In fairness they won’t achieve that by going full multiplatform either. Even going from 25B to 30B would require them to ship and sell 70 million additional $70 games by 2030. Thats not happening. They will only add $5B more revenue in 4 ways
It’s the same lock down that drove consumer demand to highs and caused a boom in the industry though. I’d probably call it a wash all said and done.
Something big is coming. I refuse to believe it’s losing our games to Sony. They must be talking about next gen plans. Have a line up of games for launch and come out swinging. Exclusive games.
Exactly my point, schedule of games was underwhelming at best after the grand 2018 promises and the main reason, along with usual Xbox issues from way back, of declining consoles
@EPC I really wanna see them reachin ×2 revenue in 6 years while nuking the current 2/3 of the business (1/2 at worst).
@monkeyboy101 Yeah, they are stagnant, but at least their core fanbase is not eroding. Most of Xbox growth was driven by mergers, while (mostly) not listening to fans for the usual woes of the platform. And here we are.
Isn’t it like 1 million ahead?
I mean whats the difference? The PS4 sold 116 million, if the PS5 ends up at 122 million that’s not a particularly large improvement.
Spider-man 2 had triple the budget of the first. It isn’t selling 3 times as much. They release fewer games then ever, relying on remastering 2 year old games and PSN hasn’t gained a user in 4 years despite combining PS now into it…and they hiked the price just as they lost Call of Duty marketing.
I don’t think it’s okay for Xbox to change its model every few years. I think they do it because they keep walking down blind alleys and failing while constantly going hat in hand to daddy for more money to fix their previous misstep… The one time they succeeded it was because they had a clear identity and a bonafide must play exclusive in Halo 2 and 3. They were the place to be if you enjoyed multiplayer games and third parties were there to support them. It’s unfortunate that it hit a gen too soon as mtxs, loootboxes and season passes would have made them the industry leaders. It’s also untrue that Sony hasn’t changed. They have changed plenty. Sony stopped making MP games. They perfected the prestige single player TPS experience and if your game doesn’t hit certain metrics your studio is shut down or you work on another game that will achieve those objectives. Their first party slate is extremely narrow. Long gone are the experimental games.
Anyhow, the current rumors are going to lead to me transitioning to PC gaming next gen. I will still eventually pick up the next console because it’s hard to leave behind a massive digital library.
I like your optimism, but sadly things have not been going well for Xbox hardware sales. I’m not sure having a killer lineup of next gen launch games will change much. It’s also way too early for that.
And these multiplatform rumors have been around a while, especially with the start of January with Hi-Fi Rush, SoT but even more so XboxEra’s own article about Starfield of all games planned for PS5.
I feel it is to a degree. Despite a large dearth of games in 2023, Playstation fans failed to buy FF16 despite 3 years of hype. And now its coming to Xbox apparently. The big PS5 game for this year is apparently Concord, which I doubt will be as big as Spider-man 2.
The PS5 might sell, but its struggling to make big AAA games.
I think Xbox growth being driven by games, mtx and subscriptions is better then simply increasing the price of the console from gen to gen.
Id be okay with multiplayer games so MS can get money off Sony. Halo infinite multiplayer but none of the story sections. Something has to help fund the ABK buy. We need a positive if we are losing games. If the news is only Xbox is multiplatform, then there is a big problem. We need to know the future and why it’s Xbox
You are just deferring your melt down
Also spending over $80B on publishers also helps drive Xbox growth lol.
The first thing Nadela did arriving to MS is to port Office to MAC. I bet he does not even understand the notion of selling games to a restricted market. Now that this market is not increasing, we can even say it is shkrinking, Spencer is in a very bad position to defend the notion of exclusivity.
Xbox doesn’t have the guts to do this.
I don’t get your point here. Xbox growth was driven by store spending (Fortnite&co mostly) and GP subs incresing, but Bethesda and now ABK took with themselves a significant bump overall.
I don’t get why possibly nuking console because is stagnant (what will happen if multiplatform is the goal), I don’t see Sony doing it ever.
Well yeah, exactly. I’m just saying 8B extra revenue from ABK for CoD, King and MTX is better then simply adding 20% to the RRP of the hardware which is either a loss or break even.
It’s not about guts, it’s about not being dumb.
If they make COD exclusive, it would destroy the IP and Phil and Sarah would lose even more power within the Microsoft Gaming circle because of how much revenue they would lose.
They would lose billions. MS in in the market of making money, not pleasing fans by fighting a lost war (remind me so much of Sega).
Terrible comparison imo, you can get away with porting your monopolistic work suite to Mac because you control 90% of pc market with Windows (that’s also why porting games to pc did not damage your consoles). Xbox controls 25% of console market at best.
The console is 30m at 3/8 years into this gen. If it sold 64m total (a 6m gain on Xbox One) would anyone really celebrate and proclaim wow “what a turn around”. Likewise…if it sold 6m less, would that make it a complete and utter flop?
My general view is Microsoft believes CoD+ game pass + first party (even if timed) will let them basically repeat Xbox One numbers. They largely believe dominating mobile is a better end game, than releasing another $700 Xbox in 2028 and again selling only 50-60m units.