And the market is totally saturated with cheap to free content that’s of very high quality. New games needing 6 months of patches has trained people to wait before paying money on a purchase or game rental.
It's almost like conditioning their users to not buy games and subscribe to a service instead, which in turn would mean they're getting less money per user, is a bad way to run a business which is know for being extremely expensive to operate eh?
Plus, you can literally get Game Pass for free forever with MS Rewards. I haven't paid for an Xbox game in years, lol. It's great for me, but it can't be good for MS.
The day Xbox started to claim that console sales numbers are not important to them was the day it became clear they were on their way out of this business. I mean, how can a company sell product "XY" and then say "we don't really care how product 'XY' sells".... that doesn't make any sense whatsoever from a business point of view, especially considering how expensive the hardware business is.
They stopped listing console sales because at the time they saw they were selling half as many PS5s and now 1/3 the sales of PS5 so they say its not important. They say GamePass is the only thing thats important which selling a service to PC players or is more profitable to a company since they wouldn't have to make, ship, and sell a console just sell a service.
It never did make sense and I don't understand the xbox fans that bought into the "console sales don't matter" narrative when gamepass is so important to them. Every xbox series console sold is a potential new gamepass subscriber. Like if I bought a series x the first thing I'd do is subscribe to gamepass. With console sales being so low you get less subscribers. Subscribers on pc gamepass dried up a long time ago so they need the console to carry but they've completely neglected their own hardware. You can't just keep depending on pc. Why Phil still has a job is beyond me lol
The closure of Tango Gameworks is such a huge slap to the face of the entire gaming industry, devs and players alike. If only we could just reach in and completely flush out the executive leadership of Xbox and replace it with competent people that aren't driven by greed.
@@ContrastCopy Capcom has some comically greedy execs too. one of them publicly stated he wanted game prices to be even higher. and don't forget the company peddles heavily in microtransactions too.
It has been clear for a long time that the Xbox management (including Phil Spencer, despite the constant claims that he's a "real" gamer) can't tell a good game from a bad game if their lives depended on it.
@@scheung14 Halo infinite was a pretty great single player experience. Multiplayer part is NOW apparently pretty good, which took WAY too long, but I don't think you can really say "halo hasn't been good for years" anymore. It's just not masterpiece-level anymore, if that's what you mean by "good."
It’s crazy to think how as good as some of their games were, Tango wouldn’t even be a top 5 studio for Sony… probably not even top 10, and they were probably the best Microsoft has had in 10 years…. Makes it all make sense why the Xbox business is failing
Bethesda was a MASSIVE, unheard of acquisition at the time. Then Xbox showed zero interest in cultivating all those new Bethesda studios, by Spencer's own admission giving them very little oversight. Instead of actually managing their teams and positioning them for "success" by MS's vague metrics, Xbox chose to do only thing they're really good at - spend even more obscene amounts of money yet again on acquisitions. This leadership team has absolutely no skill in cultivating talent and creating art, and no interest in learning how to, so don't be surprised in the coming months when they close more talented studios because they don't feel like managing them. You want an actually effective cost-cutting measure? Fire Phil Spencer and Matt Booty. All this "leadership" team ever does is spend money and spin news stories.
But Phil Spencer is so great as playing the victim, pretending to be the nice guy who cares about everyone and building a toxic parasocial relationship with the fanboys. Dude missed his calling as a cult leader.
The problem arose when Phil made all future Zenimax games Xbox exclusives. You can't spend $7 billion on a publisher and then eliminate a large portion of their market. Phil's miscalculation was that people like me still didn't buy an Xbox. We simply played the many games coming to PlayStation.
@toastyburger Then you have the person like me who actually DID buy an Xbox, but it wasn't because of that. It was just to play the Xbox games I missed out on as a kid. Come to find out the OG selection is incredibly limited (I can't play Jet Set Radio), as is the 360 selection, and there's certain games I still can't get because they are delisted (50 Cent's Blood on the Sand), and on top of that, any game that comes out on Series X, I'd rather play it on PS5. The games I WOULD get have some stupid online crap. Forza is online only, and Halo Infinite's campaign can't be played without a download.
Dreams should have been given the resources to be multiplayer, launch on PC within a year of PS4 launch, then receive a PS5 update Sackboy should have been the mascot of it And creators should have been allowed to sell their creations This could have been a Roblox or Steam Workshop style rival This is a massive missed opportunity for Sony at a time that would have mattered
And it will sadly die an abandoned product and no one will re-create it again. We do have Core, Roblox and such on PC but it just isn't as good as Dreams.
Dreams was dope! Microsoft to Media Molecule: “Anybody out there a superstar. Wanna stay a superstar. Don’t wanna have to worry about your executive producer… all in the video. All on the record. Dancin…”
I'm worried for Ninja Theory. Even if Microsoft released Hellblade 2 on PS5 as well, is no guarantee Ninja Theory is safe considered what happen to Tango. Gosh man they should just stay independant. The first Hellblade give them a good reputation, especially after dealing with negative reaction on DmC game. If they still independant, Hellblade 2 is guarantee success and they might as well can grow more as a studio. But now, their fate is in the hand of Microsoft...
