Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "MICROSOFT DENIES WALMART, TARGET PULLED XBOX PRODUCTS"

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

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December 14th, 2024. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Now, you're probably thinking to yourself, why are you just giving us random dates? Well, ladies and gentlemen, I have a very interesting reason for that, as when it comes to December 14th,

2024, a gentleman that goes by the name of analytic dreams, and, you know, as far as his platform, notorious mass effect, you should definitely rate this five stars and share this to somebody who, who likes gaming and music content, but especially someone who could predict the future. Because guess what? December 14, 2020, 24, this man had this to say. Go to TikTok if you want to follow me, analytic dreams with the Z. But let's just hear what this gentleman had to say all the way back on December 14th,

2024. If PlayStation keeps having game of the year, year after year after year after year, and it's exclusively on PlayStation, we'll have to have a real conversation on how to help our Xbox. Because a real conversation, interesting. Let's keep going.

Even though I own the PlayStation, I do acknowledge that if PlayStation keeps tipping the scale, because right now they're winning by a landslide. And then look at the comments. So I'm going to take myself away for a second because this is very poignant as far as what I'm about to get into. It's a very sad day.

I'm not celebrating this. I'm just showcasing that. I kind of be on the nose. about what I'll be talking about. Anyways, let me let my past self keep talking. For every one Xbox sold, this is for PS5 sold, right? So if the scales keep tipping in PlayStation's favor, what's stopping them from having competitive prices like an Xbox?

Why not mark their prices up? Xbox is getting whoops so bad right now, as far as just popular games that also is high quality, that at some point find a game that can be your next halo and run with it. Xbox cannot afford to lose out on another console war.

If PlayStation spoken like a true prophet because ladies and gentlemen, Shepherd, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Well, if you was wondering, let me bring myself back, if you was wondering, what's going on, I'm glad that you asked,

because the reason why I played that prophet who basically told you, all the Xbox is losing so bad in the console rates that things could get spooky well now we have what I was officially talking about how as when it comes to supermarkets not only has Costco officially confirmed the ending to the Xbox sales citing expire contracts and low turnover which is fewer excuse for faster stock movement it was also providing evidence for Walmart for Target to do the exact same thing. Now, of course, a lot of people reporting this specific story saying, oh, take it with a grain of salt. Take it with a grain of salt. But ladies and gentlemen,

as far as this ginormous advancement in the gaming news, uh, in the gaming news, right? As far as news and it being headlining, this is one of the best we've ever seen because everybody is talking about it. So you would think the Xbox and Target would come to clean, it up right well not Xbox uh you would think Walmart and Target would come to clean it up right of course not the one who came it came to clean it up was of course Microsoft themselves you guys see that's the problem that's almost like being in a relationship somebody else broke it off and when they asked you about the relationship you tell them nah we still together i know that ain't who i think it is that's essentially what Microsoft is doing because i even looked it up because you know at the end of the

day I don't try to spread fake news and I'm not celebrating Xbox's downfall. I'm just pointing out how I told y'all time and time again that if PlayStation keeps outselling Xbox we're going to have a real conversation and Xbox cannot even afford to lose another console word but it seems like we may not even get to another console word so anyways let's get to the details as far as what I'm specifically alluding to Walmart nor Target has issued an official statement on pulling Xx Xboxes from their supermarkets. But Microsoft came out. Remember the relationship analogy I gave?

Microsoft came out and said that both Walmart and Xbox are committed partners, but seemingly had no direct quotes from the retailers. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? Now, once again, this is not bring me any joy. I'm just letting y'all know that when it comes to the console war one the console war is a terrible thing like the main thing you need to be saying is are they keeping each other accountable because if microsoft does something sony is going to

do something to be more uh consumer friendly so that they can have more sales coming in if sony only has playstation on the market and microsoft stops making hardware as far as xboxes safe to say nothing is stopping sony from making the next uh console uh console an exorbitant amount of price, an exorbitant price, because guess what? Where else you're going to turn to? But then, you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, like where else are you going to turn to

if Sony is the only console in the market? It's kind of like Nintendo and Sega. Nintendo and Sega was going back and forth as far as the family-friendly consoles, and now Nintendo's the only family-friendly console, and look what that's got us. Everybody's talking about drop the price movement,

