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Guide posted...

Peeps keep saying this but I don't think I've spent more than $5 per title on Steam in years.

Getting games for $5 isn't unusual on any platform nowadays.

viewmaster_pi posted...

i mean... it's a car game. cool. and like the 20th forza game. it's obviously not keeping xbox afloat on its own, and putting it on playstation isn't going to magically turn everything around. people are over the microsoft exclusives for a reason, and they're going to be in for a rude awakening if they really think tired old washed up gears of war 5 or whatever is going to blow up on playstation

Eh I think they'll do well in the sense that when a game isn't supposed to be some first party banger people can just accept it for what it is. People will check it out for the novelty of it at the very least.

A lot of these games aren't bad. They're just on a platform that hasn't been able to gain any momentum in a decade. I'm sure plenty of Playstation players are lapsed 360 gamers who'd revisit Halo and Gears if given the opportunity.

I don't think they need to turn anything around with this either. They have the money already. They're just tipping the scales to the Call of Duty and Minecraft side and shifting away from the money they make as a platform holder and subscriptions.

Calwings posted...

I personally disagree. I think there's still enough value and marketability in the "we'll release our games for all the systems but you can get our games much cheaper on Xbox by subscribing to Game Pass" plan that an Xbox console can still exist and do well. Not everyone will be swayed by Sony's exclusives into buying a Playstation at the cost of also paying full price for those mutliplatform games that they could otherwise play much cheaper via Game Pass.

The value of Game Pass will have to be the main selling point going forward, and I think it's a good enough selling point for an Xbox console to survive.

This shift is happening precisely because Game Pass subscriptions have plateau'd and Xbox Series console sales are on a downward trajectory. That's going to get even worse if it has less games than Playstation in every way while PlayStation has almost everything. It'll snowball.