why not, most PCs are running on windows, so it makes sense for Microsoft to consider PC their platform even despite the fact that most games are sold on steam
It's partially that. They are fighting a console WAR, not a console battle. I have always been with Playstation and always preferred it, but Elder Scrolls 6 will almost certainly be game of the year whatever year it comes out, and if it is anything like the previous elder scrolls games (other than ESO) it will manage to be one of the largest games around until the next Elder Scrolls comes out, exclusively on PC and the next gen X-Box.
I also don't think Xbox cares about their consoles too much anymore they have stated they already lost the console war and are just focusing on selling games which is more profitable
Dude because Microsoft makes absolute bank from products surrounding gaming it doesn’t matter how much they make from Xbox alone. It’s simply to prevent either Sony or Nintendo from having a higher market share. Xbox games publishing is where the actual money is made, and wouldn’t you know they publish on 2 platforms compared to both Sony and Nintendo’s single platform.
The biggest problem with this is that for years the gaming community has been asking for companies to stop exclusives, to give players the freedom to enjoy games with whatever hardware they have avaliable. And now that one company is doing that, all they do is dunk on them for not hitting arbitrary sales figures like the other companies. Bro, like what the fuck do we want from them? Do we want them to cater to us, the consumer, or to their shareholders? Whatever your answer, stick with it and stop flip flopping like damn
not everyone in the gaming community is asking for exclusives to stop. The only thing people are asking for is to stopputting gamrs that weren’t exclusives to become exclusive
Exactly. Like bro the idea of exclusives is shit. You're basically saying you don't trust your console to sell consoles. You need a video games to sell your consoles because you're console is trash. Plus with the push for cross-platform you are limiting the ability to do cross-platform by making a game exclusive. That's why most of the exclusives are being moved to PlayStation now. Because cross-platform doesn't need anything if the other platforms don't have it. And they can advertise this as a power move because they say yeah we don't need exclusive video games to sell our console our console is just good. The thing is as gamers we need to now pressure Sony more to start making their shit not exclusive. And I think the PS5 pro is a good start point because this thing is so ridiculously expensive for no reason that it's basically a scam. Start buying xboxes instead.
@@WorstSpieler While I have heard people complaining about games that weren't exclusive becoming exclusive I've heard a much larger push to get rid of exclusives in general. They limit your market. Especially with cross-platform becoming more of a thing cross-platform literally doesn't work if it's not another platforms. More gamers want more games to be cross-plat so more games need to be non-exclusive. The biggest point against that is helldivers. Hell divers is a playstation exclusive. It's first game and second game are both playstation exclusive and yet there is such a big cry from the community to make it cross-platform. To supposedly bringing the ODSTs. People want more cross platform support therfore people want less exclusives.
Not at all, in fact, Gamepass is generating 0% profit, because its expensive to maintain and players just keep making new accounts to get Gamepass cheaper for like a dollar.
Nintendo is always the easiest to emulate I genuinely thank the nintentards for basically funding my nintendo gaming aince 2006 lol hahaha bunch of idiots paying 70 dollars for mobile level games
They don't need consoles, they run the pc market. Edit: Toxic ps5 fans wasting 700$ and getting shitty remasters and failing to acknowledge Windows in my replies
Jacob: Hey Nintendo, why aren't you releasing your Exclusives on PC????? This is why your company is dying! Jacob: Hey Microsoft, why are you releasing your Exclusives on PC?????? This is why your company is dying!
Both Nintendo and Microsoft are actually doing really well this generation. Just look at how many PC gamepass subscribers there. A lot of gamers usually wait for brand new games to come to gamepass. Mircrosoft and Sony sell their consoles at a loss too. And try to make profits with game sales. One of the reasons Nintendo likes to use weaker hardware is because they make profit of both hardware band software.
@@PhoenixKeebsthat’s what I do I don’t really buy games on Xbox anymore cuz I’ll wait for it to come to gamepass in a few months and a lot of good games are day one Xbox gamepass I didn’t even buy starfield, lies of p, Forza Motorsport, or heck even sea of thieves because they were on gamepass day one and I’ve logged 300+ hours on each of those games (maybe not startield) but without a doubt gamepass is best bang for buck it’s just 15 bucks and I can share it with people in my family with an Xbox they have to be operating at a loss
@@PhoenixKeebs Nintendo doesn't make money of selling hardware, they never did, selling consoles at loss was always THE strategy to sell this kind of hardware since the 80s, and it didn't changed, but Sony now tried to scam people with PS5 Pro which costs 400$ to build and sell it for 700$ and more, this will backfire drasticaly
Also Jacob: " Yeah XBOX is dying. But I gotta pay $10,000 and also that damn $100 to install Windows 12 on my PC! " Other Jacob: " Um Windows is also Microsoft whose XBOX.. " Jacob: * Surprised Pikachu Face *
Microsoft has said for years that the consoles were selling at a loss they essentially said fuck it and decided it doesn't matter because the ecosystem all connects now anyway cross compatibility and users on the games brings in more money than a few extra console sales
Most fps shooting games now are free so it draw morn people. When the game first came out most people will just wait for it on sale than buy it. In the end they still mark mad money cuz people own pc now day
Nobody likes playing on console anyway… everyone would much rather play on a PC. If it weren’t for the exclusives, everyone would switch to PC. Sony needs the exclusives to stay alive 😂
Nah, this method has been making them BANK with Game Pass, probably way more than they would selling consoles. EDIT: I started a small war in the replies.
@@Arthur76180Phil Spencer has repeatedly stated that the Xbox game pass is profitable. Granted, he’s the CEO of Microsoft so it would be in his best interest to say it is profitable but lying in front of investors is basically a big NO. “According to that data, revenue generated through Xbox Game Pass was $2.9bn in the fiscal period ending January 2021.” “Compared with Microsoft's total yearly Xbox revenue ($16.28bn), Game Pass made up roughly 18 percent. It was also nearly 30 percent of its games and services revenue ($12.581) for the same period.” -Ed Nightingale Deputy News Editor | Eurogamer Currently, the Xbox game pass is quite profitable from a revenue standpoint. Indeed, profit /= revenue but we can deduce from Spencer’s remarks and quotations from the Activision-Blizzard acquisition that the Xbox game pass is indeed making money. Would it be sustainable? If Microsoft becomes the sole corporation of the game subscription service then it would indeed be very lucrative. However, as with streaming, things might get messy or unsustainable but streaming services like Netflix still generate profit and sustain itself.
No, they do it to hurt Sony and Nintendo sales. The goal has been and always will be to push people towards buying more PCs where they make more money.
@bransonwalter5588 not really i mean shit there whole thing was getting out of the console market and they just took a big step by making ppl able to play Xbox without a console or a pc and even if they were pushing people to buy a pc it's not really a bad thing considering the other two companies at this point are down right scuzzy as hell
That’s not even corporate greed if you wait before you release YOUR game that YOU made late to other platforms they have to do that otherwise what’s the point that they make games if people don’t need to buy there consoles
@LinguineNoodle you guys don't seem to understand corporate greed, exclusives aren't corporate greed. Buying out other studios to boost your company is corporate greed, Microsoft
The day Nintendo games can be played on a Steam deck with better hardware, their consoles are dead. And when their consoles are dead, along with every other game company who stopped making exclusives, PC will have a monopoly and become insanely expensive. I still don't know why there are so many kids in the comments who don't know economics and what it means to run a friggin business
@@blackban4689lol Consoles biting the dust wouldn't make PCs more expensive. The competition that exists in the part section will continue to exist. And ,just like it is currently, prebuilts will only be competing against how convenient do you think it is versus building it yourself.
@@saddas1307 I WOULD have tried to elaborate further on the matter, but I feel like you wouldn't understand Edit: I just thought I'd give a little example. If the McDonald's in town has no Wendy's or KFC to compete with, everybody would flock to McD's. And when everyone rushes there, they'll eventually be able to raise the price, knowing that the customers won't have any other alternatives (this was a simple concept we were taught in 10th grade economics). And let's not forget that since most video games are made by studios who made deals with game companies, the lack of hardware to sell them on would just mean it would be better to market it to the platform that DOES support their games. The problem with removing exclusives is that it completely shifts the gaming market, making companies lose money and leading to workers getting laid off (something that everyone loves to complain about but never takes the time to think about)
To be honest.. Switch have like 10 exclusive games.. and 9 out of 10 are just recycled sh1t from old gens so.. Last gen Nintendo console died because third party didnt want to support it.
@@soffrenno actually it’s not the same thing because they literally aren’t focusing on console sales because that’s not where they make most of their money if you look at the money generated from Xbox gaming it’s up basically 25% from last year while PlayStation is only up 3% and if you look at that who do you think is really doing better and I don’t know about anymore but in April this year Microsoft had more best sellers on the PlayStation network than Sony did so they’re doing better even on the competitions platform
Thing is pretend as they might, PC is infinitely better than console. No subscription for online, the modding scene, and we have soo many exclusives that consoles just can't have. If you want to play competitive Esports games, you're almost forced to play on PC. And we get all the cool Indie stuff like Lethal Company and others. And for me as a CRPG fan PC is a must. Not to mention Most PC players are use to buying games at a much cheaper price due to steam and different platforms with sales.
@@TheeChalkfacts, I have all the consoles and PC will always be the best. Only reason I don’t go on pc much is because my setup sucks and I can’t afford to upgrade rn. But ye I can still run lethal company with under 100 mods. Also, content warning and phasmo is goated too.
@@SolarErazerdude no one cares about your little “console wars” It’s a fact that Microsoft bought many gaming studios for the sole purpose of releasing games to gamepass.
@@SolarErazer It's not cope. Why do they sell consoles? To sell games. They don't get any profit from selling consoles, many companies even sell them at a loss. If most xbox users are already on a Microsoft platform, why not take advantage of it?
