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xboxgreen on 12 July 2025
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Kyuu said:
xboxgreen said:

Even if Microsoft made all their first party games exclusive it won't overcome PS5 sales or make them that much more competitive unless they make COD and Minecraft exclusive. MS first party games have been scoring well this generation minus red fall.

Playstation and Xbox consoles has always been about third party games. Without third party, none of these consoles would exist. Hardly any of their first party games ever charts and if it does it is for a short while. 

Buying both Xbox and Playstation consoles together was never that popular to begin with despite what you see in the forums. PC gaming is growing and taking both Xbox and Playstation sales away. That is why even Sony is taking the third party approach and releasing their games everywhere.

As a consumer, Xbox series consoles provided me more value than any playstation or any console for that matter in the past thanks to game pass. If a game is on game pass day 1 why pay 60 - 80 dollars when I can pay 10 extra dollars on top of an xbox live / PSN subscription?

Much more enticing than playstation timed exclusive strategy. So there is value in Xbox thanks to Phil Spencer but most Playstation owners play GAAS so it won't matter to them. Also, Xbox wouldn't be here probably without Phil Spencer because there were a lot of rumors that MS was going to sell off xbox and discontinue it. Phil Spencer convince MS leadership to keep Xbox around.

Playstation games constantly chart, what are you even talking about? Their past couple of years have been relatively weak because their output itself has been poor. They're just not making enough game due in part to their GaaS initiative.

Microsoft isn't adding any value to "Xbox", all they're doing is transitioning a platform into a glorified sticker (plus GamePass I guess which doesn't require Xbox lol) and you're celebrating it. Their current software is in a league of its own popularity wise. They can easily make Xbox a relevant platform again if they wish to. It's not just CoD and Minecraft, that's almost like saying Nintendo is just Mario and Pokemon.

The majority of Playstation gamers supposedly playing GaaS doesn't change the fact that their consoles are selling like 300 million software annually, which doesn't take into account F2P, microtransactions, and services. Playstation remains a huge platform. The only reason Sony is supporting PC and other platforms is greed/expansionism. They seem to think they can keep the Playstation brand strong forever without true exclusivity, I think reality will bite them in the ass eventually.

Their exclusive first party games are not charting as well as you think. They do well for few months then they die off a few months later. That is why Sony is focusing on GAAS because it is their only hope to please the share holders. Sony knows consoles are losing their value because the third party games they rely on are now on PC/Cloud for the most part.

Only a matter of time before third party games run on mobile natively as well which will only hurt Playstation and Xbox even more.