Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***
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My thoughts exactly, the money men have made an awful decision here and it will likely lead to lay offs again!
I have the standard controller with the rechargable battery pack inside it but it isn't holding a charge properly and I'm wondering if I should just buy a new battery pack or get a more expensive controller? Only requirement is that it needs to be wireless and rechargable via USB-C.
Edit: Also does anyone know if there is a decent media remote for the Xbox which helps with playing DVDs / Blu-rays? There was one for the previous Xbox generation but doesn't seem to be one for the Series X.
Edit: Also does anyone know if there is a decent media remote for the Xbox which helps with playing DVDs / Blu-rays? There was one for the previous Xbox generation but doesn't seem to be one for the Series X.
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i just use AA rechargeable batteries in my controller
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Me too. I have 8 eneloop pro batteries and they are awesome. Got a decent charger for them too. I can't recommend them highly enough.
Bought 4x AA and 4x AAA eneloop batteries and got a charger as well. It should sort the problem out. They will be delivered on Monday.
Get some Eneloops and a dedicated charger. The Xbox rechargeable battery pack is poor quality, imo. I had two of them and both stopped holding charge within a year.
If you look online you can still get subscribed for £12 a month. CDkeys were doing 12 months for £125.
That's still almost double what I paid previously.
Some really good reporting tonight from Jason Schreier at Bloomberg which is relevant to Microsoft/Xbox. For a long while various people have suggested Microsoft's gaming division was being run quarter-to-quarter and with a very short-term view. And this essentially confirms it. I think Reddit and Resetera amongst others have summarised it well.
Pretty much confirms what many of us have been thinking for the last 18 months - that Microsoft are calling the shots, not the senior management within Xbox. Doesn't bode well for the future ; I think MS will just squeeze the remaining Xbox fanbase for every penny they have and then ditch the brand entirely if it can't maintain the desired level of profitability.
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Tbh I cannot see Xbox recovering now. Buying Call of duty crippled them financially and Game pass was a bad idea from the start with day 1 releases.
So many decent Devs and studios have been shut due to them hedging it all on cod.
I’m looking forward to The outer Worlds 2 but I have no intention of renewing my Game Pass when it expires unless some miracle happens.
It’s a shame I really like Xbox.
So many decent Devs and studios have been shut due to them hedging it all on cod.
I’m looking forward to The outer Worlds 2 but I have no intention of renewing my Game Pass when it expires unless some miracle happens.
It’s a shame I really like Xbox.
According to the article this is company-wide meaning every division is having to meet this targets at all costs. I guess if it works for them and the shareholders then they really don't care about the cost to Xbox, or their staff. I wonder if it's the huge investment costs for AI driving this, or just aggressive management. This paragraph was also a bit alarming too;
To me that's the complete opposite of what Game Pass should be. But then I'm not on board with this new Windows 11 strategy either and would rather Microsoft become a full third-party publisher. I do think this article has one questionable sentence in it: 'Xbox once dominated the lucrative world of video-game consoles, surpassing Sony and Nintendo in the 2000s with the popular Xbox 360.' Sure, Jan.gif
It's way above the Videogame industry average apparently. I did read last night Sony sets targets probably equivalent to half of that. And obviously Valve doesn't have to worry about this rubbish at all. I'm not sure what sort of profit should be in other areas of Microsoft.
Mind you as someone said last night ironically CoD might be down this year anyway based on the success of BF6/competition, some of the fatigue and lower pre-order numbers. Again if that doesn't do as well then that's not going to help.
Yes, there have been quite a few articles commenting on the fact that MS are going all in on AI ( they are building more datacenters & infrastructure costing tens of billions of dollars ). The revenue that Xbox brings in is but a mere fraction of Microsoft's overall worth.
And when it comes to consoles / hardware, traditionally they are usually sold at a loss ( or at cost ) knowing that software sales is where the real money is made. So now we know why Series S/X prices have increased twice within a year, and the same is true for Game Pass.
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I recall reading last year that Sony / Playstation had a profit margin of approx. 5%, but for more security were looking to increase this to 10%. I think that's the level where most of the industry tries to operate at. In comparison, 30% is being extremely greedy.
Indeed. And the shareholders don't want to pay for it! So the increased profit margins should help offset some of that cost.