Something similar to a blog
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I mean, it may make sense to shareholders, but try to explain this to your average gamer who sees multiple Xbox games being ported to PS5 and now’s waiting for TES VI on PS.
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They like to play the “good guys” to fool regulators lol
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20 million Gamecubes was what made Nintendo severely alter themselves forever and 13.5 million Wii Us was what it took for all 3rd parties to abandon them. Somewhere around 16-18 million Vitas also made Sony quit the handheld business. I don’t think that’s enough and it also makes the door for Sony to easily siphon down that number very easy.
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I mean, scenarios are completely different, MS is third (maybe close third or second tied) actor in gaming, nowhere near the scale of 20 years ago trial.
Nintendo and Sony were - and are - wedded to console sales though.
Clearly GP subs are far more lucrative and there will always be a market for a console that delivers first party games day and date on a subscription service.
found the post, made 6 days ago
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I’ve pretty much accepted that this is happening, anyone in denial probably needs to move to the acceptance phase.
That said, I own multiple platforms and am not much of a collector so doesn’t really affect me negatively in anyway. I’m here to see how the whole thing shakes out lol.
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I honestly don’t see why they would give up the Xbox ecosystem. Out of the 7 or so billion they made this quarter, 5 billion is from the Xbox ecosystem while the rest is from ABK. Not all of that is from Gamepass, and a lot of it is probably from third party microtransactions, their 30% cut from 3rd party games, Xbox live etc. it’s a huge chunk of their revenue, so I have a hard time believing MS would just abandoned that by going full third party( speculation of course).
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IMO, as soon as the first games start hitting the PlayStation, sooner or later all other games will too. It’s basically what Sony has been doing with PC. They started by releasing one game. Then two. Then three. At this point, we all know that sooner or later all Sony games will be on PC. I don’t know why people don’t apply this logic to Xbox as well.
To me this is basically what will happen if Xbox starts porting games to PS.
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Not every game is going to be on Game Pass. If the console 100% revolves around it then it’s just some weird secondary box where you play what’s on GP but otherwise invest in your libraries elsewhere. Maybe that’s good enough for Xbox, idk.
This thread inevitably moves from “a few games ported to” “all games ported” to “why even own a console”
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Every first party game is though? Isn’t that what we’re up in arms with here?
Third party support has arguably never been better either, with many coming to the service if not day in date then eventually.
Being a capitalist corp, their idea would be to have everything. The money they already make from Xbox consoles already plus money from sales on other platforms. I don’t know if it makes sense in the real world and long term, but that’s how a lot of corporate thinking is, to have it ALL.
This is where I’m at, they are not gonna stop at just 2 games going multiplat, they are slowly trying to wean its fanbase from console exclusivity. It is what is, I’m saving up for a PC so it’s whatever.
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This fits perfectly into the case by case basis and philosophy of what is and isn’t worth being exclusive in the image I’ve posted multiple times.
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I agree, but MS executives will eventually want everything multiplat cause it fits Satya’s vision of Microsoft. Will it succeed or not is the question.
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There’s a massive flaw on that image. Ideally you want many beloved exclusives on your platform. Not every exclusive is going to hit of course. On that image is Redfall in the exclusive section… That means every game in that section is going to have to try extra hard to not have that happen again while beloved games that are in the other sections will just get ported.
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That image is a little strange to me. SoT and FO76, with tens of millions of players and sales, are niche games?