Their C-suites are in panic and know fuck all about games but they probably have seen one or two movies and have heard of Netflix. They probably proposed this because it‘s the only thing that makes sense to them in a foreign world that confuses them. It can only fail and will likely churn out AI slop nobody wants to watch.

You have to remember that literally none of the executives making these decisions play video games. Or any games. They literally can’t fundamentally understand that playing a game that you don’t win is still fun, because they are toxic narcissists.

I'm pretty sure they're in liquidation mode right now. Everything at Microsoft is being sacrificed on the altar of AI

It makes sense when you realize they paid bank for a bunch of IPs over the last 5 years and want to squeeze more out of it.

This is just them looking to make codblops the movie.

PC gaming might be standing but it's costing an arm and a leg to do so.

As someone who has been around since the third console generation (NES, SMS), honestly I feel like we are living in one of the worst eras in gaming history, second only to the crash of '83 (but I wasn't there for that so I can't confirm).

It really sucks that Nintendo is winning the console wars. Between suing their fans for making their games better, and them being seemingly unable to release a console that can keep up with modern performance standards (The Switch 2 only has 1500 shader cores FFS; modern midrange GPUs have 10,000+!), I wish literally anyone else was on top.

I mean I'm not in this fight—my last console was the 360—and I've been PC exclusive since, but still, we need healthy competition or things are only going to get worse for gamers.

GOG tried to kill itself with the Nazi symbols sent in emails, that they never really apologized for. They are lucky people have short memories.

There’s no sense in selling a loss-leader computer/console when the losses are soooooo massive these days because of component shortages caused by billionaire hoarders.

I just picked up a refurbished workstation for $200 to stream my main pc to the living room via Steam. Works like a charm 😎

It’s running Cachy OS and can play some light-weight titles by itself too.

They should make Uwe Boll head of that department.

Moar Master Chief ASS! That's what gamers really want!

Someone at Microsoft is really mad that it was Amazon who profited from Fallout tv show.

That's not really enshittification, is it...?

That was always the case. Nobody cares about workers from other companies. There is a reason why people fear for their jobs in buyouts/mergers.

Xbox now has some of the best IP in gaming.

won't be able to afford the next-gen consoles anyway.

Xbox now owns the following franchises, among many others: Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Warcraft, Diablo, Call of Duty, The Outer Worlds, Wolfenstein, Doom... Those are just most of the important ones from recent acquisitions. Some already have movies or TV shows, but they can always make new ones for those too.

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