With the Rumours of MS going third party what platform are you going to be playing there games on from now on?

According to reddit it's not happening
There have been a bunch of posts lately that Xbox is giving up consoles to just publish all games on other platforms. These are unsubstantiated rumors that random games could go to other platforms and people are taking as gospel. Consider the facts:

Xbox had a leaked hardware roadmap that shows they're working on future consoles and controllers

There are at LEAST 4 AAA first party games being released next year on only Xbox and PC

Xbox just purchased Activision and ZeniMax with the intent of developing an Xbox ecosystem, including an Xbox mobile app

All official statements from Xbox indicate the console will continue be the center of Xbox

Matt Booty leads Xbox Publishing, and Sarah Bond leads all Hardware and development. Why would you promote Sarah Bond (heir apparent of Xbox leadership after Phil) for a business you don't plan to support going forward?

Based on the games under Xbox control, Xbox will have the revenue to invest in more hardware, not less. Sony is able to invest so heavily in hardware and games because of their revenue from Call of Duty on PS. Xbox doesn't want a cut of that?

Xbox doesn't respond to these stupid rumors because it makes no sense. Why do Xbox fans need constant reassurance that Xbox isn't going away? Going 3rd party isn't going to happen, none of their recent actions suggest it would happen.

Please distinguish rumors from facts while you're doomposting.

 
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Potentially for me, I get rid of XSX and can stay fully focused on PlayStation. But its speculation at this point as to what gets ported. I expect more and more Xbox fans will jump ship to PC...
 
Xbox.

I will add that if they're not 3rd party by the end of 2024, no one can deny that the "Xbox tax" is real ever again. This is taxing the brand, taxing console adoption, constantly prodding and pushing negativity and openly insinuating that you shouldn't buy anything from them. If it was all based on misunderstanding and exaggeration, that's truly going to be a statement about gaming discourse.

I'm willing to wait and see what happens, one way or the other. We'll either learn about their 3rd party transition this year, or I'll learn how stacked against them the entire industry narrative really is with relentless negativity trying to tear them down constantly and push gaming into a console monopoly. I'm fine learning the truth either way. Let's see how it goes.
 
I'm going to Platinum Starfield


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Punished Miku said:
Xbox.

I will add that if they're not 3rd party by the end of 2024, no one can deny that the "Xbox tax" is real ever again. This is taxing the brand, taxing console adoption, constantly prodding and pushing negativity and openly insinuating that you shouldn't buy anything from them. If it was all based on misunderstanding and exaggeration, that's truly going to be a statement about gaming discourse.

I'm willing to wait and see what happens, one way or the other. We'll either learn about their 3rd party transition this year, or I'll learn how stacked against them the entire industry narrative really is with relentless negativity trying to tear them down constantly and push gaming into a console monopoly. I'm fine learning the truth either way. Let's see how it goes.
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I just have to break this one out again. Poor poor multi trillion $ company.
 
Bernoulli said:
According to reddit it's not happening
There have been a bunch of posts lately that Xbox is giving up consoles to just publish all games on other platforms. These are unsubstantiated rumors that random games could go to other platforms and people are taking as gospel. Consider the facts:

Xbox had a leaked hardware roadmap that shows they're working on future consoles and controllers

There are at LEAST 4 AAA first party games being released next year on only Xbox and PC

Xbox just purchased Activision and ZeniMax with the intent of developing an Xbox ecosystem, including an Xbox mobile app

All official statements from Xbox indicate the console will continue be the center of Xbox

Matt Booty leads Xbox Publishing, and Sarah Bond leads all Hardware and development. Why would you promote Sarah Bond (heir apparent of Xbox leadership after Phil) for a business you don't plan to support going forward?

Based on the games under Xbox control, Xbox will have the revenue to invest in more hardware, not less. Sony is able to invest so heavily in hardware and games because of their revenue from Call of Duty on PS. Xbox doesn't want a cut of that?

Xbox doesn't respond to these stupid rumors because it makes no sense. Why do Xbox fans need constant reassurance that Xbox isn't going away? Going 3rd party isn't going to happen, none of their recent actions suggest it would happen.

Please distinguish rumors from facts while you're doomposting.

