Games journalists sure do love making these imaginary hit pieces against Microsoft, contrary to their stating otherwise
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Dring continued: “And with Xbox putting some of the games on PS5—from what I understand the majority of them will be coming across at some point, assuming it progresses as Xbox believes it probably will—I think Xbox is in real trouble as a hardware manufacturer, and that was the thing that came out of GDC for me.”
This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what Microsoft said. No, not all or majority of their games will be leaving Xbox. Only some of them, six of their older titles. The point is to be a loss leader to attract people into the Xbox ecosystem, and allowing people to play games made by Xbox on other consoles is a really good way to do that.
The point is to be a loss leader to attract people into the Xbox ecosystem, and allowing people to play games made by Xbox on other consoles is a really good way to do that.
This is almost the opposite of a loss leader. A loss leader is selling something valuable for cheap but exclusive to lure people into your ecosystem, not making something cheap and almost worthless from your ecosystem non-exclusive.
It really feels like Microsoft completely fumbled the bag this console generation. On paper, they should have had it - personally, I went out and got a PC as this generation was starting because I saw all the studios Microsoft had snatched up, and figured I’d need one to play the games that would inevitably be coming out (I can’t physically use an Xbox controller, so an Xbox isn’t an option for me), and…it’s been tumbleweeds almost. They don’t seem to know how to manage studios to make first party games.
