lmao, not at all. pc brings them tons of money, specially steam.
They instead got better during this period tho. Their re-fall from grace began with Halo Infinite, and is now solidified with Starfield.True, their PC and Gamepass strategy is only an accelerator to the fall from grace. It started way earlier than that.
Less choice where to play... Less value in Gamepass...
Not sure where you’re getting that from, their other third party titles such as Minecraft doesn’t allow you to buy once and play on any system.I didn’t even know they did?
They let you purchase once and play across all platforms? When was that?
I don’t think some of know exactly what play anywhere is. If you are against you are quite frankly … dumb.
What matters most to me with how I game these days, is the more games I can stream on this:
without being tied to a console. I like remote play, but I’ll take streaming an entire library over remote play.
I played the majority of my “console games” on my backbone these last few years. That includes Starfield, Baldur’s Gate 3, Fortnite, Cyberpunk 2077 and Spider-Man 2.
What matters most to me with how I game these days, is the more games I can stream on this:
without being tied to a console. I like remote play, but I’ll take streaming an entire library over remote play.
I played the majority of my “console games” on my backbone these last few years. That includes Starfield, Baldur’s Gate 3, Fortnite, Cyberpunk 2077 and Spider-Man 2.
I am pretty that’s more because no one else will allow it. Only Xbox and pc for now,Not sure where you’re getting that from, their other third party titles such as Minecraft doesn’t allow you to buy once and play on any system.
Cause money!I am pretty that’s more because no one else will allow it. Only Xbox and pc for now,
If you think about it’s super ridiculous that we as consumers don’t demanded it. Why should we buy say street fighter 6 multiples times? It’s crazy.
Nothing to do with allowing it. Everything to do with what incentive MS has to do it. There is no reason why buying a steam copy couldn't also unlock an xbox store copy, Valve would have no problem allowing that but in that scenario MS would rather you buy it again. Cross buy on select games has been a thing for a long time on platforms where the store owner is the same company. Sega, PS Vita, or windows/MS store. There has rarely been one where different store owners do it though, I can only think of PS3/steam with Portal and some PC+Android examples.I am pretty that’s more because no one else will allow it. Only Xbox and pc for now,
If you think about it’s super ridiculous that we as consumers don’t demanded it. Why should we buy say street fighter 6 multiples times? It’s crazy.
This is a concept that gaf has never been able to grasp.
Nintendo and Sony treat their customers like crap to make more sales. i.e. force you to buy their box and software to play their new games.
MS has the most customer friendly offering but it costs them sales. i.e. you dont have to buy their box or software to play their games.
I don’t know about friendly but it’s certainly more accessible.
I've to say I agree. Their console lost all their "value", if they were absolute leaders in console industry... They could try some shit like this, but as an eternal challenger, they shouldn't have done that. Because they make a LOT of gamers don't want Xbox as long as they have a PC, and once on PC they wanna buy games on PC, or GOG, or even EGS, but never on Windows Store... So they fuck themselves in the console field and in the PC field at the same time, nice performance.If they didn’t release their games on PC day and date. Also they shouldn’t release their exclusives on gamepass day and date or gamepass should have never been a thought either.
They were selling their leading franchises in the millions Halo and gears when they were exclusive to the console or pc wasn’t day and date. I can tell you one thing I bet Gears 5 and Halo Infinite were probably the lowest selling games out the franchise and that’s with PC and Gamepass full in effect.Let's be real, Microsoft hadn't and still don't have a choice but to be everywhere on everything and to subsidize services like GP if they want the Xbox brand to stay relevant at all.
fixed that for youDidn't Microsoft make more engagement from their gaming division last year than Sony?