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Re: Phil Spencer Remains Tight-Lipped On Whether Final Fantasy 7 Remake Will Come To Xbox

mousieone

@NEStalgia yeah a lot of people don’t realize that about third parties companies but some of them their cloud rights are tied up elsewhere think like ABK. The same true for a lot of companies. Pretty sure Capcom doesn’t have steaming either… Atlus/Sega rights are clear so they are Play Anywhere and cloud. I think that’s why MS doubled downed on Sega. Clean rights.

Yes if MS did a handheld if buy it. If it’s traditional console no. I bought an Ally because Best Buy was selling them cheap and honestly it’s been pretty easy to use.

Look I get the strategy but as I said MS is jumping the gun here (again). They need to fix the brand image before the don the ecosystem swap. But sending games to other platforms doesn’t fix the brand.

MS has a whole lack of marketing. Their Achilles heel. And until they fix that; it will haunt them.

Re: Phil Spencer Remains Tight-Lipped On Whether Final Fantasy 7 Remake Will Come To Xbox

mousieone

@NEStalgia No I don’t want to own any console ever again thanks to MS.

You’re missing what I said. There are a number of third parties games that do not want their stuff streamed. Square Enix doesn’t allow any cloud versions of Final Fantasy.

Not to mention cloud does nothing for those of us with sucktastic networks on a good day. I’ve seen mobile games now say Wi-Fi free.

And the play anywhere catalogue is small really small.

Again my issue is this strategy is far far to ahead to work. They need to make sure they have a stable brand image and they don’t.

Nothing they have is a compelling reason for a casual to invest in Xbox.

Internet and cloud streaming sucks
Third parties aren’t all up to speed
Play anywhere library is small
GP maybe be cheap but if it takes months to completely a game; it’s pointless.

Regardless of plastic boxes, why use the ecosystem? I’d rather just buy a steamdeck and be done with it alll.

That’s the point.

Re: Phil Spencer Remains Tight-Lipped On Whether Final Fantasy 7 Remake Will Come To Xbox

mousieone

@NEStalgia But see you can’t take your saves everywhere. Select Xbox games only. Most third party games are locked on the hardware your purchase them on. As for cloud, a lot of third party games can’t be played on cloud. This logic always ignores the third party, as of that isn’t a big part of the library.

Again I understand the pc like concept but an Xbox is limited compared to a pc. On PC there are multiple store front. People like to think it’s just Steam but the reality is there is choice. And even if my most of my games are on Steam, I don't have to to swap hardware to get to the Epic store.

The Xbox is still a walled garden. A more mobile walled garden but still walled.

As opposed to Pc. It’s not about the hardcore locked in spaces but those people on the fence. Casual gamers do still swap between systems. Even with the overlap most overlappers but their third party games elsewhere. The ecosystem doesn’t have true gotta have gotta be. That’s where money is right? Software/Services but again how do grow that?

People aren’t buying Xboxes. PS/Switch aren’t allowing GP.

As for GP games take a lot time to finish so the comparison of 17 vs 70 goes out the window If the one game takes you a couple months to finish it.

Literally I don’t see a reason to invest in an ecosystem that just sort of relies on users being cheap.

Re: Hi-Fi RUSH Is Making Its Way To PlayStation 5 Next Month

mousieone

@Nalverus Like I said the industry is changing. I think MS is jumping ahead far too quickly again. That seems to be their issue imo a lack of patience.

While it’s cool you have everything. Equally I find it harder and harder to justify a purchase on a device where the people in charge have to be prompted to do things like market games for it. Or even express the issue. We didn’t need a 20 minute podcast the blog post was good enough for what they did.

I went to Pax West in MSs backyard, Starfield wasn’t demoing at an MS station but Razers. How does that make sense? It’s an uphill battle that I’m nearly sick of walking up.

It’s not doom and gloom but it ain’t sunshine and rainbows either. It’s this weird sort of half state.

That said I do think you should be allowed to do whatever the hell you want without anyone saying anything. It’s a freaking hobby that we all should enjoy more of and less worry over.

Re: Phil Spencer Remains Tight-Lipped On Whether Final Fantasy 7 Remake Will Come To Xbox

mousieone

@NEStalgia I can’t see GP a compelling enough reason to own an Xbox and I can’t see the money people signing off on another piece of hardware that barely moves off shelves. PC do more than just play video games, so you can’t completely be PC like unless the next Xbox suddenly allowed me load quickbooks etc.

See why this strategy doesn’t work?

Again it’s all good and well not to be tethered to a box but how do you get someone into an ecosystem with no reason to?

Oh Gp?

Games take months to finish and people would rather have the entire library than a weak version and a lower cost.

People don’t go into books stores with 15 books even if they are dollar each

Re: Phil Spencer Remains Tight-Lipped On Whether Final Fantasy 7 Remake Will Come To Xbox

mousieone

@NEStalgia I agree the box isn’t the strategy and that’s not the issue. The issue is the underlying problem with their over reliance on GP.

