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

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bdbdbd said:

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

The biggest threat to Sony and it's shareholders would be a competitive Xbox outselling PlayStation. I don't think it's right to separate competition and pleasing shareholders. One of the best ways to please shareholders is to beat your competition. I also don't agree with them being in a similar situation either. Look at Palworld as an example. Palworld released on Xbone and and XBS consoles, but on PlayStation it only released on PS5. The PS4 is more powerful than the Xbone and could have ran Palworld too. This shows that Sony cared more about PS5 sales than sales of Palworld. Xbox didn't care what platform you played it on. It just proves that Sony still cares more about selling consoles than selling software, and that brings us back to Lego Horizon adventures. They weren't willing to put Palworld or LHA on PS4 but they were switch, why. It can only be because they are worried about people keeping their PS4's and not buying PS5's. They clearly have no fear of Switch preventing sales of PS5

How Sony operates is that they make devices, and on the other hand, make content for the devices - and other similar devices. Basically the Playstation division has been some sort of exception for bringing in the money. After restructuring, the game & network division have been making money pretty well, but considering the financial risk in releasing new systems and increasing development costs and times for games, it becomes harder and harder to justify exclusivity to consoles. Considering Hirai said years ago that Playstation focuses on service, I'd see it more likely that Playstation will be a service and you can get this set-top box called Playstation you can use to play these games on Playstation network at your living room. And Sony may even license the systems to other manufacturers, so that they either just get royalties from or manufacture some systems themselves. This is pretty much what Google does - they licence their content shop platform to any system possible.

If you look at how the tech world have been for a decade: Sony copies Google, Apple copies Sony, Google copies Apple and Microsoft tries just to hang in there. 

If PlayStation was going in the direction of becoming a service and just selling software, then Palword would have been on both PS4 and PS5, just like it was on the Xbone and XBS consoles. The way they are releasing games on their platform is refuting your theory and proving that selling the newest console is still top priority. Releasing games on PC and 1 on switch doesn't automatically mean you are becoming a service and a third party. I don't know what else to say. They've been so successful selling PlayStation hardware, that it doesn't make sense to even speculate that they will stop at some point. Heck, they're just releasing a PS5 Pro next month, so doesn't it seem silly to you to be speculating the end of PlayStation hardware?