Stumpy Knoxville

@xMBGx Hope you keep the same energy when Bungie inevitably gets shut down

Xbox comes out and announces the return to exclusives To then let everyone know they are losing hundreds of dollars on every Xbox sold, are in financial ruin, will have more mass layoffs with studio closures/game cancelations and that $1K consoles won't be wildly adopted? Ok

@xMBGx Gears E-Day

What is your most anticipated game for the second half of 2026?

@Play4Index Thats like protesting to free a serial killer when the people they murdered were your family

The only way to save Bungie is to support Marathon! This was stated by former Bungie community manager Liana Ruppert. She urged players to stop attacking the new shooter and not to compare its numbers with Destiny 2, since the projects are aimed at different audiences. Ruppert also noted that the studio’s financial problems began even before the deal with Sony. Without the sale, Bungie could have shut down or completely ended support for Destiny, so the acquisition effectively saved the developers. Now, in her opinion, the studio’s future depends on Marathon’s results. If the game succeeds, Bungie will be able to keep its team and continue working on its own projects and potentially return to the idea of a full Destiny 3 in the future. If it fails, Bungie could lose its independence for good and become a support team for other PlayStation studios. #Bungie

@TheRealJTV4K60 @Septic_Sauce 94+ million PS5 consoles "shipped" that everyone loves to brag about yet these are the numbers from their first party games? How did game of the year Astrobot get on aswell? How about you stop being a hypocrite and wind your neck in. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

Xbox is nothing but a financial black hole if you really love your brand you won't even flirt with the idea of this happening seeing as though you guys don't believe in buying games anymore and only want to support Game Pass that allows you to play the games you're talking about it no new additional cost to you which does nothing to help keep said AAA games pumping out the way that you guys want.

Gears of War has made them lash out for over a week straight. Imagine what an Xbox exclusive Elder Scrolls or Fallout would do.

@WWCOG_Podcast @nib95_ Yeah youre a boring annoying cunt. Got it 👍

@StumpyKnox @nib95_ First it was "bollocks", now its "i cant see it happening for at least a year" 🤣🤣🤣 At least you have clarified your position to be far more in line with mine. All that just to end up stating the obvious ☠️

What doesnt make sense is thinking two handpicked exclusive titles boons the platform with the primary benefit of actually having exclusive games - unique value proposition. Wtf is two games? Why would a person see gears on Xbox and PC, and yet still see Fable, Forza and Halo on PS and think Xbox is essential? They lost their damn minds. Wanna experiment? Go all in on exclusivity. Not this half a toe dipped nonsense. 🫩 But go figure. They never fully committed to gamepass, never made it essential, and have basically been using money as fire fuel instead logs. Gears is just a martyr at this point for a half committal promise that only makes them look more inept. Why Gears and not Halo , Forza and Fable? And if expensive termination fees is where the line is drawn, THEN WHY GEARS? WHY DO IT? They have no clear direction, no impetus, and no clue. This is xbox.

@BigDamnHeros420 @PaulTassi @Forbes Why wouldnt they?

@StumpyKnox @PaulTassi @Forbes I know. My point was not a lot of people would want it on ps

Why Xbox Won’t Make ‘Elder Scrolls VI’ And ‘Fallout 5’ Exclusive via @forbes forbes.com/sites/paultass…

@WWCOG_Podcast @nib95_ I said my opinion about an article that I put on here and now its turned into 20 questions

@StumpyKnox @nib95_ So... what is your contention? Because it sounds like you can see it potentially being spun off... like we said? But before you said you think theyre committed long term to the console... so a little confused here 🤔

@WWCOG_Podcast @nib95_ I never said they didn't ffs. That was my own opinion

@StumpyKnox @nib95_ Nobody is saying its getting spun off within the year

@BigDamnHeros420 @PaulTassi @Forbes I was on about Halo

@StumpyKnox @PaulTassi @Forbes Ummm. Gears is a big franchise, but not near as big as you all make it out to be

@flamingbofa @TimoTweetss Im an outsider looking in. The amount of delusion from fanboys on here is absolutely insane. Its seriously like watching a cult

@StumpyKnox @TimoTweetss Fair enough, but that just makes your responses up until this point more puzzling

all showcases were solid, struggling to see how god of war laufey, wolverine, until dawn 2 and onimusha don’t make a “great” showcase to yall

@SprXs88 Fan fiction apparently

I repeat, $814 Million....... Damn.......🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

@flamingbofa @TimoTweetss Im neither. I own all platforms

@StumpyKnox @TimoTweetss Also ironic that you talk about PS fans flaunting sales to Xbox fans when you're doing the exact same thing. Nintendo fans love to shit on PS lol.

