Burek said:
My sentiment exactly, the way they started this generation, I was afraid they'll continue paying to keep games away from gamers. We were in luck that Sony completely dominates them, so it became prohibitively expensive to pull the Tomb Raider crap over and over again. Sure, they can afford to do it, but it has become really tough to justify: "So you paid $150 million for [multiplat franchise]?" "Yeah, it was coming to XOne anyway, but we paid so PS4 owners cannot play it!" "Not a huge amount to buy a popular IP!" "No, not the IP, just this one game. It was being made multiplat, all we did was pay to cancel the PS4 version" "Oh..I see! GTFO, You're fired!" |
This whole "they can afford it" sentiment has to stop anyway, Xbox is just a part of MS, they do not have free access to MS' bank account so to speak, they are on a budget like every other business as well. Also considering that since the launch of this gen now the PS division has been generating more revenue and likely profit than Xbox it seems far more unlikely that Xbox would be operating under a higher budget.
Sure Spencer can try and make his case for more money for certain projects at the higher ups but it should at this point be noticably harder for him to convince Nadella etc. to get a budget increase than it should potentially be for House etc. it's all about the standing of the division inside the company.
That would probably change if MS was looking to completely get the competition out of the business, but we'd notice it if that was the case.
