Xbox Wants To Know Why Devs and Players Avoid Their Consoles

Context

Despite Sony's best attempts at becoming an even worse laughing stock and Nintendo's unending moral bankruptcy, Microsoft has somehow still managed to be the worst of the three when it comes to consoles. In fact, everybpdy memes the PS5 for having no games but nobody even knows the current gen xbox console (Xbox Series X One? idk) because quite honestly there's no reason to buy one - and with the plethora of xbox layoffs recently this trend might continue. In an interesting turn of events, Microsoft has put extra emphasis on its Xbox Research team and furthermore wants to reach out to devs; The idea, obviously, is to gather and implement the data from these devs as effectively as possible, and it's intended to affect everything from large studios to small independent developers. Interestingly, Team Xbox wants feedback from those who aren't currently shipping their games on Xbox as well, allowing for "fresh perspectives" in the process.

"If you are making video games, we're interested in hearing from you. If you aren't on Xbox, we'd love to know why. And honestly, if you are using our competitor's products, you probably have a great perspective we could learn from!"

"It's a bit like testing players who play games like yours – they are your target audience and you want to hear fresh perspectives because their expectations may differ from folks who are deep in your community."

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tl;dr

If the majority of developers simply say "the sales of products on your console compare to the competition isn't enough to justify the cost of porting," I am not quite sure there is anything Microsoft can do about that.

Despite how things have turned on for the Xbox brand, MIcrosoft really did try hard this generation and it just didn't work.

Microsoft handled cross-gen way better than Sony

Microsoft provided a much better feature set for Series X|S over PlayStation

Microsoft released actual new games. Microsoft couldn't predict the reception of said games, but not one first-party game Microsoft released said "Remastered" or "Director's Cut" on the box nor did Microsoft charge $10 more for Series X|S upgrades.

It's honestly just over.