Future Games Show: Jason Ronald, the director of program management for Xbox Series X, discusses the future of gaming.
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
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Fake title. No it isnt. If BC was that important, Microsoft would have ruled this gen... If BC was that important everybody would be playing on PC and there were zero consoles. BC is a feature and nothing more. And news about the amount of time gamers use it..... well. They try to spin it.... but....
I feel like MS is more a or less trying to make a bigger feature than it is. Less than 10% of users ever used it on Xbox One and MS knows this and is trying to make it a bigger platform to win on. The only issue is that most people buy a console to experience the games made for the console. We have already seen what games can look like from PS5 reveal when designed for the console. I will admit having the best version of any game is a nice thing that I hope Sony does as much as they can.
Cool I'll just stick to my XB1X for BC from the 6th and 7th gen and buy a PS5 for newer games and BC for PS4 exclusives then.
I can’t tell whether they are stressing BC since they had to invest in it this past gen in order to keep pace with PS4’s first party support on SOME level... or if they are stressing BC because they are expecting to STILL lag behind PS5’s first party support.
I hope it’s the former, but MS never showed me how the Azura network (aka POWER of teh CLOOD) benefitted me. So, I’m expecting all of this BC hype is just MS trying to hide their own lack of trust in their first party support next gen (they have just as many studios as Sony, but their track records do not compare YET).
Prove me wrong 343. The Halo Infinite reveal in July is gonna decide everything
People seem to hate options it seems. You'd rather pay to play games you already own on previous consoles, that's fine, but I prefer not to.