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Ryuu96 on 04 February 2024
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EspadaGrim said:
Ryuu96 said:

I do think it will be very bad for the industry but I'll be on PC if Xbox ever exits hardware, Lol.

Like if people think Sony ain't going to take advantage of this out of the kindness of their hearts, they're crazy, Lol.

I don't think Xbox will exit hardware for at least another 10 years or so, by then I'll be 37, but they'll effectively be no competition at all to Sony with this move, they're no longer competing with Sony on the hardware front.

Maybe the next Xbox is some sort of mini-PC with a proper, singular/unified store, maybe a custom Windows OS for Gaming only?

Maybe they switch to Nvidia, Lol. Maybe they switch to ARM. Idk but I feel a major change coming to hardware rather than traditional releases.

It doesn't matter what they do with their hardware at this point if they are headed towards 3rd party, the already small userbase that they have will eventually dwindle down to an unsustainable number that will eventually lead to the closure of Xbox Marketplace and kill off GamePass as we know it since the vast majority of subs are on Console.

If they go "fully third party" with no hardware then there's no reason why Sony would reject a 1st party only Game Pass, Xbox would be treated the same as EA or Ubisoft, yet another publisher with yet another subscription service so I think the concern of the death of Game Pass is a bit extreme. We know Valve is happy to accept Game Pass on Steam but are waiting for Microsoft, if they could get Game Pass on Steam that would help.

Game Pass is available via xCloud - TVs, Browsers, etc. We're talking about Service/Cloud loving Microsoft here.

They'll always be some sort of "Xbox Marketplace" as long as Windows Store exists, I could see them further trying to unify the two, they've already said they want to do a Universal Xbox Store but Xbox/PC Stores are still technically separate things.