Xbox Wants to Hear from Developers Not on Xbox for Feedback - News

Opening up communication and addressing developer issues/concerns is always a good thing. Took long enough though lol. Pretty sure most of the developers concerns will be Series S power and not enough overall market share. Xbox execs can literally go back and look at the 360 and see why the console was such a success and had a ton of games.

This doesn't exclusively count for Microsoft only, but it amazes me how a company that employs hundreds of thousands of people and that draws hundreds of billions of revenue, that this company hasn't been reeeeaaally capable of building up an "in-shape" development environment as the world's largest software development company.

It's just funny.

I wonder how they will respond when they get told. Shitty managment.

1 - Stop being such an 'America First' company. There's a reason the US (And to a smaller extent the UK) are the only semi-strong markets. Gaming is for everyone, including Asia and Europe and South America, etc.

2 - Sell more consoles. The install base is low.

3 - Gamepass can't possibly be good for developers.

4 - Make good exclusives, which further pushes the whole 'sell more consoles' idea.

5 - Drop the Series S. it's actively hurting your image and availability. There's a reason games like Baldur's Gate and Black Myth Wukong are late on your console and it's almost entirely the requirement to be on Series S.

6 - Give them something SPECIAL About your console. Something that makes it special. Switch has its portability and a huge install base and Nintendo gimmicks. Sony has the Dualsense features and VR. The Xbox is just a strong console with really no other gameplay features to make it stand out.

7 - I can't over-emphasize this enough, get a larger player base with more varied interests. A JRPG on Xbox is mostly just wasted space and energy since the fanbase on the console is pretty heavily 'western'. (Whether this is true or not, that is the perception).

I mean, guys....there's many reasons. Make it worth people to develop for Xbox. Give them something fun to do, or something that makes Xbox stands out. Give them reason to invest the money for porting and ensure they'll get that money back. Right now you just have a strong console with limited reach and no unique features in the console itself or the controller. Nothing about it stands out and it doesn't have the install base to make it worth it.

Gamepass is basically the only thing on that console worth it for consumers and I just can't see ANY world where it's good for developers. You need a new approach. Literally anyone paying attention could tell you that. Start by making your own games, make them well, make them a reason for people to get an Xbox, THEN third parties can invest the time knowing it's worth their effort. Right now it's just a dead and floundering console with no incentive to develop for.

The way to attract the public is unorthodox, but it would be a blow to the competition.

• Better management of the studios;
  

• Development of a division to create its own graphics engine, in addition to this, this graphics engine can compete with Unreal and Unity;
  

• Launch of 4 large-budget games per year, with a development period of 5 years;
  

• Launch of 4 low-budget games per year, with a development period of 2 to 3 years;
  

• Organizational climate, salaries and benefits better than those of competing companies;
  

• Recruitment, retention and development of new talent;
  

• Investment in Cloud Gaming (Xcloud), giving users the option to subscribe to the service and play all the games purchased from their library, or subscribe to the game pass ultimate and play all the games on the service;
  

• More development of mobile games, as they generate large revenues with little investment. Create mobile games to compete with the platform's successes;
  

• Acquisition or opening of studios in Eastern countries (Japan, South Korea, India, etc.), in addition, there is a market in countries on the American continent (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, etc.);
  

• Reducing the lifespan of a generation, thus avoiding Slim and PRO models. Reduce it from 8 years to 5 to 6 years and launch hardware with completely new technologies, but support new consoles and those from the previous generation, because this way the user will have a console lifespan of 10 to 12 years, without having to constantly change consoles;
  

• Sell consoles and games at a lower price than your competitor, because users will always have more economic advantages;
  

• Create partnerships with third-party studios, thus trying to have 1 to 2-year exclusivity.
  

• Open the system so that stores such as Steam, Epic, GOG can sell, that is, there would still be the XBox store, but users could use the console to enjoy their other libraries.
  
  There are more things, but all of this would increase XBox's revenue, making it possible to use more resources to sabotage its competition. The problem is that this requires a high investment in the short and medium term, but it can put pressure on and increase the competitor's stress level.

Porting a game to a pretty small player base is a risk. Do they really need to ask developers that?

Xbox lost this generation because they lost the previous one. With games and libraries carrying across generations they are likely destined to lose the next.

The only way they will win or have a chance of winning is if libraries become a thing of the past - hence the desire to move everything to gamepass. They want to do to the buying games what Netflix did to the video and dvd shops. Alas due to Microsofts size, its history with acquisitions and some poor decisions in the hardware field - gamepass will never be able to achieve its full potential.

First step, reply to emails.

Sell more consoles, and the games would come.

It's so ridiculous. They literally advertise saying "no console needed" and then want to know why developers don't want to release games on it. It's because you are literally telling people to not buy your own console. Weird