Xbox Double Down As Sales FLATLINE
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- They have a plan, but it isn't exclusives.
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Exclusives do sell .. look at PlayStation. Top of gaming next to Nintendo who also have exclusives. Xbox failed and now are trying to control the gaming narrative
Phil has been gaslighting xbox owners for a very long time... He twists every xbox failure to make it seem like innovation
Playstation is in 3 place dude..
Xbox second.
Do you know who is in 1st place?
@@dusermiginte4647 xbox is on life support and you keep being delusional, I guess it will only hit you when xbox gets out of the console market
@@dusermiginte4647 you are incorrect Sony currently has the most systems sold
@@DeathcoreManiac
Xbox; $10B revenue with 35% profit.
ps; $8B revenue with 6% profit.
Yeah, Xbox is on life support... 😂
You poonies are soooooo fking clueless. 😂
Bought a Series X recently to game with a mate online. Definitely regret that! PlayStation exclusives are just on a whole different level… Incredible how unimpressive Xbox is
By 2017, the console wars stopped being a priority to me - buying physical media, though... that's always gonna be my main way of buying a game/movie. My wifi craps out really often, so buying discs is what I always like to do.
I mean...physical games might as well be coasters since these days games are unplayable without a day1 patch.
@@justsomeguy9073 Not when you buy from quality publishers. Every Nintendo Switch game that is on the full cart is playable, can be played without an internet connection, and is completed before release. Most patches are language and settings related. None of what I just said is true about live services or greedy publishers, however.
It's probably a generation too soon to go all streaming. It's definitely coming but not yet. Too many issues with lag and too many people with limited access or bandwidth to be serious about no physical console at the moment.
All streaming and no console is as dystopian as future can get for gaming
What does that make steam???? @@DeathcoreManiac
@@121Greenthumb steam isn't streaming, steam is basically ps store you pay once for whatever game you want and can play it 10 years from now if you want to...streaming services you pay monthly to rent the games that streaming service provides, if that's the future it's a major incentive to just pirate everything
@@121Greenthumb Steam isn't the only way to play games on PC, but on a streamed console service the only place you'd likely be able to buy games is from the platform holder, which gives them complete power to control prices and access. I don't see that working out too well for consumers.
Tim: INTRODUCING GIGABIT ETHERNET
Locations covered: Downtowns of a couple of the biggest cities
People paying for 100Mbps but receiving 40Mbps because the last 500mt in copper kill the signal:
Xbox over here preparing infrastructure for the future of gaming while also ensuring nobody wants any of their games
I like Phil Spencer but he seems kinda clueless at times, it might be time for a change of leadership.
There may come a day when I'd be willing to throw away $5 a month on a video game subscription, but I have zero interest in anything like that now. There are far too many games already out there (and still to come before an all-online future arrives) that I can buy and own for me to be tempted to settle for renting them. If the gaming industry ever goes to a streaming-only model and games can't even be pirated anymore...honestly, I'll live. At the rate I've been getting through them, I already have more games than I could possibly complete in my lifetime, anyway.
If games become available on everything and exclusive become a thing of the past. They will just find another thing to make a new exclusive for example DLC could be locked to the X-box or PS5. But you can get the base game on all systems, or maybe a particular character is locked to a particular system weather it’s the switch,PS5,or X-box.
take two is just sitting on GTA online.. makes like over a million a day still.. . over $1000 a minute. just nuts!
Honestly it’s not the console, it’s the lack of games. Halo=dead. Gears=dead. Forza=dead. GTA=barely surviving for the last 15 years. I was so bored with Xbox that I bought a ps5 and having a blast with hell divers 2 and PS exclusives.
Oh really don't care on exclusivity? Where is Forza Horizon on PS4 or PS5? All talk just prove it!
Xbox failed
How?
Xbox is doing much better than ps..
@@dusermiginte4647 Xbox communicate on a different generation of selling the most games than Playstation is provided in 2006-2021 didn't do well on changing the quality of adding a better background in the game
What the hell is even that?
Stop talking! Don't give them ideas!
So has Playstation, even Sony said, Playstation 5 is at the end of its life cycle make a video on that weirdo 😂
Don't see why, Xbox is the better console, had both since release date Xbox is going strong to this day and my playstation doesn't let me play any AAA Game without shutting down after 40 minutes of gaming so clear winner to me, anybody know any fix for this playstation issue
That issue would be called Xbotanitus, and there is no fix for what you have bro.