Microsoft’s focus isn’t consoles anymore it’s getting their games on every device for example built into tvs, phones, iPads, computers, literally on everything consoles are in the past if they get it available on smart tvs then they are sent just like cloud gaming
Best example of this is that the absolute best selling game on PlayStation is call of duty, slightly under 60% of players on PlayStation buy the yearly release, this actually makes up an absolutely vital amount of revenue for PlayStation, call of duty is an Xbox first party game 😂, Xbox literally makes 70% of all revenue from call of duty sales on PlayStation, just the profits from the PlayStation sales of call of duty and its associated microtransactions alone are enough not only to continuously develop call of duty games but to actually bankroll every single game development from Xbox, they can literally have every single one of their games bomb and it would make no difference because just the PlayStation sales of call of duty are already enough to cover the development cost of all of them. Xbox effectively hijacked the PlayStation infrastructure and install base, and Playstation can't do anything about it because if they get rid of call of duty they get rid of over 50% of their players, this two companies are not playing the same game. Xbox lost the console war, but it won the corporate game. Hell this isn't even going into the fact that Microsoft literally owns the patents for the microchips used to build the PlayStation itself meaning that for literally every single console it builds PlayStation actually has to pay Microsoft, or that the entire online infrastructure of PlayStation runs on a Microsoft System and as such PlayStation literally has to make enormous monthly payments to Microsoft. Sony and Microsoft are not equals, hell Xbox and PlayStation aren't even equals anymore, for Microsoft Xbox is a small subsidiary that has in the last 2 years become fabulously profitable, it's still no more than a fraction of a fraction of the company's revenue, the entire gaming industry would be nothing more than a fraction of just their military contracts alone for example, for Sony PlayStation is at least 90% of their company.
@@anarchyandempires5452 glaze is crazy 💀 Also source? And uhh microchips ? What kind of bs is that and wth does it have to do with "online infrastructure" Sony runs their consoles with modified Unix Oh and also Sony benefits more from keeping cod Microsoft was only stopped because of the court deals they aren't short of cash they would rather lose revenue for market dominance which they scramble to get
@@Iandar1 Consoles sales don't even make up most of the earnings Sony makes. It's quite literally the games that make up 90% of their revenue on consoles. So your point does not matter in the long run.
@@RocketMan21-vp9ie while technically true, your totally missing the bigger picture. As of right now PlayStation is selling Xbox 2 or greater to 1 all else being equal who has a better source of revenue?
Gee, I sure do hope Nintendo, the company reputed for producing enjoyable games despite their average hardware, makes those games available everywhere so that the hardware can disappear. Maybe all game companies should stop making consoles, because there will clearly be better options if there aren't any exclusives to bring people to their table
console sales don’t equal how well a console company is doing, the reason you don’t get a new PS exclusive every month is because they don’t ACTUALLY make that much money. i’m willing to bet that xbox makes twice their profit each month just from game pass and micro transactions. microsoft bought into the multiplayer community because that’s where all the money is. don’t forget they have ties with mojang(Minecraft), EA, Blizzard, Bethesda, Ubisoft AND many more game companies. also don’t forget that sony was the reason we almost didn’t get spiderman in the MCU
Just because sales are down doesn’t mean that xbox is declining, its making itself more accessible and you can now play xbox on VR and even your TV and all you need is a gamepass subscription and a controller so their saving people money which is the opposite of what sonys doing, charging $700 for a slight upgrade with no disk compatibility is wild
This isn’t a console war video. It’s not bait. He’s simply telling the truth. Xbox will never completely decline because just like Sony, the fans will always buy the next console or their favorite games. It’s denial saying they aren’t declining at all. That’s like saying Sony won’t lost money from the ps5 pro, of course they will. I’m a Sony fan but I won’t dare be delusional about the state of Sony rn. It’s pissing me off
Microsoft is actually insanely smart here but many don’t realize it. Xbox THE CONSOLE is not making money, but rather Microsoft is making money. These massive multi billion dollar company acquisitions are strategic. Microsoft is shifting from console revenue to game market revenue.
Microsoft may be smart but the Xbox part of the brand in not, they are actually losing money and a lot of it, the game pass is down and not where it should be and Xbox are really struggling, if it were not for Xbox being part of Microsoft they would have probably folded by now, I hope they start to improve but at this moment in time they are really struggling and losing quite a lot of money
I love xbox fans way of coping is to act like the gamepass is a good thing for gaming community, xbox has legit failed in almost evey single exclusive games they have created halo infinite literally fell off the map, starfield was not a good game literally fallout 4 a 10 year old game has more active players today, gears of war nonexistent, yall are making bad games and accepting it as oh this is so good 😂, Microsoft themselves admitted that they are losing profit with gamepass bc they spend millions of dollars to get games on their gamepass, as well as making it super cheap and easy to exploit their free trials 😂 It's like bro xbox was once a great company with xbox 360 now they are literally bout to just become a netflix subscription for gamers 😂 that's not good
@hamzarahmani7740 No, it didn't. This video came out in September. Spiderman 2 won't be on PC until Jan 2025. The point of this video is DAY ONE exclusives, meaning getting to play them the day they drop. Spider-Man 2 came out last year, so even if it did release a couple of months ago for PC, it's not a day one exclusive. Besides that, it was never really a question if Spider-Man 2 would eventually be released to PC since Spider-Man 1 and Miles Morales both released to PC a couple of years after it was released on Playstation. Now, if you were into the more shadier side of PC gaming, then you would have been able to play Spider-Man 2 about 8 months ago on PC. The massive hack Sony suffered earlier this year included Spider-Man 2, and modders were able to piece together the files into a working playable version of the game that was indistinguishable from the release on PS5. Now, there is some key differences from that "unofficial" version and the version that will be released in January. The unofficial version isn't optimized, so the size of it is over 250 GB, while the official release in January will probably be a little over 100 GB. It also doesn't have some features that most likely will be a part of the official release, like upscaling and frame generation. It also didn't have key mapping for keyboard and mouse, but was later added separately by modders. It also didn't have Xbox controller icons. An Xbox controller would work, but it wouldn't show the icons that is on an Xbox controller and instead would show the PS5 controller icons, you just had to press the corresponding buttons, like if it said to press "X" you would have to press "A" on the Xbox controller. The Xbox controller icons were also added separately later by modders as well.
@@hamzarahmani7740But he was talking about people wanting to play day one. If you're on PC you still have to wait a minimum of a year, and most of the time it's a lot more than a year
The problem is PC users crying about what is happening in the console space when they’ll never own a console. If you’re the master race then fuck off and don’t cry when you don’t get to play something that you didn’t support in the first place.
Never heard anyone of my friends complain about PS5 games and a good portion sold their Xbox and came to PlayStation instead. Majority of my group is PC and PlayStation now with some Nintendo mixed in.
@@WickedHelkuI got ps5 and the games are terrible, all the games I want to play are on pc or xbox. Even the monthly games I pay £15 a month for are terrible so now saving for a pc
That's kind of terrible because we've got a lot of other really Great exclusives like God of war. There's ratchet& clank, Jack and Dexter, which is another really great game series for the old school people. You got like ape escape and I believe just recently they even put legacy of cane soul reaver from the PS2 days on the classics catalog. As I tell people who come into my GameStop and only buy 2K expand your games. So take a look around and see what else we have. PlayStation is very open because of the Japanese market so don't short yourself on gaming. Only trying to play whatever everybody else says it's great
@@KinSan2015why are you telling people to expand their games? I play almost every genre of game but my cousins who I play games with only plays 2k or madden, it’s what makes him happy. Why would I tell him to play something else simply because I do? Let people enjoy what they enjoy.
@@trelwilliams5003 because some people come in and then they go man. I'm getting sick of this 2K game every year. Man this shit trash so they decide that they want to give up their gaming consoles and I'm like well. Why give them up when there's other games out there to play besides 2K? You know just because you've only played that one game. All your life don't mean that other games won't grab your interest. You just haven't tried them yet. It's not like I'm telling people that they need to try new games. I'm only suggesting that when they come in and say this game is trash and I've been playing this shit for years and it ain't getting no better
I can't believe how self entitled people have become. If Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft pay the money to have a game developed why should they have to share the profits? That makes absolutely 0 sense, console exclusives exist to sell consoles, consoles exist to make money that's how that works. Would you sink resources and time into developing something or creating a product just to give it to other people to profit off of? If you would you are either stupid or have absolutely no grip on business whatsoever.
@Huzaku they have an entire pc empire. Plus they trina put all games available to everyone. Plus xbox is still getting good money from gamepass subscriptions.
At this point they should make online play for Xbox free. They already have gamepass to fill that revenue stream and it would be another reason to move to xbox
Another problem with poor sales is an overlapping fan base, people Interested in Xbox games, are more likely to already own a gaming PC than Sony or Nintendo fans.
Fun fact: Any modern Android that has a newer Snapdragon model chip inside their phone can do that with a neat little program called Yuzu, or with some of its spin-offs. Also, you can do it all, locally, on your Android without a USB or PC.
@@Hanz7432 You have no idea what you are talking about. A 50 dollar used xbox one s can play 4k media aswell. Its a very cheap solution for 4k media. You don't need a 500 dollar ps5
Not really, that’s why they are porting games to other platforms. There sales are shit and they have to make money somehow so there porting games to more popular platforms. Eventually the Xbox platform may just die because what’s the point if you can play both Xbox and PlayStation games on the PlayStation or pc.
