M$ ready to throw in the Towel and do xbox like that lil Italian man in Goodfellas

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It sucks that Microsoft isn’t trying to compete in the gaming space anymore. But the writings were on the wall with the Bethesda and Activision deal. It’s a good business move gamepass on Xbox platforms and sell physical and digital games on PlayStation and Nintendo switch.

It’s just not possible to spend that much money on major publishers to try to lock their games down to one small dying platform. Sure, cloud/pc, but at this point it’s fair to say they are mostly relying on pc for actual sales, they’ve completely cut off the console market with gamepass, a subscription service that isn’t growing


Stans don’t want to listen, there are major repercussions for continually losing marketshare generation after generation. Can’t handwave it away with “microsoft doesn’t care about selling consoles”, they do, and this is the result of not doing it. they have to open themselves up to more Dominate hardware just like their other software markets
 

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Who gives a fukk tho? They own ABK now and plenty of GAAS games. Who, honestly, is dumb enough to think those games or whatever else won't be put on everything that can play it?

Sony will eventually go this route, it's inevitable :yeshrug:. #allsystemsgang eats regardless :myman:
They already are slowly with the pc releases. I do think it will be awhile before we see day and date with Sony on pc releases.
 

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It’s just not possible to spend that much money on major publishers and try to lock their games down to one small dying platform. Sure, cloud/pc, but at this point it’s fair to say they are mostly relying on pc for actual sales, they’ve completely cut off the console market with gamepass, a subscription service that isn’t growing


Stans don’t want to listen, there are major repercussions for continually losing marketshare generation after generation. Can’t handwave it away with “microsoft doesn’t care about selling consoles” they do, and this is the result of not doing it. they have to open themselves up to more Dominate hardware
I agree they looking at all avenues to recoup. Which I don’t blame them at this point. They really going hard to be the Netflix of gaming
 

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They already are slowly with the pc releases. I do think it will be awhile before we see day and date with Sony on pc releases.
Right. Sony stans may not like Xbox's output...I know I couldn't care less about half of them on either system, but they've positioned themselves as best as possible with more money than god to burn.

It's interesting to see it all play out tho.
 

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The moment Nadella bushed Gameass growth as a trigger for his bonuses this shyt was on deck

 

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They already are slowly with the pc releases. I do think it will be awhile before we see day and date with Sony on pc releases.

Sony also have a lot more to lose by devaluing their primary platform, Playstation. They can try and get more money for each release in the long run but they are very cognizant that pc is a competing platform for consoles and can eat at their marketshare.

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Sony’s priority like Nintendo’s will always be console first, it’s their bread and butter. With Microsoft deprioritizing their hardware it only gives sony a bigger lane to snatch even more of their customers away.

The PS4 Pro was made because people were going from console to pc more and still are. It’s the same reason why the PS5 pro will come out, it’s to keep the gap between pc and console as small as possible so most users don’t completely switch over. Ive bee saying for years the day 1 pc thing will never happen for this reason, and thats why xbox will ultimate start to lose console sales but the covid numbers had these stans head gassed. Now here we are
 
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Microsoft: “We will port some games like Ori and minecraft on other systems” “Bethesda games will come to other platforms on a case by case basis” “We plan to put COD and other activision games on every platform possible” “we want people to play our games wherever they play games”

Sony stans: “they are lying, they are trying to buy up the industry and make everything exclusive so they can kill off competition from sony” “MONOPOLY MONOPLOY…..:damn:

Microsoft” continues to release some games on other platfoms.

Sony stans “OMG THEY ARE GOING THIRD PARTY” “XBOX IS DYING”


nikkas crazy :mjlol:
 

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Sony also have a lot more to lose by devaluing their primary platform, Playstation. They can try and get more money for each release in the long run but they are very cognizant that pc is a competing platform for consoles and can eat at their marketshare.

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Sony’s priority like Nintendo’s will always be console first, it’s their bread and butter. With Microsoft deprioritizing their hardware it only gives sony a bigger lane to snatch even more of their customers away.
Sony is not in a position like Nintendo though. They probably have the highest budget for all there games if we talking first party and triple A amongst the big three. Consoles only sell so much and they need to expand in some way to keep up with the budget of the games. Spider-Man 2 won’t take as long to release on pc like the first one did.

But that’s the best way for them for now console first.
 

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Sony is not in a position like Nintendo though. They probably have the highest budget for all there games if we talking first party and triple A amongst the big three. Consoles only sell so much and they need to expand in some way to keep up with the budget of the games. Spider-Man 2 won’t take as long to release on pc like the first one did.

But that’s the best way for them for now console first.

Sony make money from people spending on their storefront. They need people on their consoles to do that. They aren’t in the business of devaluing the product where people spend the most money. Spider-Man 2 on pc doesn’t make up for the money they get from selling it on ps5, along with the additional revenue people spend on PSN. They still have to pay steam 30% for every copy sold. They also have to deal with pirating on pc. The games on pc are not a huge cash cow for them. Its additional revenue

Nintendo makes money from their first party titles alone, sony makes money from how much people spend in their marketplace. On their console.
 

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Sony make money from people spending money in their storefront, they need people on their consoles to do that. They aren’t in the business of devaluing the product where people spend the most money.

Nintendo makes money from their first party titles alone, sony makes money from how much people spend in their marketplace. On their console.
I guarantee at some point we will see a store front on PC. Once they have the majority of the slate in PC format. At that point they could do day and date and make it exclusive without putting it on steam and release on PC.
 

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The PS4 Pro was made because people were going from console to pc more and still are. It’s the same reason why the PS5 pro will come out, it’s to keep the gap between pc and console as small as possible so most users don’t completely switch over. Ive bee saying for years the day 1 pc thing will never happen for this reason, and thats why xbox will ultimate start to lose console sales but the covid numbers had these stans head gassed. Now here we are
Sony's not doing that for no damn PC market, they doing that because there's higher margins on rereleasing every system and peripherals to Stans :mjlol:Yall will buy anything with a Playstation logo on it :heh:

No PC player cares about any pro or x version.
 
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