Xbox consoles are DYING...
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- Xbox consoles are DYING...
According to Tom Warren from the Verge, Xbox console sales are down 31% in Q3 over the same time last year. This is coming with the news that revenues are up for gaming content and service due to the acquisition of Activision and Blizzard. We are also seeing Satya Nadella bragging about being the number one publisher on PlayStation 5 in the current marketplace.
All of this is pointing towards Xbox being a third party publisher and ditching the hardware market, especially since the Xbox Series is trailing behind the Xbox One in lifetime sales. The question for now is... will Xbox make another console? Or will Xbox cease to be as a hardware platform and move solely to publishing game?
Let us know in the comments!
0:00 Intro
0:50 Verge article shows Xbox console decline
04:43 Why buy an Xbox?
09:19 Activision is keeping Xbox gaming alive
13:16 Conclusion
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All the talent has left Microsoft, they can't just rely on old games to sell the latest Xbox Series 💩.
I think the writing is on the wall for Xbox hardware. They'll be the next Sega within the next 10 years
Nah
Big facts
It’s possible I mean if they keep making terrible decisions then yes it would go down the path sega did. I still remember when sega offered their services to create games for Xbox in the first years of the original first Xbox and they took it they made over 50 games with Xbox at that time.
Then who is the next Xbox, because Xbox came after when Sega stopped making consoles, so who comes after Xbox?
@@EPICBRUHKING someone hopefully and honestly I think it’s a major problem we don’t have any other new console competitors like Xbox did when they first came in to the market out of nowhere
Not surprised they plan to focus on software. The company has been that way for years.
But xbox is better designed and better quality than PS5 so wtf?
@@KotchcusDomesticusquality they have more quantity then quality at this point with how many studios they’ve acquired
This would’ve happened to begin with. Sony is a lot more experimental, and takes risks (releasing vr) and stuff like that. On top of that, Microsoft is giving away exclusives like it’s a homeless shelter, and rarely takes risks.
Nintendo actually tends to make a profit on their consoles.
Nintendo is purely focused on creating great games that we can only play on their systems. Microsoft on the other hand wants to be a gaming Netflix… which isn’t sustainable long term.
I unfortunately think that you're right. Once again Microsoft creates something really cool in the beginning, then when people like it, they begin half passing the whole thing, gets confused why people no longer like the product line and then just give up. Pathetic company. Used to be a big Microsoft fan, I've completely switched away from them due to their constant blunders and incredible ego. Fuck Microsoft.
Zune
Windows Phone
Band
Surface RT (this one was just half baked from the start)
Cortana (could've been really cool, especially if they had an AI product like co-pilot and just called it Cortana and used it as a personal assistant, which I believe is the route Apple is going with Siri)
Xbox One (had a ton of cool features, I loved the idea of one box all of entertainment, but instead of just going hey btw it handles cable too and video calls and then focusing on games, they made it all about that crap and decided to try and let publishers determine if games can be exchanged)
I honestly think that had Microsoft rid of their ego in 2010, we could be looking at Microsoft acting as a major third place or even second place consumer market eco-system from Band, to Windows Phone, to Windows, to the Xbox. Complete integration kind of like how Apple has it.
Ego… I think that’s honestly the problem. It’s a vanity project. They just want to brag about their longevity and power of their hardware yet are in distant third place. They would make way more money if they went third party.
The console sale gap its only going to get bigger on the next generation, the vast majority of ppl that already built a digital library on this and previous generations are more likely to stay on PS, i doubt anyone its going to jump to xbox were they have no games on their libraries. And do see many ppl jump from xbox to PS since they dont really buy games to begin with.
While Game Pass theoretically helps alleviate this issue, it also creates this situation where you’re never attached to your games and can leave the ecosystem at any time. I feel like they have really shot themselves in the foot with this one.
-Bobby
I mean well why play xbox now when most of their games are on PC now. Though I only see the reason to get an xbox for people who can't afford a $1000+ gaming pc to run games very well. I would like to see consoles still going but pc market is starting to grow rapidly.
"If the PS5 has no games, Xbox has negative games"
Neither Xbox or Ps5 are really great this is the worst Generation of consoles ever.
The best overall was the 6th generation:
PS2
Xbox
Dreamcast
GameCube
GBA
At least every console system actually felt like consoles with plenty of original IPS and sequels. NOT just remakes and remasters of the same shit.
