PlayStation is winning. There is no doubt about it. In all likelihood the Sony console is 10 million units ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox One. Now, Xbox isn’t doing badly, not by any stretch of the imagination, but PlayStation 4 — for whatever reason — is just doing crazy numbers. It has already out sold both the original Xbox and Nintendo’s GameCube. But will any of this change come autumn? Will any of this change when Xbox unleash their hefty line up of exclusives while PlayStation unleash… well, nothing really. Autumn is looking pretty bare for Sony, while Microsoft has Rise of the Tomb Raider (timed exclusive), Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Forza and Halo 5. PlayStation has maybe, possibly, No Man’s Sky but really even that probably won’t come out this year. The real question is will any of this have an effect? Or at least one that is substantial?
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Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.
Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.
Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.
Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.
Halo 5 and Gears of War are monumental so we'll see
Forza 6 is shaping up really nice and Rise of the Tomb Raider helps the lineup for this year
Sales aren't that important though as long as both consoles are successful
If people actually looked at the exclusive lineup for PS4 this fall, they'd see its anything but bare. There are still more games arriving on PS4 than on X1 this holiday season.
The gap has never decreased and I don't see it starting now. PS4 has remained the same price for nearly two years and it still keeps the top spot in every region over X1. Imagin what'll happen if a price cut were to occur.
They will take the US back. the UK may follow some time after. But I dont think they will beat them worldwide this gen. Two years in and this question still gets asked? well if nothing else this console cycle has given bloggers plenty of sensationalist BS to write about.And N4G readers just laps it up. Its a chance to reassure yourself that your sales winning console is better than the other platforms. because lots of people you dont know bought it just to..... play COD, franchised titles and movie tie ins...oh.and sports.
So nobody will buy a PS4 this fall to play Bloodborne or because U4 is coming in Q1 2016?
People only make console buying decisions strictly based on what games are released between Sept and November?
Must explain why Xbox the a runaway success this gen /s