lol come on man. !But But he started it! is an excuse my kids use when they get in trouble. Doesnt matter if Sony was paying for timed exclusives. So was MS. What the hell do you think Titanfall was before Phil went out an bought out the entire lifetime exclusivity? We had Vince Zempalla himself saying the PS4 version would be out soon and Boom, Phil went and locked it up out of spite. Then he got Tomb Raider. Who do you think started the whole trend of timed exclusivity for map packs?
You asked for games, and I told you why they bought a publisher. You clearly demonstrating that here. Timed exclusive is the big reason, why they bought a publisher, instead of small developer.
That is just business. Timed exclusives have been around forever. You have to ask yourself why Phil had $3.5 billion to spend on fucking Minecraft instead of making sure Sony doesnt outbid them for FF7. That is around the time the game was announced. You have to ask just why did Phil let Ghostwire and Deathloop become PS exclusives? Did MS not have a few million to keep it multiplatform? Deathloop probably cost Sony $50 million max. It's no FF7 $100 million exclusive.
Timed exclusive acts as enticing offer for your console. Why do you Sony is doing all these timed exclusives? Because their 1st party games can't cover the entire year. They only had 2 games last year. Without timed exclusive, Sony can't make their console enticing to gamers. Because their 1st party can't pump out games nonstop.
So why is it that Phil who is making $150 million a month from Gamepass alone back in 2020 couldnt match Sony's offer? MS literally makes $40 billion in profits every year. They should never be getting outbid for these shitty exclusives.
You are talking to xbox one. Same thing as how devs didn't like the ps3. Money doesn't give you timed exclusives, especially square games. Last time MS did that, they got inferior game from them.
You need leverage. Sony has ps4, while MS doesn't have those numbers.
Unless you want MS to spend $500m on timed exclusive like ff7r.
I was an xbox one owner on Day one. Bought an x1x just a few months after launch. And MS after the first year pretty much phoned in the entire generation. Great start with Ryse, Titanfall, Forza and Sunset. Abysmal after that. 1-2 games a year and then skipping entire years is not it. He had 7 years to prepare for next gen and launched with no exclusives. Took forza and Halo 1 year to come out and they were cross gen. And now he's had to spend $78 billion to get more content. Content that was already coming to xbox
You dont games without devs. Devs makes you games. Small devs don't give you alot of games.
If MS focuses on other games, their studio's would be like bethesda. Look at bethesda. Skyrim 2011. F04 2014. Starfield 2022. ES6 2025. FO5 ????.
Also MS needed full rebuild. Acquisition talk takes 1-2 year. Bethesda Acquisition talk was from 2018. And they got bought in 2020.
They had to have road map, and fix the xbox one console. They made xbox one S, then xbox one x.
Even if Phil bought studios in 2014, it will take them until 2018-2019 to see a game. Since games take time to make. Add that, with acquisition talk, and your games is slated in 2020-2021.
Things don't grow from a tree.
Don Matrick launched with a gorgeous looking Forza, Dead Rising 3 with massive crowds, incredible looking Ryse, a genre defining game in Titanfall and a memorable Sunset Overdrive. He also had Coalition games making a new IP, Lionhead making Fable, and signed Platinum to make a new IP. The man might have been responsible for tv and kinect, but he brought the next gen games too. Something Phil didnt after 7 years as head of Xbox. By the time, Starfield comes out, we wouldve gone two years without a next gen only exclusive on xbox.
He neglected 1st party studios, and drove the xbox to the ground during xbox one. He never even invested on 1st party studios.
What stupid CEO does have 5 studios making games for his console? Even Nintendo had more studios, than his stupid ass shit.
Phil took xbox from 5 devs, to 31 devs now. That is what CEO does. He lays the foundation for the future. Not just the current one.
Xbox can now pump out 5 games a year, without timed exclusives easily after this.
It's great that Satya is bailing him out with $80 billion, but you shouldnt need $80 billion to make some next gen games.
You need money to invest in. How do you think Playstation does business? Do you think they get these equipments from fairytale land?
Every department of Sony helps the Playstation gaming division. They even got spiderman and wolverine, because of Sony. SIE wouldn't have that much success during ps4 era, without Sony other division's.
Xbox is doing the same. Unlike Sony, MS doesn't have the resources Sony does. So they need to spend money.
I honestly give up. You can’t really understand the concept of a game being available only through subscription (only on PS, that would be agreement, duh). You’re struggling with simple concepts. It’s pointless to keep taking further.
