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Machiavellian on 07 May 2023
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Pemalite said:
Machiavellian said:

Right now, MS need consecutive years of great hardware and software in order to grow GP and their gaming division.  Dropping hardware would instantly make just about every gamer feel the company is about to bail the industry and they would bail on the platform.  There is no scenario I see where GP and MS games grow at this point in time without hardware and successfully bringing AAA games to market.

Microsoft's hardware is the least of their issues, they have had the better hardware since 2017, almost 6 years now.

It's all in the software at this point.

Mobile and PC is where they need to appeal to people to adopt Gamepass, combined they are much bigger markets than consoles and tend to be more open for more innovation/flexibility to maneuver in the market.

Not really, the Xbox one was not only weaker than the PS4 but it cost more.  By the time they killed Kinect and shipped the OneX all the damage was done.  Even this Gen,  would not say that MS has the better hardware because as we have seen with most games, the PS5 still either comes out on top or on par.  When you are in third place every little win helps and having the best hardware would make consumers look at the Xbox platform especially if third party games are tops on their list and MS is performing better with those games on their platform.  So I would believe that MS have top end hardware and try to out muscle Sony for this bragging rights as the 3rd place console.

I also do agree they need to solidify their PC offerings and make sure their games perform unlike what we have seen from the latest crop of PC games including MS.  Mobile is where MS will be making their biggest push with GP but they still must develop those must have type of games in order to get that really rolling.  Redfall was a huge set back, especially when people will be comparing against what Sony has released thus far.  

Before I did not agree that the game should have been delayed but after playing it with all its bugs and basically AA looking graphics not to mention the expectations as a first party AAA game, Redfall should have either been shelved or not push back until whoever came to help was able to get the game in decent shape.  As the 3rd place console, those mistakes are magnified to the nth degree compared if it was Sony.