| sales2099 said: You made sense until you said that. This will make things even overall. Mainland Europe and Asia will always be PlayStation land. Doesn’t matter what Xbox does, you can have a hollowed out PS5 console with newspapers inside. It doesn’t play games. It’s just a empty casing that only looks like the PS5....and it will still sell more then Xbox lol. That’s how powerful the brand is. So here’s the question, where you wanna live on the planet? North and South America will be Xbox land. UK, Australia, Russia. If you want to have that warm and fuzzy feeling of living in a country dominated by PlayStation, maybe think about moving to the appropriate country, get that dual citizenship application going ;) But seriously, you may think this will lead to Xbox taking it all but that’s not gonna happen. Globally speaking, it will lead to a balance. |
This is a simple numbers thing.
The one thing that you just consider, is that if given choice everyone will opt to pay less for the same thing than more for it.
There is no balance here.
MS is not going to come out and say, "hey look games fromallthese studios are now only exclusive to xbox and gamepass". No. They would instead make these games available on Steam, Playstation, Xbox and most importantly, gamepass. I a game is available everywhere on the same day and date its available on gamepass, anyone thathas access to gameass, be it PC or Xbox gamers, will opt to play it from there instead, simply because its cheaper.
And in time, gamepas subs will grow because of it. But then what happenswhen it stagnates? You think MS would have invented billions in that just to let it fizzleout? No, they would do what any company would do, securemore content for the service.
Remeber how I said Gamepass would cost MS billions to secure day 1 releases from thrid parties? I even mentioned the likes of the elder scrolls in my post. Isn't that exactly what this is? MS has spent billions to secure IPs for gamepass. And they are not going to stop here. Want to have a foothold in japan? Buy square-enix. Either way, this will not be the last publisher MS aquires, just remember I said that.
Sowhathappens when enough publishers and their games are under the Xbox banner? The plantation becomes strictly for PS exclusive console, and sony in turn tries to bolster their own exclusive IPs.
You ay balane.. I think people have no idea howmuch the scales has tipped. Never in the history of gaming has a platformholder bought off a publisher like this. Never.
