Article by Patrick Klepek & Rob Zacny.
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They are thinking we’ll turn all of those PS users into gamepass customers. We will ship the next console as a cheap SBC with a gamepass subscription. They solve piracy, manufacturing and shipping costs and bend the customers over a barrell in one move.
Sony will be forced to do away with discs too to stay competitive. MS will be able to claim they are multiplatform in the face of the legal issues and that they are for preservation because they will have a select few titles.
The players will own nothing and the prices will eventually increase.
Do yourself a favor and horde as many roms as you can now. Support gog and steam as alternatives to gamepass.
If they believe the amount of people with reliable (!) broadband connections with good enough peering to their data centers is as big as the customer base owning an xbox, they might have an ugly awakening.
Most people will not move just to get a better latency that can still suffer from external influences. Waiting in a queue because the available machines in your nearest data center are all in use because it’s a holiday and everyone is gaming also gets old fast.
Vimm is :goat:
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This whole thing is so bizarre to me. People have complained endlessly over the years about game console exclusivity. I personally think it’s bad for the consumer.
And now that MS is talking about putting their experiences on other platforms, people are upset with them? That they’ve somehow lost their way, that the brand is dying?
Seriously, have I lost my mind? What’s going on?
And now that MS is talking about putting their experiences on other platforms, people are upset with them? That they’ve somehow lost their way, that the brand is dying?
Those people are “invested” in the xbox eco system I would assume
Yes. Basically, our investment is tanking and it sucks. If I could go back, I’d just have bought a PS5. Oh well. It’s better for everyone else I guess
Naw fam. I have an Xbox series X and game pass and I’m ecstatic to hear that Microsoft may be doing this. This will buy them the good will of all gamers and they know it. Fucking Chad move by MSFT if true.
I think he was referring to people angry or disappointed by Microsoft’s move
I don’t get this take. Good will doesn’t keep the platform alive. If you want Xbox to survive they need good exclusive games. Otherwise it’s already over. No one buys the hardware, and then no one buys gamepass. Sony is out selling 2:1 right now. Want to guess what that looks like if people can play everything on a PlayStation?
Nope. Just good games. Doesn’t have to be exclusive
I think it’s not the same people. People who complain about console exclusives generally aren’t the same people who buy into console war bullshit.
Yeah, in the long run this could be good for the industry.
That said, if I’d bought a series x on the promise of many years of high quality exclusives (a promise Xbox explicitly made) I would probably be a bit upset in the now…
It’s shaping up that a ps5 is gonna be just the flatly superior console, and Xbox owners will be stuck holding the bag
I’m only nervous that Microsoft will stop developing Xbox’s. If we’re eventually forced to move to a digital only system, I want some kind of guarantee that customers can always access the games they paid for. Otherwise I think sharing games with other consoles is a great idea as long as the added development doesn’t eat into the games overall quality
This one is simple! You see, they stop selling games to their customers. Instead, you can get monthly access to their catalogue of games. Then you don’t have to worry about owning them. Sometimes less (for you) is more (for them).
We’re upset because we would have just bought a PS5 if they were going to do this. Otherwise, I’m happy for the PS folks.
Personally, I prefer the Xbox platform over PlayStation’s. I’ve been on it so long that I’d hate to lose all my purchases and progress on everything.
I do too, but if you could go back a year or 2 and buy a PS5 knowing this would happen, wouldn’t you?
Not really. Don’t get me wrong, I’m jealous of the PS exclusives, but I’ve gotten more value out of Game Pass than I would have out of a PlayStation over those years.
Now if Game Pass ends up on PlayStation by some miracle, I’ll be jumping ship.
I find these kinds of articles fairly useless until Microsoft announces what their actual plans are. Until then we’re all just speculating based on one tweet from Phil Spencer and some unverified rumors.
It’s all about publishing something, even if it’s hollow click bait.
Insider trading
Xbox is a brand. It isn’t sentient at all, let alone capable of thought.
It’s common in English to refer to a collective like a company or government as though it were an individual. I think it’s just a simple short hand really.
Eg “The whitehouse said today…” We know that the whitehouse (a building) doesn’t have the power of speech and that really means “a whitehouse spokesperson working in an official capacity on behalf of the government said today”.
Really the headline should be something along the lines of “what, exactly, are Xbox business strategists thinking?” But because of the common knowledge of how this shorthand works they can just use the headline they did.
There’s probably a fancy linguistic name for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sure. It’s also pretty common as a joke format to respond to something one way when you know it was meant to be taken in a different way.
In English we used to call it the old switcheroo, but my comment is a pretty lame example of one.
Fair. It’s hard to know sometimes if someone has English as a first or second language. People can be really technically good, but then not understand more subtle cultural things.
Never know maybe both of our comments will help some people.
Agreed. I appreciate that you went in for the explanation, BTW. It’s nice to see helpful people on here.
Yeah. There’s no way they could have meant the team of people at Xbox. No way.
MS is thinking it helps their legal argument if the FTC comes sniffing around their 2k layoffs from Activision/Blizzard
