@Pedro said:
@ni6htmare01 said:
To be fair, the topic is about Xbox not MS. I completely agreed with you that play anywhere is great for gamers. I do not need to buy xbox to play the games seems my PC is more powerful than the X1S, is a win win for both gamers and MS.. But for this topic is to make Xbox great again (not MS) they do need to make games for Xbox only!
That would not make sense for them to make XBox only games. It didn't make sense for the Orig Xbox and Xbox 360. It took them over a decade to realize that such a direction is nonsensical when they span across two platforms to which they have strong influence over the development of games and how they are developed. Xbox is PC and consoles. That is what the brand is now and making exclusives will not only undermine that direction but would be counterproductive to the company as a whole vision. The future is unifying platforms not segregating.
I think it's you the point is flying past. Do you think MS just realized hey, why are we making a xbox console when we "span across two platforms to which we have strong influence"? Xbox was born of fear that sony would rule the living room space uncontested, and they saw PCs moving into the living room space. They failed at their objective to compete with sony with the original xbox, and they succeeded at competing with sony as they took away console market share with the 360. They are/were losing bad against sony with the xbox one due to their blunders and don matrick vision for the console (kinect, tv and reliance on 3rd party devs). They are loosing so bad, they've all but given up and are retreating from the console space.
If MS was successful with xbox one, they would not have let their biggest games go on PC. that move is to try and have the big games sell to a larger audience as the small install base of xbox one isn't large enough for the big games to thrive profit wise. don't forget xbox one user base is probably what half of PS4s?
The original post is not talking about microsoft in their entirety with products like surface, office windows. and it's not talking about xbox as a brand or service like xbox live or game pass. what can microsoft do to help the xbox one console. And the console as it competes/ compares to PS4 is a lost cause. And I like xbox. I've spent more time on xbox this gen than ps4. but i have to admit it. Without exclusives games you odn't have much to drive your console install base. and small console base, a la dreamcast, wii u are failures. nintendo and sega didn't have PC space to fall back on and save face tho, but microsoft does and that is exactly what they did.
Do you think the ps4 would have sold so many units if sony easily ported uncharted, spider man, last of us, horizon, gran turismo, god of war, last guardian, ratchet and clank, crash, etc to the pc? Sure you can play third party games on pc or xbox, but if you want to play those very same 3rd party games AND all the cool and interesting looking sony games the one way is to BUY A PS4. Do you disagree that is an advantageous situation for PS4? I feel for microsoft tho, they did try. at one point it was like if you want to play 3rd party games AND cool titles like quantum break, sunset overdrive, halo, gears, ori, etc you'd need an xbox. but that isn't the case anymore.
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