PS5 Showcase - Wednesday Sept 16

[sales2099]

Intrinsic said:

sales2099 said:

Sorry for aggressive wording, I tried to edit it quick enough. I’m not looking up the official tweets that specified but the general rule is that if they are 2 years out they fall outside the cross gen window, that much is common sense. But I wouldn’t say MS has a messaging problem compared to Sony, we at least knew they were doing cross gen at the start. 

Thats ok... communication via text is always a slippery slope.

I don't agree with the two-year cross-gen window thing though. Especially when that became common sense. Bt I'll take t and counter with this.

How I see it if platform releases say... 8 first-party titles in the first two years of their new console being out. You can replace 8 with any number you want really, 5/6/7/10...etc. I am not saying that they should (nor do I expect them to) just completely abandon their existing user base. However, the percentage of titles that are cross-gen and those that aren't, defines the direction or initiative they are taking with their platform with regards to generations.

Simply put, if like 80% of your games are all cross-gen, then the message you are clearly making is "you do not have to buy our new console to play our new games" which is something MShas clearly stated. But if only like 30% of your games are cross-gen, then its clear you are trying to push people to the new console, while not abandoning the old one at the same time.

My issue with MS cross-gen initiative and I would have the exact same issue with sony if they were in the same boat; is that from their literature, unless I have grossly misunderstood them, since as early as January this year (which men's is something they have given a LOT of thought), they seem to want to have all their first-party titles across generations till 2022. And I feel doing that just doesn't give the people that own your current platform a reason to buy the new one.

I think many people just assumed they meant 100% of titles. Sony themselves said they want to support PS4 for 3-4 years. Does that mean all PS5 titles will be cross gen for 3 years? Of course not. People know better but assumed the worst for Xbox. 

Frankly I think haters/pessimists and people generally not invested in Xbox decided to take the 1-2 year quote and interpret it as “All Xbox exclusives for 2 years will be cross gen” AKA “Xbox bad PlayStation good”. Good riddance to this narrative now that both companies are on the same page now.