I would agree in a sense the main difference though is PlayStation whether its PC with HD2 or on console still sells so much software and thats a materially different situation to xbox at the moment. Xbox console hardware woes I dont think would be nearly as big of a deal for them if they were selling hand over fist a la carte games or if game pass was growing but neither of those are true for them atm. Their financials looked good but only cause of how profitable ABK is and juiced their numbers up, which is great for them but think it spells dark times for the other "old guard of xbox" pre Bethesda Acquisition studios, which is why they were clear on "more cuts coming" last week.
@@orb-o-ponderer i think Ninja Theory might be on the chopping block. notice how there is hardly any advertisements for hellblade 2 and it comes out real soon
Yeah, Aaron Greenburg made some comment about how their global marketing for the game began 2 weeks out from launch but I think for a game as public as that has been at every single xbox showcase for like 4/5 years now, thats not good. By virtue of being on game pass its not going to sell very many copies, which would be fine if it drove a lot of gamepass signups but I don't think that will happen either. I think they probably are being looked at for cuts post release.
day and date with single player games will just slowly put them in x box's position not a very good place to be
I would agree in a sense the main difference though is PlayStation whether its PC with HD2 or on console still sells so much software and thats a materially different situation to xbox at the moment.
Xbox console hardware woes I dont think would be nearly as big of a deal for them if they were selling hand over fist a la carte games or if game pass was growing but neither of those are true for them atm. Their financials looked good but only cause of how profitable ABK is and juiced their numbers up, which is great for them but think it spells dark times for the other "old guard of xbox" pre Bethesda Acquisition studios, which is why they were clear on "more cuts coming" last week.
@@orb-o-ponderer i think Ninja Theory might be on the chopping block. notice how there is hardly any advertisements for hellblade 2 and it comes out real soon
Yeah, Aaron Greenburg made some comment about how their global marketing for the game began 2 weeks out from launch but I think for a game as public as that has been at every single xbox showcase for like 4/5 years now, thats not good.
By virtue of being on game pass its not going to sell very many copies, which would be fine if it drove a lot of gamepass signups but I don't think that will happen either. I think they probably are being looked at for cuts post release.