And don’t even get me started on gaming news and influencers, who seem like they love to hate.

Literally every gaming news media outlet and “influencer” when the topic is Xbox:

Disappointed RE1 is getting a remake to turn it into yet another Modern Action Shooter Slop game instead of keeping it Survival Horror.

RE1 was already remade, and it was literally the perfect remake too.

Even if Concord was free, it still would have had less players than Highguard. Nobody wanted to play Concord, at least some people wanted to play Highguard.

Such a shame this game fell off so hard. Previous team didnt do enough for the game. Should have made it F2P, probably would spike the playerbase

Yeah but now ConcernedApe is making Clint marryable, and he truly deserves the fattest of Ls for that one…

(/s, obviously)

It is a free demo, so its not that crazy. Will be interesting to see the number when people have to buy the game.

They made Leon hotter by asking women on the dev team for feedback on his design, thus crafting the Ultimate Hot Leon, or something.

Also, more people buying and playing video games now compared to the past.

Meanwhile Marathon’s server slam is down by more than 50% from yesterday, dropping from ~150k to ~55k.

“Dont worry, its a Thursday, just wait until the weekend.”

Nah bro, it dropped to its lowest concurrent player count on a Friday. That bodes horrendously badly for its future. And I mean, good. Its a skinwalker anyway (though I really love the artstyle, Graphic Brutalism has always been a favorite of mine since it started popping up in the late 2000s, its not a Marathon game, and my love of its art style isnt enough to carry it alone).

So are they going to do the same thing against EA, ActiBlizz, Epic Games, etc etc? Or is this just “Valve has the most money and we want money and dont actually care about this issue” yet again?

Gaming journalists sure want a Sony monopoly of gaming consoles, don’t they?

If Xbox didn’t exist, consumers could only choose PlayStation. Nintendo has shown they have no interest in making real console hardware to compete with Sony or Microsoft anymore, so consumers will get literally only one console choice. That’s bad. Especially since they could set prices at whatever they want and nobody could challenge it.

I get journalists hate Xbox, but Xbox needs to exist as a consumer option.

Writers these days just seem to not know how to write an enjoyable story period. So much bad writing in the entertainment sector now, its not like back in the 80s and 90s where movie theaters were showing slapper after slapper, you’ll be lucky to find maybe one or two that match up to the likes of Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, or Titanic.

Its similar with games, but shifted forward a decade to the 90s and 00s. Games these days have a very hard time matching up to games like Ocarina of Time, Chrono Trigger, Silent Hill, or Metal Gear Solid. While games like Silent Hill 1 have laughably poor quality voice acting by todays standards in terms of sound quality, the story was well written and kept the player’s interest. Of games from my recent memory, the only one that matches up is Elden Ring, which has gone the direction of basically removing all the writing from the game.