Xbox said they hate white people 😅 what you have to say about that?
The price when they go on sale is the real price they are worth and the inflated full price is a scam price
This has been on going discussion for what a decade now, and I still hasn't happened. Xbox literally just had a report come out where they said they weren't going to stop making consoles and weren't going to stop supporting their fan base. They've still got 1st party games coming out this year. What else do you want from them. Good lord, why won't y'all let up a little. You sit there and wonder why gamers aren't interested in games, when the people that SHOULD be supporting them are constantly shooting them down FFS.
Xbox has sucked for a decade, that’s why you’ve been hearing about it.
That’s funny have more games on my Xbox than my ps5 and that’s with Sonys overhyped exclusives wasnt impressed playing as atreus or mj
Take two buys Borderlands developer from Embracer.
Whatculture: that not news Xbox sales flatline is.
Or perhaps the video was made before the news broke, this isn't a livestream, it is a part of a larger podcast.
Or you know a later video. You can have more than one video about gaming news 😅
And Xbox isnt even flatlining..
😂😂😂
I still prefer the option to have physical consoles and disks. I am not interested in streaming or subscriptions.
Same
Ok boomer, good luck when everything goes digital in less than 5 years.
good luck with that lol
@@triggerwarning5025and good luck when company’s lose licenses and your digital games go poof
@@triggerwarning5025sorry you want things to be worse.
Ok, then digital copies need to be made owned material!
Pretty sure that’s impossible… technically physical isn’t even owned material. All you own is the physical plastic. It’s said all the time when you buy a physical game you are buying a license for that game, not actually owning the game itself. Technically speaking if a company wants to revoke that license they can send an update remotely to have the console no longer be able to play that game (I’m sure there’s some legality that prevents this but I’m only saying they can TECHNICALLY do this). Sure you could keep your console offline and still have access to said game but even then most games these days need patches to work as intended.
@@TheRscamaro90 Physical discs will rot over time.
The only way to own games is to buy them digitally on PC and store them on HDD, and move the games to another HDD every 5 years.
On PC you can also easily remove DRM on purchased games.
Physical discs on consoles today is nothing more than a physical license that won't last forever.
@TheRscamaro90 That's incorrect actually. Publishers want you to think that's the law but what players are actually buying is an instance of the game, a version that they own and can freely modify even share so long as it doesn't turn a profit of undermine sales of the product. Digital only is the way they revoke that, it's how they enforce that "it's only a license" thing
@@V3ntilator No they don't I have 25 year old CDs that play perfectly to prove that
@ Yes, because it's random. There have been a lot info on disc rot for over 40 years now,
To anyone who wants an only digital future, youre part of the problem.
That does it. I'm digging my MegaDrive out the loft. At least I can play classic games that no one can take away.
If exclusivity doesn't matter, why is Nintendo so successful? Why is the PS5 outpacing the PS4? Why does Burger King sell Whopers and McDonalds Big Mac's? Exclusive services and products draws consumers to a company. That's why Disney doesn't let WB make Mickey Mouse cartoons. That's why MARVEL is only on Disney +. Exclusivity is good business. Make a good product so people will pay for it.
To answer, it is less the exclusivity and more the quality of the games.
Your fast food examples don't hold up either as there is a difference in quality and cooking styles/menu items.
It is not a matter of exclusive titles, it is the quality of the product. When Xbox put out Halo CE and 2, Fable 1, and so many things through the 360 Era they were top of the game. Then Sony came back in the PS4 Era with great titles and not shitting on bed by saying that the console required you to be always online.
@@Lrbearclaw It's both. Exclusivity = brand. When the brand (ie. quality of games) gets diminished, the company suffers.
it's literally as simple as restaurants and their secret sauces
The PS5 only has about 3 more exclusives than Xbox has released so far. The PS5 undermines your point, Sony chose to extend cross gen to keep sales rather than exclusivity.
But asides that part, Sony has reliability in consistency of content and quality coming. Don't forget Sony was already taking the crown for dominance of consoles when Xbox first entered the market, PS1 and PS2 absolutely upended the industry and changed the market, Xbox comes in later against a now rooted Sony. Sony put Nintendo on the back foot to the point that Nintendo pivoted away from traditional consoles.
