Satya Nadella says Xbox isn't competing with other game consoles. He says Xbox is competing with TikTok. This is Nadella effectively admitting Xbox has lost its primary market and must find something else to compare themselves to in order not to look so bad in the eyes of the market, or investors. People thought the Activision Blizzard buyout would’ve changed gaming in a way that Xbox would get all these exclusives, concentrating large swaths of games to one or two platforms, or something along those lines.

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Microsoft has a history with buying gaming companies, having exceedingly large expectations of them, and then proceeding to cull them for not meeting those expectations. They ultimately call the shots what Xbox as a department does. People were calling buying Activision Blizzard deal of the century, something that would forever change gaming. What we got was the same as usual, just with bigger dollars in the play.

I dropped Street Fighter 6 some time ago when I was done with doing any dailies or weeklies in a game. It turned playing anything into a chore, into work that I needed to do at home. It kicked off a small avalanche, where I effectively quit all the other games that had the same, dull shit. However, I finished the World Tour well before that and had a few good match Online, where I realized how awful the World Tour is.

Doug Bowser, the president of Nintendo of America, is stepping down from his position on December 31st 2025. Unless the man has some underlaying health issues, then something is wrong within the company itself. Either something’s wrong within the company itself and Nintendo’s execs think they can fix it by replacing Bowser with Devon Pritchard, or they’ve been really unhappy how Bowser has been running the ship.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is getting some heat for its twenty bucks price point. Team Cherry did something that Nintendo used to do to shake up the industry; disruption, i.e. delivering something of higher quality at a lower price. The competition in the gaming industry has never liked when a disruption hits. It makes them question if they're doing something wrong, if all the resources they've put into their game have been wrong calls.