Until Xbox can get AAA studios and exciting indies to organically support 'Xbox Play Anywhere,' Microsoft's current gaming strategy will not pay off

[Windows Central]

Without exclusive games, Xbox needs to bank on exclusive features. So far, those features aren't the best.

Until Xbox can get AAA studios and exciting indies to organically support 'Xbox Play Anywhere,' Microsoft's current gaming strategy will not pay off : Read more

 

[JamesDax3]

Such nonsense. Their current gaming strategy seems to be doing just fine. Journalism truly is dead in the gaming community.

 

[Gabe Szabo]

One point I think many seem to miss is that Play Anywhere, or rather, cross-buy, is the enemy of the huge publisher. It essentially takes money out of the pocket of the publisher, because users don't "double (triple etc.) dip". Is GTA 6 going to support Play Anywhere? Obviously not. It would make them losses in the millions, maybe even billions.

Play Anywhere is very consumer-friendly. Read: it makes consumers spend less. Publishers hate it. That's why Microsoft has to money-hat games supporting it.

Currently, it only makes sense for the scenarios where publishers think the consumer would probably not want to buy another version on PC, or that giving away a Microsoft Store Windows version of the game doesn't prevent them from buying the game on other PC storefronts.

 

[fatpunkslim]

Such nonsense. Their current gaming strategy seems to be doing just fine. Journalism truly is dead in the gaming community.

Exactly!

The first nonsense is saying "Without exclusive games." I don’t know where he got the idea that Xbox has no exclusives when I can count dozens, and several exclusive games are about to be released, like Avowed or South of Midnight, just to name a few. Even if they port some old games to other platforms, their production of new games, their case-by-case strategy, and their timed exclusivity approach ensure they will always have an edge. Xbox players will always have a solid lineup of exclusive games, and when it comes to timed exclusives, they will always have the advantage of playing them first.

If he's talking about the future, what timeline is he referring to? Two generations from now? Why speak about it as if it’s happening now? I bet that in two years, he will still be saying the same thing while Xbox continues to make exclusive games. I’m willing to bet him one Bitcoin if he wants.

Second nonsense:​

When he talks about the "This is an Xbox" campaign, he speculates (once again, his favorite sport) that the end of this campaign is a sign of a lack of conviction. By definition, an advertising campaign has a start and an end. Almost everyone has heard about it, it has been widely covered, so the campaign achieved its goal. Why continue if the message has already been heard?

Third nonsense:​

When he says "Xbox taking the focus off hardware more than ever," while Xbox was the first to announce the next generation of consoles with a significant technological leap. And I’m not even talking about the ridiculous speculations about the end of Xbox and other nonsense.

And I’ll stop here because reading him is exhausting—it’s always the same with him. He’s probably the biggest reason for the doom and gloom around Xbox, even though Xbox is doing just fine. But because of people like him, Xbox consoles don’t sell better.

He has serious psychological issues—he’s always in panic mode, turns speculations into present facts, confuses past, present, and future, and makes wild mental associations that ultimately make no sense.