>Microsoft asks if users would switch to Xbox on a per game basis, including pitches of exclusivity for games like Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, DOOM, Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT, Diablo, and even Minecraft itself. The survey even stresses that existing titles wouldn't be removed from other platforms, but would no longer receive new content.>There's even a nuclear option question, asking users how they'd change their habits if every single Xbox game (except Call of Duty, likely owing to acquisition requirements) went fully console exclusive.>"Imagine it was announced that all future title releases from every XBOX-developed gaming franchise except Call of Duty will be console-exclusive to XBOX," the final survey question reads. "For Minecraft only, existing titles would no longer be available for purchase on PlayStation or Nintendo consoles, and would not receive any new content updates. However, there is no impact to any of the existing titles or content you already own. Nothing changes on PC in this announcement."WHAT THE HELL IS ASHA THINKING?!
>>749706849is kojima's plan to scam a company and squeeze until he gets fired
>>749706849Well to be fair, as far as business goes, they should be forcing everyone on a console where they have full control over every game being sold and can take a 30% cut. Too bad for them AI can vibecode their games to run on PC
It sounds like something they should have done a decade ago, I also think is too late for doing that.
>>749706849that will definitely get them more sales for sure
>>749706849Probably not the smartest idea to do this during the memory shortage, people won't buy $1000 xboxes
>>749706849Probably to avoid people posting the steam playercounts of their giga-flops.
>>749707267We're 1-3 years from the next console generation. They'll have a difficult time getting people to swap this late into the current generation, but with Sony constantly fucking up, people are going to be considering if it's worth it to jump ship when the next round of consoles launch (or even consider jumping over to PC if prices stay high). Now is actually a really good idea to try and steal Sony's playerbase.
>>749706849>(except Call of Duty, likely owing to acquisition requirements)Seriously, whoever allowed COD as multiplat is the biggest retard in xbox side. Xbox brand deserves to die.
>>749706849I bought minecraft when free future updates forever was promised and somehow got jewed out of my account because I didnt 'migrate' or something.JEWS.
lol people would literally just stop gaming before buying an xbox
>>749707591Not when the price of the new console is going to be over a grand. I'm pretty sure both microsoft and sony are delaying their new consoles by several years
>>749707602Call of Duty has always been multiplatform. I remember playing World at War on the ps2.
>>749706849Cause it's going so well for SONY, right?
>>749706849>we want to immediately kill all of our top performing franchisesBold strategy, Cotton, let's see how it pays off.
>>749707754I'm referring about the condition for acquisition requirements. If I was an exec on xbox, I would have fought tooth and nail for all actiblizzslop, especially cod to be only in xbox.What would those ball and gun gamers do, switch to medal of honor in playstation?
>>749707975afaik, if they didn't keep cod multiplat, the gubmint wouldn't have approved the actiblizz buyout
>>749706849The only way this would work is if remakes/remasters were actually good and not just UE5 slop. I say remakes/remasters because we all know making good NEW games is practically lost technology at this point.
no one is buying an xbox to play any of those games
>>749707975Call of Duty was a worse knockoff of Medal of Honor to begin with.
>>749708324people would buy an xbox for tes6
>>749706849I bet console peasants will be happy. They love exclusivity. They love it when you can't play the games you want to play unless you buy all consoles and a PC.Hooray for lack of freedom.
I wouldnt buy any of those games ever again (except for Elder Scrolls on PC) and I already play Minecraft on PC
>>749707794yeah higher profits than ever
>>749706849The industry found out that being a multiplat publisher outside of your own platform is briefly profitable in the short term, but retarded in the long term.Nintendo isn't retarded and figured this out without sticking their hand in the fire, unlike Sony and Microsoft.
>>749708402except I wouldn't and I've been a massive fan of the series eagerly awaiting ES6 forever, the moment it was an exclusive I'd get it on my computer a year later
>>749706849Exclusives are cancer. If your platform can't compete on it's own merits it shouldn't exist.That said, if your game isn't on PC I'm not buying it, period.
>>749708582Are those profits in the room with you?
>>749706849The only way this could work is if Xbox got another subsidy of Microsoft money to tank the losses.Which means it won't work.
>>749706849>Xbox is considering making all of its games Xbox exclusives.They should've never consider making them multiplat to begin with. Anyone with half a brain understood why that was a mistake, they'd still be 3rd out of 3 but at least their products would have a reason to sell and they'd see actual selling numbers instead of historic lows.
This is the power of a CEO that doesn't burn the company down for short term gains to get their bonus when they jump ship. The bar may be in hell, but hey, way to go Asha!
>>749706849Ok here is my list of games I need before I buy your console:Banjo threeieConkers good fur dayHalo haloCrocScaleboundEggman the humanFable 4Skyrim
>>749708402Starfield being shit and long ass delays would have soured people's perception with Bethesda.
