"it's not a direct competitor to any home console"
Except it is, the average consumer doesn't sink thousands of dollars into gaming hardware. If you can only buy one, you will consider Switch vs PS5 vs XSX - it is fighting for your dollars and therefore it is a competitor.
Regardless of any excuses provided - Sales are sales and dollars are dollars, and it is currently outselling everything else on the market.
No one is claiming that, but re-directing/steering a huge ship like Microsoft takes years - it doesn't happen overnight.
Seems like a pretty safe bet to me... it's not like Activision are doing poorly financially.
The Switch is regularly breaking records set by Microsoft, Sony and even Nintendo. It just claimed PS1’s scalp today.
There’s no stopping it at this point - the only one who will kill demand is Nintendo by releasing a Switch 2, but given that it still outsells Xbox and PS consistently, I don’t think they’ll be in a rush to do that.
Crazy. The Switch just keeps knocking down records. Congratulations to Nintendo & all of their staff.
I’ll believe it when it’s mainstream. Right now the adoption rate doesn’t really support your statement or show much interest from most gamers.
“ When you're the market leader (Sony) you don't have to respond to the moves of your competition”
Only if you don’t want to be the market leader long term. Simply sitting stagnant and saying “we’re the market leader” while competitors innovate won’t work.
But I’d disagree with you anyway, Sony aren’t sitting and stagnating - they DO respond to things Microsoft do, and to a lesser extent, Nintendo.
“ So far in the console space ...
The large tech corporations - Tencent, Amazon, Google, etc.
Complaints over things which are easily solved.
1. Graphics drivers - Nvidia, AMD, steam and even Windows will update your driver for you at the click of a button.
2. Overheating? Who has overheating problems in 2022. If you do, your PC hasn’t been built correctly.
3. Best settings - most games can reasonably detect recommended settings these days, and things like GeForce experience will fine tune the game for your hardware.
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I don’t know if I’d say that the Xbox One really made a comeback - but the smart decisions they made in the second half / during the Phil Spencer era certainly set them up for success with Series X|S. And Microsoft seems more committed to gaming than ever.
Oh I agree the deal will have huge impact on Xbox and GamePass - just not this year, I don’t believe it will close in 2022 - and they can’t make any changes until it closes.
Not as many as PS and Xbox - but how’s that working out for Nintendo? Switch is consistently outselling them both.
Still, we didn’t see many exclusives in the 2nd half of the year, and we definitely didn’t get many PS5 exclusives at all throughout the year.
That in itself is a weird metric though - does it really matter if a game is on PS4 also?
But overall, the situation is nothing to do with “hype” or lack of, it’s just where we are at in the console transition and with all the shortages.
He’s not really wrong. The 2nd half of last year was dry overall for PS4 and 5 in terms of exclusives.
As for PS5 exclusives, we’ve barely had any.
But what does he expect? There’s 100+ mil last gen consoles out there and about 15 current gen - it’s not really viable to make next-gen exclusives yet.
Not sure I’d say that’s more interesting.
I’m way more interested in seeing how XSX and PS5 are doing compared to XB1 and PS4 than I am about how much of each SKU from the current gen was sold.
You can’t even use that data to compare to last gen because last gen both were single SKU at launch.
I did. I was okay with the button changes - but was not a fan of the “live” part and the fact that some songs were behind free plays per day or paying for tokens.
If they make a new one hopefully it doesn’t have that - they could release band or theme dlcs like before and I’d be fine with that - just don’t want to be limited to how many times I can play a song etc.
What were your opinions on Live?
Guitar Hero please. And make more Crash and Spyro games.
And Switch will outsell them both.
Not that it really matters anyway for Sony vs Microsoft - we can already see that Microsoft are playing a completely different game from traditional hardware unit numbers and are lining up to fight against companies far bigger than Sony.
I do agree with them that the Activision purchase won’t impact sales this year - that deal won’t even be closed this year - and we still don’t know what it means for Activision games on ...
It’ll be a COD killer just like how Titanfall was a COD killer and how Haze was a Halo killer.
They have enough money to come into the industry at any moment, and have expressed interest in doing so - and when they do, they will crush small, unprepared companies.