which you know horrendously failed people are talking about how crazy price how yeah crazy in price the mario car world is they're talking about the overall um i forget what the word is but basically predatory that's what i'm saying the predatory actions as far as getting you to pay more than they deem fair nintendo's the only family friendly console on the market so they could do whatever they want and what are you going to do about it so anyways When it comes to Sony and Microsoft, this is not bringing me any joy, but as of October 13th, Microsoft responded to those reports of Target and Walmart halting Xbox console sales. And they denied the rumors. Walmart and Target did not come out and send anybody to say, hey, what they're saying is correct.

Actually, they did the opposite. They're staying quiet. And they're basically letting you know that the writing is on the wall where there's smoke, there's fire, and all. Ultimately, this is going to directly affect the game, the consumers, because now Sony has free reign to do whatever they want with prices going on the future. Obviously, we could boycott and not pay for the PS6 or whatever. They try to mark up as far as price, but it's a, it's a spooky scenario if Sony ends up being the only one putting out hardware in the gaming community. So a lot of people are saying that these are false reports. a lot of people saying that oh it's AI Microsoft already denied the rumors but but guess what

Microsoft's not the ones pulling Walmart or Target products out of their store is vice versa Walmart and Target are the ones pulling their products out of their stores so it's safe to say Microsoft's not the ones they need to come out and clean this up is the CEOs of Walmart the CEOs of Target they need to come out and say hey we love Xbox and we want to be a committed committed partner like Microsoft alludes to them being all right they need to come out and confirm it because they're on the powerful end of the stick as far as determining the future of Xbox now when it comes to Microsoft i'm not going to lie to you they'll be all right they sell a lot of other things i mean windows is is very immensely popular and they will be all right if they are

exed out of the gaming industry as a company Microsoft will be a be all right as consumers we will not be all right if we just let sony run rampant with the only console in the market safe to say there's going to be some scary developments that i do not think y'all want to see as far as having actual value and them actually giving fair prices for games and consoles in the future safe to say Xbox still doesn't help themselves as i've reported a plethora of times on Microsoft basically waving the white flag Microsoft came out and said that the raising prices on Xbox consoles

controllers and then games worldwide which to be fair you could blame down the tariffs because I believe Sony's done the same thing I'm not I'm not sure I'm not trying to just cape for Sony let's see Sony it doesn't seem like Sony plays

oh yeah okay so August 21st 2025 I cover Sony and them raising PlayStation to get a $50 US price hike. So when it comes to that, it's not just a one-sided fight. I'm giving you the information and then you do of that as you will. So when it comes back to, let's go back to Xbox. And then we go to Microsoft specifically raising the ultimate game pass to $30 a month. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming.

Like, what is going on? So now you look at the console. race which Microsoft is losing horrendously. But then, like I've said throughout the years, until that news, as far as the Xbox Game Pass ultimate price, rising to $30 a month, until that news came out, before that news came out, I was essentially saying time and time again that the Xbox Game Pass was the most cost-effective way to be a hardcore gamer. But guess what? They took that away. You guys. See, that's the problem. The only thing they had as a W, they took away and essentially they was like we don't care if people leave us because the only thing

that we had was the cost effective game pass that was losing us money now you're probably thinking to yourself how could you how could the game pass be losing the money if a lot of people are using it well that's exactly my point if something is priced lower to cut off the the competition you're going to take a loss but you're going to have more consumers because you're giving them more value for the price point. But then you come to what it ultimately ended up costing,

let me see if I could type this in right, what it ultimately ended up costing Microsoft as reportedly, well, now I mean, Bloomberg reported this, so you already know this is facts. Bloomberg came out and said that the Xbox's recent increase in GamePass subscription fee

was because of a significant loss of over, goodness gracious, over $300 million in Call of Duty sales across both console and PC platforms last year. And then not even that, according to current and former employees, Microsoft CFO Amy Hood has requested that Xbox explore alternative strategies to boost its profitability.

