| Gamemaster87 said: The Xbox One is selling terrible compared to the PS4. In some regions like Germany or France it gets outsold by the Wii U. In Japan nobody cares for the console. Microsoft is losing much ground in all these regions. They need to move on in order to get back what they once "owned" And it looks like that that is Microsoft's plan. Every formerly announced Xbox One exclusive is coming to the PC. They don't even care to sell more Xbox Ones. The bring these games to the PC because they may not be profitable on the small userbase of the Xbox One. Maybe they will port some big upcoming games like Gears of War 4 or Scalebound to the Xbox Two.
What do you think? IMO everything points towards that Microsoft is planning to replace the Xbox One ASAP. |
They never owned anything. 360 was successful because PS3 was executed horribly, over promised, under delivered, was too complicated to program, and cost too much. I'm still remembering the promise of 4 x 1080p HDMI outputs from the PS3 lmao.
Sony did absolutely everything wrong and MS really didn't have to do anything but simply be there, like a rebound after a breakup. And it came at a time when console hardware was finally in the realm of PC power at launch and console FPS was then a brand new phenomenon to console gamers and everybody (well, just the console kids that never had a PC) wanted PC style western shooters. MS was just at the right place at the right time with 360. Not so much anymore.
These once in a lifetime favorable conditions aren't ever going to repeat again, and MS has proven incapable of diversifying away from their Halo/Gears/Forza/NFL target audience in order to adapt to non-favorable conditions.
And this doesn’t even scratch on the DRM launch fiasco, ad burdened interfaces, and what was essentially pushing complete home integration to monetize your life (Kinect to count heads to charge for pay per view patent anyone?) MS deviated away from the video game console market a long time ago.
This generation may also have big money "AAA" shooter fatigue setting in FINALLY. Gears and Halo aren't fresh and exiting anymore. They can't just throw Halo 6, Forza 7, and Gears 4 around and expect it to stick anymore. Their one trick pony now a tired dead horse, and their platform objectively weaker this time around, they are just going to have to deal with it.
That said I'm not sure what's wrong with XBox One sales. They could sell 900 million Xbox Ones and it would be labeled a failure if another platform sold 1 billion. It's Call of Duty syndrome all over again, where anything else that doesn't sell a bajillion copies day one is a catastrophic failure, doesn't matter that some of the most beloved and successful games of all time sold less than 1 million units lifetime. It's the same thing as businesses always expecting record breaking profits. You can't break records every single year nonstop. Eventually the bubble pops. Just because you didn't beat last year doesn’t mean you're a failure.
You can always find some other product that outsold yours. Doesn't mean you aren't successful.