You can count on your hand how many games designed for the Ps5 in mind for the past 3 years, just embarrassing. Why would I trade my PS4 pro for ps5? not buying an entirely new system just to play only one game Spiderman 2.
Now instead of releasing new content let's throw a slim version and a pro version of the hardware. GREAT now I can play my PS4 game in 8k on my new Ps5 pro WOW or even buy the remastered version of my PS4 game for even better visuals EPIC!!!.
PS1/PS2/PS3/PS4/PSP/VITA library >>>>>>>>>>Ps5
100% deserved. I don't get how they could have been so moronic to think that they can constantly pull nonsense if they are in third place. Really they should have removed the monthly subscription to play online, they should should have removed that entire Windows 8 crap UI and reworked it form the ground Games like that Vampire one that was horrible should have been canned and whoever had the idea that your flagship FPS game (Halo) should have any microtransactions at all after its rough launch should have been banned to the shadow realm. But no, they constantly try to pull some bullshit on their braindead fans. Why would anyone get an Xbox, seriously?
I have a Xbox but only for the exclusives I never got to play that I had some interest with I always stuck to PlayStation, Nintendo. But yes they do keep making terrible decisions in fact it makes me really think about sega a lot they went down a bad road where they became nothing more then a video game maker and no longer a company that had consoles to sell or compete with it no longer wanted to thrive off innovation. Xbox is more about quantity over quality these days. I wouldn’t be surprised if they kept going down hill and kept making big purchases and became the next Netflix
hardware going down is kind of expected. xbox was pushing the device doesn't matter narrative for a while now. Focusing more on being a publisher and on services will be good for all of us.
It’s always good to have competition in the market. The original Xbox arrived right after the Dreamcast went under and while Nintendo was still in the conversation as a high end console maker. We haven’t seen what Sony will do when left unchallenged, which could be very bad.
-Bobby
...Funny story, I got my first PS5 yesterday, the slim D-chassis one, and when I encountered that bug where the console was stuck on the pretty particle-filled screen with the soothing music after it updated its dualsense software for the first time, so I had to restart it, I had that question again, "Did I make a mistake by sticking with the playstation series? Should I have gone for Xbox?".
So... I guess I made the right choice in the end, even though I had to buy a Nacon controller because the placement of any playstation's controller's left analog stick wrecks my thumb?
I mean, the PS5 looks so cool both on the outside and within, my PS4 games look and feel incredible on the PS5, and holy sμιτ those quick loading times! I no longer have to sit and wait an hour for Red Redemption 2 and Bannerlord to load themselves up!
Not to mention that my Nacon unlimited controller works flawlessly on it!
There would also be Elden Lean, which, though it still has that issue with the pointless, buggy and poorly-designed mounted stance system that lets enemies frustratingly knock me off of Torrent a few hits, runs better than it ever did on the PS4, as if it were always meant for the PS5!
Looks like things related to the gaming industry went my way, for once after ages of being constantly disappointed by game developers almost everywhere!
Dare I write it, I think I'm 100% satisfied with the PS5! No irony, no joke, Sony did a great job with it!
Now, all Fromsoft has to do is fix their mounted stance system so that it actually won't get in the way of me fighting on Torrent and I'll declare that... Gaming-wise, I'm happy with what I've got.
I think we all saw this coming, the entitlement to play Microsoft games put the final nail in the coffin. I stopped buying Xbox games since I learned that the physical edition of Halo Infinite wasn't included on the disc.
I think we’ll see Microsoft come out with a set of hardware specifications that PC manufacturers can abide by and get their products certified as XBox. Different levels of this based on capability also. I think Valve are getting up for the same strategy also.
Hope Xbox series s will live as long as it can. Thanks to it's existing we're still getting some kind of optimisation for games
@@joejoe2658 i don't even own XBOX console. I'm glad that series S holds all that needless graphical mumbo-jumbo in bay. We need optimization and gameplay. Not useless eye-candy that seems to be prevalent these days. And for that we actually need weaker console series.
Note about hardware, just some additional color:
-Sidewinder gaming peripherals: dead
-Hololens: Life support maybe?
-Surface tablets: Doing ok
-Zune: Dead
-Windows phones: Dead
-Xbox: ???
