As I peruse the news stories today on N4G I notice that there is very little discussion about what is occuring in Washington today. If you are unaware there is a meeting with industry insiders and our VP regarding resolution to stem mass school shooting and the like.
If you know anything about politician in general, its that they love to point out the evils of Video games and the liberal ones love to equate video games and firearm violence in the same breath. All tough I am a staunch 2nd Amedment supporter i wont bombard you with my feelings here since this is a gaming site but if what comes from these meetings is what I expect our 1st Amendment freedoms will also get trampled. If we don't give notice to this and accept the facts of our political nanny state it is only a matter of time before our game and gun laws mirror those of Australia. For all of you zombie killing, COD loving fanatics out there take notice. If our over-reactionary politicians get their way these games and many others will start getting banned for sale in this country and if that happens then they will stop being made at all.
I urge each and every visitor of voting age to this site to get on the phone this week and call your Congressman and Senator and let them know how you feel about overreaching legislation that will restrict or ban the content of video games. Time has shown that gamers as a whole reject senseless and purposeless violence in games and the overwhelming majority of us are not unstable nutters who believe we a Tommy Verseti or Mason from Black Ops. We can not continue to let our politicians herd and group us based on the actions of a few insane individuals. But in the word of the Chicago Godfather Mayor Rahm Emanuele "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before" its clear that that is what is occurring this week in Washington. In one fail swoop unless we speak out we will see a major hit to both our 1st and 2nd Amendment rights.
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Yep, and that’s been the case for Xbox for at least a decade now.
No doubt they alienated their physical media fans, but that happened way back with the Xbox One. What they’re alienating now are just the box collectors.
Speaking for myself... I pretty much stopped buying physical. Unless its some cool collector edition. I find it easier to just buy from the respective eshop.... if its not on a rental service that is.
Going into the 7th gen I was staunchly against the idea of digital game. Even the few PC games I played were physical. It wasn't until digital only games starting catching my eye that I changed my mind. Now I buy mostly digital these days out of convenience but also because I have too many phyical games. SNES, GG, GB, GBA, N64, Dreamcast, DS, 3DS, GCN, Wii, Wii U, PS1-5 and Switch. That's hoarders level of gaming right there. 🤣
Anyway digital sales in several parts of the world, including here in the US have been on the rise. Factor in the Series S being the go two model for Xbox owners it just makes sense for Microsoft to scale back in regards to physical media. That and Xbox published games stay high on PSN. 😆
Unfortunate really since I am an avid collector of physical on Nintendo consoles and I bought Black Ops 6 on disc.
Wonder's role as Persona 5: The Phantom X's protagonist has thrust him into the spotlight, and there are clear parallels to the original's hero Joker.
The Xbox version of Final Fantasy XVI has failed to enter the platform's top 20 paid games list, indicating weak launch sales performance.
Day One Release vs One year later release with zero marketing to build excitement/hype.
Both Xbox and SE should know better.
Also fewer than half the consoles sold compared to the PS5 so much smaller customer base.
I get that the game was older.
But so were Sea of Thieves and Forza Horizon when they came to playstation and those made it into the top download lists for awhile. So the coming a year later excuse doesn't really fly anymore.
look at stellar blade on PC. over a year later and it's already sold over a million copies. this has nothing to do with marketing or hype. the xbox audience, broadly speaking, just doesn't purchase games.
Excuses lol. Everyone already knew this would be the case. 90% of Xbox players don't buy games.
If it ain't on gamepass, they ain't interested.
Great job MS for training most of your player base to not want to actually buy games, maybe SE will realise releasing FF on xbox isn't somehow going to help them match their exaggerated sales targets. Hopefully remake fairs better, probably will on Switch 2 at least.
You realize it got most of its sales on PS5 right? Not even the PC version did all that well. One platform will take most of the sales as it had moat of the hype.
No game, especially a AAA one, deserves strong sales after taking years to arrive on a platform and still asking the same price as everywhere else. You can’t just ignore a platform for that long and then expect people to be excited by the release. That cycle came and went already, there is no hype for it anymore.
Either you're all in from the start or you're not. This lazy, bare-minimum approach of tossing out a late port and calling it a day shouldn't be rewarded. If you're not willing to respect the platform, don't bother showing up at all.
