The traditionalists in me is disgusted by the idea of the phonification of consoles. Or making consoles irrelevant.
I want new boxes that do unique things every half-decade that play games that do unique things. Like it's been since the 1980s.
This "Console War" bullshit needs to die out, it needs to die out with flames.
After coffee, things become more clear.I just checked out game pass,... its insane. Signed up immediately. =) how have i missed this.
Hah=) no shit!
I hope people are ready for when Sony launches their own PC store and starts grabbing third party exclusives there too.
Has Amazon even shown any interest in becoming a platform holder for streaming?
People still think The xbox One line of consoles will work with all games for the entire duration of XSX lol how do people not understand what's happening by now
Atleast the U.S media, just like before this Gen started.
If this continues,
Sony strategy is high risk high reward. Their strength is unparalleled quality of their first party games which attracts people for sure and traps them in their ecosystem, but imagine a world where Tlou and Uncharted 4 flopped for some godforsaken reason. It would prove to be such a devastating blow for everything for PS.
However MS going low risk medium reward. They can't compete with competitors first party games no way, and while people enjoy their Indie and AA games on an unparalleled Gamepass service, they can work on AAA which are much more less risky than right now because their entire strategy isn't revolving around it. They can make THE Home console for all third party games and they WILL, unless Sony does something about Gamepass.
Let's wait for PS5 reveal.
If this continues,
Sony strategy is high risk high reward. Their strength is unparalleled quality of their first party games which attracts people for sure and traps them in their ecosystem, but imagine a world where Tlou and Uncharted 4 flopped for some godforsaken reason. It would prove to be such a devastating blow for everything for PS.
However MS going low risk medium reward. They can't compete with competitors first party games no way, and while people enjoy their Indie and AA games on an unparalleled Gamepass service, they can work on AAA which are much more less risky than right now because their entire strategy isn't revolving around it. They can make THE Home console for all third party games and they WILL, unless Sony does something about Gamepass.
Let's wait for PS5 reveal.
I had that in mind but I thought whatever money they are bleeding with Gamepass they can make it up (by some fraction) in sheer numbers of gamers in their ecosystem. GP literally has no competition for value for money. AND I don't think MS will ever fund too many self contained AAA SP experiences if it doesn't have MP to get people to buy GP.I would equate risk to money. Microsoft's approach isn't cheap. I'd argue subscriptions are high risk, high reward. I also believe the question shouldn't be who's going to win or who's approach will make the most money. It's whether they can all co-exist and continue to do the right things so that the industry as a whole remains healthy.
People argue about which way the toilet roll should go.People actually argue about those? It's so cheap to just have both. Or you know, who cares? Next thing I'll find out is people argue between ISPs like Time Warner and Comcast.
People still think The xbox One line of consoles will work with all games for the entire duration of XSX lol how do people not understand what's happening by now
What? How does that fit to the personal opinion of the OP and when sites like Push Square exist? Please come up with specific examples.
what is generation winning to people?
to gamers it will always be units sold
This article isn't about Microsoft beating Sony or Nintendo, rather Xbox officially transitioning to making their own lane and be in their own category, yet I see a lot of the same complaints about a biased media claiming Xbox will win lol.
You have to look beyond video game consoles. The endgame isn't about consoles its about content. Who has the most content exclusive to their servers. Amazon is definitely in the digital content wars. You limit your thinking to right now and what the past has been when it's clear that past will soon be obsolete. However long it takes Sony will never be the end all King of Content. It will never be able to compete with the biggest digital media companies.
As a programmer, I don't see this not hurting XSX games, as well as multi-platform titles.
It's backwards and forwards compatibility. The backwards is fairly easy, forwards will mean that games are going to be less ambitious than they could be, since they have to be able to run on an eight-core jaguar from 2013.
As a programmer, you should be able to imagine a scenario where you identify the hardware the game runs on and scale things accordingly, and/or have a settings menu with predetermined settings and let the user do the scaling, so the game will run well enough on both old and new hardware.It's not concern trolling, it's concern. This will hurt multi-platform titles as well.
I still don't see how they imagine this could possibly work out well for a gaming console... Sounds like something someone high up came up with "because Apple".
I swear, people acting like cross gen is gonna be a thing for the entirety of next gen.
The concern trolling is so obvious. This place is becoming toxic as fuck when it comes to these next consoles.
Microsoft isn't using a Netflix model. Netflix's content model consisted of older content that was not in heavy purchase or rotation but they had a substantial amount of quantity versus quality which is why PSNow is actually that model. That said, it's is even more sustainable for video games as developers cannot generate money off of a PS1 game in the current environment and gamers cannot play it without compatible hardware, where as offering it on a Netflix game service means potential perpetual revenue and possibility to use it as a advert for newer titles like how Ghostbusters shows up on Netflix before a new movies releases.Netflix model for games does not seem sustainable to me (it isn't even really sustainable for Netflix) but what do I know...
Best of luck to Microsoft!
How is renting games better than owning games?What Microsoft is doing now is healthier for the industry than the old model. I'm now in the process of buying 2 games tonight I would've never considered thanks to Game Pass and it's ability to expose me to new genres at no risk. I recently jumped at a gaming PC despite consoles being around the corner because there was a lot of games waiting for me Day 1 due to Game Pass. Now I'm also buying stuff from Steam. With that in mind, I'll continue to lean towards multiplats on Xbox knowing they're most likely to move across devices in the future. I think once people step back form the plastic wars, they'll see this is good for consumers, the industry and eventually....may work out for Microsoft.
1. Microsoft doesn't mind if you don't buy its new Xbox console, as long as you buy the game.
Put this context in 6 or 7 years ahead. Makes sense, the main or core service will be streaming and the consoles will coexist with other platforms in order to play games.
Said that, we all have to admit that MS it's the one that has it all in terms of tech and resources to be the no. 1 for videogames streaming services.
For a year. Like it does every single time and yet no one cared before.It's not concern trolling, it's concern. This will hurt multi-platform titles as well.
Very Very Very much disagree. The idea of server side render farms for gaming dies in the next ten years.
Lol... you really believe this? Like seriously? That as the tech ADVANCES and becomes better at handling these things, and at a lower cost as well; that the concept will go away instead of grow?
My god. No man... Servers in general are going to continue to grow. Look at PC technology in general.
Eh? It was almost a complete ocean of negativity in the lead up to XBO launch. And the 360 had been successful.