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shavenferret on 29 July 2025
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
shavenferret said:

The thing is that having a walled garden would be ideal, but this is unobtainable at least for now.  Moneyhatting exclusives will cost way more since the sales won't be good.  Same thing with MSFT exclusive developers/games.   So, they have to do purely 3rd party or they would have negative profit.  Microsoft won't get enough of an uptick in sales to justify the exclusives, in whatever form these exclusives may come by.  

For Sony, I don't think a walled garden is ideal anymore. Xbox has lost so much momentum that it's impossible for them to compete with PlayStation ever again. You could put every PS game on Xbox now and I don't think it would change anything. The XBSS is 380$ and XBSX is 550$ so, price alone guarantees any comeback impossible. 

Let's say they also port all their games to Switch 2.  Switch 2 is confirmed to only run Borderlands 4 at 30fps whereas you can practically guarantee it will run on 60 on PS5. Borderlands 4 will be a huge game and I can't see millions of PlayStation owners ditching their PS5's to play Borderlands 4 at 30fps just because Sony has put all their games on Nintendo. 

Sony has such key advantages over their competitors machines to the extent that I don't think there's any downside to having all their games on Xbox or Switch 2. PC is a different market entirely. 

Being a reseller, or just a 3rd party player, is the low-hanging fruit.  They aren't any different from Steam, and they won't be any different for what MSFT comes out with when it *tries* to expand on its online offerings.  

How is your product different?  What unique things will it offer the consumer?  What advantages does your product have over the competitors?  One of possibly several categories of unique things that the PS6 could offer would be exclusives.  As i mentioned before, the price in MSFT's case would be much higher and they would get much less from this investment.  So, that could be why Microsoft will be moving to a less intense strategy.   

And, all of this is straight marketing theory.  If you dismiss me then i don't know what else to tell you.