Xbox One getting outsold by Playstation 4 at a 2-1 ratio.
Walmart, Target and are already putting out deals to make Microsoft Next-Gen console more attractive. Microsoft puts out a $25 Xbox One Headset adapter for its consumers. Is a price cut in order? I think so. Microsoft ever since its release has done nothing but disappoint many of its owners. It seems like the company did a role reversal with Sony. If you remember, Sony was the one that carried the “I don’t care about the gamers” attitude in the early lifespan of the Plastation 3. Once they saw that this marketing strategy wasn't working, they changed things up and now Microsoft is doing the same. How far will Microsoft take this strategy? Time will tell.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Microsoft's future in the video game space is murky right now, so let's break it all down.
Not anytime soon. But they're on that path.
One thing not mentioned in the article is Microsoft's money bags. If Sega had Microsoft's money, they would have still been around as a hardware manufacturer. Xbox as a platform only survives because of the money bags. They can continue making consoles for the core and port to PC.
The multiplatform strategy is only the result of arrogance and misguided leadership that blew up in their face. They thought gamers would jump on Xbox in droves if they knew that many of their favorite games would be only on Xbox. But that's not happening at all. Sales didn't increase. They decreased. Why? Because the dumb asses thought giving away these expensively made games in a cheap service would also turn the tide.
Gamers on other platforms are willing to buy quality. They don't need to be handed nearly free games in a service that aren't even finished and sometimes average in their development. Gamers buy Nintendo games. They buy Sony games. Microsoft groomed their base to not buy games. Even the quality ones. It has always been their plan to go digital. But most gamers still like single player gaming. Still like physical releases.
Microsoft's problem has always been that they don't produce high quality games at the same output as Nintendo and Sony. Actually, they should be producing quite a lot more because they're worth over 2 TRILLION. How they don't have more is ridiculous and no excuse. Buying publishers to take away from competition only backfired. Because it still takes millions of dollars to continue to make those games from the publishers they snatched. Their only choice was to crawl back to their competitors to help sustain those developers because Nintendo and Sony platforms were the ones buying games.
Am I sorry for Microsoft? Hell no! They deserved last place for putting in the least effort. They deserved the fallout for buying up the industry and didn't make a single blip on the radar against their competitors where they now need those same gamers they took away games from to support them. Part of it may have been to cash in on their competition. But the result is the slow death of their platform. They may go 3rd party. They may keep making hardware. I don't give a shit about them to worry about it. I only give a shit about the destructive nature of their industry moves that only negatively affect gamers. They could sell and drop out of the industry and I wouldn't blink. Probably laugh. But not blink. They deserve whatever comes to them. At least Sega put in the effort when it came to games. They just had poor leadership. Microsoft has poor leadership and barely makes memorable games. That's a killer combination. And not in a good way.
Not sure about that. It's been two decades and I still think about Power Stone, Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Seaman and others, but I'm not sure I'll remember Xbox Series X/S games in a few years from now... Maybe I'll remember about the franchises that the Xbox brand spawned, but I don't believe that the Xbox Series lives up to the late Dreamcast or even to the Xbox name itself. I do have great memories about the 360 with Blue Dragon, Gears 2 and Lost Odyssey though
No, Dreamcast was ahead of it's time and most still have very fond memories of it that had one. It also had some good games on it even in it's short lifespan. Xbox has none of these qualities.
If you ignore PS4 sales figures ( fastest ever) , MS would take the sales they have. It's selling quite well and all likely hit sales estimates. No reason it can't be profitable and sell software.
Not being number 1 isn't always failure. I'm amazed anyone thought XB1 would out sell PS4. PS3 proved that Playstations sell more, even when they cost more and are late
to market
You guys are so eager to close the XBOX ONE out. PS4 won November, XBOX ONE won December. Now the PS4 wins a mediocre low sales volume month in February, a meaningless month and now the XBOX ONE is being outsold 2 to 1?
People take everything SONY as fact when they never show actual numbers. So now people come away thinking the XBOX ONE is being outsold 2 to 1 for its life when it's for 1 low volume sales month by shareholders.
March is more important as its the fiscal year end. March sales can erase January and February sales lead for the PS4 in the US easily as TitanFall will be here.
At the end of December the totals were 3.9 million XBOX ONE & 4.2 million PS4. Relax people.
Nope..
This isn't a head to head battle.. Its not like only one can win and the rest are losers..
Xbox one is selling great.. It makes no sense to think ~4m sales is bad because a competitor with a cheaper product sold 5.3m or whatever.. If sony only sold 3m would ms be allowed to be happy with the same sales that's apparently dooming them?
2:1 in NA, but 5:1 in Europe.
10:1 in Japan Soon?
Even if NA sales catch up, worldwide won't. Look at the PS3 for instance.
The PlayStation isn't out a year late any more, it here and now, more powerful and cheaper.
No amount of MS money will change that.
The fact that soon the PS4 will outsell the Xbone 6:1 in places like Europe or even 11:1 in Japan or places means that no matter how hard it tries to catch up, it never will.