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

People have seen the result of this competition. It's not pretty.

Competition doesn't mean you're given a spot out of alternative reasoning.

Your position is earned.

Thats the difference between medals and ribbons and I don't believe in just handing out ribbons.
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The finally realized that they can exist outside their own hardware and PC. I doubt their output has the quality level we are used to on PS5 and Nintendo Switch.
 
Master plan
- MS goes 3rd party,
- Makes killer games
- All the audience addicted to their games
- MS launches a new console makes all the games exclusieve
- Audience jumps in... :)
It's funny, that diabolical argument is the one defended here 2-3 months ago in the ABK thread by the vast majority of those who now tell you that the XBOX console is going to disappear and XBOX will be a 3rd party like EA and TakeTwo and that that was the reason to acquire ABK (2 months ago it was "end PS" and "case by case" is a lie)... 🤔😂 180°


Huh? Xbox is not going third-party. They are opening up back catalogue for multi-platform in order to make more money. Nothing wrong with that.
That MS is going to launch new console hardware is a fact. P. Spencer himself has confirmed it and Sarah Bones has been appointed head of Hardware for a reason...

Now what we have to know what the plan is with that hardware and what her goals are with it.
Sell 35-55 million?? So releasing their first party games sooner or later also on PS could make sense.
Sell 60+ or even be "competition" in sales with PS6?? Then the exclusivity of its large franchises will be necessary....

We will see
And I don't believe Xbox won't keep any exclusives at all.
XBOX will continue to have exclusives. In fact, the sources from which the launch of HiFi, SOT etc. to PS and Switch even highlight it. What's more, even in that rumor it appears that FFXVI will come to XBOX 🤗 but that part is clearly not interesting.

The question now is knowing what type of exclusivity (total or temporary) and how many games it affects in that "case by case" that in the end ends up being no lie from Phil 😅

From here, threads like this and reactions to launching HiFi and other games on PS5 falls within what is expected in this console war, desires of some and fears of others.
 
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Imagine the pricing on PS consoles IF Xbox was to stop making consoles.

People don't want this future
I don't see any changes, and when Sony dominated 5th & 6th games went from £54.99 to £29.99 for new releases, with the exception of FFIX
People keep saying it'll be bad but we do have something to compare it to because it's happened twice.
And it was
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Over the last year, most of my friends on Xbox have disappeared, moved over to PlayStation, or have simply stopped gaming all together. I've been slowly moving the multiplatform games I care about on Xbox over to my PS5 library during sales and what not.

Last year was a complete dud for Microsoft when it should have been anything but. They had Redfall, Starfield, and Forza Motorsport as heavy hitters and all of them were meh. I would like to say I have faith in them to deliver with games like Avowed but after the last year I just don't. With the recent sales reports showing they were outsold 3:1 by Sony in 2023, I simply cannot see Microsoft turning ABK games into pure Xbox exclusives and limiting their audience to 25% of what it could be on consoles.

People saying "Phil said this" and "Phil said that" also seem to forget that Phil also said, under oath, that if Game Pass doesn't continue to grow exponentially on PC and Cloud by the late 2020's that "I can fairly safely say that if we do not make more progress than this off of console, we would exit the gaming business."

The rest of this generation, PS5 is my primary console and my XSX will be little more than a glorified Game Pass box. Next generation I'm still leaning towards my plan of going completely PC/Switch 2 only since every Microsoft (and nearly every Sony) exclusive ends up on PC eventually.
 
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I bought a PS5 6 months ago, so PS5 is my answer. Even if they release the games a year late, you would still get the amazing PS exclusives AND the Xbox games both in one platform.
 
They're second, behind Samsung.


That's a ranking based on overall revenue I believe, not just for TV's (it's a who is the biggest company ranking rather than being a product category specific one).