I don't care about that game (hated the first one) but based on what I've heard, Xbox is giving it pretty much zero marketing. Compare that to Stellar Blade, a game from a studio not even owned by Sony. They got one hell of a marketing push by Sony and now it is selling like crazy.
Wow, I remember unlocking the yellow headed character in one of the LBPs as a kid and not really knowing its relevance. Seeing that it was from the inception of the game really brings me back
No mention of Big Mode’s first release and instant critical darling, Animal Well hitting ps plus day one? I played a bit this morning and the hype on this game is real. This along with Dave the Diver hitting plus has me feeling pretty high on life at the moment.
Imagine spending 69 BILLION DOLLARS on a game company only to shut down one of their studios because of wanting to 'scale back'. This combined with the fact that Microsoft's revenue has increased to 3 TRILLION DOLLARS, yet they cannot afford to maintain the studios (SPECIFICALLY Tango Gameworks), and be comfortable with these studios making the games they want? Miss me with the BS!!
Mystic, you are really one of the best RUclipsrs ever. You make the perfect kind of content for someone who isn’t too invested in Sony business, but should be up to date on all things ps5, as a ps5 owner
Ryan, thank you for being one of the few RUclipsrs who does not simply slide into overly simplistic narrative "capitalism bad" or "CEOs bad". Having worked in several big corporations I can say that things are never black or white and usually there are multiple reasons for everything. I personally believe it is like the veteran Xbox employee said, but of course it is much easier to just get emotional and blame Phil...
I have been critical of Xbox’s acquisition of ABK not because I’m a Sony Stan, but because just buying games and expecting that to fix your issues is not good business practice. BGS, ABK, etc. all have major issues with how they go about making games and those flaws are going to bleed into Xbox. They also are now $70 billion in debt and have to make money RIGHT NOW to pay it off
There should not be consoles like PS5 and Series X games that are capped at 30-40 fps. I believe the consoles have the ability to reach a stable 60 once the Pro comes out
I do hope the rumors around a Sony showcase are true and that some cool stuff gets shown off. Right now on the Sony side I only really have Death Stranding 2 that I’m looking forward to on the horizon, but a new Tsushima or Astrobot game would definitely get me hyped.
I don't think anyone likes losing games to exclusivity, but it's honestly what brought me over to PlayStation (also I was just not a fan of the XboxOne UI and we already had Xbox systems prior but I digress). As much as I didn't want to lose some of my favorite games on PlayStation, I was excited to see the potential rebound from Xbox. I'm sad to see it's not panning out, but hopefully they can get into a healthier state and pivot from there.
I totally agree with your take on Microsoft's take on the studios they bought and what they are doing with Xbox. Without healthy competition, Sony can make things worse for their customers. Nintendo does have their own games and is in a different mindset compared to Playstation or Xbox. Maybe we need a new contender in the hardware console space. I really hope that Microsoft won't kill Xbox as a console. I also hope Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo stop buying third party studios, but I guess the CEOs of those studios cannot say no to more money.
Man Dreams not going to PC and not getting a PS5 is a huge blow, whoever made that decision in Sony management made a big, big mistake. The sales velocity probably looks bad, but that game on PC with an internet browser on the same system is what would have really carried the platform forward, including cross publishing the eventual PS5 version, and even using KB/M and virtual reality on PC platform as well.......... huge, huge mistake for PlayStation management here unfortunately
Those spec leaks don't add up. The tflops would mean it has better theoretical performance than a 4070 super, which is £600 right now just for that gpu alone. Also the specs seem to contradict what tflops it has, the gl2 cache is low af and the gpu frequency also quite low. I think it gonna be a lot weaker than that leak, unless they are planning on selling for £800 - £900 which is highly unrealistic and they will lose a lot of money if they did that lol
I don't think Sony will ever do day 1 releases for PS Plus. That's the main issue with gamepass. Game sales makes more money vs a subscription. Microsoft is basically running Xbox with a loss. But since they have deep pockets, they can afford to do so. So its kinda strange when they closed 4 studios.
@@DeadPhoenix86DP Yeah Imagine they put COD on gamepass day 1 lol they're gonna lose like a LOT of money doing that. I highly doubt they'll do it though.
@@DeadPhoenix86DPyeah you have a good point. I believe even with small games like Stray, they did lose a significan amount of money. The problem Microsoft has now is that with how big they are in value now, shareholders are expecting a LOT in revenues, reason why they are cutting edges everywhere now
I think while PS5 Pro isn’t a big surprise, as mid life refreshes happen for a ton of electronics. The issue for me is how will developers use this? While yeah games are surely to look better and run better but for a vast majority. The games already look fabulous so visually it’s not really a giant leap. Frame rates is where likely this will be boosted to locked 60 at 4K or 120. Though once again this speaks to a smaller audience who need to have the best on console. Vast majority won’t see the need to upgrade unless of course there are exclusives to the PS5 Pro. This would definitely boost sales but idk Sony never did PS4 Pro exclusives, so we will see what this PS5 Pro brings to the table once its revealed.
Xbox died when they started releasing on PC same day. Now when they are going to release titles on PS5 as well, Xbox is truly dead to me and I will never buy one of their consoles. Luckily I own a gaming rig and a PS5 now.