Xbox failed to capitalise on why the 360 was a cultural zeitgeist of its generation. The Xbone caused immense brand damage and they've never caught up as Sony has continually chugged along. Xbox needs to be putting more games out and better games out. So far most acquisitions have failed to give fruit, Obsidian is the only one to be regularly releasing games and doing good things.
True
1. Gaming as a lifestyle service sounds like the absolute worst type of cancer.
2. I'm positive I'm part of a majority of players that simply can't keep up with the number of games that come out to justify a game pass service with a monthly subscription
Really, is that the worst type of cancer??
@@dusermiginte4647 yup lol
@@devasprime6700 what a horrible thing to say to all people that have cancer, have beaten cancer or have died from cancer..
@dusermiginte4647 then go cry about it on their behalf...
Welcome to the internet, stop taking it seriously
You guys nailed it. It’s a misread of the market, them seeing it how they want it to be rather than how it is. They tried playing the same game as Sony and Nintendo and lost miserably. And now they’re like, “oh no we didn’t lose, we’re playing a different game”. No bro. You have comparatively no quality exclusives and you’re trying to force people into a structure that most of us don’t want.
Gaming is my hobby and I love it. Maybe I’m just getting old but I don’t know if I like the direction gaming is headed. Preserving games should be a huge priority.
I don't like when my games are taken away from me.
@@bogadu Me either
I'm 24 years old and all my games are physical I do not own a game that has Micro transactions or live service elements. Hell I only opened a new online gaming account in 2021 to open the one and only digital game I own (Spiderman remastered that came with the ultimate edition of Miles morales).
@@baki484 It’s nice to hear someone your age isn’t buying digital only.
Exclusives do sell & Phil Spencer just stubbornly refuses to accept that. If you want to be a third party publisher, then commit, stop making consoles.
I dont understand how these idiots who talk about games dont get that without exclusives competition dies and so does quality.
He did accept it, lmao. If Halo Infinite was the new COD, he wouldn't be doing all of this. He just lost and is switching up now.
And yet Sony has made almost all of their first party exclusive eventually available to PC, seems like exclusive aren't all they are cracked up to be.
@@valetboy21 "Eventually" meaning after sales hit a plateau. Only live service games, like Helldivers 2, release at the same time. Selling on PC likely results in more money than using the "Greatest Hits" branding, like they did in prior generations.
@@AchsuthanP If exclusivity is the key to sales then Greatest Hits would still be Sony's modus operandi but they feel branching out to other platforms is the now way to go.
Microsoft wants to take that philosophy and combine it with Gamepass to reaffirm its footing. They might be wrong, but trying to merely outperform the leader is how we got the fall the Sega in the console market.
I could see Xbox going extinct
Lol, you wont, playstation however.
@swaglord1522its the op that threatened by Xbox..
Maybe read for full context... Oh never mind, ponies doesnt know what context is.. 😂
@@dusermiginte4647after the latest from microsoft im sure xbox will sink even further.
The person with the cat icon 🤦🏻♂️ wow these people refuse to see reality but instead say these ponies it’s just so sad. Unfortunately Xbox will cease to exist I feel in the future.
@@residentsteve
Maybe use google once in your life?
Xbox; $10B revenue with 35% profit.
ps; $8B revenue with 6% profit.
Your magic crystal ball didnt see this, right?
Dumas!
Nothing but propaganda trying to flip the narrative cause Xbox failed. Sony and Nintendo prove people still love comsoles and exclusives. But keep lying lmao.
How did Xbox fail? Xbox is more successful than ps..
Exact
Exactly Sony Nintendo are proof of console
@@dusermiginte4647this is clearly untrue.
@@mattshark7665 not according to revenue and profit from said revenue, MAUs and subs to Game Pass..
Anybody who doesn't think that streaming or subscription only based models for gaming, will result in anything other than all the most worrying aspects coming to fruition, is incredibly naive.
You will own nothing . And gen z will love it 😂
It's cyclic though. Companies get the upper hand. Game prices increase to unsustainable level. Piracy is on the rise. Someone company changes the game and does something consumer-friendly and piracy goes down. Repeat.
