Jared Shapiro

@LogicSnse @JBishie That's literally pulling numbers out of thin air and trying to justify a guestimate with them

@GetFitWithJared @JBishie Past sales and current market conditions are both good data points to start with. Extrapolate that with past performance and you have a start. That isn't pulling numbers out of thin air even if it isn't accurate.

Analysts are trying to forecast low‑volume sales for Project Helix when the product doesn’t exist in the public domain. Any projection is baseless: there’s no hardware profile, no pricing, no software lineup, no marketing strategy, and no defined audience. They don’t have BOM estimates, internal targets, or manufacturing timelines. They’re filling gaps with legacy heuristics and outdated assumptions about XBOX’s strategy. Without those fundamentals, you can’t model adoption curves, forecast elasticity, or estimate launch volume. Predicting Helix’s sales today is like estimating a film’s box office without knowing the cast, the genre, the budget, the release date, or the script.

@ZakkenKloot But there's no Halo 2 😢

You could take away all my games for the rest of my life and just leave me with this stack and I’d be happy

@GetFitWithJared Alright well you should fire it up again just to get annoyed with the music. lol

Honest and Unpopular Reviews No. 8 Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure (NES) This is one of the worst games on the NES. You bounce around time zones grabbing items and there's no logic to any of it. No map, no direction, no hint that you're doing the right thing. Rufus is the only one who tells you anything and it still isn't enough. Then there's the music. A few bars on a loop that never stops. It grinds away the entire time you're wandering around lost, which is the entire time. Playing it muted is an improvement. What gets me is how easy this should have been. Two characters everyone liked, a time machine, and all of history to build levels out of. LJN had everything and did nothing with it. This is one of the games that earned that rainbow its reputation. Nothing about this one is excellent. I rate this one a 1 out of 5.

@KCromwellAuthor Yes! Loved that show

Hot Take for Clicks: The best reality show was . . . Who Wants to Be a Superhero? In Season One, I was rooting for Ty'Veculus. He did not win.

@NostalgiaPro To be fair, I haven't tried playing it again since I was 10 😂

@GetFitWithJared It's such a bad game. I tried running through it recently and it's just so bad. The music is genuinely the worst video game music ever made.

@LogicSnse @JBishie With what data? They're quoting a writer from Forbes, an organization still somehow considered reputable. Why would their readers want someone pulling numbers out of thin air and saying that's how many Xboxes will sell in the first year?

@GetFitWithJared @JBishie You can still make an educated guess. But with low certainty.

@Romudeth KING OF THE IMPOSSIBLE!

FLASH! ah-AAAHHH!!!

People need a way to have true digital ownership. XBOX has an opportunity to gain a lot of goodwill right now if we see details on some kind of program to make sure customers never lose access to purchased digital media. Entitlements should be guaranteed on accounts, even if compromise occurs. I understand encryption if the users data to keep it safe, but digital entitlements are just a flag on the account, there's no reason this user should lose access to those

@asha_shar @aarongreenberg @ballmatthew @steinekin @XBOX this is not acceptable. This is why people are so scared of digital only. You have the ability to fix this and you should but also do what others are not and provide protection for our purchases. But seriously, help this person out.

@WithinRafael @bdsams Quit buying from Steam and but from GoG. Download the offline installers as a backup. Heck, make your own physical media from their files

@bdsams My biggest worry is the digital purchases. I think a good chunk of gamers have 5-6 figures invested in Steam at this point.

If: OneDrive Apple Google {any cloud vendor} Bans your account, your data is gone. You need to be storing that data locally as well...if you forget your password, your data is lost. Get a NAS, duplicate it. it's okay to use these services, but you need to own your data

@LogicSnse @JBishie Maybe, maybe the physical media backlash and potential high price is enough to slow sales. In other words, we don't have enough information to make even an educated guess

@GetFitWithJared @JBishie We can also say that it would probably still sell 3 to 1 better than Xbox.

@LogicSnse @JBishie I can say the PlayStation 6 will sell 2 million units and have the same chance of being right as these analysts. We know the same info about PS6 as Helix, which is basically an estimated hardware profile. No price, no software lineup, no release date, practically nothing

@JBishie I wouldn't call it baseless. That is the nature of forecasting using past performance and current economics and taking a guess. Does leave a lot of room to be wrong if the Xbox team pulls a rabbit out it's butt.

@chaosprimeZ There's nothing to even analyze other than the system exists and we have a rough idea on specs. We don't know the price, number built, final specs, or even the launch markets. Anyone estimating units sold is a 🐂 💩 artist of the lowest caliber

LOL people just want Sony to have a monopoly desite all the shit they are pulling still. They just dont want competition and even seeing XBOX try and compete is a problem. What basis exactly is this prediction? What percentage of accuracy does it have? This is why i say they deserve everything they get lol

The baby just did her first @RicFlairNatrBoy WOOOOOOO! I've never been so proud

@YaOnlyLivvOnce @Wendys Time to go to Chick-fil-A and get that Polynesian sauce instead

Why did you guys get rid of the sweet and sour sauce ? 🥺 @Wendys

@klara_sjo Does this count as food pr0n?

I really, really, really like this image.

@JamieMoranUK This and Expanse Osiris Reborn are easily two of the biggest games I'm excited for right now. We've been starved of Mass Effect for so long and now we finally have games filling that hole

Exodus Coming to Xbox Series Consoles Hard to believe we haven’t really had a game like this since the Mass Effect Trilogy games. The devs have shown a lot, and it really looks brilliant. 🪐

I think pushing against stuff like this is far more important for the future of gaming and digital ownership than fighting for physical media. Digital rights affect far more customers at this point, even the "only physical" crowd likely have digital purchases that would be affected if their account was banned.

This is actually fucking gross and should be illegal

@nyc_prophet Everyone I know that played DOOM TDA enjoyed it, but sadly not that many people seemed to have played it. I don't feel like the marketing was as strong as Eternal's was

Doom The Dark Ages, id tech tried something new with the Doom franchise instead of regurgitating the same Doom formula over and over again is considered a bad

@grok @PcPhilanthropy So it looks like the answer is yes, but with consequences

@GetFitWithJared @PcPhilanthropy Sure! Instant swap to a compact Valve Steam Machine. The plant and Arizona can took the fall.

Can your Steam Machine do this?