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Xbox Twitter/X Just Confirmed Their Biggest Games Will Be Multiplatform
- Thread starter DeepEnigma
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MatrixReloaded101
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Phil: “ We are going to put 4 of our exclusive games on a competing platform, as an experiment.”
I’m 100% sure people at PlayStation couldn’t stop laughing hearing that … that guy thinks he is smarter than everyone else and that’s the problem.
I’m 100% sure people at PlayStation couldn’t stop laughing hearing that … that guy thinks he is smarter than everyone else and that’s the problem.
LavitzSlambert
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There is only one playbook at MS and it's EEE. Literally the only thing they know how to do. They will grow their third party offerings, accumulate absurd power being the largest publisher, and then use that to extort platform holders while pushing their own agenda.
Leonidas
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I'm not lumping Nintendo with anyone. Nintendo game sales are great. Though they likely would have overtaken GTAV with a game or two had they gone multiplatform.
If Sony exclusives sold as well as Nintendo exclusives did maybe they would have stuck to being exclusive, like Nintendo.
PS4 + PS5 combined to sell something like 170 million units, yet the best selling PS4 game is only in the area of 20M.
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DeepEnigma
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Vroadstar
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I was not on GAF back when the writings were on the wall for Sega Dreamcast and then going 3rd party. For anyone here who was already on GAF back in those days, I'm curious, did you see the same stages of grief from Sega fans as we are seeing today from Xbox fans or was it different back then?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
It's damned near identical. Someone dug up old posts 2 weeks ago.
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Fredrik
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I think it depends on how big the games are and how much people are okay with waiting. There is a reason why Sony don’t release their first party games day 1 on PC, they know some people will jump in instead of waiting.
But personally I’m over all this. I’m going to play Xbox and Playstation games on PC. It’s ridiculous to invest in hardware to skip timed exclusivity on a handfull of games, imo.
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Killjoy-NL
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Thank you.
And today I learned those are the only multi platform games out there.
RE4 remake sales, "these are great"
Sony first party sales "eew, phew"
DeltaPolarBear
Member
And the majority of GTAV runs on PS4, with each copy getting Sony 30% pure profit. This is made possible because of their hardware dominance, which was possible because of 1st party games.
Killjoy-NL
Member
So, the tweet is still up?
MisterXDTV
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Hudo
Member
Might as well shut GAF down.The end of the console wars folks.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
It will be. Microsoft always covers for both narratives; this is the same.
- If someone says, "big games will also be multiplatform", they will point out to Phil's podcast that it is just these 4 smaller games.
- When the big games eventually come, they will point to this tweet, saying "yeah, these big games were already confirmed to be multiplatform."
panda-zebra
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Don't think the twitters intern quite conveyed the message xbox want to put out with that tweet. On their wire post yesterday they said "The biggest games in the world will be on Xbox" as their #1 "this is what it means to be part of xbox" reassurance in a list of 5, which is as meaningless and non-committal as any of their recent claims it's safe to ignore as PR fluff, but "The biggest games will be on on more than one platform" is a gigantic backfire when the faithful were having it rough trying to come to terms with the acceptance phase.
IT IS JUST FOUR GAMES
Not another podcast!
FrankWza
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Unless Thomas, Richard and Harold are employed by them...
Skifi28
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Maybe we can just port it elsewhere.
TrippleA345
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HeWhoWalks
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The only game that Microsoft has that I can see people plopping money down for their hardware (as opposed to waiting) is CoD and that's under legal obligation to remain multiplat for the next decade. Folks aren't enticed to buy Xbox hardware now, so taking another reason to buy it away is continuing to pour gasoline on that fire.
Whatever significant competition existed between the two is largely over.
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Badlucktroll
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I don’t think they should have bought Activision. Seems like they got pretty shackled and now people expect all their shit to be multi platform and will ignore xbox
JackMcGunns
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Which games and the timing matters.
Everyone seems so shocked by this, but if you replace the word Xbox with PlayStation, I bet this wouldn’t be so shocking.
“PlayStation’s biggest games will be on more than one platform.”
Shocking only at first to learn huge franchises were going to PC, but everyone got over it, same will apply here. Microsoft is a massive publisher now and some of their games will be better suited on Switch, others on PlayStation and others will remain on Xbox only.
Everyone seems so shocked by this, but if you replace the word Xbox with PlayStation, I bet this wouldn’t be so shocking.
“PlayStation’s biggest games will be on more than one platform.”
Shocking only at first to learn huge franchises were going to PC, but everyone got over it, same will apply here. Microsoft is a massive publisher now and some of their games will be better suited on Switch, others on PlayStation and others will remain on Xbox only.
HeWhoWalks
Gold Member
Exactly.
MisterXDTV
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Playstation exclusives on Nintendo and Microsoft consoles wouldn't be shocking.....
HeWhoWalks
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DeepEnigma
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Y'all will spin any bullshit to cope, huh?
It would melt the internet. No need to have a persecution complex on behalf of megacorp.
panda-zebra
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But xbox didn't say what you suggest. Their twitter said "The biggest games will be more than just one platform" as a sub-tweet to the news that 4 smaller/older games are coming to Switch and PS - that lands differently.
Your mistake is assuming that they are referring specifically to XBOX games when they are not.
They are referring to the industry in general and the trend towards multiplatformity. And yes, that statement can cover many narratives... -if MS announces the arrival of FF to XBOX in June, for example, this tweet could also be used for reference? Also yes .
