There was also that leak that included the Indiana Jones info and the new Kojima game with Sony that also included MS games going third party if I'm not mistaken.
It's pretty obvious where this is going.
Console wars are over. Microsoft ramping up 3rd party development. |UP| Chris Dring: Xbox flatlining in EU, Xbox games coming to PS & less focus on GP
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It's pretty obvious where this is going.
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Yeah, Jan+Feb data from Europe for Xbox is really pitiful.
It'll be something to keep an eye through the entirety of 2024 in the sense of: How low can it go?
It'll be something to keep an eye through the entirety of 2024 in the sense of: How low can it go?
Microsoft's time as a platform holder with gaming hardware using the traditional console business model are over.
However, I think they'll salvage what they've learned with Xbox in new gaming hardware centered on consolized PC gaming. Which ironically would probably make them more competitive with Sony & Nintendo again because the PC gaming market has been doing pretty well these days thanks to Valve & Steam (and to a lesser extent, EGS, GOG etc.).
Though, that means any future gaming hardware from MS would be running on Windows, maybe with some type of Game Pass bundled into various SKUs at a higher cost. They'll probably try making the integrated hardware & software experience as close to a console as possible while still providing the open-platform usefulness of Windows (including a desktop environment as an option), but these things are otherwise going to be specialized PC gaming devices built around a common scalable spec with degrees of modularity depending on the form factor of the specific product.
It's the only way gaming hardware makes sense for them in the future. But it also means no more console exclusives and being a full-on 3P publisher for PC, Sony, Nintendo and mobile. Which, well, they're already moving towards doing.
My gut's saying WB Games.
We've seen those Hogwarts Legacy sales splits in Europe, they are terrible for Xbox. Even with digital, I doubt the Xbox contributed much more in sales for that game.
However, I think they'll salvage what they've learned with Xbox in new gaming hardware centered on consolized PC gaming. Which ironically would probably make them more competitive with Sony & Nintendo again because the PC gaming market has been doing pretty well these days thanks to Valve & Steam (and to a lesser extent, EGS, GOG etc.).
Though, that means any future gaming hardware from MS would be running on Windows, maybe with some type of Game Pass bundled into various SKUs at a higher cost. They'll probably try making the integrated hardware & software experience as close to a console as possible while still providing the open-platform usefulness of Windows (including a desktop environment as an option), but these things are otherwise going to be specialized PC gaming devices built around a common scalable spec with degrees of modularity depending on the form factor of the specific product.
It's the only way gaming hardware makes sense for them in the future. But it also means no more console exclusives and being a full-on 3P publisher for PC, Sony, Nintendo and mobile. Which, well, they're already moving towards doing.
My gut's saying WB Games.
We've seen those Hogwarts Legacy sales splits in Europe, they are terrible for Xbox. Even with digital, I doubt the Xbox contributed much more in sales for that game.
Besides the very poor sale trajectory for the console, the other big thing to note here from Chris talking to some publishers and developers is that they don't have a clear idea of what Microsoft's current strategy is.
This is really important because when you're a publisher and are trying to do forecasts and estimations, you look at previous data, but this is less and less useful as you're navigating a new shift in strategy.
Impossible to know, really, it could be from a publisher which already had a very minimal Xbox footprint seeing it shrink further over the years and asking themselves: Why bother at this point?
But it could also be from a publisher which sold pretty decently on Xbox(total numbers) but want big numbers for anything they release(aka many of the giant Western 3rd party AAA publishers).
This is really important because when you're a publisher and are trying to do forecasts and estimations, you look at previous data, but this is less and less useful as you're navigating a new shift in strategy.
Impossible to know, really, it could be from a publisher which already had a very minimal Xbox footprint seeing it shrink further over the years and asking themselves: Why bother at this point?
But it could also be from a publisher which sold pretty decently on Xbox(total numbers) but want big numbers for anything they release(aka many of the giant Western 3rd party AAA publishers).
Timdogs been on every podcast the last two weeks. I don't know how he can be so many places at once.
I have no love for tech corpo giants but Microsoft is one company I truly despise. So them failing at anything is music to my ears