Their major forays into hardware have not gone well. I would like to say Xbox will be around for the long haul, but it really is looking like they are gearing up to be a publisher or some kind of cloud based solution. Maybe a good 3-5 years from now though.
Then again, maybe they will turn it around and surprise us. *Huffs hopium*
They'll for sure bring BlizzCon back, though I am worried it'll shift focus from just blizzard IP's to push xbox stuff too.
I really like the PS5. But Sony is one evil SOB company. Sony needs more competition, not less. I have no interest in owning an XBOX, but we need them to keep Sony in line. Without XBOX, Sony game quality will drop and the prices will skyrocket.
They're all evil, but Microsoft is a special kind of evil! One name: Bill Gates. Nuff said!
Nintendo will still be there but Xbox is cool
@@gregoryfuller9736Nintendo has its own fair share of problems too
I just wish I can transfer ALL of my games off of xbox and onto another platform
When GamePass first launched I knew it was the beginning of the end.
I think consoles in general are living on borrowed time tbh.
Is write all over the place, go watch the Phil xcast enterview again, it's crystal clear. Same as Zune they will erase the hardware first and make it a just an app for PC, then they will erase even that and just merge it as a Microsoft service (they already did it, its Xbox GamePass, they will just rename it to Microsoft Gamepass). Also i think the plan was to port all big AAA games to Playstation, they just backtrack temporarily because all the bad marketing they get from fans, but they will keep trying till people pay not attention.
Also I think Microsoft just has less worth to offer when it comes to their consoles.
I mean on a PlayStation you can play VR if you want to usually they jump on any kind of game platform they also had a handheld a few years ago.
Nintendo just has the best portable
But Xbox does nothing special
Bleh Consoles are dying all together not just Xbox. More people are moving to PC, By next gen you won't need a PS with them going to PC and it will be day and date on most things. Consoles are gimped. I do see Xbox coming put with a PC/console hybrid.
Why do you think OEM windows sales went up PC gaming will take consoles over combined with tablets and phones. The younger gen doesn't care about consoles anymore. Exclusives are going to go away and Sony's money hatting isn't paying off for publishers.
Microsoft made the purchase and they are benefitting money is money and the investment is paying off. Sony sells consoles and their software lags so they will go PC they have seen the success of doing it. If not for PC HD2 wouldn't be the success it is.
I think this is the way. Sony and Microsoft consoles are too close to PC. Which means they can't win.
Why the hell do they sell physical Disk that only allows you to initiate the download for the necessary files. That was one of the strongest points of consoles PHYSICAL MEDIA!!!!
I really hope xbox sticks around because ps5 controller physically hurts my hands, at least I can still play on my xbox.
I doubt consoles will die out due to the rising cost of pcs. Plus you can use consoles as a pc
If Microsoft wasn't so hostile with their customers base (the ones that actually buy their products), made so many dumb decisions and created actual good games, the company wouldn't in this mess.
If Sega didn't recognized they messed up and at least tried to fix their mistakes in the 90's in time to save the Saturn or the Dreamcast, I don't see the "modern" Microsoft doing any better...
It was good while it lasted and the Series X will be the last Microsoft videogame console I'll ever buy apparently...
Xbox leaving console gaming is the best thing ever. You young kids have no idea. Look how that shitty series s is holding back games. But the devs said you will hold back our games we will just skip your console lol . Phil is the greatest
Don't 4get How THE RED RING OF DEATH[Xbox 360] helped Microsoft fleece they're fanbase into having to purchase multiple Game Consoles, due to hardware failures,
Bolstering Consoles sold through, RED RING OF DEATH played a huge Role, but because THE Media hardly mentions this, it's never given its appropriate consideration.
No first party games anymore no coteoller features theirs no reason to have an xbox at this point
What are you on about they have controller features youre just not looking i legit adjusted my controller light strength like 2 weeks ago and you can change haptics PlayStation controllers are for people with baby hands
@dontassociate tell that to the adaptive triggers touch pad an speaker that the ps controller has oh an built in mic. The xbox controller has no such features it's as basic as can be the haptics in the xbox controller arnt even that great I have both the ps controller definetly is better out of the box and I don't need to pay extra for a rechargeable pack or rechargeable batteries. Or pay 200 dollars for a premium exsperiance. The base ps5 controller s features are cool.
