@just1mohr: Yea and that is kind of the point he is making. The total sales market hasn't changed in like 20 years, the only thing that has changed has been the marketshare that each console has of that total market.
Basically new customers coming in are not outweighing the customers leaving the console market entirely, hence the no growth remark. The market has simply been replacing existing customers or shifting them around, its not growing.
Its stagnant and all 3 console manufacturers have admitted as much, Sony as recently as one of their last investor calls when they were asked why they are expanding more into PC. Pretty sure Spencer even said it way back when this generation started as well.
@lewst2k1: He isn’t talking about just Xbox though or individual console sales.
He is referring to the total number of ALL consoles sold within a generation. That number hasn’t changed for several generations now, it’s just been sitting around 150-200M total units or so for like 15-20 years.
That 150-200 million or so has been divided between the consoles differently over each generation, but the total still remains quite steady. that’s the number he is referring to about having no growth. For generations now the big 3 have just been fighting for a share of the same 150-200M.
Sony and Nintendo are obviously growing their share of the market by taking it from Xbox but the market as a whole has been pretty stagnant for a while now. Even Sony themselves admitted the market was stagnant when they explained why they started releasing things on PC.
@boobytrap: He isn’t referring to just Xbox though. He is talking about the console market as a whole (which obviously includes PS5 and Switch). The console market for the past few generations has not grown at all, its hovers around the 150-200M (or whatever the exact number is) total units per generation which is divided up between the different consoles. That‘s the number he is talking about, that’s the number that isn’t increasing each generation. There is no growth, rather all that’s been happening for about 3 generations now is that new users come in and replace old ones.
@boobytrap: I never said the game wasn’t different. But trying to claim they copy/pasted when the official patch notes list Sharp and Soft as well is just silly when clearly the fault lies with SE using 2 different terms and from a graphical point the 2 terms basically mean the same thing anyway.
These players are just missing out on the hilarious fun of failing a stratagem code while being chased by dozens of enemies and having your friends laugh at you, or managing to enter the code and die after you throw it or even before you throw it. Some people are just taking this game way too seriously with things like this and kicking non-meta loadouts. Its ok to fail and honestly this game is at its best when things go hilariously wrong.
@strrckshn: And yet my PC, Xbox and gamepass have done the bulk of my gaming in the last few years with some Switch exclusives thrown in. FFXVI has finally made me dust of my PS5 since it hasn't been turned on since I finished Horizon: FW over a year ago. There's more to which console someone plays besides triple A exclusives, the attach rate of most exclusives tells you as much.
lol $25/month in Australia... absolutely no thanks, Ultimate only costs me $16 and its got vastly superior options.
I can buy the gold versions 2-3 months after launch for that price and Ubisoft only have AC, Anno and Splinter Cell that are of any real interest to me anyway. Unless they start releasing more than 12 must play games per year, you would be foolish to pay this price over waiting 2-3 months and buying their games when they inevitably end up with 80% discounts.
They are also advertising it as discounted which is also illegal in Australia since the items are not available for individual sale and have never been sold at the full price before.
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