Without the pandemic, Sony would have steamrolled xbox. If Sony had been able to get chips to meet their initial estimates, they would be around 35m+ now. They had initially wanted to provide 18m PS5's in the first 12 months. And given the demand we continue to see, they certainly would have sold them all.
You don't need a subscription to play games you own digitally. And games that are on the service will be available for purchase outside the subscription.
How about all the 360 games I purchased that I can't play via BC? People like to talk about BC on xbox without pointing out it's just a whitelist of games and less than 25% of the retail offerings and almost none of the digital only content.
I bought more niche games on 360 and almost nothing I own is BC.
Now that Redfall and Starfield have been delayed into 2023, there is a massive gap in Xbox’s 2022 lineup. With currently no big first-party games officially announced to release this year. It has left some fans feeling lost in the mix. 2022 is slowly starting to feel like what 2017 was for the Xbox One
But during the entire Spring of 2022, they have essentially released nothing in terms of first-party software. Now for ...
Talk about speculation... Who cares about that. They did release this year, you're just fishing for excuses.
The problem with games isn't Sony quit trying to project. And quit trying to deflect from the fact that Microsoft even after buying 100bn worth of studios still can't put out first party games on a regular schedule.
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And it doesn't even matter, the story is about the fact that Microsoft had to delay both of their game...
You asked if the same would be said if God of War is delayed. No because Sony actually has a steady cycle, so they have already released multiple games this year.
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The issue isn't the delay, it's the fact that Microsoft as of now has no games releasing this year. Yes, Horizon and GT7 were delayed, but they still released games last year, and they launched with games. Not having games for years at a time is a p...
"The complaints about day one are unjustified considering both parties agreed to the deal and developers were paid a substantial amount for their games to appear day and date."
We have seen through rumors and court documents what Microsoft and Epic are paying, and it's not even a fraction of the cost of a 100+ million dollar gaming budget. Epic was paying pennies per download just a few M total, and even Microsoft biggest day one AAA deals are only in the 10 m...
Sadly, the article about the conversion was not allowed on the site for some reason, so a lot of people seem confused.
If you have PSNow and PSPlus you get Premium for whichever subscription was longer. So I had 5 years of Plus because I bought a bunch of 3 year super cheap bundles around PS5 launch. And last year they had a 25% off a year of Now sale which lasts until November.
And again let me point out to you, that day 1 doesn't matter if you haven't played a game before, it's new to that person.
And rumors are that Ubisoft+ is coming to GamePass too.
Maybe, but that seems unlikely considering that Ubisoft + is already on xbox. I find it hard to belive that Micrsoft wouldn't have tried to steal Sony's thunder by announcing this back when they got U+
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You need to separate the complaints about day one from services.
No one complained about PS+ or games with gold, it's that people worry that subscriptions can't fund the type of big budget development we appreciate. And it's not a fair argument to say well "Microsoft is doing it, so it must be working" because if Microsoft is spending more than they are making and subsidizing the service that's not a working business model.
