| PixelPirate said: You get happy Playstation and Nintendo users, but what does a Xbox owner get in return? Longer development cycles due to porting.... |
But you'll never get a $500 box that has it all as long as exclusivity is part of the game and as long as those boxes require exclusivity play as part of their success strategy. The only way to get a box that truly does it all is to work on a future where Exclusivity play is considered as the silly thing it already is, a value-destructive tool for IPs.
Think about it this way Spiderman 2 has sold close to 7m and is considered a huge success. But would it be considered a huge success still if Ms released Indiana Jones on PC, Xbox, Playstation, and Switch and reached 20m in sales? How long would it be until Playstation Shareholder demands better handling of their IPS to reach the same level of ROI MS shareholders are seeing from a nonexclusive strategy? Of course, those numbers are only a thought experiment to highlight my points but as I would very much like to see the end of exclusivity altogether these rumors if true are a necessary step toward that.
In other words, I would very much like the console to be a convenient box I place under my TV to play games and then a box I'm being forcibly required to buy to play game X.