@@ghosts2169 Microsoft is being smart, they have the PC market cornered, they don't own steam or epic games but they own the most common operating system, putting their games on PC is a net win for them unlike Sony which doesn't have the same market coverage for PC. Microsoft is being incredibly nice to Sony while they have been actively stacking the deck against them. Microsoft doesn't care about the Xbox outside of its useful side of getting some non PC players to play their games (and it's useful for testing tech on a mass audience). Sony should be concerned that Microsoft has all of these big companies that they can easily just remove from PlayStation
@@ghosts2169bro, there sales are great. I mean they are effectively winning on the game pass, steam, mine craft and in games like Diablo and call of duty. Consoles inherently lose a game money. Game sales are infinitely more important. That is where Microsoft is winning. Sony should consider a similar path as consoles are just out dated concepts. They are only selling you the brand at this loin and charging you 700$ so they can lose 100$ in hopes you can buy their games for 80$ to make up the loss of selling their consoles. That is just inefficient and bad for consumers
if im not wrong consoles are even sold with loss. Games are what make profit. Now is Xbox on PC and Xbox and could be stream to other devices so everywhere that could potentially "sell" more subscriptions and theeeen Xbox change pricing to more :D
@@arroncunningham9866 Not really. What M$ did was buy the companies to keep the games from being Sony exclusives, sure, but the results are more broad than that. M$ is moving away from exclusives and sharing with Sony and other platforms. It's crazy that M$ is seemingly the good actor in this scenario, but here we are.
@@JT.PlaysGames Sorry, but what Microsoft did was continue to push for a de-facto monopoly on video games. They didn't buy Bethesda or Activision to "keep games from being Sony exclusives", they bought them to starve Playstation and/or Nintendo from high-selling titles. They are doing something MUCH worse then "exclusives", they are attempting to force control over the entire industry. The end-goal is to either be the ONLY console (they already own the majority of PC game market), or at least being capable of ordering Sony/Nintendo to do what they want or be ruined. They are absolutely NOT the "good actor" in this scenario.
@@arroncunningham9866 Hard to be the only console, when your own console isn't incredible in sales. Xbox is trying to expand its platform. PlayStation keeps games from Xbox and for years paid third party teams from releasing games to Xbox for years. PlayStation is dying in truth, look at Godfall which was supposed to be a destiny level game that flopped on PlayStation till Xbox got it. And genshin impact now jumping through the roof in players now being on Xbox. For so many years Xbox has always been seen as "trash" with no exclusives, and terrible hardware. So Xbox is switching the game on the market. It's not illegal nor malicious. It's a different strategy. That's why PlayStation is falling over because they can't afford to keep up. When Xbox fought "fair" no one cared for them except the OGs. Now they play their way and so PlayStation and their fans are complaining and trying to make Xbox the villain.
@@arroncunningham9866 What you are describing isn't going in that exact direction. M$ is moving towards putting their exclusives on other platforms, as well as making all of their games playable almost everywhere. It's a power move for sure, but probably won't make much of a dent in devout PlayStation and Nintendo fans. If M$ wants to take over all of gaming, including PC, they'll have to make it far more appealing than Steam.
As a former xbox enthusiast, we can't be in denial. Playstation actually has a strong marketing for their consoles. They're just so addicted to advertising that they have ps4 games on ps5 hardware, including the pro. Xbox will probably do the same when series x pro comes out for xbox One games since they abandoned the backward compatibility long ago. Nintendo however doesn't need to have the strongest hardware because they know their units will be sold by anyone who can afford it and despite for lackluster modern AAA game ports as well as a whatever nintendo switch online variety and lots of bloatware in the eshop, guess what? Nintendo dominates. So my point is at this rate xbox should just retire by 2027 since they literally said if gamepass fails, they'll stop the console market. Xbox does well with selling xbox games made for the pc market but the only reason to get an xbox console is either they have better optimized console versions of modern games, you get gamepass day 1, or you have better enhanced older games with quick resume tech, that's it. Not many people buy their games full price, let alone pre-order, because of gamepass, so there is no point to buy an xbox if xbox wants to put gamepass on other platforms, and give their games away. It's pointless to keep fighting a losing battle.
The fact that you used Spider-man 2 and Tears of the kingdom as examples of exclusivity while both of them can be played on pc is kinda hilarious to me 😂
@johnathanholmes1297 yeah, in that case. Those if you wanna play something like Castlevania Curse of Darkness or Hulk Ultimate Destruction, two PS2 era locked games, you can't anymore by legal means that support the devs. Either you waste cash on a new gaming box and a title for it or you can save some time and money the easy way. Either way, nobody who put in the effort of making the games is getting a nickel.
He never said this. He said people aren't gonna buy Xbox purely for exclusives and that they messed up with the one generation, the reason people are buying Playstation is cus their entire games library is on that console
Mattrick made a shit take that was dropped with online DRM and he's booted Phil spencer costs xbox over $70 billion for acquisitions that didn't make money back and he's still CEO
Honestly exclusives just aren't what they used to be and not a good metric to run on anymore. Back 20 years ago game development was a lot cheaper and games were more compact and shorter. A solid 20-40 hours of gameplay and people were happy. Nowadays game development has spiraled out of control into the tens or hundreds of millions and are expected to provide in excess of 80 hours of gameplay or a highly engaging multiplayer for free. It doesn't make sense to invest so heavily in exclusives anymore, they're not feasible, with these kinds of budgets companies force themselves to go cross platform and people are going for it
Dont help them. Make all games universal so that everyone can play them and the consoles with less compatibility and poorer software can fall into obscurity and die if they dont step it up.
Man wait till you hear about MS becoming a defacto monopoly with in the gaming community it will blow your mind.give it 10-15 years and they will be getting sued and have to sell off.
Sony and nintendo arent angels, everybody should know that but microsoft is the worst and you cant see that? I think you are lyier and was from the beginning an xbox fan
Yeah they dont care about console sales, because whether you play on pc or console, they get that sweet game pass members bag. That and they get the good publicity for giving multi platform access to their 'exculsives' like halo and forza horizon etc. Its a win win for the community and the company
No confirmation yet, but there are a lot of rumors and some leakers suggesting that it could realease early-mid 2025. Best to be skeptical of them but still hopeful
@@dizzy128Then xbox was never the same since 2013. The only major advantage to an xbox is its huge lifespan of support that most rarely if ever got. the xbox 360 just got its store shutdown just months ago.
@@gorillamasterofgaming5525lol the reason why Xbox is focusing more on pc stuff is because they want more accessibility.For example you can build a pc that has the same specs as a ps5 for cheaper and you can get more games on pc than a console
I don’t believe that it’s dying in a way, because Microsoft isn’t worried about becoming the biggest gaming company , their main focus is in the computer market. I got Xbox for just gaming and almost all your Xbox video game inventory transfer to pc. But the only way Xbox can focus on exclusivity, is if they cancel game pass. But what gaming console you play is all preference
Xbox is owned by Microsoft and such sure, but it has its own studio and shit, Xbox would be an amazing competitor if they actually did anything with it
I think it boils down to that there aren't many people who like to game who don't have a console. Playstation players are like apple users, buying everything right after it comes out
@zmike2024 I agree one you get better quality while being complicated with predatory sales tactics, and the other you get a bit lower quality with more accessibility, better features, and healthy implementation
I have a pc and a ps5 cause xbox realeses their games on pc game pass and other people realese Nintendo's games on pc. i use the ps5 for spider-man, ghosts of tsushima, god of war, and gran turismo
Microsoft own the most commonly used operating system in history along with multiple pc and laptop lines, and xbox games, game pass and sales over the years, i doubt microsoft is worrying that series x sales dropped a bit when they are one of the most profitable companies on the planet
Honestly he said Nintendo switch has poor hardware and performance I didn’t even notice like honestly I think people say stuff has poor hardware but really the games on the switch look AMAZING not hating btw love this channel and the content
I believe the main reason for this (specifically for new Nintendo games) is because the games are made for the weaker hardware and manage the limitations well while ports of games are often built for different hardware which makes the hardware struggle more which is why they often don’t look as good compared to other hardware.
The only games that look AMAZING are the ones made for the switch with a lower resolution. look at any other modern Triple A game played on the switch and the difference is huge. i understand they have their niche market but they are going to need better reasons for people to want to still buy other switch games.
Xbox knows this, and I know this, and this is why I refuse to purchase a Playstation to play games. Not interested in supporting the toxic corporate practices of making games "console exclusive."
Competition is a good thing in the industry? It drives companies to create better and higher quality products to one-up each other and therefore is overall healthy for the industry.
@@weignerleigner3037because the consoles are still an objectively better piece of hardware for gaming? Much more cost effective, much easier to setup/maintain, and usually much more space efficient. It’s so braindead when people say “why would anyone buy a console without exclusives”
@@JustLikeYou. but every person today basically needs a computer. You can build a gaming computer for 800-1000 dollars that can play modern games. For a few hundred more you can get a personal computer as well as a gaming system that plays every game available to play. Makes far more sense and it will last far longer than a gaming system. Gaming systems have like 8 year runs max your pc could last two system cycles if it’s got a good graphics card. Which you can simply just update as needed. So really you aren’t even saving that much money
@@weignerleigner3037 what exactly do you “need” a computer for? What do you use it for besides gaming? 99% of what the normal person “needs” a PC for you can just use your phone. If you are a normal person who games “casually” it makes all the sense in the world to purchase a console over a PC
Tbh honest i never believed that exclusives made a big difference in console sales untill stellar blade came out and i sold my series s and immediately bought the ps5.
Game consoles are also insanely expensive. If want to buy a game they also have a tier system if you want the full game you need to pay 3 times the games price.
Being an xbox owner and recently buying a pc is the best thing ever. Cause pc is so xbox friendly. I can hop from some of my data on xbox , hop to steam for playstation exclusive games , and just use pc for pc only games.
