Microsoft's Little Pity Party (The Jimquisition)
Added 2022-12-12 13:15:59 +0000 UTCMicrosoft feels pretty sorry for itself lately, and it wants you to sympathize. As Phil Spencer chats nonsense regarding $70 games and Sony's reaction to the planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard, let's revel in the self pity.
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Honestly don't know why MS is still around at this point. I've been seeing them consistently release aggressively mediocre products for about 4 decades now. MS-DOS, Windows 3 95 ME, acquiring Nokia (RIP), XBox (original), Internet Exploder, Outlook, MSSQL, Visual BASIC, Clippy ... That's just off the top of my head. The only reason I still use Windows is Apple never bothered to release an affordable system that could be used for gaming.
fponias
2022-12-14 15:51:13 +0000 UTCXBox Series S: $250 Switch Lite: $199 He can't even use numbers to lie like a novice executive. But then, that's Microsoft: their only reason for success is that their OS is popular. They're so astoundingly incompetent that they would've been put out of business decades ago if it wasn't for that (... which they paid money to accomplish, by the way; ever wonder why every PC you buy has Windows preinstalled? Yeah...) And that putting Windows on your PC is part of MS being anticompetitive from the start (even when there weren't really many competitors for PC operating systems; Linux wasn't a thing until the early 90s and wasn't feasible until the mid-late 90s, and people were scared of BSD because of the AT&T lawsuit). As I always say about this topic: the games industry acts like a microcosm of the tech industry because it is. And Xbox is the absolute best demonstration of this, because it is, itself, a microcosm of Microsoft.
Luna
2022-12-12 15:33:22 +0000 UTCYeah, the 'don't worry, we'll be on our best behaviour' guff being spouted by MS holds about as much water as 'the market will police itself'.
Harry
2022-12-12 14:44:09 +0000 UTCChrist on a bike, Steph, and there are still people out there who claim you've lost your touch. I genuinely think I might have started cheering at some point during the, "something had to give," segment.
Kav
2022-12-12 14:10:25 +0000 UTC
