EricHiggin said:
XB is there to keep SNY out of the PC/OS space. MS saw this potentially becoming a problem back during the PS1 and PS2 era. It's not a coincidence that MS wanted PS and/or Nin to work together with them, with MS offering to take care of the software and online side of things. Since neither agreed to it, the XB brand was born. Why? To protect the space that MS had already claimed, and make sure they didn't end up behind in the online services realm. As long as XB is doing a good enough job at making sure the PS brand doesn't explode and grow like it did with PS2, or beyond, that's good enough for MS. The XB1 is doing exactly that right now, without being a huge financial burden, and so MS is just fine with where XB stands. I find it no surprise that PS backed off of the complete media entertainment system with PS4, and now XB1 seems to be backing off not only on the all in one media box, but console gaming to a degree as well. As long as the PS brand stays "in it's gaming place", MS will allow XB to be mediocre in certain ways, to be somewhat competitive, just to keep PS in check. The reason why MS doesn't simply give XB the farm and allow them to snuff out PS, is because being a true console gaming platform, dedicated more so for the players, is not what MS is really after. Instead of destroying the greatness PS brings to the console gaming table, MS are simply protecting their main business. That's also not to say that there is nothing good about XB, it's just that the seemingly lack of effort, in comparison to PS, especially in super high quality first party games, from many more first party studios, is something MS doesn't want to invest in, based on their reason for being in the console space to begin with. It's going to take a long time to figure out the first party situation, is just Phil saying it's basically not going to happen unless it's completely necessary to knock PS down a peg or two again. Otherwise, your simply going to get what you usually get, because it's the cheapest way to accomplish the true goal of XB, while potentially making some decent coin on the side from online services while they're at it. Phil must know this, and probably hates it, and tries to do the best he can with what he's given, but crossing the desert with a ball and chain, and just one bottle of water, won't get you near as far as the other guy who has a camel, knowledge of the oasis locations, and four weeks worth of supplies. |
The truth is the one household device to rule them all , that Bill Gates feared when he learned that PS2 would have multimedia capability has flown the coop, so today there is no imperative to take them down a peg ,or play a wrecking role , the fact is unlike Sony who under the world wide studio's banner encouraged their studios to make new IP's, with the knowledge that every hit subsidises around 7 games, that regardless of whether their critical scores are high or low lose money or just break even and Sony see that cross game subsidy being ploughed back into more games allows them to have a larger and more diverse Ist party portfolio, not just in numbers but types and sizes of games.
While continuing popular series is important having your 1st party studios also looking ahead to new ideas adds to the creative mindset of the studios ; and that is something that MS could look at encouraging their successful studios to also workshop ideas for future games now the majority will fall by the wayside but you can end up with an Horizon and you will find the process gets better the longer it's allowed to unfold , take bungie what would have happened if MS said set up some groups to do future game prototyping while finishing off Halo Reach, like Guerilla did while making Shadowfall there might have been a chance that events played out different.
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