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Re: Xbox Boss: Our Approach Isn't About Selling More Consoles Than PS5

Nikolaidas

@playstation_king Wouldn't surprise me to see Sony going down an 'all digital' future too. Sales speak for themselves.

https://www.ccn.com/playstation-4-digital-game-sales-overtake-physical-thats-a-first/

And every year the scale tips even more to digital's favor.

I was a only physical gamer myself. I went digital and never looked back. So convenient in so many ways. I get the 'ownership fear' people have, but I don't mind it, personally.

Re: Xbox Boss: Our Approach Isn't About Selling More Consoles Than PS5

Nikolaidas

@playstation_king Sure it does. And their muddled 'change their tune every 24 hours' messaging doesn't help either.

But the thing is that through Game Pass, MS doesn't really NEED to sell X-boxes. What they want is to make you invest on their eco system and basically become 'the Netflix of gaming'.

What we should be asking ourselves is, 'What does Netflix of Gaming mean to the quality of MS 1st party games'?

Re: Xbox Boss: Our Approach Isn't About Selling More Consoles Than PS5

Nikolaidas

@playstation_king That's what worries me. Greenberg already said that Gamepass (right NOW) is not really profitable.

https://mspoweruser.com/xbox-game-pass-not-a-big-profit-aaron-greenberg/

So how do they make it profitable?

A) Increase the amount of subscribers
B) Decrease the number of games included in the service
C) Decrease the budget (and quality) of their 1st party games

If A) end up not happening, what happens then?

Re: Xbox Boss: Our Approach Isn't About Selling More Consoles Than PS5

Nikolaidas

@BlueOcean "The X1X won't hold Series X back."

Spencer's words, not mine.

I judged the quality of a company's 1st party titles by looking at gameplay for it's FLAGSHIP title from a build four months before the apparent release of the game.

When Sony and MS fans both criticized the Halo Infinite gameplay, MS appeared all cool and 'ha-ha Craig is our Mascot LOL, we're in the joke!', then poof! Game delayed. What, did they really think people would be satisfied with next-gen's most powerful console showing its flagship title looking like THAT? Were they serious?

And you watched the wrong video.

This is what I'm talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlQ8Xlyd480

And here's GT7 gameplay (at the latter half of the video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-O74SmTSQ

Re: Xbox Boss: Our Approach Isn't About Selling More Consoles Than PS5

Nikolaidas

@BlueOcean The lighting? Dear God, you actually fell for Digital Foundry's crap? You really think that Craig coming off as a hairless ape is a problem of a lack of Ray Tracing? There were pictures which compared Halo Reach to Infinite and Reach looked BETTER!

I was first in the row to applaud MS for delaying Infinite, because that game is a rushed mess and it shows. The mere fact that they were planning on releasing it and putting Ray Tracing in a patch shows how much barebones the game was.

But sure, as the guy above me said, MS are apparently geniuses who know best.

I don't get bothered with Sony buying off timed exclusive 3rd party deals as I wasn't annoyed when MS did it first with Tomb Raider 2 and the like. It's all in the game, and I get it. But neglecting the potential harm Gamepass may bring to the quality of MS 1st party games and deflecting with stupidity like 'Miles Morales being a DLC for $60' is not what an MS consumer should be doing.

Re: Xbox Boss: Our Approach Isn't About Selling More Consoles Than PS5

Nikolaidas

@KelticDevil The experts at Microsoft gave their billions to 343i and we got the Craig meme as a result. The console is supposedly released in three months and we haven't seen a SINGLE game running on the ACTUAL console, except for Minecraft and two last gen games.

As for the jealousy part, I'm not even going to bother since I have a powerful PC which can easily play any Series X game that comes out. Series X is obsolete - for me. Sure would like to play Infinite and not feel like I'm playing something on an emulator, though.

If your head too far up inside Spencer's ass and can't bother to get worried at what is going on, that's your right.

Re: Xbox Boss: Our Approach Isn't About Selling More Consoles Than PS5

Nikolaidas

@KelticDevil My reasons are simple. I don't see this business model being sustainable, unless more and more games included within it become more and more AA oriented. I know that as a consumer Gamepass appears as a sweet gig (and it is in the short term), but it remains to be seen what consequences will it have to the quality of the titles.

We already got one game intended for Series X game shown and it looked like an X360 game on 4K. That is not encouraging - what happened to the 'X1 won't hold XSX back' narrative?

Re: Xbox Boss: Our Approach Isn't About Selling More Consoles Than PS5

Nikolaidas

Translation: "Since we realized we'll never beat Sony at this game, we decided to make a buck via subscriptions. Now we can conveniently claim that console wars are beneath us."

Whether that model will pay out in the end or not remains to be seen. All in all, Game Pass is an excellent way to test a couple of games before buying them (unless you're one of those gamers who beat open world games within a week).

Oh and Phil, since it's not about selling more consoles, why haven't you already announced the price for the Series X? It's almost like you're wary of another console you're supposedly not competing with.

Re: Halo Infinite Dev: Negative Feedback Isn't Falling On Deaf Ears

Nikolaidas

Looks like that months-old build wasn't THAT old, considering the fact 343i could've just said "Don't worry, this looks nothing like the final product".

This is more or less what they were planning to release.

My heart sincerely goes out to the poor people who will crunch like crazy because apparently management is up its own ass and the game (and the contractors) will suffer for it.

Re: Poll: How Would You Grade July's Xbox Games Showcase?

Nikolaidas

@Trmn8r Horizon Zero Dawn is an open world game and looks ten times better than Halo Infinite. Being open world is not an excuse. MS promised that last gen wouldn't hold back the xsx version of those games, which was proven to be a bold-faced lie yesterday.

Or it is simply a complete, utter lack of talent on 343's part. Or development hell. I mean, anyone who thinks that Infinite looks better than say, guardians is delusional at this point.

The fact remains that there wasn't a single moment in infinite that made me want to throw away my x1x and get a xsx. Not one.

Re: Poll: How Would You Grade July's Xbox Games Showcase?

Nikolaidas

Underwhelming. Halo infinite looked like an Xbox S game on 4K. Didn't even seem to have better grass, trees, explosions or something which would make it scream 12 Teraflops.

What a waste. This whole 'our first party games will be also playable on the last-gen consoles' proved to be a disastrous mistake, in my opinion.

Re: Xbox Series X And PS5 Power Difference 'Quite Staggering', Hints Ex-Sony Designer

Nikolaidas

I think - at this point - Sony and MS should shut up and let their games do the talking.

Sony hasn't shown any gameplay footage at all for PS5 games (other than a couple of GIFs from the devs of Godfall and a few seconds frame-rate-YouTube-Butchered snippets of gameplay action), while MS has shown last gen games looking better on Series X (shocker) and an in-engine trailer for Hellblade - again lacking gameplay.

We get it, both of you you made revolutionary consoles. Stop talking, start showing.

Re: Microsoft Shows Off Seriously Fast Load Times On Xbox Series X

Nikolaidas

I was afraid of that. Unless optimized for X Series X or PS5, last-gen games won't load at 1-2 seconds, preventing us from enjoying an 'arcade-like' loading experience (that is, no load screens).

Still, 8 seconds from 50 seconds is a huge improvement. Witcher 3 won't make you slam your head every time you die and reload now.

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