Xbox Q4 Earnings Released - *Spoiler* Everything Is Down

Cost of living hurting and only going to get worse. Bound to impact the fun stuff.

And you don't think Microsoft is printing cash? XD

Which one of these companies is worth 2 trillion dollars? Which one of them splashed out on Activision for 68 billion dollars?

Don't get it twisted, Sony and Nintendo are WAY behind Microsoft.

S-tier studios? Yet MS's Arkane released PSs first 10/10. XD

That's a bold claim, lets look at Sonys "developed talent".

Special mentions to Polyphony Digital, once a flagship developer, now a shit show that took nine years to make GT7, a game you have to grind on to make it last longer. PD still too lazy or incompetent to even have damage in their games.

London Studios - Singstar etc

Pixelopus - A couple of AA quality indie games.

Polyphony Digital - XD

San Diago Studios - MLB

San Mateo - Support

Santa Monica - Worst hack and slash in the original God or War series compared to rivals DMC and NG, and good at the new movie game God of War series.

Team Asobi - Playrooms

Xdev - Support

Run for teh lives Microsoft and Nintento, Sony's "developed talent" is coming! XD

Truth is, all Sony's best talent was already bought and paid for, they're no better than the competition in that regard.

Sony and talent shouldn’t be used in the same sentence. Oxymoron.

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@SecretPolice said:

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lol

*YAWN* Spoken like a true Xbox fan. A person who literally doesn't know what video games are and chooses to starve themselves on flipbook games in the name of Phil Spencer. Any little cup of water in that dry ass desert feels like an oasis to you 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Like the words Game Pass and value

Says someone from the side whose biggest games are movie games... HELLO GAMEPLAY... ANYONE THERE? XD

Is this why As Dusk Falls, a movie game (a shitty one at that. not even 1% of what the likes of GoW and TLOU offers) got this much traction?🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱Lems are desperate for narative driven games, but their studios don't have any talent for the job. Instead, enjoy your Forza DLC.

No we are not. I have zero interest in playing a game that has me spend 20 minutes pressing one button - to do things like row a boat or look at a toaster. 20 minute CGI scenes - no thank you.

Sony 1st party studios are talented - but those types of games (and copycats like Guardians of the Galaxy) are complete wastes of time to me.

Now you're being in denial.

Not at all. I saw the game play footage for Horizon and GoW - it's the same as games like Guardians of the Galaxy; which I did play and was quite annoyed. I only finished it because the actual "game play" was fun, when I finally got to do it. How you cows tolerate thinks like "Press Square to Row Boat" is beyond me.

As for As Dusk Falls - I will never play that, either.

Guardians of the galaxy is a garbage game and movie. If GoW was anywhere neat that trash, i would have ignored it. Nice try dabear.

Xbox is my least favorite of the big three but still this is sad to see.

I hope they invest in their studios and invest in new and old IPs. Exclusive content sells hardware, this is a day one lesson.

Xbox is fine. In fact it's great!

However, I thought Gamepass would continue to drive revenue and engagement higher. Has it peaked? Are the $1 deals hurting quarters?

20 billion in profit. MS is doing so well.

@simple-facts: Maybe Microsoft should buy Sony. It would be a better investment than Activision.

Anyway, I believe these quarterly numbers should be taken with a pinch of salt. Globally, we are dealing with corona, chip shortages, inflation and a shaken stock market.

@hardwenzen: “don’t have any talent for the job” to which I am eternally grateful, you can keep your abomination genre of movie games to your self.

You're pretending to not care. MS themselves want a TLOU2-like experience😐They want it so bad, but they don't have the talent for that. Its above their pay grade. And these games are always winning all the awards, so its time for you to stop pretending. You want it as much as Microsoft, but you ain't getting it because its too much to ask for from a company that had trouble developing EVEN their biggest franchise.

Well this thread backfired.

Why, cuz you posted a dozen tweets sourcing the same article? You tried… But we still have conflicting reports of 2021 year end revenue from the Xbox execs, and a console making far less revenue than their competition. The Series S is putting more Xbox’s in consumers hands, but those consumers aren’t spending as much money. Content and services revenue is down… And lord knows what the software sales look like. All we know is Xbox gamers are buying a lot of COD games. When those roll into Game Pass, then what?

Get ready for the ads…

And yet MS said exactly the opposite. This was their best fiscal year ever in the history of Xbox in revenue. Also their best selling Xbox in the history of Xbox. Over 100 million XBL accounts and over 25 million Game Pass accounts. 32 game studios developing games. Most powerful console ever. And millions of gamers enjoying playing Xbox.

Get ready for the spin....

I'm not really too sure on all the specifics BUT

eventually MS is going to have to stop giving gamepass away for free or practically for free.

I mean that's the goal right? To have tens of millions of people consistently paying $15 a month or more right?

Most people are just paying the normal Game Pass membership. The workaround to get the $1 deal is only known by the hardcore fans. Casuals and parents are just logging in, signing up for the $10 a month, and charge away.

I never disputed anything other than that first claim about the best fiscal year in the history of Xbox. We have Phil Spencer, on the record saying they made more last fiscal year.

