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Here's me ten months ago pointing out that it costs too much for Xbox to acquire new console users. This week: Hardware down 10%, Xbox reportedly loses $150 per console.
wrysanityXbox has a relatively fixed addressable market. The cost of acquisition to get new Xbox console users on network through the console is obviously not worth it from an ROI perspective. Next gen launch will be fascinating.
This makes me so mad because everything in the Framework Laptop 13 Pro is a huge game changer. They made a Linux laptop with MacBook Pro quality and insane battery life and then got kicked in the nads by RAM companies. Look what they took from us.
Sean HollisterThe Framework Laptop 13 Pro is almost everything we hoped for. @superantonio64.bsky.social says it has "the best haptic trackpad not made by Apple." Great battery life too. But that price... www.theverge.com/tech/971160/...
Rather than addressing the issue at its core, the United States and its capitalist class has created an entire school shooter industrial complex.
Phil LewisSchools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters The plastic, non-lethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers will be at the ready at certain schools in Colorado, Florida and Georgia www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
Game Pass is *already* a bustling indie library, and the author lists a ton of indie games they discovered and loved via Game Pass. Their argument appears(?) to be that Game Pass shouldn't have day-1 games, which is a fine discussion point but NO ONE outside of Xbox knows enough about the economics.
Mat Piscatella"transforming Game Pass into a bustling indie library could work to both rapidly shrink the costs of running the service, as well as retain more subscribers" IMO the primary reason Game Pass failed to hit its subscriber targets is because the mass market simply does not care to play lots of games.
The TLDR on this... It's fair to suggest new development models (we all have our ideas), but where the industry lands will be a result of the economics. The economics will effectively force the model, the model can't be forced on top of the economics. www.gamesindustry.biz/after-half-a...
After half a decade of job losses, there is no "business as usual" | OpinionThe bloodletting has changed the industry permanently, and more significantly than at first appears - a new way forward must be foundwww.gamesindustry.biz