>>1531611 Perfect dark decomp has native mouse support, and feels very good

>>1532149 Why is the same not been done with Goldeneye?

>>1531611 >Perfect dark with mouse controls would be nice. Didn't someone at Github figure out how to fairly easily reverse engineer any Xbox 360 game and convert them into native PC ports?

>>1532393 No, the Sonic Unleashed team who decompiled the game provided tools and documentation that makes it easier for decomp enthusiasts with an interest to build something like that. There's no fairly easy way to do it, not yet anyway.

>>1532060 It sold well right there in the UK and, I know not Europe, but in Canada as well. It's the anglo console.

>>1532467 Canada is just Europe but gayer, browner and with less freedom.

>>1532060 Sony's quarterlies list their console sales per quarter and you can still pull those up. No idea about MS and Xbox though. Comparing 360 vs. PS3 sales has one very important caveat just looking at the final sales won't tell you: The 360 had a very strong lead initially, and the PS3 only pulled ahead after hardware revisions/price drop, and software library "caught up" enough to make PS3 worth buying, while 360's sales cratered due to RROD and MS no longer buying exclusivity.

>>1523041 The original Xbox was probably the most underrated console of all time. The Xbox 360 despite having that retarded issue that should not have been so awful was fun especially Xbox Live Arcade. On a side note and this is not to brag: My Xbox 360 never broke down but that was cause it was from 2009. I sold it to Gamestop for $50 7 or 8 years later. The Xbox One, while heavily overshadowed by PC gaming and the PS4 sales, was decent and had the best controller IMO. I liked mine but that was back I was still using laptops. Then it got bricked cause of an installation and power off issue concerning an update but Gamestop still accepted it. The only thing that appeals to me with Xbox Series X was backwards compatibility with all other Xbox console game discs. Anything else could be done better on PC. This is sad news since even if I were never interested in the Xbox brand, it means one less competitor not to mention the missed opportunities such as an Xbox handheld that could get system linked to other units similar to the original Xbox and Xbox 360. Console LAN get togethers at college were always fun that way.

>>1532163 Not a decomp, but M+K 60FPS Goldeneye has been around for YEARS, anon.

>>1533148 >My Xbox 360 never broke down but that was cause it was from 2009. You probably got a Jasper revision of the original 360 model which has mostly fixed those RROD problems. Most of the affected 360s were Falcon & earlier.

>>1532706 Very true. It's grim here, I would welcome annexation at this point. >>1533148 I bought Series X solely for the backwards compatibility program. A genuinely great move that was gutted. Still got a decent chunk of games from it. It remains the only way to play Deadly Premonition and Fable 2 in good quality. >>1533170 I got a Jasper as well, after my first 360 red ringed. Jasper still goes strong now, though I don't play it as much nowadays.

Xbox executive producer tells fired employees to use AI to make themselves feel better. No, I'm not fucking making this up; this is actually the title of the article already. https://www.gamesradar.com/games/xbox-executive-producer-offers-best-advice-i-can-to-those-caught-up-in-microsofts-latest-lay-off-spree-ai-prompts-to-help-reduce-the-emotional-and-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/ https://archive.ph/ugbPd >Earlier this week, a massive new wave of Microsoft layoffs – which impacted many employees across the company's gaming division and led to a number of cancelled games – was announced. It's grim news across the board, especially for anyone directly affected, but one executive producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing suggests that those struggling should turn to AI for emotional support and career advice. >In a LinkedIn post first flagged by game dev Brandon Sheffield on Bluesky (also shared by Aftermath), executive producer Matt Turnbull acknowledges that "these are really challenging times," and wants to "offer the best advice I can under the circumstances." He then explains that "I've been experimenting with ways to use LLM Al tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot) to help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss." >Turnbull goes on to share a number of "prompt ideas and use cases that might help if you're feeling overwhelmed," from asking AI to "act as a career coach," to suggesting new jobs individuals could pivot to, and rewriting parts of resumes and drafting fresh LinkedIn "about me" sections. One suggestion even includes drafting "a friendly message" to send to former co-workers "letting them know I'm exploring new opportunities," and writing "a warm intro message" to send to pursue job listings. >The section that perhaps stands out the most, however, is the section on "emotional clarity and confidence." Turnbull suggests turning to an emotionless AI program and saying something along the lines of "I'm struggling with imposter syndrome after being laid off. Can you help me reframe this experience in a way that reminds me what I'm good at?" >We can no longer see what the responses to this on LinkedIn were like, because the post has now been deleted. However, on Bluesky, many are having the reaction you'd expect: "Yikes." Another user says: "It's like a total disconnection from reality. I'm sure he thinks he's helping those people laid off, but what the heck." >Turnbull had noted that "these types of tools engender strong feelings in people," which is a bit of an understatement. Amid rising concerns about jobs being replaced by AI (not to mention the surrounding issues, such as environmental impact and what the growing use of generative AI might mean for human creativity), its use is controversial at the best of times. But right on the back of a huge number of people actually losing their jobs? You can understand why so many people are angry. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAAHAHHA YOU FUCKING VOTED FOR THIS, WEST COAST DIPSHITS. YOU VOTED FOR WHITE GENOCIDE. NOW REAP YOUR FUCKING REWARDS.

