go AI, but in this one we see black on white proof that she is totally gonna dive deep into ai gaming? Makes me think how much longer gamers (your typical cod/fifa gamer) will stay silent?

P.S. Players do not have to become loud. Best way to actually tell gaming industry to fuck off with their anti-consumer narrative is to vote with your wallet. Yes, it is that easy.

Hard disagree. The indie gamer era has never been better.

Hell, based on my hopeless addiction to Space Station 14, it's also a great time to an open-source gamer.

the fact that they picked a woman of color to be the new lead of xbox lmao. least obvious glass cliff

I really think that part of what is changing is that the hardware people run games on is becoming less and less differentiated in both power class and capability. And the hardware that does bring a large performance gap is very expensive.

As an ex-record industry executive, I know what it's like to be part of an industry that decides to just shoot itself in the head.

I'm just going to stop looking at articles with remotely sensational headlines.

... we could have both industries... but fuck AI

Lol I wonder if windowscentral and MS got in a feedback loop and that's why MS was surprised at how much people hate copilot integration with the OS and every program they can shove it into.

More wishcasting gigacope from window's personal diary. The windows gaming era may be over, that's the kernel of truth.

The money is in real games, made by real humans, small teams, low budgets, no corpo meddling. It’s time to unplug from these huge corporations and their agendas. They are the ones out of touch. They are the ones in a bubble. The indie scene is thriving. Check it out!

Perhaps there is some future market for infinite AI generated slop, but I want no part in that. Games are art. We learn from and relate to art, grow as people. AI is nothing more the. infinite flashing lights. This is dystopian bread and circuses to keep us docile while the billionaires and civilization.

Slopya Nadella

Thank the good Greek lords for indie games.