"I prefer the industry when you have two really strong competitors. You get better games, you get more games, and you get an industry riding a positive wave."

“I prefer the industry when you have two really strong competitors. You get better games, you get more games, and you get an industry riding a positive wave.”

  • popcar2@piefed.caEnglish
    46·
    2 days ago

    To everyone confused what his point is:

    “But those two roads do not converge. Those two roads necessarily diverge, because to be a platform and to be a very well-supported, well-accepted, well-selling platform, you need exclusive content. Nintendo needs its Mario and its Zelda, and PlayStation needs Crash Bandicoot and Astro Bot, and Kratos and Horizon, all of that. But if you’re going to be the biggest publisher in the world, which is not a bad ambition - I’m sure there’s gold on them there hills - you have to bring your stuff on every platform. Multi-platform is almost a prerequisite.”

    He’s arguing that Xbox has ambitions to buy massive studios and be the biggest publisher ever, but that doesn’t work with how they also want to start making games exclusive. This kinda fits with him saying that PlayStation should keep their games on PC

    Basically, he’s saying that if you want to make big franchises that are in the public consciousness and get made into TV shows/movies etc, then they need to reach the biggest amount of people possible so that the average person cares about that franchise. If most people can’t play the games, most people will stop caring about the franchise entirely.

    • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Little weird to see astro bot in that list, isn’t that just one game that came out like 2 years ago? I don’t anyone is buying a PlayStation for the next astro bot.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      Honestly this is what is confusing me the most about Xbox’s move here. They have spent the better part of 10 years dumping exclusives specifically to become the next Steam. Now all of a sudden they care about console sales again and it doesn’t really make sense with the direction they have been going.