Games Inbox: Xbox giving up on gaming, Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom horror, and Metroid Prime final boss

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I know I’ll be accused of being alarmist, but it seems to me that the idea of Microsoft just giving up on gaming is slowly entering the realms of possibility. I don’t suggest it as something that’s going to happen overnight, but I really don’t know how much more they can keep messing this up. Despite the enormous losses they must be making on it, Game Pass still hasn’t taken off the way they expected and now we find out their on last year.

That is a massive drop, just as the Series X becomes easier to get hold of.It’s easy to see why, with the lack of games, but they still don’t have much of a line-up in either the short or long term, with only being a proper big hitter and I’m really not sure how that’s going to turn out. Actual sales are irrelevant with Game Pass but if it’s a typical bug-filled games the blowback is not going to be good.Phil Spencer has been in charge of Xbox for almost a decade now and he still has very little to show for it, other than running up a huge bill for Microsoft. Knowing how these things work I can only imagine that the knives are slowly being drawn across the boardroom, if he doesn’t demonstrate some real forward momentum.

I mean, how long are Microsoft going to give him? Another decade? That seems unlikely to me. I like the idea of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom using. I know the ReDead but I’ve never even heard of the three-head dragon before.