Okay what I need to know is if you bought the game is it leaving or are you going to be able to play it still or even download it still if it's not on their list in the damn store
Last chance to play should be right at the top/front and centre of the ps plus section punching me in my face. Anywhere else is absolutely asinine. It took me hours to even find it for the first time while actively looking. That whole thing is kind of messy to be honest. Also I’ll die happy if 4K locked 60fps is the peak of gaming. I don’t need any better than that.
Nintendo doesn't see layoffs because their games don't have huge 200 million dollar budgets and their games very rarely go on sale and if they do it's nothing close to the price drops that we see out of PlayStation. Plus seeing Nintendo make more cartoony games makes it so they can bring out more games. Also helped that they ported over a lot of Wii U games.
I feel bad for Xbox’s state today is like the console is just a mere accessory and their main product for gaming are their live services. I’ve always been the type of gamer who buys both Xbox and Playstation whenever they release a new console but sad to say in years to come Xbox will have a similar decision what Sega did years ago.
According Sony - 45% more rendering performance than PS5 A much smaller leap than PS4 to PS4 Pro which doubled GPU performance Hopefully enough to get performance modes up from 720p to 1080p so the upscaled image isn't a blurred mess. PSSSR should help too
@@chrisc_1012 ps4 was out of date before it launched ps5 is nearly 5x more powerful, now with the ps5 pro having proper ray tracing, stable 60fps at much higher framerates with its own fsr tech to go upto 120fps that is a step up and like I said if sony bring out the big guns and have a banger showcase then ps5 pro is essential.
@@chrisc_1012PS5 Pro is not a big leap? 8 Zen 2 cores clocked faster, 60CU RDNA3.5 (faster than a 7800XT), & 300 TOPS NPU for $600! 4K 60fps with Stellar Blade!?!
Subscriptions can work in gaming, It Will never be as sucessfull as a movie/TV show subscriptions (because games require more time to complete than other types of media), but they need to bring gaming to everyone. Try and fix cloud gaming first and then atract everyone to your subscription. I dont want to have a subscription and think about game sizes and updates.
60Cus x64 Stream Processors per Cu its equal 3.840 Stream Processors, 3.840 SP x 4 Flops Per Stream Processor x 2.35Ghz: 36.09 Teraflops, Its Impossible to Be 56Cus as 56Cus would Not Deliver 36 Teraflops at 2.35Ghz, but at 2.35Ghz 56 Cus Rdna 3 which has 4 Flops per Core Delivers 33.6 Teraflops.
I feel like I let Dreams Down, I brought it day 1, played it a few times then put it down thinking Id pick it back up but life got busy and now I do that for all my games and go back later, but the way games are made now you have to jump in and stay in or companies see the game as a fail, sad for so many reasons because Dreams had the potential to be HUGE! I feel it still does but Sony is too busy watching Xboxs actions and chasing money
Xbox (talking to journalists): "Oh yeah, we're gonna be raising the price of Game Pass and we'll be releasing more of our exclusives games onto PS5 and-" Phil Spencer (whispering) "Shut Up, SHHHH, what are you doing?" Xbox "Do you mind? I'm talking to the press!! So anyway, yeah, we're gonna experiment with 9V batteries in our new controllers and we may even try to bring back the Kinect- " Phil Spencer "SHHHHHH!! SHHHHHH!!!! SHHHHHHUT UP!!!"
After the recent price hikes on PlayStation plus I finally unsubscribed. I had a premium sub since it launched, and before that I had subs to both ps plus and ps now. The outrageous price hike for a service that does not really provide me any real value is what led me to cancelling, and I know that I am not alone.
Same here. And I had ps plus for like a decade. 60 a year was BARELY worth it for the base subscription. After the hike I let it expire. When I had to switch consoles I subbed for one month to back up and redownload my saves. But that’s it. Oh well
just so everyone knows, the reason it's not back in the 177 countries is because it's still written in the game that PSN is required. That needs to change before Steam will change it.
Gaming companies that got shut down/ruined by Microsoft- Lionhead, Rare, Ensemble, Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, Alphadog Games, Roundhouse Games, and most likely Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, and Turn 10 to get axed next. Gaming companies shut down by Sony- Zipper Interactive, Japan Studios, London Studios, and Media Molecule on thin ice. Gaming companies shut down by Nintendo- uh… AlphaDream? It’s almost like Westernization of the gaming industry was the worst thing to happen to it. The more Western a games company, the worse it is for its employees, consumers, and the games industry as a whole.
The difference is Sony and Microsoft are not solely video game companies. Nintendo is. And that's why these stupid decisions are made, by higher ups worried solely about profits in these giant companies. Sony and Microsoft should spin off their video game companies into independent ventures and hopefully this wouldn't happen as often.
@HastyElderHaman Also Japanese labor laws being a thing. It's why Iwata took a 50% paycut to avoid having to dismiss employees when Nintendo was facing financial losses
@@icedcapplord710fair enough, my point was, that the most Japanese console manufacturer on the list was the one that treated its employees and studios the best, and that Westernization of the games industry was a mistake.
