The console war is over

[sales2099]

derpysquirtle64 said:

sales2099 said:

I see Phil’s comment saying “the console sales will work themselves out” lol. Otherwise I firmly believe anyone with a gaming PC chances are has no Xbox or has little incentive to buy Xbox. It’s MS making customers of people that are best case indifferent, and worse case “haters”. 

Also Phil’s comment about locking isn’t technically wrong, as their policy is to expand Xbox games across different platforms. Still have to have games that entice people to come. Enter moneyhats.

I would disagree that selling games on Steam is making customers. It's just making a quick and easy buck on the side. And that's it. Has nothing to do with making customers. Because, at least from my point of view, the customers are the people who are locked in to your offerings long-term. Those people who pay you the money for every game you sell. So, you can't really compare the engagement in Xbox ecosystem of the guy who just bought a game on Steam with someone who owns an Xbox. Yet, your post implies that they are equal to MS. I think that you don't need to be a businessman to understand that selling consoles (which means locking someone to your ecosystem) is way more preferable for MS than to just sell games on Steam. The second problem with that is something that is really hard for me to understand but it is just how things are for some reason, but MS decision to bring games to PC is seen as a huge negative in gaming community. I personally think that just by doing this, MS heavily limits their potential userbase, just because gaming community is dumb enough to see it as a negative thing which is always brought up when Xbox discussion takes place.

If you buy games on a platform when you could have bought the same game on console or Windows Store, but didn’t, that’s successfully entering a new market. Making a Xbox account to play is literally gaining a new customer. 

Imo someone who buys SoT, MCC or Grounded on Steam is the same as someone who buys a console and only plays a few games themselves. So long as content is constant, people will keep coming back. Those Xbox accounts will continue to be used. Like Grounded now being #1 at the moment. 

It’s all just options. You can play Xbox however you like. In the end we all making Xbox accounts and vice MS a cut for every purchase.