現在のXboxはXbox史上で最悪か？の質問に90%以上、史上最悪だの投票が集まるwww

今日のXbox/Microsoftの状況をまとめてみましょう。

– 大量レイオフ
– スタジオとチームの閉鎖
– ゲームのキャンセル
– GamePassの値上げ
– 本体の値上げ
– 本体の売れ行きがひどい
– ソフトウェアの売れ行きがひどい
– まともな小売店はもうXboxを扱いたがらない
– マルチプラットフォーム化（ブランドの独占的魅力が一気に損なわれる）
– Xbox Plays Anywhereからの方向転換
– GamePassの初日からの方向転換
– 従業員の士気低下
– 従業員のオフィス復帰強制
– AI活用の推奨
– 大量虐殺への賛同

Listen y’all, I promise you this is not a console warring thread or whatever. I was around for the nascent days of Xbox, with the original console (I didn’t own one tbh but my older cousin did so I got to play Halo and Fable and shit on that). I was around for the “good old days” of Xbox, I’m talking about the 360 era. It was Microsoft’s peak and frankly, I don’t think they will ever go back to those highs. I was around for the “bad old days” with the early Xbox One and pushing television and Kinect more than gaming. My point is, I’ve been around Xbox as a brand for a long time. However, in my honest opinion, up until now the brand hasn’t cratered like it has now.

Let’s recap the status of Xbox/Microsoft today:

– mass layoffs
– studio and team closures
– game cancellations
– price hikes for gamepass
– price hikes for the consoles
– consoles selling terribly
– software selling terribly
– no retailer worth its salt wants to carry the console anymore
– going multiplat (that immediately craters the exclusivity appeal of the brand)
– pivoting away from xbox plays anywhere
– pivoting away from day 1 on gamepass
– employee morale in the dirt
– employees forced return to office
– encouraged AI use
– supporting genocide

Genuinely I feel like this is rock bottom. The vibes have not been worse. What can Xbox as a brand do to recover to from this? And is this actually the bottom or can we go lower?