-If Sony announces the arrival of its first parties to PC ( or "other platforms")? Also yes.
Because precisely that is the message of that tweet, that games launching on a single platform are going to be increasingly rare. And that is precisely why they have not eliminated it.
We can discuss the future and multiplatform strategy in the industry and we would all agree on that same phrase. But of course, it is made by the Xbox X account and it is too difficult to miss the opportunity to sharpen it or a different context.
Badlucktroll
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Phil’s fantasy was probably to pull all the ips off Playstation immedietly but that shits illegal. say they buy take two/rockstar next, it will backfire the same way
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MisterXDTV
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Xbox Twitter CAN'T speak for all the industry...
They can talk about their dying brand, that's it....
What leverage do they have about what Sony or Nintendo do???
NOTHING
They have been stuck to last place for a decade and they assume the right to dictate trends of the industry in general?
LOL
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DeepEnigma
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And they're still wrong by the law of averages trying to "speak for the industry."
There are far more successful first party games sales wise between Sony and Nintendo than there are third party.
There is only a handful of third party games that do those sales volumes.
They're trying to set a narrative to soften their failure and new forced strategy.
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drganon
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Lol. I didn't know that you need to have accreditation to speak out about the industry.....
The fact is that whether you like it or not there is a reality and that is none other than the trend towards multiplatformity and that the exclusivity of a single platform is the rarity.
Now you can bring the context of that Tweet into your narrative, which certainly doesn't make it so.
MisterXDTV
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Lol. I didn't know that you need to have accreditation to speak out about the industry.....
AHHAHAHAHAHAH
So soon we will see Sony and Nintendo games on Xbox, right?
That's what you are saying....
Keep dreaming, pal
Bond007
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I love the spin fest that suddenly exclusives dont matter and should be everywhere.
Thats loser talk and would never be a discussion if they had some form of success with them. Just go 3rd party.
We all know the move will be gradual but damn- 7 days after the update they already pivoting in language lol
Thats loser talk and would never be a discussion if they had some form of success with them. Just go 3rd party.
We all know the move will be gradual but damn- 7 days after the update they already pivoting in language lol
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Heisenberg007
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Before Xbox officially announced games on PS and Nintendo:
- "LOL! PS fans port-begging Bethesda and XGS games."
- "Just buy an Xbox!
- "You don't spend $80 billion to put your games on competitor platforms."
- "All Xbox games will be exclusive."
- "These are all fake rumors."
- "Makes sense."
- "Exclusivity is a rarity now."
- "PS and Nintendo will also go multiplatform now."
LOL, your reading comprehension is minimal. But I think it has more to do with your predisposition to prejudice.
No one has hinted at such a thing, in fact Xbox is probably the platform where fewer games are released compared to the rest.
That is not what is being said, and that is certainly not the context of that tweet. It's just that the times where you needed a specific platform to play a game are going to be a rarity. It's that simple because some of you are choosing and wanting to take it to another different narrative.
But hey, you can keep looking away and pretending it's just an XBOX trend...
HeWhoWalks
Gold Member
We'll do that when Nintendo and Sony start putting their games on other consoles. Until then, this is a typical Nintendo/SonyToo™ as a means to deal with unfavorable industry moves.But hey, you can keep looking away and pretending it's just an XBOX trend...
MisterXDTV
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But hey, you can keep looking away and pretending it's just an XBOX trend...
IT IS an Xbox trend....
The fact that you deny it, it's just pure comedy....
You generalizing??? No surprise. You could have the dignity to point out who said such a thing at the time and not insinuate that I once said it while you stand in the safety of the forum and its tendency.Before Xbox officially announced games on PS and Nintendo:
After Xbox officially goes third-party:
- "LOL! PS fans port-begging Bethesda and XGS games."
- "Just buy an Xbox!
- "You don't spend $80 billion to put your games on competitor platforms."
- "All Xbox games will be exclusive."
- "These are all fake rumors."
- "Makes sense."
- "Exclusivity is a rarity now."
- "PS and Nintendo will also go multiplatform now."
Then, it's embarrassing that you need to point people out for believing those things..... You're the one who in the ABK thread defended that MS was going to make everything exclusive, that it wanted a monopoly on consoles etc etc....
I don't know, it's ugly to be hypocritical
Again that's the problem, not understanding. Multi-platform not means only launching on console. We talk about "platforms"
That tweet is not referring to Sony or Nintendo going to launch games in the competition. It simply means that games and especially big budget ones are clearly going to be a rarity that are only released on a single platform.
That's it, the mistake is trying to make people believe that it only refers to MS's strategy.
MisterXDTV
Member
These are the same people that 3 years ago believed that GamePass would lead to more game sales and it was gonna be absolutely profitable and sustainable
Now we find out they have to port their games to their competitors' consoles to actually make money....
drganon
Member
Christ, you've huffed so much copium it's caused brain damage.You generalizing??? No surprise. You could have the dignity to point out who said such a thing at the time and not insinuate that I once said it while you stand in the safety of the forum and its tendency.
Then, it's embarrassing that you need to point people out for believing those things..... You're the one who in the ABK thread defended that MS was going to make everything exclusive, that it wanted a monopoly on consoles etc etc....
I don't know, it's ugly to be hypocritical
They just announced PSVR for PC after "announcing" that all their games are going to be released on PC and at a greater cadence..... And you tell me that multiplatformity is not a trend on PS.
Ironic to talk about comedy.