Over half of Switch games are sold as physical release despite the physical Switch software library being a tiny fraction of all Switch releases. Over 140 million Switch units sold most of which are Gen Z and Millennials. I don't get your point.
Moreover, Xbox Physical releases have been a disaster for years because they don't even work properly. It is basically a game license attached to the disk. The console has to redownload the entire game to the SSD anyway.
Nintendo solved this by shipping good old game cartridges.
Game Pass is not the future of game releases. It is the future of a company that releases crappy live service distractions for stupid people.
I do believe consoles are in their way out, however its too soon to be talking about that. Also, Microsoft being the one carrying this message feels like a cop out, since their gaming division has been lacking for more than a decade.
Microsoft and xbox fanboys have sure tried to push that narrative, but then you look around and see the Switch being the best selling nintendo console ever and the PS5 outpacing the very successful PS4 despite the shortages of the first two years. Xbox sure seems to be on the way out atm, but consoles in general? They’re doing fine.
@@juancarlosalonso5664 *2nd best.
The DS is just behind the PS2 at 154M units compared to 155M.
Switch is 3rd place.
Nintendo Switch will probably outsell the PS2 so explain to me how consoles are dead.
Nintendo Switch???
Id rather own my games and not just download when who knows when the servers will shut down or it will no longer be available.
case in point, i have two switches and to play my games on the second one i have to connect to the internet. Yet the catridges that cost me the same as digitially buying them(why it costs the same baffles me) has no issues. As for why i have two i have a family.
@apparentlysomeone2103 exactly, when you have to connect to the internet to play a single player game, it basically means you don't own it. I have CoD 2 game that won't let me install the game without downloading warzone first and all I want to do is play the campaign
Basically the first 90 sec, I couldn't listen anymore. Just this constant reminder that the height of intellectualism peaked circa 2000, and it's been a sharp decline since. I wouldn't mind "online" or "streaming" service games.... IF >>>>>> THE INTERNET WAS INFALLIBLE. But it isn't, and thus.... you will ALWAYS encounter service interruptions with such a system, because it relies on BOTH parties having access and being functional.
Games flattened because of excessive DRM, busted launches, politics and not everyone wants live service. Still rock my PS4 and XB1X.
Politics? Lol
Exclusivity absolutely matters! Xbox is only concerned bcoz for 2 consecutive console cycles they’ve been trailing behind PS and the gap is only getting wider. Sony continually puts out great content whether it be 1st party or 2nd games. Only thing is the quality of some of those titles - and this is prolly a thing that applies to all console manufacturers and dev/publisher issue. Gaming industry needs to be bolder with their approach to games and maybe not go by the ‘monkey see, monkey do’ mentality. On another note, and generally speaking, physicals should never go away in place for online store fronts. It’s better for the consumer and the devs for reasons touched upon. The world isn’t ready for an all digital future/streaming games via XYZ device and neither is the tech there yet. Finally, shareholders and going public is what could really hurt (if not kill) the gaming landscape.
Gamepass is literally the only thing keeps Xbox alive and cooperate looks at this n sees "oh, gamepass is popular, focus on that." instead of seeing it's only a life support system
Even streaming services quickly realized they needed their own content
Even more so, when some companies don't like having their games on gamepass in the first place, and it is a LOT of money from MS to keep everything up and running
What companies like MS (Xbox) want for the future rarely comes true. They want an all-digital (streaming) ecosystem with no consumer rights or game preservation. But the reality of a lack of a reliable, global digital infrastructure is going to be the real determining factor if they succeed, or not. What Culture acknowledges this, but it's always good to emphasize whenever corporations talk about their ideal business goal, they always ignore real world factors to make it more appealing to investors. The reality is consoles are not going away. They may not be as powerful and will shrink in size, but ease-of-use for non-tech savvy people is why consoles have been a corner stone of the gaming industry since it began. Gen Z may not be tied to hardware, but not all hardware is, or will be capable of streaming... Because the underlying infrastructure isn't there, yet. It's an Catch-22, MS always finds itself in when looking too far forward vs. what is possible right now.
