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If Xbox dies then expect the price of games to go way up. Having direct competition is a good thing.
If game journos have heard rumblings then that suggests it will be announced soon and not for games that are some years off.
When the last game (15) is on xbox and this one isnt then yeah, console warring will happen 100000%.
It's less the selling out and more the continued buy-in that I'm thinking about. If people continue to be jobless and the US government doesn't step in, the cash flow is growing to get more and more tight as time goes on. Especially once Christmas passes and people are already in the post-Christmas cash crunch.
this's always a good way of thinking about these kinda statements...
What is this...? Why?
Let's not act like MS doesn't have their own deals and exclusives....
Phil would be making every one of these deals if he could....
Haha yeah I cannot imagine a timed GTAVI exclusive this far out, but that would shake the ground beneath us.
FF16, especially after Square making strides to bring their catalog over to Xbox after all these years, would be so fucking stupid.
Better spent elsewhere. Eventually these games will come to Xbox anyway and Daddy Phil will have invested that saved money into first party exclusives and day one Game Pass games.
GTA by far.
After so many years of waiting, so many copies of GTA 5 sold.... man, I can't imagine the shitstorm
CoD would be very big too but I don't think anywhere near GTA levels.
FF16 would honestly not be that shocking.
why would they care about improving things when locking things down to your platform to force people over to it works just as well with less effort?
lol The irony is that a good portion of people on this forum aren't old enough to remember PS1-PS2 era Sony when they were just as ruthless. It's shocking to everyone because they've never seen this kind of aggression in the game industry, at least in their lifetimes.
We are the civilians in the last issue of Marvel's Civil War from 2006
Timed content? Or timed exclusivity for the entire game? Because that'll be one hell of a bad look for sony, people would rightfully be pissed.
Well... this is the company that made Rise of the Tomb Raider exclusive too.
Whatever these games turn out to be, and definitely all the Square Enix titles, they could actually grow an audience on other platforms if it weren't for this. It seems really short sighted too. Why spend all that money and time and effort developing your game only to then accept a check so that less people can enjoy it?
Also, it is much harder to do it when you're not the market leader.
Sony had a rough time in the PS3 gen like this, but they got through it by making a *lot* of unique content. Some of it was merely "ok", but it was something for their ecosystem and users. Then they hit the PS4 gen with a bunch of studios that were slick machines AND took over as market leader.
I don't understand what FF16 gets them. They already overwhelmingly outsell the competition in Asia and Japan especially with final fantasy. So why pay all that money to make it exclusive if it already primarily just sells on PlayStation anyway. That doesn't seem to fit the bill that people would be super shocked because the game is known as being multi platform. It's gotta be something else.
Seems like it. Stuff like this honestly makes me less excited about the upcoming gen.
It's a weird company. The whole final fantasy catalog is coming to game pass and so is DQ11
No one is dying lol just because FF16 is exclusive. MS will be fine! Sony survived TR exclusivety and MS will survive this one. It sucks that it is exclusive but no brand is going to die because of this.
I don't think it necessarily does. MS' priority is very clearly on GamePass. paying for timed exclusivity for a major AAA third party title AND paying to get said game on GamePass would likely be prohibitively too expensive to make it worth their while. I think securing GP content is probably the smarter play for their dollars.
MS doesn't have the same clout either. Especially compared to the 360-era. So they'd have to pay way more than Sony (which, by most indications, will be the continued market leader).
It doesn't necessarily mean that they don't want to - Matt confirmed they're "aggressively" pursuing similar deals... It's just not money they're willing to spend.
I hope they do what Sony did with the PS3:
Invest in their own games and try to set themselves apart.
That's what saved the PS3!
I don't want MS to go anywhere. We need competition!
GTA no doubt. The timed exclusive will be Final fantasy I reckon. The other two will just be too expensive to do especially GTA.
I don't see people being particularly pissed for Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo. Those games are first coming to PS5 and PC.
Yeah. I've seen no reason to buy a PS5 or an Xbox Series X at this point. Just shitty, shitty asshole moves from both companies that make me not want to support them or the games they're making the deals around.
I mean they have within the past year made a massive deal about bringing past games over to Xbox between Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. It would be a huge kick in the balls to fans to immediately trash all of the goodwill.
It's a little apples and oranges, but last year MS proudly announced all the dev teams/companies they went and bought. At the time I remember thinking "what is Sony going to do" and, well, here we are.
And expect the loss of like 1/3 of the industry in terms of jobs
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