Satya Nadella says more Xbox games will be released on other platforms

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Hardstuck-Platinum said:

bdbdbd said:

The thing is, that Xbox sales do not justify Sony porting games on Xbox even if they wanted to. There's likely a large overlap of ownership between PS5 and newest Xbox anyway. When it comes to Switch and Windows, there's really nothing Sony can do about them.  The thing is, that the market has changed from what it was 20 years ago, because game development is so expensive. It's increasingly harder for even Sony to justify a single platform development, even if the platform was their own. 

Thank you for saying this. This is what I just said above to someone but they just told me I was being disingenuous and arguing in bad faith, even though Xbox sales have fallen off a cliff. With the XBS consoles alone maybe the port isn't worth it but, the game could also run on Xbone and PS4. That's about 180 million consoles right there. Surely put it on those too? Why put it on Switch but leave out 200 million consoles (Xbone,XBS,PS4). There's plenty of sales you could achieve there. PS4 still has about 50 million MAU alone!

Well, you're right. But what people have been telling you is, that MS and Sony operate quite the same way and both are in similar situation. If Xbox had sold the PS5 numbers and PS5 sold Xbox numbers, you'd see Sony releasing games on Xbox, but MS not releasing games on PS5. The current situation in the market isn't whether Sony or Microsoft consider each other as competition, but the threat for Playstation and Xbox divisions is are they able to stay relevant for the companies' shareholders.