5th February 2024, 6:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 6th February 2024, 9:52 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Now, when it comes to peripherals, they've already closed shop. They also fired large numbers of people from the physical distribution team. Those two things are true, but here's the yet unconfirmed rumor (but rather highly corroborated with recent leaks). The rumor is they're going multiplatform, porting all their exclusives from Gears of War to Sea of Thieves to PS5. They've already been porting their games to PC, and not just in their own exclusive Microsoft Store but on Steam as well. Not all of their XBox One/Series exclusives are there yet, but they're getting closer year by year. Combine that with recent leaks about the Switch 2 that say that MS has dev kits for the next Nintendo system, there's a good possibility they intend to do the same there too. They've already ported a handful of their former exclusives to the Switch 1.
If they go this route... well it would mean that MS has been buying up all these companies to become a games development house bigger than EA. It would also mean that what I currently have sitting on my shelf is a relic. I mean, MOST of my consoles are relics yes, but this would be a relic like the Dreamcast, the last hurrah.
Interesting to think about. There's positives and negatives to this of course, namely that Sony gets just THAT much more control over the console market, but what it could ALSO mean is that MS is going to make hardware more like the "Steambox", just a PC in a box that runs a normal version of Windows and just... plays whatever PC game you want to stick on it.
If they go this route... well it would mean that MS has been buying up all these companies to become a games development house bigger than EA. It would also mean that what I currently have sitting on my shelf is a relic. I mean, MOST of my consoles are relics yes, but this would be a relic like the Dreamcast, the last hurrah.
Interesting to think about. There's positives and negatives to this of course, namely that Sony gets just THAT much more control over the console market, but what it could ALSO mean is that MS is going to make hardware more like the "Steambox", just a PC in a box that runs a normal version of Windows and just... plays whatever PC game you want to stick on it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)