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jason1637 on 07 February 2024
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Machiavellian said:
jason1637 said:

I don understand why MS just don let their plans materialize. They bought the studios and the games are progressing. Now let them release and if they’re good they’ll sell more consoles. Instead they start over because one game? Starfield was a success too being one of the top selling games last year and being on gamepass. One game alone instead going to move the needle, you need atleast 3 Starfields a year consistently. Plus they have steam and games like SoT and Forza have over 30m players. Whatever they do they need to be clear with the messaging or everyone will just assume everything’s timed.

Yes and no.  How many year do you believe it would take before MS can dent Sony marketshare.  The thing is most gamers just do not have the numbers but one thing is true, gamers rarely change systems just because of a few games.  It take years of multiple games in order for gamers to shift to another system.  What do you believe that MS has coming out compared to what Sony has coming out that will shift any decent amount of customers to MS Xbox over Sony.  I personally do not see anything.  Yes, MS has some very nice looking games coming but so does Sony.  If you are comparing what Sony is coming out exclusive compared to MS, there is nothing that I see that would shift sales MS way.  MS would need to consistently as you state multiple years hits on the level of Palworld in order to shift sales and to my knowledge there is nothing on the map that gives me the impression that will happen.

The thing is, MS bought these big publishers and they did the numbers and the numbers are not adding up because they needed to shift strategy.  No company just shift strategy on a whim, usually there are a lot of meetings on the subject and a lot of input on all the C level execs before making those moves.  While a lot of Xbox gamers were cheering the ABK move, we really do not know the full ripple effect of that purchase has on the organization.  You cannot look at both Bethesda and ABK IP without considering how they impact being on all platforms compared to the smaller installbase for the MS ecosystem.

It also could be that this is not a shift in business strategy but a designed shift if they were able to get ABK.  Meaning that MS already knew that getting ABK would mean that plan B needs to be put into gear towards another goal compared to plan A.  With ABK and Bethesda, including their own studios, MS is one of the biggest publishers in the industry now.  When you consider that, just limiting your games to one platform while it sounds great to people who cannot see the numbers, it might not actually make financial sense.  We know MS wants to be on everything, the case may be that as MS stated, the ABK purchase accelerated those plans for them to move faster towards that goal.

Yes it takes time maybe up to next generation to make a dent but that’s how the console business works. During the PS3 era it took Sony til the end of the generation to finally turn things around.