Not hardly. But this is only the beginning of consolidation in the gaming industry. How else is a third party publisher going to negotiate with Microsoft? Monopolies are only good for the monopolist.
Not that surprising. Xbox sells well in the US and it makes sense for Microsoft to send more units to the US. Xbox also won a few months in the U.S. during the last generation.
“We have no idea what the numbers would be.”
Sure, except for NPD, the UK sales data, import records, investor reports, etc.
“ What I do know is we're in a situation where Sony is focusing back on the PS4, and MS is doing away with last gen”
Reports are that Sony is making 1M more PS4s in 2022. I wouldn’t say the focus is back on the PS4 when Sony plans to make 15M PS5. (And if you accept that report, you should probably accept VG...
Switch sales are in the mix to perpetuate the 20 year story of 3 gaming companies vying for dominance. The Switch is also a handheld, and the handheld market is different from and bigger than the home console market. But if you really wanted to include mobile gaming, you would also look at iPhone, iPad, and Android sales. Apple alone makes more on games (not hardware, just the 30% cut in game sales) than Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony combined.
I can feel the PS5 sales when I’m loading into games on on-line multiplayer. For the past year, PS4 players have been slowing down game loading, but more and more, I’m loading into matches with all PS5 players. Fast loading is bliss.
No shit Sherlock.
Just Cause 3 and 4 saw such diminishing returns that 5 would have to be a mobile game.
I pay for my PS+. Not free for me.
We’ll, there’s this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...
“there is nothing stopping a person from acquiring the means”
Even if that were true (which it can’t be because we have a lot of low paying shitty jobs, unemployment, disability, students, retirees, etc.), a lot of people budget their entertainment, and a second, rarely used game console is not in most people’s budgets. So platform exclusivity means that access to games is limited by a platform’s marketshare.
X/S sales are combined because Microsoft doesn’t give out numbers unless they are good for Microsoft. Also likely that data from NPD, UK sales data, and import records and such only “Xbox” and not the SKU. The same is likely true for PS5 digital and PS5 digital.
This is all about supply and demand. If Microsoft had made 12M of Series X, they would have sold 12M of series X. I’d Sony had made 25M PS5s, they would have sold 25M PS5s. Only when we see boxes pile up on store shelves will we know of the Series S was a good strategy. Same goes with the $400 PS5 digital.
There’s always a first play though.
“No Russian”, yes absolutely too far. There is no option that lets you stop the wholesale slaughter. The whole mission felt like shock value for the purpose of generating publicity.
The KKK in RDR2 was not going to far. Just ridiculous to criticize this. Don’t whitewash history.
Is there an audience for arena shooters? Back in the early 90s, that’s all we had. But even by the late 90s, the most popular online shooters were team based, objective games like Counterstike and Team Fortress. Even at Halo’s peak, the most populated playlist was Big Team Battle. What happened to arena shooters? Time and innovation.
Switch also passed 3DS sales. Next target is DS Sales. Imagine if the Switch Lite could sell for $150.
Good to be in the PlayStation ecosystem this generation. We don’t know the breakdown of Series X to Series but we do know that the Series S is available in stores while the X is sold out. Some folks say that 30% of Xbox sales are Series S. That means at least twice as many PS5s are in the hands of gamers as Series X.
Microsoft only releases numbers when it is winning.
Exactly. Why leave money on the table? The budget market used to be old consoles. (And with the used market, it still is.) Of the low end current gen consoles, I recommend the PS5 digital. $100 more than the Series S but you get true current gen power and more hard drive space.
This is what this all about. Microsoft wants the one the method of delivery.