Western audience demands "muh graphics" so then you end up with a shitty game that looks great, but 80% of its resources were spent on the art team instead of making the game fun. Most console gamers have like 10 games in their library, whatever game that was the "hot" thing that year, maybe one more, then they spend most of their time on free to play games. You can't shit out $200+ million dollar games, a lot of developers/publishers have lost the plot. WE WANT FUN
My dude; there are 2 Vancouvers. One in Canada; which most people know of, and the one I'm currently living in, here in Washington state. I know most people would think of Canada, but those of us who live in Vancouver, WA, our first thoughts is of our hometown. And since you are talking Seattle; another Washington city, again, my first thoughts are of here. You really need to research these things, and be more clear on what you mean.
I’m not falling for it this time. They can keep their worthless hardware. I know that they wanna go all digital anyway so gaming is dead. Most people just don’t know it yet. Because it’s a process, not an event. So I’m going back to past consoles and hacking sh*^ outta them. Before they completely destroy gaming. I’m prepping!
Xbox is a joke. Nothing has changed and nothing will change. They’ll be 3rd party in 5 years. New hardware will be met with all time low sales numbers. Quote me.
ROMAN Games please , NONE Ancient Greek games NONE Troy game NONE OPEN ARENA Fighting games , NONE Great AAA Open world games, None Great AAA Space games none Agent Spy games NONE
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Xbox is not selling games because of Gamepass. Gamepass has peaked on subscriptions... there is nobody left to sell the subscription to.
Game Pass has driven them into the corner. They thought it was their greatest strength, but it turned out to be their greatest weakness.
And the market is totally saturated with cheap to free content that’s of very high quality. New games needing 6 months of patches has trained people to wait before paying money on a purchase or game rental.
It's almost like conditioning their users to not buy games and subscribe to a service instead, which in turn would mean they're getting less money per user, is a bad way to run a business which is know for being extremely expensive to operate eh?
I mean there are plenty of people still to sell Gamepass too. It's more those people don't want to buy it because it's overrated. 🤣
Plus, you can literally get Game Pass for free forever with MS Rewards. I haven't paid for an Xbox game in years, lol. It's great for me, but it can't be good for MS.
I only just discovered the "Last chance to play" section a few weeks ago. They really should make it more visible.
It wouldn't be as climactic if they made it easy to find. A last chance should be something worth digging for.
It's not hard to find lol. You all need your hand held for everything 😅
Where is it?
the amount of greed from sony is incredible.
@@romanski5811 it's in the PS plus section under collections or catalogues all the way down the bottom.
The day Xbox started to claim that console sales numbers are not important to them was the day it became clear they were on their way out of this business. I mean, how can a company sell product "XY" and then say "we don't really care how product 'XY' sells".... that doesn't make any sense whatsoever from a business point of view, especially considering how expensive the hardware business is.
Yep. R.I.P. LBOX
They stopped listing console sales because at the time they saw they were selling half as many PS5s and now 1/3 the sales of PS5 so they say its not important. They say GamePass is the only thing thats important which selling a service to PC players or is more profitable to a company since they wouldn't have to make, ship, and sell a console just sell a service.
It never did make sense and I don't understand the xbox fans that bought into the "console sales don't matter" narrative when gamepass is so important to them. Every xbox series console sold is a potential new gamepass subscriber. Like if I bought a series x the first thing I'd do is subscribe to gamepass.
With console sales being so low you get less subscribers. Subscribers on pc gamepass dried up a long time ago so they need the console to carry but they've completely neglected their own hardware. You can't just keep depending on pc. Why Phil still has a job is beyond me lol
@@cookingsauce8274 he'll be out start of next gen in 2028 because of terrible Series X sales.
@@RossMalagarie However, if such a service remains stagnant while the operating costs increase is it really relevant anymore?
The closure of Tango Gameworks is such a huge slap to the face of the entire gaming industry, devs and players alike. If only we could just reach in and completely flush out the executive leadership of Xbox and replace it with competent people that aren't driven by greed.
Replace them with Capcom Execs
Evil within 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I am not an Xbox person, but HI FI Rush looked like a great game too
@@ContrastCopy Capcom has some comically greedy execs too. one of them publicly stated he wanted game prices to be even higher. and don't forget the company peddles heavily in microtransactions too.
Huge loss I was hoping for evil within 3 and now tango is shut down
Tango were shutdown after making Hi-Fi Rush, but 343 are still around after Halo 4 and 5 lmao
Xbox don’t know how to manage their studios. Hi-Fi Rush is a great game and Halo hasn’t been good for years.
It has been clear for a long time that the Xbox management (including Phil Spencer, despite the constant claims that he's a "real" gamer) can't tell a good game from a bad game if their lives depended on it.
Crazy how the real “halo killer” was halo itself
They set the standard for LBOx ‘greatness!’😂
@@scheung14 Halo infinite was a pretty great single player experience. Multiplayer part is NOW apparently pretty good, which took WAY too long, but I don't think you can really say "halo hasn't been good for years" anymore. It's just not masterpiece-level anymore, if that's what you mean by "good."
With all the drama in Gaming news I forget about PS5 Pro.
Kendrick and Drake made me forget gaming
I like Xbox too
Didn’t phase me at all.
@@jairesemccoy9779 get a real life man thats sad
@@jairesemccoy9779 whom???