@@incinaflaregameing8644 it does what its meant to do you weirdo crazy that a controller controls things and does just that cause it doesn’t need the extra crap i dont need a 200$ charge pack you just buy a usbc cord and plug it in but you wouldnt understand since you need a built in ds lite mic and a crappy laptop mousepad but “the fEaTuRes!!!!” I love buying tech that’s literally listening to you 24/7 you dont even have a 8 direction dpad built in so…….
@@incinaflaregameing86448 directional dpad
"All of this is pointing towards Xbox being a third party publisher and ditching the hardware market, especially since the Xbox Series is trailing behind the Xbox One in lifetime sales."
No. It doesn't point towards that at all. Two things, first, console sales for all manufacturers for years have hit a ceiling of about 250 million units. Nintendo's Iwata and Fils-Aime have made that point since the early 2000s. If you add up the Xbox One and Series S|X, as well as PS4 and PS5 units, you'll notice we've already hit that ceiling. Xbox hardware isn't selling because everyone who wants an Xbox already has one, not because the hardware is unpopular. Xbox isn't worried however, because software and services is where the margins are.
Second, hardware is the main source of revenue for Xbox. I'm sure the Xbox execs would wish that most players simply played on Gamepass or PC, but unfortunately for them, most of their players use a console, which means that they'll continue to push hardware. Xbox is not going to become a third party publisher any time soon. Unless the software from non-console users starts exceeding console, they'll keep pushing console.
So, in one breath you say that Xbox doesn’t need to sell hardware, but the immediately say that their number one source of revenue is hardware…?
Which is it? Because, if they were doing fine on hardware sales, I very much doubt that they would be offering their former exclusives on their rival platforms.
Sure, there’s a ceiling of people who want to purchase consoles, but they should be fighting tooth and nail for those people, not just making all of their IP multi platform and essentially giving up on the console market, which they have all but done. I want them to succeed, but they don’t deliver quality products. They’ve had too many shortcomings in making great titles in the last decade, and they don’t seem to be trying to do anything about that.
-Bobby
Dude, you literally know nothing about hardware. 30 fps lock on Series X has nothing to do with Series S.
The Series X should be capable of running almost everything at 60FPS. The reason I’m assuming that it has anything to do with Series S is because I think Microsoft is forcing a parity internally for their first party games. I don’t think there’s anything else that justifies so many games being 30FPS on the Series X.
@@DirectGamingYT xbox is still going strong there will be a new xbox coming soon and series x is awesome.
they are working on the next xbox and claim it will suppass the competion but have not mentioned how.
Obviously, you are going to doom and gloom since your channel is very PlayStation-centric, plus they have already announced they are making next-gen hardware instead of counting them out let's see what they do with ABK this gen and the beginning of next-gen, I get you guys still operate on the old mindset of closed ecosystems but PlayStation ain't lighting the world on fire as well so let's see how this gen and next gen plays out.
Their revenue is up only because of ABK, and we’ve seen a downtrend in revenue from ABK already since they were acquired. I want Xbox to deliver good content, but they are focused on becoming something like Little Caesar’s, where you can get a lot of palatable stuff for little money instead of delivering standout products.
And, while Phil and Sarah Bond are promising a lot, at the end of the day, it’s Satya calling the shots. If the downtrend continues, he’ll scrap the hardware, promises be damned. He doesn’t want to lose his bonuses, I guarantee you that.
@@DirectGamingYT Let's see what happens then instead of just counting them out
I left xbox not because of the games but because the series X is nerfed and not being utilized properly. I'm not playing new games at 30fps. I left to PC and PS5
Playstation will drop out 1st lol
Xbox consoles aren't dying. They'll be fine.
Both PS5 and Xbox Series X suck when it comes to good game releases. It's all pretty much crap now stuffed with micro transactions.
Xbox is trash
So is PlayStation
PC Master Race!!
Pc gaming is the way and the future so glad majority of the console games are coming to pc ❤️🥰
@@Emma_2Banks PlayStation made the same revenue as Xbox and Nintendo in 2023 $30 billion is what PlayStation made Xbox made $18 billion and Nintendo made $12 billion
Xbox and Nintendo combined*
They need to make new good halo master chiefs is Xbox mascot but the last good game was reach image Nintendo released a much bad Mario game