Microsoft just reported its Q4 2025 results, providing some interesting insights into its gaming ventures. The company's overall quarterly revenue increased by an impressive 17% compared to the same period last year, reaching $81.3 billion. This growth is primarily driven by the strong performance o...
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Nothing brings me more joy than seeing this. After they closed their only good studios because their bigger, mediocre ones didn’t make enough money, I haven’t even booted my Series X since

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Can I buy it off you…

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I was going to buy a series x this year, but with the increase in game pass price, it’s just not worth it anymore.

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I bought mine assuming the new Fable would be a console exclusive.

I also use it for Halo and Morrowind. But damn, I probably wouldn’t have bought it if I had known it would be multi-platform.

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Not even just that, Available on Playstation too.

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That’s what I meant by multiplatform. I don’t fully regret my Xbox because I got it one of those steep discounts and I have Halo lan parties. So a second xbox is nice. But it’s essentially just a more powerful Xbox One now.

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Never buy on a promise what could be in future. But on the other hand, you will be able to play Fable on the console. It doesn’t get worse just because its not exclusive…

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I already have a PS5 which I’ll get it on. I got the Xbox on a discount to play Halo Infinite with good specs (ended up hating it) and Fable. I kinda hoped for some other benefits. But end of the day, I didn’t actually need it for anything.

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That’s not that much. YouTube would have you believe they’ve crashed 95%

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Microslop has announced customer as well as employee reductions from the implementation of AI business technotogy

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Next they’ll just have copilot play the games for us! Of course there will be a mandatory price increase

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It was bleak when they came in 4th in a 3-console race last holiday season.

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Yeah, that was surprising. Sounds like a joke, but it actually happened (on Amazon).

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I recently got an Xbox One S to play my 360 games via remote play but $10 a month for Xbox live is ridiculous

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I was going to buy a series x this year, but with the increase in game pass price, it’s just not worth it anymore.

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Suppose I find one used for cheap. Is there a way — and would it be worth it — to repurpose it as an affordable gaming PC?

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I was going to try this too before selling it but they straight have that shit locked down to an insane degree. No way that I could find to jailbreak it in anyway.

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That’s a shame :(

It’d have been nice if we got to do some general computing on it with a jailbreak.

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We still have an Xbox One, and last year was really the first year that games were no longer available for that console. We ended up getting those games on steam and got a 2nd steam deck during the sale. I think we’ll wait a few more years to see how prices keep changing. Also want to see how the Steam Machine does, although I’m sure it’ll be expensive compared to a console.

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I don’t even turn my Xbox series X on anymore…it’s fucking garbage

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I mean, they haven’t released any console exclusives, making all their games available on the competition console, AND they increased prices.

I would never believe if they didn’t say they were doing it on purpose to manipulate market data. Probably to try to push the idea of a cloud subscription-only, disk driveless, hard diskless plastic box.

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Yeah when they raised the gamepass price from $20 to $30 I sold my XSX. PlayStation has always been better as far as consoles go anyway now I just rock my PC and for any invasive kernal level anti cheat that won’t work on Linux (thankfully) I just get those for PlayStation.

I always hated Xbox but they actually got me to buy one of their consoles simply because the game pass used to be such a good deal. And they even fucked that up.

Won’t be long and they will not make anymore consoles. Or just pay to put the Xbox branding on a PC which is what they are doing with the handheld coming out.

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RIP in piss DirectSlop Box

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rest in peace, in piss

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