The Xbox experience!

[PhrawzT]

It really is weird, because they're still sitting on top of all these franchises and studios that could easily deliver stuff for every thinkable demographic on Earth (though it's been like this since at least the Xbox One days), but their showcase streams are always just, like, four games whereof three have already been shown off before.
They're like Smaug, owning all these treasures but just sleeping on it all.

They are sitting on all of Rare's catalog.

 

[Tonberry]

They are sitting on all of Rare's catalog.

Yeah. As someone who absolutely loves Sea of Thieves that's one of the teams I'm not as sad about, but I know people really want to see more legacy Rare stuff being revived.
Banjo for example probably wouldn't be the same without Gregg Mayles though, since he left this year after that Everwild game was canned.

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

I use my original and 360 fairly often but beyond that there really isn't anything of value. Xbox as a brand never recovered from the Xbox One's terrible reveal.

 

[zagzag999221]

I live in Brazil and nobody here knew what an Xbox was. We all had Playstation 2. I discovered because an American cousin moved here and brought it with him. I still find it surreal that Microsoft made a console, stupid company.

 

[Dany28]

I live in Brazil and nobody here knew what an Xbox was. We all had Playstation 2. I discovered because an American cousin moved here and brought it with him. I still find it surreal that Microsoft made a console, stupid company.

Microsoft's idea for the console wasn't bad but they should have put more effort into it.

 

[zagzag999221]

Microsoft's idea for the console wasn't bad but they should have put more effort into it.

But they had Halo right? I played with split screen and it was pretty incredible. Also, Xbox Live was kinda groundbreaking. What else could they have done?

 

[Dany28]

But they had Halo right? I played with split screen and it was pretty incredible. Also, Xbox Live was kinda groundbreaking. What else could they have done?

Yes but Halo is not everything a lot of things went wrong in the management.

 

[PhrawzT]

But they had Halo right? I played with split screen and it was pretty incredible. Also, Xbox Live was kinda groundbreaking. What else could they have done?

The first two consoles were done well with good exclusives, but it seems like the last two consoles had really been about trying to make a more powerful console, but not really doing a whole lot with it. Their acquisitions of other studios hasn't really paid off since they keep cancelling games and releasing mediocre titles after years of development.

I loved Halo, but everything after Reach was a disappointment.

 

[zagzag999221]

With the arrival of Xbox exclusives on Playstation, it seems that Microsoft is no longer interested in competing in the console market. The new Sega as some people are saying. It just doesn't make sense. Maybe the new console is made to keep the brand, the name "xbox", I really don't know. I just think that currently it doesn't make much sense to have an Xbox.

 

[Dany28]

That's ridiculous, $800 Microsoft raises Xbox prices again.

 

[Tonberry]

With the arrival of Xbox exclusives on Playstation, it seems that Microsoft is no longer interested in competing in the console market. The new Sega as some people are saying. It just doesn't make sense. Maybe the new console is made to keep the brand, the name "xbox", I really don't know. I just think that currently it doesn't make much sense to have an Xbox.

I kind of get it, in the sense that they (Microsoft) want to compete in the living room space, moreso than in the console space specifically. At least, that's what it feels like to me.
The actual people who work at and develop Xbox specifically (below Microsoft as a whole) are probably caught in between a rock and a hard place.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

I live in Brazil and nobody here knew what an Xbox was. We all had Playstation 2. I discovered because an American cousin moved here and brought it with him. I still find it surreal that Microsoft made a console, stupid company.

missed out on the OG Xbox. That is the preferred way to play multiplats that gen. I rather play the GCN port then play a PS2 port of any multiplat game. The Xbox back then was just too good for this world.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

I use my original and 360 fairly often but beyond that there really isn't anything of value. Xbox as a brand never recovered from the Xbox One's terrible reveal.

Will never forget all the people who defended that shit, my favourite one being Cliffy B with his infamous deleted tweet: “Say what you will about Don Mattrick but he has more money than any of you”

 

[Pearly]

Phil Spencer was hoping to capitalise on a more casual part of the PC gaming market and he failed, because for them it's still becoming a, **ahem**, and I quote!!, "a console peasant". The console was bought and loved by anyone that has amassed a large digital library on their Xbox account.

Credit where credit is due, the series X was an amazing machine that was very very powerful for its price point during release, no way they weren't selling at a huge loss and expecting it to sell like hotcakes based on it's capabilities alone, the price point currently is to try to make something back, although it is too late. No hype and gathering dust on shelves. Too expensive now to work as solely a 4k blu ray player either, so it can't be recommended for that.

I personally believe Xbox lost when they didn't part Jet set radio future to the Xbox backwards compatibility. Jet set radio future was all the xbox really needed in my eyes, that and a decent Halo game, it got neither in years.

The emulation scene for the OG Xbox is abysmal as an example, The Xbox brand is dying and is currently just a testing ground for a video games version of netflix, streaming sites more or less so we can return to renting games and not owning shit, not even a license to download a working signed copy of a game.

The OG xbox only exists because Bill gates was insecure about the Japanese dominance of the gaming market. The xbox 360 was a mad dash to get the next gen of console first to market at a 80% failure rate for the initial machine.

All round Xbox situated itself as being the cheap gaming machine after initially being the premium console machine.

 

[qw90700]

That's ridiculous, $800 Microsoft raises Xbox prices again.

Me poor small indie company Microsoft trying to survive in Trump's American Nightmare™©℗® lolol.

 

[Segadude113]

really wish classic XBOX emulation was better

 

[Turbo Kid]

The original Xbox was Great Value brand Dreamcast, and the 360 is the cause of EVERYTHING bad in gaming today. If I'm being completely honest and not sugarcoating anything, I hate the Xbox brand.

All that being said, I can't deny that both consoles had some bangers on them. Viva Pinata, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Otogi, The Dishwasher Vampire Smiles, Dust an Elysian Tail, Mass Effect, Jet Set Radio Future, etc, etc.