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"This Is An Xbox", Microsoft's New Xbox Advert

Do you have an Xbox?

  • Yes

    Votes: 78 20.3%

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 2.6%

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 2.1%

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 2.1%

  • Yes

    Votes: 16 4.2%

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 3.4%

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 2.3%

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 7.3%

  • No

    Votes: 214 55.7%
  • Total voters
    384
  • Poll closed .
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indigoSociety

Member
I have to admit the way people hate on Xbox is sad lol Sony is the golden child because Ps4 was great and now Xbox is the red headed step child that cant do anything right 😅 I have such great memories associated with all platforms. My hope is they improve and they have been from my perspective. Game pass is great. Loved hellblade 2. Loved Starfield. Stalker 2 coming in a week or so. Indiana Jones a month later. Avowed in February. Fable next year. South by Midnight. Idk lol seems to me theyre headed in the right direction 🤷‍♂️
 
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KungFucius

KungFucius

King Snowflake
PatientGamer said:
If their competitors notice they manage to 10x-20x their revenues by doing this (without Activision), then they'll probably follow suit. However Ninty & Sony still believe that exclusive content is important to consumers and therefore offer it.

Industry is going through a big swing in the next few years.

Also congrats to MS for telling consumers not to bother buying Xbox hardware ever again.
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Why should they care how customers access the games? I haven't had an xbox since they went day 1 on PC and it has been great. The thing they need to worry about with this campaign is that streaming is still kinda shit. I upgraded to GP ultimate from PC thinking the kids could use the streaming on a firestick. It is lag city. I live between Baltimore and DC but out on a peninsula so probably just outside of good range. Maybe that means most get a better connection, or maybe the service just doesn't work well. Also I currently cannot share GP with a kids account to do coop unless I have an actual xbox. What the fuck kind of shit is that? Also I cant ever login to the kids accounts again because I forgot the passwords and they don't allow password recovery to the parents account because Microsoft. People who buy into this because of the ad will be kind of pissed off because in its current state, it is not a viable solution.
 
TrippleA345

TrippleA345

Member
indigoSociety said:
I have to admit the way people hate on Xbox is sad lol Sony is the golden child because Ps4 was great and now Xbox is the red headed step child that cant do anything right 😅 I have such great memories associated with all platforms. My hope is they improve and they have been from my perspective. Game pass is great. Loved hellblade 2. Loved Starfield. Stalker 2 coming in a week or so. Indiana Jones a month later. Avowed in February. Fable next year. South by Midnight. Idk lol seems to me theyre headed in the right direction 🤷‍♂️
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Sylvester Stallone Facepalm GIF
 
AGRacing

AGRacing

Member
There’s really an entire generation of dorks who work at these companies now that genuinely do not understand why consoles were so cool.

They seem desperate to suck all of the perceived value out of consumer experience as they possibly can.

It was such a special thing as a teenager or a kid “in the day” to get a console. I guess that’s dead now.
 
Tiago Rodrigues

Tiago Rodrigues

Member
indigoSociety said:
I have to admit the way people hate on Xbox is sad lol Sony is the golden child because Ps4 was great and now Xbox is the red headed step child that cant do anything right 😅 I have such great memories associated with all platforms. My hope is they improve and they have been from my perspective. Game pass is great. Loved hellblade 2. Loved Starfield. Stalker 2 coming in a week or so. Indiana Jones a month later. Avowed in February. Fable next year. South by Midnight. Idk lol seems to me theyre headed in the right direction 🤷‍♂️
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Saying people like Sony because the PS4 was great like 5 years ago like it's riding some goodwill from users, even though this is the same year they got Helldivers 2, Astrobot, FFVII Rebirth, Silent Hill 2 Remake, Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin, etc...as console exclusives between 1st and 3rd party studios while Xbox released stuff like Hellblade 2 is wild to me.

The market is simply backing the right choice. Specially since most Xbox games will be on Playstation now as well. It's a no brainer.
 
Ass of Can Whooping

Ass of Can Whooping

Gold Member
indigoSociety said:
I have to admit the way people hate on Xbox is sad lol Sony is the golden child because Ps4 was great and now Xbox is the red headed step child that cant do anything right 😅 I have such great memories associated with all platforms. My hope is they improve and they have been from my perspective. Game pass is great. Loved hellblade 2. Loved Starfield. Stalker 2 coming in a week or so. Indiana Jones a month later. Avowed in February. Fable next year. South by Midnight. Idk lol seems to me theyre headed in the right direction 🤷‍♂️
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Make sure you swallow

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winjer

winjer

Member
indigoSociety said:
I have to admit the way people hate on Xbox is sad lol Sony is the golden child because Ps4 was great and now Xbox is the red headed step child that cant do anything right 😅 I have such great memories associated with all platforms. My hope is they improve and they have been from my perspective. Game pass is great. Loved hellblade 2. Loved Starfield. Stalker 2 coming in a week or so. Indiana Jones a month later. Avowed in February. Fable next year. South by Midnight. Idk lol seems to me theyre headed in the right direction 🤷‍♂️
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The problem is that Microsoft made a lot of mistakes and burned a lot of bridges, for the last 2 generations.
All the good will they garnered from gamers during the original Xbox and the X360, is wearing very thin.
 
thicc_girls_are_teh_best

thicc_girls_are_teh_best

Member
FunkMiller said:
Yep. Terrible.

