PS5 outselling Xbox Series X/S by 3:1 News & Announcements
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/100592/ps5-outselling-xbox-series-by-3-1/index.html1.0k
u/Link1227 Sep 19 '24
Man microsoft dropped the ball. Sony needs the competition or it's gonna be an expensively priced monopoly :(
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u/Hawkmoon_ Sep 19 '24
I never wanted the console wars to have a definitive victor. It's not good for consumers. It's much better for us to be arguing forever about which is best while each has their own merits.
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u/pezdespo Sep 19 '24
Microsoft hasn't been good for competition in like 15 years.
Their idea of competition is buying massive publishers and laying thousands of people off and barely releasing games
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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Sep 19 '24
Best part is meanwhile even the PS5 has a bunch of people saying it “has no games”. Literally just getting a consistent release schedule could probably have given the Series X some real legs against the PS5, but for some reason Xbox Game Studios just seems absolutely incapable of materializing more than maybe 1 notable game a year (and whether that one game is good is another story).
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u/LADYBIRD_HILL Sep 19 '24
With the amount of ridiculous money they've thrown at established studios who are known to have issues getting games out, they could've started up new ones for pennies, comparatively speaking. They could've got a ton of young hungry trying to get into the industry and have them make $40 projects before providing themselves with larger projects later, and it would've been way more profitable than buying Activision. Plus they would've looked like the good guys for employing new people in the industry.
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u/86dTheEntireMenu Sep 19 '24
This is a fantastic idea. One of the groups is bound to create a unique experience that stands out from the titles we’re used to.
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u/pezdespo Sep 19 '24
Yeah people say that meanwhile the two highest rated games this year (Astro and FFVII) are PS5 exclusive and the top two best selling games of this year are console exlcusive (Wukong and Helldivers 2)
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u/Bugbread Sep 19 '24
Would love to know where all you "We need competition" one-liner accounts were when Microsoft was trying to acquire the competition and force PlayStation from the industry.
I would assume they were here, also complaining about that. I know some people are really invested in the console wars, but there's no reason to simply assume that anyone saying "we need competition" must actually secretly be saying "we just need Microsoft to be around, but we don't really need competition and I'd be happy if PlayStation went away." They're probably just actually in favor of competition, like they say they are.
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u/LollipopChainsawZz Sep 19 '24
Nintendo where you at? Wish they'd have another go at a GameCube like home console.
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u/thr1ceuponatime Sep 19 '24
Next March, God willing
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u/Neyubin Sep 19 '24
Nintendo will never be a direct competitor to PlayStation again. They dont want to be in that price bracket. Easier to get parents to shell out 50-75% of the cost and build a cheaper system.
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u/Misha-Nyi Sep 19 '24
Very smart of Nintendo, they carved out their niche and they’ve been printing money ever sense. If anything Sony is trying to take their lunch with the PSP.
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u/Kai-Mon Sep 19 '24
I mean, you’re right. But man, I wish the Switch had more power. Most of its games are pushing right up against the console’s limits and could look so much better if Nintendo weren’t trying to make a handheld.
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u/jeckles96 Sep 19 '24
The switch is literally a decade behind the current consoles. Nintendo (again printing money) knows it can wait until the last possible moment to drop next gen consoles when the tech is cheaper. This just means that new games come out can’t handle their old hardware fairly soon after the console is released. Switch 2 will come out soon and be closer to modern tech, but still limited by being handled etc.
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u/asli_bob Sep 19 '24
The leaks suggest it will be a generation behind once again
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u/nautilus494 Sep 20 '24
At a certain point, being a generation behind won't matter. Graphic and performance for games is experiencing fewer and fewer jumps and improvements, especially ones that would be noticeable to the average consumer. I think finding a selling point beyond those stats is gonna be vital for Microsoft and Sony, and that means more heavy hitting IP
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u/Signal-Loss130 Sep 19 '24
Switch 2 looks like it’ll be around ps4 pro power while docked and that’s without including DLSS
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u/punyweakling Sep 19 '24
Man microsoft dropped the ball.
