Jesus, #PSVR2 is glorious. 😭 Just spent over an hour in 4 cars (RedBull, Aston Martin, Porsche LeMans & a Historic Honda F1 car) in GT7 with VR, utterly incredible, game changing, truly surreal experience, make no mistake, this is the most Next-Gen thing in console gaming!

What we found out the last 7 days.

This is around 6x more money wasted on a project that never saw the light of day besides a baked demo, than PlayStation wasted on Concord. $814 million on Perfect Dark vs $150 million Sony wasted on Concord The original publisher, probablyMONSTERS financed the 1st $250 million.

Turns out concerns on #Xbox business model sustainability had validity, contrary to fanboy challenges and PR, as Satya Nadella himself admits: "We've invested a lot. No one can accuse Microsoft of not having invested for the last 25 years. And now we have to turn this into a sustainable business, that delivers what is fundamentally one of the best sources of entertainment. The challenge we have is, we've not been monetizing that entertainment. In fact, if anything we've been subsidizing that entertainment. In-fact there's more monetisation of Xbox games happening on YouTube than at Microsoft." So Satya confirms they've been subsidising things, that they have to turn it into a sustainable business, and that he believes they need far greater monetisation. Asha Sharma admitted a few days ago that Xbox's accountability margin is just 3% now, but keep in mind that does not include hardware losses and other costs, so in reality the actual operating income is either lower, or Xbox is operating at a LOSS. So we can say with confidence now, the strategies Xbox pushed over the last decade or more, that countless fanboys glazed, ultimately failed and were not enough to compensate for a lack of more compelling exclusives relative to the competition. Everything from Kinect, entertainment focus, PC day and date and play anywhere, Game Pass, XCloud, exclusivity de-emphasing, specific acquisitions, console split SKU etc. One major thing the "Game Pass is profitable" crowd consistently failed to understand, is that the true cost of GP wasn't just the licensing costs for games on the service, or even development costs as well, instead it was always the immense sales cannibalisation it causes too, which directly offsets revenue gained. That's why Call of Duty had to be removed, because the massive cannibalisation of its traditional sales was not offset by subscription revenue growth, hence a net negative. It's also why despite releasing games on PC day and date AND making ~$5bn per annum on Game Pass, over the course of the first 4 years of the new gen, Xbox revenue growth was STILL near flat sans ABK, while competitors saw huge revenue growth in the same timeframe with more traditional business models. Deduct Zenimax revenue, and Xbox likely saw revenue DECLINE. FY2021 - $15.37bn FY2022 - $16.23bn FY2023 - $15.47bn Y2024 - $15.75bn And now Asha has admitted they've seen a further ~$500m revenue decline with ABK included. It's a similar thing with "Game Pass helps game sales" PR. That was only ever true when GP was in its infancy. As I'd always said, it would inevitably lead to greater cannibalisation of sales the more popular the service got, and that's exactly what happened and what MS themselves admitted. In any case, as a general rule I think Xbox and PC/Xbox fans should just stop debating others with a much keener grasp of the industry, data and business, on matters of gaming business strategy. Because no fandom has a worse track record. Y'all have continually misread and been wrong on practically everything on matters related to business strategy (esp console side), many for the better part of a decade or more. All because your views are guided by platform preference tribalism and PR, not astute analysis, data, facts, financials or critical thinking.

It's actually insane the CEO of MicroSlop just admitted that grifters on YouTube and X make more money talking about xbox than they ever have. 😭 Now watch the usual suspects say he's lying, and Asha's shit doesn't stink. 💀

He didn't just make that to prove xbox is almost getting shuttered. 😭

BBC Brazil vs Morocco commentary is amazing, the audio tech guy is doing sound checks during a live broadcast. 😅 #BrazilMorocco #WeAre26 #FIFAWorldCup

This is how you know he's Gen Z. 😭 Man wasn't there when MW2 Steam Boycott Community was caught in the cookie jar minutes after launch. 😅

Brazil at the World Cup always feels different.

There it is, MicroSlop CEO just confirmed it. MicroSlop has been pumping money into xbox to keep it afloat. They stopped reporting profits in 2014, they haven't made a dime in 12 years. 🤯

Who's gonna tell him. 😅

This aged incredibly badly. 😅 Remaster Direct ✅ Mid-tier 3rd Party Support ✅ 6 Year Old 3rd Party Announcements ✅ Sports and Rhythm titles to pad lineup. ✅ The worst Direct ever, it crashed Nintendo's stock by 7% after it aired. 😭 He got a 4th Minecraft port though. 👏

Por qué actuamos como si el GTA no fuese a vender en un día más que el Zelda en toda la historia

Oh dear, I thought Nintendo always win these legal cases. No wonder Nintendorks are deflecting massively in the last 48 hours. Nintendo has completely & utterly lose their lawsuit against Palworld, and are pissed Sony is partnering with them. 🤭 32M before it even released. 🤯

Te regalaste Y un juego de PS4 para variar