I think the hybrid approach will come with a number of trade offs and ultimately it’ll be up to the user to determine whether it’s worth it or not. Since everyone places different value on different things.
If you look at the Switch, it is worse than a dedicated home console at being a home console (very low power) and worse than a dedicated portable console (low battery life) at being a portable console. However enough people were good with those sacrifices that it’s done very well.
Ultimately it sounds like Xbox is leaning into their own approach and they’ll probably lose some of the more rigid console only folks in the process. Playstation will likely be the only pure console around and that’s exciting to me because more variety will only expand the overall market.
That’s the thing, i think the suits at Microsoft are investing too much time on the future that it can actually hamper their present in a way i think some folks ignore and that’s both the current userbase, that while many see no issue for the time being but if more and more product are delivered in a shorten timeframe then folks will very well be right to question their investment in the ecosystem,as well as
trying to seek constant growth that is capitalism.
Honestly speaking, i very well expect to see not just a game crash in the next 2-5 years but overall on the entertainment industry because of all this constant growth that these suits are seeking will cause more harm than good.
My hope is that they will still offer a proper console next-gen, alongside the half measures we’ve seen rumors about.
I’m not interested in handhelds nor PC, and I don’t want any of those to impact my console experience.
Coupled with the possibility of PS simply having more games if Xbox ports everything over and whatever happens to third party support, and how it then doesn’t make much sense to own both consoles… Well, I would have to start doing the math on what makes financial sense to me.
Game Pass is nice but it’s getting more expensive and this might be the first year where it’s not a super good deal for me. So far this year I’ve had one game I would’ve bought day one (Hellblade 2, $50) on Game Pass. Another one would have been Avowed but that got pushed… And it’s about the day one games for me, games I would have purchased otherwise. The rest is just a bonus I take advantage of because I can, not a must.
I know people who have allready jumped ship because they feel Xbox is on the wrong path. I think that is very premature though, I’ll wait and see what comes next first. It might turn out great, we don’t know yet.
Dont care one iota about handhelds and what not. Hell it’s my number one beef with the Switch, it’s a home console for me, but not a very good one, wish it was.
During that one interview earlier this year Sarah Bond said it would be the biggest tech leap for Xbox, right? So hopefully that means power wise too. That’s all I ask, offer a powerful device to hook up to my TV and chances that Xbox remains my main console will be big. Anything else in terms of “gimmicks” or whatever is fine with me, as long as it’s optional.
It does seem like the handheld and next Xbox will be seperate devices and I am very fine with that. I can’t even remember when I used Switch as a handheld last. And yup, some reactions are definitely premature. I mean are you enjoying Series X? Stick with it, we’ll see what the future holds.
Yeah, they’ll definitely be different devices. I only brought up the Switch to show that a hybrid of any type (in Switch scenario, portable and home. In Xbox scenario, presumably console and PC) is going to have some sacrifices that push it out of the market of folks who require it to be on the extreme of either end of the capabilities.
When I say hybrid im not strictly talking home/portable hybrid, but anything that merged two usually distinct markets.
From what Sarah Bond has said they are working on a proper nextgen console. I would think their next console which I’m thinking will be a product that unifies their console, PC and Mobile platforms together. I also think it will mark and define the future for gaming. I really think Microsoft proper has a lot of aspirations on it and are betting big here.
Yeah, that’s the only annoying as shit thing about this. Ideally we’d get some of those games and they get ours. If only things worked that way. Nope, it’s Xbox doing all that.
I know we have to get used to all this but at times I just wish Xbox was doing incredibly well so that they didn’t feel the need to go this multiplatform route. Have strong exclusives such as Indy, no timed exclusive nonsense and just go hard at it versus their competition. Eventually exclusivity might die, but it doesn’t seem anywhere near close for Sony in regards to that.
He also said FF16 is coming to Xbox and that it was up to SE. But is it really? The latest interview with the dev doesn’t fill me with confidence that they are gearing up for a announcement, but who knows.
Jez speculated about Indy in his article too, it’s speculation, but still.
That’s fine. Remember FF7 Rebirth has a “three-month” timed exclusivity window on PS5? I am not surprised if the PS5 version launch is pushed to the second half of 2025 for some reasons.
Honestly, they should’ve just launched it same day on PS5. I think 3-6 month window is too short and doesn’t maximize on revenue because it misses out on hype cycle
It’s possible. What was said during the trial? Something something exclusive, but not really details if this was a full fledged exclusive.
It’s just that it would be a bit surprising, most of us here thought it would be older games at first and the big new games not being part of that, but it’s all speculation on our part. Who knows what goes on behind the scenes.