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RolStoppable said:
eva01beserk said:

Where we watching the same event? I was watchimg on my phone at 720p hiding in the bathroom at work and still was blown away.

If you think halo will push more consoles than Spider-Man you are out your mind. Granted this might be some kind of expansion as far as we know. We need more info. 

Spiderman is an expansion, that's how the game could be completed in two years.

Cerebralbore101 said:

Forza 8 and Halo Infinite will run on Xbox One, Xbox One X, PC, and Xbox Series X. Those aren't going to move units, because everybody interested in those games has hardware to play those games already. Because of the ability to play these games on such a wide array of hardware MS effectively has nothing for launch. Sony doesn't even need to have Spiderman to beat MS in the launch lineup department, because MS set the bar so insanely low. TLoU2 and GoT ports is all it takes to match MS's sad launch offerings here. The fact that Sony has anything new for launch at all puts MS in a bad position.

What even are the sales number for Halo 5, and Forza Horizon 4 (The last two games in these series)? Did they even top 5 Million each?

Your post is incredibly biased. Microsoft has new entries of big IPs in the works for this holiday season, but you call them nothing while at the same time you say ports of old Sony games would be something. Spiderman for the PS4 was released in September 2018, so you should figure that Morales is a quickly put together expansion for the PS5 launch.

It's likely that Halo Infinite will be developed as two separate versions (just like Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox 360 and Xbox One six years ago), so the one for Series X won't be held back by old hardware. We have yet to see the actual game, so we can't tell yet if HI will be more of Halo 5 or a return to form. I'll just remind people that Zelda sold only ~3.5m with Skyward Sword and Sony fans were completely convinced that Breath of the Wild couldn't be a system seller even after they had already seen it in elaborate action. Similar to Halo, Forza (the main series, not the Horizon spinoff that isn't relevant here) was on a downward trend, but this time around Microsoft is giving the development team more time than the previously stubborn two-year-rhythm.

But more important than exclusives is which console will become the choice for multiplats. That in and of itself would be the huge change that you had ruled out since the moment you started this thread. The PS4 was clearly the console of choice for multiplats in the previous gen, but the PS5 isn't looking like it can follow that path. Its only saving grace in recent weeks was its ultra fast SSD, but Sony's event did nothing to demonstrate an advantage in multiplatform games. Microsoft, however, can have multiplats run at higher fidelity and the pixel and special effects counters of Digital Foundry will probably find that the XSX versions of multiplats are superior.

At this point it's more or less just a matter of Microsoft getting the pricing of their console right. Sony is playing the waiting game because they probably realize that they are in a difficult spot. Microsoft could end the waiting game by simply announcing a conditional price for their XSX: "Whatever the PS5 will cost, that's what the XSX will cost too."

So you call someone biased then proceed to make a comment that can only be classified as damage control. amazing. 

Only thing I can say is that sony dint reveal any release dates some did say holliday 2020. So we still dont know whats gona be day one to really say whos got a better launch line up. We also dont have the xbox reveal, we dont even know a single thing about halo wich you yourself say yet make asumptions that it can be 2 separate versions being worked in unison while spider man is just an expansion(wich I say it very well could be). You ignored the vast amount of games that are exclusives and some very big ones at that. I mean theres not much to say, just lets wait until the xbox show.



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