Spider-Man, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone are open world games.
Uncharted 4, The Last of Us Part II are third person action-adventure games
Wow, way to be perpetually offended to state the obvious. One can still argue anyway those are linear games since the story-based narrative events flow simply one way, there are not many if any branch paths in the story that can lead to a vast variety of endings.
Xbox fanboys such as yourself (don't deny it at this point, it's obvious)
Yep, such an Xbox fanboy I'm mainly playing SNES and PlayStation games this weekend. Maybe you are projecting yourself onto me and you just incessantly call other people Xbox fanboys out some guilt of being a giant shill yourself? Dunno, maybe go see a psychiatrist about it
try to make a blanket statement by saying they're all the same which they're clearly different. That would be like saying all Xbox games are the same because they're all First-Person action games and all their new studios would be making games just like that, too.
It wasn't a blanket statement; it was a general to-the-point statement since it was barely the focus of that post. The point there was, when most of these people who keep asking for MS to release "1P bangers" do so, they usually keep bringing up the sort of Sony games that fit that label more closely than others.
But here you are getting offended and triggered thinking I made the mention as a qualitative statement, like I was inferring one type of game is inherently better than the other. No, that's YOU reading into it because you have some bias against me picturing me as something I'm not. Go deal with that off the forum.
We know which games generally attract gamers and that's the big budget triple A releases. They're the ones that receive the biggest marketing budgets in an attempt to lure gamers into their ecosystem. That's what Xbox has been lacking over the past 5 years and they're still struggling out of the gate with the Xbox Series X|S when it comes to big heavy hitter titles.
So once again, suddenly 3P games magically don't count. Also maybe take a look at Sony's own software figures before making these claims while conveniently ignoring that 3P releases make up 83% of their own platform's software revenue and, uh, last I checked the vast majority of those are on Xbox as well.
You guys can never quantify what a "big budget AAA release" even is, you say this like it's a single type of game, in a single type of genre. But I can generally infer what you mean when you say it, which shows how limited that talking point really is. Also your statement here is chock full of hypocrisies and unintended ironies; "biggest marketing budgets" could also mean things you probably don't want to think they could mean, like access media privileges in return for early copies and free sway (this stuff happens in the movie industry all the time you would be naive to think it doesn't happen in gaming as well).
You are making a very selfish argument because truth be told there are many other things that draw people into a gaming ecosystem outside of just 1P AAA games; I mentioned a lot of those and while it's debatable if PS5 is as good at some of those other things mentioned, nonetheless it does provide them which are also draws in and of themselves. You guys forever get caught in narrow-minded tunnel vision and you just end up recycling the same stale talking points over and over even with literal proof that those talking points either aren't true, or don't hold up in practice the way they do in your imagination.
Now leave me alone while I go have some time with my PlayStation (uh oh maybe I can't play that anymore since I just made a post that didn't completely kick Xbox in the balls and licked PlayStation's butthole
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When did that come to console?
It's coming this year? Oh and are we shifting the goalposts again to conveniently shut out PC when it comes to platform-holder 1P list wars that didn't specify console-only at first?
Xbox 360 pioneered online gaming in consoles and had a bigger library than ps3 multiplats even performed better on 360 but the lack of blockbuster exclusives like uncharted and god of war on ps3 was the reason the ps3 outsold the 360.
By a literal 3 million units. After Microsoft ceased 360 production earlier. And after Sony lost their biggest market in the USA to both Microsoft and Nintendo that generation.
You people act like it was a PS4/XBO situation with PS3/360. Absolutely not the case. One thing I will agree on is that MS dropped the ball on AAA exclusives at the tail-end of the 360's life, focusing on Kinect instead. Meanwhile during that same time window Sony pushed out arguably their biggest 1P release that gen in TLOU, all of which helped build back up rapport that PS4 benefited from.
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prior to that? They had plenty of AAA exclusives both from 1P and 3P (the Mass Effect games for example never even came to the PS3), let's not pretend they had no big games for that entire generation.
And now with ps5 theres more playstation blockbusters coming, and with the dialsense to which i think is very enjoyable. The series x will be outsold unless they do something about it.
Depends on what you consider a "blockbuster". Is it in reviews? Sales? Userbase sentiments? Demon's Souls Remake is a great game but is not a major seller at all, does that mean it's suddenly a failure? As for Xbox, they have several noteworthy games coming this year starting very soon, I wouldn't worry much on that front.
I don't think Dualsense in the grand scheme of things makes much of an impact, if they really feel a need to bring similar they can just release a new controller and start to package that in as the default with new SKU revisions. But in the same breath, one could say Sony needs to do something to match certain Series features like Quick Resume (or let alone allowing M.2 SSD installation in the PS5 which...still isn't here, yet).
Theres no emptions here its just facts. Gamepass is fantastic and makes me wish i had a series x for multiplats but then again ill build a pc for that not that i dont want the xbox its because gamepass is on pc aswell and i can comtinue with my app development, game development projects.
Cool, well in either case if you go Series or go PC, MS just wants people in the ecosystem of which both are a part of. Side note though, GP on PC isn't 100% the same as GP on Xbox; for example Outriders is not on GamePass PC, and there are other variations in title availability as well. Features like FPS Boost, IIRC, are also not present on the PC version of GP (or at least not as much).
Hit 2 birds with one stone. So for that reason gamepass will run out of gas as a reason for people to purchase a series x. The xbox needs blockbusters and its not the consoles reason its the management.
The management that's been keenly aware of prior failures under different heads running the division including when Microsoft as a whole were looking for reasons to cut the division's budgets during the 2015-2017 period, and have been working to try fixing things since Phil took over and they began acquisitions in 2018?
I agree in a sense that GamePass alone can't sell the platform long-term, as ultimately a service is nothing without its content. But I vehemently disagree with people who continue to pretend GamePass has no games or only mediocre games (even though the vast majority of its games are 80 MC or higher and the software itself is highly curated, i.e there's no equivalent to Black Tiger (PSN Store) on GamePass), or that the 1P content won't eventually arrive, including the heavy-hitting software.
All signs point to that content coming; simply having a basic understanding of probability and statistics, there is a good probably at least SOME of the teams they have as 1P now will deliver the type of "AAA bangers" to shut some of the doubters up, due to the sheer volume of teams they now have. I personally would say that is a likelihood for the majority of their teams actually, even if I have doubts with one in particular (343i; Infinite's shown improvements but I'm still waiting for the next gameplay reveal).
Overall, Xbox will have a lot of strong reasons outside of GamePass to justify itself to customers at large, I don't see that as a point worth worrying about.