For reference, Sony was recently boasting that PS5 sold over 80 million copies. This is terrible for Xbox.
Every time I read any Xbox news, I immediately remember the email that Phil Spencer sent to Satya Nadella when PS5 was announced. The email gets funnier as the days go by, and as additional context gets added in the form of news like the OP.
Inserting the part of the email thread that I like the most below:
Even as I type this I know I shouldn’t but I can’t help myself.
We’ve all lived with 7 years of starting off a generation with a price and performance (and messaging)disadvantage to PS4 with Xbox One. I have to admit this morning when I woke up knowing the PS5 reveal was today that the stress level was higher than normal. Now after almost 12 hours of soaking in their unveil, taking apart their specs and looking at the community responses I just wanted to say that I’m proud of our team.
We have a better product than Sony does, not just on hardware but equally important on the software platform and services on top of the hardware. We have the ingredients of a winning plan. I felt the feedback from the BoD discussion on being too confident and maybe this will just reinforce that perception, I get the need to be humbly confident but today was a good day for us.
We haven’t won anything. And I know we have hard discussion about pricing, P&L, investments etc. This mail isn’t trying to scoop any of that, those discussions really matter. But we can take confidence in our product truth hereand I do believe any conversation needs to start with believing in that. This was a good day for Xbox.
Thanks for indulging me.
Phil
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Xbox kills game studios
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve been gaming primarily on Xbox since the 360. After Microsoft bought and closed Tango though? I literally vowed to never buy another Xbox product again. I can’t even remember the last time I booted my Series X
d00ery@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yep, bastards.
polygon.com/…/microsoft-layoffs-perfect-dark-ever…
gmtom@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Every major publishers kills games studios