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Where do you think Microsoft will focus on?

PC 62 54.87%
 
Xbox 14 12.39%
 
Equal focus on both 37 32.74%
 
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McDonaldsGuy said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

That still doesn't explain why they should spend god knows how much on R&D to make Xbox X, launch it and then another gob of money on advertising. Why do that if you're just getting out of console gaming? It makes little sense.

Try and milk it for what they can.

They have already transitioned to PCs, it's only a matter of time before they go third party.

With the Xbox One, they seem to care more about backwards compatibility than future games which says it all.

He's talking about the Xbox One X. You don't market and sell 'the World's most powerful console', if BC is what you have in mind. Hell, the Xbox One S already does that.



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Errorist76 said:

No, what he is saying is at the much bigger console market these days selling 30-40 Million is like selling 10 million back then.

It’s always about relation. If you start in the gen with the clear aim to become the new leader but end up far away at third place, it can indeed be considered a failure. It always depends on the perspective.

4th console generation:
Super Nintendo: 49.1 million consoles sold.
Megadrive: 33.75 million.
PC Engine: 10 million.
Neo Geo: 0.98 million.
CD-i: 0.57 million.

Total: 94.4 million consoles sold that generation.

Fast forward to the 7th console generation (As 8th hasn't concluded yet):
Xbox 360: 84.4 million consoles.
Playstation 3: 80 million consoles.
Wii: 101 million consoles.

Total: 265.4 million consoles.

That means the 4th gen console market was only 35% of the size of the 7th gen.

With that... A console that sells 40 million pieces of hardware, regardless of generation is still a damn good achievement.




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reviniente said:

He's talking about the Xbox One X. You don't market and sell 'the World's most powerful console', if BC is what you have in mind. Hell, the Xbox One S already does that.

If the Xbox had a hardware future then they wouldn't slowly be transitioning to streaming - even on rival systems.

Microsoft during the Xbox 360 era invested heavily into video games - both first, second, and third party games. Now there is not really any effort.

Microsoft's future in games is clearly streaming and Windows.



 

 

CGI-Quality said:
Zoombael said:

Except it wasnt the point.

I qoute:

"The lack of domination Sony was used to with the PS3 surely helped themake a much better console with PS4. Turns out competition is good."

 

Asserting, without the "good competition" the PS3 successor wouldnt be as good as what we have now. As a matter of fact "helped themake a MUCH BETTER CONSOLE".

I proclaim? It is you and LudicrousSpeed who proclaim what we got now is much better than what could have been if it wasnt for MS (and enter Nintendo - whoops.. where did they come from all over sudden) without providing a sound base to your claims. Nothing official or substantial logic and reasoning. I repeat myself: elaborate.

I on the other do provide at least logical, comprehensible arguments, not based on looking into a crystal ball, but on what Sony actually did the preceeding three generations, from the moment they entered the business.

The "crystal ball" claim is bogus. Everything presented to you is a logical analysis of the situation. If Sony had been successful with the PS3, the PS4 might have been a very different machine. 

- Price
- Development woes

Those were the two biggest obstacles they faced and both were Sony's fault. Microsoft and Nintendo (ignore them all you want, but they also were able to capitalize on Sony's mistakes) took marketshare from Sony due to the reasons above. My point from the beginning was an addition to Ludicrous'. Nothing wrong that hypothesis based on what is known. 

"The lack of domination Sony was used to with the PS3 surely helped themake a much better console with PS4. Turns out competition is good."

Looks like a sound viewpoint to me.

 


There was no logical analysis presented to me. You presented nothing at all. There is still no sound base to what you proclaim and your mysterious undisclosed source that told you about "what is known". It seems all you know is Sony lost dominance in the course of 7th. console generation, hence why PS4 is much better console. Thats it. Thats your analysis.

 

 

 

"If Sony had been successful with the PS3, the PS4 might have been a very different machine. "

 

Say, are you trying to pull my leg here!? First of all, i didnt object to this, as a matter of fact i included it as very possible.

But more importantly, how does a very different machine makes a much worse console?

 

Do me a favor and have some cohesivness before you make or support any bold statements. Thanky you very much.

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/ps4-declassified-how-sony-used-its-ps3-mistakes-to-build-the-ultimate-developers-console/

 

...and read the whole article, not just the URL. 

 

Btw. what is it im supposed to do with your added point? Its sorta completely irrelevant, because it was never part of the debate. I also wonder when it suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

 

"The lack of domination Sony was used to with the PS3 surely helped themake a much better console with PS4. Turns out competition is good."

"Looks like a sound viewpoint to me."

 

Yes, you already made that clear, yet again you failed to substantiate it. 

 

 

McDonaldsGuy said: 
Zoombael said: 

They said so themselves, resp. Phil Spencer.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2016/10/02/microsoft-originally-aimed-for-200-million-xbox-one-sales/#59738bad5d60

I wouldn't take this stuff seriously. J Allard in 2005 said the 360 would reach a billion users.

You wouldnt. I do.

