Xbox Series X & S to Raise Prices Again This Year!
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Why do people give even the slightest fuck about exclusives? Maybe I'm just too old to get it. If it's available, maybe I play, otherwise no big deal. It's just a game, life goes on without it.
I grew up playing Nintendo but haven't owned one of their systems since 2000. So, I don't play Zelda or something, eh. Other than on Nintendo, exclusives are dying.
I remember when Epic tried holding games hostage for a year or so. That died pretty quick. None of the publishers are willing to leave money on the table so Xbox or Playstation can say EXCLUSIVE anymore. That and the lawsuit that's essentially forcing them both.
Because the hardware is pretty near functionally identical, as far as performance goes. Without exclusives, there's no real reason to pick one console over the other, or to even pick a console at all instead of just using a PC.
Reasons not to care anymore. The only thing left is fanboyism.
And laziness. Alot of guys just want to plug and play and cant be bothered to tinker with stuff. They will drop 1k on a consolol + controllers and a headset just so they can eat Doritos on the couch while playing Goy of Duty.
For a long period of history the console, accessories and game was cheaper than the PC alternative. Simply because most games of quality didn't run well on lower end PCs, so you had to buy much stronger stuff compared to the console guaranteeing it for a fraction of that price.
There was even that short period where console functionality as a "multimedia box" made it the much smarter option for getting bang for your buck.
That hasn't been the case for some years, as PC parts have gotten cheap enough that you can run most new games on ones that are close enough to consoles in pricing. And the console price raising making that difference even narrower to a point of "paying the same for a lesser product."
Yep. It's a sign consoles are dying.
Although they've given up on exclusive games, Xbox does have some killer exclusive features, like Quick Resume, Play Anywhere, Smart Delivery, Game Pass, multi-generational backwards compatibility, etc.
Honestly, Quick Resume alone would be enough for me to rebuy a Series X if I had to do it all over again. Probably my favorite feature added to console gaming since the online gaming.
That's because they were fronting the money to basically compensate for the fact that everyone knew it was going to be a huge sales loss. They can only toss money into a pit for so long before people start getting mad.
And between the bad press, lawsuits Epic was specifically in, and that companies figured out they could do "early access" on Epic while taking their money before releasing fully on Steam as it ended it was clear even the devs were taking advantage of them.