The head of the Gamesindustry portal.Biz Christopher Dring (Christopher Dring) spent to the GDC 2024 developers conference and brought a heap of opinions about the current position of the gaming unit from there Microsoft. He got the impression that the future of Xbox is in a shaky position.
Below were collected the main theses from the speech of the journalist:
Representatives of several companies said that in Europe the sales of Xbox and games for it continue to slow down. The negative trend has been held throughout last year, and in the current results rushed down with renewed vigor.
"One famous company that released a big game last year said that she did not see the point in supporting Xbox", – Chris shared. Meanwhile, employees of publishers with whom he talked Dring, They stated that they put a lot of efforts in the production of versions for Xbox Series X and S, and the exhaust eventually gets a small. In fact, the overwhelming part of the sales of these publishing houses falls on PC and PlayStation 5, Dring.
According to the journalist, the majority of the Xbox-IGR will settle in PlayStation sooner or later. Recall, "T-shirts" announced a change in strategy in February 2024. Then the experts said that in this way Microsoft will be able to earn more money at the expense of the extensive base of competitor users. The new platforms have already found Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment, and in April the queue will reach Grounded and Sea of Thieves .
In my opinion, Xbox has serious troubles as a manufacturer of equipment. To this conclusion, I came to GDC. I always thought that they have an excellent Game Pass system, a good interface, a convenient controller, and so on – everything you need for games. It seemed to me that nothing threatens them. And here it turns out that some developers and publishers are about to lose interest in porting titles on Xbox. Microsoft you need to make every effort so that third -party companies continue to make games for this system.
Christopher Dring
Nevertheless, the journalist is sure that Microsoft There is a plan to taxure out of this situation. For example, the company’s engineers are already engaged in the next generation console, which is waiting for the largest technological leap. Also leadership Microsoft assured that Xbox production will remain one of the most important business components for the company.
We will remind, previously there were a news that European stores reduced the number of disk versions of the Xbox games on the shelves, and itself Microsoft Closed the departments responsible for the trade in physical publications. Later Phil Spencer (Phil Spencer) tried to calm the audience, they say, the company does not plan to say goodbye to physical carriers, as people actively buy them.
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Well, but the gamepad is normal
And the cinema is also an end soon, yeah
And I see people from whom there is little sense in the industry.
About the problems of boxing since https://skyvegas-casino.uk the time of Xbox One are written. While the shirts are interested in the box, it will not go anywhere. Given the latest purchases, according to the worst scenario, will remain an extremely strong publisher
I agree, I’ll go sell the box with the whole library of games, otherwise he says that almost all of the PS will merge.
Only Mikes have a bunch of family games in the same subscription and for children. So don’t here.
Words, in fact, about anything, for most problems have long been known. And that under s-ku it is difficult to “adapt” projects and that the studios would have dumped to Sonya a long time ago: “Well, there are more sales” (if you figure it out, then the decision is stupid and a little ignoring competition among consoles). Well, links to noun sources, in the spirit of "someone said".
Does boxing have problems? YES. Is it worth it to sound the alarm how you want to do after reading the article? Rather, not. (Especially since, IMHO, the conditions at the start were already, in many ways, not on the side of the shirts, which is partially confirmed by business where Sonya stupidly takes, at least for a while, games from the rest of the platforms.)
Dring began to devote a little less attention to the development of his thoughts. However, he did not develop this thought.
Do not rush, we must ask Filia to get asleep quickly, and then we’ll go to sell.
It is forbidden. T -shirts are their mother mega corporation and at least they will show off, but they will not give the entire console market to their competitors at all. In fact, we will only have a monopolist Sonya, and we do not count the switch for the console.
He is not at all like a console market, such as the Vidyuh market or other complexes, where, in fact, the same iron is sold under different brands.
Buy more development studios?
Representatives of several companies said that in Europe the sales of Xbox and games for it continue to slow down.
I wonder what these companies whose sale of games slows down. And I remember the news that Xbox began to actively buy last year when the old COD was fixed. Half of the console’s life passed, everyone who wanted to, bought it, why sales should increase? And this is only Europe that in other parts of the world and countries? Several times in the last two years I saw the news how the box overtook PS for sales in Japan – it turns out that in the east Sonya is in a shaky position?
One famous company that released a big game last year said that she did not see the point in supporting Xbox
I’ll try to guess: some broken Gothham Knights? I do not see the point of buying a similar game.
And here it turns out that some developers and publishers are about to lose interest in porting titles on Xbox.
Yes, it seems like inconsistent for a long time they will port their games on the box for a long time, and during the trial it turned out that it turned out that Sonya was loved to pay for this. At the same time, Square Enix and Sega, on the contrary, are interested in the box. If others do not need money – let them not port, their business, as if players will not find something to play. Then let them not complain that sales did not live up to expectations.
In general, another one, but you believe. “One famous company”, “in my opinion” … I especially like:
Hi Fi Rush is very bastard, Indiania Jones looks promising.
You can recall the psychonauts 2 more, but she immediately went out on a curling iron, although without the money of Mikes she would have come out worse.
what a pumped vibration? About the one that Dualsense works in some games?) or some other?
Xs that with trigger is not so on xbox, but again, Dualsens‘ trigger has short and amazed me, but in the races I constantly use resistance on the brake, this is from the pluses.
But the Xbox’y does not need to poke around with exercise every few hours, but it lies worse in the hands.
In short, xs, norms gamepad) cheap and without hemor
And I am stupid as a device as a device at times more like, I use it as a multimedia combine.
Looks like a colleague, we will go with our boxes from day to day to day on the bottom of the Marianne hollow, we have not left for long with such and such professional analytics Mr. Dringe.)
I suppose part of the problem is that Microsoft has two different consoles, and soon the Series X revision will appear. I’m interested in something else when the updated x comes out, whether they will cease to release s or not.
Profit figures can?
Yes, everything is simple, a small base of players, mainly on the weakest devices. And if you need to spend additional resources for a small company on optimization, this may become critical. I think this was mainly meant.