[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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We might only see the consequences next gen, but I'm certainly not ready for it.
Honestly this makes sense. It just does. If folk aren't going to buy a Xbox to play games, but their internal metrics say that they would if it was on PlayStation, then that is millions / billions left on the table.
If this feels like Xbox is losing, you're not thinking the big enough picture.
Edit - for example, I have a Series S, but I would have definitely bought Spiderman 2 last year for it. But I'm not going to drop £400 plus £70 on a console and game, those days are long gone. And the mainstream is this as well.
The strategy will be Day One on Game Pass on Xbox and PC, but later on PlayStation 5 (and Switch 2) for a full price buy.
If this feels like Xbox is losing, you're not thinking the big enough picture.
Edit - for example, I have a Series S, but I would have definitely bought Spiderman 2 last year for it. But I'm not going to drop £400 plus £70 on a console and game, those days are long gone. And the mainstream is this as well.
The strategy will be Day One on Game Pass on Xbox and PC, but later on PlayStation 5 (and Switch 2) for a full price buy.
Mark Cerny is still the system architect I'm sure so we're safe from a hardware point of view.
yeah the economics don't make much sense; what is the cut that nintendo needs to make gamepass make sense to them?
maybe Microsoft sees the possibility of doing limited game pass on other platforms and full game pass on xbox/pc so people decide to migrate or build xbox libraries despite being on sony/nintendo? don't if it will work or if the other console holders will allow it
Players are going to need to prepare themselves for the future where game consoles are joining the ranks of televisions and there's virtually very little difference between the two minus exclusive streaming platforms, maybe some hardware/software stuff like whatever the future is for DLSS or Dolby Vision and it's less about the games and more about the ecosystem. A relative flattening.
Is what it is. Nintendo will probably still be Nintendo though thats a real brand that was damn near close to being the "Band-Aid" or "Kleenex" of gaming where the name is synonymous with a product a lot of companies produce.
Is what it is. Nintendo will probably still be Nintendo though thats a real brand that was damn near close to being the "Band-Aid" or "Kleenex" of gaming where the name is synonymous with a product a lot of companies produce.
Godddddddamn!
I don't regret my Xbox purchase though as I can play these games day 1 on Gamepass. Great for PS owners
Let's actually see what happens in the next few weeks, it's far too early to call Xbox irrelevant as a hardware platform just yet. There's nothing to suggest if this is the entire portfolio and if new games will be day and date on other platforms, if anything this sounds more like Sony's PC strategy where they are launching months after initial console release.
Games are super expensive to make and them being in more platforms makes a lot of sense, especially given how big Microsoft has become in terms of development in later years.
Games are super expensive to make and them being in more platforms makes a lot of sense, especially given how big Microsoft has become in terms of development in later years.
I know, and I agree, but we're pretty much entering uncharted waters now.
The cost of AAA gaming is becoming unsustainable and we're already seeing Sony backtracking on their live service games push.
Right now they're ok and still thriving, but if we keep going in the same direction, I see it's possible for Sony to look for a way out of console hardware as well in the future.
today must have been the biggest media briefing of all time lmao
square: "wait we have to release games on steam now?"
Several months? Not even waiting for the full year? Is xbox era okay?
I genuinely think losing a platform will be catastrophic for the industry - and slam the accelerator down on a bunch of existing negative trends.
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