I'll never buy an Xbox. For reasons that don't apply to most (all games on PC anyways, where there's gyro). But the majority of gamers don't care about that and don't have PC.
If they come with The Outer Worlds 2, Hellblade 2, Elder Scrolls VI, Doom Xbox, Wolfenstein Xbox, Starfield Xbox, Halo Infinite, new Forza Horizon, new Gears, new Gears Tactics, new Ori and one or two surprises, and I were one of those normal gamers... I'd probably buy an Xbox. Not even probably. I would.
The Xbox situation is the perfect illustration of the axiom that "exclusives sell consoles." For me, there's just nothing exclusive to the Xbox that makes me want to buy it. Absolutely nothing. And because I have a fast PC it's even worse; there's going to be almost no reason for me to ever buy another piece of Xbox hardware if practically everything keeps coming to GamePass for PC.
PS5 I do want to get whenever stock becomes more widely available because I really like their exclusive stuff like Ratchet and Clank and God of War.
But I don't think MS wants to stay in the console hardware business much longer, so it's not like they're losing a fight they actually want to win or anything. I think they've found their revenue gold mine with GamePass. If they can get millions and millions of gamers reliably and directly giving them 10 bucks a month, they'll probably outpace what they'd get from traditional software sales. And then we have the augmented reality/VR stuff on the horizon, as well.
Sooo...anyone else grabbing zombies ate my neighbors +ghoul patrol? Coming out today and I'm pretty stoked for it. Having never played ghoul patrol and copies are pretty pricey from what I understand, this seems like a pretty sweet deal. $15 for these two classic games seems like a steal. I don't think there's on-line coop which would've been great to have though. Looking forward to getting home later and showing my kids what these games are.
The thing about Microsoft is that they don't care anymore about selling Xbox systems. They only need to keep increasing the number of game pass subscriptions (either on Xbox, PC or mobile and so far in the last year those numbers are growing fast
@JaxonH You are going to get Micriosoft's version of Netflix and Bethesda's version of netflix Originals and like it. And if Phil Spencer can get that on Switch, he will.
I never drive faster than I can see. Besides, it's all in the reflexes.
@GrailUK
I've never been one for subscription gaming, but my brother loves it, and it seems to be quite popular. This generation doesn't care about collecting, they just wanna play a game once and move on. As long as it's not impacting my ability to buy, I'm all for it.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@JaxonH Yeah, I find it depressing myself. And this same generation in 12 years time will be slouched in a sofa complaining about having so many games and nothing to play.
I never drive faster than I can see. Besides, it's all in the reflexes.
@JaxonH That's honestly my biggest concern with Game Pass. On a base level Game Pass is a really cool idea, not my thing but it gives people more options. Looking longer term, it feels like the service has the potential to kill off the ability to actually buy games which really bothers me much like how NSO killed off VC.
@Grumblevolcano although it may be true in the future so far the numbers say games are selling well regardless of release on game pass (even getting boosts when released on it)
@Grumblevolcano
I don't think that'll happen due to the fact they're never going to refuse someone who wants to pay $60 to own a single game. And the dual release nature on PC also works against that.
VC is re-releases for games that have been sold a dozen times before to the point people complained about rebuying them over and over each generation. That's not really applicable for new releases.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Except Nintendo clearly chose to do NSO instead of VC, @Grumblevolcano .... As Jaxon says, GamePass isn't a replacement for selling the games. As often as people play things on there instead of buying them, there's probably as many times where they try something they weren't sure about & buy it
Yeah, I don't even have an Xbox (outside of an old 360), and I subscribed to Game Pass just so I could play their exclusives on my tablet (it works with a DS4) through the cloud, which I'll admit works a LOT better than I was expecting it to.
I don't think I'd ever buy a cloud based game, but it works great in a subscription model & is a nice supplement to my Switch & PS4.
I can't believe how well the game is holding up in the charts. I mean, SMT has always been pretty niche. 400k was considered a massive success on the 3DS. But SMTV has been holding it down in the Amazon Best Sellers list since it went live. Very strong results thus far. Special editions selling out before they even put the listings up, and launch editions still near the top..
Usually games like this shoot up for a day and then drop off into obscurity until just before release (see Neo: TWEWY, a demo just dropped and it's still several hundred places down the list). But something about SMTV is drawing a lot of eyes. Maybe it's the success of Persona, maybe its the SMT fanbase from 3DS in full force combined with new fans from the Nocturne remaster, maybe its just the Switch effect, where new games do better, maybe its just the fact the game looks really impressive- especially on Switch, or maybe its all the above.
Whatever the case, I'm happy to see it. It's about time SMT breaks through.
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