It’s because microsoft looses money on every console, and only makes it back with the games/gp. But if they can make YOU pay THEM money for windows, then make more profit by selling you the same game for the same price without the loss leader, they get a thicker wallet, and people are free to play on whatever platform they want! :) If Nintendo didn’t have exclusives, nobody would buy the switch (which they do make a profit on). So they would make less money!
Also the fact that the Series S forces devs to spec their games for lower end hardware doesn't encourage them to push the console to its limits making the PS5 more performant overall.
Remember, most consoles these days are sold at a loss. Microsoft stands to make more money just selling games alone or GamePass Ultimate subscriptions. Their only real screw up was the XBox Series S having less memory than the Series X, then requiring games being compatible for both, which makes it impossible for some games to be made for XBox at all. Easy solution is to make the Series S with memory to match the Series X, & still leave it as digital only.
Console sales don't matter that much anymore. Usually they even make Loss on Console sales. The important Thing is to sell your Games, ideally through your shop because there you have the most control over the prices
Exclusives are moving to PS5, but changes with games pass and Windows 10/11 is blurring the gap between console and PC. Miicrosoft is evolving to the point where consoles won’t be necessary in a generation or so.
I'll be honest I completely forgot Xbox was a thing. I just had a flashback to being at my toutors in my early teens and seeing him play Gears of War. Looked cool not my speed. But Darksiders was sick. They had that on playstation so I was set getting Darksiders 1 and 2 once it came out.
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There's no way X-Box doesn't realizes this stratergy so are they just being nice to us PC gamers? If so I am grateful.
why not, most PCs are running on windows, so it makes sense for Microsoft to consider PC their platform even despite the fact that most games are sold on steam
Yes. It's a part of a promise Microsoft made to no longer have exclusive and prompted Sony to do the same. Hasn't worked sadly 😢
It's partially that. They are fighting a console WAR, not a console battle.
I have always been with Playstation and always preferred it, but Elder Scrolls 6 will almost certainly be game of the year whatever year it comes out, and if it is anything like the previous elder scrolls games (other than ESO) it will manage to be one of the largest games around until the next Elder Scrolls comes out, exclusively on PC and the next gen X-Box.
I also don't think Xbox cares about their consoles too much anymore they have stated they already lost the console war and are just focusing on selling games which is more profitable
Dude because Microsoft makes absolute bank from products surrounding gaming it doesn’t matter how much they make from Xbox alone.
It’s simply to prevent either Sony or Nintendo from having a higher market share.
Xbox games publishing is where the actual money is made, and wouldn’t you know they publish on 2 platforms compared to both Sony and Nintendo’s single platform.
The biggest problem with this is that for years the gaming community has been asking for companies to stop exclusives, to give players the freedom to enjoy games with whatever hardware they have avaliable. And now that one company is doing that, all they do is dunk on them for not hitting arbitrary sales figures like the other companies. Bro, like what the fuck do we want from them? Do we want them to cater to us, the consumer, or to their shareholders? Whatever your answer, stick with it and stop flip flopping like damn
This.
not everyone in the gaming community is asking for exclusives to stop. The only thing people are asking for is to stopputting gamrs that weren’t exclusives to become exclusive
Exactly. Like bro the idea of exclusives is shit. You're basically saying you don't trust your console to sell consoles. You need a video games to sell your consoles because you're console is trash. Plus with the push for cross-platform you are limiting the ability to do cross-platform by making a game exclusive. That's why most of the exclusives are being moved to PlayStation now. Because cross-platform doesn't need anything if the other platforms don't have it. And they can advertise this as a power move because they say yeah we don't need exclusive video games to sell our console our console is just good. The thing is as gamers we need to now pressure Sony more to start making their shit not exclusive. And I think the PS5 pro is a good start point because this thing is so ridiculously expensive for no reason that it's basically a scam. Start buying xboxes instead.
@@WorstSpieler While I have heard people complaining about games that weren't exclusive becoming exclusive I've heard a much larger push to get rid of exclusives in general. They limit your market. Especially with cross-platform becoming more of a thing cross-platform literally doesn't work if it's not another platforms. More gamers want more games to be cross-plat so more games need to be non-exclusive. The biggest point against that is helldivers. Hell divers is a playstation exclusive. It's first game and second game are both playstation exclusive and yet there is such a big cry from the community to make it cross-platform. To supposedly bringing the ODSTs. People want more cross platform support therfore people want less exclusives.
Exclusives are a scummy, abusive business practice intended to hold things hostage behind additional purchases.
Console sales aren’t everything. The amount of Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions for xbox and pc could keep microsoft fueled for ages
They're also generating a lot of revenue through the Blizzard Activision. Just World of Warcraft is generating more than a Billion a year.
Not at all, in fact, Gamepass is generating 0% profit, because its expensive to maintain and players just keep making new accounts to get Gamepass cheaper for like a dollar.
@@Rei-zt2rrActually it's not even that expensive
@@jonycodm3138 would you rather pay 10 dollars a month or make a new account and pay 1 dollar instead?
@@Francis-of8cwbro I still can’t believe Diablo 4 made over 1 billion dollars in sales. 150 million being micro transactions
“You have to buy a Nintendo Switch” yuzu sitting in my taskbar:
Exactly. Just added tears of the kingdom to my library a few weeks ago lol.
Nintendo is always the easiest to emulate I genuinely thank the nintentards for basically funding my nintendo gaming aince 2006 lol hahaha bunch of idiots paying 70 dollars for mobile level games
@@wangchung2157 why are you calling them idiots? What's the problem in that? Mobile games are NOT comparable to Nintendo, haters gonna hate
@@mythos.zh0dmobile games actualy perform better than nintendo switch games i mean switch is unplayable these days with how slow it is
Just remember to make a Shiv for when you end up in prison
They don't need consoles, they run the pc market.
Edit: Toxic ps5 fans wasting 700$ and getting shitty remasters and failing to acknowledge Windows in my replies
What about Bloodborne
ps5 is market leader, pc and xbox is dying
@@Rerizga404most pc users are windows users lmao mac isnt even close to windows.
@Agziter who tf uses a Mac to game? Maybe someone who games every so often but a daily gamer? No chance
@@Rerizga404bro who actually plays games on mac lol
Jacob: Hey Nintendo, why aren't you releasing your Exclusives on PC????? This is why your company is dying!
Jacob: Hey Microsoft, why are you releasing your Exclusives on PC?????? This is why your company is dying!
xbox is a good console with the graphics etc, and nintendo has no hardware etc
Both Nintendo and Microsoft are actually doing really well this generation. Just look at how many PC gamepass subscribers there. A lot of gamers usually wait for brand new games to come to gamepass. Mircrosoft and Sony sell their consoles at a loss too. And try to make profits with game sales. One of the reasons Nintendo likes to use weaker hardware is because they make profit of both hardware band software.
@@PhoenixKeebsthat’s what I do I don’t really buy games on Xbox anymore cuz I’ll wait for it to come to gamepass in a few months and a lot of good games are day one Xbox gamepass I didn’t even buy starfield, lies of p, Forza Motorsport, or heck even sea of thieves because they were on gamepass day one and I’ve logged 300+ hours on each of those games (maybe not startield) but without a doubt gamepass is best bang for buck it’s just 15 bucks and I can share it with people in my family with an Xbox they have to be operating at a loss
@@PhoenixKeebs Nintendo doesn't make money of selling hardware, they never did, selling consoles at loss was always THE strategy to sell this kind of hardware since the 80s, and it didn't changed, but Sony now tried to scam people with PS5 Pro which costs 400$ to build and sell it for 700$ and more, this will backfire drasticaly
Also Jacob: " Yeah XBOX is dying. But I gotta pay $10,000 and also that damn $100 to install Windows 12 on my PC! "
Other Jacob: " Um Windows is also Microsoft whose XBOX.. "
Jacob: * Surprised Pikachu Face *
Less exclusives is good for the consumer.
Wrong
nah
It literally is bruh we don't have to waste money
@@hulkhogan12345 explain
@@hulkhogan12345explain
OG Xbox and 360 were legendary for so many reasons but the One and the Series X are beyond forgettable. I'm so glad I grew up while Xbox was king.
the series x is still really good idk what ur on about 💀💀💀
Yes@@MidknightLMT
PlayStation was always better people who say Xbox used to be or is better simply haven’t used a PlayStation
@@MidknightLMT not nearly as good as the 360 era
@@AnbenK nostalgia is a hell of a drug
Microsoft has said for years that the consoles were selling at a loss they essentially said fuck it and decided it doesn't matter because the ecosystem all connects now anyway cross compatibility and users on the games brings in more money than a few extra console sales
Spot on, game exclusivity will be a thing of the past soon thanks to crossplay, let’s hope it comes sooner then later.
They probably make more money on Game pass and game sales that they are still making a ton of profit.
Insane how many people dont realize Microsoft basically owns the pc gaming world as well. They aren't losing money by any means, just switching gears.
And exclusives have never benefited the player so I don't know why it would ever be a bad thing for the player specifically
@craftysniper98 Literally. The number of people playing competitive shooters & online games greatly outnumber the exclusive single-player fans.
Most fps shooting games now are free so it draw morn people. When the game first came out most people will just wait for it on sale than buy it. In the end they still mark mad money cuz people own pc now day
Dude, how do people not understand this? They can afford to have Xbox on life support because they are PC gaming
Nobody likes playing on console anyway… everyone would much rather play on a PC. If it weren’t for the exclusives, everyone would switch to PC. Sony needs the exclusives to stay alive 😂
Nah, this method has been making them BANK with Game Pass, probably way more than they would selling consoles.
EDIT: I started a small war in the replies.
Gamepass isn't sustainable
@@Arthur76180Phil Spencer has repeatedly stated that the Xbox game pass is profitable. Granted, he’s the CEO of Microsoft so it would be in his best interest to say it is profitable but lying in front of investors is basically a big NO.
