Well what forums do you post on besides this one? Did you post on the xbox forum here during the 2013 reveal and E3 Bombaruski? Because we were pretty vocal about it sucking ballbag. I have long posted at the Xbox.com forums and those people were on life support. All of this has been a godsend to me because a trailing and badly perceived MS is rocking with gamer friendly, fan friendly shit right now.
Dude when have I ever mentioned NPD? Find it and show it to me.
Nah, I don't buy it dude. You are a fanboy at least as much as I am or anybody else. You get wood at the mere mention of the xbox division being sold off. You've made enough threads about it.
Well, if this is how they operate, what's the loss?
Think about it for a minute. When they were in the driver's seat last generation (as far as for the core gamers, we'll leave the Wii out of this since it was a better kitchen appliance than a console) they squandered it by closing studios and not letting up on the reins with the Halo franchise and Bungie so much so that they essentially had a public break up. They spent untold sums of money to keep CoD DLC deals and things like that, and then completely lost the plot over Kinect. That's what happens when XBox is leading the way.
Now, when XBox is on the backfoot after actually having tasted success before (no more, "we're just the rookie against big bad Sony/Nintendo" excuses), we see them not spending their billyunz on securing third party titles at E3. We see them spin a wheel of technology they want to dazzle us with but then hear nothing about it, all while the fanbase wants to pretend it never happened. You have a platform that won't even splash a little money to keep its big exclusives... exclusive. We even have Japanese developers being rather public about their dismay at seeing success on the machine and developers scrapping games over changing agreements with MS as a publisher.
I mean, where's the love affair coming from? Ya'll are starting to look like that one homegirl who only comes out with the friends to drink and moan about her asshole boyfriend month after month but refuses to break up with him. NVidia Shield could turn into a household name. Samsung could make a sick ass killer console if they wanted to. Hell, just about anyone could legitimately do better than this. The only thing I can really say that's a plus for the XBone is that there is a sentiment that Phil Spencer got handed a shit sandwich from the go, but there are still mistakes being made. The whole threat on the gaming world that MS would buy its way into killer exclusives when its back is to a wall has come and gone. E3 saw to that. XBox, as a brand, stands for nothing at this point.
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