@Puertorock77_ Jason Schreier says no

There is no way. Almost $1B lost. That is insane.

@KevinFutura @RGamerB_ Apparently not

@RGamerB_ im mostly curious if xbox really lost $814M on the initiative.

It's actually insane the CEO of MicroSlop just admitted that grifters on YouTube and X make more money talking about xbox than they ever have. 😭 Now watch the usual suspects say he's lying, and Asha's shit doesn't stink. 💀

@nib95_ Apology accepted

@StumpyKnox My bad I mixed it with accountability margin. I think revenue decline with ABK included is likely actually worse lol.

Turns out concerns on #Xbox business model sustainability had validity, contrary to fanboy challenges and PR, as Satya Nadella himself admits: "We've invested a lot. No one can accuse Microsoft of not having invested for the last 25 years. And now we have to turn this into a sustainable business, that delivers what is fundamentally one of the best sources of entertainment. The challenge we have is, we've not been monetizing that entertainment. In fact, if anything we've been subsidizing that entertainment. In-fact there's more monetisation of Xbox games happening on YouTube than at Microsoft." So Satya confirms they've been subsidising things, that they have to turn it into a sustainable business, and that he believes they need far greater monetisation. Asha Sharma admitted a few days ago that Xbox's accountability margin is just 3% now, but keep in mind that does not include hardware losses and other costs, so in reality the actual operating income is either lower, or Xbox is operating at a LOSS. So we can say with confidence now, the strategies Xbox pushed over the last decade or more, that countless fanboys glazed, ultimately failed and were not enough to compensate for a lack of more compelling exclusives relative to the competition. Everything from Kinect, entertainment focus, PC day and date and play anywhere, Game Pass, XCloud, exclusivity de-emphasing, specific acquisitions, console split SKU etc. One major thing the "Game Pass is profitable" crowd consistently failed to understand, is that the true cost of GP wasn't just the licensing costs for games on the service, or even development costs as well, instead it was always the immense sales cannibalisation it causes too, which directly offsets revenue gained. That's why Call of Duty had to be removed, because the massive cannibalisation of its traditional sales was not offset by subscription revenue growth, hence a net negative. It's also why despite releasing games on PC day and date AND making ~$5bn per annum on Game Pass, over the course of the first 4 years of the new gen, Xbox revenue growth was STILL near flat sans ABK, while competitors saw huge revenue growth in the same timeframe with more traditional business models. Deduct Zenimax revenue, and Xbox likely saw revenue DECLINE. FY2021 - $15.37bn FY2022 - $16.23bn FY2023 - $15.47bn Y2024 - $15.75bn And now Asha has admitted they've seen a further ~$500m revenue decline with ABK included. It's a similar thing with "Game Pass helps game sales" PR. That was only ever true when GP was in its infancy. As I'd always said, it would inevitably lead to greater cannibalisation of sales the more popular the service got, and that's exactly what happened and what MS themselves admitted. In any case, as a general rule I think Xbox and PC/Xbox fans should just stop debating others with a much keener grasp of the industry, data and business, on matters of gaming business strategy. Because no fandom has a worse track record. Y'all have continually misread and been wrong on practically everything on matters related to business strategy (esp console side), many for the better part of a decade or more. All because your views are guided by platform preference tribalism and PR, not astute analysis, data, facts, financials or critical thinking.

@flamingbofa @TimoTweetss They dont stop counting sales they just blatantly added them on. So in reality Nintendo have had the most popular console and the most popular games so far. That's number 1 in my eyes. PS fans love nothing more than to brag about console and game sales to the Xbox fans though

@StumpyKnox @TimoTweetss They obviously didn't "magically" find those numbers, they had clearly just stopped counting sales at some point and then counted again to try and give the PS2 a buffer against the Switch. Also, PS still makes more money than Nintendo.

@nib95_ Really?

@RyanCanadian @PaulTassi @Forbes 😂

@PaulTassi @Forbes Xbox can't afford to do that.