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Gettysburg4 said:

Corporations should be decisive with their direction. Not this game that game, maybe this one (going third party), maybe not the next one etc.
Either publish across consoles or don't. Fair play if they keep a core on Xbox and PC that doesn't transfer (Forza, Gears, Halo, Fable), but everything else..

..either make the call you will fund development of Gamepass games (and stem any losses from it) by allowing the same titles to sell at full price broadly, or keep as much exclusive to xbox console as you can, and be prepared to make a severe loss on game development until you do, to gradually build xbox as *the* must have console.

It is all a case of which is more core.. making profit and avoid losses, or building xbox's console market share. My feeling is the former wins, but they'll need a way to grow Gamepass beyond PC, and it is a bad idea to place it on Switch or Playstation (which I firmly believe neither will agree to anyway), so Gamepass ironically is likely to fail without options beyond what is currently available to consumers.

Get it on tv's, and get to market with a much cheaper device. Time for a plug and play xbox streaming dongle packaged with a controller for $149 or less. Leave your competition hundreds of dollars more expensive as an entry to current gen gaming, and Gamepass the only place to play MS Studio games other than at full price.
Get some momentum behind xbox again, and then come out with a handheld to match.

149$ is too much for just a dongle and a controller.
If they want to gamble on streaming, and gamepass via streaming.... they will need to partner with TV brands, so they can avoid the dongle.
Ei. have a TV, own a Xbox controller..... you are now a xbox user, enjoying games via streaming, and gamepass.

Even if older tv models, without the stuff buildt in, the package price would need to be less than 100$, for it to go anywhere.

Also... some game types just arn't as great as playing natively.
Twitch reactiong based games, like fighters, and fps shooters.

Time for xbox to get more 3rd party adventure games :P
Or turn based rpgs, where input delay really doesn't matter.

However, all this is jumping the gun.
Next gen there will still be hardware, even if the rumors of that being 3rd party sellers, selling PC's with a Xbox OS on them,
makeing them semi consoles.

And again... even that could be jumping the gun.
Maybe Phil comes out on monday, and says none of it is going to happend, plans of going 3rd party have been scrapped?

edit:
Just reposting this from Resetera:

"According to Tom Henderson sources inside Xbox, the only ports coming to PS5/NS is Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi. Xbox was very surprised by the scale the rumors got."

followed up by:



"Let's see, we have:

• Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush basically confirmed
• Employees making the next Halo game confirming it's on Playstation, then removing it from their Linkedin
• Marketing directors mentioning Playstation games, then later removing it from their Linkedin
• Marketing materials removing "Xbox" from GamePass, and simply saying "PC and Console"
• No mention whatsoever of exclusivity for Blade or Indiana Jones
• A "business update" coming next week, an unprecedented type of announcement

Nope, nothing to see here folks. Phil Spencer himself was extremely surprised at how far the rumor mill had gone." - James Sawyer Ford

Theres spin and damage control going on.
So who the hell knows exactly what is going to happend when Phil gives his talk.... However theres currently alot of smoke.

my own take is: 
They could easily come out and publicly squash the rumors, but they haven't.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 10 February 2024