“You know what we should do with this product we have that people generally don’t like but are willing to pay money for handing us a 30% margin? Take away what limited value it provides. I’m sure people will pay more for our terrible product”
Reminds me of the time the CEO of six flags thought he was going to up the prices of food and stop multiple entries on the park to force people to buy food in the park. Immediately loses 40% foot traffic because going out to eat and coming back was kind of the value proposition.
NVIDIA GeforceNow also caps at 100 hours/month, though it doesn’t sell a game subscription with it obviously. Then again it comes in at less than half the price of Game Pass Ultimate.
Broke into the mainstream by being able to hot swap a game.
That grew into the only American driven hardware gaming company: Xbox
The Xbox broke into the mainstream by being able to connect four of them together to have 16 people playing games together under one roof
Now read this article again and laugh a little, it is okay, they’re the driver of this global dystopia and the state of play on Xbox is just the canary of how bad AI is going.
Bros wanted to help augment the surveillance state with the Kinect on Xbox one originally by having it be a required feature AND for the internet to be online all the time “to validate software licenses”
Whoever can pull an old school 80s Microsoft heist, will win the next era of gaming.
Hilariously out of touch lol. Lmao even. 5 hours per month is how you know not a single person within the entire decision structure has engaged with their own product.
I traded in my Xbox series x last year after they jacked the cost of their subscriptions to get a PS5(my first Sony console in my life). With all the dumb stuff Sony is doing I was starting to wonder if I made the wrong choice, but this just reassured me. I use cloud gaming a bunch, way more than 15 hours a month because I can’t always be in front of the TV.
Buried in Microsoft's announcement is the more damning fact that 96% of GamePass subscribers spent fewer than 15 hours on cloud game streaming. I suspect the whole service may be retired sooner rather than later to free up compute resources for you know what.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 2.4 ms ] threadLike, if it doesn't have aggressive idle-detection, I'd eat my entire 5-hours on a pause menu while dealing with an upset-baby.
5-hours/month just seems like it would be totally useless for someone with frequent interruptions.
“You know what we should do with this product we have that people generally don’t like but are willing to pay money for handing us a 30% margin? Take away what limited value it provides. I’m sure people will pay more for our terrible product”
Reminds me of the time the CEO of six flags thought he was going to up the prices of food and stop multiple entries on the park to force people to buy food in the park. Immediately loses 40% foot traffic because going out to eat and coming back was kind of the value proposition.
Bear with me because it’s getting out of hand.
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Broke into the mainstream by being able to hot swap a game.
That grew into the only American driven hardware gaming company: Xbox
The Xbox broke into the mainstream by being able to connect four of them together to have 16 people playing games together under one roof
Now read this article again and laugh a little, it is okay, they’re the driver of this global dystopia and the state of play on Xbox is just the canary of how bad AI is going.
tbh I never knew about that. I always assumed it was Halo that drove those early sales.
You’re 100% right that it’s halo, but it wasn’t
“No couch co-op halo”
Bros wanted to help augment the surveillance state with the Kinect on Xbox one originally by having it be a required feature AND for the internet to be online all the time “to validate software licenses”
Whoever can pull an old school 80s Microsoft heist, will win the next era of gaming.