Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo

aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, Asha Sharma seems to be set up as an example of the glass cliff. She’s clearly trying to bail out a sinking ship rather than revitalize a stale brand. Giving Halo to Activision shows a misunderstanding of what Halo players want, but the other things she’s doing are things that probably could have helped five or more years ago, but are just too late now. We’re probably heading toward a repeat of the 1983 crash. Xbox and PlayStation might still be around after, but they’ll be in the position that Atari and Sega were after the crash, with their remaining market share evaporating the instant a new competitor arrives.

  Meanwhile, so long as Nintendo just keeps doing what they’ve been doing they should be fine. I could see them phasing out game key cards as an option for devs if the digital only backlash on the next generation is bad enough, but they might not have to given that the publishers that have been using them are the ones most likely to implode.

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  • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honestly, Nintendo is in such a good position to pick up serious market share from Sony and Xbox. It’s insane that just making actual games that aren’t riddled with crap and not insta firing everyone who works for you is enough to be the clear front runner.

    I wonder if, like Sega and Atari, there will be someone to swoop in and take market share here. I worry it’s a Meta or someone with a terrible spyware product.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      meanwhile Valve just building platform after platform that in long term will draw people into Steam

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      • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, I mean I’m waitlisted on both the machine and the frame. I love valve’s hardware and ecosystem. It’s not perfect of course, but it’s infinitely better than what Xbox or playstation has going on

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    • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unless Nintendo starts to make new kinds of games i don’t see how they will pick up market share, everyone interested in a switch already has a switch.

      They have solid “family” games but I don’t see them making the next Arc Raiders or League, they have their segment and are good at selling products to it.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they make simple games , as its mostly for children, they will be fine as long as the children can convince thier parents to buy thier slop.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they often hire women to take the PR nightmare, and flak from the public when a company is failing, and looks like the plan is to close down xbox eventually.

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