Recent content by Eolirin

If those numbers are accurate and MS can keep that kind of sales advantage going, they should pass PS5 LTD sales in the US by the end of the year. That's a big deal. Wait... do the Xbox numbers not include XSS sales? If they don't, MS is selling a *lot* more Xboxs that Sony is selling PS5s, in...

Well, yeah, but it's not like that extra budget isn't going to be used somewhere else, so the relative gap between the X and S should stay more or less the same. Might help close some of the perf gap with PS5, if Sony doesn't have the ability to do something similar though.

Microsoft doesn't play like this anymore. They'll reach an agreement.

It is true. All first party titles are day one on Game Pass, and MS's commitment for Xbox games is that they launch day one on PC as well. PC first titles don't have to reciprocate though. Gears Tactics and Flight Simulator took a bit to get ported to Xbox, Age 4 hasn't (yet) had an Xbox...

Has MS ever removed an existing title that they've acquired the rights to from a platform it was already being sold on? Is anyone actually concerned about that happening? What do the agreements look like for being on the store anyway? They're definitely very different than the ones for new...

We know that those existing agreement titles include currently unreleased titles though. Activision has a multi year deal with Sony around CoD content that includes future titles. Also MS never made a statement like this with regard to the Bethesda purchase about extending existing agreements...

"To be clear, Microsoft will continue to make Call of Duty and other popular Activision Blizzard titles available on PlayStation through the term of any existing agreement with Activision." <- This is clearly talking about not yet released titles that are being developed under existing...

"And we have committed to Sony that we will also make them available on PlayStation beyond the existing agreement and into the future so that Sony fans can continue to enjoy the games they love" MS is signaling intent to continue to provide CoD games, and some other things, beyond the existing...

Unless xCloud is decoupled from Game Pass Ultimate sometime this year, along with a bunch of service changes, that is only technically true; in reality Starfield's market will be gaming PC users, Xbox users, and a small subset of the 25-30 million game pass subscribers that have Ultimate. Almost...

"And we have committed to Sony that we will also make them available on PlayStation beyond the existing agreement and into the future so that Sony fans can continue to enjoy the games they love" Now, this is worded in such a way that new IP can be exclusive to Xbox, but it certainly addresses...

Paradox owns all of the White Wolf IP (Vampire, among other things), not Wizards. If there was going to be an acquisition on the basis of existing product it'd be for MTG Arena. But MS will already have Hearthstone so that doesn't make a ton of sense.

MS has also been diverting Series X components into Azure server blades, and they've probably finished scaling that out. So earlier on MS was further reducing their ability to supply consoles beyond the "normal" supply constraints. It would make sense for those numbers to go up once they no...

Not just MS's. Also every third party software developer's. That's kind of the point. Because hardware vendors were consolidating and because console manufacturers needed to use those parts, ports were going to become easier one way or another. Third parties were going to be all over that, and...

Apple Store and Google Play store are much larger software retail platforms, even if you just restrict them to games. They're frequently considered part of the same market by courts looking at these issues. Playstation (retail and digital) is pretty close in size to Steam too. So there's still...

Maybe they are worth more than that, but as a private company their value is whatever Gabe is willing to take. And also very difficult to calculate anyway. I don't think we really have a great sense of what their revenue actually is. They're not beholden to the same reporting requirements. And...