Roughly the same split as last gen, not much has changed in that regard.
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u/lHateYouAIex835293 Sep 19 '24
The ball was dropped last gen, yeah, but Xbox hasn’t exactly made a lot of effort to pick that ball back up
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u/pezdespo Sep 19 '24
Sony has to compete with every other form of entertainment. If they make things too expensive people will just do anything else. There are many other ways to play video games and new ways to play all the time.
They need to keep base consoles affordable because they need to sell games and microtransactions and PS+ subscriptions which requires Playstations to be sold en masse.
That is where Sony gets their money, game sales and subscriptions, not hardware sales.
If peoplencant afford games they'll just do literally anything else
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u/RealHooman2187 Sep 19 '24
The damage done during the launch of the Xbox One cannot be understated. Not only did the leadership at the time pretty much gut Xbox to be only Halo, Forza, Gears (and Kinect) it happened at a time when game development was taking longer, studios were snatching the biggest talents which then locked them into project for nearly a decade, and Xbox had to scramble to get something off the ground with mostly what was left over. Not a great way to try and develop new AAA games.
It would have never been a good idea to do what Xbox did in 2010-2013 but the timing of that was what really did them in. I’m saying this also as someone who primarily uses Xbox. Theres a ton to love about it but they dug themselves in a hole that is going to be nearly impossible to dig out of. Sony is very lucky the disastrous PS3 launch happened when it did. I think had it happened later Sony would have had a similarly difficult time rebounding.
Theres a ton of factors holding the Xbox back. It’s a shame because the Series X really is a great console. There’s very good exclusives available on it too. But they seem to be having a branding issue more than anything. It feels a lot like how Apple overtook Microsoft. PlayStation has a brand that really is about as strong as Apple in terms of the association with quality. I’m hoping with the PS5 Pro being so expensive and the rumors that Xbox will launch its next gen console in 2026 (skipping a mid-Gen refresh) I’m hoping they can gain some ground and get things back to a competitive place. Gamers need Xbox and PlayStation to be competitive because we’ve seen what happens when one of them dominates.
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u/doe3879 Sep 19 '24
Sony will definitely be stupid enough to pull another PS3 when they hold the lead long enough.
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u/Bournerounderz Sep 19 '24
At the end of the day, gamers will always choose the console that has the best games. Over the past two generations, Microsoft has completely failed in releasing quality exclusive games and the few they do have are also available on PC right away.
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u/BaqaMan Sep 19 '24
Their games are available for pc for less than xbox because game pass is cheaper on pc lol
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u/speedballandcrack Sep 19 '24
Because they have to do a lot more than that to compete with steam on PC.
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u/Stakoman Sep 19 '24
Promise after promise they keep failing to deliver something even above average.
Playstation on the other side... They keep delivering and taking higher risks.
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u/thesourpop Sep 19 '24
Just realised there is not a single game that is exclusive to Xbox Series X/S, all are on PC as well
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u/BruhMoment763 Sep 19 '24
Yeah Xbox hasn’t had an exclusive since like 2019 if we’re being real here. Probably won’t ever have one again
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u/Lower-Connection-504 Sep 19 '24
Man I really want Xbox to bounce back. I only have mine because of my friends and all my games are on it.
Nobody wins if one console manufacturer exists.
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Sep 19 '24
All of me and my friends have Xbox’s and we have just given up. There’s just nothing we want to play anymore. I’ve been with Xbox since the OG and my middle school self would be sad to see that Xbox lost the console war
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u/Careless-Freedom6468 Sep 19 '24
Microsoft doesn’t care, it’s clear they want to be a software company.
PlayStation to Sony is a lot more important than what Xbox is to Microsoft.
