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LudicrousSpeed on 04 July 2016
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Swordmasterman said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
How exactly is online gaming open across all platforms going to mean less incentive to buy consoles?

PC gaming has had huge advantages for years and years, and yet every gen hundreds of millions of people buy consoles and billions of games. It's hilarious how suddenly MS is going to get large masses of people to buy expensive gaming PC's or build their own PC's when most people couldn't give a rats ass about either.

Opening up online gaming across all platforms would only be a good thing for gamers. MS stood in front of it before, now Sony does. Maybe next gen we'll get it.

People purchase consoles because of their games and Exclusives, something that Microsoft will no longer have. And there is no way that Microsoft can compete against PC gaming with the Xbox One, because PC gaming will be cheaper and will play  the same and even more games than the Xbox One. The way to compete is with exclusives, and with we have more than 1 Console company selling their games for the PC it will be the end of the console market. (Something that Microsoft want since they can't compete there.)

 And I don't think that opening online cross-play will affect the sales but it will of course benefit Microsoft more than Sony.

Wii U has a larger library of quality exclusives than either other console and free online play yet sold by far the worst. Exclusives are nice, but their importance to the mass market is largely overstated here. Also, Xbox still has exclusives, and Microsoft isn't trying to compete against the PC with the Xbox One. That's like saying Nintendo is trying to compete against the WiiU with the 3DS. They have the same ecosystem and play the same types of games, usually from the same IP's. Gaming on Windows is about expanding the reach for MS. If Xbone loses to PC gamers, why does MS care? Those PC gamers can log onto the Windows Store and pay MS monies for games there.

Exactly what is this big benefit MS gets from opening online play across all platforms that Sony does not? Are people suddenly going to start buying up Xbones instead of PS4's? I don't see why. PS4 already has the "it" factor.