The thing for me is, I like exclusives, and I typically didnt see an issue with them because I thought it was friendly competition. However, as of recent times it become more everyone wants a digital library rather you having the game yourself and its going to get to the point where its just like streaming services. Youve got Paramount+, Max, Disney+, Netflix, etc. And if you want to watch anything youve got to subscribe. Now they are all going to want you to sign into their services for the "privilege" of playing their games rather than you owning them anymore. Its already annoying as is because everyone wants you to sign up for accounts to something to play or access some cloud, but man it sucks.
I dont think consoles are going away, and I wouldnt want them to. Not like they would anyway, because even if Xbox decides to abandon the market, Nintendo and Sony have no reason to. Especially when their homeland, Japan, is such a big console priority market. I personally love consoles, and I do like the console wars in that I think its fun from time to time to compare. but man some people really do take it way too seriously.
With Xbox though, it really doesnt help that Xbox hasnt even been pushing out their own games like that. They keep buying up studios to try to make up a library for them, and who are, or were, working on projects already before the acquisitions. Theyve got more 1st party studios than Sony, and yet most of them arent even working on anything, or the ones they are are stuck in development limbo. The games that do come out are mid to lackluster, and then theyve got iconic IPs that they keep letting sit on the shelf. Like where is the next Gears after that cliffhanger from the last one 5 years ago? Phil keeps saying Xbox has got 100 games on the way for the past 2 years (didnt say it this year though), but you could say that for anyone as long as you are including 3rd party titles and back catalogue games.
All I want are games. Something Sony and MS are failing at miserably this generation.
skipping this one
The sad irony is that for the first 18-24 months of this generation, the Series X/S was actually keeping pace with the PS5 pretty well. Between that and how many gamers were pissed off at Sony for one reason or another (and no, not just because of TLOU2) in mid-2020, this generation has to go down as a huge missed opportunity for Microsoft.
The thing that people forget is that Xbox has about 100 million active users, most are still on last gen and that’s the same with PS. Console gamers don’t have incentive to buy the new hardware because of backlogs
People were angry about TLOU2?
This gen came out during 2020 and the aftermath of slow consoles sales, so it isn't saying much that Xbox kept up. Once normalcy happened in late 2021-2024 PS took off. Mainly because of the lack of quality games from Xbox
This Ninth Generation as a whole is probably the worst in gaming history. Even the Second Generation with the Atari 2600, Intellivision and Colecovision was more competitive than this.
why does anyone care about what the guy running the permanent third-place loser business (despite being backed by the biggest megacorp of all) has to say about the direction in which the industry is headed? imagine if a film director that wins the razzie award for all his films whenever he releases them started talking about how Hollywood and the Oscars were going to change in the future, and started doling out advice to Oscar winners about how they needed to change their films to get ready for this imagined future. literally no one would take that clown seriously. if anything, people should look to Nintendo and, to a lesser extent, Sony for tips. those are the two companies, especially Nintendo, who've actually mastered this industry and would actually have something valuable to share about their experience.
They fumbled hard with the Xbox One and everything that entailed, and haven't really done much to rehabilitate that image. What exclusives they have are crap, and their new stuff from legacy titles aren't anywhere close to the quality they used to be. They wasted all this money buying studios and haven't done anything with them. Maybe it is time for a change in leadership, regardless of how well liked Phil is, he's not doing his job.
Dom Mattrick and Peter Moore were better
As much as games media would like you to believe the console market is a zero sum game, it’s not. Just because there’s a market leader in console sales, doesn’t mean all others must close up shop. There’s plenty of room in the industry for all three players…and yes…all of them are profitable.
Videos like these that push the console war nonsense are good for clicks, but lack any real substance for anything else.
I have a feeling that if we stopped buying digital game and bought disks, we could make a difference.
Too little too late. Over 90% of game sales have been digital since 2019.
@@korkuc26Those sales figures aren't actually as skewed as people have been led to believe
@@xxx-pliskin-sniper-xxx8538 90% of new releases.. I should have specified. Thats not including used game sales.
@@xxx-pliskin-sniper-xxx8538the publisher has the real data so as long as Physical game stays above 30%, I don’t think they are willing to take the risk. Currently from Sony side, I heard 60 to 40. So we can expect physical game from them for at least another decade.
The stream games from any device thing should be a feature, not the main show
people don't seem to understand how much it costs to constantly develop consoles. That is a huge cost cut if they just move to a digital marketplace they just have to update... I hate it but from a business standpoint.... I get It...
