[The Verge] Even Xbox developer kits are getting a big price hike

[The Mad Titan]

Another thread by a Sony stan that's just FUD.

The hardest thing about developing for Xbox as indies is still keeping in contact for the most basic of needs.

 

[Scaaar]

Microsoft has gone out of their way to make it easy/affordable for small devs to launch on xbox, including providing devs kits and support free of charge

Helping Indie Developers Succeed on Xbox: Strategies for Pre-Launch, Launch, and Beyond

How we’re helping indie developers maximize success, and how you can build your own winning strategy with those best practices in mind.

developer.microsoft.com

This article/thread just like the rest of your “negative publicity” is sony cult babble and cac tweets for clicks and attention because some of you are so infatuated with xbox

Lol thats an older Microsoft post. They could have been developer friendly back then but in this current age the price of the brick has gone up and M$ has come to get all residuals

 

[Methodical]

This isn't Xbox anymore. Face it, Xbox is dead and it's Microsoft Gaming now.

The best thing about orginal Xbox, and Xbox 360 was that it was almost separate from Microsoft. They were the cool sector.

There has been too much Microsoft inside of Xbox this past 15 yearss and it's nearly killed the cool side. Every bit of PR with Phil, Matt, Sarah, and Aaron sounds like detached corporate propaganda.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Another thread by a Sony stan that's just FUD.

The hardest thing about developing for Xbox as indies is still keeping in contact for the most basic of needs.

So the verge/tom Warren is running FUD against Microsoft now?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Lol thats an older Microsoft post. They could have been developer friendly back then but in this current age the price of the brick has gone up and M$ has come to get all residuals

That post is from just a few months ago.

Make up your own reality so your cult bubble don’t burst brehs

 

[Scaaar]

That post is from just a few months ago.

Make up your own reality so your cult bubble don’t burst brehs

A few months ago still is different from how M$ is moving the last 2 months

 

[DaSk8D00D]

This isn't Xbox anymore. Face it, Xbox is dead and it's Microsoft Gaming now.

The best thing about orginal Xbox, and Xbox 360 was that it was almost separate from Microsoft. They were the cool sector.

There has been too much Microsoft inside of Xbox this past 15 yearss and it's nearly killed the cool side. Every bit of PR with Phil, Matt, Sarah, and Aaron sounds like detached corporate propaganda.

That's what these shills refuse to admit while they regurgitate the same BS talking points and metrics the suits do word for word. This isn't even the same Xbox from the start of this generation.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Activision acquisition definitely turned shyt upside down for them

 

[MeachTheMonster]

A few months ago still is different from how M$ is moving the last 2 months

It’s not.

The ID@xbox program is still going as it always has. Recent games like BallXPit are part of the program.

There’s a showcase coming up next week promoting the next set of games coming.

ID@Xbox and IGN Partner for October Showcase: Here's How to Watch the Event - IGN

www.ign.com

This is you trying to bend reality to keep up with the cult narrative.

 

[Fatboi1]

Microsoft Xbox Series Dreamcast

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Microsoft Xbox Series Dreamcast

They wish, sega actually put out good games for dreamcast

 

[winb83]

This isn't Xbox anymore. Face it, Xbox is dead and it's Microsoft Gaming now.

The best thing about orginal Xbox, and Xbox 360 was that it was almost separate from Microsoft. They were the cool sector.

There has been too much Microsoft inside of Xbox this past 15 yearss and it's nearly killed the cool side. Every bit of PR with Phil, Matt, Sarah, and Aaron sounds like detached corporate propaganda.

Xbox has always floundered. People really like to romanticize the Xbox 360 especially but it was ran like shyt just like all the other consoles. The original Xbox didn't really sell well and the Xbox 360 was rushed to market, had the worst product failure rate in a mainstream product ever, and ended with the Kinect. Even back then all Microsoft did was throw money at other developers and publishers to gather games.

Microsoft has never been good at managing game studios. They were the DCEU to Sony's MCU. Sony found sensible partners and patiently built a stable of quality studios it's like how Marvel built up to The Avengers. Microsoft got impatient and tried to take a shortcut by just buying whole publishers off the market like how the DCEU had one Superman movie and tried to jump right into team ups like Batman V Superman and Justice League. I f you don't put in the leg work the final product suffers.

It was their own failures on managing studios that lead them to this point and it was never going to end up any other way. The CEO and CFO of Microsoft lost patience with all the Xbox leadership's ineptitude and ware like everything is focused on profits going forward. Can you really blame them?

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

I thought everything was an xbox?
Can't you just develop an xbox game on a TI-83 calculator?

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Let me give you a little bit of reality

Sony cancels major PS5 game just two weeks after release, will refund players

New title will shut down from 6 September

www.t3.com

Lists of Sony’s Cancelled Live Service PS5 Games Paint a Worrying Picture

How many of the 12 confirmed projects are still alive?

www.pushsquare.com

Rumor: Sony Bend Studio Has Cancelled Multiple Unannounced Open World Titles - Gameranx

A LinkedIn profile has revealed that Sony's Bend Studio had cancelled multiple unannounced games, and they were open world titles.

gameranx.com

Sony Has Cancelled Even More Live Service Games, Including One Fans May Be Upset About

This premier franchise was set to get the live service treatment.

screenrant.com

PlayStation Canceled Bluepoint's God of War Live Service Game Project

PlayStation live service push keeps hitting roadblocks as the company revealed it has canceled a God of War and one unnamed live service game

thenerdstash.com

Sony closes Concord studio and permanently shuts down the game

The company is closing a mobile studio, too.

www.theverge.com

"I know none of this is easy news to hear, particularly with colleagues and friends departing SIE." Sony closes two PlayStation studios and shutters Concord for good

The PlayStation maker is shutting down both Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios.

www.windowscentral.com

PlayStation laying off 900 people, closing London Studio entirely

8% of the workforce has been cut

www.polygon.com

PlayStation Cancels Multiple Games Amid Massive Job Cuts - Kotaku

Sony announces a reduction of workforce across its first-party studios, including the closure of London Studio

kotaku.com

Sony has fired more people, closed more studios, and canceled more games in recent years, and they currently have the most expensive console on the market.

You stan’s just live in a cac tweet fulled information bubble cult, cause a few of you have dedicated your life to spreading bad news/rumors about xbox

Imagine having so much piff that you can cancel that many games and still be curb stomping the competition

 

[5n0man]

I always thought it was free


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it's crazy to see such a profitable company do this type of stuff, I think they are actively trying to get rid of their gaming division

Its seems like Microsoft the company is putting pressure on their gaming division to justify the Activision purchase.

After spending close to $80 billion buying publishers, Xbox is no longer microsoft’s side hobby. They wanna see real results now.