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@trunksreturns @Ctfire3 @GoodGameKofi @LordAddictILP Dont see how u can see all this large social media buzz/reactions and assume the fanbase is feeling apathy right now. Clearly there is still a large enough base for Microsoft to change course on the xbox division and the direction they were headed.

@Ctfire3 @GoodGameKofi @LordAddictILP That ship has sailed man. Xbox brand wntered into the apathy zone. When a brand enters that zone, theres nothing you can do to change anything. Its completely over. Bwcause you have lost your nucleus fanbase. You cant get them back they are apathetic

IF these numbers are accurate right, my question is how many copies do you think sold on Xbox consoles! More? (Outside of SoT and Forza) I’d image probably a lot less no? So how does exclusivity solve the issue!

@seth_man @ATLVsTheWRLD We'll see about this summer lol

@ATLVsTheWRLD It was never a competition

Team already chose they #QB1

@FableReboot @aarongreenberg Its still coming to Playstation lol all the games that have already been announced for PS5 are still going to PS5. What happens after that, we'll have to wait and see

@aarongreenberg so its not coming to playstation? glad xbox returned to xbox it should always be about the xbox console first finally some reasons to buy the console.

Great Games. Return of Xbox. Future of Play.

@Dntworboutit23 @aarongreenberg "loud xbox minority" lol so I guess the loud minority isn't responsible for new leadership and sudden changes within the division huh?

@aarongreenberg Phil already told you the hard truth. Nobody is going to sell their playstation or not buy a playstation, in the millions, to buy into the xbox brand. So just keep those titles coming to ps. It's better for your business. The loud xbox minority, who don't buy games, don't matter.

@HeatvsHaters Brother we are drafting Yaxel at 13, resigning Norm, and running it back lol

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@Centristgamer @PassiveProphet I guess my point is no amount of tweets, replies or emails from fans was going to stop a $70 billion acquisition lol and its no one's fault but Microsofts

Same can be said for any company decision. A company will do whatever it does, but as a consumer you can voice being for or against said decision. I have always been against Sony porting to PC, and have been vocal about it. But I also say at the same time that Sony will do whatever they are going to do at the end of the day. That shouldn’t need saying.

Mark this as the beginning of Xbox guys sand bagging more XGS games coming out of GP (they won't be exclusive either).

@PassiveProphet It meant the Xbox division as a whole needed to bring in more revenue as it put the gaming division under a Microscope from shareholders. Hence porting games, laying off workers, and raising the price of games and services. And All those decisions have backfired.

@DFilms92 What did the $70 billion dollar merger have to do with Forza, SoT and GoW?

This has gotta be the best 53:22 seconds in Xbox content creation history, I might watch it again 😂. CMoney absolutely unravelling Boomstick (& the entire Return to Xbox Exclusives narrative) with basic common sense. youtu.be/irGMH1I6Cxc?si…

@PassiveProphet Not from a consumer standpoint.

@DFilms92 They are 1 in the same.

@Centristgamer @PassiveProphet I think the narrative of "being for or against" the acquisition is kinda dumb honestly. A company like Microsoft is going to do what ever they want to do regardless of consumer feedback....atleast till its starts to negatively impact their revenue (which we now know it has).

ABK accelerated it since it put a target on their back as they needed to grow Gamepass and sell games like a 3rd party publisher of ABK’s size. I think most of us knew that would be the outcome of ABK. And I was against it for a while for that reason at first, but since everyone that was against the ABK deal was a salty pony at the time, I eventually wanted it to happen 😂 And yes, they definitely wanted to stay exclusive for as long as possible and even with Bethesda/Zenimax…but with that said, not sure how long Satya would have let him do that.

@GRIMMYRAX @PassiveProphet They've released like 20 games on playstation now including their biggest ones this gen in Forza Horizon and Starfield. They should already have the sample size they need to make any decision going forward

@DFilms92 @PassiveProphet They’re dependent on what their shareholders say they’re dependent on. PlayStation gave PC 6-7 years to prove itself, it barely did. Now, that is most likely over. Xbox’s biggest games have yet to drop on PlayStation which will serve as proving grounds for Xbox’s strategy.

@Centristgamer @PassiveProphet Only pushback on that is that was absolutely the plan until they bought Activision Blizzard for $70 billion. I dont think Xbox ever intended on going full 3rd party before that even with gamepass day 1 titles.

@DFilms92 @PassiveProphet Sales on PS5 help give them an audience to sell to which would enable Gamepass day one more. But atleast he understands that you can’t have day one Gamepass and exclusives. Most of his Xbox peers don’t understand this yet.

@PassiveProphet The community is celebrating the reduction in gamepass price...not the removal of CoD. Unless Microsoft plans to continue to lower the price (highly doubtful) than they won't be able to get away with anymore exceptions going forward.

@DFilms92 By taking CoD out of gamepass, and by the community celebrating it, they open up the door for more exceptions in the future.

@PassiveProphet Maybe...but I'm willing to bet the main reason was becuase of the $70 billion Activision merger. There were no plans to port games to Playstation before that.

@DFilms92 We can infer if things were selling better in Xbox they would not be in the position they are now

@GRIMMYRAX @PassiveProphet Ok...but has xbox completely ingrained its business with Playstation? I'd say no and based on recent actions/moves they dont want to be dependent on them going forward. Time will tell tho.

@DFilms92 @PassiveProphet Sony’s business strategy DIRECTLY contrasts Xbox’s. While Xbox has completely ingrained themselves with PC and will never separate, PlayStation has always been console first. Even with PC; Xbox is operating from the weakest industry position. Most they can do is timed exclusives.

@JohnBaptiste5 @PassiveProphet Apparently game sales didn't matter to Phil Spencer either...cause he started all this in the first place.

@PassiveProphet I thought sales didn't matter.... We tried to tell them that sales matter because who are you going to sell your games to if nobody buys your hardware. You can't sell softwares to people that don't exist.

@Centristgamer @PassiveProphet I mean...is PS5 not the reason they are able to continue to support day one gamepass titles?

Atleast his take is more realistic TBF. Most of the Xbox fanboys on X don’t want to acknowledge that adding those games to GP didn’t help it from being stagnant. Instead they expect PS5 ports to carry Xbox out of negative comps, and want exclusives on a console thag doesn’t sell and where there is no incentive to buy games.

@PassiveProphet Also important to know it still costs time, money, and resources to port these games. Company wants to see a specific number sold for the port to be worth it...same thing happening with Playstation games on PC.

@PassiveProphet I mean at the end of the day, none of us know internally what any of these ganes sold on xbox cause they haven't revealed sales numbers for over a decade. Cmoney is sticking to the Phil Spencer narrative to avoid looking like a hypocrite lol

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