DonFerrari on 03 October 2017
ThisGuyFooks said:
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LudicrousSpeed said:
Just look back to the Tomb Raider deal Microsoft struck and the reaction to it. A lot of people online are either too young and weren't around for PSone/PS2 era Sony or just conveniently forget. Of course, it's not as if Sony doesn't have a lot of deals nowadays too, so I guess it's just conveniently forgotten.
I do like reading about the DESPERATIOOOOOOON though. lol
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Take it however you want, but Xbox is in DESPERATE need of a game hit.
This year has been rock bottom for Xbox when it comes to sales, Hardware and Software sales.
The Xbox One is Down YoY, it is being outselled by the 3DS in the US, every single exclusive that has released this year has flopped.
Halo Wars 2 performed horrible. Voodoo Vince and Phantom Dust too.
Forza 7, released today, is currently at No. 48 in the Amazon Top 100. Again, released TODAY.
Cuphead is at 31.
Now you tell me. Is Microsoft desperate for a hit or not?
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Forza 7 sales represent unprecedent antecipation for X1X release.
darkenergy said:
Soundwave said:
As if Sony is not buying as much content if not more, they are the ones who started this whole business.
Why did Nintendo and Square have to create a shell company just to get a Final Fantasy game on GameCube? Because Sony had an iron clad exclusivity deal to keep content off other platforms.
Same with Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid 2/3, etc. etc. MS had to jump through major hoops to get GTA on the original XBox as well. Sony moneyhatted to keep Madden off the Dreamcast as well.
And that continues to this day with things like Monster Hunter World, Final Fantasy VII REMake exclusivity period, Street Fighter V (gimme a break with the "Capcom couldn't afford to develop it" .... SFIV sold millions and millions of copies), and even things like Final Fantasy XII remaster being kept off other platforms largely because Sony negotiates deals to keep that content away from other platforms.
We saw how successful Sony is when they don't have the full backing of the third party community with the Vita, which crashed and burned.
If you want to be mad at MS for this, so be it, but IMO it's a bit hypocritical if you're not also going to knock Sony for it or even more laughably try to claim that Sony is the "white knight of gaming", when they are responsible for locking out more content from other platforms since coming into the industry than anyone else by a country mile.
If Sony had gotten to PUBG first, then the story we'd be fed right now would be "well Sony's just smart, they recognized the game was going to be a big hit, maybe MS should have been smarter". |
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This thread just shows that there are people who simply doesn't like Xbox and it is showing it. Then there are comments like this:
Angelv577 said:
It is still timed exclusive. I can wait. |
^^ Now this is a comment I would like to see more unfortunately that isn't entirely possible.
ThisGuyFooks said:
Take it however you want, but Xbox is in DESPERATE need of a game hit.
This year has been rock bottom for Xbox when it comes to sales, Hardware and Software sales.
The Xbox One is Down YoY, it is being outselled by the 3DS in the US, every single exclusive that has released this year has flopped.
Halo Wars 2 performed horrible. Voodoo Vince and Phantom Dust too.
Forza 7, released today, is currently at No. 48 in the Amazon Top 100. Again, released TODAY.
Cuphead is at 31.
Now you tell me. Is Microsoft desperate for a hit or not?
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Your comment immediately gets thrown out the window when you mention Phantom Dust flopping, that game is FREE TO PLAY and player count has reach over a million some time ago lol.
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And your alignment shows as well... and when did free to play reaching 1M on 30M userbase meant success?
Last I heard Shu Yoshida was sad that the indie games on PS4 PSN+ had less than 50% download ratio.
