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rapsuperstar31 said:

crissindahouse said:

I'm sure there is a group which will do everything to make it a PR nightmare but I still wouldn't care as MS. 90% of gamers wouldn't buy physical games next gen even if they could so that they won't care what people will say about Xbox. 

The always online thing was definitely a bigger problem for many and yet it still isn't the reason why Xbox wasn't so successful last gen. If other things would have been better, then this "PR disaster" would have been noting more than hot air. 

Something which is a much bigger problem is that Xbox doesn't have a straight strategy when they always try to consider everything because there could always be some people complaining. Sometimes you simply have to go your way instead of trying to go three different ways but none of them to full extend. 

You don't have to please every gamer. You just have to offer the best product for a part of gamers. If 100m people think Xbox is the shit then that's enough. That still can mean that 500m think a PC, PS, Switch or handheld is better for them. 

Losing 10% of your console purchasers is worth it?  I don't believe 90% of gamers are digital only.  There are certainly quite a few digital only gamers, but there are also quite a few gamers that buy both digital and physical games.  PC gamers wont shut up about Baldur's Gate 3, but we really don't hear that many PlayStation or Xbox gamers clamoring about it.  Why is that?, it's not on Gamepass or PS + and it's not currently available physically.

I said wouldn't buy it next gen. I didn't say right now. The percentage of digital purchases is increasing very fast. More and more people get fast enough internet speeds and especially most "new" gamers probably don't care about physical copies. It's rather gamers who grew up with older consoles who still buy physical. 

I also said 90% of gamers wouldn't buy physical, not that 90% of those who are console gamers right now will buy digital only next gen. So, yes, I think around 90% of gamers who could be potential Xbox gamers for next gen won't really care or would maybe buy physical but can also live without it. 

If I would have a Series X I would probably also buy some physical copies but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't have a Series X if it wouldn't have a disc drive. 

Every data we can get suggests that the percentage of physical sales is shrinking fast and yet people believe that Xbox would be doomed in some years with a digital only console. Like, yes, there might be 10m people who will only buy a console with discs next gen but that's 10m from some hundred million potential customers. There will be 50 others reasons more important to decide how many consoles you will sell. 

Last edited by crissindahouse - on 27 January 2024