| shikamaru317 said: And before someone responds and says "Xbox has hat deals in 2023 as well", you are right, they do. But those deals are not all that comparable to what Sony has in 2023. Their biggest hat deal is STALKER 2 which they have a measly 3 months of exclusivity on, and they have a currently unknown length deal on Ark 2 (which I would call AA, not AAA, as they only have 85 developers at Studio Wildcard), all of their other hat deals for 2023 are indie/single A tier like Slime Rancher 2 and Replaced. Meanwhile Sony has 1 year on FF16 and Silent Hill 2 Remake, 2 years on Forspoken, and as far as I can tell, lifetime on FF7R2 (first game is still missing on Xbox after 2 and a half years when it was originally stated to be a 1 year deal, which suggests Sony paid to extend the deal into a lifetime exclusive) and lifetime on Stellar Blade. You just can't compare Xbox's hats to Sony's here. Besides, as the market leader, Sony's hat deals have more impact at reducing Xbox's ability to catch up to them than Xbox's hat deals would have at catching up to them, as people are more likely to stick with the market leader even if both of their hat deals were equivalent to one another. |
You may call it hats but most of them also want to work with Sony and not MS. An exclusivity deal makes sense and extra money.
No one says 'because I love Square enix games/Tomb Raider/Silent Hill I buy an Xbox...
MS tried in the 360 Era, FFXI exlusive online only for 360 (well except if you had a PS3 with BC); Project Sylpheed exclusive to Xbox 360, Last Remnant exclusive...Infinite undiscovery exclusive....Star Ocean 6 months or more exclusive ... MS is just not commited. If they were they would have opened more studios including in Japan instead of getting old ports of games whose sequel could be not on xbox and will only send some xbox gamers to PS5.
I am 50/50 about the ABK deal because MS just not deserves it.
I can just bring up what has been said in this thread:
- Horrible marketing, those exclusives on PS5 will do probably well thanks to marketing while Ms not even promotes their own first party games.
Attracting devs, all those contractors shit and the hiring freeze while Sony is still hiring while teams like 343 are begging for more people...
Phil may talk nice and be nice but in the end the PS gamers are happy while you just have to check this thread this is not the case with xbox gamers....
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