>>1532083 I guess it depends on where you lived and who your friends were. As in if your friends all had PS3 or PC, then yes, to you the 360 probably felt like a niche console. Full disclosure, as a teenager I got a 360, after gaming on a PC up until that point. It was.... a hard time for me, and in uni I came back to PC laptop gaming. And no, I haven't bought a xbox or a playstation since.

>>1532106 >I guess it depends on where you lived Fair enough, but I didn't know a single person who owned a 360. Everyone had a PS2, a PS3 or a Wii. I know more people with an original Xbox than a 360.

>>1532122 Well I knew 2 other people who had a 360, and only one with a PS3, the rest were on PC, so checkmate I guess :^)

>>1532130 Everybody was on PC, if only to play older games.

>>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.