Sony Tries to Downplay Microsoft’s Project Scorpio Hardware Power

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Swordmasterman said:

Naufraguito said:

I'm not talking about releasing older software, I'm talking about that MS is telling you that you can play the software you buy now in their platforms beyond generations. They are telling you that if you buy their software for Xbone, you will play it in Scorpio, and Xbox Two, and in Scorpio 3, and if in the future you join the PC master race, you'll be able to play your games also, and viceversa. That's something that only MS can offer you, at least right now (if MS succeed and make money, one day we'll see Playstation Store for PC for sure).

In the other hand, of course they want to sell hardware, but they're trying a different aproach, they're releasing dirty cheap hardware, and more expensive more powerful of the same, and let you choose between one, or the other, or PC. They are not trying to sell hardware with exclusive games, they're trying to sell hardware by the hardware itself, and letting you know that later you can choose to switch between their platforms knowing that your game library is going to follow you. And that is something that today only MS are offering you.

Of course that model can fail, maybe the consumers don't like it, or don't get it, but is not a nonsense, is very clever already, and if suceed it's gonna be good, not only for microsoft but for the gaming industry, and the players in general. All console should be BC and letting you play your software on the platform you choose. Playing your games on a console must be a choice, not an imposition.

If PS5 is fully BC, and you can play their exclusives on PC give thanks to Microsoft.

Would be harmful for the industrie to have no exclusive because this would mean the end of the Consoles, Microsoft don't get nothing from PC hardwares sold unless it is their PC that is being sold, 98% of Windows's users are normal people who don't play games and majority are not interested in playing games so Releasing all their exclusives for the PC isn't a  push for the Windows 10 because it would be meaningless because they would get the same number of users anyway.

Microsoft isn't the only in the industrie that can offer backwards compatibility it isn't exclusive for them and this also isn't a selling factor since even with Backwards Microsoft was unable to raise the sales of the Xbox One, and I also don't think that people will purchase a console now because they will be able to play the same games 3 generations after that, So if people were able to play PS1 games on the PS4 this would sell more Hardware for Sony ?, I think that Nintendo let you play games from Snes/Nintendo 64 and other systems in their consoles and even so they are not selling well.

 

Microsoft will not suceed without exclusives because they are making their product obsolete, Microsoft have a big follow up in the USA but this move would make the Xbox One even weaker out-side of the USA.

 

1. Why? why if the console market stoo to be exclusive content driven is the same to dissapear. No, going full or partially multiplat with software will not mean the end of consoles, only the end of the old console business. You can use software to sell a console, and you can sell a console because of its power, of because of it's price, and capacity to run a lot of software no matter if is exclusive or not. 
If this movement can harm something, is only the stupid console war.

2. MS is the only one that right now is talking and making possible back and forward compatibility of their software and hardware. You think that legacy software don't sell? Tell GOG, tell Steam... If people don't want to play old games, why these companies are making money with it? Please, even Black Ops 3 entered the best selling list in UK when MS make the game BC. If you think that old software isn't important try to sell a PC that absolutely can't run Doom or Quake 3 Arena, or Grim Fandango, or Max Payne to a PC Gamer, he will laugh in your face. Until Now maybe the console gamer doesn't think that way, maybe will never, but Microsoft is trying to make us thinking in the value of keeping our software forever, and play it no matter how many years, or many generations are left behind.

3. Microsoft in fact make money for every gaming PC, only with the OEM license of Windows, but they are trying to make money selling games of their store also, and for that they are brindging all their exclusives to all the platforms that can, and letting you play on many hardware they can.

If MS will succeed of fail with what they're trying to future will tell, but I think that open platforms are better than closed plattforms, and if they succeed it will be better for all of us gamers.