Sony are ~5th for TV's in terms of market share:

Samsung accounted for 31.2% of the global TV set market, which reached $45.5 billion, during the first six months of this year. LG came in with a market share of 16.2%, followed by two Chinese firms – TCL Technology scoring 10.2% and Hisense Group with 9.5%, the data showed. Japan's Sony Corp. ranked fifth with 5.7%.

 
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I'm a Nintenchad.

To be honest the only thing I'd buy would be MCC and SoT.

Obviously Rare Replay, but I think that's unlikely to happen as it's a case of porting a lot of 360 games (N&B, Viva Piñata 1&2, PD Zero, Kameo).
 
Nothing changes. If Xbox had games I would gotten it. Platforms don't stop me. So if I don't want Xbox series, it means I am not interested in their games
 
Imagine the pricing on PS consoles IF Xbox was to stop making consoles.

People don't want this future
I'm more worried about anti-consumer practices like no refund policy, gatekeeping crossplay/crossprogression and increasing the price of their services while decreasing their quality.
 
Thers only 2 IPs MS owns i would like to play. Forza Horizon, would play it on PS5 if they ever made that series multiplat, the other is Elder Scrolls 6, but i rather play bugthesda games on PC for the mods and fixes the mod comunity provides.
 
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Imagine the pricing on PS consoles IF Xbox was to stop making consoles.

People don't want this future
Thers still Nintendo and PC to offer gaming alternatives. Is not like MS leaving would change anything, Xbox is already inexistant in some markets. If Sony wants to sell consoles they still need to sell it at a competetive price, otherwise ppl would just get a PC or a Nintendo console. Same goes for games, same goes for services.
 
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Nothing changes. If Xbox had games I would gotten it. Platforms don't stop me. So if I don't want Xbox series, it means I am not interested in their games
Literally noone cares what you think after the constant bullshit you post 😂

if this is the direction they go MS need to start putting their games that need that extra support, for example I always thought now Halo as a GAAS, they are better off getting PS playerbase in and more

I also think PS will go extremely anti-consumer if Xbox exit, they have made some attempts at shitty practices (No BC, Game Prices etc)

We will see
 
PS5 and PC, same as I am currently doing. Honestly if I could remote play Game Pass on my Steam Deck I would be laughing.

You can with Xbplay or some other free but worse apps

It even partially works without an Xbox needed for some titles like Starfield. Chiaki for deck on the discover store also works great for PS and you can customize the bit rate to get better performance than Portal. Only reason for me to keep gaming on Xbox is the fact I just got my dad one for Xmas and we're having a blast with PGA Tour…if that went cross play I'd sell my Xbox.
 
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If the rumors were invented with bad intentions, I could understand some part of your post. But this is a little too far. Because some people in Neogaf, Era, twiter and Reddit got to conclusions too fast( and even you admit that we have to see what wil happen) Xbox tax is real? Huge difference between the two notions to me. How should we react to those rumors,some of them being said by posters here in Neogaf since a few months at least? Even clear Xbox fans/influencers like Colteastwood, Timdog and Klobrille got shocked and had a reaction close to ours. Klobrille in particular had a pretty good post about why it may sucks if games like Hi fi Rush do get a PS5/switch version.

It seems like many people in this, and the many other threads are doing it with bad intentions. Extrapolating on unconfirmed rumors and claiming their wet dreams are coming true as an absolute fact based on very little actual facts..

In answer to question posed in the title, I will be playing on my Xbox since it's not going anywhere.
 
It seems like many people in this, and the many other threads are doing it with bad intentions. Extrapolating on unconfirmed rumors and claiming their wet dreams are coming true as an absolute fact based on very little actual facts..

In answer to question posed in the title, I will be playing on my Xbox since it's not going anywhere.
First day on Neogaf? 😂
 
I'm waiting for the Series X refresh just to play all the Gears and the latest Forza. If those get available on PS5 then I don't see a reason to buy the SeX.
 
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I'll just play on the Xbox hardware they're going to keep releasing alongside their multiplatform push.

Why people think they need to hard abandon console hardware to make that push is beyond me. Xbox will just do both, they can happily do so.
 
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