You’re not wrong but is that not the entire console business in a nutshell?
rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Xbox was never meant to make anything of quality. Xbox was just a Trojan horse to trap customers into a Microsoft walled garden.
A bunch of greedy no talent monopolists whose only skill is using a lot of money to buy out competitors are running Microsoft.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think the difference is, Sony and Nintendo build their exclusives through close support, while Microsoft and Epic have just tried buying them in.
Amazon and Google have essentially tried the same thing, and gave up because pouring money in isn’t a full business plan.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nintendo maybe. Sony likes buyouts too, just not on the scale of Microsoft. Ask Destiny fans how well Sony’s buyout of Bungie is going.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Nintendo has a very reliable and steady amount of high quality AAA and AA games that they make for their console.
Sony used to have a very reliable quality AAA and indie games on their console.
Microsoft had Halo and Forza.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
how are you supposed to trap customers without quality bait?
rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Microsoft sees quality that someone else made and it buys it. It works for a bit but they don’t know how to perpetuate quality.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Sure. But that’s different than “Xbox was never meant to make anything of quality.” Their intention is clearly to make quality things, they have just been sucking at it.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
In reality, I am sure that the executives making financial decisions have no clue what a quality game is.
They see a game that sells well and that is what they consider quality.
Once a studio sells out to a larger one there should be no expectation of future quality or innovation from that studio. The studio’s new mandate becomes “make more of what sold and don’t change anything” which is pretty much a coffin for that franchise.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 3 days ago
You’re describing the entire AAA gaming industry. It was like that before Xbox, and it will be like that after.