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Tom Warren: Microsoft is considering bringing Indiana Jones to PS5, several months after the Xbox / PC release as part of new strategy
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ComputerBlue
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Good.
DJ12
Member
lol, everyone already knew MS was going third party when it was shown, why not just accept people thought that way, without it being related to console warring as your little chicken brain seems to be insisting.I guess all those queasy stomachs will be fine with the first person view now
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Having no competition is not gonna lead to them becoming more consumer friendly lmao
Little Chicken
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luv that avatar for you!
DJ12
Member
Are you upset that you were removed from the mailing list?
Crispy Gamer
Member
I guess it's xbover...
bitbydeath
Member
No more having to buy studios, so yep, it will be better for the industry IMO.
xrnzaaas
Member
If Sony loses its main console competitor they're going to milk their customers even harder. Isn't that obvious considering how many anti-consumer moves they've already made this gen after "winning" the battle with Xbox last gen?
bitbydeath
Member
It was the fact of having ‘competition’ that brought about the anti-consumer moves such as
PS++ and buying studios.
demigod
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Saber
Gold Member
They don't care about their fanbase, their employees and probably don't care about ABK and regulators either. They are willing to burn money just to see their plans of dominance going to fruit.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
the games have to be great in the first place.
digoutyoursoul
Member
All the xbros finally realising MS fucked you. Your ss/sx is irrelevant. MS don't care about you. You were a stepping stone for the ABK acquisition.
Many of who you speak of will cheer them on, “games everywhere “ conveniently failing to acknowledge they are already on millions upon millions of PCs and phones as it is.
They clearly barely give a shit about the console , all that potential wasted.
as someone who prefers consoles all I ever wanted was for them to be the best it could be along with PlayStation and Nintendo
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Ass of Can Whooping
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Hahahaahahahahahahaha
LordCBH
Member
Shit will get more real for me when I see this:
With a PlayStation symbol next to it.
Imagine a Gears collection at Walmart in a PlayStation box. Lord. That would be a weird ass day lol
CosmicComet
Member
Wonder if Nadella putting them hands on Phil is what caused him to disappear and why Sarah Bond has been appearing so much lmao
Woopah
Member
Nintendo and Sony are about equal and the console market and I don't see either of them dominating the PC or mobile markets anytime soon.
onnextflix5
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The Beginning of the end of the Xbox??
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ChuckeRearmed
Member
The funny part is that after all these years MSFT still does not understand that media narratives run fast
HeWhoWalks
Gold Member
I agree with him if we're talking home consoles. Without a handheld component, Nintendo would struggle against PlayStation. You're right on the second half, though.
Schmendrick
Member
MS games have been on PC for a long time anyways. Putting it on one more platform doesn't really make a difference anymore.
Overall this sounds like going 3d party with extra steps.
Overall this sounds like going 3d party with extra steps.
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analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Machinegames has always been great. Don’t know why it’d be any different now.
Ansphn
Member
Nintendo has the most loyal base but PlayStation is getting all the 3rd party games. Nintendo could not do that so they went a different direction. Lower gen hardware and portable domination. If Nintendo go head to head against the PS6 and release a truly next gen console, they would lose against PlayStation because most of their base love portability. Nintendo going latest hardware tech = they would need to make a separate Portable console thus splitting their player base.
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
"arkane never misses" rings a bell?
im not saying all games are going to be RedFall. but NOW MS is in charge and its track record ain't the best
Nydius
Member
The beginning of the end was the Xbox One and the complete clusterfuck surrounding it. We’re well past the beginning and likely well over the hump.
They’ve thrown so much money at hardware only for the gap between PlayStation and Xbox to wide. They’ve thrown money at creating Game Pass only for it to not really take much hold on PC and plateau around 30M total subs. Their last ditch effort was all these acquisitions but now it seems people inside Microsoft (and important shareholders, I imagine) have come to realize they’d make a hell of a lot more money from all those acquisitions selling games where people are actually buying them.
Woopah
Member
With the Wii U Nintendo did indeed struggle a lot against PlayStation. But with the Switch they have a big chunk of the console market.
