«Definitely the engine needs work or years of investment in either a new engine or shifting the team to another engine.»
So how come that ain't laziness when they haven't done so yet. In four years time, it's 2030 already. Are you kiddin?
Good Lord. Could they just please drop that seizure of an engine already.
In the past 15 years - how many of these accusations around the globe in the gaming industry have eventually turned out false?
I'd say none. None that I can remember.
I really don't know what's been going on at Xbox. I bet there's a ton people could talk about but locked behind NDA's.
@Reaper
What are these games exclusively to Xbox Series?
It definitely did not serve the Xbox Series generation well to have had so many too early announced/shown/canceled projects.
It's a totally valid criticism towards the former executives running the show, and I think it's almost safe to say that they had misled parts of the Xbox community, wether with intent or not.
Some million Series adopters could have easily saved their money and could have gotten a PS5 instead, especially considering the curre...
That's a fine & totally resonable statement.
I agree.
«You think them releasing almost 90% of their entire ps5 exclusive portfolio on PC was just out of kindness or a gift?»
No. They wanted revenue. They got it. But it appearantly didn't reach their expectations.
«that was the past and now currently plans have changed»
Exactly.
And a new change of the current state will happen very soon again, with Xbox Helix and Steam Machine.
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«Sony has won the console wars»
They undeniably have.
Yet still they don't have to gift any of their upcoming exclusives to PC, Steam Machine and Xbox Helix.
All of Playstation's exclusive games, IF made available on these three systems, will instantly give those systems another USP to be bought instead of a Playstation.
I can go on and repeat it over and over again. It would definitely harm Playstat...
@baptist
«Where is the actual loss in hardware that sony has suffered?»
How would we, both of us, really know?
Yet I do claim that going forward, looking at recently released Ghost of Yōtei, upcoming Saros, Wolverine and Intergalactic (probably not so much their games already released on PC, but still), that these mentioned games actually do carry the potential of selling additional hardware.
And again, at l...
If you build a console and choose to release your exclusive games on PC, you get people waiting for the PC release. No matter if you wouldn't release it on PC eventually, unless you'd communicate it.
If you build a console and choose to release your games exclusively to it, you build the so called ecosystem. Revenue starts coming from hardware, software, subs, MTX. All through your store. You know that of course, so I don't wanna lecture about it.
Not releasing games on PC would lose them software revenue.
Releasing games on PC would lose them hardware revenue (and, consequently, software revenue). Especially with Steam Machine and a Windows driven Helix on the horizon.
Sony's choice, if true, is pure business. Nothing to get emotional about.
And secondly, Playstation games have always been exclusive to Playstation. Their (shortlived) PC strategy in comparison never was th...
After Death Stranding 2, Metal Gear Solid Delta and Ghost of Yōtei been covering my past 9 months taking my time in extended playthroughs, Starfield for me personally doesn't come at the right point in time anymore. 2026 is packed.
Second of all, since Bethesda developed it multiplatform, then it got bought, then it went exclusive, then it failed to accelerate Xbox, then Microsoft pulled the plug and are now asking for money - I renounce gladly. I actually always do wit...
So his work was not fruitless and went into another bigger project ND are working on besides Intergalactic.
While it's sad another Faction won't come, I think it's a good thing that, whoever made that decision, TLoU's newest online multiplayer wasn't put forward as GaaS.
It would have watered the TLoU IP badly in my opinion. And it's a good thing that God of War was spared the same.
What do you assume their ports cost them? 300 million?
There ain't a single ounce in my wishing for a PS6 in 2027. And even if there was, I'd advocate to postpone the release given the current market dynamics.
Sony shouldn't panic and shouldn't force a 2027 release.
I 99% think your theory will turn out true.
Remember, anyone?
https://youtu.be/GqQuhMwkrA...
The same as you can tell that Sony once bought Naughty (but created new IP), it's as valid to simply state the fact that Microsoft bought publishers AND their IP - and simply keep publish them.
Substract all of those since 2020, and then you're left with only Halo, Forza and Gears once again.
Xbox have done literally nothing since 2020 in the IP creation side of business.
They simply took the fruits from others, own them now, k...
Substract the IPs they've simply bought, and there it is, Microsoft's true output.
7.5 billion dollars. There they'd gone ... into the Starfield.