""I apologized for no reason. GS played me. Never again will no be played or manipulated by game devs again..."
Sure. Says the person who has flip-flopped multiple times between asserting that there was or wasn't a deal.
I told you early on to let things play out. Your problem isn't devs manipulating you. Your problem is your insistence on rushing online to post like you know what you're talking about while being belligerent to ...
I did consider other variables but wanted to keep it contained to the idea that GP subscribers moving to Xbox is something Xbox can't afford. You are correct that Sony would gain more from non-Xbox 3rd party sales with Xbox getting none of the sale where they would have taken ~30% for a 3rd party sale on their console. That's mitigated or offset by two things.
1) There is already a huge disparity in 3rd party sales between PS and Xbox, exacerbated by Game Pass.
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I'm not arguing whether there will be another generation of Xbox consoles. I'm pointing out that your reasoning for your prediction—
"But they just can't afford (the xbox gaming division) to suddenly cut off consoles and 30 million of their customers (which a huge percentage are GamePAss subscribers)."
—is an assertion that is undermined by the reason you argue Xbox can't afford to not make a next gen console:
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"But I believe GamePass on console is still by far the majority of GamePass subscribers and MS won't want to give that up."
"I just can't see them dumping console. If they did, GamePAss would not be able to survive."
Do you know what might help them get over that?
"But even then, console gamers WANT to game on a console. So they'll go to playstation where there will be no GamePass and also, Sony will...
Why are you starting this up again in a new thread? Are you that desperate to be able to tell the internet that you were right when you made an open-ended prediction that something "might" happen some unspecified amount of time into the future?
"Okay" Terry. Let's do this.
You said above, "I got a ton of downvotes here too like 5 years ago when I predicted that there will be less and less games on physical media."
Apocalypse
"And, they will have the content that players have bought into already from PSN. It's why Microsoft has had trouble getting PlayStation fans to switch over because gamers already have a catalog of games with PSN and don't want to lose their content."
This is a good point that goes in a direction I don't see often in this debate. Playstation has benefited more from positioning itself to take advantage of the technological s...
"If it’s over, why are they making a new console?"
Maybe it seems that way to him because some of the more overly attached fans are so mad about it that they waste their days making soon to be deleted alt accounts to leave soon to be deleted comments like a Reagan era PSA for what happens if you get hooked on "Phil says."
"Might."
You were upset over receiving down votes before the article is approved. Don't you think you're jumping the gun? Can we for once talk about what Xbox is doing without making it about what PS (or Nintendo) might do? Are we supposed to talk about what PS might do instead of Xbox when Xbox does something and talk about PS again if PS gets around to doing it, whenever that might be?
Slippery slope arguments are considered a logical...
I hate to break up your fatalism and vote counting, but how is what you just described "the same" as abandoning exclusives?
What Layden spoke on was the need for console makers to find the proper balance to preserve the viability of the platform when expanding the audience for 1st party titles.
Edit: I should have added "unless the plan is to transition from the platform to be 3rd party like Sega."
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I'm not sure what that has to do with my point.
Once again, the idea that tech will evolve beyond hardware, which is what you're talking about, is not the same as the idea that console makers should abandon closed ecosystems.
It's true that you don't need a 'Netbox' to use Netflix. It is also true that Netflix has a closed ecosystem that includes exclusives they either create or purchase.
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Bruh, why is most of your post dedicated to Sony possibly doing later what MS is doing now? 😂
Take a breath and live in the moment for a second. You were still doubting the Xbox ports after Phil Spencer said repeatedly "no red lines." You literally just yesterday became a believer and have already pivoted to spreading FUD about what Sony may do.
"I was a fool to believe MS would keep Xbox games exclusives and here we are."
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That's not true. Obscure is but one of a number of frequent commenters who don't make a habit of saying things "glaringly positive for Sony." There are comments similar to yours that have not been moderated, let alone ban worthy. Why not say it from your main if you have one?
The problem with his analogy is that Netflix has exclusives.
The idea that tech will evolve beyond hardware keeps getting conflated with the argument for the console makers to abandon closed ecosystems. They are not the same thing. Netflix has exclusives created by Netflix, exclusives it acquires from other parties, and content that is not exclusive.
Couldn't you have made such an innocuous comment from your main where it wouldn't get deleted if you have one?
Is Jez an "industry" insider, or is it best to think of him as an unofficial MS spokesperson whom MS doesn't have to take accountability for and is someone MS can sometimes feed inside information to control the narrative?
The rumors include Switch 2.
https://www.ign.com/article...
"I played Halo 1 and 2 . Honestly, those were masterpiece. Developer was Bungie."
MS leaning fully into going multiplat does slightly open the door to the possibility of something like Bungie working on another Halo. There are still reasons to doubt it will happen, but there are less reasons than before.
Everything you stated is why I didn't dignify that post with a response.
We've seen over the last few weeks in particular that there are people on this site who think they can't lose an argument if they refuse to accept the loss. I don't need them to do so to make my point.
There's no additional context needed for—
"You guys can't be that dumb to think they're spending all this money to put games on play...
This is about the only part of your post worth a response.
"I asked a few questions and made a factual statement, and when he said it was a joke, I admitted that I missed the humor and said 'my bad'."
Why frame it like you were just asking a few questions and apologized for missing the humor after learning it was a joke? This is the internet. We can see your passive aggressive response.
"I was not offended.
If only the PS5 and PC launch was the first or only other time that August 20th was used as a significant date for BMW.
The PS5 and PC launch date was the continuation of an existing pattern of using that date for BMW events.
What's curious is why Windows Central is resorting to guessing and speculating instead of reporting what they were able to clarify with their source.