“According to that data, revenue generated through Xbox Game Pass was $2.9bn in the fiscal period ending January 2021.”
“Compared with Microsoft's total yearly Xbox revenue ($16.28bn), Game Pass made up roughly 18 percent. It was also nearly 30 percent of its games and services revenue ($12.581) for the same period.”
-Ed Nightingale Deputy News Editor | Eurogamer
Currently, the Xbox game pass is quite profitable from a revenue standpoint. Indeed, profit /= revenue but we can deduce from Spencer’s remarks and quotations from the Activision-Blizzard acquisition that the Xbox game pass is indeed making money.
Would it be sustainable? If Microsoft becomes the sole corporation of the game subscription service then it would indeed be very lucrative. However, as with streaming, things might get messy or unsustainable but streaming services like Netflix still generate profit and sustain itself.
Gamepass isnt even Making profit yet
@@jonporter7709 Oh, i didnt saw it, sorry
@@ArthurHenrique-zk9zxyet they are still buying games for the pass
People always get mad about exclusivity and while it is annoying, really it is the only way they can sell consoles
And those same people that get mad about exclusivity will let the Xbox brand die because “THEY DONT HAVE ANY GAMES ON THE CONSOLE”. 🙄🙄🙄
Microsoft on the console business. “I do this shit for the love of the game.”
and bad company choices…
@@researchaccount999Sometimes but not that often
No, they do it to hurt Sony and Nintendo sales. The goal has been and always will be to push people towards buying more PCs where they make more money.
@bransonwalter5588 not really i mean shit there whole thing was getting out of the console market and they just took a big step by making ppl able to play Xbox without a console or a pc and even if they were pushing people to buy a pc it's not really a bad thing considering the other two companies at this point are down right scuzzy as hell
@@TheFrozenGarg If you don't think Microsoft is just as bad, you really don't know their history.
Bro is trying to bring corporate greed back😭🙏
That’s not even corporate greed if you wait before you release YOUR game that YOU made late to other platforms they have to do that otherwise what’s the point that they make games if people don’t need to buy there consoles
@LinguineNoodle you guys don't seem to understand corporate greed, exclusives aren't corporate greed. Buying out other studios to boost your company is corporate greed, Microsoft
@@KapGaming07 Nah, I'm pretty sure that's called a monoply.
@@KapGaming07your case would be more stronger if Microsoft make all the studios games exclusives ,like what sony do.
back? lol it never left
“Why doesn’t Nintendo put their games on PC?” The answer is simple, they have a console to sell.
The day Nintendo games can be played on a Steam deck with better hardware, their consoles are dead. And when their consoles are dead, along with every other game company who stopped making exclusives, PC will have a monopoly and become insanely expensive. I still don't know why there are so many kids in the comments who don't know economics and what it means to run a friggin business
@corrinflakes9659 Yeah, but you can get all their games on PC anyway for free, and a lot of people who do that given the chance would buy it instead.
@@blackban4689lol Consoles biting the dust wouldn't make PCs more expensive. The competition that exists in the part section will continue to exist. And ,just like it is currently, prebuilts will only be competing against how convenient do you think it is versus building it yourself.
@@saddas1307 I WOULD have tried to elaborate further on the matter, but I feel like you wouldn't understand
Edit: I just thought I'd give a little example. If the McDonald's in town has no Wendy's or KFC to compete with, everybody would flock to McD's. And when everyone rushes there, they'll eventually be able to raise the price, knowing that the customers won't have any other alternatives (this was a simple concept we were taught in 10th grade economics). And let's not forget that since most video games are made by studios who made deals with game companies, the lack of hardware to sell them on would just mean it would be better to market it to the platform that DOES support their games. The problem with removing exclusives is that it completely shifts the gaming market, making companies lose money and leading to workers getting laid off (something that everyone loves to complain about but never takes the time to think about)
To be honest.. Switch have like 10 exclusive games.. and 9 out of 10 are just recycled sh1t from old gens so..
Last gen Nintendo console died because third party didnt want to support it.
To be fair, Xbox is profiting from those Game Passes, and they really are becoming the Netflix of gaming.
"dying" and "not selling as many consoles" are two vastly different things
Not for a subsidiary of a massive conglomerate.
@@soffrenno actually it’s not the same thing because they literally aren’t focusing on console sales because that’s not where they make most of their money if you look at the money generated from Xbox gaming it’s up basically 25% from last year while PlayStation is only up 3% and if you look at that who do you think is really doing better and I don’t know about anymore but in April this year Microsoft had more best sellers on the PlayStation network than Sony did so they’re doing better even on the competitions platform
It’s kinda the same thing
I can tell you're younger than 20 because you don't think xbox is dead
@@jacobbailey9773 imagine scooping up all this corporate jargon just to lick the boot of a company that doesnt care about its customers LOL
As a PC Gamer, I fucking hate the industry.
Same
Thing is pretend as they might, PC is infinitely better than console. No subscription for online, the modding scene, and we have soo many exclusives that consoles just can't have. If you want to play competitive Esports games, you're almost forced to play on PC. And we get all the cool Indie stuff like Lethal Company and others. And for me as a CRPG fan PC is a must.
Not to mention Most PC players are use to buying games at a much cheaper price due to steam and different platforms with sales.
I went back to PC gaming. I have a PS5 sitting right in my desk. It hasn’t been turned on in 6 months.
@@TheeChalkfacts, I have all the consoles and PC will always be the best. Only reason I don’t go on pc much is because my setup sucks and I can’t afford to upgrade rn. But ye I can still run lethal company with under 100 mods. Also, content warning and phasmo is goated too.
@@TheeChalk Right?
Xbox makes their money from gamepass and game sales. They dont need to sell that many consoles anymore
Honestly it makes sense because if I remember correctly consoles are loss leaders
Xbox cope
@@calebmontgomery662 PlayStation is selling loads
@@SolarErazerdude no one cares about your little “console wars”
It’s a fact that Microsoft bought many gaming studios for the sole purpose of releasing games to gamepass.
@@SolarErazer It's not cope. Why do they sell consoles? To sell games. They don't get any profit from selling consoles, many companies even sell them at a loss.
If most xbox users are already on a Microsoft platform, why not take advantage of it?
Genuinely my uncle has pointed out that Playstation barely counts for this argument because their porting allt of exclusives to PC as well
Barely.. they are barely porting stuff
But not day 1, which the whole argument here
@@GamingOcultistlater this month they are releasing Spider-Man 2 on pc
@@pshemoo2019 after years
@@GamingOcultist 2 years is better than nothing
Microsoft’s focus isn’t consoles anymore it’s getting their games on every device for example built into tvs, phones, iPads, computers, literally on everything consoles are in the past if they get it available on smart tvs then they are sent just like cloud gaming
Best example of this is that the absolute best selling game on PlayStation is call of duty, slightly under 60% of players on PlayStation buy the yearly release, this actually makes up an absolutely vital amount of revenue for PlayStation, call of duty is an Xbox first party game 😂, Xbox literally makes 70% of all revenue from call of duty sales on PlayStation, just the profits from the PlayStation sales of call of duty and its associated microtransactions alone are enough not only to continuously develop call of duty games but to actually bankroll every single game development from Xbox, they can literally have every single one of their games bomb and it would make no difference because just the PlayStation sales of call of duty are already enough to cover the development cost of all of them.
Xbox effectively hijacked the PlayStation infrastructure and install base, and Playstation can't do anything about it because if they get rid of call of duty they get rid of over 50% of their players, this two companies are not playing the same game.
Xbox lost the console war, but it won the corporate game.
Hell this isn't even going into the fact that Microsoft literally owns the patents for the microchips used to build the PlayStation itself meaning that for literally every single console it builds PlayStation actually has to pay Microsoft, or that the entire online infrastructure of PlayStation runs on a Microsoft System and as such PlayStation literally has to make enormous monthly payments to Microsoft.
Sony and Microsoft are not equals, hell Xbox and PlayStation aren't even equals anymore, for Microsoft Xbox is a small subsidiary that has in the last 2 years become fabulously profitable, it's still no more than a fraction of a fraction of the company's revenue, the entire gaming industry would be nothing more than a fraction of just their military contracts alone for example, for Sony PlayStation is at least 90% of their company.
@@anarchyandempires5452 pretty sure u cant get games on a tv
@@anarchyandempires5452holy fuck the glaze is insane 💀
@@MikeWazowski69420You can.
@@anarchyandempires5452 glaze is crazy 💀
Also source?
And uhh microchips ? What kind of bs is that and wth does it have to do with "online infrastructure" Sony runs their consoles with modified Unix
Oh and also Sony benefits more from keeping cod Microsoft was only stopped because of the court deals they aren't short of cash they would rather lose revenue for market dominance which they scramble to get
exclusivity is trash and all companies should stop doing it
Yeah and then theirs no reason to buy a specific console.
@@Iandar1 Consoles sales don't even make up most of the earnings Sony makes. It's quite literally the games that make up 90% of their revenue on consoles. So your point does not matter in the long run.
If that happened I would stop buying gaming consoles completely lol
@@RocketMan21-vp9ie while technically true, your totally missing the bigger picture. As of right now PlayStation is selling Xbox 2 or greater to 1 all else being equal who has a better source of revenue?
Same I agree, I just want to play good videos games. I couldn’t care less about the console itself as long as it plays well
Xbox suffers from being too nice in terms of exclusivity. Being punished for doing the right thing and doubling down gives my respect towards Xbox
I mean they’re definitely a for the people kind of brand even if game pass is hella expensive.
Microsoft owns Xbox so they wouldn’t even care if it was played on pc because it will probably on a windows computer so no matter what they make money
@@lenoxpI gamepass isnt hella expensive for what you get its fairly priced to me considering theres also diifferent tiers you can get
Almost all of their exclusives suck man. That's why no one wants them.
sureeeeee.
