So you were just making it up before then? When you said "more popular on PC", you don't actually know or have any figures to back your claims, you're just going on a feeling? Cool.
On going popularity. Day one sales does not equal lifetime sales. Or does it mean the platform where users spent most of their time. Skyrim's Modding Scene is still a fairly big scene.
Ok, so why big up MS like they're something special when clearly they're not? I don't dispute your claims, it was the way you spent a whole paragraph to slag off Sony that blew my mind.
Any evidence of this? I cannot find a shred online, I can find the firms who owned Zenimax before the purchase, I cannot find anything, anywhere that says Zenimax approached Microsoft, everything points to the contrary.
I never said MS is special. But lets not put Sony on any type of high horse. The company itself is garbage. I love their TV's, but the Firmware issues on said TV's are non stop. As a X900H owner the firmware was never perfect, and this goes for pretty much their entire lineup. I'd buy a Sony TV again, but Sony's software department is a Joke. And that goes for the Playstation division too. If you ever watched any FailOverflow presentations, you'd know even back on the PS4 the software security design is horrendous.
The Zenimax deals were talk over in many of the videoed interviews. I'm not going to waste my time to find any proof of anything I said. Take it for what it is. Youtube is free if you want to find it.
It's also public knowledge they have decades of experience with Sony as well, they released games on both platforms, how could they not?
Oh like Oblivion and Skyrim running like crap on the PS3? Lets be real, PS platforms were never their strong suit in the past. And PS4 and onward PC and Consoles are nearly the same, with consoles having weak CPU's in the PS4/XB1.
Their work with Sony has been minimal at best. Bethesda for example goes back to the DOS days, and if you've ever watched any reviews with devs on many of their large projects you'd know their involvement with Microsoft.
Consoles are no longer cheap, on top of this, as I have kept saying, they already have an existing fan base, it's not Halo that's always been exclusive to Xbox, or Mario that's always been exclusive to Nintendo. This purchase is different because of the shear size of the existing fanbase, it doesn't really happen that often.
Consoles are cheap. A Series S is $299. That is about 1/3 of a weekly take home paycheck for many avg working class individuals. The only people who think a console is expensive are the ones working entry level jobs, and for those people. Gaming should be lower on their priority list, especially if it just a single game. Used and on sale games/consoles are best here. Or old gaming rigs.
The PS2 launched @ 299 as well. Two decades ago. With inflation that'd be $489 today. And with game sales, the games are often super cheap as well.
Ah I see, you're one of those people, Don't like to own anything, love paying monthly subscriptions and to top it off, won't work without an internet connection, can and will be laggy, compressed image and just generally a worse experience? Lovely...
I love a physical Console. I also love choices. Don't want to buy an xbox but want to play a single game, pay for a few months of a service that will allow you to play it. Simple as that. And implying something will be laggy without trying it first is sad. If you were able to suffer with the PS3's frame drops, internet connection spikes are no different. User's should know to make sure their network hardware and connection is solid, good bufferbloat score is welcome.
Also owning a game is pointless if you are never going to play it again. So many one and done games are worthless to own. I have stacks and stacks of physical games, and I hate it. If trading digital games were a thing, I'd be 100% digital.
I'm over own physical Music, and 100% digital on my physical movie collection (Thanks Plex). Disc's can F**K Off.
God you can tell you're American, you say stuff like this and don't even question why they might be pushing so hard to use their services.
My personal opinion and what MS is going to do are two different topics. I'm telling you MS has no plans to put AAA games on PlayStation. Personally I'd like every game on every platform, same goes for Sony titles worth playing like Spiderman, God of War, Horizon, and Ghost of Tsushima.
But because I understand business. It makes more sense for MS to push gamepass cloud onto the PS5 for those users to play MS's games. The small fanbase that are only rocking PS5 consoles are not worth the trouble.
As far as I can tell, they've been doing the opposite, by making virtually nothing Xbox exclusive, I have no reason to buy an Xbox.
Xbox isn't just a console anymore. Xbox is an ecosystem and includes the PC. MS doesn't need you to be a Xbox Console owner, but does want you to get onto gamepass if a PC user. And why not, even if only when the time comes gamepass is a damn good deal.
Xbox's Cloud Streaming stuff won't go far because it's generally a terrible idea until the worlds internet catches up and even then, what happens to the modding community? How do you preserve games? Game launches suck already, how bad could it get? I definitely won't be putting many eggs in the streaming basket.
Most gamers have decent internet. Its not about speed, its about latency. Most first world users have Cable internet or a good ADSL connection. This is more then plenty, and this is the group companies target the most. As these are the ones spending money, or have the money to spend.
Lastly, PC, which Microsoft make considerably less money from since there's no licensing fees and they sell through Steam which takes it's own cut. As I've already tried to explain with at least some stats to back it up, Microsoft would make considerably more money from releasing Elder Scrolls for PlayStation vs the PC.
MS knows the Steam is the major player in the PC world, better to work with them than work against. MS has their own store front, and their gamepass work is getting pretty popular with the PC crowd. The Gamepass Client is MS's new storefront as well, but for some reason is still tied into the MS store. MS still has some way to go on the PC side of their Xbox ecosystem.
I get it though, I have a few American friends and they swear by Microsoft and Xbox, usually can't explain why, I guess it's that natural American Patriotism. Hell if the world hadn't gone mad, I'd have probably picked up an Xbox Series X just to play Backwards Compatible TimeSplitters Future Perfect.
The 360 outsold PS3 2:1 here, and was by far even worse than that early on. PS3 picked up a lot of late life sales, and favored by people who couldn't afford online gaming services even if it did suck. While the PS4 was hands down a better console, many still kept with the XB1. First time in a long time where playstation was a better console.
PS5 is not a better console. And now more than ever is a perfect time to move away from Sony. But leaving your media collection behind is a tough sell. Not sure why the Euro Crowd is so Sony focused, when Sony itself is a horrible company to support. More so than MS.
I don't believe in brand loyalty. I love my PS4, and Plan to get a PS5 when the PS5 has games worth playing that just don't play fine on my PS4. My PC and Xbox Series X gets the most use when I do have time, but doesn't stop my Nintendo Switch from being my favorite game console. Best fun for playing with the family and friends. Mario Party is where it is at.
