But already with EA play they are loosing out on legacy titles and the Gamepass discount. EA games are cheapest on Xbox.
How many people play FIFA 2020 in 2021 and not FIFA 2021? It is literally one of the best selling games every year. Some people probably donāt even know that Xbox has FIFA either (not sure, but a lot of people just know that they can play on Playstation so whether they check other options is hard to say). For a lot of europeans, Playstation is like a default home console and Switch is the default handheld console.
Microsoft is trying to change the way people consume the games and maybe in USA they will succeed. Will be interesting to see what they will achieve in Europe. Other markets are also interesting - especially mobile first markets - where Microsoft does not even have presence or localization. I do hope Microsoft succeeds.
All in all, Microsoft have so many things they have to do right in order to succeed. And times waits for no one. Shortage helps them immensively though.
And PlayStation makes sure to always be in the spotlight even when they have no new games. They market the brand. Football is a good example where they have the Championās League marketing.
They also care about localization, which may not be important for all markets but extremely so for others.
Well Microsoft can always use machine translation /s
Yeah, it is crazy how ingrained Sony is the marketing of the most popular titles across the world. I am even surprised that Xbox retained NFL marketing though Xbox One was only āaliveā in USA.
GTA, COD, FIFAā¦You canāt go higher than that. Do they have some deal with Fortnite too? Not sure.
Theyāve had Fortnite bundles and exclusive Spiderman stuff before it was common at least.
They have extremely good marketing in general. They have it easy now too when PlayStation = Quality guarantee in peoples minds. Itās why Spartacus will dominate without being better or even equal to GP.
I still havenāt seen any indication that Spartacus is going to be anything more than PS Plus + PS Now. Even with more marketing, that isnāt going to become a runaway success.
Game Pass will be the exclusive home to games from the biggest publisher. It also includes games 6-12 months after release from the second biggest publisher.
Spartacus will likely be home to Sony first party games, indie titles, and better marketing.
Oh wow. I completely forgot about Spiderman.
I hear what you all are saying about marketing and default console. However Day1 Activision and Exclusive Bethesda with Fifa day1 discounts and every legacy title of EA, Activision, and Bethesda. At some point I just think people arent giving European gamers enough credit. Like how long will they over pay and miss out on WRPG exclusives? Even with zero Xbox marketing Im pretty sure European gamers will start to feel ripped off over in camp Playstation.
Well, Starfield will be a marker at that.
There are regional hits. Iād say Microsoft Flight Sim is the biggest console mover in Japan. Perhaps Europe will have an impossible to ignore Xbox game that changes the tide. Hopefully thats as soon as Starfield.
Was MFS a mover though?
I donāt think anything is a mover in this supply constrained environment
Yeah. Ironic that supply constraints kinda save Xbox, but at the same are doing nothing for Xbox and at the same are good for Microsoft.
It is pretty great that the hardest part of this generation for Xbox fans is figuring out how MS should present all their games/studios/projects. When ppl have to get real creative just to depict all the dev studios (let alone teams or games), that is pretty wild. Quite the turnaround!
Hey Tavis, how are you doing? Hope everything is ok. Just saw that video you posted about how MS just killed metasās metaverse and from the discourse Iāve seen around the internetā¦very little people understand how big MS wants to be.
Like, some xbox fans really dont understand how exited they should be now tha MS considers xbox a big part of their futute plans.
Just imagining the position and impact xbox will have in the industry if MS manage to get the metaverse stuff first/right nd get into apple/googleā¦dam, its baffling to see how people reduce this to just xbox vs ps.
Exiting times ahead indeed!
Itās Tavish (donāt forget the āhā).
And yeah, there are bigger things at play I think than the battle between consoles or even ecosystems. I wouldnāt even stop st saying Xbox will play a big role just in revolutionizing the industry (bc frankly it has been doing that for a long time now imho). Iād say it might become a central part of changing our culture since it likely will be key to MSās vision for the Metaverse. That video doesnāt dig enough into how MSās vision differs from Facebookās wrt VR. MS doesnāt seem to care much about VR and doesnāt seem to think VR is needed for a Metaverse.
Because itās a big problem outside NA. Here in South America I see 5 Playstation trailers for every Xbox trailer.
I donāt think Xbox marketing is as strong in NA as some of you guys think it is.
Well in USA it is certainly stronger than Europe. At least in USA you can see these commercial on TV during some football or whatever sports matches. I still have no idea what Microsoft is doing with their marketing departments. Does Windows division really put up roadblocks?
You would think they would put commercials everywhere telling about Game Pass and Day 1 games. So people could feel the presence of Xbox.