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Justin9mm
If one of you could provide real-world examples where Windows PC sales have impacted Xbox exclusive software sales negatively I'd consider what you're saying. Because all I have ever seen are lop sided sales. And since most sales tracking charts only have retail sales it would be difficult to know how well or poorly a game is selling on any platform.
And I restate my point again. Microsoft's exclusives for Xbox that are simultaneously released on PC are software sales in theIr same ecosphere. When their more successful IPs sell 6 Million for Xbox, 2-3 Million for PC. It doesn't matter one way or another to Microsoft. They've made the sale.
Software sales IS the console business model. Always has been.
"If one of you could provide real-world examples where Windows PC sales have impacted Xbox exclusive software sales negatively I'd consider what you're saying"
Easy, I'm not buying a XB to play their games, I'm keeping my PC to play their games instead of buying a XB...... sooooooo I believe I'm not alone in this bud, I know 100% lots clearly might be in that exact same boat. I don't need 2 things doing the same thing, I just don't have money like that and I imagine most don't have money like that to be having a gaming PC and then a XB, both of which are getting the same games by MS....it begs to question the reason to buy a XB in the first place. So If I'm keeping my PC to play Halo Infinite, logically I'm not alone. It would be mathematically impossible for me to be alone. It would be like EA making a console, yet still putting games on PC or PS or XB etc.
Logically...someone can keep their system to get the same game, thus....you'd see a decrease in those console sales as the value and reasoning to own the system is lessor then lets say a Switch or PS. I MUST own a PS4 to play God Of War, I MUST OWN a Switch to play Smash Ultimate. When I can either own a PC or a XB to play a MS title and I already own a PC, why would I then spend more money to buy something to play something I can already play? So no, I'm not buying a Switch to play PS4 titles, I'm not buying a XB to play MS titles as I already own a PC etc. It just makes no sense.
I don't even get the point of someone arguing against the concept of exclusives, it isn't that hard. I buy Nintendo handhelds and Playstation consoles for those exclusives, if MS is giving them on PC, a platform I already own....thanks, guess I'm not buying a XB.
ie lost sale bud. I likely would have bought a XB for Halo Infinite if it was good, but its easier when I already own PC. So no XB sale for MS, they still get money for Halo sale on PC, I still get a copy of Halo. I don't get how you can't see how that clearly is a lost XB sale bud.
"sales IS the console business model" ok who said it wasn't? Again, its a lost XB console sale by MS and a lost sale on their XB console software. I'm just buying it on PC, for all you know I'm finding other..."ways" to obtain it that doesn't even see MS getting that sale.
Great business model /s
I think they'll be on equal footing when they release. I can't emphasize enough how much a good looking halo game being a launch title for next gen will do for the system. Wouldn't surprise me if it did for the nextbox what BotW did for the switch. There I said it.
"I think they'll be on equal footing when they release." Very unlikely. The damage from this gen will carry over even to the next, it will be a while until many trust that publisher. "good looking halo game being a launch title for next gen will do for the system" How? I'm buying it on PC, I have zero plans to buy a XB, this gen or next gen. Even me "buying" it is up in the air, I could get it other ways, so not sure how that will do well for their system with putting games on other platforms, thus giving them even more outs to not even buy the platform.