If Trump administration denied MS's H1B visa applications for the obvious fraud after they fired their employees, it would be hilarious and fuck MS.

>>1533860 Is it fucked up that I told that Microsoft girl that I wanted to make video games for Xbox one day and she handed me a paper telling me the requirements to reach my goals as a kid? This was like career day for middle schoolers Holy shit I feel like I dodged a massive bullet on when I stopped being a Microsoft fan boy. This is just going beyond from spitting in people's faces, I don't even know what to say about it.

>>1533860 holy fuck

>>1533158 I know, thanks I'm just confused about why Goldeneye hasn't been decompiled yet. >>1533860 Corporate shitposting is something else

>ohh we fired you :((((( here talk to the robot We live in a bad, overly on-the-nose sci-fi novel.

>>1533860 God damn. I really do love how out of touch and or uncaring these faggots are.

>>1533860 These bommer fags think AI is magic hocus pocus shit kek

>>1533860 >lost your job? >talk to the bot From the same company that brought you >fortunately we have a product for people that don't have some form of internet connectivity, it's called Xbox 360

>>1534498 I hope ruining the whole of videogames was worth it to play Halo and Splinter Cell!

>>1534478 They think that AI is literal commander Data/Mega Man/Star Wars droid AI. They don't realize it basically just a more advanced form of morphing and madlibs. It's just a really fancy parser with a fuckhuge data set to train it.

>Microsoft Shuts Pakistan Operations After 25 Years, Cites Global Restructuring https://archive.ph/wip/gVbMc My fellow street shitters, life is good.

>>1535174 Israel made them do it.

>>1535369 Or it could have just been their indian CEO, Satya Nadella getting rid of undesirables. Only high-born Aryans(indians) will work at Microsoft under his watch.

>>1535572 I hear this guy has like a group of Ai viziers he's made for himself that make all his decisions for him. I swear to god he said this in an interview and these chatbots are like...what inform everything he does.

>>1535654 Terry Davis would approve :^) then would ramble about Hinduism being the Devil's religion.

>>1535572 Indians love Israel so it's likely both.

>>1535703 I talked to an Indian girl about this before because I was curious why Indians loved a random West Asian country. She told me they'll tell you a story about Indians finding Israel great or some shit, but they know almost knowing about Jewish history and it all comes down to a strong dislike of Muslims. A subset of Indians sympathize with Israelis because they see events like October 7th as rhyming their own history with jihadism. In fact India has it's own cultural 9/11 - 26/11, the Mumbai attacks. She called these people "chodeys" but I'm not sure what that meant in the context, I don't know if it's related to the English insult chode. Indian equivalent of MAGA boomers I'm assuming.

>>1535572 Indian rich guys from the upper castes using their connections back home to use lower castes slaves for labor.

>>1533860 They could have said nothing, but this is worse Guaranteed HR thought it was a great idea too

>>1535804 I've heard indian scammers call people things like "madachod," or however they would spell it if they didn't have ridiculous accents. I assume it means motherfucker.

