Microsoft seems a bit schizophrenic with the direction they're taking XBox. They are woefully short of first party titles and the acquisition of Bethesda and Activision was a way to correct this.
Now they're pushing ports of their few first party titles to PS5 and Switch? Console exclusives drive system purchases. Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Etc. being Nintendo exclusives is probably the only reason they're still in the console business.
Why buy an XBox if you can play all the same games on PS5 plus the Sony exclusives?
They'll port their games, and then put them on Game Pass to push that service. Which will probably work. You can get like 3 months of game pass for the same price as one AAA game, so if you play one new AAA game on the service more often than every 3 months you're saving money.
They're counting on girl math, and the apparent lack of normies' desire to own physical media.
I'm kinda waiting for Steam to end up on PS5, that will be the death of consoles.
Gamepass is a trojan horse to buy your back library. Publishers hate it that you can buy a game once and play it forever, they hate competing with the past. There's no reason for any good third-party game to release on gamepass because it's just throwing money away. E.g. would GTA 6 release on gamepass? That would just be setting Fort Knox ablaze for Rockstar. Hence, gamepass will always be a dumping ground for trash, just like Kindle unlimited.
Subscription services are a raw deal for creators.
Microsoft seems a bit schizophrenic with the direction they're taking XBox. They are woefully short of first party titles and the acquisition of Bethesda and Activision was a way to correct this.
Now they're pushing ports of their few first party titles to PS5 and Switch? Console exclusives drive system purchases. Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Etc. being Nintendo exclusives is probably the only reason they're still in the console business.
Why buy an XBox if you can play all the same games on PS5 plus the Sony exclusives?
I think Xbox is steering away from consoles in general, they’ve been pushing the play everything on pc pretty heavily
Expect the walled garden in the near future. They'll make windows unbearable first, then lock it down later.
Their exclusives are all shit. Who buying an xbox for Starfield? Lol.
They'll port their games, and then put them on Game Pass to push that service. Which will probably work. You can get like 3 months of game pass for the same price as one AAA game, so if you play one new AAA game on the service more often than every 3 months you're saving money.
They're counting on girl math, and the apparent lack of normies' desire to own physical media.
I'm kinda waiting for Steam to end up on PS5, that will be the death of consoles.
Gamepass is a trojan horse to buy your back library. Publishers hate it that you can buy a game once and play it forever, they hate competing with the past. There's no reason for any good third-party game to release on gamepass because it's just throwing money away. E.g. would GTA 6 release on gamepass? That would just be setting Fort Knox ablaze for Rockstar. Hence, gamepass will always be a dumping ground for trash, just like Kindle unlimited.
Subscription services are a raw deal for creators.
The Persona series is on game pass so you can't say it's all shit.
Because Microsoft can't compete against itself. As long as their games are all on PC too, then no one will bother to buy an Xbox for them.
There was a reason why Halo, their biggest console seller, was either terribly ported or not at all during their heyday.
Flamethrower and fuel rod cannon on the pc port of halo 1 beg to differ. This was peak gaming.
Because the product ultimately doesnt matter. This is all stock price hype manipulation.