r/videogames • u/IntelligentImbicle • Jun 03 '26

Other "We had a good thing going, you sonuvabitch!"

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u/No-Entertainment2085 Jun 03 '26

That’s corporate cope because series x/s isn’t selling.

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u/tarchival-sage Jun 03 '26

I don’t see Usain Bolt as a competitor either. That does not make me the fastest man.

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u/PartridgeInDisguise Jun 03 '26

Huh, you made me wonder if his record still stands, it feels kinda crazy that it still does. But actually looking at his times compared to others, it makes sense. He really was a once in a lifetime athlete.

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u/TehTJ13 Jun 04 '26

If you broke both of Usain Bolt’s legs, I could run faster than him

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u/tarchival-sage Jun 04 '26

I think that with prosthetic legs he would still win

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u/TehTJ13 Jun 04 '26

You don’t typically have to amputate someone for a fracture

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u/LessPirate24 Jun 04 '26

I mean if you think you’re so fast you don’t consider him a threat then damn we need to study you!

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u/tarchival-sage Jun 04 '26

Does a baby consider a martial arts black belt a threat? I would be a baby crawling on the floor next to him.

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u/Depreciable_Land Jun 03 '26

I mean sure but does it even need to with how well Game Pass and Steam sales are doing?

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u/paganbreed Jun 03 '26

Think of it in corpo terms. They're doing well by our standards.

But shareholders aren't seeing line go up as much as they want.

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u/Depreciable_Land Jun 03 '26

Shareholders love short term gains more than anything. Leaning into gutting console manufacturing and laying off everyone involved, consequences be damned, will produce a lot of short term gains.

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u/ironangel2k4 Jun 05 '26

Welcome to enshittification

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u/Commercial-Gap6280 Jun 06 '26

And frankly, the shareholders won't see the line go up as much as they want, pretty much no matter what any of these companies do. Endless, uninterrupted growth is unsustainable 🤷‍♂️ not to mention impractical, this late in the game.

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u/paganbreed Jun 06 '26

To echo what I told someone else. Tell them that!

To be serious though, I genuinely don't see them learning any time soon. They won't be the ones suffering for it right now.

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u/TheNewYellowZealot Jun 03 '26

Except subscription sales have a more significant impact on the line going up. Console sales are single term with no recurrence.

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u/paganbreed Jun 04 '26

Tell them that!

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u/VoltronChef Jun 03 '26

Game pass is a loss leader. It’s not making them any money.

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u/_MrTaku_ Jun 04 '26

and it's all because of that stupid price increase! it was such an amazing subscription, they just had to ruin it and lose money

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u/Splash_Woman Jun 03 '26

Me when i haven’t bought a PlayStation sense 2: “yeah, sure buddy.”

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u/XulManjy Jun 04 '26

Which is why new leadership is looking into going back to exclusives.

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u/MiserableTillTheEnd Jun 05 '26

I doubt it, I don’t think XBOX has ever really been about the consoles themselves, or at least not since they had XBOX live. I’m pretty sure after XBOX live everything became about selling games and subscriptions.

Now, while I will say, they are definitely financially hurting from buying all those games studios, I don’t believe they really have that much of an issue with people not buying the console, as long as they can pull you in through the subscriptions, some of their flagship games or the Microsoft store, they will be very happy.

Sadly, and this would disappoint me, but I actually don’t even think they’ll be making consoles as much longer, that’s what I’ve been afraid of it. It’s not that they are going to get rid of XBOX as a brand, but that they’re just gonna get rid of the consoles because that is a very Microsoft thing to do.

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u/Dragneel4400 Jun 05 '26

You don't need to sell consoles in the long run. You make a lot more money from all the game purchases. And when they are available on all platforms you make even more money... It's almost as if the more places there are to buy something, the more you sell, eg the more money you make.🤯🤯🤯🤯

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u/Good_Boy_Coleman Jun 06 '26

People say Xbox lost the console wars but the thing is consoles make you lose money. Xbox has made more money than Sony since the 360 every year without fail. PlayStation may be more popular but it has been losing tons of money constantly while Xbox is right they make more than Sony and Nintendo won't expand anymore not really making them ever a big competitor against Xbox.

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u/UnscrambledEggUDG Jun 08 '26

Honestly it's actually a good play. Consoles are usually loss leaders

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u/OMGZombiePirates Jun 03 '26

They don't don't care if series x/s sells. They care if Xbox Game Pass sells. It's their entire model at this point.

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u/Open-Gas-790 Jun 03 '26

They are building an ecosystem, thats why valve has invested an insane amount of money and resources into making linux viable with gaming