It’s crazy to think how as good as some of their games were, Tango wouldn’t even be a top 5 studio for Sony… probably not even top 10, and they were probably the best Microsoft has had in 10 years…. Makes it all make sense why the Xbox business is failing
Bethesda was a MASSIVE, unheard of acquisition at the time. Then Xbox showed zero interest in cultivating all those new Bethesda studios, by Spencer's own admission giving them very little oversight. Instead of actually managing their teams and positioning them for "success" by MS's vague metrics, Xbox chose to do only thing they're really good at - spend even more obscene amounts of money yet again on acquisitions. This leadership team has absolutely no skill in cultivating talent and creating art, and no interest in learning how to, so don't be surprised in the coming months when they close more talented studios because they don't feel like managing them.
You want an actually effective cost-cutting measure? Fire Phil Spencer and Matt Booty. All this "leadership" team ever does is spend money and spin news stories.
But Phil Spencer is so great as playing the victim, pretending to be the nice guy who cares about everyone and building a toxic parasocial relationship with the fanboys. Dude missed his calling as a cult leader.
The problem arose when Phil made all future Zenimax games Xbox exclusives. You can't spend $7 billion on a publisher and then eliminate a large portion of their market. Phil's miscalculation was that people like me still didn't buy an Xbox. We simply played the many games coming to PlayStation.
@toastyburger Then you have the person like me who actually DID buy an Xbox, but it wasn't because of that. It was just to play the Xbox games I missed out on as a kid.
Come to find out the OG selection is incredibly limited (I can't play Jet Set Radio), as is the 360 selection, and there's certain games I still can't get because they are delisted (50 Cent's Blood on the Sand), and on top of that, any game that comes out on Series X, I'd rather play it on PS5. The games I WOULD get have some stupid online crap. Forza is online only, and Halo Infinite's campaign can't be played without a download.
Dreams should have been given the resources to be multiplayer, launch on PC within a year of PS4 launch, then receive a PS5 update
Sackboy should have been the mascot of it
And creators should have been allowed to sell their creations
This could have been a Roblox or Steam Workshop style rival
This is a massive missed opportunity for Sony at a time that would have mattered
And it will sadly die an abandoned product and no one will re-create it again. We do have Core, Roblox and such on PC but it just isn't as good as Dreams.
Can't agree more. Couldve been a huge money maker from them.
I really do miss the og and early 360 Era of xbox
Dreams was dope! Microsoft to Media Molecule: “Anybody out there a superstar. Wanna stay a superstar. Don’t wanna have to worry about your executive producer… all in the video. All on the record. Dancin…”
🤣🤣🤣🤣 thats a wild reference
I'm worried for Ninja Theory. Even if Microsoft released Hellblade 2 on PS5 as well, is no guarantee Ninja Theory is safe considered what happen to Tango. Gosh man they should just stay independant. The first Hellblade give them a good reputation, especially after dealing with negative reaction on DmC game. If they still independant, Hellblade 2 is guarantee success and they might as well can grow more as a studio. But now, their fate is in the hand of Microsoft...
Ninja theory sucks, though.
I don't care about that game (hated the first one) but based on what I've heard, Xbox is giving it pretty much zero marketing.
Compare that to Stellar Blade, a game from a studio not even owned by Sony. They got one hell of a marketing push by Sony and now it is selling like crazy.
Wow, I remember unlocking the yellow headed character in one of the LBPs as a kid and not really knowing its relevance. Seeing that it was from the inception of the game really brings me back
Even with all my gripes about Jim Ryan, he is miles better than Sarah Bond and Don Mattrick
No mention of Big Mode’s first release and instant critical darling, Animal Well hitting ps plus day one? I played a bit this morning and the hype on this game is real. This along with Dave the Diver hitting plus has me feeling pretty high on life at the moment.
Just a small correction on the PS5 Pro GPU, it has to be 60 active CUs based on the frequency not 56, 2350x60x2x128=36.09Tflops
Imagine spending 69 BILLION DOLLARS on a game company only to shut down one of their studios because of wanting to 'scale back'. This combined with the fact that Microsoft's revenue has increased to 3 TRILLION DOLLARS, yet they cannot afford to maintain the studios (SPECIFICALLY Tango Gameworks), and be comfortable with these studios making the games they want? Miss me with the BS!!
It's like self sabotage.
Mystic, you are really one of the best RUclipsrs ever. You make the perfect kind of content for someone who isn’t too invested in Sony business, but should be up to date on all things ps5, as a ps5 owner
My mind has been on the PS5 Pro all year. I can't wait to get a release date and see more. Thanks for the news on it "Mystic 👏👍
I think Nintendo is quite pragmatic on their staff building, and seems that they know how to avoid inflating their studios.
Refreshing my YT for 2 hours. THANK YOU!
Get a life 😂
Go outside 👍
Funny how customers have no say when owning nothing. This has obviously been the entire point imo.
Happy Friday 🎉
Not now! Can't you see people are losing their jobs!
Minecraft (PS4), Minecraft Dungeons, and Minecraft Legends are the 3 games that come to mind when Xbox mentions their multiplatform catalogue.
