They probably just got tired of people noticing how their corporate profile in Saudi Arabia never had any of the gay pandering shit during fag month, and calling them out on it. BRIDGE isn't just a rebranding of DEI - it's a complete synthesis of DEI directives being directly grafted into the core of the corporate structure - not just a department. And Microsoft is ALL FUCKING IN on BRIDGE. Their commitment to homosex, child grooming, and spreading monkey pox knows no limits.

Is a new thread really necessary? Look, I get the whole "/v/ doesn't play vidya" meme but the number of water cooler news threads that barely have any posts taking up space in the catalog is ridiculous and less and less threads about ACTUALLY PLAYING THIS TITLE YOU FOUND. We have the #GG and Minor News threads, use them.

Probably something to do with jews and the saudis normalising relations with Iran.

>>1025919 RIP SNK on Xbox

>>1025919 >the hill that the west is going to die on is gay sex If we could go back and tell any of our ancestors this would they even bemieve it, or would they think we were just attempting to make an absurd, offensive joke that doesn't quite come out?

>>1025927 Or having to do with Saudi Arabia going off the petrodollar and joining BRICS. Microsoft does have an awful lot of contracts and special provisions with the Government and DOD. Xbox pulling out of Saudi Arabia is a pretty weak soft power play, but this could just be a capitulation to their FED partners as well as a veiled threat of Microsoft cutting off Saudi Arabia from more vital services. Most of their computer systems are Windows systems as well. Who knows what kind of back doors disguised as normal Windows functions that MS has built specifically for the glowies to exploit if the need be. If this were a mob shakedown, Xbox pulling out would be the vase that gets smashed as they tell the owner how terrible it would be if something happened to their shop.

>>1025922 >>1025927 >>1025940 >>1025941 Anons, it's far more likely this is because Xbox sells like absolute shit in the Middle East.

>>1025945 Yeah, but that's not as fun. Also, Xbox sells like absolute shit everywhere except for Burgerstan - and even there they're trailing Sony by a pretty significant margin.

>>1025950 It's not as fun as you making shit up when nobody likes buying Microsoft products including Amerifats?

>>1025941 >Or having to do with Saudi Arabia going off the petrodollar and joining BRICS. BRICS is a joke. India and West Taiwan hate each other, the Russian and West Taiwan economies are on the brink of collapse, and every single member of the collective still uses dollars (Even Russia) as opposed to other currencies like cyrpto. The "only" thing that gives BRICS any "legitimacy" is the claim that the currency will be backed by gold, but even that's a joke as even the gold that West Taiwan even owns is fake. All BRICS is going to do is be a repeat of the Euro and how much of a joke that's become.

>>1025977 Supposedly Russia has until 2026 to 'win' Ukraine before the supply/logicistal issues become a major problem for them.

>>1025919 XBox still exists?

>>1026045 Microsoft has an infinite money code activated in real life, Xbox will always exist.

>>1025992 If Russia gets desperate under a Kamala presidency the nukes could start flying.

>>1026045 There's a pretty good chance that they're going to outlast Playstation at this point; Sony is getting bodied everywhere outside of Japan.

>>1026122 Given the infinite money economics, MS will definitely outlast Sony. Microsoft's worth 3 trillion dollars, while Sony's worth 116 billion.

>>1026159 puts the $ in m$

>>1025992 >supposedly I guess NATO told you that, right?

>>1025919 May the Arabs kill all jews over there too.

>>1026174 Both sides likely put out BS designed to make themselves look better, propaganda is a knife that cuts both ways.

>>1025925 It's not just a meme, /v/ actually doesn't play vidya and you're just slowly realizing it.

>>1026243 t. cuckchan rapefugee Go back, along with whatever retards are spamming these stupid threads.

>>1026249 >we My goodness, it's worse than I thought.

>>1026252 Are you just retarded or something? Anons not playing vidya is a negative. You can't conclusively prove a negative like that, and the only way such a thing would even impact discussion is if you believe and allow it to. But then again, I'm talking to a retard who has no idea where he is and believes /v/ is a swarming hivemind that is impossible to change, so I guess this is irrelevant.

Aren't videogames haram anyway? Islam teaches that depicting any living thing is a sin.

