So basically what’s happening now, but with 6-12 months exclusives instead of permanent ones.
It would mean Xbox will still be the most affordable place to play a good amount of games.
It would mean Xbox will have undoubtly the worst catalogue out of all the consoles.
It would mean that if Xbox is being outsold 3-1 to PS right now, it’d do even worse in the short-mid future.
It MIGHT mean getting Xbox getting even worse ports and worse support from third parties who cba having to work for XSX and XSS ports.
Would it be acceptable? i guess so for this generation if the last phrase i wrote doesn’t end up happening, even tho Xbox users would have to know they got the console with less games than the rest.
I know, that’s my biggest issue with it too. If it’s already not doing too great, it’s only gonna get worse this way. That’s why I find it interesting that plans for brand new hardware are there, or likely they are already working on it.
Xbox biggest enemy wasnt Sony, Ninty, PC or its fanbase. It was themselves and didnt learn anything during all these years but to be fair I think the blame is more on MS (the corporate) part
And this has been the problem all this years, this, marketing (the lack of it) and not wanting to secure third party exclusives.
Big games is what sell consoles, we’ve seen this on each generation, MS hasn’t had a AAA console seller game outside of FH since i can’t remember.
Halo was kinda fun, but so far from what it should have been or what it was in the X360 era, Forza Motorsport was a joke considering the 6+ years of development, etc.
AAA releases for a console manufacturer should be big events, not “don’t worry, we’ll fix in the next months/years”
From a bean counters point of view, people buying Xbox and subscribing to game pass in 2024 are mainly for the games coming out in 2024.
Hellblade 2, Flight Sim 24, Avowed, CoD, Indiana Jones will sell Xboxs this year.
They view 2023 games exclusivity as having low hardware selling potential and will argue, they will make more money on PS5, then they will generate being only on Xbox.
I imagine Sony thinks the same which is why all their games come to PC after a brief period.
As much as I hate to say it, perhaps it would be best if they just announced all their games are coming to rival platforms and new games will be day and date too. Game Pass comes to these systems as well, done. We can all just get one console and be done with it.
Not having to worry about how third party support (probably starting with the Japanese ones) could get worse and then other third parties too. We’ll get used to the PS controller and ecosystem I’m sure. .
There is just no way Xbox next week can put the fans at ease with this, they can’t predict how all of that is going to turn out. Man I don’t know, maybe I’m being too extreme.
I agree about their horrible hiring schemes, but not about Halo Infinite. Imo even a 10/10 Halo Infinite wouldn’t have done what they think it should’ve done because 1) most Halo fans would be on Xbox anyway, and 2) I stress again that for Xbox it’s so much more than “games” and the year of the launch of Infinite was one of Xbox’s best years. So much other stuff that they neglect build over time that hurt the brand, the games aren’t anywhere near being the main reason imo.
It’s not normal because people are making moves based on speculation. Imagine if 80% of titles actually don’t make it on other systems how stupid those people will actually look, plus the fact they can’t get them all plus even more for only 10$ a month on Gamepass.
I’m happy I don’t have to spend 1000$ a year on games to be honest, no way I’m ever going back to that and it’s all thanks to Gamepass.
It might be fine for some people but the consoles are already not selling well, if everyone knows literally every game on the console is going elsewhere in a few months it’s only going to be worse which again means less third parties which means less sales and it’s an endless cycle of negatives
The GP Day 1/multiplat strategy only works going forward if Xbox has a console that’s an open platform
Because this argument that so many seem to be running on skips all nuance in the matter by just leaping to assume it’s the automatic absolute worst case scenario when there’s no real indication this will be the case. Yeah, if every single Xbox exclusive went multiplatform day one then I’d understand that devalues the console but right now there is nothing to suggest that is a realistic outcome.
It’s not as if there isn’t a LOT of room for variation in this too given the sheer scale of Xbox as a publisher. People should perhaps go take a look at Xbox’s upcoming line up of games and how absurdly many titles are coming out from Xbox this year alone and remember that currently there are what, credible rumours for a small amount of their output releasing on other consoles well after launch?
