Looks like Microsoft is now entirely focusing on selling games rather than selling Xbox. I read somewhere that eventually they’ll bring the Game Pass to Play Station and Nintendo. It’s no surprise if they do so because last year they earned more money on Game Pass than selling hardware.
I wonder if Sony would allow gamepass in their ecosystem. That said, if this is true then we are likely to see Microsoft leave the console hardware market.
No fucking chance Sony’s going to let a rival set up shop on their own consoles. Not even a possibility. Look at how much Apple and Google fought with Epic over keeping them off their phones. And that’s just over a secondary app store on a device that can do a million different things that the parent companies can still find ways to monetize. You’re talking about a competitor selling a subscription to bypass PlayStation’s only source of sales. Sony will fight that with everything they’ve got and no cut of the subscription fees will ever be enough to change their minds.
Plus the Epic lawsuits set a precedent that if you provide zero support for third party stores (Apple) you’re fine, but provide second class support (Google) and you’re going to get fucked.
I agree, they have no reason to allow it, specially to their biggest rival.
If Microsoft gives them a cut maybe.
If Microsoft gives them a cut maybe.
But only for MS first party games. 3rd party games surely have to go through PS Plus if they want other terms than just buying games.
Microsoft has been betting on content delivery for a while now. They don’t care how you play their games, they just want you playing them.
They don’t care how you play their games, they just want you
playingpaying them.FTFY
They’d love to have GamePass on Switch and PS5 already, Nintendo and Sony are the roadblock because they don’t want to lose the share of cash and hours of playtime on their own platforms.
Then there comes the EU rules. I think if Sony or Nintendo try to block the Game Pass on their platforms. MS will seek the EU’s help.
Looks like Microsoft is now entirely focusing on selling games rather than selling Xbox.
If that were true, they would have discontinued Xbox already. You are falling for their lie that they aren’t trying to lock people into a closed ecosystem.
Hardware is a race to the bottom, and MS is ultimately a software company first.
Would be massively surprised if this means anything else other than CoD which they got regulators worried about a little bit. they just want to reduce the eyeballs.
Yeah, don’t think we’re seeing a PS5 release of starfield any time soon.
Definitely won’t be all of them. Probably just a small set that are not huge money makers. They already publish some titles as third party, like Minecraft, Ori, and Lucky’s Tale.
Guessing we just get ports of, like, Hi-Fi Rush and Psychonauts, and continued support of some Activision titles that are 3rd party like Diablo 4, Spyro, Crash, and a token Call of Duty game.
I’m sure this is certainly meant for ABK games.
So, at bare minimum COD will stay multiconsole. That’s not surprising.
In order of least to most surprising to go multiconsole:
- COD
- Diablo
- Elder Scrolls
- Fallout
- Starfield
- Fable
- Halo
Earlier, multiple sources had indicated that Xbox is looking to foray into third party development, with ports of several first party titles rumored to arrive on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2
So I guess they know more about the next Switch console than the rest of us.
I would love to play some Gears of War on my PlayStation, but only if you could buy the physical game and not play through a subscription service like GamePass.
I am very pessimistic about that ever happening but i would love to be wrong. I dont think they have much incentive to make all those physical copies unfortunately
It would still be money into their account even if a subscription model might be better for them. But since, I wouldn’t be subscribing to anything related to Microsoft they would gain less money from me that way…
True, very true. I just dont see them taking all the steps to roll out a ton of physical disks for old games
Aside all other legitimate concerns mine is mostly that they’ll use the MS store on PC…