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The problem here is messaging. Why are known industry insiders saying once exclusive (PC/Xbox) games may be headed to other console(s)? The saying of smoke and fire applies here. This is too wide for their not to be some validity to it.

Dropping hardware? No. Expanding their portfolio to other platforms? I can see it and will believe otherwise when Microsoft breaks their silence and outright denies it.
 
StereoVsn said:
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I just have to break this one out again. Poor poor multi trillion $ company.
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I'm just asking for the tiniest bit of accountability here. It's either accurate or it's relentless negative lies. Let's see if it's true or not. I'm giving it a whole year.
 
HeisenbergFX4 said:
Imagine the pricing on PS consoles IF Xbox was to stop making consoles.

People don't want this future
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I keep on seeing this statememt, that's not how it works.

There are more market forces at play than "failing competitor existing" which contribute towards determining pricing.
 
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I'll continue playing on PS5 as main platform, with PC and Switch as secondary platforms. Doesn't change anything for me since I'm not interested on most of their games and all their games already are available on PC.

And well, MS already is third party. All Minecraft games, ABK games, Double Fine games, Ninja Theory games, Zenimax games (with Redfall and Starfield as exceptions) already are available in PS. There's also MS games on Switch.
 
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If there was no xbox? I'd probably get a Steamdeck and Switch 2, I've already got a PS5, wasn't planning on a PS6 at the moment, but would definitely get the next Xbox hardware.

I don't see Xbox leaving the hardware business though.

EDIT: Absolutely crazy that people are posting "Same place I always play - I have never and will never play on Xbox!" Coming up next week: "What will be your next car?" "I don't have a driving licence but thanks for asking!"
 
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Punished Miku said:
I'm just asking for the tiniest bit of accountability here. It's either accurate or it's relentless negative lies. Let's see if it's true or not. I'm giving it a whole year.
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What lies? You have Xbox insiders talking about this. If you want accountability talk to Phillip Spencer who has been responsible either for software on Xbox or for the entire division for a very long time.

Again, why are you stanning for a $trillion company which was openly saying that it wanted to either drive competitors out of business or buy them out? Career defining moment and everything.
 
MS has already gone third party to me at the start of this gen. Did not buy their console at launch because they had no exclusives and even when they got exclusives they published them on PC. So I simply invested in a good GPU and upgraded my PC instead.

Sony seems to be following suit but delaying their games by 2 years for now. My guess is by next gen, they are also day one. At which point i will become a PC and Nintendo gamer. Until Nintendo also goes full retard and starts publishing on PC day one.
 
I am not interested in most of them (HiFi Rush - not really into rhythm games, Sea of Thieves - ugly character models). If, hypothetically, Forza Horizon released on PS5 I would play it.
Bought Halo MCC for PC a week or two ago, still need to play it (and Skyrim PC which I have already on PS3/4/5).
 
Bernoulli said:
I don't see the price changing at all
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Me neither. They're not stupid. No matter how much people may want a PlayStation, one that is too expensive would be rejected by the masses. Pricing on the hardware would stay largely intact.

Game prices, on the other hand, may increase but that's not a fault of, result of, or cause of, Sony.
 
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Punished Miku said:
I'm willing to wait and see what happens, one way or the other. We'll either learn about their 3rd party transition this year, or I'll learn how stacked against them the entire industry narrative really is with relentless negativity trying to tear them down constantly and push gaming into a console monopoly.
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Christ. Who in the industry is against them exatly? Do they not own more developers than Nintendo or Sony? Conosle monoply? How?
 
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You know you're doing something wrong when Bernoulli Bernoulli is the one telling you to distinguish fact from fiction :P

(No offense Bern :p)
 
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HeisenbergFX4 said:
Imagine the pricing on PS consoles IF Xbox was to stop making consoles.

People don't want this future
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But people keep making these inane threads and posting garbage rumors about it happening, so it seems like a certain subset of gamers *DO* want to pay more for their Sony and Nintendo consoles.

What subset of gamer that is, I'll leave that up to the reader to decide.
 
Steam, but I don't think I will abandon Xbox.

Pls, Xbox, give a me handheld. Would be cool if they will be able to integrate Android support here too.
 