Also, the plain fact of the matter is that 'Xbox' as a brand name is about a box. A piece of hardware. That's where the name came from: the hardware. the console.

Saddling themselves to that name, when they want to promote their product that is no longer a piece of hardware is dumb as shit. Just goes to show they have no long term plan or strategy. It's all reactive to market forces, and their own stupid mistakes.

GamePass would have been a better brand name to run with. Drop Xbox completely, as it's clear they've completely fucking killed it.
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Maybe they can just call it Game X :/

Plague Doctor said:
After this ad, I have 2 questions:

1. Is this TI Graphing calculator an Xbox?
2. Follow up question: How much more powerful is it from a Series S?
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I remember kids in Algebra class loading up games on their TI Graphing calculators and always wanted to know how they were doing it. NGL, it seemed kinda neat for the time.

mdkirby said:
I’d argue otherwise. The services offer by a vast margin, the best value for money to younger audiences. For an older higher income gamer, people have played or own everything on the services. If I was 15 again, gamespass would be some miracle, of an endless fountain of games, I can play wherever I am. Vs a half dozen or so new £70 games per year you need to stretch out between birthdays and holidays. It’s a fucking bargain. It’s them (and their gen X/millennial parents) they are targeting
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If Game Pass were such a great value, why hasn't the sub count grown in a way to reflect that? Why are Series console sales so low this gen?

Ridicululzz said:
I get people laughing at this; I find it pretty funny myself, but honestly sort of glad that MS are actually going all-in on a strategy at least. Wasn't totally sure on the direction they were going, but at least now I know what to expect out of them.
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But if they were going "all in", why aren't PlayStation and Nintendo in the ad? Why not a Steamdeck? I know MS would need approval from those companies and there's a good chance all three of them said "No!" even if they were approached, but they could've found a clever way around it.

Like say, just have PS5 & Switch versions of their games and say "You can play these on an Xbox". Or something. The thing probably holding them back from doing it is, ironically, their own current business strategy. They're still technically selling Series S & X as traditional consoles competing with PS & Switch, so I doubt SIE & Nintendo want to give Xbox hardware free publicity or confuse their own customers who stumble across the ad wondering what TF is going on.

I'm not saying MS have to stop with gaming hardware, but if they want to really sell this "Xbox is everything" idea then they have to get to a point where they can mention PlayStation and Nintendo just like they can Asus or Samsung. And in order to do that, they can't have a product on the market selling on a business model that still competes directly with SIE or Nintendo.

So, I'm really interested to see what they do with Series X & S over the next year because I think they're going to cease production. Doesn't mean they'll stop supporting those systems, but I can see them opening them up to a more Windows-like experience to bring them closer in line with whatever they do for future gaming hardware. And that future hardware would basically be sold more a PC device in terms of the business model, maybe leveraging Game Pass in some way as a soft subsidizer for lower-(upfront) cost SKUs.

Because if they did that, then there'd really be no issue pushing Day 1 across Xbox hardware, PC, PS & Nintendo, and they wouldn't have hardware competing directly with PlayStation & Nintendo anymore, either.
 
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indigoSociety

Member
Tiago Rodrigues said:
Saying people like Sony because the PS4 was great like 5 years ago like it's riding some goodwill from users, even though this is the same year they got Helldivers 2, Astrobot, FFVII Rebirth, Silent Hill 2 Remake, Stellar Blade, Rise of the Ronin, etc...as console exclusives between 1st and 3rd party studios while Xbox released stuff like Hellblade 2 is wild to me.

The market is simply backing the right choice. Specially since most Xbox games will be on Playstation now as well. It's a no brainer.
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Notice i didnt say anything negative about playstation. I love my ps5. Just said its d ride for them and xbox cant do anything right. Think its lame d riding nonsense
 
Ass of Can Whooping

Ass of Can Whooping

Gold Member
indigoSociety said:
Own every platform. Just a fan of each one for different reasons. I dont d ride to a point where id take the time to find a meme to taunt lol I just dont get to a point where hate on things like a wierdo
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I just want you to know I don't really hate Xbox, and I'm sorry I offended you and your platform of choice
 
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Humdinger

Humdinger

Gold Member
indigoSociety said:
I have to admit the way people hate on Xbox is sad lol Sony is the golden child because Ps4 was great and now Xbox is the red headed step child that cant do anything right 😅
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Not really. People here give Sony shit all the time - deservedly so. Including me.

Glad you're enjoying your Xbox, though.
 
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JTCx

JTCx

Member
ResilientBanana said:
Have you played them? They aren’t as terrible as tools like you might think. Play them and form your own fucking opinion.
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Ive played and completed the main story in starfield, game was so trash I couldnt be bothered with side content. Hellblade 2 is free on Youtube. Its not even a good movie lmfao.

Dont get mad at me for these trash games, i didnt make them. My bad i called Hellblade 2 a game, a movie i mean LOL.
 
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indigoSociety

Member
Ass of Can Whooping said:
I just want you to know I don't really hate Xbox, and I'm sorry I offended you and your platform of choice
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Nah you didnt offend me i just found your accusation of me glazing xbox to be lame just because i expressed fandom. My fandom of one platform doesnt exclude my fandom of others. And nowhere did i say it is my platform of choice. I enjoy all of them 😊 Youre just a simple mind no worries 😉
 
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