If I already made a huge profit on Playstation and Nintendo I would consider releasing like Yakuza, FF etc after the fact I would as a company consider it just easy money. But if we're talking day 1? Nope that's just happening because it would be a deep cut to sales.
Well if it's feasible for Bethesda to remove games from 270 million PS4/PS5/Switch gamers then why isn't it feasible to remove from 70 million Xbox gamers then?
270 million >>>>>> 70 million
Plus the 70 million not only is the least hardware sold , has the lowest game per console sold ratio and have 3 versions required.
PS4/PS5/Switch >>>>>> Xbox One/Series S/Series X. So why even bother ma...
Probably the same reason Bethesda doesn't bother releasing games for Nintendo and Playstation going forward? If cutting out 270 million PS4/PS5/Switch owners is so feasible for Xbox and PC only then why not cut out the dead weight?!
Last I checked combined Xbox consoles only account for a measly 70 million consoles.
270 million PS4/PS5/Switch >>>>>> 70 million Xbox gamers. So if maximizing the market size is the goal then there'...
Hey if Bethesda is no longer releasing games to Playstation and Nintendo (150 million PS4/PS5 and 120 million Switch) and its apparently feasible to release on Xbox and PC knowing that Xbox games buy on average 6 games per console.
Then why wouldn't it be feasible to cut out only 70 million Xbox systems and work out fine?
270 Playstation/Nintendo consoles >>>>>> 70 million Xbox consoles. The math makes way more sense than you think. It's...
Pls explain Xbox 'bullying' by buying whole publishers then? Bethesda games not available to 150 million Playstation gamers and 120 million Nintendo gamers is 'good' for the industry? On 3rd party games that WERE Multiplatform?
Moneyhatting? Okay you forget Dead Rising 3 and 4 never on Playstation because of Xbox? Tales of Vesparia where Xbox prevented PS3 release in NA even though they released in Japan?
Explain these too while you'...
"If there is a pool of 30 million players on gamepass and it is able to reach the hands of 2 million players then that good."
No that's actually pretty terrible. Those are not sales and drive the lowest possible revenue is exactly why Xbox is being cut out. 2 million players doesn't equal 2 million copies sold. Heck the 360 FF sales were 1/3 of Playstation and that was Xbox top console in terms if sales and its never improved since. It's actually...
A million copies probably is a loss though when you consider cost of porting, advertising and development cost. Xbox gamers have the lowest attach rates by far. They average about 6 games sold. Just to give you an idea how low that is the average PS4 gamer bought about 12 games per console (broke the game sales record all time with 1.5 games sold to about 120 million PS4 consoles sold.
Plus a million for FF XV is pretty terrible. If you go to DQ, KH those sales don'...
Hey if Bethesda can exclude one of the biggest group of gamers by skipping Playstation and apparently be feasible to still release to a console group half the size in Xbox then why isn't it feasible for Square Enix?!
Because last I checked Bethesda is missing out on over 150 million console gamers between PS4 and PS5?! Whereas Square not releasing on Xbox is maybe 70 million consoles? Not only is the Xbox gaming core literally the smallest of the 3 console gamers it&#...
Console wise I would guess maybe 20% or so. Would bet the majority of console sales will be PS5
I would be down for these remasters. But only if they Remaster Resistance first
I think if Sony were to make a big purchase they should purchase Epic games. Microsoft would have to pay Sony to use UE5 engine, Sony would get a online store for PC games and Fortnite is also as big as COD.
"It was an excuse(based in context) but no denied supply constraints"
Really do you live under a rock? Go look at Orchard and a bunch of people suggesting the opposite of what you're saying. Plenty of delusional people here suggested otherwise.
If Activision Blizzard sale is good for the industry and you guys have been supporting this purchase then why would it be bad Sony to not also partake of purchasing a publisher? I thought it's what's 'good' for the industry?
A precedent has been set. Can't close the pandoras box now because it might inconvenience MS or their competitors.
Just like how Nintendo doesn't count in the scheme of things to skew sales towards Playstation by not counting Nintendo. But when they need back up to show how they will expand the market for consumers that 10 year deal with Nintendo does count. Awfully convenient.
Would be like if Japan suddenly that obscure Japanese shows don't represent even 5 percent of content viewed in the U.S. where 95 of the content is dominated by American content. It's obviously ...
Wait so Nintendo isn't included to skew the sales towards Playstation. But when Microsoft needs to include them for 10 year COD they do count? Awfully convenient to count and then not count them right?
Probably why they're being folded back in to Square
Weird FF7 broke sales records and the sequel will most likely as well and you think FF16 will fail why?! Lol. FF games have always done well on Playstation even with Xbox gamers not really buying the games despite asking for them. Forspoken literally has ZERO to do with FF16 sales.
If anything its expected to sell well. It's no different than say any 'bad' COD game affecting the next annual release. Which is to say minimal.
Releasing on Xbox would just probably be posted as a loss. Highly doubt they would make back their cost of porting the game over. Xbox gamers just don't buy these type of games.
When you see 80% sales of titles on Playstation on Final Fantasy, DQ, KH titles vs Xbox its pretty apparent that a new IP with even less recognition would just be posted as a loss. With Gamepass cannibalizing sales of games in general then it's even less likely this would pull any money...
To be fair to Nintendo they do sell like 20-50 million for Mario Kart and Pokemon and they heavily depend on 1st party game sales.
Except Xbox also had the highest minimum amounts required to self publish when compared to Nintendo and Playstation. Xbox also was only in it for themselves so let's not pretend they did it for the good of these indie developers
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