HeisenbergFX4 said:
Think prices would go down from NVidia if AMD left the GPU market?

What would they charge for the 5090 if there were no other options for next gen cards?
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The price that they deem to be the sweet spot for their proposition.

You need to understand these companies are not stupid. Monopolies and excessive pricing can only exist in instances where incumbents make it impossible for new entrants to enter the market. That isn't the case in the console industry, and it isn't the case in the discrete GPU market.

The reason that's an important point is this - if a company abuses their market position and puts prices up too much then they are putting themselves in a vulnerable position whereby it becomes easier for new (or existing) businesses to enter the market and steal market share. Excessive pricing makes consumers more receptive to alternatives, not the opposite.

So in summary, if they want to continue to do well in the long run, excessively whacking prices up isn't the way to do it.
 
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The funny thing is, MS does not even have that many exclusives locked insinde their Xbox ecosystem right now. So no wonder "no one" really feels a need to buy their console. Their new exclusives start to show up only now. Beside FlightSim, it was still just Halo, Gears and Forza, like forever before.

I would assume if they remove every Bethesda/id game right now (and all the other smaller studios' games) from PS store or even Plus catalogue, some people might notice/realise how many IPs MS actually already has. Add ABK and the situation might turn 50:50. But they probably can't because they had to play nice to even get ABK.
Their strategy seems to not be ideal. The whole day and date on GP thing should have started only after the first wave of exclusive start hitting. It was not only disruptive, but kinda destructive for everyone, and wasted too early, without any real gains for themselves, when they had no release cadence at all. Which is still not really soon happening. MS and Sony as well, have a ton of studios now, but neither really manages to push games out fast.

I could play MS games on my PC, but as I said I hardly have to for most of them, so easily can chose not to. If they remove that driver at all, I might check one or two IPs but it won't change much byond that.
The other way around, actually abandon PS, would mean more.
 
If they make good games (like Ori), sure, I'll play - as I always have.

If they make sub-par and outdated games, no.

Platforms never prevented me before; they won't prevent me now.
 
Punished Miku said:
Xbox.

I will add that if they're not 3rd party by the end of 2024, no one can deny that the "Xbox tax" is real ever again. This is taxing the brand, taxing console adoption, constantly prodding and pushing negativity and openly insinuating that you shouldn't buy anything from them. If it was all based on misunderstanding and exaggeration, that's truly going to be a statement about gaming discourse.

I'm willing to wait and see what happens, one way or the other. We'll either learn about their 3rd party transition this year, or I'll learn how stacked against them the entire industry narrative really is with relentless negativity trying to tear them down constantly and push gaming into a console monopoly. I'm fine learning the truth either way. Let's see how it goes.
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Pretty much my view too. And if they pull the plug…. Well there's always PC. I already play some of my Xbox games there and I've already own a bunch sony games on there. So no real need for a PlayStation either. If Xbox is out, I'll be a PC/ Nintendo gamer. And they had better come up with a way for Xbox owners to migrate their game libraries across to PC too. I wouldn't mind if they keep making controllers too though. Will not miss their proprietary hard drives! 😅😅


It won't be so bad. I've said for the longest time it's all about subs going forward along side digital downloads. It's gonna be more about your account than the hardware.

So I guess we gotta build our own consoles now eh? I can dig it! Already build my own PCs and they all look awesome. I hope ASUS and Corsair double down on their compact PC case designs because I think they will become reeeeeaaal popular soon. I just hope somebody starts making compact liquid cooling loops for those small boxes.
 
Punished Miku said:
I'm just asking for the tiniest bit of accountability here. It's either accurate or it's relentless negative lies. Let's see if it's true or not. I'm giving it a whole year.
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What are you talking about? It's some of Microsoft's own media plants reporting these "rumors" as well. And please, spare us with your sanctimonious "accountability" bs. Microsoft is the reason why Xbox is in this position. Quit blaming others for laughing at their miscues.
 
GHG said:
I keep on seeing this statememt, that's not how it works.

There are more market forces at play than "failing competitor existing" which contribute towards determining pricing.
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Oh yeah? Then what were all the regulators worried about when MS was trying to buy Activision?
 
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