“Competition Pushes Us to Innovate” Sony CEO says on Xbox’s Potential Exit from Console Business
“Competition Pushes Us to Innovate” Sony CEO says on Xbox’s Potential Exit from Console Business
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As he dances on the xbox’s grave.
Terry Henry Gif
what people have been saying for years
Click bait
When’s the last time Sony was actually innovative though? It seems like their entire output for the PS5 generation has been to stick with what works for them (single player adventure games) or chase live service trends that have mostly been a disaster.
You mean innovation like the mandatory PSN login for single player games ported to PC?
Click bait, total BS Microsoft isn’t leaving the console/gaming market and not any time soon they just see exclusives dying even Sony at some point will become a software company if Sega had done this instead of building the dreamcast one of my favorite consoles still I think they would be even bigger than Sony and Microsoft today
Didn’t they just aggressively try to stop Xbox purchasing Activision in an attempt to stop Gamepass expansion?
They’ve also been unable to create and answer for Xbox reward system, or their backwards compatibility.
The only thing I think PlayStation has been innovative with recently is their controllers.
Microsoft understood and stopped the race because they could not keep up with Sony – that’s a smart business choice.
but in gamers’ eyes of course it would be dumb – why ain’t you spending your money on a losing race for us pal? /s
Innovate, riiiiight
Thing will be way worse next-gen because of lack of competition.
Since Xbox is moving to PC/Console hybrid, there is no reason for them to subsidize consoles anymore, since users won’t be locked into their store where they are collecting 30% cut.
So, if Microsoft won’t subsidize their next-gen consoles, I doubt Sony will, because they are de-facto winner of “console wars.”
So only segment of market that will loose are players…
pricing of PS5 Pro is foreshadowing.
Consoles are slowly going away in favor of PCs anyways. The future of consoles is in handhelds which Microsoft understands and is already on top of.
The rog Xbox handheld is set to be the most powerful handheld ever created and I’m super pumped for it. think of a powerful laptop from 2018 or so with 120hz 1080p screen. Probably cost $1400. This thing is $800 and is more portable and in some cases even performs better than most laptops.
The Xbox Ally handheld isn’t necessarily an indication that Microsoft will exit the console market. It may depend on how successful the handheld is, but I don’t feel it targets the same audience that buys Xbox home consoles.
The only innovation needed for gaming was portability which was done by Nintendo and VR but nobody has made that cheap enough yet. So innovate on more affordable VR, thanks.
“Potential exit from the console business”
What? When did they even hint at this? Weren’t the rumors, only that their native Xbox handheld (not a handheld PC slapped with an Xbox name for PR reasons), which Spencer has been teasing for a while now, has been put on hold, and their next generation console, is still coming?
Wild headline. They’re not pulling a SEGA. At least, not yet.
Backwards compatibilty would be nice
innovate 😑
Sony and innovative don’t really go together. They are just slightly less ass than Microsoft
I dunno it feels more like they are banking on using xbox as a bit of a metal rod for bad practices
“You cant complain about exclusives, xbox also has them”
“you cant complain about digital only, xbox also has them”
“there is no crossplatform because xbox doesnt have it (also we demand payment on all money made in any version of the game if it has crossplatform)”
if xbox simply became pc which it already to an extent is with the windows store crossplay with platform i feel sony is gonna be under alot more scruteny in their decisions.
If releasing one new game and five remasters a year for $70 each is innovation, then OK.
If Mircosoft exits the console business do you think they could get Nintendo to buy the infrastructure?
Playstation having direct competition in their own backyard would do wonders for the state of the industry, and don’t say Nintendo couldn’t afford it, they easily could, but they’d have to have a change of perspective, maybe we could get a GameBox to go with the Switch.
Xbox isn’t going anywhere.
We will innovate by increasing our console price.