The Big ol' Xbox 3rd Party Releases Discussion Thread (HiFi, SoT, Pentiment, Grounded) (Part 1)

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@Good_Old_Collingwood

Xbox won’t drop hardware because it would be ceding the platform narrative to Playstation. Put it this way: if this happens then you would be developing your games using a Playstation architecture- so Sony would be calling the shots on how you develop your games. You will only be playing games using Playstation accessories.

Windows is still the platform that the vast majority of games is played on, so Microsoft already has an advantage.

Good points, although I personally don’t trust anything they do as nothing seems logical anymore.

Although I agree the majority of games are played on Windows it’s not on the Windows Store it’s Steam, Epic and GoG where they don’t get a cut (except for first party games).

Although Jez is often critised for his takes, I think his one around the downward spiral is spot on.

• If there’s less incentive to buy Xbox hardware then less consoles will sell.
• If less consoles sell then less devs will develop games for Xbox (Console & PC).
• If there’s less customers then there’s less GamePass deals.
• If there’s less customers/money there’s more reluctance to invest in hardware and 1st party games (for GP).
• If there’s less GamePass deals then there’s less subscribers.
• As your competitors grow (as a result of the above) there will be even less incentive for people to invest in Xbox.
• REPEAT… (probably missing many other steps).

While on this spiral their competitors will just keep getting more challenging to compete with, therefore it will surely get to a point where they have to pull out.

From recent actions we have seen that they are not willing to let something carry on If it’s not making $$$. If anything Microsoft are renowned for quitting even if it does screw over any future chances of entering the market (AKA Windows Phone).

@jplusip

Considering Satya’s thoughts on how he killed Windows Phone (oh how I miss my HP Elite X3…) makes this whole situation even more baffling to me. Satya recognizes that he made a short-sighted poor decision there, and here he is making another short-sighted poor decision.

Agreed. Right now they could be competing with Google and Apple in the mobile space but they pulled out and are now suffering the consequences.

As I said above Microsoft are known for quitting just before the going gets good and it looks like they are making those short sighted decisions again here.