So Sony putting some select games on PC many months after release is good for the industry but Microsoft putting every game on PC day and date is them wanting to gatekeep?
Yes, because its a new initiative to port their
first-party product onto PC. On the other hand XBox has barely had a first-party worth a shit for years, hence them spending literally billions over the last few years to buy one!
You really think its laudable that MS is buying up publishers and developers that were already multi-platform (i.e. already published day and date on console and PC) and *only* instructing them to stop supporting Playstation?
You think that's "growing" the industry?
Also what about PSVR2? Nice bit of selectivity when replying to my point.
Sorry to say, but you just lost a lot of good-will from me by starting out on such a disingenuous tack.
The undeniable absolute truth is that over the past few years Sony are adding SKU's, whereas MS on the other hand are removing them.
So lets take a look how many games they each have on the biggest independent PC store, Steam. This takes Gamepass and gatekeeping out of the equation right?
Xbox Game Studios - 216 products (of which 51 are games)
Playstation Studios - 36 products (only 8 are games)
How does their presence on Steam take GamePass out of the equation? Are we supposed to pretend that these storefronts are not competing with one-another in terms of attention and user-engagement?
Also, once again are we supposed to congratulate MS for finally showing interest despite owning the underlying OS market on PC since day#1 and after years of failure in establishing their own storefront to compete against Steam?!? Remember Games For Windows?
That their advantage in product volume isn't exponentially larger speaks volumes in itself. That's how little MS have traditionally cared about gaming.
Nope, your counter-argument holds no water whatsoever.
I strongly disagree and feel that if anything you've strengthened my position.