"Wait 6-12 months to bring it to PC."
Bloodborne sitting in the corner:
console exclusives is like a fancy term that big gaming companies use instead of "gatekeeping"
Daaaaamn! That's the truth
Gatekeeping is a dummy's term for those that don't know what "intellectual property" is.
Gee, I sure do hope Nintendo, the company reputed for producing enjoyable games despite their average hardware, makes those games available everywhere so that the hardware can disappear. Maybe all game companies should stop making consoles, because there will clearly be better options if there aren't any exclusives to bring people to their table
Not really exclusive is not same as gatekeeping. If u think they r u, really need to go back to school.
If there weren't console exclusives consoles wouldn't exist buddy, we would just have controllers and pc's
Still don't understand why people with no stock in these companies care about sales
Justifies purchases
Because those low sales could end the product they like
Well, it would cause millions of people who want to play the game to have to buy a console and consoles cost hundreds of dollars more than the game
Xbox is dying because Microsoft abandoned the Great Journey, they chose heresy instead and now they shall fall.
W
“The elites are blind, arbiter, but I shall make them see”
WORT WORT WORT!
Indeed, The weight of their heresy shall shackle there feet, and they will be left behind
Xbox is dying, but did you forget who also basically owns the entire pc market?
I googled active users per month for fun.
PlayStation 116 mil
Nintendo 128 mil
Xbox 200
Steam 132
console sales don’t equal how well a console company is doing, the reason you don’t get a new PS exclusive every month is because they don’t ACTUALLY make that much money. i’m willing to bet that xbox makes twice their profit each month just from game pass and micro transactions. microsoft bought into the multiplayer community because that’s where all the money is. don’t forget they have ties with mojang(Minecraft), EA, Blizzard, Bethesda, Ubisoft AND many more game companies. also don’t forget that sony was the reason we almost didn’t get spiderman in the MCU
Sony also pays Microsoft for the Cloud features 😂
@@xSoulhunterDKx fr? I never knew that. wow.
So you're going to go ahead and ignore the development time and the resources needed to develop a game😅
Their servers would cost way more. They do a lot of free stuff
If we’re talking about Sony in the MCU let’s talk about Microsoft’s literal humans rights violations
Just because sales are down doesn’t mean that xbox is declining, its making itself more accessible and you can now play xbox on VR and even your TV and all you need is a gamepass subscription and a controller so their saving people money which is the opposite of what sonys doing, charging $700 for a slight upgrade with no disk compatibility is wild
But the down side to that is they're streamed. If your Internet goes down you can't play.
This isn’t a console war video. It’s not bait. He’s simply telling the truth. Xbox will never completely decline because just like Sony, the fans will always buy the next console or their favorite games. It’s denial saying they aren’t declining at all. That’s like saying Sony won’t lost money from the ps5 pro, of course they will. I’m a Sony fan but I won’t dare be delusional about the state of Sony rn. It’s pissing me off
@@KingpinOfSteel295yea but your still paid for the sub so that shit adds up
Selling 5 times less than the PS5 is a huge sign of a decline even xbox admitted they lost the console war
@@KingpinOfSteel295if my internet goes down I’m playing my switch or going outside
Microsoft is actually insanely smart here but many don’t realize it. Xbox THE CONSOLE is not making money, but rather Microsoft is making money. These massive multi billion dollar company acquisitions are strategic. Microsoft is shifting from console revenue to game market revenue.
All consoles make their profit from games. These consoles are sold at a loss in exchange to keep you buying games for that console.
Microsoft is not gonna make a 100 billion dollars on profit from Bethesda and Activision blizzard who are already failing lil bro
@@wolfbad512 bro is 37 and divorced typing ts 🥹
Microsoft may be smart but the Xbox part of the brand in not, they are actually losing money and a lot of it, the game pass is down and not where it should be and Xbox are really struggling, if it were not for Xbox being part of Microsoft they would have probably folded by now, I hope they start to improve but at this moment in time they are really struggling and losing quite a lot of money
I love xbox fans way of coping is to act like the gamepass is a good thing for gaming community, xbox has legit failed in almost evey single exclusive games they have created halo infinite literally fell off the map, starfield was not a good game literally fallout 4 a 10 year old game has more active players today, gears of war nonexistent, yall are making bad games and accepting it as oh this is so good 😂, Microsoft themselves admitted that they are losing profit with gamepass bc they spend millions of dollars to get games on their gamepass, as well as making it super cheap and easy to exploit their free trials 😂
It's like bro xbox was once a great company with xbox 360 now they are literally bout to just become a netflix subscription for gamers 😂 that's not good
Xbox is the epitome of:
"Jack of all trades; Master of none."
The Spider-Man 2 bit aged like milk
How so?
@@cole590It got brought to pc shortly after this vid was released
@hamzarahmani7740 No, it didn't. This video came out in September. Spiderman 2 won't be on PC until Jan 2025. The point of this video is DAY ONE exclusives, meaning getting to play them the day they drop. Spider-Man 2 came out last year, so even if it did release a couple of months ago for PC, it's not a day one exclusive. Besides that, it was never really a question if Spider-Man 2 would eventually be released to PC since Spider-Man 1 and Miles Morales both released to PC a couple of years after it was released on Playstation. Now, if you were into the more shadier side of PC gaming, then you would have been able to play Spider-Man 2 about 8 months ago on PC. The massive hack Sony suffered earlier this year included Spider-Man 2, and modders were able to piece together the files into a working playable version of the game that was indistinguishable from the release on PS5. Now, there is some key differences from that "unofficial" version and the version that will be released in January. The unofficial version isn't optimized, so the size of it is over 250 GB, while the official release in January will probably be a little over 100 GB. It also doesn't have some features that most likely will be a part of the official release, like upscaling and frame generation. It also didn't have key mapping for keyboard and mouse, but was later added separately by modders. It also didn't have Xbox controller icons. An Xbox controller would work, but it wouldn't show the icons that is on an Xbox controller and instead would show the PS5 controller icons, you just had to press the corresponding buttons, like if it said to press "X" you would have to press "A" on the Xbox controller. The Xbox controller icons were also added separately later by modders as well.
@@hamzarahmani7740But he was talking about people wanting to play day one. If you're on PC you still have to wait a minimum of a year, and most of the time it's a lot more than a year
Which the guy in video literally said they just mad that playstation players are right again .@@bhdf5304
People say exclusives but also complain about no games on ps5 while most games that matter you can play on both. It's really silly.
The problem is PC users crying about what is happening in the console space when they’ll never own a console. If you’re the master race then fuck off and don’t cry when you don’t get to play something that you didn’t support in the first place.
Never heard anyone of my friends complain about PS5 games and a good portion sold their Xbox and came to PlayStation instead.
Majority of my group is PC and PlayStation now with some Nintendo mixed in.
10 big games this year can be played only on PS5 and PC.
@@WickedHelkuI got ps5 and the games are terrible, all the games I want to play are on pc or xbox. Even the monthly games I pay £15 a month for are terrible so now saving for a pc
@@WickedHelku but you can get cod on gamepass.
Spider-Man is still the only reason why I got a ps4 and a ps5
Thats what they wanted you to do 😅
That's kind of terrible because we've got a lot of other really Great exclusives like God of war. There's ratchet& clank, Jack and Dexter, which is another really great game series for the old school people. You got like ape escape and I believe just recently they even put legacy of cane soul reaver from the PS2 days on the classics catalog. As I tell people who come into my GameStop and only buy 2K expand your games. So take a look around and see what else we have. PlayStation is very open because of the Japanese market so don't short yourself on gaming. Only trying to play whatever everybody else says it's great
@@KinSan2015why are you telling people to expand their games? I play almost every genre of game but my cousins who I play games with only plays 2k or madden, it’s what makes him happy. Why would I tell him to play something else simply because I do? Let people enjoy what they enjoy.
@@AbsolAhmlol you say that like he fell into their trap. Spider-Man is a good console seller. Much like halo.
@@trelwilliams5003 because some people come in and then they go man. I'm getting sick of this 2K game every year. Man this shit trash so they decide that they want to give up their gaming consoles and I'm like well. Why give them up when there's other games out there to play besides 2K? You know just because you've only played that one game. All your life don't mean that other games won't grab your interest. You just haven't tried them yet. It's not like I'm telling people that they need to try new games. I'm only suggesting that when they come in and say this game is trash and I've been playing this shit for years and it ain't getting no better
I just want offline gaming and co-op to be the same
Anyways here's your daily reminder that Console Exclusivity is inherently anti-consumer.
It's also the only reason to get a console
Nintendos games are Nintendos games
You don’t know what anti-consumer means.
I can't believe how self entitled people have become. If Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft pay the money to have a game developed why should they have to share the profits? That makes absolutely 0 sense, console exclusives exist to sell consoles, consoles exist to make money that's how that works. Would you sink resources and time into developing something or creating a product just to give it to other people to profit off of? If you would you are either stupid or have absolutely no grip on business whatsoever.
boo hoo.
x-box said nah ima do my own thing
@lisamorrow6844 lol like they just decided to not sell any consoles and did this on purpose because they are edgy. 🤣
Me who has a switch, pc and Xbox 360 refusing to get a newer Xbox
@@HuzakuMicrosoft owns Xbox, and pc players mainly use windows....which is Microsoft who owns Xbox
@derrickmeade4891 that's not how a business works. Cope cope cope. Of the xbox is not profitable, which it is not. They abandon the project.
@Huzaku they have an entire pc empire. Plus they trina put all games available to everyone. Plus xbox is still getting good money from gamepass subscriptions.
At this point they should make online play for Xbox free. They already have gamepass to fill that revenue stream and it would be another reason to move to xbox
Well most people have gamepass ultimate which gives you gold. No point in making it free online
Another problem with poor sales is an overlapping fan base, people Interested in Xbox games, are more likely to already own a gaming PC than Sony or Nintendo fans.
