• Mwoon@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    I guess it’s because it’s part of Microsoft, which pressure Xbox to make money. Unfortunately for us, Microsoft is ass.

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      6 days ago

      Ok, why are we so focused on an ass company’s just as ass subsidiary then? We get more games per year than ever before, insisting on talking about the rotten corpse of the old guard is pointless.

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        6 days ago

        Any press is good press as the saying goes. Big names drive more clicks for personalized ads. Continuing the conversation keeps them relevant, and they can certainly afford to get continuing coverage. The media loves headlines that frame the wealthy as victims of unfortunate circumstance - oh it’s just the market or it’s the weather, the economy shifted etc… In this case the headline reads like xbox is a victim and is responding rationally - rather than this being a predictable consequence of their own shitty actions. So it’s also branding for them.

        The reasons are shitty too, but they’re still valid.