>>749707050It's never too late unless you go out the next day. It's only they are going to need to work a fuckton.>>749707267But if they offer something others don't they will have far more chances to, nobody will buy a $1000 xbox with only multiplats that's for sure
>>749706849good, steamies and snoys have it too good with nice guy microsoft
>>749707794>games flop>games are also shitty>multiplats don't even keep you afloat anymore>only the audience not seeing competition and predatory practicesIs it going well for Sony?>>749708427>I bet console peasants will be happy. They love exclusivity.Stop seething, you bought your pc because of the exclusivity it has compared to consoles.
lol they’re so pathetically desperate. I couldn’t care less what they do at this point. After how they treated halo and gears I’m done. I want nothing to do with Xbox whatsoever. All those franchise are dead anyway.
>>749706849>WHAT THE HELL IS ASHA THINKING?!Nothing. There is no thinking going inside her head.
>>749707602It was one of the conditions offered by Microsoft so that the FCC would approve Activision's (ABK) purchase.
>>749707975i would agree on the hopes that all the retards on ps5 who fuel activision’s pockets will be unable to do so on piss5
Isn't it enough that I have to use windows xp?
>>749707267Microsoft are a large part of the reason behind the shortage, and they probably have information we're not privy to. It's likely they're gearing up to come out swinging next gen and have written this one off entirely.>>749708427>>749708692>>749708754PC mustard race thinking themselves above console war faggotry, but constantly acting the same way. Jeering one day, crying sour grapes the next.
>>749708324>kids would not beg their parents for an xbox to play minecrap
>>749709541That shows COD is a system seller if Sony needed the government to intervene.
>Let’s make games even harder to sell and wipe out the development studios
>>749709830true, even a phone could do that and a pc is in every household at this point. No point for xbox then
>>749706849>WHAT THE HELL IS ASHA THINKING?!With the exception of the numerous ways it could end up hurting Xbox long-term as they lose a chunk of sales from every game they release, I think she's clearly playing dirty here for long-term gain. The only entities that lose from the various recomps/decomps/emulation is her competitors. There can be a world where Xbox has every game like PC does, and right now that seems to be the direction they're moving since they're made it easier to pirate and emulate PS/Nintendo games on the Xbox. There can't be a world where Sony and Nintendo have Xbox games on their platform if Xbox says no, unless they open up their platform to the level that Xbox has: allowing emulators, allowing piracy to run rampant, placating PC users, etc. If they do that, they are finished. They're not like Microsoft where they can keep rolling with the punches, they don't have the money to do that. Xbox is protected by Microsoft's cloud business. Sony is purely an entertainment company right now with SIE/PlayStation as their biggest sector, and Nintendo is a games/games hardware company, period.I think someone high up at Xbox has been paying attention to the buzz surrounding the Steam Machine: "Wow! People seem to really enjoy trolling Tendies on 4chan about how this little cube thing can run Zelda for free! Why don't we do that?!" And that's how Project Helix was probably birthed. Someone thought "let's leverage Microsoft's former success with OEMs and make a bajillion Xboxes, you can do Windows stuff on them like pirate everything, and we don't care because we absorb that market share!"
>>749706849They should be leveraging the IPs they own to get people into their ecosystem, that's the non-retard option that will make money, unlike porting all your games to PC where they only get bought by 10 people on a steam sale.
>>749706849>Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, DOOM, Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT, Diablo, and even Minecraft itself.Imagine buying a $1000 box just to play that garbage, I'm good with my bing machine and proud of it
>>749706849Moving away from exclusivity was a stupid business move all along, only reason to buy one console over another is exclusives. I hope it doesn't happen, because I don't want to buy a fucking Xbox but it makes sense. Those games will have to get way cheaper to make though.
>>749707754>World at War on the ps2.WHAt!? How'd they get it on there?
Xbox not only went away from exclusives but they aren’t even forward thinking like they were in the 360 era
>>749706849I just don't care about xbox, they had the resources to make a bunch of new ips but they've produced nothing.
I remember when ES and Fallout becoming console exclusive would bother me. I have no interest in Beth slop nowadays.
>>749706849They can win me back if they just start making good games again. Is that too much to ask for?
As long as they come to PC day one then I'm not buying an Xbox. I'll just pirate them like I do right now.
All of xbox's IP are known to be lame and gay, how would they even sell systems?
>>749711198You don't know?
>>749706849Cool, there's not a single xbox game I want to play, that goes double for playstation.
What games exactly
>>749706849They do this, prepare to meet the same fate as PlayStation and have your entirely open source via AI.LOL.
>>749711642Expecting good games when they're embracing the vibe slop machineI'm sorry anon.
>>749706849games such as...uhhhhh screaming woman?
Exclusives have always benefited corporations while hurting players. Only consolewar retards genuinely want to return to exclusives, where you had to buy 6 different consoles (plus a PC) every few years to play all the good games.
>>749706849>Jeet female>thinkinglol. lmao, even.