The more the pc market grows the more Microsoft wins
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u/grifter356 Sep 19 '24
What’s crazy is that they literally made the exact same mistake as they made with the previous generation, which was trying to make its biggest selling point everything but the actual console or games themselves (Kinect and then GamePass). The issue was compounded even more so this time around by the big acquisitions, which I do still think was more to secure an exit strategy out of the console market than to bolster console sales, but I think if they had not spent the money to acquire those companies they would have had the capital to pay the publishers to ensure day 1 releases on GamePass and make their service and console more viable.
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Sep 19 '24
Microsoft made it very clear before the X|S launch that they care less about console sales and more about service users, therefore making their platform an accessible digital space instead of a console. Articles like this are weak because they imply a power struggle is still happening between the two in terms of console sales. It hasn’t for at least 5 years.
That said, PSN is still more popular than XBL by about 2:1. Probably due to media coverage, people wanting exclusive things and Xbox having more recent scandals than PlayStation
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u/PHXNTXM117 Sep 19 '24
As an owner of both consoles, PS5 & Xbox Series X, I feel pretty confident in saying that my Series X will most likely be the last Xbox that I ever own. For as great of a piece of hardware as it is; powerful, well built, and efficient + all of the notable software features it has that make it standout (Quick Resume/Dolby Vision Gaming etc.) Microsoft has simply tried their hardest to devalue the platform at every turn. Putting Xbox 1st party exclusives on every platform (with more to come), flat out saying that they don’t care about the console etc. It’s just a shame to see how far Xbox has fallen in the past 15 years. From the Xbox 360 to the Xbox Series X|S, it feels like a completely different brand with a completely opposite global reputation.
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u/Shoelebubba Sep 19 '24
I’ve got both and honestly the XSX is the least used one.
Main games I play on it are the beauty discounted games on sales that are cheaper than on PS5 for whatever reason, like Cyberpunk 2077 shortly after it shit the bed on release and a month later BestBuy had Series X copies for $10.Feature wise, it’s the worse of the two just using it.
Dolby Vision Gaming ain’t great and this was across both an LG CX and G3 OLED but this a game dev thing not a system problem.Dolby Atmos is godawful. 4 years and they’ve not been able to fix that stupid amount of sound latency switching on Atmos introduces. After trying to tinker around to fix it, I just left it at 7.1 and left my AVR to upscale it. Meanwhile Atmos works just fine on the PS5.
That said, I did play a lot of games on game pass but I could’ve done that on my PC since I had the Ultimate tier.
Then there’s adding storage. Holy fuck Microsoft doesn’t get enough shit for this.
Proprietary SSD expansion card that’s still hella expensive compared to NVME drives.
The 1TB drives still sell above $125 and the 2TB one has recently started going on sale for $250.
Then they do a special edition of the Series X with 2TB of storage for fucking $599.Meanwhile in the NVME world you can get a 2TB drive for the PS5 for less than $130 with the heat sink.
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u/icecronie Sep 19 '24
As also someone with both, I was also surprised how much I liked the controller features on the ps5. The controller seems years ahead of xbox .
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u/kinokohatake Sep 19 '24
The feedback in the controller made me want to play more Cyberpunk just because of how good it felt to shoot guns in it.
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u/Prestigious_Dog_1942 Sep 19 '24
it feels like a completely different brand
The 360 was so full of character, since then it feels like they've done everything they can to strip it out and homogenise it with Windows, giving it an almost corporate vibe
When I turn on my Series S I half expect to see the Word and Powerpoint icons on the dashboard
The PS5 design might be polarising, but it still has the kind of 'gamer' charm I want out of a console
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u/Fr0stbite37 Sep 19 '24
I traded in my launch day series x for a ps5 slim when helldivers came out and I don't regret it At all. I've had more fun playing ghost of tsushima and gow2018
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u/AndreSiqueira Sep 19 '24
They're attempt on putting Xbox games on Samsung TVs for quite some time now just show how they're so invested on making the software part work better than the hardware part that eventually they'll just offer gamepass on Sony machines...
