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@DestinLegarie @shapeformer I tend to agree but to play devil's advocate, if Xbox has no exclusives, won't that result in Xbox consoles failing to sell well enough for MS to justify making consoles in the future. Is a world with no Xbox hardware to compete with PlayStation really "best for players?"

@shapeformer Because it’s best for players

If Xbox games stop coming out on PlayStation y’all could always… you know… Buy an Xbox. Isn’t that what you’ve said for years about PlayStation exclusivity?

@Wario64 Didn't know People Can Fly was even big enough to actually make an acquisition...I only know them from Outriders

'People Can Fly today announced the acquisition of the Cooldown Games brand and its publishing rights and will establish a dedicated publishing vertical within People Can Fly’s operating structure' peoplecanfly.com/pcfxcdg/

@Welfare_JBP Nintendo games are made in Japan. Labor and game development costs are much lower there vs Xbox who owns many US-based studios. Nintendo makes Pokémon games on $20 million dollar budgets.

Nintendo is fully exclusive and has great profits, layoffs are rare, and release quality games while having a warchest and expanding into cross media entertainment Xbox doesn't need multiplatform to be profitable. Release hits like in the 2000's. Hard, but not impossible.

@Senninsage That person actually released a game day 1 in Game Pass themselves - Revenge of the Savage Planet. news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/08/… Don't you get tired playing victim and whataboutism every time someone criticizes Xbox?

They would say something different if Playstation started doing it. Any pushback is purely because it was created by Microsoft and Xbox. Full stop.

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@Senninsage Do you live in a pretend, make-believe world where people aren't watching steam charts on Marathon and actively want it to fail? x.com/onlytruthboss/… Some fans of Destiny want it fail, Arc Raider fans, Xbox fanboys, haters of live service games in general. Take your pick.

But when it was Halo Infinite and Starfield (both that did far, far better than Marathon btw) you guys were all about watching steam numbers then and calling Starfield, a singleplayer game, dead lol. Marathon is struggling right now. $3.6 billion spent for that performance.

@Welfare_JBP How many of those console sales were just from people that already owned a Switch 1? Forza Horizon 5 sold 5M units of PS5 in less than a year? Why didn't those people buy an Xbox for Forza? There was no indication at the time FH5 would ever come to PlayStation.

Someone show @asha_shar the Circana March 2026 report and how much Switch 2 sold because of Pokopia, an exclusive that generated insane word of mouth and excitement Might want to look into that for Xbox again in case others in Xbox tried saying exclusives don't sell hardware

@chrisf91 @getnickwright What was there to say lol? The Spurs were heavy favorites to win the series and dominated Game 1. Wemby is one of the best players in the NBA - Him getting hurt has serious ramifications for the rest of the playoffs and is worth commenting on.

@getnickwright Nick didn't say anything when the spurs won Sunday, but the second Wemby went down he chimes in. Just awful.

While the Spurs did quite well this year without Wemby, they were truly awful when they didn’t have Wemby OR Kornet, which means the Blazers have to absolutely dominate the non-Kornet minutes in the 2nd Half.

@woggerman1974 Not if you were in PC Game Pass. Though I don't pay for GP or play CoD anyway - MS Rewards has always covered my sub before Ultimate even launched.

Folks getting upset that CoD is coming out of gamepass ultimate. Peeps, you're saving $84 a year. More than the price of buying CoD outright. Its ok.

@JBishie Seems pretty clear to me - Xbox consoles don't sell well enough to justify keeping their games console exclusive. Making the games exclusive won't significantly improve console sales, so there's little to gain from exclusivity other than keeping their existing customers happy.

Historically, Xbox operated with a much smaller portfolio and still maintained exclusivity. Today the catalogue is significantly larger and more diverse, yet we’re told it is unthinkable. The logic doesn’t hold. The idea that they’re too big to do exclusivity misunderstands how scale works. Scale gives you more levers, not fewer. Timed exclusivity exists. Platform-first launches exist. Multiplayer titles can remain multiplatform. ABK can remain fully multiplatform while Bethesda titles lead on Xbox. The notion that the only options are everything exclusive or everything everywhere on day one is a false binary.

@JezCorden Prospects as what? A platform? The Xbox platform as a console isn't salvageable. Go open platform with Helix basically as a PC. A publisher? They own a ton of studios, so they'll be fine as long as they don't go back to exclusives where wouldn't sell enough to turn a profit.

Tell me, how are you feeling about Xbox's prospects under Asha Sharma so far?

@mattcole017 @Xhog0 @Alexis_Vgc Sneasler can be recruited from Champions. You don't need to own Arecus.

