Buying at launch isn’t the worst financial decision. The price will go down but if you look at price per year, you can do fine by getting more years out of a higher priced item. My issue is the cost of games. I’m a frugal gamer and I’m waiting on all these games to go on sale. Creed looks fun, for example, but it would look more fun if it cost $10. Currently enjoying Humanity which came with PS+ Extra.
Don’t discount the value of 3rd party games to an Xbox gamer. Sure, Sony and Nintendo make some great games, but sometimes a third party will also make a great game. That Jedi game looks good. Folks liked Elden Ring. Hogwarts looks fun. Sports games are still popular so they must be enjoyable. If Starfield is a 6/10, I’m sure something else will keep Xbox players busy this fall while they wait for Avowed or whatever,
I think it would be hard for Starfield to truly fail. Fallout 4 was a big disappointment in many ways but still sold well and was received well at launch. What a lot folks don’t get about Starfield is that it won’t be for everyone. A lot of folks use their console as a Madden or Call of Duty or Fortnite machine. Starfield won’t change that. Starfield only has to appeal to that Western RPG audience,
I would love to buy MGS4 but it’s still a PS3 exclusive.
I honestly don’t care about handheld sales. It’s a one company market if you discount Android and iPhone. (I know that Steam is in it but until I see one Target, I’ll consider it a niche product.) Xbox versus PlayStation fight is the action that piques my interest.
Descenders is a PS+ Essential game this month. Add it to your library and you can play it anytime so long as you are a PS+ subscriber at any tier.
“Amazing how competition changes things from we ‘believe in generations’ to wanting to increase their PC presence.”
I don’t understand the connection between believing in console generations and increasing PC presence? I do understand going after untapped markets for those sweet, sweet pure profit software sales.
Maybe the handheld. Everything else made by Atari was outclassed by the competition.
This, exactly. Paying more money for 3 games instead of one only lowers the price of the Zelda game in your mind. Your credit card statement will still show $100 instead of $70.
Xbox will eventually launch one new game per quarter on Game Pass. Any day now. I’m sure it will start soon. We all need to be patient. Just a little longer,
On home consoles, over 70% of game sales are digital. Probably even higher than that by now. Xbox Series S can’t play physical games (and neither can the PS5 digital). Nintendo is the last holdout for physical games, and I get it. I would rather give my kid a cartridge with Zelda than a gift card for Nintendo bucks or whatever. So I don’t give physical sales numbers much credence anymore. But I do give credence to console sales.
Would it? The target audience for Nintendo’s handheld console only has so much money to buy games and birthdays and Christmas only comes once a year. Sales of old, cheap games would take away sales from newer, more expensive games.
“They need to stop Sony's control on the gaming industry.”
Open your eyes to what is happening. Microsoft is taking their profits from their monopoly on OS and Office and using them to buy a monopoly on games. Monopolies aren’t good for anyone, especially Microsoft’s customers. Remember when cable monopolies charged as much as they wanted because they had no competition? That’s the future of Game Pass if these deals go through.
Back in 1995, we didn’t compare GameBoy games to PlayStation games. So why would anyone compare a handheld game to a console game today?
These kinds of threats lead to review score inflation. Never played Zelda because I don’t own a Switch but I have played fan favorites that were nowhere near as good as the review scores indicated. Let reviewed score games as they please. It doesn’t hurt you one bit,
With the inflation we are experiencing, this is a pay cut. Same job, less pay. Just how motivated would you be if you worked for Microsoft right now?
And folks still say Game Pass is the best deal in gaming. :-P
OG Xbox launched during the PS2 era. Nintendo held out with the GameCube during the PS2 era. There’s a market for the underdog.
This is a good point. PS5 is so big that a multi platform game can effectively become a PS5 game. You probably saw that commercial for Jedi Survivor with Mark Hamill. A casual consumer could easily think the PS5 is the only place to play it.
I assume they mean AAA live service games and not AAA co-op games like “It Takes Two” or all those Lego games. There’s a big difference.