Oh, honey, grab your popcorn 🍿! Laura Fryer, a former Xbox bigwig, decided to drop a truth bomb 💣 on Microsoft’s current shenanigans. Apparently, the Xbox is deader than disco 🕺, and she’s not afraid to spill the tea ☕.
In a YouTube video that’s basically a roast of epic proportions 🔥, Fryer questions Microsoft’s hardware ambitions, recent acquisitions (and closures, ouch 🤕), and potential price hikes 💸. But her main point? Xbox, that beloved hunk of plastic, is apparently six feet under 🪦.
Talking about the Xbox ROG Ally partnership—because, you know, Xbox can’t do anything on its own anymore 🤝—Fryer says, “I’m sad, because from my perspective, it looks like Xbox has no desire or literally can’t ship hardware anymore.” Translation: Xbox is waving the white flag 🏳️ and slowly backing out of the hardware game. Bye, Felicia 👋!
But wait, there’s more! Fryer also throws shade 🪞 at the Xbox ROG Ally, questioning its very existence. “People don’t buy your new hardware if there’s no reason to,” she says, which is basically like saying, “Xbox, are you even trying? 🤔” She even dares to suggest that maybe, just maybe, Xbox and ROG might undercut the market with an affordable price. Yeah, right 🤣!
But let’s be real, the Xbox ROG Ally is just a fancy reskin of an existing product 💅. And as Fryer points out, the cheapest ROG Ally is already around $600 💰. So, yeah, good luck with that, Xbox 👍.
And what about the games, you ask? Well, according to Fryer, Microsoft hasn’t given us any reason to buy their hardware. “Delivering a killer game in a reasonable time frame isn’t something Xbox is particularly good at right now,” she says. Ouch 🤕! And let’s not forget about those games that have been in development for, like, five years ⏳. *State of Decay 3*, *Perfect Dark*, *Fable*…are they ever coming out? 🤷♀️
But the real kicker? “Xbox doesn’t do exclusives anymore,” Fryer declares. And even if they did, who cares? You can play everything on PC, PlayStation 5, or even the Nintendo Switch 🙄. “The Xbox Anywhere message sounds great on the surface, but in reality, it’s just marketing,” she says. Translation: It’s all smoke and mirrors, folks 💨!
Fryer, who’s been in the industry since forever 👴👵, clearly knows her stuff. She’s seen it all, done it all, and now she’s here to tell us that the Xbox is circling the drain 🚽. So, pour one out for our fallen console 🍺. It was fun while it lasted…maybe 🤷♀️.
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