JRPGfan said:
shikamaru317 said:
Yeah, the takes of these developers and journalists and analysts are odd to me. Like everybody already knows why Microsoft wants to go multiplatform, they want more money, and we already know why the developers support it, they want the games they create to reach a wider playerbase (who would want the game they created to be played by less people?).
The issue is the Xbox fans, nobody seems to want to explain to them how this move will benefit them in any way, shape, or form. How do you explain to the loyal fans who spent alot of $ on an Xbox console to play Xbox exclusives, that those exclusives are no longer a thing, when many of those gamers now feel like they wasted $500 on Series X or $300 on a Series S now that those games are no longer exclusive? Money they now feel would have been better spent on PC or PS5. How do you justify a move which seems like it will actually hurt the chances of 3rd party developers porting to Xbox consoles in the future (no exclusives means less hardware sales, less hardware sales means smaller playerbase, smaller playerbase means higher difficulty of seeing a return on investment on your port to Xbox), when Xbox is already the platform most in need of ports? How do you soothe those who feel cheated and burned by Microsoft due to this move?
Is Xbox going to use the money from this multiplatform move to buy hardware success next gen, either through more acquisitions (perhaps) or hatting 3rd party exclusives (doubtful)? Will they use this multiplat money to pay 3rd party developers to port to Xbox consoles (doubtful)? Or are Microsoft and gamers on other platforms really the only ones who benefit from this move, while your own loyal fanbase gets the shaft?
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They spent $80-100 bn on studios, that do multiplatform games.
If they don't continue being multiplatform, their earnings (the studios they bought, drop drastically, esp if its day and date on gamepass).
Basically the debt costs, and the throwing money way, tactic (day and date on gamepass, instead)..... would add a huge financial burden on xbox, that there gameing side cannot support.
This was a very likley outcome, when they decided to buy activision blizzard ect.
Ontop of that, they now have commitments, to make certain of these games availiable to other platforms for 11+ years anyways.
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