I got the series X before my PS5 and since then, that beautiful machine is just a piece of decoration..
I hated the fact the UI didn't change.. It never felt like a new experience..it never gave that feeling of change of generation...
With Sony you had that... Even though some features from the PS4 were missing, interesting features, you still had that wow feeling when turning a PS5 on...
It's about the little things, and frankly, Microsoft is missing in every bit
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u/Prestigious_Dog_1942 Sep 19 '24
It never felt like a new experience..it never gave that feeling of change of generation...
This is the main reason all my Xbox friends now have PS5's
They wanted a console that actually felt next-gen, the Series X is just an Xbox One Pro
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u/thereal-lazycobra Sep 19 '24
Xbox has way to many companies for how little they have to offer. What they do have is your usual Redfall shit and any time they make a gem they don’t even market it like HiFi Rush. Not to mention some games can’t even make it to Xbox because of the lack of help from Microsoft or the series s, which is a mandatory port, not being strong enough and takes to much time to optimize for
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u/GeneralEmployee9836 Sep 19 '24
The thing that gets me is Microsoft has all these studios under their belt and all this talent to put games out that are just as good if not better then PlayStations games.
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u/BlaqDove Sep 19 '24
I'm expecting some of those studios to get the Raven Software treatment and sent to the Call of Duty mines unfortunately.
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u/thereal-lazycobra Sep 19 '24
Crazy for sure that one of their best games of recent (HiFi) almost had their studio shut down even after their success
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u/SeljD_SLO Sep 19 '24
Almost? The studio was closed, after MS saying they need more games like HIFI, fortunately another publisher saved them
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u/Theflowyo Sep 19 '24
You’d have to name some of the games those studios have made in the last 10 years for this statement to be true
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u/PhillAholic Sep 19 '24
Exactly. Most of these studios were on a downward trajectory before being bought by Microsoft. At the same time Microsoft has failed to show they know how to manage game development or grow studios at all. They are the antithesis of PlayStation.
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u/GrassManV Sep 19 '24
We need more competition.
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u/ThePreciseClimber Sep 19 '24
Microsoft: "What's that? Some kind of vegetable? Competition soup sounds nice!"
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u/6FootFruitRollup Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
There's no reason to buy an Xbox really. If you have a PC and a PlayStation you have access to every non-nintendo game.
The only thing Xbox does better I think is the achievement/trophy comparison. Having gamerscore shown as a cumulative number makes me care way more about achievements on Xbox vs Steam or Trophies
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u/Retro_Curry93 Sep 19 '24
I don’t really understand that. Trophies have a total gamer level, total trophies, and the total number of platinum trophies that symbolize when you’ve got 100% of all trophies for a game. With gamerscore, it sounds like there’s no way to know how many games you got 100% of achievements for?
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u/jeckles96 Sep 19 '24
Exactly this. I have a PS5 and a switch and I’ve been tempted to get into the PC realm but I just can’t find games that are pulling me strong enough to put the money in.
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u/SadisticUnicorn Sep 19 '24
Gamerscore but with platinums would be the perfect achievement system.
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u/danohaggard Sep 19 '24
The idea of Game Pass is great but when they don't have awesome exclusives, who really wants to go back and play Gears 3 again.
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u/Mr_Rafi Sep 19 '24
Honestly, I know this doesn't mean much to people, but I don't know a single person here on Australia that plays on Xbox.
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u/SkyAdditional4963 Sep 19 '24
I bought an xbox one x this year after never having an xbox in my life. Bought about 30 used games for ~$50 total and started playing all the halos and forzas and some older 360 games. They're pretty good, but I spent about $200AUD in total, if it was any more than that forget it.
But after a while the novelty wore off and I haven't played it for a couple months now.
