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Puppyroach on 02 July 2016

I wonder how Sony shareholders look at the MS news. Sony are in a very good position right now so it's important that they play their cards right.



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Intrinsic on 02 July 2016
KLAMarine said:
GribbleGrunger said:

And removes the reason for someone on LIVE to pay for PS+

It would also mean someone with an XBox1/PS4 wouldn't need to switch console if their friends have different consoles.

Lol... and who do you think that benefits eventually? MS not sony.

MS has windows and Xbox. The second someone doesn't hsve to buy a PS4 to play COD or whatever new hot game is selling at the time is the second sony starts to lose. And isn't it funny that it took MS trailing behind so mich for them to start pushing cross play? You think thats a coincidemce and they are doing it cauee they love gamers? Its a business strategy that suits them and weakens the hold somy is slowly building on the console industry. Especially with iterative consoles coming.

Its bot said much, but one of the biggest factors that determine sales is word of mouth. Or simply put, I'm getting what my friends got. If i can just download a game on my my PC and play with all my friends that own a PS4, then i don't need to buy a PS4. How does that favor Sony?



Ali_16x on 02 July 2016

I don't even see how this is a good thing for the Xbox brand itself. I mean, I wonder how many Xbox owners are actually going to use this? They need pretty decent PCs to play them.



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Ruler on 02 July 2016

Sony and Nintendo dont have to fear anything what MS is doing, just like Apple doesnt have anything to fear coming from MS as their Computers are still the best selling and most profitable computers today and their Phones even more.

Just keep the console fundemenatals right and keep locking exclusives on your hardware, just expand your hardware with more stronger consoles and keep improving the PS OS.



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thismeintiel on 02 July 2016
Intrinsic said:
KLAMarine said:

It would also mean someone with an XBox1/PS4 wouldn't need to switch console if their friends have different consoles.

Lol... and who do you think that benefits eventually? MS not sony.

MS has windows and Xbox. The second someone doesn't hsve to buy a PS4 to play COD or whatever new hot game is selling at the time is the second sony starts to lose. And isn't it funny that it took MS trailing behind so mich for them to start pushing cross play? You think thats a coincidemce and they are doing it cauee they love gamers? Its a business strategy that suits them and weakens the hold somy is slowly building on the console industry. Especially with iterative consoles coming.

Its bot said much, but one of the biggest factors that determine sales is word of mouth. Or simply put, I'm getting what my friends got. If i can just download a game on my my PC and play with all my friends that own a PS4, then i don't need to buy a PS4. How does that favor Sony?

To be fair, Sony has allowed cross play with PCs for quite awhile.  It's just that not all devs take advantage of it.  And it doesn't really hurt sales so long as you have appealing exclusives to sell. MS is trying really hard to look like the nice guy after its been engrained in many gamers' minds they are anything but.  Some games didn't even release on Xbox because MS wouldn't allow cross play.  But fanboys will eat up whatever shit Spencer spews.

And what's truly going on is that MS is shifting its focus to PC.  It's the reason they mentioned Windows so much at E3. It's the reason they don't care if Xbox has any exclusives anymore.  The want gamers back on PC, gaming on Windows and using the Windows Store, another failure.  I've been saying in the past, MS is going to be pushing the Scorpio just as much, if not more, as a Windows VR box as a Xbox console closer to release.



 

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aLkaLiNE on 02 July 2016
Sixteenvolt420 said:
Nothing that MS is doing this gen, seems to be helping their sales, as much as they hope that it would. Imo, they're still feeling the effects, of the horrible system launch, with the DRM policy and all of that good stuff. I would like them to gain a little ground, for those of you that like the Xbox brand, . I for one, have never been completely sold on the brand. I had the original Xbox and rarely played it, outside of Star Wars KOTOR, Halo, and a few other games. Sony has always been the better system for my gaming needs, as i pretty much only play games on my PS consoles, don't really care about what else my console can do, outside of that. Outside of playing games, i occasionally use Amazon Prime on my PS4, that's about it. I have always felt that Sony also has a better and more broad array of games to play, as well.

I don't care about console unification personally, as i rarely ever play games online. I can see how it'd benefit some gamers, but it'd also take away the need for somebody to buy the other console, which is just a bad sales strategy, imo. MS needs to figure out what their customers want the most out of their system, and make it so. They need to get the rest of the world to trust their brand, or nothing is going to change. BC isn't giving them the sales boost, that they hoped for. Not as many people care about Windows 10, as they hoped, either. Sony seems to be succeeding at giving their customers what they want, as their customer base just keeps growing, at a healthy rate. They really don't need to change anything with their current strategy, imo.

That's a lot of commas d: 



Sixteenvolt420 on 02 July 2016
aLkaLiNE said:
Sixteenvolt420 said:
Nothing that MS is doing this gen, seems to be helping their sales, as much as they hope that it would. Imo, they're still feeling the effects, of the horrible system launch, with the DRM policy and all of that good stuff. I would like them to gain a little ground, for those of you that like the Xbox brand, . I for one, have never been completely sold on the brand. I had the original Xbox and rarely played it, outside of Star Wars KOTOR, Halo, and a few other games. Sony has always been the better system for my gaming needs, as i pretty much only play games on my PS consoles, don't really care about what else my console can do, outside of that. Outside of playing games, i occasionally use Amazon Prime on my PS4, that's about it. I have always felt that Sony also has a better and more broad array of games to play, as well.

I don't care about console unification personally, as i rarely ever play games online. I can see how it'd benefit some gamers, but it'd also take away the need for somebody to buy the other console, which is just a bad sales strategy, imo. MS needs to figure out what their customers want the most out of their system, and make it so. They need to get the rest of the world to trust their brand, or nothing is going to change. BC isn't giving them the sales boost, that they hoped for. Not as many people care about Windows 10, as they hoped, either. Sony seems to be succeeding at giving their customers what they want, as their customer base just keeps growing, at a healthy rate. They really don't need to change anything with their current strategy, imo.

That's a lot of commas d: 

Yep. To hell with proper sentence structure. :)



aLkaLiNE on 02 July 2016
Sixteenvolt420 said:
aLkaLiNE said:

That's a lot of commas d: 

Yep. To hell with proper sentence structure. :)

Please ): I read that a certain way in my mind and it breaks me.



Aeolus451 on 02 July 2016

Sony doesn't have an OS they're trying to sell to everyone so no they wouldn't follow that strategy.



Snoopy on 02 July 2016
Lawlight said:
Snoopy said:

For real. Microsoft increasing their install base means they can invest more money into xbox. They arleady bought two huge multi billion dollar ips this generation. They can buy more as time goes by.

Which ips are those?

Gears and Minecraft.