>>749706849>falloutgarbage since 3>elder scrollsdoesn't exist>minecrafti'm not 11
>>749706849>For Minecraft only, existing titles would no longer be available for purchase on PlayStation or Nintendo consoles, and would not receive any new content updatessounds like a very good way to piss off a ton of zoomersvery smart
>>749706849>how to bankrupt all your studios: part 1Gamepass day 1>part 2No releasing on three much larger ecosystems
>>749712454steamsnoy cope
>>749709371I built my PC because I got tired of how locked down and retarded consoles are.Why should I have to pay for multiplayer access? Why can't I mod my games? Why is backwards compatibility so halfassed?Why can't I use any third party peripheral I want?Why can't I choose my own graphics settings in games? Why do I have to pay to change my fucking username? I could go on forever
Well I guess it is time to say goodbye to minecraft I guess. Oh well.
>>749709452As long as microsoft is the one dictating company culture, the games will always be shit
>>749706849>Console exclusiveso no exclusive.
>>749707754>Call of Duty has always been multiplatform.The first game and its expansion was exclusive to PC
>>749706849>console exclusiveNot enough.It needs to be exclusive, period. As in, there is no other device in the world that runs it. If PC runs it, it's not an exclusive anymore.The fact that companies started allowing PC ports to exist at all was the death knell of consoles. Nothing should ever be allowed on PC that didn't start on PC.
>>749709828>Microsoft are a large part of the reason behind the shortage, and they probably have information we're not privy to.The fucking Xbox ceo was complaining about memory shortages and hardware costs. The next xbox is gonna be expensive as fuck (why do we need a new console generation btw, people are porting everything to Switch 2, what game couldn't be made to run on xbox sex or ps5)
>>749712951>>749713191The next xbox will be a windows machine anyway
>>749706849why only console? I thought Xbox has their own App on PC, they fully have the monetization on there, and it's not like pirating is going to eat a huge chunk anyway when gamepass could be a option and pirating is already done a lot on their games even on Steam.
>>749713264because the xbox pc app is dogshit that's even worse than egs
I feel like this would kill xbox before they could benefit from the strategy.
>>749708402>thinking TES 6 is enough reason to buy a SARbox.>SARbox where there wont be any mods and/or mods are heavily censoredHAHAHAHAAHAHA Yeah no. LMAO are you a faggot? Oh yes you are.
>>749713264Because they're cutting out that middle man with Project Helix turning Xboxes into hybrid PCs.
>>749708402>TES6 in a console>no mods/heavily censored mods>>749713482This
>>749713482so then its not actually "console" exclusive rather its platform exclusive
Xbawks is the cancer that killed console gaming, the dumbed down AAA hellscape you see today is a direct consequence of their monetization and prioritizing marketing over a well made game.Same with third party focusFuck Xbox, fuck the retards still giving them attention.
>>749706849Too late now. You let Don Mattrick and Phil Spencer destroy your brand
>>749707050That's been the story with Xbox since the Xbone era
>>749714868Companies need to make the number grow bigger, it is actually illegal to purposefully not grow the number bigger. So eventually all of them would have adopted those policies, even if microkikesoft never touched the gaming market. Welcome to capitalism.
>XBOX and Asha are as reactinary as /v/Pottery.
>>749706849Good idea desu. But that won't make me get an Xbox since I know all Xbox games are garbage
>>749706849>Jez Corden noticed that his laundered slop didn't have a thread here so he made one himselfFuck off, you fat waste of skin
>>749706849>Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, DOOM, Diablo, and even Minecraft (and Call of Duty)all of those games were developed independent of microshit and xbox except>Hideo Kojima's PHYSINTwhich was half developed at sonyall microsoft can do is acquire companies and IP with their infinitely deep pockets and crash them into the fucking groundeverything about microsoft and xbox is complete dogshit, save for the OG xbox and a small handful of 360 games.
>>749715258>So eventually all of them would have adopted those policiesYes, Sony eventually would, no doubt, but Kikerosoft and their horde of brownoids accelerated the process tenfold.
>>749715403>the OG xboxAlso shit
I'm also considering suicide but it ain't ever gonna happen.
This sounds like how GM said they were getting rid of Carplay. They insisted on it. Years later they still haven't other than on like 1 or 2 models. Microsoft was adamant they would bring games like Halo to the Playstation. They said it was the future of the company for multiplatform. Game everywhere on the "cloud". Now they say well we are going to make everything exclusive and oh yeah you only get 15 hours of cloud time with Ultimate. These companies are retards.
They can't make COD exclusive until 2033 due to the contract they signed to acquire Activision after the trial.They are required by USA Federal Law to release COD on Playstation.
>>749715527Why 15 hours per day? Are they retarded? Is this some weird South Asian morality that the whole world just got to suffer for?
>>749706849Bethesda titles shouldn't be Xbox exclusive, I don't care what they do with the other shit
