News Microsoft expected to bring Xbox games to PS5 and Switch, announces coming "updates" on Xbox business

[Admin]

Microsoft is expected to start releasing Xbox-exclusive titles on Switch and PS5, especially following datamines like new console-specific skins in Hi-Fi Rush. An official Xbox tweet and industry speculation may also point toward Xbox axing console hardware like Sega before it.

Microsoft expected to bring Xbox games to PS5 and Switch, announces coming "updates" on Xbox business : Read more

 

[ivan_vy]

I won't call it a phryric victory, Sega came back into black numbers two years after the shift to third-party software development, I think Xbox didn't get the change in demographics, older gamers love single player (Witcher, CyberPunk,BG3, Alan Wake2) experiences that Sony excel at them (TLOU, Spiderman, God of War) and young players are hooked in versatile multiplayer experiences like Fortnite, Valorant, COD, LoL. Microsoft couldn't survive with just Halo and Gears, Minecraft proved a great success being multiplat, COD is a far too big money printing machine to keep it in Xbox ecosystem only, PC game same day releases proved a nail in the xbox coffin but the final shovel of dirt was GamePass, all you can eat model is not sustainable for a subsidized console and ever growing cost of game development.
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[why_wolf]

I doubt they will end production of this generation. However I can see this being the last gen they make a console for. That rumor has been floating around since the 360 era.

At the end of the day Microsoft is a software company. They've only ever gotten involved in hardware when the 3rd parties let them down by only pushing out inferior products. That start to give their software a bad name because the hardware can barely run it.

The profit margins on software are just way, way, WAY better than on hardware.

That said Microsoft is in a shot themselves in the foot mode with "cost cutting" to boost the stock price. So they may do something that is good short term but completely stupid long term.


Regardless if the Xbox stops this is very bad for consumers. Guarantees the PS6 will be $700 because what are you going to do.

 

[ivan_vy]

I doubt they will end production of this generation. However I can see this being the last gen they make a console for. That rumor has been floating around since the 360 era.

At the end of the day Microsoft is a software company. They've only ever gotten involved in hardware when the 3rd parties let them down by only pushing out inferior products. That start to give their software a bad name because the hardware can barely run it.

The profit margins on software are just way, way, WAY better than on hardware.

That said Microsoft is in a shot themselves in the foot mode with "cost cutting" to boost the stock price. So they may do something that is good short term but completely stupid long term.


Regardless if the Xbox stops this is very bad for consumers. Guarantees the PS6 will be $700 because what are you going to do.

MS launched xbox to promote Direct X API and their fear Sony (a media company at the time) would try to eat the living room.

How Sony's Massive PlayStation 2 Threat Triggered Microsoft to Make the Xbox

It took a massive threat like Sony to convince Bill Gates and his associates at Microsoft to invest in the idea of Xbox back in early 2000. Learn more

www.essentiallysports.com

also hardware had to be developed because Nintendo refused their offer to buy them
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-wanted-to-buy-nintendo-145746874.html?guccounter=1
MS never wanted XBOX business and was hemorrhaging billions for years, their only lead was in X360 era -the Xenos X360 CPU was somehow backed up by Sony
https://games.slashdot.org/story/09...ent-of-the-cell-processor-benefited-microsoft
so MS stole (in more than one way) Sony's thunder that generation-
but was negated by an early and untested HW launch that brought the infamous Red ring of Death fiasco.

Microsoft Explains How The Red Ring Of Death Happened

As it turns out, poor thermals inside the Xbox 360 were only partially to blame.

www.gamespot.com

 

[ivan_vy]

the PS6 will be $700 because what are you going to do.

as long as PS games keep releasing on PC I'm fine with that, also new tech is expensive, *I'm looking at Nvidia GPUs price increasing with each generation.

 

[cryoburner]

Hi-Fi Rush isn't exactly a new AAA game release though. It was already a bargain-priced $30 game when it came out over a year ago. And Microsoft apparently didn't have much to do with the game's development. It was developed by the Japanese company Tango Gameworks and was already late into development prior to the Microsoft acquisition of its Parent company Zenimax. Considering the extremely low market penetration of Xbox consoles in Japan (currently only around half a million units for the Series X/S), it stands to reason that the developers of the game would have wanted it to eventually come to other platforms as well.

And Microsoft already announced two years ago that they planned to keep Call of Duty and some other titles multiplatform, at least for the near-future, and signed 10-year agreements with Nintendo and Sony to keep Call of Duty games on their platforms. So the fact that they are releasing some multiplatform titles should not be surprising in the least, and doesn't necessarily mean that anything significant has changed. People are probably reading a bit too much into this.