Xbox acquires Bethesda

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goopy20 said:

zero129 said:

Awhile ago in this thread your saying MS doesnt have the brand power to support GP against Sony and google etc in the cloud space.

Now your saying once again they dont have content and games will be cut down and sliced up etc.

Yet if you have used GP you would see that isnt the case.

Lets say we are all playing in the cloud, will the masses subscribe to Game Pass or will they go with big brands like Nintendo or Playstation? I'm not convinced MS would win that one as Sony and Nintendo simply have better brand awareness among the gaming crowd. It's just that they're not trying to compete in the Cloud gaming services yet. If they were, it would be far more likely that Sony and Nintendo become the Netflix of gaming, and MS would become more like Amazon, providing to platform for the industry and making a fortune from it. 

I've been using GP for a while now and its pretty obvious that they're focusing on different types of games. Its not like they have no exclusives, its just that they were less noticeable compared to the big blockbusters Sony had.

Hell this year alone we had; Bladed Edge, Minecraft Dungeons, Grounded, Wasteland 3, Battletoads, Gears Tactics, Ori, Tell me Why and Flightsim. If you can't see a pattern there, then I don't know what to tell you. They've been pouring out a ton of A AA games because those don't take a fortune and 5 years to make and are perfect for the GP business model. Halo is going GAAS and we'll have to see what they'll do with their other IPs.

 

I don’t think Sony counts as competition in streaming because they literally pay MS for Azure. Even if they win MS wins too. Nintendo’s online is still stuck in the mid 2000s they won’t enter the streaming game for a looong time. 

The irony is that there is no pattern with the games. They are all different genres. Sony is the one with the pattern. “Single player story driven 3rd person action adventure”. I applaud Xbox for their games this year, there’s more to gaming then one genre. 

Cmon Goop. You’d think buying Bethesda would tell you they are committed to A-AAA games. Game Pass needs all 3 levels of budget to thrive. 

Also I’d say Halo Infinite is a GAAS but also a AAA multiplayer component at its core. Again, something the competition doesn’t know how to do anymore (multiplayer). I refuse to downplay multiplayer games just because another fan group is obsessed with single player games. 

Last edited by sales2099 - on 22 September 2020