As far as what I have read that is not accurate, except for a small selection of games that are available through BC.
And even when the PS3 and Vita stores were going to be shut down they still were still going to be available to download if you purchased them already.
"Fact is there's a mechanism that exists for Xbox OG and 360 BC physically and digitally. PS has none for PS1 or 2 or 3. If you're gonna bring PS into an Xbox article, at least know what you're talking about."
I understand that, I'm making commentary on the fact that xbox is moving to digital only (and that the vast majority of current gen xbox owners do not have a disc based option) and not towards preservation as they claim.
An...
"Xbox will stop supporting the ability to purchase new games, DLC, and other entertainment content from the Xbox 360 Store on the console ->and the Xbox 360 Marketplace (marketplace.xbox.com).<-&q uot;
You will not be able to purchase any 360 games. You will only be able to play xbox discs if you have a console that support discs which doesn't look great for the future of xbox, if it has one.
How are you going to play those discs on your Series S (which 75% of xbox owners have) or your adorably all digital Series X?
And keep in mind that BC on xbox is an extremely limited selection of games, it's less than 25% of retail releases, and way less than the entire catalogue.
It's not a solution for the future, this isn't how "game preservation" looks, it's the fake PR that makes it that much worse.
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"The way Sony are doing it though is very suspect, It almost seems like they are trying to tunnel their way out of Steam with a PSN back-end"
That's not accurate, what they want is simply to be able to count PC users as PlayStation users. It's no different than what EA Ubisoft or Microsoft are doing. Heck, people need to sign up for extra accounts even on consoles to play som...
"What are you asking? Like, if people got pissed at Sony for that? Because they did. We also got pissed at Nintendo when they did it."
My point is when PlayStation did this every website under the sun was writing articles talking about how "anti-consumer" it was yet I haven't seen anything like that happening when it's xbox doing it, in fact mostly what I see is praise from media when xbox makes obviously false claims about game preservation whil...
"we believe in game preservation"
Remember the media reaction when PlayStation wanted to shut down the PS3 store (but then kept it open)... where is that reaction here?
If COVID hadn't happed it would be way worse.
And the truth is that xbox is almost certainly still being over tracked.
People come up with the silliest reasons to claim the console isn't needed, exclusives made by Sony don't matter, third party games are like 500 to 1 even in the best year.
And since PS1 PlayStation has relied on third party publishing deals, the vast vast majority of games that people see as PlayStation games were made by third party developers published by Sony, Insomniac only recently became a PlayStation studio all their games made before that were as a third pa...
Well one things for sure it's not the deal it once was. not even close. I remember when they were adding 3-5+ AAA with 15-20 games total a month and charging a dollar.
Now, I was looking at the list of games this month and it's 9 games with the highlight being Hellbalde 2 which honestly seems pretty underwhelming at 30FPS and 6-8 hours long then the next highlight is Immortals of Aveum and Lords of the Fallen both games already on PlayStation Plus given out so you g...
I like how they talk about game preservation while they are closing down the 360 store something which it seems got very little coverage and reportedly pushing out an "adorably all digital future" powered by subscriptions and cloud with zero ownership.
"Yes, the HD department consolidated more net sales but you forgot to finish your sentence which explains the original claims so let me finish it for you."
So you're saying that the sales of the games which you're trying to say sold bad actually had higher net sales, interesting...
"As for MMO what are you trying to tell us? That a few months of FF14 on Xbox should have compensated for PC and PS gamers canceling their subs to a 10-y...
It's funny, when Microsoft bought all these studios all we saw was xbox fans and websites writing about how all these old dormant franchises were going to be brought back with all the executives fanning the flames in media statements.
I said there was no way that game pass was going to be able to support the current development much less all these other games everyone was saying were right around the corner...
I guess we see how that turned out...
Pardon me, I didn't see this, I thought it was referring to the previous statement.
But still I reiterate my other points.
In the HD (High-Definition) sub-segment, consolidated net sales for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024
---->increased<--- compared with the previous fiscal year due to the release of titles including
---->“FINAL FANTASYXVI,”<------ “FINAL FANTASY PIXEL REMASTER,” “DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Pri...
You mean like Starfield?
Everything they bought is at risk, Game Pass is NEVER going to be able to support all the development for these studios while also maintaining any kind of catalog of new games.
If it wasn't supporting itself before they bought all these studios it's obviously not going to be able to support even more.
Better question would Redfall have been good if Microsoft hadn't gotten involved.
The better question is why did Microsoft buy publishers for a service they were subsidizing they knew couldn't support.
And why are so many websites trying to make people feel sorry for Microsoft instead of truly criticizing the fact they are closing studios and killing jobs that would have been fine if Microsoft themselves hadn't gotten involved.
Quit feeling sorry for Microsoft and start feeling sorry for the industry and the all the gamers who ...
The report does not say anything about being more multiplatform especially not in the way the article is implying which is to say that it's about Final Fantasy 16 and 7R.
It's ridiculous that this site is making up something which we all know is just an attempt to bump xbox.
The fact of the matter is that 95% of Square Enix games are already multiplatform, and games that are timed exclusive are multiplatform in essence.
The real...
Whatever, keep insulting me, if you think that is going to make me change my opinions or what I say you couldn't be more far from the truth.
How you choose to treat other people only reflects poorly on you. (and this time it's not colloquially)