@z2g
I personally think you've nailed it here.
For decades, wether in film or music, there had been ONE primary target group.
And if you're looking further, even in economy, laws, courts or any other area there had been only one target group.
While others, let's be real, were surpressed.
It's "funny" though - why do we all think personalities like David Bowie, Mick Jagger, ...
What I personally find to be "fascinating" about every Xbox die-hard I ever spotted:
In their rhetoric, Xbox is basically king. While Playstation is utter crap.
Right?
Yet since 2013, Xbox is the only console brand that has lost ~50 million people buying it.
A new year, but same old dude fighting his life for Xbox with multiple accounts. Now even talking with a 2nd account he created, that's new to me.
Man, this can't be healthy anymore. I mean seriously.
It took Nintendo until the Wii to finally reach 100 million consoles sold.
Playstation did it with the PS1 and PS2 already, continued it with PS4 and highly likely (>99%) with the PS5, too.
I don't care about "Who's King?" discussions, which isn't fruitful in any subjective matter anyway. But all I care about is facts in that particular issue.
Nintendo+Playstation have been the cornerstones in the global console...
I must have forgotten about or missed Spencer's statements prior and around November 2020, that they don't seek to sell consoles anymore (despite building a 12TF machine), that MAU's are the way to go, that they can afford losing revenue coming from software sales, eventually saying that they've basically lost to Playstation already.
And of course their explanation as to why they didn't go with Windows for the Series generation already.
Reportedly, it seems his passenger was also killed. Rest in peace, both of them!
Having seen a glimpse of the recording of the crash, both deaths were totally avoidable, it was a single-vehicle accident caused by excessive speed.
I really don't share any sympathies for reckless driving, and I feel sad for the people left behind.
I don't think that this is a must have, but more of a nice little feat. Hence why you could render it disappointing why Microsoft didn't want to put some money into it.
The article is proposing they're rather gathering stuff together for their big anniversary in 2026.
And frankly, looking at their hardware sales and even declining software sales for games like Call of Duty in two consecutive years, cancelled and delayed projects, I think 2026 ...
Fun fact for your holidays:
Did you know that Playstation's Gran Turismo series alone, published exclusively on Playstation hardware to this very day, has sold almost the identical amount of copies as ALL Xbox' 1st party Halo, Gears and Forza games across PC, Xbox and Playstation combined?
... and I haven't even started putting every other 1st party Playstation game into that equation yet, too.
Duh.
They could have given it to Halo Studios, since they're reportedly only working on the next batch of Halo remakes.
Can't deny that, for me personally, it's a total delight watching Microsoft's Series generation not just falling off one cliff.
But instead keep tumbling, rolling, and falling off a second cliff again ... and after a third a fourth ... being whacked by a bus ... another cliff ...
Spencer in 2020: «After we saw their presentation of the Playstation 5, we were even more confident and proud of what we've worked on with Xbox Series.»...
And he is correct, at the least in the department of art design itself.
Congrats to Yōtei and Sucker Punch, btw.
Yōtei, PS5 exclusive, is now trailing just behind Oblivion Remake and CoD 7 in the year-to-date charts. Both of which are multiplatformer, with CoD even still on old-gen.
Is this a genuine question?
No offense, but I personally think that you were simply reading the market just wrong.
The complete downfall of the Series hardware generation alone, which has been going on for quite some time now, was a huge hint at that, again, many people would rather go get a PS5 this Black Friday season.
And that "many people" portion is only growing bigger from year to year, which makes sense in every way you could look at it since there's zero reason...
100% agreed.
According to their estimates:
• PS5 - 2.069m
• Switch 2 - 447K
• Switch - 93K
• X|S - 50K
In both, US and Europe, PS5 outsold combined Switch 2, Switch and X|S sales.
On a personal note;
40:1 in Europe for Playstation compared to Xbox in November, 10:1 year-to-date.
Microsoft can literally end the production of X|S at this point. If their decline in hardware keeps continu...
The solution for everyone has always been there, always will: don't buy/pre-order games if you're unsatisfied by any factor whatsoever.
There's no urgency to play any game at day of release. Literally nothing.
And as far as Microsoft go:
They've always had a different approach in everything they've ever done. They've become so wealthy that they're literally just throwing money at things.
J...
For your own benefit, read yourself into it a little bit.
Once a company is shared between investors (a company doesn't necessarily have to be publically traded for that), it's not up to the core of studio(s) anymore to decide wether to get bought or not.
Take Zenimax for instance.
Their biggest investor wanted to sell Zenimax even years prior already.
And later, then they went with Microsoft's offer, ret...
The one thing Ubisoft really done was always building great in house tech, I can't deny.
DS2 and Shadows are both great looking games.
That's truly something, I agree.
I'd be really interested to read somewhat of a survey or something as to why Japanese gamers don't like to get into the Playstation ecosystem anymore.
I would love to read an assessment from Japanese gamers.