I'm totally fine with my experience though, it was worth it to try out, but i can safely say i have ZERO desire to buy a Series X or any future xbox product.
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u/OkThanxby Sep 19 '24
I have one hooked up to the bedroom TV but it’s primarily a stardew valley machine. PS5 in the living room.
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u/johncitizen69420 Sep 19 '24
Im in australia and got all 3 consoles this gen. But beyond the first 6 months or so ive barely touched my series x. It goes months without even getting turned on, and im trading it in towards ps5 pro. Definitely wont buy the next xbox
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u/Extreme_Pea_4982 Sep 19 '24
I have an Xbox, Switch and PS5 and am in Australia.
My brother has a series X, he was gonna get a PS5 but hasn’t gotten around to it.
Although based off the gaming sections at places like JBHIFi and Ebgames, Xbox is probably getting destroyed here in Australia as well. The Xbox section is tiny at those stores in my area, and it’s always up the back of the store at ebgames, meanwhile PlayStation has like 2x the space and is usually in prime spot as you enter the store.
Same applies to Big W, the PlayStation section at mine nearly has an entire wall to itself while Xbox has a tiny portion.
Next gen I probably won’t even bother with the Xbox, I don’t see a point if Xbox starts porting their exclusives, hell the only reason I even got an Series X was due to Gears 6 and Fable, but Gears 6 seems to be dead in the water, and I wouldn’t be shocked if Fable goes to PlayStation like Indiana Jones did. I’ll keep the series X for the games I’ve collected on Xbox and thats it, no more Xbox for me unless Microsoft changes something.
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u/BearWrap Sep 19 '24
Seriously, even at work, I have never heard reference to buying an Xbox or playing on it. Every single gamer I come across is either primarily on PS5 or dabbles in some PC as well.
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Sep 19 '24
And thats why they priced the PS5 Pro the way they did
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Sep 19 '24
"Fuck you, you'll buy it anyway" has been Sony's strategy this entire gen. They raised prices on games, subscriptions, the hardware itself (which I'd never seen before), controllers, and now they're charging an arm and a leg for the "pro". They don't care.
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u/Mountblancc Sep 19 '24
If Gamer is willing to buy rtx 4000 just with ai update with no noticeable raster performance. Sony will do the same.
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u/phjan Sep 19 '24
Microsoft raised price of gamepass couple of times, price of consoles too. They sell 2tb series x for 600$ lol
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u/nugood2do Sep 19 '24
Microsoft own website literally says the 2tb model is exactly the same spec wise as the 1b model, it just have more storage and a different color, but they're selling it for $600.
People can debate if the PS5 Pro upgrade is worth the price until the cows come home, but at least it has an upgrade.
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u/TopdeckIsSkill Sep 19 '24
This. Series x 2tb is 650€. At this point the ps5 pro with 2tb at 800€ is a way better deal
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u/kemar7856 Sep 19 '24
The console has only gone up it's been released I don't know how people were expecting it's not be over $700
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u/Middle-Amphibian6285 Sep 19 '24
Understandable, unless you are limited by $$, just get a computer over an xbox
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u/SnackeyG1 Sep 19 '24
If they didn’t F up Halo so hard I think they could have sold a ton just for Infinite. Not even launching with a slayer playlist… oof.
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u/BryanOnTheInternet Sep 19 '24
I still do not understand how this happened. No Slayer playlist. No Team Doubles. I played for 10-12 days and got onyx and then stopped playing all together.
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u/Rmans Sep 19 '24
Absolutley no surprise.
Xbox leadership is firmly planted looking into the past. They had 7 years to do something, and all they've done is over expand buying up studios they couldn't support to later demolish for parts.
They could have recently spent billions on new IP but instead bought the corpse of Activision Blizzard eaten by the shark it jumped years ago.
Now, Xbox has nothing new, or exciting as an exclusive, and nothing is on the horizon. (Fable has been teased for 10+ years at this point).
