only777 said:
Just Stop. The entire "Trojan Horse" idea has already played out and didn't actually work. When Microsoft moved the PlayStation Minecraft port away from the Legacy version, and into the Bedrock edition; the game required a Microsoft account to access many of the games features. That was six years ago. Forcing PlayStation players to create and use a Microsoft account has not had ANY effect on Xbox eco system player numbers. So even though Microsoft enforced the "Trojan Horse" idea into their game with the largest player base, it didn't make a blind bit of difference. |
MAUs means alot more then you think. It was never meant to change hardware sales, however 99% on this site fail to see it. If it meant nothing, they wouldn't waste time or resources on it, even Sony tried to cash in on it with Helldivars 2 on PC. These corps know what they want.
You only see the Trojan Horse as moving accounts.. its far greater then that. Its also internal marketing on competitive platforms, boosting revenue gain, being more attractive to 3rd party companies etc. It could also be a future strategy for the FTC and I am not talking about buyouts either.
Bringing games to other platforms will put them in good faith, so if or when Xbox allows for 3rd party game stores on their hardware, companies like Sony might try and sue or stop it, but if MS are putting games on PS, their won't be much of an argument. MS are on the cusp of having hardware capable of playing everything.
There are many layers to this. MS have agreed to continue with Xbox and they want to push even more hardware. You need to stop looking at this as 1 dementionial and start thinking 4D chess.