It's funny how ps5's streaming service is way better than Xcloud lol.
@@121Greenthumb Streaming games isn't economically viable for most consumers (especially at 4k, it consumes too much data too quickly) and it's an awful experience - the internet infrastructure to fix that will take at least decades.
Well.....that's just what you get when you only rely on three franchises (Gears, Halo, Forza) to pull your entire sales. They should've invested in great new IPs to create NEW franchises. But they just messed up and the train left the station. Playstation is so far ahead that they wont be able to catch up anytime soon. Maybe next gen, but for sure not this gen. This gen is almost over anyway.
Literally every game review channels want xbox to die
You dont need solid wifi for the key points Phil voiced to Polygon you just need a Native Xbox OS playing locally installed games the Cloud Save and Cross Progression works on the slowest connections and you can still play on your last synced save even if you dont have wifi like on the plane possibly (depending on airline) basically An Xbox Rog Ally
The reason why NIntendo games never go down in price is because they don't have to. The games are just that good and thus continue to sell very well (at least 30 million on average). That's one of the ways Nintendo stands out, and you don't really have to worry about prices never going down on the other platforms.
Yet xbos fans always talking about how xbox is killing Sony 😅. Can't beat them alone , bought publishers and still can't getting beat down bad . Face it Microsoft is simply not good enough Sony and Nintendo have it on lockdown
I honestly don't think it's exclusives anymore as games take so long to make there aren't that many lol. I have a PS5 because I've just always had a playstation. The quality of games do seem better on PS5. I had both PS4 and PS4 l, and I never played my Xbox, apart from the MasterChief collection and old games. The Xbox broke so I will just buy a one s or whatever old one has a disk drive. I like owning physical games, so game pass doesn't really interest me personally. I completed a game before buying a new one now 😂
Sorry, without exclusivity, the consumer would be getting cheated even more than we are now.. without exclusivity, the big companies would cooperate and collude with each other in creating even worse games for more money.. without choice, there is no incentive to innovate or compete
I bought Metroid Prime Remastered as a physical release and put it in my Switch. Guess what happened? It ran the game instantly without any downloads.
xbox sales are down because all current games suck.
Game developers have turned to micro-transactions instead of making games that are actually fun.
Their exclusive games have been lackluster. Big AAA single player adventures sell consoles. The last of us, god of war, horizon are the reason people buy playstation. You can play fortnight on anything so the big single player adventures are what makes someone go to a specific console. Xbox simply don't have that big system seller title. A Halo or gears of war every decade or whatever doesn't tempt me.
I feel like we talk more about consumer trends and how to "streamline the experience" than we do about actual video games in today's gaming landscape
Kinda miss the days where the focus was all about the games
I wouldn't worry abut pricing. I poke around sales every week and some of the deals I get are insane.
Xbox making all the wrong decisions once again smh
Halo infinite was terrible..... where is fable 4?
Redfall was trash
Starfield was trash
Call of duty the worst its ever been
Xbox can go they have nothing im intrestead in at this point
I jumped ship from PS3 to xboxone because the 360 was killing it, and then the one just killled it. And now I want to go play god of war and jak 2 and I'm boned. Can't even count on Halo being a good game anymore. And Halo infinite had phenomenal gunplay, stupid ass microsoft and 343 insisted on making it a live service ten year game when what they needed to do was just make another great Halo game. They failed.
Well they already admitted they lost the console war, and the sales overall, and gave up to put games on ps5 now. It's done, they lost, they are turning into what sega did, they will make games, they will fiddle around with maybe a console thing, or a streaming box, and then never come back to the glory they had
It's very interesting to listen to the least desired platform (by far) exec talk about market trends, generational differences between gamers, and "growing the industry."
Sounds like you have a population problem, and you want to infiltrate every other platform, to leech off of them. And then pretend they're your DAU because they're playing an IP, Microsoft bought.
Your ecosystem, and IP's are unappealing Phil. You've ran Halo, Gears, and Forza into the ground. And completely shat on Fable. Just go away
Exclusivity sells games!! It creates competition!! How do idiots that talk about games not get this!!
Then why has Sony been releasing their exclusive first party titles on PC, seems to me that widening your potential player base is a viable strategy as well.
