It's easier for Sony to convince publishers of exclusivity (I think callisto has some stuff too). Now people are getting used to not buying games and now no more FF for Xbox, or wait thousands for years of persona. Gamepass and horrible studios management will make xbox a punching bag yet again. I hope I see 2024 release windows with next year's e3s (more than Just Hellblade 2) because right now the only good perceived games xbox has and will release are car sims. Idk if that's a gamepass thing or xbox's horrible management. I said I wanted to confirm if Gamepass was an anchor that wouldn't keep pushing the hardware forward and I can't tell yet because they didn't show most of the studios games. Goty winner is out of the question even for 2023. If Starfield was a $70 game, I wouldn't see the hard cap SOME bethesda/xbox fans are making, but since it's basically free, people let things slide and this just keeps going on and on with other games. Gamepass was the worst thing about the show. They do care if you don’t keep paying for gamepass. Ms don’t care if you don’t play your Xbox. More people that ‘complain’ (raise concerns) the more likely it will be that Xbox does learn from it and we, the gamers, all benefit from it. Which is why you need to think ahead and not put all your eggs in one basket. Can’t deny this year so far has had a few months pretty quiet on the gamepass front…and with no big first party AAAs coming to it this year (remember it’s main selling point they market gamepass on is day 1 first party) it probably hits gamepass harder.Īnd does again cast light on management issues within Xbox. You have to have exclusives to keep people subscribing. And I do think that those that have saved up for a console sold to them £450+ do have every right to feel disappointed or even puzzled at the fact there’s pretty much no first party support in its second year.Īnd then you have the fact that Xbox has two platforms…the other being it’s subscription model - which survives month by month. Xbox gamers aren’t going to go without games to play.īut not all are as privileged as us to own multiple consoles. Sat 18th Jun third party support has been pretty decent and looks like it will continue to be strong throughout the year.I do expect that if we reflect back on the past year at next years E3 showcase, we will be thinking that MS will have a 'difficult' job to match the previous year with ALL the 'games' coming - not just the brand new, never released before 1st Party AAA's but EVERY playable game releasing on Xbox and/or Game Pass. Point is, we only got the 'year' ahead that MS can talk about at this point in time. However, if that deal goes through before Diablo IV releases, then that could be on GP day and date but if its soon after, it will probably be the headline game of a list of games added on the day the deal closes. I don't expect external licensed game like Marvel (Spider-Man, Hulk), James Bond (Skyfall) or Hasbro (Transformers) games to come to Game Pass/BC bcause of the external license issues. That means all of the A/B owned IP's (CoD, Diablo, Prototype, Crash, Spyro etc) will be added to Game Pass like they did when they acquired Bethesda Publishing rights. Of course if/when that does complete and MS own all of Activisions Publishing rights, they can publish all their games they have a license to publish. Speculation has been quiet of late, but initially, it seemed like end of 2022/23's Financial year to about June 2023 is the speculated date range for completion. On top of that, it is 'expected' that MS's deal to acquire A/B should complete (if all things going to plan of course). Both clearly stated 'Console Exclusive for a 'minimum' of 1yr on Sony's advertising. Both Deathloop & Ghostwire: Tokyo should release to Game Pass after MS honours the deal they had with Sony prior to acquiring those studios. And this is 'just' the Year ahead that they can actually talk about at this point in time.
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