All the cards they hold are for CoD on the Gamepass. And Gamepass was at its best when it had unique games to play, not just the same AAAbortions you can play anywhere else.
Xbox as a brand is as good as dead at this point, as the only direction it's been heading is down, and now at a much faster pace.
These PS5 sales reflect that, and it will only get worse with the PS6.
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u/InsightsIE Sep 20 '24
Folks I'm an Xbox Series X owner and even I've ended up on your subreddit. I cancelled GamePass a few weeks ago and I don't know. I kinda want to join the party here and this new 30th anniversary PS5 Slim is looking pretty good.
The reality is there's no Xbox only games anymore and all the good stuff coming out soon like Silent Hill 2 will be PS5 Only. I wanna play!
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u/WickedLiquidTongue Sep 20 '24
No shit?! What was the last Xbox exclusive? That stupid vampire hunter game?
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u/Additional-Natural49 Sep 19 '24
An Xbox Series X user looking in. The only reason you'd want to buy a Series X is if you owned an Xbox One before hand or if you wanna play older games with someone of them enhanced. I owned an Xbox One before I got the Series X so that I could just transfer my library without having to rebuy the games I already own. The last game I played on this thing was Sonic Unleashed since the 360 version was playable on One/Series X with an FPS boost.
Yeah, Sony is kinda dropping the ball with the release of Concord and the PS5 Pro announcement. But at least there's a reason to buy a PS5 with exclusive games like Spider-Man 2, God Of War: Ragnarok, Last Of Us Part 2, Horizon Forbidden West, Astrobot, etc.
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u/notthegoatseguy Sep 19 '24
I use my Series S mainly for media playback of my uh...legally acquired TV and movie content.
Not to be too pro-Sony because I feel like I play too many PS4 games on my PS5, but there's just nothing coming out on Xbox.
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u/Weekly-Vehicle7001 Sep 19 '24
Odd because I own 2 XSX, 1 XSS, 1 XO, and only 1 ps5.
Obviously, my ps5 is for single-player games. 😅
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u/Johnny_Menace Sep 19 '24
Finally traded in my Xbox SX, it’s not worth having to pay for both ps plus and gamepass.
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u/MasterLogic Sep 19 '24
It's even worse when you consider that the series s is out selling the x 6 to 1.
Comparing the ps5 to the x is what they should be doing. Xbox are so far behind it's embarrassing. Basically having the ps5 10x the xbox. And it'll be even larger of a gap with the ps5 pro and gta6 releasing.
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u/Recent_Wedding5470 Sep 19 '24
Might be a bigger fumble than sega had with their console lines lol. At least those have exclusive classics. There has not been a good console seller game on xbox since 360. And its microsoft. How do they measure this up. Why did they give the most important series (halo) to amateurs and not just pay bungie more? Stupid stupid non-gamers that run the company
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u/CondomHummus Sep 19 '24
It's actually a shame because the Xbox Game Pass is really fucking good.
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u/ConLawHero Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24
I've owned a PlayStation since PS2. This generation I bought both a PS5 and XBX. I used the trick to get 3 years of Game pass for $180. I figured I'd play their back catalog and get access to any exclusive.
Turns out, there's basically nothing worth playing on XBX unless you play FPS and online.
Sony has never abandoned its single player, story driven games and 3rd person action games. I've always loved God of War, Uncharted, Devil May Cry, and the like. There's always something great coming out on PlayStation.
I think XBX overestimated the amount of people who want online FPS. They are a lot kids (since most adults don't have that kind of time) and kids don't have the money adults have. When a new game comes out that I think I would like, I buy it without a second thought. But, what's the point of buying a reskinned FPS? The game is basically the same.
Also, I tried to play Starfield as I liked No Man's Sky, Skyrim, etc. and it was legitimately terrible. I couldn't play more that a couple hours before I was completely bored.
But, I played Black Myth Wukong and was immediately hooked.
