Did Xbox ever actually win a “console war” globally? I know that they’re popular in North America, but globally I don’t think they’ve ever actually beat PlayStation or Nintendo. The original Xbox was a niche piece of hardware (essentially a very powerful game console, significantly more powerful than the PS2, and GameCube), and that generation belonged to the PS2. The Xbox 360 was the closest they came to winning globally with a massive lead on the PlayStation 3 in the beginning, but PlayStation clawed back and the PS3 outsold the 360 globally by the end of it’s life cycle, thanks to exclusives and figuring out the cell processor. The Nintendo Wii was actually the most popular home console of that generation. Then Xbox killed all the momentum from the 360 with the Xbox One, more expensive and significantly less powerful than the PS4, with useless media features and bundled with Kinect™. The Xbox brand never really recovered from that. And now vs the PS5, Xbox has fallen so behind with the Series S/X that Forza and Halo are now on PlayStation… Imagine telling someone that 15 years ago, that Forza and Halo would be on PlayStation.
My suspicion is that Microsoft wants to figure out a way to make Xbox Game Pass a universal service across all platforms: PlayStation, Switch, mobile, PC, Mac, etc. Then Xbox gets sunsetted and they don’t have to deal with the hardware R&D costs while coasting on subscription service profits.
that title could have been written in 2014
What happens to all those studios they bought?
Oh if they Kill Xbox, will they be able to port Lost Odyssey to PC?
Probably keep doing what they’re doing now
Just port to PC and PlayStation
Having the Xbox be a seperate platform from Windows PCs always felt pretty useless. I guess it made some licensing fees or whatever but come on.
Well when the first XBox came out consoles had a legitimate argument against PCs in terms of ease of use and reliability, but with PCs getting easier to use thanks to Steam and various game engine standardizations and with consoles getting less reliable thanks to developers regularly shoving their releases out the door with massive breaking bugs that argument no longer holds water.
Microsoft could always have made the Xbox windows PC compatible with an alternative shell.
This was a pretty obvious idea even before Valve made the first steam machine.
I’m thinking they should make the XBox a line of hardware that refreshes every couple of years instead of sticking to console generations, make it run on a stripped down windows distro, combine “games for Windows Live” and the “XBox game pass” and implement it as a custom hypervisor so that everyone with a Windows PC also has an XBox. I dunno if Microsoft as an organization is capable of thinking like that, however.
Microsoft: let’s streamline windows by adding copilot to even more things
Copilot for copilot 365 live
Needs more copilot
Yeah Microsoft is incapable of not rebranding Games for Windows Live every 5 years.
End of an era.
…the worst era of gaming, tbh. good riddance fuck the xbox and fuck microsoft.
Maybe controversial but I thought the 360 was a legit cool console (as someone who never owned a 360)
It was cool that you could stave off the red ring of death by baking it in the oven to reset the soldering.
The only good thing to ever come from the Xbox was Lost Odyssey. I will hear no arguments otherwise.
What did Crimson Skies ever do to you
Remake when
no time soon
Sad
I wanna play again but also I want an undub version bc there were a few voice actors I really hated, if I remember right. I wonder how well it emulates on steam deck now.
Also sorry the best thing that came from the Xbox was the 360 being so easy to hack you could connect the disc drive straight to a motherboard and flash modified firmware to it to accept burnt discs. My first console bought as an adult just because of that
Lost Odyssey already lets you change between English and Japanese voices, or at least the European copy I have does. I think it might have had lip-syncing issue with the Japanese dub or maybe I’m thinking of Asura’s Wrath or something
