XBOX Reset Shapes Up - The Media is Getting it All Wrong

Yeah, absolutely, man.

Tom Warren had an Xbox hit piece today that you have to pay for if you want to read it.

Somebody shared the whole thing, so I was able to actually read it without paying, which was nice.

It was an opinion piece, mostly, and laid out some thoughts about what you're referring to, Fuzzy, GTA 6... and that they were not happy with the numbers that they were receiving for GTA 6 pre-orders.

Matthew Ball quickly came out and was like, that's not true.

We're actually very happy with our GTA 6 pre-orders, and they kind of match what the console share is.

And then, of course...

Tom Warren and all the games media is like, well, what's your console share? You know, like, that's not what you're criticizing.

You know, we already all know that position that they're at with that.

Why do you think they're making these changes to begin with? Your article is specifically stating in there that they were unhappy with the share of GTA 6 pre-orders and they clarified that they were.

Anybody expecting them to have a higher GTA 6 pre-order share than their console share? Like, why would anybody expect that? um which is asinine like yeah and especially with playstation having the marketing on it like the fact that they are actually happy with the gta6 pre-order sales is is good you know i mean that just seems that things are going kind of how they expected with that like uh but you know they're going to try and spread um as much negativity when negative things happen as possible and And it's easy to see because they try and spread as much negativity when positive things happen as well to downplay it.

So when the negative things happen, it's like, oh, yeah, we got them now.

Let's go.

Let's go after them and make sure everybody knows how shitty they are and how things are going to never change.

Now, that's not to say that there aren't unhappy people out there.

Of course, you're going to see interviews and articles from those that were laid off or past employees and things like that criticizing Xbox because they're not happy to see their friends go or them go and all that kind of stuff, which makes sense.

It's not to say that this stuff isn't messy whatsoever.

It is messy, and it is very unfortunate for many people.

But what sometimes can be messy sometimes may also be necessary, and that's what Xbox is seeing here, and that's why they are making the changes, as was made clear...

Numerous times now by Asha Sharma with her previous post and any of the games media who's acting surprised by these moves, all the evidence and clues about what direction they were going to be going and what moves they were going to be making were in those other blog posts that she had made regarding the Xbox reset, which we fuzzy here dove into very specifically all the lines and all the language that That she was using and had a lot of speculation about what that meant and how things were going to be handled.

And it seems like things are kind of taking shape on how we anticipated with the new direction of Xbox.

Now, that's not to say there's not surprises within this.

You know, there definitely is, but...

I'm not necessarily overly shocked by any of the moves.

In fact, I think we've kind of been told this is what was going to be happening from Asha Sharma in the past.