sugarhigh 519 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 - the next Xbox generation after Series will be the last - it is already chaos at MS with longstanding and repeat failure to manage AAA projects - incorporating activison and blizzard will create a blood bath of Senior VPs gunning for each other - many studios and practically all support staff at Bethesda and Activision will get the axe before the end of this generation - major talent at all aquired studios will leave, form new teams, etc. MS acquisitions will amount to more IP than coherent teams. - In the end Series doesn't do much better than One, and S is a particular disaster - MS will try to jump the gun on the next generation with a single, powerful system that is very affordable, significant losses per console sold - again their software won't be ready for year 1 and the internal culture is an outright war - most English speakers wait for playstation 6 and the rest of the world doesn't give a shit about Xbox - blizzard goes independent - Xbox 6 doesn't do any better than the last 2, when ps6 comes out, it feels out of step similar to Dreamcast. - MS Corp is raking in profits in other areas, cloud computing, ai, maybe some overlapping competitive areas like AR and next generation smart tvs with gpu inside - Xbox is a low profit area and a high risk with many expensive projects ending in failure - Gamepass library deteriorates and subs decline - MS does not make a 7th generation Xbox and exits the game industry This is the most likely scenario Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tears of the Cows 1,211 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hot Sauce 2,734 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Keep it on your LiveJournal 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
54212 432 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 I have an alternate prediction. Horsepower will matter less and less because fewer and fewer publishers will be able to capitalize on that horsepower due to production costs. We're already seeing that become a significant issue. It will then reach a point where it doesn't make sense to even make high-end systems. At that point it will come down to IPs and hardware gimmicks. MS will keep buying up big studios, Nintendo will keep up it's culture of software excellence and hit-and-miss hardware gimmicks, and Sony, having nothing left to offer except similar but slightly less soulless games than Ubi, will then die. Death, sugarhigh. The cold grave. No one will come to save Sony. In the coming night, in the dark. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sugarhigh 519 Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 3 hours ago, Saucer said: I have an alternate prediction. Horsepower will matter less and less because fewer and fewer publishers will be able to capitalize on that horsepower due to production costs. We're already seeing that become a significant issue. It will then reach a point where it doesn't make sense to even make high-end systems. At that point it will come down to IPs and hardware gimmicks. MS will keep buying up big studios, Nintendo will keep up it's culture of software excellence and hit-and-miss hardware gimmicks, and Sony, having nothing left to offer except similar but slightly less soulless games than Ubi, will then die. Death, sugarhigh. The cold grave. No one will come to save Sony. In the coming night, in the dark. Wrong bitch. Tools keep getting better: 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Voidler 1,675 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 No reason MS will go anywhere unless their Azure and Windows markets fall apart and they start bleeding money somehow They've shown they can blow 10s of billions on Xbox without blinking an eye Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tears of the Cows 1,211 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 7 minutes ago, Voidler said: No reason MS will go anywhere unless their Azure and Windows markets fall apart and they start bleeding money somehow They've shown they can blow 10s of billions on Xbox without blinking an eye Xbox makes profit & is one of the most popular names attached to Microsoft (for positive or negative) it’s one of their most recognizable platforms. It’s going no where. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sugarhigh 519 Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 1 minute ago, Voidler said: No reason MS will go anywhere unless their Azure and Windows markets fall apart and they start bleeding money somehow They've shown they can blow 10s of billions on Xbox without blinking an eye In general MS is a tech company selling tools to businesses. They're not strong as an entertainment/production studio. When Xbox was conceived it seemed important to "win" the race for a computer in the living room. That was 6 years before the iphone. Now that fight isn't so strategically important, and anyway they lost. The real winners are smart tvs where MS has no foothold. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tears of the Cows 1,211 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 4 minutes ago, sugarhigh said: In general MS is a tech company selling tools to businesses. They're not strong as an entertainment/production studio. When Xbox was conceived it seemed important to "win" the race for a computer in the living room. That was 6 years before the iphone. Now that fight isn't so strategically important, and anyway they lost. The real winners are smart tvs where MS has no foothold. It’s making money. Lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sugarhigh 519 Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 3 minutes ago, Jerrys Hair Line said: It’s making money. Lol. It's chump change and high risk compared with MS 365 subscriptions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tears of the Cows 1,211 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 3 minutes ago, sugarhigh said: It's chump change and high risk compared with MS 365 subscriptions. It’s .. making .. money Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Quad Damage 1,738 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 4 hours ago, Saucer said: I have an alternate prediction. Horsepower will matter less and less because fewer and fewer publishers will be able to capitalize on that horsepower due to production costs. We're already seeing that become a significant issue. It will then reach a point where it doesn't make sense to even make high-end systems. At that point it will come down to IPs and hardware gimmicks. MS will keep buying up big studios, Nintendo will keep up it's culture of software excellence and hit-and-miss hardware gimmicks, and Sony, having nothing left to offer except similar but slightly less soulless games than Ubi, will then die. Death, sugarhigh. The cold grave. No one will come to save Sony. In the coming night, in the dark. this was your prediction for the ps4 generation 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Goukosan 2,256 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 4 hours ago, Jerrys Hair Line said: Xbox makes profit & is one of the most popular names attached to Microsoft (for positive or negative) it’s one of their most recognizable platforms. It’s going no where. No its not... Lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
-GD-X★ 7,746 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Judging by their recent sales figures, I thought they had already stopped making consoles. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bhytre 2,753 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 They drove the brand to the ground and hired the worst people to manage everything, they deserve to fail. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. House 3,371 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 I predict a lot of games will start to be created with AI assistances and games will become more generic as the creative input of humans becomes diminished in the process. Small studios will be able to handle projects on a scale they couldn't before. The production times will also be shortened, meaning there will be more content than ever flowing in the market. A sea of generic games and new IPs will come forth and the gaming landscape will slowly start to resemble the smartphone market now. A pile of forgettable IPs, what used to be popular during our times will slowly start to be forgotten and seen as old timers artifacts, only a few weirdo collectors will care and very few of the known IPs will survive in the future. Only the companies with very strong brands like Nintendo will keep existing but will also be massively different than what we know from them now. New and bigger competitors will come forth as market leaders. Gaming is destined to implode and wither away in the most generic, creatively bankrupted way possible. New technology will also replace the regular gaming that we know on a monitor. VR/AR games created by AIs will be more popular, and using your hands as controllers will be standard, you will have virtual dashboards instead of controllers. The future sucks. Be glad you'll die. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TLHBO 2,162 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 One can only dream. The end of xbox and all the execs there put on trial for crimes against videogames 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hot Sauce 2,734 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 11 hours ago, -GD-X said: Judging by their recent sales figures, I thought they had already stopped making consoles. Well they certainly stopped making games. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Substatic 421 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 (edited) The ABK deal is about to go through, MS will become gods. Starfield (MS EXCLUSIVE) GOTY 2023! Edited April 1, 2023 by Substatic Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tears of the Cows 1,211 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 14 hours ago, Goukosan said: No its not... Lol Yes… it is. The Xbox division profits. The Xbox console is sold at a loss. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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