Me laughing in emulator.
"You HAVE to buy a nintendo switch"
Me who pirated it: 😶
And had a better experience
Fun fact:
Any modern Android that has a newer Snapdragon model chip inside their phone can do that with a neat little program called Yuzu, or with some of its spin-offs.
Also, you can do it all, locally, on your Android without a USB or PC.
they deleted the emulator for switch or am i wrong?
@@Henimols yeah yuzu shut down but you can use sudachi which is an emulator relaunched by the creators of yuzu
@@Henimols Hahaha, oh boy you must be new here. There is no such thing as "Deleting" on the internet
They realise that selling games from xbox is more profitable than selling xbox itself.
@@Foboki copium levels over 9,000!!
@@Huzaku Microsoft own's such titles as Minecraft, diablo, call of duty and more so tell me why they are not Xbox exclusive?
@@Huzaku wait i can answer myself, Money everybody who buys any Microsoft game from ps5 is giving this Money to Microsoft not sony
@@Foboki not all of it, but yeah. They get what's left after the store takes its cut
@@Huzaku that's still ahh loads of money, more than they get from Sterling consoles
"Money is in the software"
- Uncle Phil
The only way i convinced my dad to buy a PS5 was that it could play 4k movies.
Yk a pc can do that too
@@shaine9968ah yes let me drag my 35 pounds clunky box of 1000$ hardware down to the living room and spend 45 minutes setting it up to watch one movie
@@Hanz7432
You have no idea what you are talking about.
A 50 dollar used xbox one s can play 4k media aswell. Its a very cheap solution for 4k media. You don't need a 500 dollar ps5
@@Hanz7432 still better than a console:)
@@herroberbesserwisser7331 you completely missed my point, I was talking about PCs being impractical for watching movies
Also Nintendo and PS are immediate givens in Japan, almost 100% market. Having an entire country in your pocket is big
For the same reason Sony is releasing their games on PC, having a dedicated console for exclusives isn’t fiscally viable anymore
no but there still only releasing them a year minimum after it came out on ps5
They aren’t releasing them day 1 except live service. They make most of their money from the first year.
Jacob:
-complains that play station has exclusives
-complains that Xbox doesn’t.
Console sales might be down, but Xbox company as a whole is winning
Not really, that’s why they are porting games to other platforms. There sales are shit and they have to make money somehow so there porting games to more popular platforms. Eventually the Xbox platform may just die because what’s the point if you can play both Xbox and PlayStation games on the PlayStation or pc.
@@ghosts2169 Microsoft is being smart, they have the PC market cornered, they don't own steam or epic games but they own the most common operating system, putting their games on PC is a net win for them unlike Sony which doesn't have the same market coverage for PC. Microsoft is being incredibly nice to Sony while they have been actively stacking the deck against them. Microsoft doesn't care about the Xbox outside of its useful side of getting some non PC players to play their games (and it's useful for testing tech on a mass audience). Sony should be concerned that Microsoft has all of these big companies that they can easily just remove from PlayStation
@@ghosts2169no there doing it because they’d make more money like that than buying consoles like ps5 are doing
@@ghosts2169bro, there sales are great. I mean they are effectively winning on the game pass, steam, mine craft and in games like Diablo and call of duty. Consoles inherently lose a game money. Game sales are infinitely more important. That is where Microsoft is winning. Sony should consider a similar path as consoles are just out dated concepts. They are only selling you the brand at this loin and charging you 700$ so they can lose 100$ in hopes you can buy their games for 80$ to make up the loss of selling their consoles. That is just inefficient and bad for consumers
Xbox isn't dying, and its about making money on the games!
if im not wrong consoles are even sold with loss. Games are what make profit. Now is Xbox on PC and Xbox and could be stream to other devices so everywhere that could potentially "sell" more subscriptions and theeeen Xbox change pricing to more :D
I support companies that aren't user-hostile. Exclusive titles are user-hostile
All companies are user-hostile then. You forget Microsoft is buying big name developers to keep them from Sony/Nintendo? That's the same thing.
@@arroncunningham9866 Not really. What M$ did was buy the companies to keep the games from being Sony exclusives, sure, but the results are more broad than that. M$ is moving away from exclusives and sharing with Sony and other platforms. It's crazy that M$ is seemingly the good actor in this scenario, but here we are.
@@JT.PlaysGames Sorry, but what Microsoft did was continue to push for a de-facto monopoly on video games. They didn't buy Bethesda or Activision to "keep games from being Sony exclusives", they bought them to starve Playstation and/or Nintendo from high-selling titles. They are doing something MUCH worse then "exclusives", they are attempting to force control over the entire industry. The end-goal is to either be the ONLY console (they already own the majority of PC game market), or at least being capable of ordering Sony/Nintendo to do what they want or be ruined. They are absolutely NOT the "good actor" in this scenario.
@@arroncunningham9866
Hard to be the only console, when your own console isn't incredible in sales. Xbox is trying to expand its platform. PlayStation keeps games from Xbox and for years paid third party teams from releasing games to Xbox for years. PlayStation is dying in truth, look at Godfall which was supposed to be a destiny level game that flopped on PlayStation till Xbox got it. And genshin impact now jumping through the roof in players now being on Xbox.
For so many years Xbox has always been seen as "trash" with no exclusives, and terrible hardware. So Xbox is switching the game on the market. It's not illegal nor malicious. It's a different strategy. That's why PlayStation is falling over because they can't afford to keep up. When Xbox fought "fair" no one cared for them except the OGs. Now they play their way and so PlayStation and their fans are complaining and trying to make Xbox the villain.
@@arroncunningham9866 What you are describing isn't going in that exact direction. M$ is moving towards putting their exclusives on other platforms, as well as making all of their games playable almost everywhere. It's a power move for sure, but probably won't make much of a dent in devout PlayStation and Nintendo fans.
If M$ wants to take over all of gaming, including PC, they'll have to make it far more appealing than Steam.
Aged like milk. No more sony exclusives
I don't poop on a regular basis.
😊❤
FABOLOUS
Eat more fibre.
Drink more water and butt secks
@@Jake_The_Banjo drink more water
PS5 Pro bouta make history though for least units sold and and least games made for it
I started a war
will still sell more than xbox
As a former xbox enthusiast, we can't be in denial. Playstation actually has a strong marketing for their consoles. They're just so addicted to advertising that they have ps4 games on ps5 hardware, including the pro. Xbox will probably do the same when series x pro comes out for xbox One games since they abandoned the backward compatibility long ago. Nintendo however doesn't need to have the strongest hardware because they know their units will be sold by anyone who can afford it and despite for lackluster modern AAA game ports as well as a whatever nintendo switch online variety and lots of bloatware in the eshop, guess what? Nintendo dominates. So my point is at this rate xbox should just retire by 2027 since they literally said if gamepass fails, they'll stop the console market. Xbox does well with selling xbox games made for the pc market but the only reason to get an xbox console is either they have better optimized console versions of modern games, you get gamepass day 1, or you have better enhanced older games with quick resume tech, that's it. Not many people buy their games full price, let alone pre-order, because of gamepass, so there is no point to buy an xbox if xbox wants to put gamepass on other platforms, and give their games away. It's pointless to keep fighting a losing battle.
@@bobkane5054nigga we? PlayStation does not know you
Nope, the consumers would still buy them because PlayStation brand has become the Apple of consoles.
Brand recognition is huge.
@@BYD-Gold Xbox series X is selling worse than the Xbox one buddy.
All of that, and Microsoft shut down some of its best studios near the beginning of summer.
😭😭😭
They didn't shut them down they moved them and consolidated them into 1 studio massive difference
Stop spreading false information
@@TheRadMan1234 Did you not hear about Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, or Alpha Dog?
@@Sqeaky6969 that was Zenimax,
me having three generations of Xboxs in my basement
The fact that you used Spider-man 2 and Tears of the kingdom as examples of exclusivity while both of them can be played on pc is kinda hilarious to me 😂
He said day one mate
@@SolarErazer look up spider-man 2 brazil pc port
@@SolarErazer You could illegally play Zelda TOTK on Pc before the game even launched.
@@TennisBall_FanLike that is any better. Piracy is pretty much robbing workers out of their money.
@johnathanholmes1297 yeah, in that case. Those if you wanna play something like Castlevania Curse of Darkness or Hulk Ultimate Destruction, two PS2 era locked games, you can't anymore by legal means that support the devs. Either you waste cash on a new gaming box and a title for it or you can save some time and money the easy way. Either way, nobody who put in the effort of making the games is getting a nickel.
Spider man on the pc: am i a joke to you?
Not everyone wants to spend 2.5k on a PC that can run that game
@@skezmo 2.5 k lol
@@skezmo you can build a pc that's graphically equivalent to a ps5 pro for 750 easily.
@@skezmoyou can buy a 500 budget baller build for better performance than ps5 pro
Isn’t Spider-Man 2 still not on PC?
Phil Spencer admitted that his need for money and not good games and exclusives is what killed Xbox
He never said this. He said people aren't gonna buy Xbox purely for exclusives and that they messed up with the one generation, the reason people are buying Playstation is cus their entire games library is on that console
@@Sqeaky6969bro just straight lied😂
Uh no he never said that lol
Mattrick made a shit take that was dropped with online DRM and he's booted
Phil spencer costs xbox over $70 billion for acquisitions that didn't make money back and he's still CEO
Are you insane? Do you think exclusives is a good thing for us? Are you out of your mind?
Im just concerned about the posters hanging with electrical tape in the background
Honestly exclusives just aren't what they used to be and not a good metric to run on anymore. Back 20 years ago game development was a lot cheaper and games were more compact and shorter. A solid 20-40 hours of gameplay and people were happy.
