| Norion said: In Japan about a quarter of PS4's sold since the Pro launched are it so sales are probably close to a quarter of sales since the launch date of the revisions so about 18 million Pro's and about 5 million One X's. Though I remember seeing Mat Piscatella say something about the One X doing comparatively better so it might be more like 6-7. For the other part that won't happen since if I remember right Sony and Microsoft require that if a game runs on one version of a console it has to run on all of them. Even without that the massive CPU performance gap combined with the userbase continually deceasing would make it not worth it. The type of gamer who'd buy one of the more powerful revisions is probably more likely than most people to want to get the new consoles right away so the amount of customers it would be for is rapidly declining. |
I'm sure you're right. That said, I know someone who would play Microsoft Flight Simulator right now, today, on his One X if it was compatible. That game could be scaled to the One X, I have no doubt. I can understand not doing so if it's for a maximum of 5-7 million people. What's really going to decline the value of One X-only games is game streaming, actually. Pretty soon now those One X owners will be able to subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate and stream Flight Simulator, and other Series X|S-only games, to their One X systems. From Microsoft's perspective, this is a solution that doesn't require writing One X-specific code, and is therefore pretty appealing.
Now there's an interesting idea... putting a game into xCloud, but ONLY for people who're running it on Xbox One systems. I mean literally just putting it in xCloud, not also putting it on Game Pass (for a publisher for whom Game Pass isn't an appealing business model, or for whom Microsoft passed on cutting a deal with them for including it in Game Pass). Meaning a customer would buy the game in the store, and get a streamed copy of the game to play. You could even sell retail copies with a code to own the game through game streaming, without needing to subscribe to any services to play it (other than Gold if it has online multiplayer).
