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shikamaru317 said:

Machiavellian said:

Interesting that you see it that way.  I on the other hand think it's the smartest move MS could have done.  If you are going to put your service game on every platform and especially if you want a big crowd to see your service game on a particular platform, having it presented on their platform is the way to go.

Not sure why anyone is crying about MS putting Sea of Thieves on PS5.  It just seems silly to limit any service game to just one platform especially the amount of investment that usually has to go into putting out constant content.  Even so so service games bring in a nice chunk of money that are on every platform.  If you see Sea of Thieves as something that make PS5 players decide not to get a series S than it might be how you view the market.  No one who has a PS5 is looking at Sea of Thieves as a game that they will get a series S for.    MS need a multiple years of great AAA games to budge any PS5 gamer and its not going to be some service game that does it.

If it was just Sea of Thieves it wouldn't be so bad, it is a service game from 2018 afterall, everyone who was willing to buy a console to play it will have already done so. But we're also hearing talk of HiFi Rush, a 1 year old game, coming to other platforms. We even had a leaker claim that Xbox is discussing making all upcoming Zenimax games multiplat because Xbox hasn't been happy with their sales as Xbox/PC exclusives. I fear Xbox is about to cross into very dark territory that is bad for Xbox console owners.

Let me ask you this, did Ori going to the Switch also make you feel the same way.  I mean out of all the games that is coming out on the MS platform, 2 games going multiplate is getting you feeling a certain way.  I have said this before, MS does not care about what you care about.  MS is never going to win the console war because the console war is over.  In order for MS to see real success they have to think way different and upset the market in a different way.  MS does not care if you do not purchase a Xbox next gen because you fear you can get their games on PS, Nintendo, PC, Smart Phone.  They have moved on from that type of thinking and they are more concerned about getting you into GP, no matter what hardware you are on or just playing their games no matter what platform you choose to use.  The game is different and you guys will have to realize, at some point, that MS is also different in their approach to the market.