The box is the best way to bring new GP subs in and PC. But you can’t do so if GP isn’t on other things. Their PC and gaming strategy starts and ends with GP. If they built the ability to move your saved anywhere; it would be PC like. But I can’t just move my Hi-Fi Rush save to PS5.

The walled garden persists but now one side only has to wait a year to get what they want meanwhile FF remains tethered to the other side.

It’s all fine and good to take a PC approach but when that approach is rather one sided it’s rather difficult.

And how do you make hardware when the install base stops at 27 million ? How do you justify that?

I can’t see the install base growing now. They clearly don’t care about the box. If Phil wants to make another console what’s to stop Brad from saying no?

Re: Hi-Fi RUSH Is Making Its Way To PlayStation 5 Next Month

mousieone

@Nalverus I think issue is that it means less people buying the console ergo a smaller playerbase on a playerbase that is already dwarfed by the other two. There is something like 20+ million XSX/S compared to 54+ PS5s. I can see more PS5s being sold, but do you really see Xbox install base growing now?

It might just be these four (although I don’t think so) but some people will try to wait out the exclusivity.

I supposed the industry is changing; I just think MS is always way way too quick to jump the gun.

Guess we shall see.

Re: Phil Spencer Remains Tight-Lipped On Whether Final Fantasy 7 Remake Will Come To Xbox

mousieone

@NEStalgia well yeah basically. I’m sure the MS execs want more money per title. And I’m sure the Xbox execs want to keep exclusives. The issue is they both aren’t going to win. My issue is in the long term what does a commitment to hardware mean.

I think this GP will solve all the issues needs to stop. Someone needs to wake up and realize that isn’t a compelling enough reason yo own an Xbox. And when the sub drops off when games lol Starfield move and the MS execs start panicking again then they’ll alter GP. When the solution is to fix the brand image and stop half a$$ing the marketing and the branding. When will MS learn the value of marketing a brand properly?

Re: Phil Spencer Remains Tight-Lipped On Whether Final Fantasy 7 Remake Will Come To Xbox

mousieone

@NEStalgia of course because MS always decided to be first on this stuff. I do think Sony GAAS will show up on Xbox of Marathon does well. I don’t know what extra money they thing Pentiment will generate on PS. Honestly I don’t know why they are doing single player games all at. GAAS stand to make more money in the long run and the community wouldn’t care. But you know that’s Microsoft.

Re: Rare Pokes Fun At Xbox Situation With Multiplatform Tease For Sea Of Thieves

mousieone

I really don’t think the tweet was meant to tease the situation. They are trying to calm people down not get them all upset again. The second post about the purple rowboat was like full three hours after the original.

Not to say the game isn’t going multi just that I don’t think they would have done a tease till after the podcast tomorrow.

Re: Xbox Indie Developer Shares His Concerns Following This Week's Rumours

mousieone

@Ralizah given another rumor popped up about them changing the name of Xbox to MS Gaming and people ran with that. Now potentially Toys for Bob has been “closed”. And they think they can wait another 4 days? They are nuts. Everyone is racing to post as much negative Xbox news as possible. They aren’t even source checking.

Re: Xbox Indie Developer Shares His Concerns Following This Week's Rumours

mousieone

@Trmn8r sighs Capcom hack is the leak

https://gamerant.com/phoenix-wright-dragons-dogma-onimusha-capcom-sales-leak/

It didn’t come to Gamepass until last year and it launched in 2019.

As for sales of an “ collections of already made games never sell as well as new” you read the hack you’ll find Switch sold 462,000 vs Xbox’s 4,800 so no it’s a perfect example of the issues and even PS4 was over 100k. Xbox couldn’t manage double digits.

Kind of makes you realize what the dev is talking about now.

Re: Xbox Indie Developer Shares His Concerns Following This Week's Rumours

mousieone

Moving an high profile game off the platform means the community will think all games are on the table. They may have been able to get away with it for the games like Sea and other GAAS, but the high profile single player games are a big fat no. People will second guess all games and just wait.

And the value proposition? Please sales are a thing and people would rather have all the games on one system.

People need to wake up.

Re: Starfield, Indiana Jones And Many Other 'Xbox Exclusives' Could Be Heading To PS5

mousieone

Third parties are going to skip Xbox even more now. The hardware. There is already indie devs posting about this. MS spends money to get ports of some games but now? The box is dead, slow death but dead.

As for the brand, that will be fine. People will love new Xbox releases coming to their platforms. The brand with thrive as a third party.

Again if you think the box lives after this you are wrong.

Re: Xbox Exclusive 'As Dusk Falls' Jumps Over To PS5, And There Might Be More In The Works

mousieone

@K1LLEGAL I gotcha ya. I just find it odd people think this is new because there is a precedence for stuff Xbox publishes to go elsewhere. Even stuff they own kinda of aka Ori. I feel like people make the jump to all Xbox properties because of those titles.

I don’t know what the deal is with those titles but I suspect that many left room for their games to be published elsewhere when they sign contracts.