@@valetboy21 Ghost Of Tsushima still isn't on PC 4 years after release. C'mon. They obviously still understand the need for exclusivity and are figuring out what exclusivity window they can get away with without devaluing the console.
Same thing as film companies figuring out how long they should wait before putting a movie on a streaming service because ... they learned the hard way that a movie being exclusively in theatres is extremely important or people won't bother. And people not bothering will cost them billions (e.g. Top Gun Maverick and Spider-Man No Way Home proved the idiocy of films going straight to streaming and now no of these companies do it anymore).
It's also not like they're putting these games on their direct competitors like Switch and Series X unless they have some sort of contractual obligation like MLB. And Nintendo's exclusives are the lifeblood of the console.
The more established the brand, generally the less important exclusivity is as it sells itself but it's a mistake to be complacent. That's when you fail. *Exclusivity objectively matters.*
@@idakev Sega had an establish brand and plenty of exclusives, it did not help the Dreamcast.
If PC is not a competitor to consoles then why isn't Nintendo putting their exclusives on PC?
Microsoft has been in fourth place, third if you don't count PC, for long enough that they have to try something different.
@@valetboy21 Dreamcast isn't a good example here.
SEGA of America killed their hardwares trust with fans and developers by making the 32X to compete with the Saturn, botching the Saturn launch and then doubling down and telling the world "The Saturn is not our future" causing devs to leave and fans to lose trust.
Exclusivity had little to do with their downfall.
Nintendo keeps their games exclusive because their bread and butter is hardware. Microsoft specialises in software and is focussed on profit over all else. The more they release games elsewhere, the more money they can make. Their console business is collateral for them.
@@BlueEyedVibeCheckerThe argument at the top is "exclusivity sells games" I am just showing an example where that was not the case.
The Wii U was another console were exclusivity did not sell games. Were there extenuating circumstances, sure, but that just proves my point.
Spencer has been promising new games for 14 yrs and 2 entire consoles, constantly kicking the can to next yr, next yr
A bit strange to say the new generation, the gen Z isn't into "console wars", they have their phones, its everything available everywhere... But on phones to this day, especially with games on phones -- the whole Apple vs Android things is literally 100 times worse and more tribal than PS5 vs Xbox ever has been. There are games that are not only exclusive to iphones vs android, but they are exclusive on the phone and not even on PC or anything. Like the MOST exclusive games. And the whole Epic vs. Apple thing. Phones are super "Us vs Them". There are cases of girls not dating a guy because he has a Samsung and not an iPhone.
So it weird to say that Gen Z is beyond console wars somehow. They might just not care about consoles at all. But to act like kids arent brand aware? Whhaaaaat!?
**Oh 4:05 the person brings up android vs apple, so yeah. Thats my point.
Besides low sales, the Xbots are also losing confidence in their friend Phil Spencer. The guy literally pulled a fast one and screwing the fans over.
If only companies cared enough to put everything they own in one convenient service for their customers but we know they don't actually care about the customers
It really isn’t confusing when you stop thinking of “gamers” as a monolithic block whose overall trends reflect those of people who work in the games industry. They will get more subscribers to Game Pass to play Stardew Valley if the price to entry is owning the tv they already have. People like WC commentators paid the price (or had the connections) to get a PS5 at launch and are confused by the PS5 Pro, the market for that is to convert people who were going to wait for the PS6 because they couldn’t get a 5 for nearly two years after launch and don’t want to buy an outdated system. I’m nearly going to have to ignore your opinion videos since you lot have such a non-understanding of business
Are ponies 12 year old boys that cant use google properly?
Do they even know what matters in gaming, for the gamers and the ganing company..
Clue: "its not console sales".....
When it comes to "no more consoles" I don't feel right chiming in as I'm a PC gamer. But I do worry about game preservation. People have been complaining about buying a "physical" game and getting a download code in the box, but we on PC have been dealing with that for over a decade. It is so rare to get a disk anymore on PC. If we want a physical copy, we have to buy a console version.
12:08 My God! Please, stop thinking of all gamers as having the types of habits that you see as the archetypes of gamers. You lot as as bad as the execs that thought the pandemic play style would continue when the world reopened. Please, please, please, get a non-game journalist who understands business to explain these confusions to you. It is both frustrating to hear you, and sad to know people will take your analysis as good. This is beyond fundamentally flawed.