Because it goes hand in hand with Microsofts directive they made known to the world of gaming in 2013. We all remember it like it was yesterday. TV TV TV, Sports sports sports, Xbox Go Home. When everyone was wondering what was going on and what the hell MS was up to. They tried to make their product appeal to a broader audience, with the one box, to find them all, to rule them all... or at the very least 200 million... and under xbox live bind them. Cue to continue the debate above.

 

With a dominating Playstation and a failing fee based online multiplayer service, the need to bind customers would ve never arisen and the idea destined to fade away along side other fruitless attempts (GFWL). Yaya, "the good competition".



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Pemalite said:
Errorist76 said:

No, what he is saying is at the much bigger console market these days selling 30-40 Million is like selling 10 million back then.

It’s always about relation. If you start in the gen with the clear aim to become the new leader but end up far away at third place, it can indeed be considered a failure. It always depends on the perspective.

4th console generation:
Super Nintendo: 49.1 million consoles sold.
Megadrive: 33.75 million.
PC Engine: 10 million.
Neo Geo: 0.98 million.
CD-i: 0.57 million.

Total: 94.4 million consoles sold that generation.

Fast forward to the 7th console generation (As 8th hasn't concluded yet):
Xbox 360: 84.4 million consoles.
Playstation 3: 80 million consoles.
Wii: 101 million consoles.

Total: 265.4 million consoles.

That means the 4th gen console market was only 35% of the size of the 7th gen.

With that... A console that sells 40 million pieces of hardware, regardless of generation is still a damn good achievement.

 

You’re just proving my point tbh. The console market grew to almost 300% the size. So 1/3 Of 40 Million is 13.3 Million. 13 Million 4th gen would have been slightly more than PC Engine. You call that a success?!



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McDonaldsGuy said:
reviniente said:

He's talking about the Xbox One X. You don't market and sell 'the World's most powerful console', if BC is what you have in mind. Hell, the Xbox One S already does that.

If the Xbox had a hardware future then they wouldn't slowly be transitioning to streaming - even on rival systems.

Microsoft during the Xbox 360 era invested heavily into video games - both first, second, and third party games. Now there is not really any effort.

Microsoft's future in games is clearly streaming and Windows.

I think MS and Sony invested more last gen. Now they place safe bets, less experiments, less studios, more remakes, etc. Cant blame them for focusing on genres that thrive.

MS has funded a bunch of games this gen, I'm not sure how you come to such an objectively wrong conclusion. The gen isnt over either, more will come. Granted MS had a fairly weak year given projects being delayed or cancelled. I'm confident better years are coming.



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Errorist76 said:

 

You’re just proving my point tbh. The console market grew to almost 300% the size. So 1/3 Of 40 Million is 13.3 Million. 13 Million 4th gen would have been slightly more than PC Engine. You call that a success?!

I never said I agreed or disagreed with your point. But I was going to present the information either way, the onus is on you to decide what to do with it. - Not everything is about taking sides you know.

With that in mind... If a console sells 40 million... Then it sold 40 million.
If it sells 10 million it sells 10 million, you don't get to inflate/deflate the numbers to fit your own narrative.

As long as a profit is being made then it is still a success, it really is that simple.

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After seeing this DF video about Microsoft's Backwards compatibility(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8nYLO43zs), it all makes sense to me know....
In the next couple of years Microsoft will drop the console side and release Xbox branded PCs (probably top end laptops to make it portable) as the next iteration. With the new emulator tech (as per above vidoe) they are developing, they could shoehorn that into the next release of Windows (Windows 11) and you can then play all your XBox One, Xbox 360 and Xbox Original games on your Xbox XI PC. I don't believe the move to release games on both Xbox and PC is happenstance. I think there is a longer term agenda. I think we'll see this strategy revealed in the next 3 years.



CartBlanche said:
After seeing this DF video about Microsoft's Backwards compatibility(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8nYLO43zs), it all makes sense to me know....
In the next couple of years Microsoft will drop the console side and release Xbox branded PCs (probably top end laptops to make it portable) as the next iteration. With the new emulator tech (as per above vidoe) they are developing, they could shoehorn that into the next release of Windows (Windows 11) and you can then play all your XBox One, Xbox 360 and Xbox Original games on your Xbox XI PC. I don't believe the move to release games on both Xbox and PC is happenstance. I think there is a longer term agenda. I think we'll see this strategy revealed in the next 3 years.

Microsoft doesn't seem to care about hardware, but only their applications and os spreading like wildfire.



CartBlanche said:
After seeing this DF video about Microsoft's Backwards compatibility(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd8nYLO43zs), it all makes sense to me know....
In the next couple of years Microsoft will drop the console side and release Xbox branded PCs (probably top end laptops to make it portable) as the next iteration. With the new emulator tech (as per above vidoe) they are developing, they could shoehorn that into the next release of Windows (Windows 11) and you can then play all your XBox One, Xbox 360 and Xbox Original games on your Xbox XI PC. I don't believe the move to release games on both Xbox and PC is happenstance. I think there is a longer term agenda. I think we'll see this strategy revealed in the next 3 years.

Not sure how you came up with "Xbox Emulation on the PC" from watching that Digital Foundry video.
Did you miss the part where the Xbox One chip retains partial backwards compatibility with prior consoles in hardware? PC doesn't have that... Rather. It can't.




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