>>1026259 What are you fucking talking about you retard? Not believing in a retarded meme that goes against the board subject is now political/philosophical? You have no thinking capacity whatsoever, stick to posting in whatever shithole you came from.

>>1025925 hateclick is one hell of a drug

>>1026264 That's an old school belief most Muslims don't actually follow anymore. Kind of like how Christians aren't supposed to eat fish but do it anyway.

>>1026264 You do know even osama bin laden had vidga and anime right?

>>1026298 >That's an old school belief most Muslims don't actually follow anymore. So it's bullshit laws from their made-up book that they'll use as a cause for censorship in thwe West.

>>1026327 Kind of? A lot of those Islamic fundamentalists aren't actually liked in most of Muslim world, barring theocracies like Afghanistan and Iran. That's a big reason they flee to Europe, it's because they're persecuted at home (Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood members to death) and western nations are often ignorant of actual Islamic perspectives. If you went to the streets of Riyadh or Cairo right now and started preaching Aniconism, people would give you strange looks. There's a concept in both Sunni and Shia Islam called taqiyya, which is when lying is permissible. It's kind of complex and large but in short - you can lie about your beliefs to protect yourself and lie to enemies in times of war. Some Islamic fundamentalists, known as al-Islamiyyun in Arabic, will lie about both their own beliefs and general sentiment in the Middle East. They do this so they can more easily entry Western nations, and when there try to create this false consensus so Western liberals will think their radical opinions are a simple culture clash issue and bucking against them is bigotry. So, do they do this to push for censorship in the West? For a very specific subset for Muslims who often don't even live in MENA, yes.

>>1026300 For how long us, gamers, have to suffer? How much enough is enough? When will we finally rise up and break the shakles of forced-trans-black-character-reverse-censorership? We were born to play, not to be played!

>>1026482 Inshallah, my brother in lobby.

>>1026483 >>1026482 >>1026483 VIDYA AKBAR!!!

>>1026298 >aren't supposed to eat fish Just like how they aren't supposed to trim their hair... Except that was just a ceremonial law for Nazarites only.

>>1026298 >Kind of like how Christians aren't supposed to eat fish but do it anyway. wtf why was this a thing, is it a scheme for ancient kikes to keep all the fish for themselves or something.

>>1026516 Same reason as pork, parasites.

>>1026518 Possibly, more likely they felt disgusted eating a creature that mostly just consumes your garbage.

>>1026523 More likely they wanted the people who lived in other places where raising pigs was more practical than raising sheep to seem ungodly and thus worthy of being annihilated.

>>1026298 That was never the case.

>>1026516 >Christians can't eat fish <Jesus hung out with fishermen <Performed magic to fill their nets <Calmed the seas so they could fish more >His symbol is a fish >Fish are kosher >Catholics are specifically forebade from eating any meat on Good Friday, except for fish, because Fish aren't animals - lol Are you sure you don't mean, shellfish? Also, speaking of fish, do you think fishermen like smelly pussy?

>>1026619 That's not even mentioning one of the miracles Jesus performs in the bible is multiplying fishes and loaves of bread to feed an entire crowd.

There are literally no dietary restrictions on Christians (and explicit instructions forbidding the prohibition of certain foods), anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't read the Bible.

>>1026298 >Kind of like how Christians aren't supposed to eat fish but do it anyway. I recall Jesus filling fisherman's nets. Did not strike me as a catch and release deal. He also multiplied the fish to feel the 5000 in the crowd that went to hear him speak. His brother was a vegetarian supposedly, do not know if that included fish or not. Maybe that is what you are referring to? The Ebionites? >>1025919 Xbox is shrinking but also has Elder Scrolls 6 plus their IPs and wtf are they doing.

>>1025977 >Russian and West Taiwan economies are on the brink of collapse

>>1026705 You're gay.

>>1026705 I really do like that image.

>>1026707 Nah this one is better

Microsoft put out a weird, strangely worded statement that seemed to imply they weren't pulling out of MENA, but other figures in the region are confirming this news. VGA4A (basically Arabic IGN) co-founder Ahmed Al-Kayyadi said they got an email from Microsoft stating hardware sales have been discontinued.

