Except those two can't play the last 20 years of Xbox games, and the Deck still doesn't offer a true console experience. And the docked experience on Deck is still pretty meh.
Honestly going off the COD Subreddit, id say that the older CODs remaining accessible and being all on Game Pass would convince some to switch just as much as new COD being on Game Pass day one.
Take this kind of poll with the most amount of salt you could possibly imagine as it's extremely far from actual market analysis, but I have to imagine the "I would switch to play COD on game pass" crowd is in the single digits if actually surveyed.
Just make good games. Invest in exclusives, whether timed or permanent. Enter in partnerships with studios to develop games for you, whether they're big or small.
It's not the demise of Xbox, but it'd be a waste of investment time and money. You gotta add another device for developers to port to, on top of both Series and the next-gen one. That's a mess for developers that already dread having to work with the Series S. And how would they get a playerbase outside of their current Xbox audience if they can't offer anything the Switch 2 or the Steam Deck has, given that PC ports are not gonna stop, and Project Latitude is a go? It just seems like they'd see Switch being successful while not understanding why Switch is selling like that.
But he never said that. He said that they wouldn't suddenly begin outselling the PS5 because of great exclusives. And i don't think that's far fetched.
I agree about exclusivity, but they've permanently damaged the idea that any Xbox game can believed to be truly exclusive. Even if they want to, and I don't think they do, it'll be many years before anyone takes Microsoft at face value if they say a game is Xbox exclusive.
Then it's too late already.
If he never tries, then how would he know? Every year so far for Xbox Series has been filled with 'buts' and unforced errors. Has there been a year where it's been "wow, what a great year for the platform"? 2021 was the closest to it with Forza Horizon 5 and a great E3 showing, even if the first half was still empty, and then the Halo release started to fall immediately because of the lack of content (a shame, because it's the best one gameplay-wise!) followed by a completely empty year in 2022 until Obsidian released 2 small games in the last quarter.
I agree with everything here. I don't think they would surpass PS5, but i do think they could get a really solid playerbase. My point is mainly that i don't think he is wrong that they would not "win" a console war anymore. Alas, corporations aren't really patient beasts - people point out that they tried and "it didn't work out" but they really only got budget and began investing in 2019 and with games taking 4/5 years to make now... Yeah, it sucks.
This guy is a legend, every Darl Souls game I have followed him through lol
Yeah, i understand that too, especially since consoles seem to have hit a ceiling which is not good at ALL considering rising dev costs. We'll see what happens.
Arkane Austin and Tango didn't even have time to make their own projects under Microsoft, they had enough time to finish what they were already doing before the axe came down for things that weren't even their fault. It's insane and I'll never understand the closures when MS is such a rich company.
They just want bigger profit margins. It's why everyone is doing layoffs - i think the only company (from the big publishers) that was actually in debt and bleeding money was Embracer. And even that one didn't have much reasons to do layoffs.
I mean it's fairly easy to understand. Microsoft decided Tango and Arkane Austin were unlikely to make the return on investment they wanted vs the opportunity cost of allowing them that chance. So they shuttered them.
I think Microsoft can make a better handheld than Valve at the same price. And I don't really understand the "but Switch and Deck exists". If I mostly play on Xbox I will rather buy a handheld that can play my existing library on the same ecosystem. Just like people who mainly play on Steam will likely stick with Steam Deck.
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I agree with this post.
Ha I had checked out of games for alot of the Xbox one generation, I only came back with the Xbox series x. Only really been back for the Phil era :/
BG3 wasn't even skipping Xbox due to the Series S. If co-op parity was the problem, they got that waived months prior to its actual release. If it was ready and that was the only thing holding it back, they could've released it sooner. But they just waited until TGA to release it and prioritized other platforms sequentially (PC, then PS5, then Xbox).
Yeah we can't really give the Series S grief when the PS4 is still getting games and it's literally a generation behind. The only thing holding this gen back is greed.
No that's why i said slightly. the dude that you hear narrate all the lore appears in the reflection pool and speaks to senua for a moment or something. Its very minor
It unlocks a small scene regarding Druth's truth (lol).
For sure. I was talking about Sony's exclusive pipeline though, not Team Ninja. Rise of the Ronin was 7 years in development (per Team Ninja) with help from Playstation. These kind of projects happen because doesn't Sony wake up and say hmmmmmm what if we stopped greenlight new projects - hence Xbox's predicament with games and why so many of them took so long (only began development in 2018/2019 or later)
