| BillyBong said: What's funny is the notion that somehow there is a belief that consoles have overtaken PC as the preferred video game medium, yet recent studies done by the ESA shows anywhere between a 56-62% marketshare worldwide for PC vs 52-54% for console gaming (including handhelds). Even for esport, 4 of the top earning games are on PC only. Not only that, gaming revenue wise, PC gaming generated over 400% in revenue vs XB, PS, and Ninty combined. Sure closes that door on that " most gamers don't want to game on pc" notion being thrown around.
Which goes back to the OP.. with a lack of true exclusives, current and future-wise, there is nothing there on X1 that gives an incentive to pick one up. If can play the same games elsewhere then why bother? |
Even with most of Xbox exclusives being released on PC, a majority of them are only released for Win10 and in the Windows Store, which is a platform that most people dislike if compared to Steam, what makes most people choose to buy an exclusive MS game for the Xbox, if they have one. I mean, have you seen how many people buy games like Forza and Gears for the PC compared to the number of people that buy those games for the Xbox? The difference is absurd, it is obvious that people prefer playing games that were originally only Xbox exclusives (and now are MS exclusives, so they won't be out on other platforms) on the Xbox rather than on a PC.
Also, a powerful computer costs much more than an Xbox (at least where I live), and that makes people buy a console instead of a computer that can run most games. I myself am an example of that.
And you have to consider that some people just prefer gaming on a console, without any specific reasons for that, and you just can't argue against that.
Just to finish this post, you know that there are many other factors besides exclusive games that people consider before buying a console, right? I chose buying the Xbox personally because I think that the Xbox live is much better than the PSN, the exclusives came as a bonus. But maybe if I have enough money when the next generation arrives, I am pretty sure that I will buy the PS5 alongside the next Xbox.