these. Shepard, just look at the state of gaming. Like, what is going on? So there was a reason why I kept saying Xbox the game pass was the most cost-effective way to be a hardcore gamer. It's because it was losing Microsoft money. The prices that they gave for the Xbox game pass

was not reasonable for any stockholder. But they did it to basically compete with PlayStation's selling more PlayStation files for every Xbox. Series X and S sold. They had to compete somehow, so to get the consumers as far as the player base over the Xbox, they made the game pass cheap as dirt. Now, I don't want to be anti-consumer because I do not agree with the price hike, the price hike,

but you do have to report all the facts as to why they would go this route. If Amy Hood comes out and says, hmm, hey, Microsoft, if you could specifically tell the head of the Xbox division to make a strategy. that makes sense. That would be great, right? And you know, all of this, uh, consumer friendly practices that's losing us money. That's,

that's all good and everything. But we're over here as stockholders trying to increase the stock and they keep losing us 300 million plus dollars because they want to make the game pass affordable. So fast forward to October of 2025 Xbox game pass ultimate price is seemingly, not seemingly. It's, um, it's a 50% price hike that really, um, I think they announced that in November. We still don't know when it's going to actually go into effect

because I looked at my subscription. I'm not going to lie to you. I kind of thought to myself, I'm like, hold up now. Maybe I should buy the full year to get around that. I may still do that because the ultimate price is still the same. But I don't know if it's delayed. I don't know what's going on.

But at some point, they're going to raise it by 50%. So I don't know if they're trying to get people to subscribe to the full year. I'm not going to advise you to do that. Just for me, as a content creator, It makes all the sense in the world. For the average gamer out there, you're really only going to play, and this is if you're a responsible adult,

you're really only going to play two to four, two to four games. I'm talking about in full as far as beating it. Of course, you could dabble with a plethora of games, but as far as beating it, I would say you could probably be three to four games as far as fully in a whole year. I'm not talking about multiplayer,

not talking about the live services that you can play for 15 minutes and get like 20 matches in i'm not talking about those type of games talking about a real ghost of tushima a real uh assassin creed shadows um expedition 33 like those type of games you can only probably play four to six of those a year i don't think in any world is the 50% price hike for xbox game pass justifiable for any average gamer so anyways with that being said there's a lot of things that's going on in the world of microsoft off is actually a spooky place for the developments of the next Xbox console because guess what there's so much that goes into a hardware as far as console from um i never made a console so i can't

like break down the details but as far as respecting the art of creating a hardware like a Xbox or a PlayStation i assume it takes years of development then you have to mass produce it then not only that you have to make sure the metrics is correct as far as giving it to certain stores on what's going to what's going to sell the most wear and Costco Target and Walmart pulling Xbox stock seemingly is the same as cost remember Costco officially came out not like take it with a grain of salt Costco officially came out and said they ended Xbox sales and the reason they gave was expired contract and low turnover sales let me put that in translation for somebody who's been in sports majority of their life essentially

Eventually, it was like when the 76ers looked at Ben Simmons and they said to him, hey, I think your time is done. You guys. See, that's the problem. You look at somebody, you see all the potential in the world, and then you look at the actual analytics and you start thinking to yourself. There's no way that this person is going to get back to their prime forum, so let's just let you go. And that is a sad day in history, especially for a lot of hardcore and avid Xbox gamers out there. I mean, I have an Xbox console too. So when it comes to the console war, I don't really participate in that.

I participate in the consumer versus company war. That's what I participate in. Whatever is the best value for the consumers, that's what I advocate for. So whenever it comes to Xbox losing the race so bad that they're getting pulled from Costco and allegedly getting pool from Target and Walmart, is actually a, a really negative scenario to the point where we would have to see what happens in a foreseeable future but i think whether smoke there's fire and there's been rumors on xbox going fully digital as far as the cloud and partnering with steam so if they become a third-party company as far as Xbox i think

that may be the best route as of right now and maybe pull what some companies do for video games and take a year off as far as the console war and come back with another console to where it blows PlayStation out of the water i think that may be the best scenario but as of right now it's not looking good for Microsoft and Xbox so with that being said click my link to my bio let me know one of my social media's what do you think about Microsoft responding to target and walmart halting Xbox sales and what do you think about Walmart and target not giving an official statement yet as far as pulling or discontinuing Xbox consoles from the stores.