The console war is over

[sales2099]

goopy20 said:

sales2099 said:

Hey you do you. Like I said those game I mentioned were high on the most played charts. There’s always people that didn’t play those games. I have myself spent much more time playing 3rd party games then first party on GP. 

Bold: First and foremost the console is meant to get as much of 3rd party game sales as possible over the course of a generation. The real money maker every gen. Sorry but it’s silly to imply they can just walk away from that. Imo Game Pass is the one thing that sets their console apart from Nintendo and Sony.

As for Pc, they can push it there all they want, it’s not the console market and just another space they can plant roots where Sony largely isn’t following. Regular sales are still alive and well, Steam charts are a prime example where Grounded, Halo MCC and Sea of Thieves are getting plenty of action from people who just aren’t ready for a subscription.

People have this “one or the other” mentality. That MS is so invested in GP and therefore have to abandon everything else. They a big boy corporation, they can and are doing both. 

I don't think they can do both. I'm sure Series X will have plenty of great games and Halo will probably be one of them. But at the start of a new console generation, that simply isn't enough. MS needs to create a desire for their new console by showing us what those 12Tflops and SSD can do. But twice in a row now, MS has shown us that their all-inclusive strategy gets in the way of that.

Just read this quote again...

"The fact that there will be no fully exclusive Series X games takes away one of the big motivating factors behind buying the console. It has also sparked a conversation around whether first-party studios will feel able to make the most of the new machine if they need to keep the old one in mind when developing their games. Microsoft feels strongly that it won't be an issue, but even if it is, in the minds of Spencer and his team, that small negative is more than offset by the benefits of being available across platforms.

Game Pass subscribers, which now total more than 10 million customers. If Microsoft turns around to those 10 million people and says that they have to buy an expensive new box in-order to access the next set of big Xbox games, that might result in decent console sales, but will likely hurt its subscriber base. That isn't an acceptable outcome to the company."

GP is great but if you could choose right now between playing 2-year-old, current gen games and a bunch of Indie titles. Or... play Halo Infinite, specifically designed for Series X with jaw dropping visuals that we conceive to be impossible on current gen consoles. What would you pick?

Hey, launch for launch, say what you will how Halo Infinite looks. It has a lot more going on then PS5s launch flagship Spiderman MM. One is the most ambitious campaign world created, the other is a generous DLC expansion of the 2018 game. Like Metro: Sams Journey DLC to compare. One will have a massively popular multiplayer, the other is SP only. Spiderman or not it’s locked to one platform, as is Halo where it counts (consoles) but available elsewhere. 

As someone who didn’t like how Halo 5s campaign turned out, I am happy that they nailed the art, music, gunplay, and story. Do I care about its look? Sure. But it sure as hell ain’t a deal breaker, not even close.