Because he was able to turn the ship around with the X1. The investors and executives at top wanted out of the console race, because they were acting like brats that the X1 wasn't doing too hot at the time. He was able to convince him to keep in the competition and improve sales. Once he goes or they decide to let him go, that's it. They're going to go right back to the same attitude and just bow out of the console race, and take their ball with them.
Maybe they should. Maybe Microsoft should take the SEGA Route and just make games and forget about the console. Put Halo on Playstation, Switch, and PC and just become a massive 3rd party publisher without having to worry about hardware or keeping up with console demands.
Well that was surprisingly honest.
All the more ironic, as that's what the Sony or Microsoft Fanboys wanted at the time and we're hoping that either of their respective consoles would crush and kill Nintendo. And then you have those who want it Mario and all consoles, out of the sake of convenience and not knowing how to video game market works. These were usually frustrated or disgruntled parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, or people trying to please their bratty kids while not bothering to look up anything.
So Microsoft is pretty much crying over spilled milk. Got it.
Don’t forget PS5 has a custom CPU (again), as well as custom cooling, I/O, etc. which means the chip shortage hit them extra hard. They’ve only just now stated, three years later, that console shortages should be behind them.
Also those Xbox numbers are combined between two technically different systems the Series S and the Series X. The X also had shortage issues, but the S didn't really because it didn't seem like many people wanted it.
And shortage issue with the Series X didn't even last that long compared to the PS5. When the PS5 still had shortages, most places were fully stocked with Series Xs.
So they gave up because they felt they'd already lost. Then why the hell are they trying to buy ActiBlizz? Something's rotten in
Plausible, but does it really need nearly $70 billion of boosting?
And even they've have their screw up with how they're treating some of their employees a few months ago.
I think they realize that even if the game ran great it would still be a shitty game. JS however would be great if it also ran great.
That's pretty normal for DF, they're usually diplomatic about the quality of a game's gameplay. They're just measured in general, not quick to call something bad unless it has really egregious technical problems. Which says a lot about Jedi Survivor pc that it earned adjectives like "worst" and "terrible".
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