OPINION : You think the Xbox Series S / X have had a rough time against the PS5 ? Just wait until people think they can get next - gen Xbox games on the next PlayStation console !
Do you retrieve it matters Microsoft is alreadypromising the big technological leap ever for a console generation , when the successor to the Xbox Series X stray around ? I sure as hell do n’t .
If the console gaming world believes that by buy a PS6 they ’ll be able to have the best of both worlds , even Xbox die - hards would struggle to resist a Sony car .
In my view , the bounteous takeout fromthis week ’s promulgation that some Xbox and personal computer game will lose their exclusivityis that the future looks grim for Xbox hardware as we know it .
Or , even grimmer than it already is .
The sales crack is currently thought to be 2:1 in PlayStation ’s favour and Microsoft ’s announcement this calendar week practically assures there ’s small fortune of closing that gap next time around – especially when it has already prognosticate that Call of Duty will be usable everywhere to get its big Activision Blizzard deal over the lineage .
Even though Microsoft is n’t naming the games it ’ll be propose up to PS5 and Nintendo Switch gamers yet , it does n’t really matter . All people will hear from yesterday is “ Xbox exclusives are coming to PS5 . ” It ’ll be grueling for Microsoft to convince gamers otherwise now the sealing wax has been broken .
The Xbox squad aimed to alleviate concerns that Starfield and Indiana Jones wo n’t be among the games crossing the console divide , but how long will it be before the resolve to keep anything exclusive ebbs away ?
Despite Phil Spencer make no promises beyond those initial four secret plan , the smart money is on a lot more titles losing their platform exclusivity as prison term goes on .
The initial titles are design to maximise taxation on games that have reached their potentiality on Xbox and PC , but there will be more of these , and the figure of the games will get bigger .
This initial move strikes me as but dip a toe in the water before the liberal cold plunge that end the cabinet warfare for good . And Microsoft has been gear up for life story without console tribalism for this full generation .
It has already made Game Pass uncommitted in as many places as presently potential and/or allow . And Spencer has already talked up a future where ‘ every silver screen is an Xbox ’ so who is going to spend £ 500 on a contraband box when it is n’t necessary ?
By the fourth dimension the next coevals roll around , Xbox Cloud Gaming is likely to be in the 4K/120fps land and there ’ll truly be even less demand for the consecrated Xbox ironware .
Microsoft ’s biggest successes have been as a software company offer the best experiences on third - party hardware , enjoying fruitful partnership with manufacturing business . Even the microcomputer gambling industry is predicated on running Windows , and you may playact PlayStation Games there too !
see , I do n’t wish to conceive of a future where console table gamers have to be online and have to teem their games over the cloud . And , I hope for those people who wreak traditionally and seek the best experience from a complete hardware linear perspective , that Microsoft ’s next Xbox is everything they want it to be .
However , the consequence of this week have made it straighten out the next Xbox console will be dead on arrival – a recession twist at best .
