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JRPGfan on 12 February 2024
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Leynos said:
JRPGfan said:

They've come out and said, part of the reason why, they dont like doing that, is they need to pay like 10 times the amount, playstation does, for timed exclusives. Simply because of install base, and how differntly games sale on both platforms.

Now their Series console is not selling, and its gap to the PS5 keeps growing, this is going to become the same or worse, than it was back in the Xbox One days. Where they changed their messageing about timed exclusives.

Poor MS strapped for cash eh? So let's go spend 70 billion and still not make them exclusive. lol sure MS

I think 2023, they had a net profit of like $72 bn.
I wouldn't exactly call them "strapped for cash"  or "poor" :p

However I think it was phill that said this, they don't like locking down 3rd party exclusives because of how tilted it is in playstations favor.
I think your right though, if they wanted to win the console race, they could simply outspend playstation by a massive factor, and get alot of 2nd-3rd pary exclusives.

I mean like ALOT.... enough that it drives people mad.... and eventually towards buying xbox's.
The question is, why havn't they already?

Imagine Phil gets another $100 bn.
However he gets told, sell xbox series x for 100$ and S for 50$, and use some of this money to pay for that.
Then also use some of that for 2nd and 3rd money hatting, getting timed or permanent exclusives.

Im not sure if theres anyone that'll step in and protect sony, from microsoft doing bussiness like this.
However I could see them, just b*tch slapping them with enough money, that it kills sony, or atleast seriously damages them.

The question is just, if you want to go ~20 years of loseing money, and makeing sony suffer.... until you get rid of them.
And if anyone would prevent that sort of thing.

as a consumer it would probably rock.
Cheap arse console, all the games one place (on xbox)....  the question would be what happends aftewards?
However that long a time frame, I'm not sure I'd even care, will I still be gameing when I'm that age? ect ect.
If I spent 20 years with xbox, because of it suddenly being awesome like that, would I want to change back? or care if sony went under?

However.... again... investors probably wouldn't like this sort of strategy.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 12 February 2024