This is what Phil is up against and why he needs to play it smarter until they get closer to being on equal footing again. Rather than just straight up moneyhatting (which won’t work the same way for them), they need to take the Nintendo approach like Bayonetta
Approach 3rd parties about bringing back dead and dormant niche IPs.
I find these insiders continuously confirming this to be annoying. Cool, you have the same info. Tell us more. I hate this, but Sony knows Game Pass changes Xbox’s image and knows they can’t sit on their hands. Third party games are the system sellers. If Sony gets Call of Duty there is nothing Xbox can do to counter.
WB Games needs to be bought even if these first few titles are multi platform. If enough third party developers get in bed with Sony because they aren’t fans of Game Pass and how the value threatens their business model it will change the land scape. We could be looking at a world where you go Nintendo for exclusives, Xbox for Game Pass and Playstation for everything else. Microsoft needs to play offense here and make sure they aren’t getting blindsided to start a new generation.
we all know what xbox should do but the management is not doing it
I don’t know. Maybe they’re having more problems with BC than they’re letting on? Especially considering Microsoft’s incredible progress on this? I don’t know.
I can see SF6 and FF16 being timed exclusives as well as some western titles like like the next Bioshock, the Suicide Squad game etc. Basically, Sony plans to starve the Microsoft platform of major third party titles for 6 months to a year. Not to mention exclusive content. As it stands there isn’t really anything Microsoft can do to combat this…
I’m trying to see all that from another point of view. Sony obviously knows the good that Game Pass is doing right now in the industry, and they also see how Microsoft is expanding beyond just consoles, but also PC, mobiles and tablets. Microsoft just signed an important partnership with Samsung and SK Telecom to help promote xCloud, which is very important. By closing Mixer, they also signed a deal with Facebook that help them promote xCloud on Facebook and Instagram, with TikTok as a potential plateform too if the deal comes to pass.
All of that means that Microsoft, more than ever, is making big strides in expanding their ecosystem and their value well beyond simple console and game sales. There is a reason they are still very much into cross-gen and why Spencer literally said that if you don’t want to buy a Series X immediately, it is not a problem. They want to develop their ecosystem. If they release Lockhart, it is just gonna be an amazing value, along with Game Pass, and if there is one thing the majority of players like, it is not to have to buy too much. That’s why BC for games and accessories is also very important for them.
Sony, much like Microsoft because of the ongoing pandemic seems to have a quite difficult first year in terms of first party output. However, Sony still doesn’t have the offer equivalent to Game Pass as of right now. Also, they don’t have the reach to more gamers outside of consoles like MS can potentially have. Their communication around the PS5 shows that, the console is very much the main central point with a BC just limited to the PS4, limited BC for the accessories and controllers as well. They want you to buy a PS5, they don’t really talk about PS4 because they want you to focus only on the PS5. They are making progress in the PC space by starting to port some of their games there, but it still not enough. they are still at the beginning of things.
In that regard, with a less extended ecosystem and a focus on their main console to build this ecosystem, Sony wants as many people as people to buy the PS5 and have an adoption of the console as fast as possible. However, they cannot do that with not many 1st party games in 2021, and they don’t want to risk people to go to Xbox for their potential cheap entry into their ecosystem and Game Pass. That’s why, they are trying to moneyhat as many games as they can. However, I don’t think it is gonna hurt the Xbox brand that much, especially if the entry point is very cheap and the games that attracts the most gamers, especially multiplayer games and F2P games are still being released on Xbox.
Splinter Cell.
I could probably deal with a lot of these moneyhats just fine, but if a new splinter cell (especially if it had Michael Ironside) being timed exclusive to PS would be so disappointing. Ideally it would just be multiplatform, unless MS chipped in development costs and actually helped make it happen, than I’d be fine with it being exclusive.
The wording is interesting. As in Sony going for stuff that is usually associated with MS.
Lets look at the last 7 years and what MS has tried to associate with themselves. (third party by Publisher)
So take your pick, many of the above are big enough that I don’t see them being Timed for anyone.
I can confirm Street Fighter 6 will be Multiplatform
At this point it’s all wait and see. I’m seeing a lot of fluff and not much substance from people supposedly in the know.
FF aside seems no one is ballsy enough to point people in the right direction to what these supposed big games are. Not expecting 100% complete confirmation but ‘insiders’ are usually less coy than this…
Believe me I’m trying to find out.
Great news!
Since Xbox is my platform of choice I hope Phil locks down anything he possibly can. They’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t so at least keep your base happy.
So my suspicion Capcom is not really interested in timed exclusives is kinda right. Hell when they first showed Pragmata I highly expected this to be exclusive. Looked like the exact stuff Playstation would make. Turns out it’s a multiplat. Capcom likes to bring a VR mode into Playstation games so I could see that. Since Monster Hunter Capcom is doing very well.
If you ask me I could see potential Elders Scrolls 6 to be a candidate. Playstation must see the recent RPG focus on xbox side and to be blandly they don’t have something similar to strike against with. Avowed looks like it could be potential megahit.
And honestly Bethesda might be on the same side. Elder Scrolls and Fallout had always a kind monopoly as a first person deep RPG.
Obsidian and In Exile have the potential to take their crown and this would hurt them immensely.
Tho Bethesda has a big following on PC hence the mod community. IF a deal between sony and Bethesda will happen Scrolls HAS to come on PC as well and let the xbox in the dust.
And this is another problem people talk like xbox is a smaller platform. But is it? Every xbox exclusive launches on PC WITH steam and soon Xcloud. The potential market is huge and Sony is not up there yet. When these deals happen people tend to forget PC adds to xbox.
Neither COD or GTA I can’t see it happening. MAYBE a month at best but mostlikely some timed exclusive content.
Ubisoft? No way. They haven’t done any timed stuff since ever. AC and FC sells like gangbusters and they are still the biggest publisher on the planet. They are clearly not interested.
Square is all in.
Bungie has clearly some bad experience with any timed exclusivity. Reason why they teamed up with xbox and gamepass. (Those deals might happening more in the future outside of timed exclusive) Gamepass is the longtime goal.
EA hmm maybe the next Dragon Age? Battlefield no.
So yeah those are the big multiplat publisher. I left out some others like Bandai Namco and THQ Nordic. But those don’t really have some big franchise or anything that would shock people.
My prime candidates are Dragons Age and Elder Scrolls. Playstation clearly lacks RPGS and currently this is a massive genre. Xbox could turn into a gigantic RPG powerhouse and the signs are there.
What do you think?
I think it’s gonna be the next Bioshock.
Xbox is coming into this gen much stronger. Even if Sony is still the market leader and will more than likely come out of the PS5 gen the market leader, I think they want to leave no doubt. They’re spending a bunch of money to make sure the first few years of the PS5 is as attractive as possible.
No disrespect to Bioshock (one of my favourites) but do you expect this is big for casuals? Is this something people will buy a Playstation for? (Without the original story writer I have not much fate anyways)
It has to be something which makes Eyes open.
I’ll likely be playing on PC, regardless, but I would still be pretty perturbed if Sony were to grab Starfield console exclusivity. It’s my most anticipated game, right next to Dragon Age 4, and I want as many people as possible to have the chance to play it.
And, of course, the long and mutually beneficial relationship between Bethesda and Microsoft is something worth mentioning. Money talks, and I get that, but it would leave a bad taste in my mouth. Alas, it is out of my hands.