They fact that its hybrid design is one of the reasons for Switch's success doesn't change the reality that it has a bug chunk of the market. Just like there are several reasons why PS5 has a big chunk of the market.
They follow different strategies, but that's always been the case. The PS1 didn't compete with the N64 by copying Nintendo's strategy, but by doing something different yet successful. Same with the PS2 competing with the GameCube or the Wii competing with the PS3.
Both companies are successfully competing by playing to their strengths.
HeWhoWalks
Gold Member
If the Switch was another Wii U or even or Wii, it's highly unlikely that it would have hit the highs that it has.
As a hybrid, yes, it has a big chunk of the market, which is why they can co-exist and PlayStation wouldn't be this "runaway train" that the fearmongers are saying it would become.
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Cyber_hunter026
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I do, granted it’s because of my father. me and him bonded over watching the trilogy. don’t care for kingdom of the crystal skulls and the dial of destiny as much as the original movies.
CosmicComet
Member
They will probably retcon him to be bi or something, thinking that will appeal to gen z
xrnzaaas
Member
Yes Deluxe and Premium were an answer to Microsoft's Game Pass, but Sony could introduce the higher tiers without day1 games AND facilitate a massive PS+ price increase. This wouldn't have happened if they weren't so cleary in the lead, because otherwise people would show them the middle finger and pick Xbox.
If there's no competition from the Xbox on the console market they'll have even more freedom how to increase their profits, because people will only be able to choose between staying with them and switching to PC gaming.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
The strange part for me is that if you look at this impartially, all this actually represents is MS' fully committing to the Gamepass/XBL business.
Arguably a more rational strategy than how things stand today.
Look at it this way: MS' pitch is that Gamepass is THE all-in-one gaming offer. One that doesn't need a major spend on hardware to jump into, but covers everything from smartphones to high end PC, and is the best deal on the market. They back this up with the premise that thanks to their raft of world class studios, you get to play the best stuff on there, first.
None of this mission statement demands they not take advantage of the userbases of their former competitors in the console space. In the long term they may even find themselves in a position where they can demand that Gamepass be allowed on systems built by these competitors too thanks to the precedent set by the EU calling the appstore a monopoly.
This may seem an especially compelling argument if in the long term they can show their console business is no longer directly competing.
The reality is that ultimately if they were to "win" the console war by obtaining such a dominant market share the Nintendo and Sony could no longer afford to manufacture hardware of their own, their IP would likely end up on sale. Something that could represent a massive opportunity for another tech giant to step-in and use that to bolster a competing service to Gamepass.
What I'm getting at is if MS honestly believe Gamepass-type digital services are the future, this is a natural step.
Arguably a more rational strategy than how things stand today.
Look at it this way: MS' pitch is that Gamepass is THE all-in-one gaming offer. One that doesn't need a major spend on hardware to jump into, but covers everything from smartphones to high end PC, and is the best deal on the market. They back this up with the premise that thanks to their raft of world class studios, you get to play the best stuff on there, first.
None of this mission statement demands they not take advantage of the userbases of their former competitors in the console space. In the long term they may even find themselves in a position where they can demand that Gamepass be allowed on systems built by these competitors too thanks to the precedent set by the EU calling the appstore a monopoly.
This may seem an especially compelling argument if in the long term they can show their console business is no longer directly competing.
The reality is that ultimately if they were to "win" the console war by obtaining such a dominant market share the Nintendo and Sony could no longer afford to manufacture hardware of their own, their IP would likely end up on sale. Something that could represent a massive opportunity for another tech giant to step-in and use that to bolster a competing service to Gamepass.
What I'm getting at is if MS honestly believe Gamepass-type digital services are the future, this is a natural step.
bitbydeath
Member
I think most people knew day 1 games on services was a death knell, MS was just hoping they could spend Sony out of business and it failed.
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
My daughter thinks it's cool. Granted she's only seen the old movies and so have I, so who knows what this will be like - but I'm sure there are some out there.
reinking
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FalsettoVibe
Member
Microsoft has to address this stuff like this week. It's the talk of the entire industry right now.
DJ12
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HeWhoWalks
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