| chakkra said: That depends on your tastes in games. I mean, I can totally see how someone who is a 3rd person action adventure aficionado might look at Sony´s line up and think that it is the greatest thing ever, but not everybody is a 3rd person action adventure aficionado. And I guess there is no denying that Microsoft games haven't been able to convince as many people to get an Xbox, but when we take a look at PC (A.K.A the only place where Microsoft and Sony's games compete directly with each other) we can see that Microsoft's games tend to do a lot better there (and people play them for a lot longer) so I think the issue is not with the games per se. |
The reality is, the average consumer isn't generalizing games like Tchia, Returnal, Stray, Astro's Playroom, Sackboy, & Kena, into third person action adventure titles. They won't ignore upcoming games like Pacific Drive, Humanity, or Goodbye Volcano High because they aren't first party. Sony's blockbuster titles are not preventing PlayStation users from buying Gran Turismo 7 or Octopath Traveller 2.
Microsoft's slight advantage in diversity, which is highly debatable in itself, is not the advantage you think it is lol. Sony adding developers like Bungie, Haven, Firewalk and Firesprite, as well as having XDEV becoming a worldwide presence, will put that argument to rest in a few years, especially with the Activision Blizzard deal falling through. The biggest issue for Xbox going forward, in my opinion, is having very few games that can generate conversation and dominate mindshare like Sony's tentpole single player games, on top of some of their mismanaged studios, lack of major third party deals, and being the only platform skipped for a multiplatform release.
Xbox games tend to do better on PC than PlayStation games because the latter doesn't do day and date. But as we can see, having PC ports of SpiderMan and God of War is beginning to push those IP's into the 30M+ sales territory. Even a live service game like Destiny 2 continues to break their Steam CCU peak with every new expansion. The only game from Xbox portfolio that is currently ahead, to my knowledge, is Halo Infinite, and that may not be the case in a few years, with another expansion and eventual transmedia push down the road.
Last edited by PotentHerbs - on 27 April 2023