Microsoft/Xbox has now become the Oceangate of gaming. Their entire company is as flimsy as that Titan submersible
Ryan, thank you for being one of the few RUclipsrs who does not simply slide into overly simplistic narrative "capitalism bad" or "CEOs bad". Having worked in several big corporations I can say that things are never black or white and usually there are multiple reasons for everything. I personally believe it is like the veteran Xbox employee said, but of course it is much easier to just get emotional and blame Phil...
Capitalism is great, but big business capitalism (which is very much anti-free market) is definitely not great.
@@fattiger6957 They are one and the same . There is no difference
I have been critical of Xbox’s acquisition of ABK not because I’m a Sony Stan, but because just buying games and expecting that to fix your issues is not good business practice. BGS, ABK, etc. all have major issues with how they go about making games and those flaws are going to bleed into Xbox. They also are now $70 billion in debt and have to make money RIGHT NOW to pay it off
Hi, what game is at 22:11? Thank you!
There should not be consoles like PS5 and Series X games that are capped at 30-40 fps. I believe the consoles have the ability to reach a stable 60 once the Pro comes out
Im so glad reviews for HellDivers 2 recovered. For Democracy! For Liberty! For Super Earth ! 🌍
Some weirdos thinking, PS5 pro is the same as PS4 pro, Laughable.
As I play on PC and PlayStation I tend to double dip on most PlayStation titles.
However, I won’t be going forward, what a bloody mess
PlayStation is a joke right now
I do hope the rumors around a Sony showcase are true and that some cool stuff gets shown off. Right now on the Sony side I only really have Death Stranding 2 that I’m looking forward to on the horizon, but a new Tsushima or Astrobot game would definitely get me hyped.
Never knew Final Fantasy XIX-2 existed. Must have missed a few.
I don't care about the drama Sony and Microsoft are going through. I care about the games
I don't think anyone likes losing games to exclusivity, but it's honestly what brought me over to PlayStation (also I was just not a fan of the XboxOne UI and we already had Xbox systems prior but I digress). As much as I didn't want to lose some of my favorite games on PlayStation, I was excited to see the potential rebound from Xbox. I'm sad to see it's not panning out, but hopefully they can get into a healthier state and pivot from there.
It's not because of COVID. Because we're going through inflation.
I totally agree with your take on Microsoft's take on the studios they bought and what they are doing with Xbox. Without healthy competition, Sony can make things worse for their customers. Nintendo does have their own games and is in a different mindset compared to Playstation or Xbox. Maybe we need a new contender in the hardware console space. I really hope that Microsoft won't kill Xbox as a console.
I also hope Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo stop buying third party studios, but I guess the CEOs of those studios cannot say no to more money.
Man Dreams not going to PC and not getting a PS5 is a huge blow, whoever made that decision in Sony management made a big, big mistake. The sales velocity probably looks bad, but that game on PC with an internet browser on the same system is what would have really carried the platform forward, including cross publishing the eventual PS5 version, and even using KB/M and virtual reality on PC platform as well.......... huge, huge mistake for PlayStation management here unfortunately
What's that? GP is not doing well? Color me surprised. NOT
Microsoft would've killed LBP like they always do with every game and the Rare playlist of games.
I only bought lbp games for the creative aspect, and without that, I have no interest.
I still think they should bring back DREAMS with multiplayer, PC and VR support.
Ori series and Cuphead on the Switch years ago
Those spec leaks don't add up. The tflops would mean it has better theoretical performance than a 4070 super, which is £600 right now just for that gpu alone. Also the specs seem to contradict what tflops it has, the gl2 cache is low af and the gpu frequency also quite low. I think it gonna be a lot weaker than that leak, unless they are planning on selling for £800 - £900 which is highly unrealistic and they will lose a lot of money if they did that lol
Well consider yourself lucky in the US. I’m in sweden and we don’t even get that ‘last chance’-collection - so we have to find out by accindent!
Given the recent news with Gamepass, I hope this doesn't affect PS Plus in a bad way.
I don't think Sony will ever do day 1 releases for PS Plus. That's the main issue with gamepass.
Game sales makes more money vs a subscription.
Microsoft is basically running Xbox with a loss. But since they have deep pockets, they can afford to do so.
So its kinda strange when they closed 4 studios.
@@DeadPhoenix86DP Yeah Imagine they put COD on gamepass day 1 lol they're gonna lose like a LOT of money doing that. I highly doubt they'll do it though.
@@DeadPhoenix86DPyeah you have a good point. I believe even with small games like Stray, they did lose a significan amount of money.
The problem Microsoft has now is that with how big they are in value now, shareholders are expecting a LOT in revenues, reason why they are cutting edges everywhere now
Sony itself is a bad affect to ps plus. Pay more for less.
Valid concern, but PlayStation know how to make it sustainable.
I think while PS5 Pro isn’t a big surprise, as mid life refreshes happen for a ton of electronics. The issue for me is how will developers use this? While yeah games are surely to look better and run better but for a vast majority. The games already look fabulous so visually it’s not really a giant leap. Frame rates is where likely this will be boosted to locked 60 at 4K or 120. Though once again this speaks to a smaller audience who need to have the best on console. Vast majority won’t see the need to upgrade unless of course there are exclusives to the PS5 Pro. This would definitely boost sales but idk Sony never did PS4 Pro exclusives, so we will see what this PS5 Pro brings to the table once its revealed.