Microsoft is coming to destroy the game industry as we know it.
You don't need a console, I ended starfield in my tablet using cloud gaming, haven't turn the Xbox on in a few months.
I want physical copies. I want to continue to "own" my games. There will be more disconnect with the world of this happens, especially here in the US.
Being older working and parenting I try to do a few hours a week sometimes I actually finish a game. The PlayStation, and Nintendo subscriptions are nostalgia hits.
Playing a game I'm curious about that I don't know if I'll have it available in a few months when I remember it again is not fun.
I generally play one title at a time until I roll credits then move to the next one so a game pass isn't very attractive to me. Like last year when I was playing through Darkest Dungeon that was the only thing I played for months.
Ps4 is better than ps5 when it comes down to games
Gen Z is not the main buyers, it’s millennials and we have gotten smarter about spending…. Especially when the value is not there.
What is wrong with gamers that they worry about company sales, are they that stupid lol get a pc then or a business degree if it makes you happy.
Meanwhile, Sony saud Playstation 5 is at the end of its life cycle make a video on that pillow biter 😂
😳 Stevie is the coolest emo at the Funeral For a Friend Gig! The Eggman prophesized this!
Streaming everything constantly is gonna eat up any data plan. High speed internet providers will continue to rise the price.
Flatline? What the hell does that mean?
I did hear they’ll release a version of the Series X without the disc drive. That’s what the Series S should’ve been.
What happens if you have an older tv that cannot accept apps? Are you screwed?
No, you can just buy a Roku, Google Chrome, Amazon fireTV stick, or Apple TV and put apps on those
Get an android TV box and keep your ad free TV.
@revwroth3698 who's going to buy said expensive TV for me? I don't have that money laying around.
@@nghtscled6 no, keep your TV. Those smart ones put ads on your home screen and crap. You can get a box for less than twenty bucks iirc that hooks up via HDMI that runs android and you can use that for the streaming, I beta tested Xcloud with one personally. Unfortunately I can't find the email Phil Spencer sent me with a jpg of my founders badge lol, and it was crap bc my Internet is too slow to support game streaming...
Buy a smart TV, they cost only a few hundred € and you even need them to receive the Digitale Terrestre signal - and you can even watch UA-cam on it
Even with all of that, I STILL have no interest in Xbox or Game Pass.
I miss the WCG from 2019
Keep at it gamers and consumers, Microsoft are stubborn, always have been. Everything they do is always the best way and everyone should follow.
Enjoy the loss of sales MS, you earned it. They will kill their own products to prove a point even if it’s a stupid one.
Hopefully they completely leave the console space soon. No more lame pass, no more “when we allz playz we allz winz”. Let’s get another competitor in the mix, bored of Xbox’s safe spaces.
Wouldn't be good news for PS gamers if MS dropped Xbox consoles. How high do you think PS would like to raise prices by and MS as a major publisher may go along with it.
Even if you only buy one game a year, it is still cheaper to buy it physically that use a subscription.
Microsoft thought they knew what they were doing but didn't.
Jewelsense 😂 the people that can’t pronounce it properly make me laugh.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes as they say.
I absolutely hate the linked bullcrap. I dont want nor use any of that crap we all arent streamers and losers that eat nothing but dominoes and doritos. Keep uour own games and, no disrespect but her dream is 100% my nightmare
Xbox is falling off 😅
How?
Xbox is doing better than ps..
Disnt microsoft screwover sega during the dreamcast era lol
Reason for xbox and 360 success was a treasure of good games it dont have to do anything with power of consoles
The Original Xbox & Xbox 360 had killer exclusive titles, even Japanese ones. The Xbox One & Xbox Series will never top them.
I used to only want physical copies of all my games. Now that I have a PC, my mind has changed. The deals are so good on Steam during different sales that I've saved a lot less money on games that I've wanted for a long time, but couldn't get because the physical copies were to expensive or the digital copies through Xbox/Playstation were to expensive. If companies like Xbox and Playstation want to go all digital, they have Steam to compete with and their prices really need to reflect that. I honestly haven't touched my Xbox in months now that I have my PC. The only time I've turned my Xbox on was to run some updates, that is it.
When Phil talks i feel he in some way damages the brand more
That's why I got a ps5 Xbox ain't it anymore