Sony gave them the freedom to do multiplatform releases and gained experience with gaming as a service for their other internal studios. Sony also has a proven history in cultivating and working with gaming developers to achieve their visions. MS is horribly horribly bad at managing content/artists like that. It's just not one of their core competencies.
Hum...Playstation is a Japanese company.
With Gamepass, bundles make less sense than ever.
Umm, based in MSs own reporting that showed a reduction in revenue from console sales.
Their sales are slowing dramatically and they are at approx 20 million units sold. That's not a good sign for a theoretical lifetime sales of 75 million.
Dude, I have the physical version o MCC and Forza I play since the Xbox360, so I already bought all of them. Most of the games offered by GP I already own and the rest I simply don’t have the time to flip through a number o indie games. For me, it isn’t worth to keep an active membership (I don’t know why I keep paying it since I don’t use it lol). The only benefit I can get from GP is when MS releases an AAA since it will be cheaper to subscribe to GP for 1 month and play said game. However, it’s been 2+ years without any major release, so…
I think that was a dig at americans level of knowledge geographically wise more than anything else, maybe a dig about how US centric xbox is though.
When did that happen? Source?
Must be Sony? Right? The best selling platform was Switch last 4-5 years.
Sony when offered to buy 343i…
Except Series X is not supply constrained. It's available almost everywhere.
Yep ....People don't seem to understand the nuance. You aren't barred from acquisitions only when you already are a monopoly. You are barred from them when you're attempting to gain or increase monopoly power through non competitive means.
Which is why MS keeps trying to acquire gaming properties. It isn't keeping competitive through innovative or attractive products but through its uber deep pockets. "isn't MS sypposed to be a monopoly?" plays beautifully to the partizan crowd.
A man can dream.
There is probably less than a handful of people at Bungie that are from the Halo days.
www.gamespot.com
www.gamepur.com
I always said from day one Sony would have been well ahead if it wasn't due to the pandemic and supply constraints. MS were very fortunate with this turn of events.
I say Nintendo was more fortunate, the switch dominated the market for nearly two years.
Why do you think MS doesn't have enough developers and studios to compete with Sony after buying Bethesda?
Sure, that's part of the why, but you make it seem like it's all because of localisation.
Remember just before the start of the gen and all the talk was about 12 teraflops and how Sony were screwed with genius XSS move?
I’ve said all along that Microsoft didn’t need PR boy Phil in charge. He’s done sweet fuck all to improve Xbox in any way whatsoever. The 360 was easily peak Xbox and they’ve gone downhill ever since. Not releasing games but instead focusing on a sub service is a massive downfall in my opinion.Clearly it's still this guy's fault...
Xbox is slightly more powerful (objectively by the math) when Sony has had the hardware advantage for 4 generations in a row, it’s a big deal when they don’t.
True. It's not just language localisation, but how they advertise globally, and AFAIK some eastern countries of Europe still don't have official Xbox presence. It's all part of the localisation. As for languages, it doesn't really make a system suitable for the whole family, if it doesn't support your local language, eventhough it's cheaper like XSS. It is what it is, as long as they're unwilling to make a change.
It's still sold out in many places and hasn't been in stock for awhile.
I’ve yet to see an open world game on the Xbox load as fast as Spider-Man MM.
Sony fans want Xbox to die. There is room for third place, and Xbox is happy there. Xbox’s biggest fear isn’t Sony, it’s apple/google/amazon potentially taking their spot.
True, but it’s too late for MS, I think. Playstation mindshare is far too strong in the EU.
That because PS5 SSD is 2x the Xbox
You really think they're satisfied with being in third place.
They're not trying to spend billions over 80 billion dollars just to remain in third place.
I didn't mean to actually give them a break.....it was a joke about americans and geography.
1) Calm down.
75 million?
The person I quoted didn’t think it made a difference.
The first article is about player count, not sales. (which is meaningless because the game launched on Game Pass)Forza Horizon 5 Breaks Xbox Records
The racing game has already reached 4.5 million people and it sets a launch record for Xbox Game Studios.
Forza Horizon 5, Shin Megami Tensei V broke franchise launch sales records in November
Both titles had a pretty successful month.
Google m8.
It's not about the SSD. Besides those loadings on PS5 have already being tested with a 2x slower SSD with no meaningful difference. On PC a 2x faster SSD also won't change the overall speed in most cases.