Gears 6 on ps5🔥🔥🔥
The re4 Remake looks Easier than the Og Re4. It gives you too much Ammo whereas Og you only have Limited Ammo
Xbox should have fixed their business model first before they went out buying a bunch of studios
Xbox died when they started releasing on PC same day. Now when they are going to release titles on PS5 as well, Xbox is truly dead to me and I will never buy one of their consoles. Luckily I own a gaming rig and a PS5 now.
Playstation should be warry about copying the gamepass model
Microsoft might end up being this generations Sega.
Microsoft was kicking Sony’s ass and they got cocky. They’ve never recovered.
Ms never kicked sonys ass fym even the ps3 outsold the 360 in the end sony been whoppin them since the ps2 launched🤦♂️
I wouldn't be surprised if they show final fantasy
If they release hellblade 2 on PS5 I'll buy it 👍 has to be physical release for me tho ...
Okay what I need to know is if you bought the game is it leaving or are you going to be able to play it still or even download it still if it's not on their list in the damn store
Last chance to play should be right at the top/front and centre of the ps plus section punching me in my face. Anywhere else is absolutely asinine. It took me hours to even find it for the first time while actively looking. That whole thing is kind of messy to be honest.
Also I’ll die happy if 4K locked 60fps is the peak of gaming. I don’t need any better than that.
36 or so tflops is using the fp16 thing though im sure its actually more like half that
Yes, it is a bit more than halved
I believe someone calculated it at equivalent of 16tf for comparison purposes
Vs XSX 12tf & PS5 10.4tf & XSS 4tf
Can we plz get something from naughty dog
Nintendo doesn't see layoffs because their games don't have huge 200 million dollar budgets and their games very rarely go on sale and if they do it's nothing close to the price drops that we see out of PlayStation. Plus seeing Nintendo make more cartoony games makes it so they can bring out more games. Also helped that they ported over a lot of Wii U games.
I feel bad for Xbox’s state today is like the console is just a mere accessory and their main product for gaming are their live services. I’ve always been the type of gamer who buys both Xbox and Playstation whenever they release a new console but sad to say in years to come Xbox will have a similar decision what Sega did years ago.
If sony deliver a banger showcase then im definitely getting a ps5 pro.
According Sony - 45% more rendering performance than PS5
A much smaller leap than PS4 to PS4 Pro which doubled GPU performance
Hopefully enough to get performance modes up from 720p to 1080p so the upscaled image isn't a blurred mess. PSSSR should help too
Getting it day one, regardless.
@@chrisc_1012 ps4 was out of date before it launched ps5 is nearly 5x more powerful, now with the ps5 pro having proper ray tracing, stable 60fps at much higher framerates with its own fsr tech to go upto 120fps that is a step up and like I said if sony bring out the big guns and have a banger showcase then ps5 pro is essential.
I'll wait and see how LOUD it is, not putting another PS4 Pro jet engine in my game room
@@chrisc_1012PS5 Pro is not a big leap? 8 Zen 2 cores clocked faster, 60CU RDNA3.5 (faster than a 7800XT), & 300 TOPS NPU for $600! 4K 60fps with Stellar Blade!?!
What took you so long!!!! Also happy Friday! Cheers 🍻
We need a proper showcase and not another state of play
Last of Us Season 2 in a nutshell: 36:10 Of course...
I didn't wanna hear 30 fps on the base PS5, and I DARN SURE don't wanna hear 30 fps on a pro. #JESUSMATTERS!!!!!!
Well it's easier for Nintendo seeing as how they're working with hardware from the stone age.
Subscriptions can work in gaming, It Will never be as sucessfull as a movie/TV show subscriptions (because games require more time to complete than other types of media), but they need to bring gaming to everyone. Try and fix cloud gaming first and then atract everyone to your subscription. I dont want to have a subscription and think about game sizes and updates.
60Cus x64 Stream Processors per Cu its equal 3.840 Stream Processors, 3.840 SP x 4 Flops Per Stream Processor x 2.35Ghz: 36.09 Teraflops, Its Impossible to Be 56Cus as 56Cus would Not Deliver 36 Teraflops at 2.35Ghz, but at 2.35Ghz 56 Cus Rdna 3 which has 4 Flops per Core Delivers 33.6 Teraflops.
I feel like I let Dreams Down, I brought it day 1, played it a few times then put it down thinking Id pick it back up but life got busy and now I do that for all my games and go back later, but the way games are made now you have to jump in and stay in or companies see the game as a fail, sad for so many reasons because Dreams had the potential to be HUGE! I feel it still does but Sony is too busy watching Xboxs actions and chasing money
Ps plus games are not going to be forever, so why care if they are expired anyways.
If you are a collector you do not care about PS Plus
Physical Games are better in that you don't lose Access to those Games
$10 psn card that’s it bro? Thats totally going to help so much with these $70 games
Better than nothing mate
Xbox (talking to journalists):
"Oh yeah, we're gonna be raising the price of Game Pass and we'll be releasing more of our exclusives games onto PS5 and-"
Phil Spencer (whispering) "Shut Up, SHHHH, what are you doing?"
