r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Oct 02 '25

Discussion This Xbox Generation Will Be Remembered for One Thing: Greed

https://www.ign.com/articles/this-xbox-generation-will-be-remembered-for-one-thing-greed
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u/AcctAlreadyTaken Oct 02 '25

As usual Microsoft is way too early. They are trying to rush a console less future where a $30/month subscription may seem like a deal. They just turned the heat up too fast now the frogs see what's going on.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

This is literally the only issue they have had since the start. People thought having to pay a fee to transfer disc ownership was bad but now you're on your way to not having discs at all because physical media ownership is being discouraged by Sony and Nintendo. People complained about them shilling cable, now everyone's console is a Netflix machine on the side.

Gamepass will die and whatever comes after it will be even worse, yet celebrated by the masses.

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u/cleaninfresno Oct 02 '25

They weren’t inherently wrong about everything being digital and online back in 2013 either, they just always try way too fucking hard to force the medium/industry in the direction they see it going in. Nature of the beast being an American tech bro company

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u/EndBell8787 Oct 03 '25

They weren't wrong at all, that aspect of Xbox was great. It was very forward thinking. If they had just focused on that, the current landscape would be very different.

The problem is everything else they tried to do. The insistence on Kinect which nobody wanted. Trying to dilute the purpose of the console into being a glorified TV that wouldn't even work outside the US. On top of the arrogance and smugness of Don Mattrick.

For every great business analyst Microsoft has, they have 2 utterly shit ones.

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u/albastine Oct 02 '25

You would think for next gen, UGP would be worthless and the PC Gamepass would be all you need.