JRPGfan said:
Kyuu said:
Yeah if they wish to make their platform relevant in the long term, they're gonna need to take risks and have their software sales decline to a fraction in the short to medium term. But it's the only way save Xbox regardless. Gears going console exclusive isn't gonna do anything.
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We know where Phil Spencer was on that question.
He was 100% for, going full Publisher, damn the hardware.
Actions speak louder than words.
Where Asha Sharma stands, is currently not known.... she doesn't seem like, to have committed to one or the other yet.
She knows xbox fans, think exclusives are important for console hardware (and to be fair, the proof is in the pudding).
So far she has taken 2 games and made them exclusive. She also made a few announced games for PlayStation, when she didn't have too.
It's hard to tell if shes really for one or the other, so far. I think she is testing the water.... and seeing if she "see's" what Phil Spencer saw.
Money talks.... she might years down the line, come to the same conclusion Phil did, depending on how the next gen turns out.
Phil gave up, trying to push hardware.
He was like "I cannot do both", I'll buy some more studios and convert xbox to a publisher instead, of a platform holder.
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Right, they all want the same things. Phil gave up and chose the publisher side, Asha is half-heartedly trying. It won't be long before she acts exactly like Phil.
It's just refreshing how she's not prerending that exclusives don't matter, and instead admitted the difficulty of prioritizing between being a publisher and platform holder. In the current state of the industry, you can't max out being a 3rd party publisher without slowly killing your platform. Tough choices need to be made.
