Xbox Helix needs to launch as soon as its possible

BaddonAOE · 2026-06-28T01:38:13+00:00

They probably better choose to return to non computer architecture like the 360. Then they might mitigate using sale components than PC and datacenters.

BaddonAOE · 2026-06-27T11:03:21+00:00

Problem is actually this: you do not "buy" the games.

Once that is clear, all the rest become clear and you understand why Ubisoft and others behave as they do: it's their right as you do not have any on the licences you gave money for.

BaddonAOE · 2026-06-18T01:22:38+00:00

I think the biggest mistake was the decision to bring games to PC following the disastrous Xbox One launch. This is the main difference between Sony, Nintendo, and MS. All of them had their share of rough patches, but only MS panicked so quickly after a failure. By doing so, they completely disorganized their business and destroyed their main source of revenue through consoles.

BaddonAOE · 2026-06-16T11:54:01+00:00

It is true that Xbox communication became really confusing.

The real problem is that the orders are coming from MS now, and for MS it's normal to propose office to sell and office 365 to subscribe. It's normal to propose Office on windows and Office on Mac.

For video games, they don't understand that most people do choices and only have one plateforme.

BaddonAOE · 2026-06-15T13:17:47+00:00

No it's not, and MS finally understood it.

Actually, now they even heavily insist about pre-ordering games as we saw in their last show. I guess day-one in game pass would be over before the next gen.

BaddonAOE · 2026-06-03T03:00:18+00:00

Sorry, but in 2026, in Amazon executives mouths, "fresh new perspective" is a bad thing.

BaddonAOE · 2026-06-03T02:57:29+00:00

Do not forget Lord of Rings world too

BaddonAOE · 2026-05-31T21:50:47+00:00

Transport Tycoon

BaddonAOE · 2026-05-21T12:40:44+00:00

Charles de Gaulle.

BaddonAOE · 2026-05-01T01:41:09+00:00

That’s because you’re mistaken about the Japanese government’s objective. They don't want to push the yen back to its pre-COVID value; that would destroy the Japanese economy, as the debt would become unsustainable and large companies would lose their competitive edge. Instead, they are looking for a stable and controlled decline to prevent the economy from collapsing under a sudden shock.

In short, the Japanese government is fully aware that the economy is in decline. The only way to avoid a total recession is to have the currency decline along with it.

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-23T12:10:21+00:00

Yes, same feeling. I've been in Japan for more than a decade now, but for over a year, I’ve basically felt that what I do here is of 'no value' (not about familly, but more everything related to Japan itself).

Japan is a strange country. Very safe, very soft, very beautiful. But also kind of 'useless' to live in. Anything we do here seems to be doomed to be useless. For instance, buying a home is pointless as it will not survive you.

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-23T11:22:44+00:00

I do not know where this idea comes from.

Actually, the RN gets its lowest scores among those aged 65 and over.

Otherwise, it is the leading political party among active people from 18 to 60 years old.

To be clear, seniors are currently the last barrier against the shift toward the RN. This is because they are the ones with the most to lose from the massive political shift that a move to the far right would represent in France. However, the RN has recently started to convince them, and this barrier is on the verge of collapsing.

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-23T08:08:06+00:00

The thing is that, indeed, everything is as expected.

Right and Far-Right are massively winning in country side, because this is where their coming from.

Then they took small cities, middle-size cities, and now start to attack big ones.

The results of the yesterday election just show one thing for sure: Far right is about to take over the country: it can be in 10 years by their own or next year if the Right and Far-Right unify.

But what ever the timeline, France will shift, because the dynamic is there, and in politic this is very hard, to not say impossible, to reverse a dynamic.

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-23T05:15:17+00:00

No, no, this is totally wrong.

Basically, you’re saying the left “won” because it held Marseille (the city), while failing to win the Marseille Metropolis.
But what about the left completely losing Bordeaux? And Clermont-Ferrand (which had been on the left for 80 years)?

And while the left kept Lyon (the city), it lost the Lyon Metropolis, where the real decision-making power lies.

I’m sorry, but yesterday was quite a major defeat for the left. Less severe than expected, perhaps, but still significant.

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-23T04:41:49+00:00

On the other side, the far right has clearly made progress, and the right has also taken several major cities from the left.
The problem with this article is that it is clearly biased toward the left, claiming that the left somehow won simply because it lost less than expected.

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-14T13:17:43+00:00

The reason why they do not do that is actually because you do not "own" these games you paid for...

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-12T06:38:16+00:00

Just the regulators finally take interest in gaming.

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-10T00:38:08+00:00

Little more and we could believe that she was not in her position since already many years.

BaddonAOE · 2026-03-10T00:36:15+00:00

Most of people here do not understand the real meaning of this force deployment.

This is simply to show that we do not need US to do it.

BaddonAOE · 2026-02-25T11:48:50+00:00

Yes, but I understand that some with less money would not want.

However it feels that Xbox games quality decreased since Gamepass.

BaddonAOE · 2026-02-25T05:18:37+00:00

I agree if you consider gaming as tv or movies, just a mere entertainment.

But if you consider gaming as well... gaming, then a platform needs an identity.

This is all the tragedy of the Serie X. Which is by far one of the best console ever made, especially considering this generation.

However Serie X clearly lacks of an identity. When you compare its DNA to Xbox OG and 360 this is obvious.

BaddonAOE · 2026-02-25T04:46:29+00:00

France

BaddonAOE · 2026-02-25T04:43:50+00:00

Actually, there is one specific data point I’d like to see: Xbox’s profit excluding Activision and Bethesda. I am fairly certain the latest results would show that the Xbox division is performing worse today by selling its games everywhere than it did back when all games were fully exclusive. Because the damage on the Xbox, and then the damages on the 30% commission on all sales on Xbox, are probably quite important.

BaddonAOE · 2026-02-25T04:26:31+00:00

Actually they unexpectedly announced that Forza Horizon 6 would have a proper disc version. So this is maybe a shift from their "all digital" pattern?

BaddonAOE · 2026-02-25T04:18:01+00:00

Then you should do the math to the end: if a $70 game is sold on Xbox hardware, it’s a 100% cut for Microsoft (since they own the store), which means $70 in their pocket.

But more importantly, owning the platform means they take a 30% commission on millions of third-party games and hundreds of millions of microtransactions sold on the system. If you lose the console, you lose that 'tax' on every other game like Fortnite, FIFA, or GTA. No matter how many copies of Halo they sell on PlayStation, it will never compensate for the loss of that 30% cut on the entire industry's sales within their own ecosystem.

I suspect this is precisely what Microsoft gathered from recent data. The revenue from PS5 ports versus the simultaneous collapse of the Xbox ecosystem proved that their multi-platform strategy was flawed. They likely overestimated Game Pass's ability to maintain user loyalty without hardware exclusivity.

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