Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot

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Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot - Lemmy.ca

Let me just fire up all these Xbox exclusive and first party games they’ve released since like 2021…

Halo Infinite - failed Starfield - failed Forza Motorsport - terrible launch Redfall - failed

Out of curiosity, I googled exclusives for Xbox series exclusives. They’ve got things like Forza Horizon 5, sunset overdrive and Ori. Like, sure, but you can’t say proudly that your console is being held aloft by 4+ year old titles when the competition is releasing banger after banger!

They just missed the mark. You can spend billions on R&D and marketing for a new console, billions on buying up game studios to make new games, but if your games suck on launch, people won’t play on your console.

What XBox has done this generation is borderline suicide.

Ori and Forza are on PC, I don’t know about the other one

Yes exactly. A large number of their older titles exist on other platforms like the Switch and of course, the PC, where gamepass lets people play those titles for a very affordable price.

All the more reason then to make games like Starfield and Halo infinite the absolute best games they could be