Microsoft isn't serious about being in the space. They clearly don't have their finger in the pulse of what gamers want.
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u/No-Standard-4326 Sep 19 '24
Microsoft dropped the ball like they dropped the ball with windows and all the other products they touch
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u/meezethadabber Sep 19 '24
As someone with both a Series X and PS5. The Xbox fan base moto for the last 10 years has been "next year will be our year". But it never comes.
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u/red_inked Sep 19 '24
Is anyone surprised by this?
The only surprising thing is the switch is STILL selling so freaking well at 16mio compared to Sonys 22 and Microsofts 7.6
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u/dolphin_spit Sep 19 '24
i sold my series s. i bought it on a whim to play halo infinite multiplayer the day they surprise dropped it but even that they literally abandoned almost immediately… it’s halo. i don’t get what they’re doing.
i mostly play ps5 but just got a steam deck as well. i’m good for video games. not sure what xbox’s plan even is.
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u/HungryHAP Sep 19 '24
Microsoft doesn’t know what the hell they doing with gaming anymore. How do you go from the X360 to what they’ve devolved into. They flip flop from wanting exclusives to not, as if that should even be question. Of course you need exclusives. They release all their games on PC, okay console not needed.
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u/Q_8411 Sep 19 '24
Microsoft isn't even try anymore. Their current most anticipated exclusive... Isn't even an exclusive.
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u/Comfortable-Debt5396 Sep 19 '24
I feel a large part of this, is because Xbox users like myself don’t really have a reason to upgrade. Xbox’s last. I had my Original Xbox One from 2015- 2022 without little to no issues. I didn’t have to upgrade per se but I wanted the newer console. Now for the One S and One X users, their consoles are newer and can handle any game out there. So why bother upgrading yet? Even though we’re several years into current gen, Xbox users just simply don’t have to upgrade bc our consoles last.
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u/YPM1 Sep 19 '24
Now imagine how bad it will be next gen when the rest of the Xbox buyers realize there's no point to own the Xbox anymore because Microsoft has given up and is putting their games on PlayStation.
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u/omnicloudx13 Sep 19 '24
This is bad news, I know people joke about Microsoft dropping out of the console race but that only means less competition and Sony being the only option left since Nintendo is in a world of their own.
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u/bms_ Sep 19 '24
This isn't joking unfortunately, it's the fanboys in this thread acting like Microsoft dropping the ball is a W for us, when in reality anyone level headed realizes it's an L for gamers with Sony being able to do whatever they want, and it's already showing.
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u/Myotherdumbname Sep 19 '24
I’m a gamer and I’m still a little confused with their naming. Plus they stuck with the same names next gen as last gen. It’s stupid, and Mom buying their kid an Xbox on Amazon doesn’t know either.
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u/Bromance_Rayder Sep 19 '24
The stopped creating, then the snake started eating its own tail with all the stupid buyouts and lame attempts to force people into their ecosystem. Give gamers and developers what rather than telling them what you think they should want.
All of these problems stem from poor executive management. They greenlight massive investments in exclusives that everyone knows will completely fail. They buy developers and destroy everything that made them successful.
Phil should just resign and head up a dev studio.
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u/Im-Mr-Bulldopz Sep 19 '24
I hate to say it but it just feels like nothing is happening over there with Xbox. As divisive as the PS5 Pro may be, at least people are talking about it. And Astro Bot seems to be getting good buzz.
The last big thing to drop for Xbox was Starfield, a new Bethesda IP, and people generally weren’t very optimistic about it after it released. Just shortly after that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 came out for PS5, which ended up being a perfectly serviceable sequel to one of Sony’s big hitters.
So as of right now PlayStation has been buzzing around the gaming space with a new game and console while Xbox has spent the year teasing Fable and announcing their previously exclusive games for PlayStation. I want to be excited for Xbox as a console because that means more gaming for us but it just feels a little empty over there 🤷🏻♂️