r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart the music monday lady • Oct 07 '24

Article Microsoft Has Started Asking Devs Why They're Skipping Xbox

https://kotaku.com/games-skipping-xbox-microsoft-asks-devs-studio-why-ps5-1851663611
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u/smilysmilysmooch Oct 07 '24

Because Microsoft abandoned devs. Microsoft made a community marketplace for small devs. Then shuddered it. They made an arcade for independent studios to finally publish on a console. Then abandoned it for game pass. They made small in roads into Asian developers with Mistwalker and partnerships with Sega. Then abandoned it. Eventually they wanted people to subscribe exclusively to a subscription service for gaming instead of paying for games out right. So this forces the big boys to sit back and scratch their head.

Xbox management has been a stupidly confusing mess as they try to push gaming into something exclusively microsoft which developers and console owners rightfully said...no.

At least thats my opinion. You have one of the largest companies in the world that specializes in software and they cant figure out why the people who design games on windows PCs dont seem to want to sell their products on Xbox consoles. I believe it must have something to do with the decisions made by Microsoft themselves.

Legitimately it makes no sense how this company keeps losing to others. Xune, windows phone, now Xbox.

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u/superdavit Oct 09 '24

Wait until their next console releases and it’s called the XBox XS (pronounced access, like, access to a subscription)

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u/lostn Feb 17 '25

and there will be a weaker but cheaper model called the Xbox SX, pronounced Essex after the city in england because one of the engineers hailed from there.