First, XBox may be moving to a more 3rd party company. This has meant lots of publicity on being 3rd party is winning.
Xbox and Exclusives
Peter Moore doesn't think consoles should be a thing anymore. He should know, he killed the Dreamcast and led XBox. At the moment he leads Unity. The guy who looks like Satan should totally be believed.
Phil Spencer speculates about exclusives actually being needed anymore. He even wants Epic on Xbox
Some publishers and designers don't feel like making games for XBOX anymore. It's an attempt to create controversy.
It reminds me of a joke from Kung Pao
Then we see the analysts claiming victory.
Detecting a paid off Analyst
Sean Malstrom is a fairly well known blogger who predicted the Wii and DS selling well. This series of articles is looking at a single analyst and how he is promoting an idea paid for by Microsoft and Sony. It starts with looking at an analyst try to play with statistics to get his own conclusions. Direct comparisons are not given.
Then he shows that this analyst is being given a lot of press in articles. The analyst is compared to Michael Pachter who was paid to say things for Sony and Microsoft back in the day.
This one is a bit ranty, but it asks why bad ideas are being promoted. Especially since there is an obvious winner to compare to.
The analyst says some big things like Console Wars don't exist anymore. Companies like Sony and Nintendo should put their games on Xbox and PC. Also Microsoft is winning, losers. Malstrom points out Microsoft owns news sites, and likely this guy.
I could also post all of the articles from Sony looking at similar things, and articles from 2 months ago that cover this subject, but that's a lot of reading. Here are some samples.
Sony Samples
There will be aggressive Sony game releases to PC.
This means games go multiplatform much earlier. Sega watches knowingly with a smile
PS5 has no new games planned for the coming year.
PS5 at “Latter Stage of Its life”
Random Propaganda
Japan is losing, even though it's not. Videogame companies are doing fine, but other countries play different games, so Japan must be losing.
Could the Xbox become the next Dreamcast
I don't have a state of Sony this month source list by the way. Beyond the Helldiver's fiasco there isn't much to talk about. Either the PS6 is coming out soon, or the PlayStation in general is exiting first party status.
The analysts and articles all say this is the right thing to do.
“Japan needs to fill it’s games with ugly women and darkies or it won’t survive!”
Just look at how successful our game companies are compared to theirs!