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I think this generation of consoles has demonstrated that a PC is the better choice overall, especially with this PS5 Pro release being way too late and for a pathetically marginal upgrade over the original.

I'm not a framerate or graphics whore, but everything else you can get with a PC in addition to potentially outperforming the next generation of consoles in the pipeline indicates they're a much better investment.

There's now every reason to believe that the next Playstation and XBox releases will be nothing special.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
This article is almost two years old and Microsoft had every reason to exaggerate how long it would be before the next crop of consoles was released.
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Übertroon said:
I think it's optimistic to think there's going to be another Xbox at this point
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That was also before Microsoft decided to cuck themselves and keep COD on PlayStation after the Activision deal went thru, and now they're slowly putting all their Xbox games on the Switch and PS5 because no one is buying their console anymore. It's way too late for Xbox to do a 180 at this point, that ship sailed a decade ago with the Xbox One and how bad they fucked that up combined with the dire lack of exclusives on their console. Xbox is pretty much a glorified Gamepass subscription box at this point.
 
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Folks complain a lot about hero shooters and mobalikes, but back in the day RTSs just blew themselves into saturation at a record pace I've yet to see again. It didn't matter that your tie-in game was based on Lord of the Rings or Wuthering Heights or freaking Bonanza, the game had to be an RTS.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
And then you look at Astro Bot, brimming with “Remember when PlayStation used to be the coolest thing in the world?” references, from Parappa the Rapper to Ape Escape to Shadow of the Colossus, and it’s like… yeah, I do remember that, and I can only remember it, because that’s not the kind of company Sony is now. This is a party primarily for things that don’t exist anymore.
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I'm pretty sure they got a name for those kind of parties.
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Broseph said:
That was also before Microsoft decided to cuck themselves and keep COD on PlayStation
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It would be insanely retarded to buy CoD and NOT keep it going on Playstation.

Folks complain a lot about hero shooters and mobalikes, but back in the day RTSs just blew themselves into saturation at a record pace I've yet to see again. It didn't matter that your tie-in game was based on Lord of the Rings or Wuthering Heights or freaking Bonanza, the game had to be an RTS
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Isn't there an RTS based on Left Behind?
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
It would be insanely retarded to buy CoD and NOT keep it going on Playstation.
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Not if you're aiming for a successful traditional console business model (which I think Microsoft has effectively given up on at this point). Having popular franchises exclusively on your platform was always the bread and butter of the console market.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
Not if you're aiming for a successful traditional console business model (which I think Microsoft has effectively given up on at this point). Having popular franchises exclusively on your platform was always the bread and butter of the console market.
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No, it would still be fucking retarded because the CoD player base is primarily on Sony consoles and we're in the mid stage of the console generation soon to enter the late stage. This isn't even getting into the contracts with Sony they had to legally take over to even get the sale to pass.

Maybe it will make sense to make CoD exclusive if/when the next Xbox comes out, but to do it now would be abso fucking lutely retarded considering where the market is and how much they spent for the brand.

On top of that, the "traditional" business model doesn't even work anymore for Sony, and Xbox has clearly been banking on it not even being a thing in the next 10 to 20 years.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
No, it would still be fucking retarded because the CoD player base is primarily on Sony consoles and we're in the mid stage of the console generation soon to enter the late stage. This isn't even getting into the contracts with Sony they had to legally take over to even get the sale to pass.

Maybe it will make sense to make CoD exclusive if/when the next Xbox comes out, but to do it now would be abso fucking lutely retarded considering where the market is and how much they spent for the brand.
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Either way, your goal is to use the allure of exclusives to bring as many players as possible to your platform from your competitor's platform. What Microsoft is doing now is giving up on the Xbox brand entirely and positioning themselves as a very large platform-agnostic publisher.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
Either way, your goal is to use the allure of exclusives to bring as many players as possible to your platform from your competitor's platform.
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Not if doing so is going to cost you more money than just selling the game to everyone.
Ibanez RG 350EX said:
What Microsoft is doing now is giving up on the Xbox brand entirely and positioning themselves as a very large platform-agnostic publisher.
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Yes.

Reminds me of Sega, in a way.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
I'm sure Nintendo would sell more units if they made Mario and Zelda games multi-platform, but it would dramatically reduce the value of their own platform.
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Yeah, Nintendo has a valuable platform.

Microsoft doesn't.

Also Nintendo didn't just spend literal BILLIONS on Mario and Zelda. I also assume that the production budget of the typical Mario and Zelda game doesn't come anywhere close to the yearly CoD release.
 
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xXx: State of the Union said:
Also Nintendo didn't just spend literal BILLIONS on Mario and Zelda. I also assume that the production budget of the typical Mario and Zelda game doesn't come anywhere close to the yearly CoD release.
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^this. Nintendo has always been budget-conscious and frugal to a fault. They are here to make a lot out of a little. Their hardware is noticeably less powerful so they can generate profit from console sales alone. Eiji Aonuma once claimed Wind Waker HD cost more money than the original Wind Waker did, even though it was mainly just a couple of graphical filters and some minor gameplay tweaks. Which says to me the budget for Wind Waker must have been very, very, very tiny. And Nintendo games are priced very aggressively. There’s no such thing as a “cheap Nintendo game” and they rarely do deep discounts. And if you look, multiple Nintendo games crack the best selling games of all time. If anyone is making any meaningful profit in the games space, it is Nintendo.
 
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