The fact that yall just ignore that MS is the big dog in the room of the 3 is hilarious. When yall start talking about numbers this and numbers that and how MS is losing.
I just have to laugh, it’s like laughing at the billionaire that’s been casually playing poker with millionaires. The millionaire knows a lot of the tells of the others at the table but he’s still just a millionaire. While they are playing the game with the same rules, they
aren’t playing with the same cares, concerns constrictions, metrics or numbers.
Yall keep talking about sales this and that, and like you said at one point MS leaned into that. Now, not so much so, their goal is not the same as sonys or nintendos now. They can afford to lose money if it makes them more money or strengthen their brand in the long run. You think that MS would have done day and date games on PC and console if they did have a larger goal?
Moving console hardware while very important currently isn’t the end all be all for MS, they still have at least a year or 3 of really rocky waters when it comes to balancing sub pricing, hardware and software options, functionality and “play anywhere”
What yall are concerned about changes with the wind. One month it’s games, the next it’s devs, the next it’s sales, the next its review scores, the next its game preservations, the next is price, the next it’s the consolidation of the industry…rinse and repeat.
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