Shaunodon said:
Still have competition between Sony? According to who? All Xbox have talked about is wanting to offer people the best value and that everyone should be able to play everything regardless of system, then they go ahead to promote their games on PS consoles while more games are being kept away from Xbox consoles. Sony now feel emboldened enough to price their products as if they can get away with anything, not like someone operating in a competetive market. Right now their business isn't making people happy nor is it currently positioned to make any sort of worthwhile return on the huge investments they've made, so what exactly are they in the business for? If you're gonna make it out like they have their own rationale behind all these anti-consumer moves, you have to actually show some clear proof that it's actually leading to something positive. Right now all we know for sure is their market share is rapidly declining, Gamepass growth is not where they projected it to be and their brand image has arguably never been worse (up there with the Xbox One reveal/Kinect Overlord days). No one expects any corporation to be naturally consumer-friendly, although when it comes to Nintendo specifically they've set themselves apart from every other publisher in video games when it comes to their business philosophy. But as you've mentioned it should be common sense for a brand to please customers to a certain extent if they want to actually have some sustainable and long-term success in the market, yet right now Xbox are definitevely doing neither well, so what exactly have they been doing other than emptying out their Microsoft inheritance fund? |
Please enlighten me with what you consider anti consumer moves because I have no clue what you are talking about. The moves may not be popular but anti consumer is something totally different. If you are talking about moving day one releases to the ultimate price point, that isn't anti consumer because no consumer needs Gamepass. Instead its a business decision based on the amount MS is spending compared to what they are getting based on the cost of their services. Just because you do not like the move doesn't make it anti consumer.
The thing is MS needed to scale back their ambition because its not working. MS current setup is pretty much like Sony setup with the upside that MS still have day one releases of their games but now only for their higher tier. The expectation that standard will get MS first party games after a year is based on nothing because that doesn't even happen for MS competition so I would believe its going to be a case by case scenario.
Is the problem you have is that MS is putting their games on other platforms. That really seems to be the case with most of your arguments but to be honest I can only look at such arguments as fanboy type mentality. I really cannot care that another platform is going to get games from MS since I do not care if another platform gets MS games. MS bought 2 big 3rd party publishers who have well established IPs on other platforms so I already figured they will not be making the majority of those games exclusive because that will nuke their profit margin.
I will tell you what MS has been doing which is making themselves the biggest games publishers with the most successful IPs on multiple platforms. It might not be what you want but its definitely what MS want as a business because just being 3rd place in consoles isn't enough for a huge company like MS and their shareholders. I wouldn't get my hopes up that MS ever move from that position as that ship has sailed a long time ago. MS still is all steam ahead on GP and games and while they will still have a console device, its not going to change their marketshare unless either Sony or Nintendo makes some pretty big mistakes.
damn that grind in training 10,000 Villagers though 
what an awesome time down memory lane!
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