"At launch, we've heard there won't be any "Xbox Scarlett"-exclusive games for years"

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With the direction Microsoft is going, why even be a console manufacturer at all?
Cause it’s just another avenue to get people into their ecosystem.

Sony or Microsoft don’t make money off hardware. It used to be that the more consoles you sell, the more money you make. But with gaming being on everything from watches to beastly PC rigs it no longer makes sense to hold your games hostage on any one platform.
 

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This is a stupid comparison. Cause you acting like if tlou was a launch title and not on ps3 it would look like the bottom gifs. It’s definitely wouldn’t look that good.

It took them like 7 years into the gen to master it to look like that.

Most launch titles are trash that nobody cares about long term
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Um, it's not a stupid comparison. You saying that like games that came out in the beginning of the gen were bad looking. Let me refresh your memory:

This is from Driveclub, a 2014 game.



The Order 1886 came out in Feb 2015, barely a year after launch.
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The Order 1886 is already 4 years old and it's still among the top tier graphics this gen. It looks leaps and bounds better than TLOU on PS3 or any game.


Show me a PS3 game that looks as good?


Y'all just don't want to admit anything that would seem like an L :mjlol:.

Cross gen games potentially hold games back in several ways and not just graphical.
 
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Cause it’s just another avenue to get people into their ecosystem.

Sony or Microsoft don’t make money off hardware. It used to be that the more consoles you sell, the more money you make. But with gaming being on everything from watches to beastly PC rigs it no longer makes sense to hold your games hostage on any one platform.
:mindblown:

Sony actually HAS been making profit off of the PS4 hardware. What in god's green earth are you even typing?

This was known YEARS ago.

The PlayStation 4 is already profitable for Sony on a hardware unit basis, president and CEO Kazuo Hirai announced during its corporate strategy meeting this week.

"It's been a hugely successful launch, but the key to the long term success of the platform lies in how solidly we can continue to grow the installed base," Hirai said. "In terms of game titles for PS4, as of April 13, 47 titles had been launched with a total of 20.5 million units being sold via retailers and over the network on the PlayStation Store. From a profitability perspective, PS4 is also already contributing profit on a hardware unit basis, establishing a very different business framework from that of previous platform businesses."
Sony CEO Kaz Hirai says PS4 is already profitable

:dead: You guys will say anything.
 

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Why not?

shyts different in 2019.

Even Sony is putting their games on PC.


Why the hell should/would they leave money on the table by not putting their games where the gamers are?

Why the hell wouldn’t you want your PS4 to have a longer life?
Sony is NOT putting "their" games on PC.

Not a single Sony Interactive Studio 1st party title is running on or released on PC.

Detroit and Heavy Rain aren't Sony 1st party developers. Unless something completely changes in the future, there is no Sony 1st party game available for PC.
 

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Sony is NOT putting "their" games on PC.

Not a single Sony Interactive Studio 1st party title is running on or released on PC.

Detroit and Heavy Rain aren't Sony 1st party developers. Unless something completely changes in the future, there is no Sony 1st party game available for PC.
They own the IPs
 

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:mindblown:

Sony actually HAS been making profit off of the PS4 hardware. What in god's green earth are you even typing?

This was known YEARS ago.

Sony CEO Kaz Hirai says PS4 is already profitable

:dead: You guys will say anything.

At launch it was estimated they were making maybe ~$10 per console sold.

Selling consoles is not the main driver of profit anymore.
:mindblown:

Sony actually HAS been making profit off of the PS4 hardware. What in god's green earth are you even typing?

This was known YEARS ago.

Sony CEO Kaz Hirai says PS4 is already profitable

:dead: You guys will say anything.
:comeon:

Sony To Take A Loss On PlayStation 4 Sales
 

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how you going to post a link to something that's eight months OLDER than mines as a rebuttal?:mindblown:


:mindblown::mindblown::mindblown::mindblown::mindblown::mindblown::mindblown:
Cause that’s how it works. At launch they don’t make any or may even take a loss, then as time goes on they start to make a bit but still console sales are not the profit driver. It’s software and services.
 

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Cause that’s how it works. At launch they don’t make any or may even take a loss, then as time goes on they start to make a bit but still console sales are not the profit driver. It’s software and services.
Do Xbox consoles get sold at a profit in 2019?:troll:

It took PS4 less than 6 months to be profitable

How is the green side doing over there?
 

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Cause that’s how it works. At launch they don’t make any or may even take a loss, then as time goes on they start to make a bit but still console sales are not the profit driver. It’s software and services.
But the point is they're making profit off of the PS4 now meanwhile with the PS3 they were not.
 
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