Let me share my Xbox experience? I’m mid-40s. Owned Xboxes since literally the OG Xbox 1.
I originally bought this thing to play with my brother split screen. Nowadays I want to play split screen with my son.
Yet somehow there’s no fucking split screen games anymore. The last two or three AAA games I purchased I played for a few hours and then never loaded again.
And the other day when I loaded up call of duty Black ops 3 to play zombies (this is like a 10 year old game now) I found that because I let my Xbox Gold live whatever the fuck subscription expire, I can’t play “online” and use my unlocked items even though I’m doing local play.
So from this guy what in the fucking fuck xbox. This is some kind of device designed to clean out my wallet for eternity and not deliver what I actually want.
I pretty much exclusively use my Xbox as a YouTube player now.
einlander@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So going on a shopping spree and buying all those game studios wasn’t a good idea huh. Who would have thought.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I feel like this is all driven by MS diving full force into AI stuff. Their capex is going to be insane so they’re cutting shit left and right to keep Wall Street happy while they set cash on fire trying to make AI something more than anime profile pic generators.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I wish companies couldn’t buy other companies. That’s how all the best things die
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Buying studios wasn’t stupid.
Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Why? they have the most players AND money than they ever did in their existence. Stupid would be suggesting it was a bad idea