Nowadays game development has spiraled out of control into the tens or hundreds of millions and are expected to provide in excess of 80 hours of gameplay or a highly engaging multiplayer for free. It doesn't make sense to invest so heavily in exclusives anymore, they're not feasible, with these kinds of budgets companies force themselves to go cross platform and people are going for it
Dont help them. Make all games universal so that everyone can play them and the consoles with less compatibility and poorer software can fall into obscurity and die if they dont step it up.
ngl I used to be a PS gamer but after realising what kind of company Sony is I decided to switch to the new xbox and I do not regret it lol
@@tazzled2325 they are both billion dollar companies that both do terrible stuff for money. Stop dickriding corporations.
Sony is scuzzy as hell The only thing I like about PlayStation is literally the controller button mapping
Man wait till you hear about MS becoming a defacto monopoly with in the gaming community it will blow your mind.give it 10-15 years and they will be getting sued and have to sell off.
Sony and nintendo arent angels, everybody should know that but microsoft is the worst and you cant see that? I think you are lyier and was from the beginning an xbox fan
@@georgkeller3225 I don't think any of the companies are good, sony and nintendo just happen to be the worst of the bunch
Imagine owning a console just to play and “finish” all 6 exclusives and hopping back on call of duty each year..
Didn't you shit on Sony for planning to get Batman Arkham Knight on PS4, soo whats the better route
Yeah they dont care about console sales, because whether you play on pc or console, they get that sweet game pass members bag. That and they get the good publicity for giving multi platform access to their 'exculsives' like halo and forza horizon etc. Its a win win for the community and the company
They seriously need to upgrade and make a new version of the Nintendo switch
No confirmation yet, but there are a lot of rumors and some leakers suggesting that it could realease early-mid 2025. Best to be skeptical of them but still hopeful
@@evilduckling3469A new console was confirmed from Nintendo's Twitter account
Nintendo said they will reveal switch successor in this fiscal year
@@dadwithnomustache let’s hope they take action for once
There is a port for spider man 2 , disclaimer: i am not saying that you should illegally download this game , this is just meant as information
No matter what, I’ll always remain faithful to my Xbox, even if there aren’t any good exclusives anymore.
Same bro, ppl forget that the Xbox 360 was literally the best gaming console ever made
@@dizzy128Then xbox was never the same since 2013. The only major advantage to an xbox is its huge lifespan of support that most rarely if ever got. the xbox 360 just got its store shutdown just months ago.
Long live the green x
@@gorillamasterofgaming5525lol the reason why Xbox is focusing more on pc stuff is because they want more accessibility.For example you can build a pc that has the same specs as a ps5 for cheaper and you can get more games on pc than a console
@@xsleet2839 Yes because windows is cheaper and better than xbox.
I don’t believe that it’s dying in a way, because Microsoft isn’t worried about becoming the biggest gaming company , their main focus is in the computer market. I got Xbox for just gaming and almost all your Xbox video game inventory transfer to pc. But the only way Xbox can focus on exclusivity, is if they cancel game pass. But what gaming console you play is all preference
Xbox is owned by Microsoft and such sure, but it has its own studio and shit, Xbox would be an amazing competitor if they actually did anything with it
@@WestlyJohn exactly, PlayStation on the other hand...
@@sunshineandrei2569 all going to pc like xbox lol
Who tf cares about exclusives? Do u live in 1999? Bro, I dont care xbox exclusives are being shared with ps5. I like the philosofy of xbox
@@fernandoferraz3527 I'm just gonna take a guess and go you're under 20.
I think it boils down to that there aren't many people who like to game who don't have a console. Playstation players are like apple users, buying everything right after it comes out
I’m an apple user and I have a ps4 and don’t buy everything right when it comes out.
@@NiglonMusk good for you then, your in the minority who dont waste money
PlayStation and XBOX are like the iPhone and Android of game consoles
@zmike2024 I agree one you get better quality while being complicated with predatory sales tactics, and the other you get a bit lower quality with more accessibility, better features, and healthy implementation
@zmike2024 and please don't tell me you play on switch, that's like a windows phone, or any Nintendo device for that matter
I have a pc and a ps5 cause xbox realeses their games on pc game pass and other people realese Nintendo's games on pc. i use the ps5 for spider-man, ghosts of tsushima, god of war, and gran turismo
"Sony and Nintendo are still doing exclusives"
Are we talking about the same Sony?
Yes but not as much.
@@GizmoHibiki more than Xbox
They do have exclusives... for a few years at least. Then they give everything to Microsoft.
Microsoft own the most commonly used operating system in history along with multiple pc and laptop lines, and xbox games, game pass and sales over the years, i doubt microsoft is worrying that series x sales dropped a bit when they are one of the most profitable companies on the planet
Xbox and Microsoft are different companies. The chaos we've seen this year is because Microsoft is fed up of Xbox's poor performance.
Honestly he said Nintendo switch has poor hardware and performance I didn’t even notice like honestly I think people say stuff has poor hardware but really the games on the switch look AMAZING not hating btw love this channel and the content
I believe the main reason for this (specifically for new Nintendo games) is because the games are made for the weaker hardware and manage the limitations well while ports of games are often built for different hardware which makes the hardware struggle more which is why they often don’t look as good compared to other hardware.
The only games that look AMAZING are the ones made for the switch with a lower resolution. look at any other modern Triple A game played on the switch and the difference is huge. i understand they have their niche market but they are going to need better reasons for people to want to still buy other switch games.
The funnier fact that genshin released Xbox version and decide to give everyobe the x-box glider and not just for xbox user
Xbox knows this, and I know this, and this is why I refuse to purchase a Playstation to play games. Not interested in supporting the toxic corporate practices of making games "console exclusive."
It’s annoying but it isn’t toxic. What is the point of a system if there no need to buy it? Everyone would just get pc
Competition is a good thing in the industry? It drives companies to create better and higher quality products to one-up each other and therefore is overall healthy for the industry.
@@weignerleigner3037because the consoles are still an objectively better piece of hardware for gaming? Much more cost effective, much easier to setup/maintain, and usually much more space efficient. It’s so braindead when people say “why would anyone buy a console without exclusives”
@@JustLikeYou. but every person today basically needs a computer. You can build a gaming computer for 800-1000 dollars that can play modern games. For a few hundred more you can get a personal computer as well as a gaming system that plays every game available to play. Makes far more sense and it will last far longer than a gaming system. Gaming systems have like 8 year runs max your pc could last two system cycles if it’s got a good graphics card. Which you can simply just update as needed. So really you aren’t even saving that much money
@@weignerleigner3037 what exactly do you “need” a computer for? What do you use it for besides gaming? 99% of what the normal person “needs” a PC for you can just use your phone. If you are a normal person who games “casually” it makes all the sense in the world to purchase a console over a PC
“If I want to play Spiderman 2 I have to buy a PS5”
Epic games: “Let me introduce myself”
It’s the brand loyalty mixed with these other things
Tbh honest i never believed that exclusives made a big difference in console sales untill stellar blade came out and i sold my series s and immediately bought the ps5.
The thing is Microsoft is moving towards a software market rather than a hardware market.
Well, Xbox isn't trying to do consoles as much as games nowadays.
Game consoles are also insanely expensive. If want to buy a game they also have a tier system if you want the full game you need to pay 3 times the games price.
Being an xbox owner and recently buying a pc is the best thing ever. Cause pc is so xbox friendly. I can hop from some of my data on xbox , hop to steam for playstation exclusive games , and just use pc for pc only games.
It's really sad what Xbox has been doing in recent years, I've always been a fan of the console and seeing this makes me sad.
It’s because microsoft looses money on every console, and only makes it back with the games/gp.
But if they can make YOU pay THEM money for windows, then make more profit by selling you the same game for the same price without the loss leader, they get a thicker wallet, and people are free to play on whatever platform they want! :)
If Nintendo didn’t have exclusives, nobody would buy the switch (which they do make a profit on). So they would make less money!
As a PC player, I absolutely despise console exclusives.
They don't make their money on consoles like sony and nintendo. They make it on game pass
Been a long 6 to 12 months waiting for the Bloodborne PC release.
Also the fact that the Series S forces devs to spec their games for lower end hardware doesn't encourage them to push the console to its limits making the PS5 more performant overall.
now that im an adult i realize sony and Nintendo were the villains all along. im so sorry xbox
Console exclusives gotta go. Let the best hardware win and let the cross play flow
I would agree when they fix all the hacking and modding crap.
Nah, if I was a PC owner I'd just wait for the year
It really boils down to Cult mentality… a good example is say something about a PC gamer and see what happens…
Remember, most consoles these days are sold at a loss. Microsoft stands to make more money just selling games alone or GamePass Ultimate subscriptions. Their only real screw up was the XBox Series S having less memory than the Series X, then requiring games being compatible for both, which makes it impossible for some games to be made for XBox at all. Easy solution is to make the Series S with memory to match the Series X, & still leave it as digital only.
Pretty much. I considered getting the S model for portability, but it felt a bit pointless when I have a PC and PS5
Console sales don't matter that much anymore. Usually they even make Loss on Console sales. The important Thing is to sell your Games, ideally through your shop because there you have the most control over the prices
Exclusives are moving to PS5, but changes with games pass and Windows 10/11 is blurring the gap between console and PC. Miicrosoft is evolving to the point where consoles won’t be necessary in a generation or so.
My Xbox one is officially classified as my backlog box. Soon as I got a PS5, I stopped playing it.
I'll be honest I completely forgot Xbox was a thing.
I just had a flashback to being at my toutors in my early teens and seeing him play Gears of War. Looked cool not my speed. But Darksiders was sick. They had that on playstation so I was set getting Darksiders 1 and 2 once it came out.