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[kitler53]

I was meaning that US and UK are similar to each other. But a lot of these games don't even really have appeal in the US anymore. (And I'm quite aware that most of the world didn't really have much interest in Xbox - and on the other end, MS barely ever tried in a lot of these regions.)

There has basically never been a chance for them to be more popular than PlayStation, but if they'd at least put out incredible games worth playing, at least they'd be doing well in the US/UK. 

This entire generation, it feels like the only real reason to get into the ecosystem is because of Gamepass (or because you're already in the ecosystem with a backlog of older Xbox games.)

I'm not sure how good MS's advertising has been here, but at least before today, people have generally seemed to like Phil Spencer and thought he was a genuine gamer guy. And quite a few people here were under the impression that Sony was the anti-consumer guy and MS was the pro consumer guy.

I think they would have been at least worth having a conversation about, if the games were showstoppers.

But they've been failing on all the important fronts.

personally i get the feeling this growing resentment goes well beyond xbox.

like, if xbox was bleeding money people would be sad but people would understand that layoffs are needed.   but that's not even close to the situation.  microsoft is reporting record profits and record profit margins.   ...but massive layoffs are occuring anyways.   

this feels soo much bigger than xbox to me.   i think people are getting really angry how companies literally ruin the lives of the people that actually work so that a tiny minority of people (the top 0.1%) can see the value of their stock go up.

the stock market has become a modern form of slavery.   like not in every way but like in the specific way that slaves were exploited by their slaver owners to take all of the value the slaves were creating to enrich themselves and live lavish lives while the slaves had nothing.   we're reaching a "let them eat cake" level of wealth concentration and that ended with a lot of people losing their heads.

like, think about it for a minute.   a guy assassinated the CEO of a health insurance company and no one cared even a little.   many people cheered it.  that's where we are today and literally today is a massive reason why.

[Legend]

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— Ant (@antdude92) July 2, 2025

[Legend]

I love my series x. I play it so much more than ps5.

But oh boy have they sucked.

Halo 5: kinda trash
Halo Infinite: kinda trash
Starfield: kinda good
Indy: kinda great

I think those are the only first party xbox games I have bothered to finish, covering two generations. Just crazy since I pay for gamepass and could play more, but none are worth the time.