Eurogamer: PS5 and Xbox Series X Spec Leak.

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derpysquirtle64 said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I never actually said MS should ignore or abandon those markets, I just wouldnt enocurage MS to pour significant resources there. Instead, keep making great content intended for the west, make competitively priced hardware like Lockhart and hope the best elsewhere. More importantly moves like that could help them thrive in the west.

For the most part it just looks like Sony took MS's marketshare from last gen. It hasnt actually grown significantly. Also, Sony is just making games the west enjoys and hopes for the best elsewhere.

Lastly, I think we all agree putting Xbox games on PC means more people will play their games. If many around the world are gaming on PCs, then porting games to PC should boost sales. That's hardly ignoring or abandoning hose markets.

Why should I as Xbox console owner even care about how many copies does Halo 10 and Gears 15 sell? The only thing I care about is from MS to provide a great gamin experience through their console and services. I'm way more interested in Xbox being an appealing platform for third party developers, so they will be bringing lots of great games to the platform. XGS games should be like an icing on cake. Additional reason to choose Xbox over PS, but no the main one. Because I doubt that any sane person would choose a certain console just because it has games from one certain publishers with everything else being more inferior compared to competition. Also, XGS hasn't really released that many interesting games, worth playing in the past 3 years, making it hardly to be the reason to choose Xbox over PS. I'm personally not interested in Sony exclusive games as well, but it is hard to deny that almost every game Sony released in the same time frame was a more quality product than every XGS game except maybe Gears and Forza. I personally prefer Xbox over PS just because in my opinion it provides a better console experience, not because it has Microsoft games. And I think if you ask any of 46m Xbox One owners the same question - why they prefer xbox over PS, the majority of these people will answer the same way that I did - not because XGS games are better or more interesting than what Sony offers, but because these people believe that Xbox provides a better experience to play games. Everything in your logic shows that you seem to fail to understand the huge difference between a publisher and a platform holder. Microsoft is not just a publisher, they are a platform holder and they have a certain obligations for their userbase. It's not just about selling games. If selling games is all that matters - then why don't just bring them to Playstation as well? It will boost sales for sure.

You might not care what MS's top exclusives sell but it obviously makes a difference .it's games like Halo that attracted gamers to xbox and helped secure its future by giving it a brand identity, you talk about providing a great experience, now your take on that and exclusives is valid for you,but I would say if you asked those 46 million users the subjectivity of the question would get you a multitude of different answers of cause that applies to all platforms, you pretty much hit the nail on the head when you said, if selling games is all that matters why don't they bring them to playstation, that they don't shows the importance of those exclusives to a platform.

 the LIVE and PSN platforms from a technical game playing perspective are today pretty similar and both parties hardware is becoming more homogenised, so differentiators like exclusives are if anything bound to rise in importance, now I'm not against what you are saying I agree with you that the experience is important ,but I feel games are what gives us that enjoyment and exclusives are a large part of that, the rest can hinder or enhance that enjoyment but it's all about the games.