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@GetFitWithJared @lastchalice It's not a good economy, yes but is the solution to release your games on competing platforms and shoot yourself in the foot, really?

The "if you want to play the games, buy the hardware" line doesn't work when the hardware starts at $500, refuses to go down during the generation and then they release one big game per year. As the budgets on those games balloon they're going to need to sell more copies to pay for them, and we've seen that the current PS5 audience isn't buying single player games. The rumor is Yotei sold 3.3 million copies, that's out of a pool of 90 million potential customers. That's pretty sad overall performance if you want to keep the game limited to the PlayStation audience

Xbox exclusive games. People try to box you into a camp so that you’re on one side of the “console war”, but it’s not always that simple. I have been an Xbox fan since the beginning. My favorite consoles are the original Xbox and Xbox 360. I do not want the brand to fail. I see it two ways: 1. Bring back exclusive games to your hardware. This will bring a ton of energy to your core fan base and start the very slow process of giving people a reason to buy the box again in mass. You will lose hundreds of millions of dollars doing this, especially when so many people on your platform will not pay for your exclusive games, but instead use Game Pass. It will take many years to see the full payoff of this choice. 2. Keep sending your games to as many different competing platforms as possible. Maximize sales potential and expand your reach. This is better for your bottom line, but will continue the process of sending your hardware line into obscurity as few people (myself included) will see the point in owning an Xbox. Less opportunity to make 30% revenue rips off of publishers on your own ecosystem, but greater sales volume. The Xbox brand has already been tarnished deeply over the last couple of years, so going with option one will be a harder climb than ever. Where I’m different than most on this discussion is that I am satisfied with whichever decision they make. I just want to play the games. Bring back exclusives, commit to them long term and give people a reason to buy the hardware. I will buy the next Xbox. Or keep sending your games everywhere and I’ll buy them on PlayStation or Steam. There’s a lot to lose in either direction. It’s not the easy decision many make it out to be.

@GetFitWithJared @lastchalice Well sad or not, it seems to work for them because the market has that perception of Sony too and it sure helps moving hardware. PC gaming has been on the rise and many don't see a problem buying thousands worth of hardware to game so why is a $500 console a problem?

@GetFitWithJared @lastchalice Sony knows single player games is what they've been known for in the past 2 gens. And they're passing on the million copies sold on PC because it gives people less reason to buy their hardware. If you want to play their games, buy their hardware. Simple.

@Steveneska @lastchalice Brother FH5 sold over 5 million copies. It was the highest performer. And it was 5 years old when it got there. wolfsgamingblog.com/2026/01/15/new…

@GetFitWithJared @lastchalice Forza, Doom, The Elder Scrolls... are all system sellers. Another reason to not release them on PS. Is that hard to understand? In what world would Sony be doing the same because it's more money or whatever the spin you guys come up with? Make good games and sell your hardware

@GetFitWithJared @lastchalice If I recall the graph I saw floating around on X correctly, only FH5 sold that well. The rest barely passed the 500K mark, most were even below 300K. So again it was a terrible move that killed the console. And I believe GamePass killed sales as well.

I was specifically talking about Xbox game performance on PlayStation and 500K was some of the lower performing games, several are well above 1 million copies sold. As for removing day one access from Game Pass that's a terrible idea. We already know that GP subscribers spend more within the XBOX ecosystem and the MRR alone far exceeds the average those subscribers would likely spend on purchasing games. Why would you expect XBOX to shoot themselves in the foot like that?

@GetFitWithJared @lastchalice Now how many of them sold that many copies on PS? These are numbers they could easily reach by removing the day 1 XGP requirement and selling on XBOX and PC. There's no need to put games on PS. Sony and Nintendo don't care about this 500K copies, come on

@Steveneska @lastchalice What do you mean by "made money"? Even at 500K copies sold, a $60 game is making $21 million after Sony's cut. That more than covers the port costs between X86 platforms and gives money to keep lights on at the studios instead of shutting them down

@GetFitWithJared @lastchalice Sales data shows only a couple of XBOX games made money selling on PS so let's not pretend as if going multiplatform was that saving grace move. And handheld PCs are still a very small portion of PC gaming so even if Steam / XBOX games are available on all, it doesn't matter

@lastchalice I'm not even trying to compare sales of XBOX to Steam Deck 😂 although I wonder if they'd have done better if they sold in stores as well

@JezCorden Some Play Anywhere titles on PC like the Tomb Raider trilogy do have buggy achievements like they don't pop at all

One fun thing about the new Xbox achievements is that by default. when you get a cheevo on your Xbox they also pop up on the same connected Windows PC if it's there lol. It's surreal getting an Xbox cheevo on the desktop.