>lowest Xbox sales ever >multiple studios shut down >mass layoffs across Xbox >console sales have flatlined >games going multiplat >IPs becoming irrelevant >pulling out of entire regions literally can't stop winning xbros

>>1026723 If you were to read shitter, you'd think Xbox a giant titan of gaming and not dead last by a huge margin for the entire gen. A lot of hardcore Xbox fans are millennial gamer dads whose last frame of reference for Xbox was when they finished high school in 2007. They have no context for how irrelevant Xbox as a console has been since the Kinect 13 years ago. It's strange how many accounts exactly like this exist. Go search around for threads involving Xbox, you'll find thousands of these and they'll all dudes who are like 40, think Starfield is a good game, and feature profile banners that look like this.

>>1026725 Peak consolefaggotry, lmao.

>>1026725 bro no halo and gears are still huge bro my gamerscore is 300000 stop dissing xbox please bro

>>1026709 Gweilo prease understandu

>>1026736 think you pulled a muscle with how hard you were stretching with that one

>>1026298 >Kind of like how Christians aren't supposed to eat fish but do it anyway 1. This was never the case; 2. None of the Mosaic dietary restrictions ever applied to non-Jewish converts to Christianity. This was the first decision ever taken by the early church and it's literally in the Bible (Acts 15).

>>1026755 >None of the Mosaic dietary restrictions ever applied to non-Jewish converts to Christianity. Fuck off, Paul of Tarsus.

>>1026729 God, I'm so glad all those fags are suffering.

>>1025925 >>1026243 >is microsoft losing an entire country's market necessary How can you be 18+ and be this retarded.

>>1026828 What? He wasn't talking about Microsoft losing Saudi markets. But obviously that isn't necessary for Microsoft either or Xbox wouldn't have pulled out. What fraction of Microsoft profit is their console profit in Saudi Arabia?

>>1026725 That is the same thing for any buyfag, really. Old dumb retards who didn't let go of the past and still think that the modern garbage is the same as 20 years ago.

>>1026856 >What? He wasn't talking about Microsoft losing Saudi markets Thats exactly what hes not talking about his lack of discernment on vidya happenings on the world stage >What fraction of Microsoft profit is their console profit in Saudi Arabia? Thats a question worth asking and why the thread exists. it could mean that Microsoft is leaving the gaming market of the ENTIRE middle east to shift priority to other regions.

>>1026767 Just convert to Judaism if you're a purist faggot.

>>1026767 Don't see Paul in Acts 10

>>1026767 >oy vey, goyim; THE LITERAL BIBLE isn't the actual Bible because I say so! Do you think this will work. Because it won't. >>1026723 For anyone who actually plays video games, this is genuinely good. We're all Xbros now, and we're all actually winning through the destruction of the industry as it stands. It's like the Pokémon TCG. The valuation bubble is finally popping, so cards are now technically overproduced. I want that to crash IMMENSELY hard so that they can't even give booster packs away. I want them to show quarterly and annual losses. That's the only thing that will force them to stop with the retarded fucking gimmicks and power creep and unusable mechanics and revamp the TCG to be fresh and interesting again. "Like how?" you ask. Like, for example, moving to the full range of typings from the games, including dual type cards, with all the strength and weakness levels that implies.

>>1026725 It's kinda sad when you think about it, i wasn't a fan of gamerbro vidya or dudegames in the 00's or early 10's but it does show an aspect of gaming that has been scrutinized to death by the current (((regime))) of (((leftists))) now. A lot of simple western things that were taken for granted back then has now been replaced with DEI-mandated bullshit and Marxist writings. All in the name of inclusivity. And yet these fucks just still pretend nothing is wrong.

>>1027950 But Paul reinterpreted Mosaic law so it didn't apply to non-Jewish converts to Christianity.

>>1026767 >Fuck off, [most of the New Testament] You really can find all kinds of retards on the internet

>>1025919 >push faggot shit on Americans >but don't dare push it on a country that will not tolerate their shit This is why we are to not take these clown companies seriously. Getting outraged also clearly doesn't do shit. You have to hit them where it huts the most which is their wallets. Take joy in the fact that the Xbox brand is a pathetic shell of what it once was. May Call of Duty laughably fail under their control. Once that happens MS is truly done with the gaming industry. These faggots should pack it up for good and stop making consoles if they can't even get CoD right. No more respect for faggot pushers. No more empathy for these traitors. Not one bit.

