... And you don't think that has something to do with funding their development?
90% of my gaming time is ftp or under 5$ sales or emulators. I couldn't give 2 shits how many exclusives a console has because I won't play more then maybe 5 in a generation. I spend my money on mountain biking, family vacations and weed.
Its not baseless? Its based on an assumption you're making. Its just a bad as baseless lol. Do you have any facts about gamepass and its effects on game sales? How about the cost they incur from running gamepass? The sales of gp memberships? Dlc or game ad ons? How does it affect customer retention? You dont have a clue on any of these things im guessing so if we're gonna assume, lets assume that MS knows why they are investing more into it and not just make stuff up.
Sorry I see where I didn't explain the connection to your post. It made sense in my head haha
Really? The numbers seem to suggest that the attach rate for PS4 owners is higher than it is for PS2. The platform has more and better content than Xbox One:
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R? Selling full price software is much more lucrative than having a subscription service, and hoping that people pay for $90 editions of Halo Infinite. Which is why Sony and Nintendo continue to do it this way. If and when the numbers suggest otherwise they'll do their own versions of GamePass - only they'll have the advantage of owning stronger IPs and having better content.
Good job Sony? The hypocrisy regarding buying exclusives by Sony fans endlessly confuses me.https://www.resetera.com/threads/im...nown-multiplatform-games.263403/post-41934720
https://www.resetera.com/threads/im...nown-multiplatform-games.263403/post-41935788
If true, good job sony for going to bat for consumer of your products, I approve.
Really? The numbers seem to suggest that the attach rate for PS4 owners is higher than it is for PS2. The platform has more and better content than Xbox One:
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Nobody knows if GamePass can make bank at its current prices because you only make projections on how many people it will attract. Right now there are lot of gamers who are paying far below the standard price for access to it - and many of these have signed up to long-terms deals as low as $1 a month.
From the fact that Microsoft won't release the financials (same as it won't for hardware and software sales) we can surmise it's losing a significant sum of money on GamePass. Future success will be very dependent on selling hardware because I really don't see casuals on their phones and tablets making up the difference any time soon. That could be a real problem because the market research and sales patterns suggests that there is much less interest in Microsoft hardware than there is in Sony/Nintendo hardware.
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You know what they say about assuming
Playstation and Xbox have both done it in the past (and will continue to do so), people complaining about it won't change anything really (forums are a very vocal minority in the grand scheme of things).
Matt is a VERY known (vetted and proven right many MANY times) insider who posts... elsewhere (hint: uses some kind of an evil duck avatar) and no, I am not obliged to do the HW for you. I am sure you can connect the dots.
Working out the profitability of game pass is going to be very difficult, and definitely not something that we will be ever able to work out.
Depends which flag the insider is waving. Team Blue is fine, everything they say is to be believed as long as it's positive towards team blue. Anyone else? Nah.
Care to provide any examples of where Matt actually broke some new leaks/rumours and was right?
Ill tell you what I told the guy before your dumbass comment, I keep it 100. I dont care about money hats in fact I hope Phil "im a hypocrite" spencer gets off his ass to do something because they havent given me any incentive to buy a series x. Deals and games will make me willing to buy one.
MS is so brave
Last time I checked MS had a good handful of timed console launch exclusives on their show, stfu or keep it 100.Hate this kind of shit, no matter who does it. And of course its Sony doing it so most people are fine with it.
How about having the superior box? Superior services? If the install base is there games will naturally come to the platform.
Before the ps4 vs xbox one debacle power never won a generation, services? Nah im good I dont want a low budget netflix for gaming, ill take what sony is offering me with high quality AAA exclusives as well as timed deals and games for investing in their product, why fly coach when I can fly first class?
It's pretty clear from all your posting that unless they sell xbox to sony you'll never be buying a series X.
Watch out for them graphics on XBSX!!!... 12 TFLOPS baby!!! *looks @ Halo Infinite*
They need to give me quality games. This gen by xbox was trash, the future still looks like trash. They start showing me some good games, ill invest into their product.
If all you want is cinematic single player first party game then sure, it wasn't as good as Sonys output, but in terms of other categories of games they blew Sony away. As someone that could not care less about cinematic single player games but likes online multiplayer games, MS killed it this generation. Sony offered me literally nothing. Even a Killzone 2 or 3 remaster with MP would have made me buy a PS4 but alas I'm still waiting for a reason to buy one.
Ok big guy what did MS offer you that Sony didnt? Again MS had no quality bangers this gen, it doesnt need to be a "cinematic" experience like you said, its just needs to be good.
Yep help Sony get a monopoly so they can raise the ecosystem fee to 40 or 50%. Your thinking like a warrior. Any publisher under the Nintendo iron fist of the NES days knows how bad a monopoly is for publishers.
It wasn't wrong. It was 100% right.
Halo 5 MP was the best Halo MP to date. Absolute banger.
Yes that was obvious. The question is how long are they will to assume such significant losses.
Just because game pass isn’t profitable it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t make profit for the Xbox division.
Multiplayer/coop,these were roughly the offerings by sony this gen as they focus on better experiences that actually sell.Halo 5 MP was the best Halo MP to date. Absolute banger.
Quantum break......cinematic single player. That's not a online multiplayer game.
Ryse......same as above.
Sunset - spiderman is completely different. SO was fantastic though, multiplayer too.
Bleeding Edge - haven't played it yet, but I also doubt you have
Forza - ah so they don't count because you hate them? haha oh the irony. Horizon 2, 3, and 4 are 3 of the best racing games of all time. Forza 5, 6, and 7 especially are some of the best console sim racers of all time, especially 7.
Gears 4 and 5 were amazing online.
Halo MCC - absolute shitshow to start with, but is amazing now. Probably the game with the best support this entire generation.
Now what did Sony me, an MP player, offer that MS didn't? I hate cinematic single player games, so don't list any of those. Keen to see what your list looks like.
They would surely sell more digital games if it wasn't there. I bet the majority of gamers play a game on GamePass and never buy it. And they don't suddenly have more time to play games. There'll be a lot of games they try once and disregard without even considering buying dlc.
Bloodborne wasn't online multiplayer lol.
