| Intrinsic said: Here's a crazy theory... like I suggested before, Gamepass will actually make the xbox a less attractive platform to release their games to. On another note, I can totally see the value the SE if they make FF16 exclusive (console) to the PS5. I mean did FF15 even sell up to 1.5M units on the XB1? I feel that with how MS is positioning the Xbox, what s likely going to happen now would just be that publishers would only focus on a PS5 and PC version of their game. Why build for PS5, XSX and PC when owning the game on the XSX automatically means you also get it on the PC. And any company that makes you buy for XSX and PC separately suddenly starts looking anti-consumer. |
Its the other way around.
Xbox hardware and software sales have cratered this generation, while PS4 has reached near record breaking heights. I would not be surprised if PS4 had up to 70% of third party software sales. If you look at JP third party, games like FF and KH had leans of 80+% in the West, meaning combined with PS's dominance in Asia the global share could be as much as 90:10.
Xbox can no longer compete with Playstation on the traditional hardware and software race and so MS went with Gamepass. They will be trying their best to get third party games on GP at launch or close to launch.
Now, low XB software sales means it is easy for companies to go exclusive with Sony but also side with Gamepass as Gamepass is still only relevant in the XB ecosystem (they would only be loosing out on XB sw sales which were low to begin with).
