"Tons of games".
Are you talking 1st party or is 3rd party included?
Ofcourse they can make their games XSX exclusive if they want to, but that would likely mean that more games (if there is much besides Halo) would release later on.
And they already need to worry about keeping part of their installbase of ~50M from moving to Playstation after a lackluster gen.
So we're back at "we are pro-consumer by supporting both current and next-gen".
Sometimes I don’t know if you read or not and just reply rubbish.
First I thought this thread was about their first party games, especially if we talk about Game Pass and your agenda of “pro consumer”, so he’s they do have tons of first party games in the pipeline.
Second, why would stuff be pushed back, where do you get that? I said they could have made all their games next gen only, it was a decision that was made not to do so, what is it you don’t understand? They don’t need to push anything back, the consciously decided todevelop their games for next gen and scale them down to Xbox One levels because they can, the tools make it possible (in fact, Unreal Engine is very good at this) and that will also give them a much bigger pool of players to sell for, as in Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and a lot more people on PC as that means they will be supporting a lot more hardware options.
I somehow doubt games like Far Cry 6 require extra time to develop for next gen, they are already developing for PC, and like any game, PC will always have the highest fidelity. Again, develop high fidelity and scale down. Is there something you have a hard time grasping here? Just look at last gen when we had ForzaHorizon 2 and Dise of Tomb Raiser as examples of that.
And you pro Sumer thing you seem to think is all about doing this to keep Xbox players or whatever, again the scalability makes it possible to sell to a higher audience and have a much bigger user base which is what all games aspire to, but also to give something to Game Pass customers. People with their Xbox One that are not upgrading right away might still be possible customers of Game Pass, people on GTX 980s on PC might also be interested in paying for it to play Halo this Fall. It’s not about retaining Xbox One customers so they don’t change ship (which is only a scenario in your Sony fanboy universe by the way) but about expanding that 10 million Game Pass number to 20 million, if not more. Sony has more than twice the userbase, but 5 times less subscribers to PS Now because their service is shit. MS has something huge here and they are pushing for it as it’s working, and bringing in PC as well was a smart move, PC is a biggerplatform than consoles, and once smart devices get added in the potential is even bigger (although smart devices will run off Xbox Series X blades next year so scalability won’t matter for those devices.
So stop with your conspiracy theories and stop the cult of Jim “we want players to experience something only possible on PS5” Ryan, because it’s all PR and he knows it, he’s just trying to sell you an over locked and burning hot piece of plastic that won’t have anything “truely next gen” (as you like to think) until late next year but has brainwashed you into thinking everything you are getting this fall is only possible on their box. And the only reason why it’s only possible on their box is because they are forcing those games to be only sold there, not because they aren’t possible elsewhere.