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Daily State of Gaming: 6/13/2026
| cowgod | 06/13/26 |
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Date: June 13th, 2026 8:23 AM Author: cowgod - Microsoft has reportedly considered spinning Xbox off, making it a wholly owned subsidiary, or setting up a joint venture to make a future sale easier. The State of Xbox has now reached the “what if we put the console business in a different corporate jar” stage. - Xbox is also still staring down major layoffs and budget cuts. The brand wants to be back-to-basics, back-to-console, back-to-exclusives, back-to-growth, back-to-trust. Very moving. The people losing jobs get to be back-to-LinkedIn. - An Xbox exec reportedly admitted it has become difficult to articulate why someone should pick an Xbox. This is not a media narrative. This is the hired explainer looking at the object and saying the object has become hard to explain. - Xbox also has the “our business today is not healthy” quote hanging over it like a fluorescent light in a dying mall. Healthy businesses do not usually require this much doctrine. They have games. They have reasons. They have a box you understand. - Gears of War: E-Day being exclusive again is supposed to be the return of common sense. Fine. Good. But one Gears game cannot carry a whole console identity on its big sad shoulders. Xbox needs Games, plural. Not strategy. Not cloud rhetoric. Not access. - Price Watch: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is $39.99 on Steam, $37.49 on Xbox / Microsoft Store, and PlayStation lists the base game around the high-$40s today, with the official PlayStation page showing $47.99. It remains the AA price witness: ambitious, prestige-adjacent, not priced like a hostage exchange. - Price Watch: Silksong is $19.99 on Steam, $19.99 on PlayStation, $19.99 on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, and generally $19.99 across the major platforms, with Xbox Game Pass still part of the story. The little prosecutor remains seated.
- Today’s releases: Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post on PC, Xanthiom 2 on PC, EA Sports UFC 6: Ultimate Edition on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, End of Starchild on PC, Match! The 12 CZ Wars on PC, Clown Camp on PC/Linux, and Driftland: The Magic Revival on PS5.
- Indies remain a Reprieve.
The Absolute State: Xbox has no clear reason, Nintendo has too few Games, AAA is Huge Teams making Huge Products at Huge Prices, AA is the missing middle, and Indie remains A Reprieve. Gaming is Grim. Not dead. But the two console holders are standing there with expensive boxes and a strange shortage of reasons. |