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[Klayzer]

Well imagine they are taking a gigantic sigh of relief when Concord launched.

Good thing too. It would suck to see Phil publicly beg for it, like he did for Helldivers 2.

 

[Pallas]

Good thing too. I would suck to see Phil beg for it, like he did for Helldivers 2.

Well … I mean if you're offering, I'm sure a few calls can be made.

 

[Team Andromeda]

A lot of mistakes were made about halfway through the 360 era. They had a rather diverse portfolio back then, and some second parties. They could've done more to secure IP or studios but instead cut ties with nearly everything except for their pillars Halo, Gears and Forza. Worse, they doubled down on Kinect. This cost them as eventually they tried to focus on gaming again but they lost a ton of share by then and they basically never recovered. In hindsight I think MS should've sticked to their guns way back. The Xbox brand was in a good place.

Also, it isn't really on the nose but next to some obvious games such as Wukong, quite a bit of other games skip Xbox such as the Capcom collections, shmups and GG Strive wasn't available until after 2 years. This is a hardcore userbase thats willing to spend. 360 was actually the place to be on this front for a while.

I quite agree other than skipping Xbox, we know the reasons behind Capcom and Wukong, but to Xbox's credit, they've got Atlus on the Xbox the Yakuza series on the Xbox they've made some good moves on the 3rd party front. It is better in some ways than it was or people give credit for.

Kintect really started a rot and it was so sad to see all that money spent on it, instead of going on main stream games . In so many ways Xbox very own 32X moment and just like people at SEGA America, no one at Xbox could see what a disaster it was even when the demos at E3 weren't working and the audience was silent , Xbox pushed on with the crap just like SEGA America with the 32X.


I still think Xbox will have a nice Christmas mind with decent sales and Gamepass will do good with COD and Indy. Its just sad when I look back on how hard Xbox moved to have the likes of SEGA, Fromsoftware , Team Ninja make exclusives for Xbox only to dump them, for Kinect

 

[CoreyFlawless]

So the use to be hot girl. Is not so hot anymore and Sony in it deep with her. Knows he mess up and can't stand her but sticks with her. To help him feel better about himself. He brings up at a times when she was hot and someone else wanted her, but didn't get her. He got her. But after she been all use and wash up

 

[jroc74]

Eh, they had an epiphany and restrained from acquiring Bungie in 2021, a smart decision looking at recent happenings.

Its funny when I see ppl bring this up. You act like MS had to acquire Bungie to get Destiny exclusive.

Like how MS acquired EA to get Titan Fall 1 exclusive...

 

[sainraja]

I thought this was known?

It's funny to me hearing stories about the console in last place, which has traditionally struggled to secure third party exclusivity deals primarily because they're in last place, all of a sudden passing up on these huge exclusivity deals with blockbuster third party games.

Just strikes me as odd.

Bungie probably wanted it to be multi-platform?

 

[solidus12]

Speaking of exclusives, remember when the shills wanted us to believe that Call of Duty was going to be exclusive to Xbox?

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Bungie probably wanted it to be multi-platform?

Did you reply to the wrong post?

 

[sainraja]

Did you reply to the wrong post?

Oh shoot, looks like I might have lol. Sorry!

EDIT
Oh wait, I think I just wasn't clear with my response. You mentioned how Xbox has been passing up these huge third-party deals (given this thread, Destiny 2) and I was trying to say multi-platform might have been the reason Microsoft passed on Destiny. I was thinking Bungie might have wanted the game to be multi-platform after splitting from MS and MS wasn't okay with just a "period of exclusivity" but I could be completely off if they went back to MS and offered full exclusivity.