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Speculation spread across the Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board after an overseas journalist posted that “bad news is coming soon for Xbox.” Some commenters guessed the news might actually be the 15-hour monthly cap on Xbox Cloud Gaming that Microsoft has already officially announced, while others voiced worries about the introduction of in-game ads. Meanwhile, plenty of replies flipped the topic onto the PS5 instead, saying “PS5 gets bad news like this literally every day” — a reaction many took as just the usual back-and-forth between the two camps.
What people said
Other way around.
It's become an MS tradition to drop bad news of their own right on top whenever PS gets some.
If MS doesn't withdraw from consoles, they'll probably slap sanctions on MS's core OS business instead.
That'll just end with them throwing money at some random mobile game maker or anime, nothing more.
Does PS6 even have AI?
And yeah, that just means I'm completely numb to it by now.
What leak? The 15-hours-a-month thing is an official Microsoft announcement.
It barely made any noise, so I mistakenly thought it wasn't official, my bad lol.
Depending on the price, this basically kills off the whole ‘play via cloud only, no Xbox or PC needed’ style of gaming.
In the end subscribers just never grew and the running costs kept piling up, I bet.
Right when he took the job he dropped all the ‘Xbox’ branding and I thought, wow, this guy's really committed to hardware — but if he was just racking up losses the whole time, well, that explains it.
Was there ever a disclaimer like ‘*Selects the game’ back in the day?
I'd honestly be happy if, say, random convenience stores in Forza Horizon 6 turned into real 7-Elevens or Lawsons and you could check their current promo by getting close — but at that point it's not really an ad, it's a collab.
The ads in Microsoft's own Solitaire Collection are annoying, plain and simple.
They chop the game up and force-feed you ads in between.
I'm on Ultimate so I don't get ads — wouldn't know, sorry.
Chopping the game up like that is annoying lol.
Then again, throwing up ads on startup or resume wouldn't play well with Quick Resume either — it's a tough spot.
‘Even worse’… like Xbox is somehow already in dire straits or something.
Just look at the Geha board, look at it.
On the Geha board, Xbox is the winning console, after all. Everybody's got one.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
The claim that “bad news is coming for Xbox” originated from a post by an overseas journalist, and no concrete details had been confirmed as of this writing. The leading candidate raised in the thread was the 15-hour monthly cap on Xbox Cloud Gaming that Microsoft has already officially announced — a sign that subscriber growth has stalled and that the cloud-only business model is running into trouble. In-game advertising also came up as a topic, but this has already been rolled out in some free titles like the Solitaire Collection, and there’s no confirmation it will expand to flagship titles — it remains speculation for now. Reactions split between those who saw the rumor as a real sign of business trouble and those who wrote it off as just another round of the usual back-and-forth, including the reflexive pivot to bashing the PS5.
*This article was compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, or “Geha”) thread “Journalist: ‘Bad news for Xbox is coming soon’.”
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