>>1029032 Never played Halo except in a demo, thought the game was shit compared to wolfenstein never partook in boothbabe culture Still absolutely despise SJWs and journalists for being lying sacks of shits and painting everyone with the same brush

>>1029341 I played a co-op game of it at somebody's house, I thought it was just a neat novelty that was easy to cheese. It was only when everyone tried to ape it's mechanics that I absolutely hated it. As for dudebro culture I fucking hated it, it's just as bad woke shit. Only now I can find games that are not causalized as well non-woke now. At least the dude bros get to feel what we did for a decade.

>>1029351 > At least the dude bros get to feel what we did for a decade. I think i understand, you talking about those retards that literally would not stop harping on gears of war and halo etc. I don't know I disliked em never shutting up but they weren't forcing trannies into everything.

>>1029351 I’m no fan of it either, but at least it’s less destructive to society than wokeshit.

>>1029351 >>1029356 >>1029375 Yeah they were obnoxious and probably just by power of the purse edged gaming into directions that I didn't care for but they were nothing like the SJWoke horde and what they did to gaming and other hobbies and the world in general.

>>1029351 >>1029356 >>1029375 >>1029376 Does someone have the "Geek is Chic" webcomic? It's the perfect summary of the whole dudebro hype faggot fad. God forbid you bought something that wasn't overhyped AAA mediocre garbage, everyone at the store would be looking at you funny.

>>1029356 The dudebros who threw drunk Halo frat parties played nothing but dudebro games too, they weren't gamers, they were intruders into gaming culture like the destruction of a hobby meme.

>>1029470 >they didn't play games they wouldn't like How horrifying. They wouldn't fit in at all on /v/.

Most Saudis are building PCs now days. Consoles are fucking shit and each time someone is willing to buy a console, others chime in to convince him to get a PC instead as it is a very good long term investment.

>>1029057 >Fuck off, [most of the New Testament] Yes

>>1029376 Summed it up succinctly, annoying but not cancer like >>1029470 They were good one genre of vidya specifically FPS, I remember never telling em about the FPS' i liked because I didn't want them in those communities. But frankly everyone knew about counter strike at that point. But it turns out I didn't need too because the evolution of shooters were chest high wall 3rd person shooters >>1029451 No, But I always felt a certain tv show was when people thought being a geek was fun even though that show was utter garbage.

>>1029351 >As for dudebro culture I fucking hated it, it's just as bad woke shit I'd rather take the culture that has gruff white guys and hot chicks than the woke shit that celebrates white genocide, thank you very much

>>1030892 YAAASSS! Preach queen. Amen.

>>1030892 Is that an albinigger in there? They were that desperate to avoid having a white dude, but didn't want to just have another nigger, that they went with an albino nigger instead of something like a chink or a muslim?

>>1030905 >albinigger That's a lesbian anon, who also (coincidentally) a part-amputee with a robot arm.

>>1030911 You're telling me that... creature... is a woman? Not a tranny, but an actual woman? I know the designs in this game are going for that intentionally ugly modern comic artstyle thing but la creatura blanca over there looks like a fucking man with that rectangle face and ugly short hair that no self-respecting dyke would ever have.

>>1030892 >we are the new porn What did they mean by that?

>>1030942 It's so shockingly poorly written isn't it? The chorus is a repeated monorhyme where every line is written in the same verse, every word ending in "-orn". Such a simplistic rhyming structure and even within that basic framework, they have to stretch to embarrassing lengths to make it flow. Poor VA is struggling so hard to make it work but it just sounds awful.

>>1030980 I do feel bad for those people that have to sit in those game booths completely ignored but at the same time if you're producing ideologically driven rubbish don't be upset if it has very limited appeal.

>>1030936 To be precise, a (((they/them))), who are always women or trannies anyway. Is also a chink from Hong Kong. >muslim Already the among them. She's the fatass with Vitiligo.