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Dulfite on 06 July 2016
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DirtyP2002 said:
Dulfite said:

Seriously? Why would I want to buy an xbox when I can play their games, in far superior form, on pc (where I can play it on desktop, stream to tv, or take on the go with laptop)? Consoles are appealing because of exclusives. I am a Nintendo fanatic, yet if they had all their games on pc as well, of course I'd buy them on pc (permitting I couldl use their controller).

99.8% of the games released on Xbox One / PS4 are multiplats anyway. It is ridiculous to assume 0.2% will have THE GREAT effect on hardware sales. It is not like the game won't be able on the Xbox One - it just will be on PC as well.

I plan to buy a new PC once Warcraft 4 will be released (a man can dream, right?). It will be super cool to have a gaming library on PC from the start, because I bought Scalebound, Halo Wars 2, Gears of War 4 and a couple more on Xbox One already.

 

Stop acting like playing on PC excludes playing on a console for every gamer in the world and vice versa.


- There will always be people playing on PC and hardcore only PC. MS could not sell them a console anyway. Now they sell them their software.
- There will always be people playing on console and hardcore console only. They would not care about the PC anyway.
- There are mainly PC players who play consoles every now and then. MS could sell them the Xbox One, because the games they buy for it come with a free copy for their main gaming platform as well. Not a bad selling point.
- There are mainly console players who play on PC every now and then (Like myself). MS could sell them the Xbox One, because the games they buy come with a free copy for their PCs. If they have a powerful enough PC to play them and all their achievements, save games, friends list, etc. will already be there. 

The only part of the market MS might not cater to are the "PC players that buy a console to play 3-4 games that are 100% exclusive for this one console and don't play anything else on it." According to that logic Nintendo is the console of choice for this group.

The benefits / pros for MS and the consumer / gamer easily outweight the cons here.

You don't think being able to get Halo without buying a multi hundred dollar console is going to cause a decline in sales? Halo pushes xbox, and so do their exclusives. If they have no exclusives, and I can get every xbox game on pc, why would I want an xbox?