As for all those other bullet points... Yeah, big numbers when compared to other Xbox products and generations. The competition is also putting up their biggest numbers, putting Xbox in the same position as they've always been in. They are behind PS in hardware revenue, and behind PS and Nintendo in every other category like services revenue and software sales and revenue. I know your response. "Why should gamers care about that stuff?" Why should they care if there are 100 million XBL accounts, or 25 million Game Pass users? You are literally engaging in confirmation bias on a video game forum. You care about the positive and ignore anything critical. Its some cult like behavior... Why should gamers care what console other people are enjoying? Why should they care what service people are subscribed to?

Really. Let's look.

1. First 3 minutes - CGI
2. Then, you row a boat
3. At 3:30, you start watching more CGI, but YEA! you also get to slow walk.
4. at 9:30 - OMG, you get to move normally. But wait - it's another 3 minutes until you actually do anything.

Now, I know what you are saying.... &$#@! That's just the intro! But, the next chapter starts at 45 minutes in, where you now get to... go from spot to spot, pressing the "square" button to do a "puzzle" for... 10 more minutes! Yea! Then more CGI!

Then, OH BOY! I get to play the game for a half an hour, only to (oooh no!) spend a bunch more time pressing one button to move things along over and over again.

So, it seems like I am right on the money, teat drinker.

Again, I am not saying GoW "sucks". It is just not the kind of game I am interested in.

Well then, gamers should rejoice!

@x_hedon: Sigh. You’re just proving my point...

We will just have to agree to disagree.

Why are you paying attention to the beginning of the game? This is a 30h+ game, your first hour or two doesn't matter. High quality cutscenes are there so you know the characters in the story, and when you open up the world, there's barely any at all unless you follow the main story path. Y'all pretending like its one cutscene after another when the game is semi open world, and having cutscenes for everything in a meaty game would be way too expensive to produce. Stop lying to yourself, GoW2018 has more gameplay than Infinite will ever have.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

^I agree with the poster above. He knows wtf he is talking about.

Holy crap. I can't believe games like Halo and Gears have NO NARRATIVE OR LORE WHATSOEVER!

When you have no AAAs for years, I guess games with stories all seem the same or something. Anyway, your bad faith dishonesty is tired. A game like God of War is a million miles removed from from shit like As Dusk Falls, which comically takes up more space than most AAAs on the market. But Xgoons fight to the hilt in it's name because they have to justify their Game Pass subs somehow

No AAA games on the Xbox for years? Then followed that sentence about @HalcyonScarlet having bad faith dishonesty. 😂

You would be only monkey on the plant to compare God of War to As Dusk Falls.🤣

That's your collective faults for defending the game like it's something precious just because it's on Game Pass. This is why people continually roast the Xbox community because you're always raising shields over crumbs 🤣🤣🤣🤣 All that posturing over "movie games" and now you're defending flipbooks

I don't know man, that poster is shady if you ask me.

This has to be one of the biggest fanboy post of the month.

No AAA games for years, Halo and Gears have no lore... wow.

In case it's too dense for you, that sentence was sarcasm. The other part, the gross lack of AAA exclusives on Xbox, is most certainly not. It's not even a thing you can argue

So, you got so desperate that now you have to lie about me defending a game I blatantly stated I did not like.😂

You really are not very smart and super easy to rile up. The fun part is that you get dumber the more riled up your are.🤣

Oh now you hate the game. That's what you get when people were laughing at it for what it was in the first place. But you goons were so happy the game got a 9 here, that you celebrated before you personally found out it was shit. News flash, most of us knew that before we played it. It looked like the lamest visual novel ever

Past 12 months:

• Halo Infinite: 9/10
• Forza Horizon 5: 9/10
• Flight Simulator: 9/10

Never said anything about hating the game. Why are you struggling with basic English?

However, it is clear that the game lives rent-free in your mind. So much so that you made a comparison to God of War.😂

Flight Simulator came out in 2020 and never should have come to consoles (most of you didn't play it anyway). It is now approaching August 2022, and there are no AAA titles up for release except maybe a port of Deathloop between now and next year. Do you think this is an acceptable number of AAA titles for a new console in a three year span?

Flight Simulator was released in 2021 for Series X|S and I am glad to see the console release upsets you. Are you still playing the Top Gun DLC?😎

Forza Horizon 5 and Halo were released in 2021.

Now, count between December 2021 to now. How many years have passed?🤭

Because you struggle with basic communication. **** your flipbook game, you can't fall back to trying to defend it when you're on the record for not liking it. All the crap you talk about buying 70 dollar games but you go out of your way to download wastes of time like As Dusk Falls. That's why your video game opinions are beyond worthless

Again, you are the only monkey that would compare God of War to As Dusk Falls because the game lives rent-free in your head.😂🤣

Yup, in 60 glorious frames. Something the console version can't do.

The last major release on Xbox One is Gears 5 in 2019. Between then and 2023 there have been two new first party AAA games released for Xbox Series that aren't PC hand-me-downs. Despite acquiring studios and publishers. Come ON, man

Don't deflect. How many years have passed since the last AAA game from Xbox?😎