It doesn't matter what anyone else is doing. It literally makes no difference what Sony does or would do if they were the ones to buy exclusivity. If Microsoft said they wanted to bring games to more players but then went on to buy publishers who were making games for Xbox, PC, Playstation and Nintendo, only to restrict those publishers to make games only for Xbox and PC, then they are limiting the amount of players. It's hypocritical.
He literally told them he is open to put gamepass package on their system. How is that restricting them?
Its up to the system owners, to let that happen. Phil has no control, if they refused his offer.
If you are angry about that, request Sony or Nintendo to out gamepass on their system.
You're argument that they are adding more players through cloud streaming requires a huge asterisk and ignores the players that they are losing in the meantime.
Are you saying paying for $300 to $500 is much cheaper than $15 a month option?
You can literally play those games on ant browser, Mac or windows. There is no limit to that. Only brand loyalty stops that.
Again, it doesn't matter what other companies are doing in the industry. It has no bearing on whether or not Microsoft is being hypocritical
It is. MS isnt going to sit down, and let those companies block access to 3rd party games.
You argument is that, it's OK for these companies to stop MS accessing those games. But you draw the line, if MS does it. Talk about hypocrisy.
FYI, I'm not actually arguing that Microsoft is in all actuality a hypocrite. I haven't been following their PR and don't know what phrasing was used. My issue is you saying someone isn't a hypocrite because of what other people are doing.
If someone says it's bad to smoke in public, but then they seeing other people doing it so they decide to smoke in public too, then they are still a hypocrite.
The industry set that tone. Sony purchased the 1st big publisher gaming in the history. MS is doing the same thing. Different is, MS let's you access those games, in devices which has gamepass.
Phil has been very clear with his intentions. Opening his platforms to windows pc showed that. He is doing day1 pc, which he shouldn't have done it in the 1st place. But he is doing it, because he wants more gamers to play xbox games. He designed gamepass, which allows people to play xbox games for cheap, instead of paying $60. He made cloud system, which eases the requirements of hardware to play those games.
Yet, people here accuse him of hypocrisy.