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chakkra on 19 March 2024
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Kyuu said:
chakkra said:

That is if we look at buyers as random NPCs that just go into the store and buy whatever is "in the spotlight" at the moment, but that is not how humans work. Most people buying a PS5 today are people upgrading from PS4, and most people buying Xbox Series today are people upgrading from Xbox One; and somehow I'm having a hard time picturing an Xbox One owner thinking "Oh, Helldiver and FF7 are in the spotlight right now, let me go with PS5 this time around" No, but I can totally see an X1 owner thinking "Hmm.. seems like Microsoft is going to port all their games to PS5 eventually, maybe it will be better to get a PS5 and I will be able to play all the games there"

Btw, funny how you think that Microsoft putting their games on PC hurt Xbox's sales so bad, but somehow putting them on Playstation is not going to hurt it.

Me moments ago:

"PC is destroying Xbox and hurting Playstation hardware sales. So much that even if Xbox hypothetically exists console hardware, Playstation could very well still decline."

Why did you skip this? lol.

PC keeps growing and is clearly eating into the console market. Series XS has been trending below Xbox One before any talks about going multiplatform. And Playstation hardware, as I said countless times before, is being affected also. But growth in first party and the weaker direct competition are offsetting the damage.

In short, PC is hurting both consoles, but Xbox is more affected for rather obvious reasons.

That obvious reason being the fact that by putting their games on PC MS is stripping away the need for PC gamers to get an Xbox, but for some reason you think that principle don't apply when we talk about MS putting their games on other platforms.

Look, I guess we're just gonna have to wait to see how big the decline will be in the next few months; if the decline remains around the same percentage as it has been in the last year, then I will concede that this first batch didnt hurt that much, but if the drop is anywhere near as bad as it was in Europe, then you cannot come here with a fresh face and tell me "oh, this was supposed to happen".