Today Microsoft's Xbox Division head Phil Spencer talked at the Barclays 2018 Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Conference, providing more info on the company's business and plans.
Sony kicks off PS Plus' 15th anniversary by chatting with Game File about the past, present and future of its gaming subscription service: Talking price, catalogue tweaks and where the PS3 games are.
Glad, I’m about to downgrade when they raise the price. For me, I don’t really access much or care about the games they have in the library and if I do, it’d be cheaper to just buy them over time rather than stick to some expensive subscription model.
When you're new to the service you've got an avalanche of games to play. After you catch up, I agree, it's not worth it beyond the Essential tier for me.
That being said, the Essential tier is the best deal in console gaming imo, based on the monthly games you get to keep.
Yeah same will be downgrading $214 aud is insane and we don't even get the streaming capabilities in Australia which they said would make the top level subscription cheaper.
If i was to just buy the games I actually play that come to the service id be far better off.
Ill keep the essential tier to retain the games ive collected since the ps3 and for mp but I'm not convinced of the premium tiers value any more
Went back to essential a few months ago. I’m buying more physical and it has helped in finishing more games.
Extra is probably the best value for money right now, Premium doesn't have anything special enough to justify paying the additional imo.
*unless you have a Portal & you catch Premium on discount during Days of Play or Black Friday.
Yea, I really do wish they'd up their effort on Premium titles, but allowing a large catalog of titles that can stream to your Portal without even having to use your PS5 is pretty awesome. We travel about 2 hours to stay with my inlaws from time to time, so it's been pretty killer to only need to take my Portal for that!
Nice choice. I agree!
Jeanne D'Arc was my favorite PS+ catalog title from last year & I Platinumed it!
cloud streaming to the portal, without using the ps5, is the selling point of premium to me.
The legendary composer celebrates forty years of game composing with a new collection.
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida claims PlayStation still believes Xbox is their only true competitor, not Nintendo.
True, they have pretty different audiences..and some People just have both at home or a PS and a PC that emulates more or less everything from Nintendo.
Xbox hasn't been a competitor since the XB360. Last generation and this generation Sony has been running circles around Xbox. As for Sony vs Nintendo Sony runs circles yes but I don't really see Nintendo as competition. Nintendo does their own thing and it works.
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Details are important. Console sales yes. Overall games Xbox seems to be doing fairly well in that department.
MS were doing so well that they had to start selling their games on their main competitors system which in turn results in around 30% of each sale going to Sony as the platform holder.
I do think tjat MS' fortunes will improve now that they are actually selling games rather than giving them away for pennies on the dollar.
Something that occurs to me is that the more success MS published games have elsewhere, the more stark it will become that selling games is much more profitable than renting them. If that becomes highly noticable, I wonder what the shareholders (who ultimately run the show) will make of a service which has stagnated for years?
PlayStation doesn't compete with third party games, they compete on consoles. They profit from third party games. If you're not comparing consoles there's no point in comparing.
I think it's all PS fans have left at this point. Console wars were always a competition for fourth place behind Nintendo, PC and mobile. If Xbox evaporates into a hybrid virtual platform, then PS will be perennially left in last place.
Strange, I recall all those FCC documents and witness testimonies saying the exact opposite... Guess Microsoft doesn't know what it's talking about?
Great analysis. Just joking.
Pretending like companies give a f about where they “rank” against each other is just super retarded. This isn’t the World Cup.
Tell me, how does “PC” compete against a brand like PlayStation? It just doesn’t make sense at all. What you just said, is complete and utter nonsense
I don't think PS cares about being in this so-called "last place" you came up with when they're making profits hand over fist.
microsoft wanted to crush sony into dust and they had the money to do it, but with such weak leadership it was always going to fail
Had the money? They still have the money but the industry has changed since xbox 360. Microsoft is the number one publisher in gaming. I'd hardly call that failing.
The industry hasn't changed though, just ms, Microsoft was the no1 publisher for a month in december 2024, the actual no1 for fy2024 was tencent if game sales are all that's being counted.
Money doesn't mean you'll be successful large corporations have entered and failed before like Nec
Buying out SEGA would make more sense to me considering the close association of the original Dreamcast with MS and also the DNA of the original Xbox.
The studios MS has bought up this year are quite diverse so we should get some variety next gen. Whether or not those games will be good though is an entirely different question.
OT- Giuseppe (I know how to pronounce this) at Twinfinite now? Thought you owned DS? Well, good luck at your new home.
Microsoft can’t buy EA period. That publisher makes way too much money as a multiplatform company that Microsoft wouldn’t be able to make any bid as a buyout that’d be more lucrative than what they continue making on their own.
In fact no major publisher has any reason to sell out like that. This was already discussed at the beginning of the year when people thought Microsoft might actually buy on of the top dog third party publishers.
“The thing I love about Fortnite is that it happened on our platform. It happened on other platforms as well, but we were able to reap the benefits of Fortnite’s success without actually investing in Fortnite as a specific form of content.”
No but they invested heavily in and launched a buggy mess with PUBG which ended up getting eaten up by the stupid crazy uptake in Fortnite.
LOL. Doesn't need to buy? As if that's an easy option? How about you can't just buy EA. That would take a hostile takeover, and would take quite a bit of effort, considering EA is worth a lot of money, and while MS has more, I doubt they are going to invest that much for another publisher. MS could certainly invest in EA through buying shares, and maybe even buy up enough to have a strong controlling influence....possibly even enough to control the board to a great extent. But in doing so, there is no reason for them to change the operations of the company, because that would ultimately devalue the brand if they leveraged it for PC and XBox. There is no point investing just to devalue the acquisition.
What he doesn't say is that they couldn't afford the price of EA and what EA's investors would want from lost revenue and future revenue on other platforms that make them money.
What he also doesn't talk about is the loss in EA's multiplatform licenses that would be revoked. Giving other 3rd parties opportunity to create and license star wars, nfl,fifa, etc. And outdo them like nba 2K does to live.
And the amount of developers they would have to manage. They can barely manage a few without closing them. Also, a lot of positions would be redundant resulting in many job losses.
Best bet is to continue to enjoy EA's support they already get and look for opportunities for exclusive content.