And all indications are that is exactly what they're not doing
Especially in EU. Xbox is doing bad like Wii U levels of bad..
[XboxEra] Microsoft plans Starfield & Hi-Fi Rush launch for PlayStation 5 (Tom Warren/Jeff Grub: Indiana Jones & Gears could come well)
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Especially in EU. Xbox is doing bad like Wii U levels of bad..
Beyond not acknowledging it, this probably the second worst thing they could possibly do.
Exactly.
Cod is only 2 years younger and CS a couple years older.
They have no one but themselves to blame for the state Halo
my only thinking is they wanna drop them all at the same time (or in batches) and wanna do it when they have a window with not much going on
at least thats what i was thinking a while ago, now im not so sure
i dont think is a matter of Nintendo destroying them, but everyone in general, they admitted that they have an outdated look on how the market operates.
Realistically speaking, none of the "big 3" are totally ready to keep up with the transformation of the AAA scene, specially with the new big players coming from China and Asia like Tencent, sure, now it feels like the market is like always was, but give it 5 years, things are going to get wild.
no way, they literally have King, COD and profit off of Minecraft or service games like SoT, their new studios make so much money it would be insane to categorize that as a failure.
Was a Sunday yesterday so that's a problem, and it's only 5.16am where Xbox HQ is right now.
Trying to make the Netflix model successful when game production is so much more expensive and the pool of customers isn't nearly as large felt like a Hail Mary.
They should do that just because I want to see if GFWL would blow up with the sudden traffic it gets
and also it'd be hilarious if Bloodborne was only on PS4+GFWL, just perfect for that game
While not inaccurate, I feel solely blaming the Saturn is an oversight when it comes to Sega. The Mega CD wasnt a runaway success and Sega shot their feet clean off with that garbage POS that was the Sega 32X. The Saturn was lackluster (outside of Japan) no doubt, but they made several bad moves BEFORE the Saturn which greatly contributed to their downfall... Its sad as the Saturn's Japanese library is legit amazing.
counter strike is king on pc
COD is king on consoles
Hallo plays nothing like COD and it only caters to a small population of players on console that are still into that style of FPS. It releasing on ps5 will probably make it a little more profitable but even with Sony's user base it won't return to the top spot for more than a week.
I think it would blow up literally, like a server in the middle of nowhere would just fucking explode
LOL. Who do you think has been leaking like a sieve to the insiders?
the netflix model and the spotify model for those two industries were "needed" because of piracy. there is virtually no piracy in the console business and consumers happily pay $70 for a game. always weird to me to force a subscription for that market. as a complementary service sure but for day 1 AAA games?
They might want to launch inline with Ubisoft so no regulators get upset
Honestly I doubt it. If that were the case they wouldn't have been so desperate trying to get the merger shutdown last year. That one early internal email though tells quite the story though in hindsight where they scoffed at the idea that such a massive purchase will work out for Microsoft in the long run.
People hyped up Microsoft's "Bottomless Warchest" for so long they kind of forgot that there actually has to be a return on that investment.
The big problem there is the endgoal was always to get more people to buy the Xbox itself and it wasn't panning out like Microsoft hoped.
Right.
Sony actively expanding their first party portfolio, releasing pro models, expanding remote play/cloud gaming, publishing on PC, pushing into China and other emerging markets.. these are signs that Sony is trying to build out their platforms to expand their business. Their motivation isn't to just take console market share away from Microsoft.
Their strategy doesn't fundamentally change with Xbox out of the picture.
Bad business decisions that affects consumers means that customers become disengaged. They spend less time gaming on PlayStation or on gaming in general. That's not what Sony wants.
Microsoft brought competition to the space. But folks that think Sony is going to become some runaway tyrant without a direct competing console fundamentally misunderstand the landscape here.
Their business isn't untouchable.
does he really tweet out affiliate links these days? wow.
Was he hinting about what is about to happen?
There are some appeals to corporate authority saying that the plan must make sense since Microsoft is a trillion dollar company and the people in charge ultimately know better than any of us. That may be true, but the company also signed off on the Xbox One reveal and thought it was the plan that made the most business sense at the time.
I don't think Xbox hardware riding on Gamepass and early access is going to survive the way they might think it will.
I don't think Xbox hardware riding on Gamepass and early access is going to survive the way they might think it will.
It will bring new technical innovations to a crawl as Sony will be able to completely dictate how the "high end" market moves.
Will be very sad if this comes to pass.
On the one hand this really highlights how important the recent acquisitions he fought for are. Without them, not sure Xbox survives this, period. At the very least they're on their way to being one of the biggest names in gaming, even if it's mostly services and publishing down the road.
On the other hand, if all of this is actually happening, a ton of people at MS are either going to lose jobs on the hardware and marketing side, or else they're going to have their projects dramatically shifted. Leadership on those teams would have known something about all this, but regular employees very well might be learning about this just as we are, which must be super anxiety producing.
I'm thinking it's because they aren't going to be coming to gamepass now. It's been so long.
Well yeah, but that IS a break from the Gamepass first strategy. People are twisting in knots trying to figure out how this is meant to grow games pass, and the truth is it isn't. They gave up. Gamepass will get what it gets, but they realized they aren't going to hit the massive growth they wanted with that product, so they're going after new avenues.
I mean they technically have zero competition right now if the competition just wants to dump all of their games on it because they have a failing platform.
Playstation is trying to earn your time and money. They will always be competing for that with other entertainment entities even if they have no apples to apples console competitor.
They have 80 billions worth of profits to generate before making any money on those. It'll take years before we have a clear picture on whether or not buying ActiBlizz was a success.
I don't understand. What difference does it make to you looking forward to them?. It would be great if Hellbalde 2 got a PS release seeing as the first game was on that platform. The more people who have a chance to play the better as far as I'm concerned, but I'm not a tribal platform warrior.
Mattrick hasn't been there in over ten years. At a certain point, we have to stop blaming him. Playstation recovered from the PS3 just fine, and that was almost as bad. Xbox is bad in certain areas such as localisation and marketing and that pc store that has nothing to do with Mattrick anymore. Mattrick can't be blamed for announcing games to early, or releasing Halo Infinite like it was, or Redfall.
Mattrick was shit, but he isn't the bogey man.
PS can't just do whatever they want. They have big competition from Nintendo and whatever the future of Xbox looks like. Gaming is becoming more and more popular. Just look at Netflix experiment with streamed games or on their mobile subscription. Apple is joining in.
People are acting like Xbox is the only reason Sony won't sell Playstation at $800, but guess what? They know they price consumers out at $70, but can justify it due to inflation costs. If you increase your price by 75% to 100%, people will drop you and go to something else!
Also big tech firms are often really bad at this
Meta with the Metaverse, Google with Stadia etc, both awful ideas everyone could see failing, this seems to be Microsofts magnum opus bad idea
And video streaming sub services are already rife with people losing money!
this is right now and it's fine. Xbox hasn't been serious competition since the 360 days.
yup. console gaming isn't like bread where they can just charge whatever now, they still have to make a good product that people want.
I wonder if some people actually play games to have fun anymore or they just do it to hear the coil whine of their choice of plastic console under their TV.
Yep, Xbox had plenty of time and money to "recover" and couldnt.
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