I mean giving how much money they have poured into xbox it males sense to take a step back and restructure.

Super Mario World, my first game. And it was/is a blast 😁!

Assassin’s Creed: Been semi obsessed with this franchise, though it has disapointed me greatly.

Mass Effect 2: My first RPG (I know the purists will laugh). Made me play games like the Witcher 3 etc.

Portal 2: Intrduction to one of my favourite genres, first person puzzle games.

Yeah, I agree with that. It's no ones fault per se. It's "the invisible hand" in operation, I guess. I mean gamers want to get the maximum playing time for their money. So the companies try to supply that.

It's a downward spiral where companies are fighting increasingly desperately for peoples shrinking time.

I don't think the subscription services go that well together with the focus on GaaS. Service game are built to keep your attention for a year +. Let's say someone buys FIFA and plays that exclusively for a year. Then why would that person also pay for a subscription service? Makes no sense.

The gaming industry focuses on making games that are good for the company making it, but bad for the rest of the rest of the industry because they take too much time from the player (the goal is to keep the player hooked for as many hours as possible). I bet the $/h is super low for gaming, at least for the none-whales.

It's a bit like the prisoners dilemma. For each company it is better to make these service games. But it would be better for everyone if no one made them.

/END armchair analysis 😅🤓!

Usually Nintendo don't just switch the character and do the same gameplay. The games starring Luigi as a main are radically different than the Mario games. So a game in the Zelda universe with a new main character sounds super exciting to me!

Only position I can fall asleep is on the side. What happens during the night I don't know. May bed is not always in perfect order when I wake up 😅

How would the world be either of those ideologies succeeded?

If Zionism succeded jews would have a homeland in Israel, not sure the exact boundaries (I guess this differ among zionists).

If jihaddism succeed all humans in the world would submit to Allah. There would be no more democracy, no more liberal freedoms, no more equality between the sexes, homosexuals would be killed and so would apostates. Science would not function under such oppression and neither would free enterprises. So human prosperity would collapse.

I think jihaddism is many, many orders of magnitude worse.

Even though this drama is mildly amusing, it's sad to see the US contort itself, I have to say. It's amazing how strong the country still is. These years will go down as a massive stress test of US and its institution.

US has so many things that are the envy of the world. Like its military, tech companies (the total domination of Europe in this field is insane), universities/science, movies etc.

And yet the presedential election is two seniors, suffering more or less from dementia, battling it out in the most humiliating way possible. I still don't understand the perfect storm that has lead to this crazy moment in history. I guess on a positive note it is fun that humans are so unpredictable. No one could have predicted the chain of events in US politics in the last 10 years....

Eight years is sooo long. Imagine working on something for that time and when it comes out it’s garbage. Like how do regroup?

The entire concept was awful, so it’s not like they didn’t know. Must be pretty rough to motivat yourself to go to work on monday morning 😞

No one is less qualified than me to answer this 😅.

But it seems like Phil has been given a lot of time and money and has not delivered. I doubt the concept of Gamepass. I don’t think it’s a good idea in the long run. I don’t think Xbox have built great studios that delivers goty-worthy titles.

How much is Phil’s fault, I dunno. But I think it would make sense to get someone new 🤷🏻‍♂️