>Xbox’s $1200 Console Leak Just Made PS6 Look Like a Steal https://archive.ph/2XO9v <Xbox president Sarah Bond has confirmed that the next Xbox console will be a “very premium, very high-end” device. It would be the one that could reportedly cross the $1000 mark. The revelation sparked anxiety among PlayStation fans, worried that Sony might follow suit with an equally expensive PS6. But according to reliable insider KeplerL2, the opposite might be true. He predicts the PS6 could launch at $600, while the new Xbox might debut at nearly double the price, around $1200. >Exclusive Games Are "Antiquated," Xbox President Says https://archive.ph/uWM5R <The idea of exclusive games in 2025 is "antiquated," according to Xbox president Sarah Bond. She said in a new interview that people are beginning to "evolve way past" the idea that a game should be exclusive to one store or device. <"The biggest games in the world are available everywhere. You look at Call of Duty, you look at Minecraft, you look at Fortnite, you look at Roblox ... that's actually what's really driving community in gaming. That's where people gather. And the idea of locking it to one store or one device is antiquated for most people," she told Mashable. <"You want to be able to play with your friends anywhere, regardless of what they're on. And we're really leaning into that with this experience [Rog Ally X]. It just opens up another way for you to play, as does cloud, as does PC as do the consoles we all have in the living room," she added. >Xbox releases new marketing push “That was then, this is now” taking aim at “old ways” of gaming https://archive.ph/szn5L <Ads are attached and scary and angering as Hell >Microsoft Has Reportedly Pushed Xbox Studios to Deliver a 30% Profit Margin, Allegedly Leading to All Those Layoffs, Canceled Projects, Price Rises, and the End of Exclusives https://archive.ph/r6Lix <Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported that Microsoft’s 30% profit margin goal had led to the gaming division’s huge layoffs, canceled projects, controversial price rises, and multiplatform push. <... <Bloomberg said the average profit margin in the video game industry is 17-22%. Over the past six years, Xbox has hit 10-20%. To put that 30% target into more context, Sony's PlayStation division achieved a 16% profit margin in Q1 FY25. Bloomberg said Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood enforced the new target in fall 2023 — amid Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard. <The upshot now is, according to Bloomberg, that games that are cheap to make or considered more likely to make lots of money may take priority over riskier projects. Xbox’s “floundering” hardware division, meanwhile, may face “a significant rethinking.” <IGN has reported on recent comments from Xbox president Sarah Bond, who said the next-gen Xbox console will be “a very premium, very high-end curated experience.” Bond has also called the idea of exclusive games “antiquated.” Nowadays, Xbox Game Studios is one of the most prolific and successful publishers on PlayStation. <Microsoft issued Bloomberg a statement that suggested its Xbox profit margin target isn’t the same across every project. <“We look at the business as a whole, balancing creativity, innovation, and sustainability across a diverse portfolio of offerings. As with any creative business, sometimes that means making hard decisions and stopping work on things that are no longer working for a variety of reasons, and shifting resources toward the projects that are more aligned with our direction and priorities.”

>>1891960 >$1,200 Xbox Magnus We'll have to see what the finalized specs are, especially in relation to other PC hardware on the market, but the next Xbox is just going to be a Windows 11 PC in a branded SFF case. It's not a terrible price for an upper-mid-range prebuilt Win 11 PC. If you just want an "Xbox Console", and I don't know why the fuck you would, but if you do - you're gonna be fucked for that price. But it could be a great affordable entry-point for PC gaming - especially if the price hikes on RAM/SSDs/GPUs due to increasing demand from AI companies ends up completely fucking the PC hardware market. Even more than it already is.

>>1892012 its most likely going to use pc hardware like the last 2 console generations but locked down with its own system and custom drivers specifically for it

>>1894164 If they're serious about merging Xbox and Windows into a singular platform, then it doesn't make any sense to lock down the branded Xbox hardware, because everything is an Xbox and nothing else is locked down. That decreases the value proposition for no real gain. Though they will have custom hardware that's non-upgradable, which could end up fucking them later on down the road. How are they going to keep charging $1,200 three years down the line when that mid-range hardware is now low-end and getting trounced by OEM partners who can sell much more powerful hardware for the same price or maybe even less. They're certainly not going to be able to raise prices as the hardware depreciates. I mean the platforms are already merged, but there's not quite 1:1 parity just yet - so Xbox can still be considered by the market as holding the monopoly "on Xbox hardware" - but they're now going to open up that market and inviting competition in going into next gen. To a point, Microsoft doesn't care. Just more copies of Windows to spy on people and gather telemetry for ads and feeding their AI. Still, they have contracts with AMD and other suppliers to provide Xbox hardware and it'd be a huge loss for them to have them all sit around in warehouses because they've been shut out of their own market. Maybe they just expect the stupids to pay out extra for the no-hassle hardware and security of the official Xbox standard hardware - but if they want the brand to carry them, then they should really be doing a hell of a lot more to build confidence in that brand, rather than burning it to the ground.