Yeah the takeaway from this is NOT that single player games are in trouble. There were lots of other potential reasons (aside from quality) why this failed:

I had never heard of this game until the last couple days. It’s mentioned in another article where the cause of layoffs are being discussed and now here. I also work in advertising so -

I mean, I think the game didn’t do to well because it looked boring as hell and EA didn’t go that hard with promoting it. 

Streamer Brain’s a thing though, they’ll be playing with their attention divided because they have to entertain at the same time.

Doom (2016) handled this by having lights of the contrasting color to the general color palette of the environment mark paths- if I recall, they were green lights and the environments were largely red and orange. They popped extremely well, easily drawing the eye while still feeling like a natural part of the world…

It actually lended the performance more authenticity, considering how the half time shows always seem so pre-packaged and produced.  I’m sure she didn’t want it preserved for posterity, however.

The unwashed reddit/tweetosphere needs to understand that THEY are not representative of the other millions who play videogames and aren’t terminally online. This kind of thing isn’t FOR THEM. The devs didn’t put that stuff in to insult your intelligence, they put it in for the normies and there are way more of them…

Someone might prefer Xbox-specific features like Quick Resume, the controller, free cloud saves, Play Anywhere, Smart Delivery, the UI, etc. MS also allows dev/pubs to sell keys outside of XBL/MS Store and you can pretty easily earn gift cards via MS Rewards, resulting in cheaper games.

I appreciate that you come at this from two different angles (good for you!) and still manage to WILDLY miss the point.

Yeah you f*cked up there. If you hadn’t known, fair enough but given you did, you played right through knowing you were gonna have to kill her at the end? Damn that’s cold :D

Didn't watch the commercial? Because it contains a bottle nosed dolphin with a unicorn horn. 

i don’t think anyone, certainly not myself, is arguing why or let alone if they’re the market leader. the answer is always going to be games and their eight generation dominance. i’m just surprised they haven’t put more effort into a smooth UI. seems about time.

My PC is in my bedroom, my series X is in my living room, and I have an ROG Ally for traveling. The fact that my saves can transfer and I can pick up where I left on all 3 is why I play most games in the Xbox ecosystem. I own a PS5, but I only play the exclusives on it. I really wish I could transfer saves between PS5…

Nobody should have to add games to their library from an external website. Which I have to do constantly since the Playstation store is so broken on the actual console. Had to do it again for the recent FF7: Rebirth demo. It’s just plain bad. 

You shouldn’t have to do this, but find it on the Playstation website, and add it to your library. With all the smoke about Xbox games coming to Ps5, I’ve really been cheesed at the people that prefer Playstation’s UI. Nobody should have to add games to my library from an external website. Which I have to do…

Up until about twenty years ago the conglomerate that owns Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, etc. was part of Pepsi, so cross-promotion with Doritos, Fritos, Mountain Dew, etc. still makes sense. Cheez-its are Kellogs, I think? Different parent company anyways, but it’s not the first time they’ve done something with the…

they have no lasting legacy or memorable releases of any kind

Basically we already have consoles with a ton of features and improvements that were once “kinda cool and nice to have”, but later became almost universal requirements.

Take you pick of multiplayer on consoles, streaming service applications, digital distribution, or backwards compatibility (and a ton I am forgetting,…

Yeaaaah, I feel like Xbox’s Backwards Compatibility policy is the only reason Sony bothered with it. Which is very frustrating to think about.

This meeting could have been a email!