@Xhog0 @Alexis_Vgc by using the same logic applied to floette, sneasler IS pay to win. you have to play Legends Arceus to get sneasler, that's no different than having to play Legends ZA to get floette. pokemon fans not knowing what pay to win means is hilarious.

As expected, the first major Champions tournament of the format, with over 1,000 players, ended with a top cut completely dominated by Mega Floette. That is not okay at all. Champions is not supposed to be a pay-to-win game! #paytonwin 🥱

@lambossin @PaulTassi Why it is a gaming journalist's responsibility to do that just because they enjoy Destiny lol? Sony bought Bungie - Cry to PlayStation to invest more in Bungie & Destiny to create new content.

@PaulTassi 1 post 2 days ago. Vs non stop Destiny hate back when he could have influenced people to stay.

who's gonna tell him

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@CouchHoopehwaz @FTFonFS1 @getnickwright Carrying the Hornets to what? As they said in the clip that 9-10 Play-in game was literally the biggest game of his NBA career...

@FTFonFS1 @getnickwright The way folks talk about LaMelo is wild. Acting like he hasn’t been carrying that franchise since day one is ridiculous.

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@Gaming_Grifter Aside from Crimson Desert those are all Game Pass games so yeah if MS is paying for a GP deal the dev will make it XPA

Crazy how companies keep agreeing to make their games play anywhere on a "Dying" brand.

@DuceStamina @klobrille @Senninsage @superhys @alineaanalytics It is. PlayStation failed at publishing live service games. But PlayStation succeeded at selling consoles and making a lot of money through software sales, MTX, & subscriptions on PSN. This isn't complicated.

@Code_Loyal_Red @klobrille @Senninsage @superhys @alineaanalytics But but but..... I was told Playstation was a success due to all those console sales.

Starfield has sold 140K copies on PS5 a week after launch (@alineaanalytics estimates). While these would be decent numbers for many ports, it’s not fantastic for a port of the biggest Bethesda RPG in a decade (although launch-aligned, it's selling faster than other Xbox games that came to Xbox in the past six months, minus CoD). Still, Starfield's lukewarm PS5 sales obviously raise questions about the long-term viability of Xbox's delayed multiplatform releases (Starfield came to PS5 2.5 years after Xbox/Steam). Since Starfield’s PS5 launch and the Free Lanes update on April 7, the Steam version of Starfield also sold an additional 55K copies ($2.3M revenue) at the same $50 price point. This pushed Starfield’s total Steam revenue past the $200M milestone. Starfield had already moved 3.7M copies on Steam before the PS5 port dropped. And even the Xbox version sold over 1M despite Game Pass cannibalising sales (8M folks played it via a sub). The Venn diagram of Starfield prospects on Xbox and those subscribed to Game Pass is almost a big fat circle. That's lost revenue. All in, Starfield has cleared over $300M in revenue across all platforms. That’s hugely successful in a vacuum (ayy). But, as I hinted at the top, in the context of a Bethesda budget and a decade-long development cycle, Starfield has likely barely broken even. Xbox has been gunning for profitability lately. This is at odds with Game Pass’ stagnating subscriber numbers and the subscription model cannibalising premium sales on Xbox consoles. Honestly, part of Starfield’s lower-than-expected performance is because it did more of the same and didn’t really build on the schools of design brought in by Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring and even other spacefaring games. Players loved these games. I actually enjoyed my time with Starfield. It delivered another pretty good Bethesda game. That was enough for me, and it might have cut it 10 years ago, but many players have moved on. This is reflected in our sentiment data. Our data suggests Crimson Desert, which builds on some of the more experimental things Breath of the Wild did, is on track to overtake Starfield’s total lifetime copies sold by the end of the year. Ironically, this wouldn’t be true if Starfield had launched day-and-date on PS5 and had not been on Game Pass on Xbox and PC. While Sharma is promising a return to the renegade past of Xbox, hinting at exclusivity and stuff, that's going to be a tough sell for Microsoft, I reckon. Big deep dive with a lot more data on Substack (link's in my bio).

@DuceStamina @klobrille @Senninsage @superhys @alineaanalytics Umm...yes lol. PlayStation shit the bed this gen wasting years trying to block the ABK merger and buying failed live service studios like Firewalk, Haven, and Bungie. Xbox was just even worse...

@klobrille @Senninsage @superhys @alineaanalytics We had multiple changes of leadership at Playstation. Were they failing too?

@Septic_Sauce The reality is Xbox is last in the console market by a considerable margin and there's no real viable path to Xbox ever being a serious competitor to PlayStation and Nintendo as a console. Xbox exclusives weren't moving consoles in the past and they won't if they reverse course.

There is only one correct move for Xbox and exclusivity here.