@danno_omen The idea was dumb to begin with, no matter how you spin it. Remove day 1 first party games from GamePass and sell your games on Xbox and PC. Then evolve GamePass to include online gaming for free. This will help them more in the long run

When Xbox first started talking putting some games on PlayStation I said it could make some sense to put the most recent games there (ie Forza Horizon 5, Halo, Gears ultimate) show PlayStation players these great games and then make the next games exclusive and see if those games had enough effect on that community to make them buy an Xbox. That obviously never was the plan back then but it is kinda funny that this could actually be what ends up happening. Going to be an interesting couple of years here regardless of what they decide to do.

@DANNYonPC @7ndrew You made the only interesting suggestion. A shame that your comment gets buried by ignorance in the replies.

@7ndrew Africa

Enough time has passed, where should Forza Horizon 7 take place? I'd say somewhere in Europe, like Germany

@Carlos_Solsona @Harada_TEKKEN GTFOH with that stupid ass virtue signaling. We play games.

@Harada_TEKKEN woah, I never expected you to be financed & backed by a company personally owned by a dictator. Was it really the best option? how about your reputation after so many years of public relations?. I wish you the best, but you really seemed to have more integrity.

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@tomwarren If the goal of this post is to Phil damage control by saying Xbox doesn't need exclusives, then they should cancel next gen HW and go full on publisher mode because if Helix doesn't have exclusives, it will be dead on arrival. People defending this POV aren't helping Xbox!

Starfield debuted at #4 in the PlayStation Store download charts for April in the EU, and #5 in the US / Canada blog.playstation.com/2026/05/06/pla…

@Shpeshal_Nick Clearly people buying this scam of a game only prove Nintendo's point to overcharge and milk their users. By the time their console is as powerful as a PS5 Pro, you guys will be paying $150 a game and still justify it "because it's Nintendo"

I think it's time

@Kaz_Yamauchi Best GT release

Before I knew it, the release date for Gran Turismo 3 had come and gone. Twenty-five years, huh? Anyway, development was a real struggle. 気がついたら、「Gran Turismo 3」の発売日を過ぎていました。25周年かー。とにかく開発は大変でした。

@JezCorden The fact we're debating on this still tells me that Xbox doesn't know what it is... And this will hurt them even longer than the reveal in 2013

Let's predict: will Xbox return to exclusive games?

@Reply_Addict @tomwarren This is so cringe. Get a life.

@tomwarren Non stop Ws these days 💚💚

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@AmericanTimdog They should remove first party games on a case by case basis. Some could come day 1, others could come 3 to 6 months later. Helps with sales and momentum, and keeps XGP price down. I'd argue more people rather have Live bundled in than first party games day 1

Unfortunately yeah I think that’s the cavaet but it just wasn’t financially responsible. They have to undo many mistakes and I believe they will but in a pragmatic way. I think this was the step to get Gears and others exclusive . Once they have a realistic model they just have to have good games. This gives them a chance to bet on themselves. The other way was betting against . Gamepass simply plateaued at 33 million. It was projected 70 million in 2027, and 100 million in 2030. Unrealistic

@Shpeshal_Nick Removing CoD makes sense but it should be added 6 months later instead of 1 year. 1P games should be removed on a case by case, to be added 3 months after release. Then bundle Live with XGP, unify PC and console tiers, add value with BC (OG Xbox, 360, DC, Saturn, Mega Drive...)

Removing CoD from Game Pass Ultimate isn’t a great look imo and really doesn’t address the core issue with Game Pass’ lack of growth over the last few years Once again, typical “short term gain, long term pain” move by Microsoft

@Shpeshal_Nick It's well-known that a lot of cars in Forza Motorsport and thus Forza Horizon are old models from previous games that haven't been updated in years. With the demise of Turn 10, I wonder if they will ever be updated

It doesn't matter how many comparisons I see, Gran Turismo 7 always looks better I don't know what Polyphony are doing with their lighting but it always looks more "real" than any of the Forza games