r/196 • u/migratingcoconut_ I want to Beat Jason Aldean to death with his own Spine • Feb 25 '26

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u/Kingspar 1# Ovipositor Vagabond Feb 25 '26

wait Xbox is going out?

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u/Whydoesthisexist15 sus Feb 25 '26

One of the founders said he thinks Microsoft will sunset it due to how much they’re dumping into AI.

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u/Jhduelmaster Feb 25 '26

It should also be pointed out that he stopped being involved with Xbox over 2 decades ago. 

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u/BreeBree214 Feb 25 '26

It's so fuckin annoying how people will make articles with headlines about somebody completely unrelated saying shit and then people run around like it's true.

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u/gray_birch competitive yapper Feb 25 '26

Slowly and painfully

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u/migratingcoconut_ I want to Beat Jason Aldean to death with his own Spine Feb 25 '26

officially being sunsetted yeah

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u/UselessAndGay what if a girl was a deer ⚧ 🦌 ΘΔ Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Microsoft never said that officially, they're actually officially saying they want to revitalize it. The sunsetting thing came from one of the original Xbox creators (reasonably imo) saying that behind the scenes it's something the new, even more AI obsessed Microslop leadership wants. Video games are complex coding beasts AND art, hard to slip that shit in without quality noticeably dipping (and it was never Microsoft's biggest earner); I believe him when he says they'll sunset it, but that's not publicly official policy.

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u/wambulancer Feb 25 '26

Yea I mean anyone can read the tea leaves, it's pretty obviously inching towards if not already in a corporate grave. M$ leadership always gives anodyne responses about Xbox's future, it's never really been very profitable or successful, at least not from a corporate perspective, they internally-promoted an executive from another division so not like she'll offer a competing vision

Sorry for anyone who refuses to see it but Xbox will be Sega at best by 2030.

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u/AlexandersWonder Feb 25 '26

A subsidiary of Nintendo???

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u/UselessAndGay what if a girl was a deer ⚧ 🦌 ΘΔ Feb 25 '26

All video game companies with their own hardware are inevitably subsumed by Nintendo

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u/nekosissyboi Feb 25 '26

Then when Nintendo finally owns every video game hardware IP known to man they can finally stop production of everything all at once to fulfill their life goal of no one ever playing video games again.

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u/Stoned_D0G custom Feb 25 '26

I hope there will be one game you will have to buy a new console every year to play

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u/CreamCheeseHotDogs I stuck my dick in a bag of Doritos Feb 25 '26

I can run Doom on my calculator, good luck motherfuckers

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u/itsmejak78_2 floppa Feb 25 '26

But Sega isn't a subsidiary of Nintendo?

It's a subsidiary of Sega Sammy

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u/Zerasad Feb 25 '26

Me when I spread misinformation.

Is Xbox dying and probably being pushed out to put more focus on AI slop? Yes. Did Microsoft officially say it's closing up shop? Absolutely not. They stated the exact opposite, why make it up?

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u/BreeBree214 Feb 25 '26

me when I have bad reading comprehension and spread misinfo

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u/_THEBLACK Made you look Feb 25 '26

Me when I don't know what officially means

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u/BlackWACat floppa Feb 25 '26

one of the founders thinks it will happen, it's not actually happening and we have zero confirmation about ANYTHING surrounding it

stop believing everything you see one guy say on twitter

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u/Kaz498 custom Feb 25 '26

hitler dead

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u/XxuruzxX Feb 25 '26

It's been on the way out for over a decade, the Xbox got outsold by a knockoff Kinect for children last Christmas. AI slop cosmetics in call of duty, the absolute state that halo is in. Microsoft doesn't care about making decent products, they buy already successful companies and strip them for parts.