Xbox "Do you mind? I'm talking to the press!! So anyway, yeah, we're gonna experiment with 9V batteries in our new controllers and we may even try to bring back the Kinect- "
Phil Spencer "SHHHHHH!! SHHHHHH!!!! SHHHHHHUT UP!!!"
22:25 What's the name of this game?
After the recent price hikes on PlayStation plus I finally unsubscribed. I had a premium sub since it launched, and before that I had subs to both ps plus and ps now. The outrageous price hike for a service that does not really provide me any real value is what led me to cancelling, and I know that I am not alone.
Same here. And I had ps plus for like a decade. 60 a year was BARELY worth it for the base subscription. After the hike I let it expire. When I had to switch consoles I subbed for one month to back up and redownload my saves. But that’s it. Oh well
Same here. Typical Sony bs
I re-uppped my premium subscription every year when it’s on sale. Love it! 💪🏻
So long as Sony doesn’t team up with Nvidia, the PS5 will never live up to its promises or expectations set by them.
I love my fishbowl
The only games i truly care about from Microsoft is ES6 and Hellblade 2, other than that im not into anything else from them
exactly. I wanted to buy an xbox just for the hellblade game
It's better off that they didn't go when Microsoft cuz Microsoft real good at shutting down studios as we as we have seen recently and in the past
just so everyone knows, the reason it's not back in the 177 countries is because it's still written in the game that PSN is required. That needs to change before Steam will change it.
You thing your Sony's doing OK do whait see I think there in trouble
Microsoft showing that they really don't know what they are doing in the gaming industry.
How is that
Ori series that went to the Nintendo Switch.👋
Bots don't buy games! New game trailer drops and all you see is 👇
Is it coming to gamepass ?
These fishbowl LTPS episodes are getting wilder by the week
Gaming companies that got shut down/ruined by Microsoft- Lionhead, Rare, Ensemble, Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, Alphadog Games, Roundhouse Games, and most likely Ninja Theory, Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, and Turn 10 to get axed next.
Gaming companies shut down by Sony- Zipper Interactive, Japan Studios, London Studios, and Media Molecule on thin ice.
Gaming companies shut down by Nintendo- uh… AlphaDream?
It’s almost like Westernization of the gaming industry was the worst thing to happen to it.
The more Western a games company, the worse it is for its employees, consumers, and the games industry as a whole.
AlphaDream wasn't shut down. It went bankrupt. They were never owned by Nintendo which is surprising
The difference is Sony and Microsoft are not solely video game companies. Nintendo is. And that's why these stupid decisions are made, by higher ups worried solely about profits in these giant companies. Sony and Microsoft should spin off their video game companies into independent ventures and hopefully this wouldn't happen as often.
@HastyElderHaman Also Japanese labor laws being a thing. It's why Iwata took a 50% paycut to avoid having to dismiss employees when Nintendo was facing financial losses
@@icedcapplord710fair enough, my point was, that the most Japanese console manufacturer on the list was the one that treated its employees and studios the best, and that Westernization of the games industry was a mistake.
Western audience demands "muh graphics" so then you end up with a shitty game that looks great, but 80% of its resources were spent on the art team instead of making the game fun.
Most console gamers have like 10 games in their library, whatever game that was the "hot" thing that year, maybe one more, then they spend most of their time on free to play games.
You can't shit out $200+ million dollar games, a lot of developers/publishers have lost the plot. WE WANT FUN
Ryan, I implore you to start pronouncing the "c" and "t" in "anectdote".
My dude; there are 2 Vancouvers. One in Canada; which most people know of, and the one I'm currently living in, here in Washington state. I know most people would think of Canada, but those of us who live in Vancouver, WA, our first thoughts is of our hometown. And since you are talking Seattle; another Washington city, again, my first thoughts are of here. You really need to research these things, and be more clear on what you mean.
God bless America, god bless enclave
Fish bowl
Do u have nba live 07 on ps3?
sure
I think we need a whole video of Ryan talking about Microsoft and Xbox. At least 1.
I’m not falling for it this time. They can keep their worthless hardware. I know that they wanna go all digital anyway so gaming is dead. Most people just don’t know it yet. Because it’s a process, not an event. So I’m going back to past consoles and hacking sh*^ outta them. Before they completely destroy gaming. I’m prepping!
I love your content Mysticryan best bro 😎😎😎😎
Can we stop talking about teraflops like they have a direct effect on performance or like we actually know what they are?
Being a Console Player Sucks ass now. If it wasn't for everything on PC Digital i would move to PC Race
Xbox is a joke. Nothing has changed and nothing will change. They’ll be 3rd party in 5 years. New hardware will be met with all time low sales numbers. Quote me.
Horizon zero dawn is on my long list of games to play. I have it but do yall think i should wait for a possible remaster?
It already looks great
@@tacticalmanagerbabymommaak5825 it does to be fair but might as well experience the best version possible
No need to wait. Horizon: Zero Dawn is still an amazing looking game even when compared to the majority of PS5 games.
@@ziggyzinfirion alright ill get on that game next then. Thanks
HZD still looks good and it plays best if you are on pc or ps5
ROMAN Games please , NONE
Ancient Greek games NONE
Troy game NONE
OPEN ARENA Fighting games , NONE
Great AAA Open world games, None
Great AAA Space games none
Agent Spy games NONE