This is far from an Xbox issue. Gaming has become boring and commercialized. I grew up with the Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, NES, SNES and Genesis. There were a lot of weird, goofy, unique games that took major risks. Games that were obvious attempts to just earn cash were largely ridiculed (I’m thinking of you, M.C. Kids).
Much like music, film, books and all other media, gaming has largely lost its attraction.
Steam is still great because it allows small developers to try new things. From what I’ve read, trying to bring such games to consoles is almost impossible.
As for Xbox, specifically: they have sanitized a lot of the online interactions, trying to make everything family-friendly. Half of the fun of Call of Duty is hearing other players lose their shit. The shit-talking makes it fun. They keep trying to remove it and have made the game a glorified Fortnite.
We have to go back.
ThrowawayB7•1h ago
Lends some credence to the suspicion that Phil Spencer's retirement might not have been voluntary.
xvxvx•1h ago
This is far from an Xbox issue. Gaming has become boring and commercialized. I grew up with the Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, NES, SNES and Genesis. There were a lot of weird, goofy, unique games that took major risks. Games that were obvious attempts to just earn cash were largely ridiculed (I’m thinking of you, M.C. Kids).
Much like music, film, books and all other media, gaming has largely lost its attraction.
Steam is still great because it allows small developers to try new things. From what I’ve read, trying to bring such games to consoles is almost impossible.
As for Xbox, specifically: they have sanitized a lot of the online interactions, trying to make everything family-friendly. Half of the fun of Call of Duty is hearing other players lose their shit. The shit-talking makes it fun. They keep trying to remove it and have made the game a glorified Fortnite.
We have to go back.