But the formerly exclusive Xbox games like Forza Horizon enjoyed great sales on PS even after years past their initial release.
Your references to deserving and "shouldn't be rewarded" implies that gamers are buying games based on some moral platitude that simply doesn't exist in practice.
Gamers buy games because they want to play them.
Nah, it implies how it should be. If gamers weren't the dumbass consumer class around, being played like freaking dumbass because they can't get over the hype for a freaking second and think if that purchase even make sense.
This is EXACTLY why they wouldn't and shouldn't bother im the first place. I can't remember which FF game launched on Xbox with the Switch and Playstation version and ONLY did 4% sales on Xbox. So lets not pretend these sales would have been better because if you believe that you are absolutely delusional
"Either you're all in from the start or you're not. This lazy, bare-minimum approach of tossing out a late port and calling it a day shouldn't be rewarded. If you're not willing to respect the platform, don't bother showing up at all."
Weird. How come you don't say the same about Xbox studio games that show up some YEARS/DECADES later as well?
Sea of Thieves
Grounded
Forza Horizon 5
Pentiment
Hi Fi Rush
Gears of War
Mostly at full price and selling well. Oh right doesn't fit your BS narrative
I can't speak for everyone, but I lived through the Colombine shootings when Doom was blamed. I lived through the NES era when Nintendo was attacked by the Senate as "an evil Japanese toy company corrupting our young children". I would imagine that most of the people here are old enough to remember the panic surrounding Rockstar's games (Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto, etc) and Mr. Jack Thompson.
Hahaha, now that I think about it, this "controversy" surrounding the school shooting is absolutely nothing compared to the drama that Jack Thompson drummed up before he was disbarred.
So I can't help but laugh at every new attempt at banning this or that videogame.
Uhhh, maybe you're just not seeing all of the articles, but I've seen plenty of outrage.
On n4g "PS3 overtaking 360" is far more important than the senate and gaming companies talking - which is very important. On another gaming website they have at least 2 articles on the main page about the latest talks and what's been discussed, no final words yet however. On here if it's not console bashing or "my console sold more than yours" then it's not front page worthy, or worth even reading.
I remember during the Columbine shooting they swore Doom was "the" reason and banned it on AOL; and the NRA is swearing "video games" is the reason for the recent shooting. I've played games since I was at least 3, and I played my share of violent games; I remember when Mortal Kombat first came out and there was big talk about how "violent" it was back then, and the ESRB had to be formed. The few intentions I had on harming someone what I would do is boot up a game instead, play for a few hours, and I was calm down enough to settle differences or at least seek an alternative solution that didn't result in violence.
Instead of blaming games how about blaming irresponsible parenting, the media for over-fabricating negative news, and stop finding scapegoats for people who have little to no responsibility for their actions.
Before Video Games were on the Hitlist, it was Dungeons and Dragons. Before that, it was rock music, before that blues, before that Jazz (or maybe jazz came first) before that Ulysses by James Joyce... popular media, in whatever form, is most likely to get blamed. This is nothing new.
........... You lost me once you started that "liberal" mess. People get to me when they start using those words. Liberal, Conservative. If you haven't noticed, over the past few years, it has been FOX that has tried to start a video game backlash. Now, onto your topic......
People have become comfortable with their lives. No one wants to do anything when it comes to action, to anything. Any type of protest against the machine and you are labeled as a trouble maker or a nuisance, as was the case with the occupy wall streeters. Every citizen in this country should have been protesting on Wall Street. Whether you are a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or whatever. Fox news, every broadcast called them Lazy Bums.
We have lost all of our politicians that were not scared to die to make a change. Lincoln, The Kennedy's, MLK. These guys knew that the things they were doing would/could get them killed. Mainly because they were going against the rules of the "institution". Most of the politicians are just puppets, including Bush JR, OBAMA, and Romney had he been elected.
The American populace whether Right wing, or left wing, doesn't care about an issue, as long as they can go about their life as usual. Gun Control? Dont care as long as it doesn't affect their weekend fishing trip. Video Game Bans? Dont care as long as they can have the next IPAD that comes out, and to add most citizens blindly party vote anyway so that adds to it.
I WILL STOP NOW BECAUSE I AM ON A BLIND RANT, LOL.