Xbox - no more exclusive games?

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I'm not sure who cares or not, and this article was titled to get people to click on it (I did) and now I'm sharing... Thoughts?


"Xbox as we knew it may be over, and fans aren't happy
Being an Xbox user sure feels like a rip off at this point"

 
The switch 2 and the rumored Play Station Portable 2 might be the last traditional consoles gamers ever see again.

Game streaming is getting so good now, it seems almost pointless to build consoles anymore.

Ask any major company these days and they will all tell you that "hardware is the biggest pain in their ass" It's expensive to engineer, build, ship and maintain.

The second Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo can sell you games as a streaming service and eliminate the hardware, they will.

Game streaming has actually been possible for over a decade but the only reason they didn't push it harder was because not everyone had broadband and old-school gamers still clutch to their physical copies of games.

So all they had to was wait a cycle or 2 for internet infrastructure to catch up and gamers to not care so much about physical copies of games. Boom done. Game over. Welcome to the new world of exclusive game streaming.
 
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I don't believe it's the future that Xbox may think is good or better, I see it as a surrender from the space and perhaps cutting losses.

Xbox is Microsoft after all and most will just put that money into a better PC, controllers are plug & play and think Steam will dominate even more.

If Playstation & Nintendo continue to make a consoles and have exclusive releases, physical copies, believe they will dominate. No way Nintendo goes gives up that business.

No physical consoles at all? then maybe all PC gaming, I'm good with that (1993 Doom era was great) and maybe an opportunity for someone to rise.

Hope it's SEGA :)
 
It has been well-known that companies sell new generation gaming consoles at a loss, meaning they lose money on the initial hardware sale, with the intention of recouping those losses through game sales, subscriptions, and accessories purchases later on. It can actually take a couple of years for console hardware to be sold at a "break even cost". In fact, that's one of the main drivers of the "slim" version of consoles. About 1/2 way through a console's life-cycle the manufacturer finally figures out how to build the same console cheaper but charge the same price.

Console makers are willing to take this gamble on selling the hardware at the loss because they are banking on the fact that you will buy a ton of software later. But this really only works when you give gamers a compelling reason to buy the software on YOUR hardware.

However, in Microsoft's case, they had an absolute hell of a time securing any exclusives after the 360. And even their in-house studios didn't make much that gamers wanted. Thus, hardware sales plummeted. And nobody should ever forget that software sells hardware. Never the other way around.

So I'm actually surprised that Microsoft held on this long. They have been getting their teeth kicked in since the 360. Someone just finally stepped in and said "enough is enough". You can keep publishing games but stop making hardware.
 
Xbox hasn't had exclusives this entire generation so I don't see how this is new news. You can buy every game on Xbox on a PC for the most part, or on another console.

I could be completely wrong about this but I don't think they have had any Xbox console exclusives since the Series X/S came out.
 
Oh well. It was a good run.
Truth be told, I really can't relate to games of the last 2 generations anyway.
Aside from the new Gears of War, not much else I have any desire to play anyway.
 
Oh well. It was a good run.
Truth be told, I really can't relate to games of the last 2 generations anyway.
I mostly agree with this. I'm a huge fan of the Switch but there is NOTHING on Playstation or Xbox that even remotely interests me since the first year of the Xbox One, and even that was only because of franchises I loved on the 360. But even those franchises that I found myself wanting to continue were a letdown. Hell, even some Nintendo franchises faltered big on the Switch and I likely won't be going back to them.

If streaming games is the future, then I'll just stick with what I have.

All that, and I'm only 24. These companies better hope I'm not in the majority of my generation because they won't be making a dime off of me
 
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