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Xbox pulls Gears video featuring a PS5 logo, 24 hours after announcing it as an exclusive
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Xbox tried to play nice and put their games on PlayStation. Sony didn't return the favor. Because of this, Sony had more draw for consumers. "On Xbox, I just get multiplat and Xbox games. On PlayStation I get all of that and PlayStation exclusives too." PlayStation hoarding their games to themselves created an imbalance in exactly the same way Nintendo works.
Sure, it may be less pro-consumer for people that don't own or buy an Xbox, but it was a problem for people that did buy Xbox. Xbox owners felt "Why did I buy this system when every other system gets the same games we get and more games that we don't get?"
It was an interesting experiement, but I absolutely believe survey results show people wanting exclusives back.
My assumption is that Microsoft made their games non-exclusive, because it gives them more sales in the short-term. If you need a good quarter to please investors, that's an easy way to do it, at the cost of your Xbox brand.
At least it would be wild, if they assumed that Sony, a profit-driven company, would just return the favor.
I don’t, mostly the surveys will always show that consumers want whatever the CEO was thinking about doing.
That aside though even taking this one at face value I have a really hard time believing that people care. Like how petty do you have to be to not want people on a PlayStation to be able to play the same game as you? It doesn’t make any sense to me just from a human perspective.
But even more they’re both just PCs with a fucking logo slapped on them, which was done specifically so that they would be easier to develop for and so companies would put their games on multiple consoles. If Xbox wants to be more exclusive then they should go back to having more exclusive hardware like using Power PC processors again.