cause they cost money to make
Xbox just got it maybe around 2-3 years ago
You don’t think they spent a bunch of money on Gamepass, Cloud Servers, Hardware R&D, etc to get to this point??
So has Microsoft not invested billions into Xbox over the last couple years??
They shouldn’t have to put their exclusives on there
Thats what these dummies don’t realize, microsoft (uncle phil) isn’t doing this out of the kindness of their hearts because they looove gaming. They are doing it because it was literally the only way for them to stay in the game and push cloud services like google and amazon tried to do. They don’t care about their customers anymore than any other major corporation, they are simply in a loss leading customer acquisition period because they need as many people to buy into the gamepass and xcloud services as possible.
You already saw their first act of desperation to force people into gamepass by raising the price of their standard online service. They can’t even pretend it was some spur of the moment type of deal because they actually had marketing and actual printed cards sent to retailers. Mind you this was after the long rumored plan for them to make online completely free. This was their plan for a while and they simply knew the backlash would kill all their good will marketing so they backed down.
If they can’t convince people they are “the good consumer friendly guys” they’ve already lost. So while the service is cheap and seems like a lot of 3rd party games are dropping on it thats only out of absolute necessity because they literally don’t have anything else to put on it. People are celebrating renting 3rd party games while completely ignoring not having any 1st party games since launch, and haven’t had any AAA since gears 5, they have more ‘next gen’ consoles on the market than they have games.
Eventually the other shoe will drop, where buying big 3rd party games, buying studios, and funding AAA games are gonna come with a way higher price. They are just playing the long game to where their fans are so deep in their system that they will justify away paying 20 dollars a month for it’; and once its gets to that price they may drop gold completely.
Microsoft will never get to a point where games on the level of Sony 1st party are regularly dropping day 1 on their service. Microsoft may have a lot of money as a company but they aren’t in the business of losing money for years in one division. Just like Amazon and Google weren’t.
Thats what these dummies don’t realize, microsoft (uncle phil) isn’t doing this out of the kindness of their hearts because they looove gaming. They are doing it because it was literally the only way for them to stay in the game and push cloud services like google and amazon tried to do. They don’t care about their customers anymore than any other major corporation, they are simply in a loss leading customer acquisition period because they need as many people to buy into the gamepass and xcloud services as possible.
You already saw their first act of desperation to force people into gamepass by raising the price of their standard online service. They can’t even pretend it was some spur of the moment type of deal because they actually had marketing and actual printed cards sent to retailers. Mind you this was after the long rumored plan for them to make online completely free. This was their plan for a while and they simply knew the backlash would kill all their good will marketing so they backed down.
If they can’t convince people they are “the good consumer friendly guys” they’ve already lost. So while the service is cheap and seems like a lot of 3rd party games are dropping on it thats only out of absolute necessity because they literally don’t have anything else to put on it. People are celebrating renting 3rd party games while completely ignoring not having any 1st party games since launch, and haven’t had any AAA since gears 5, they have more ‘next gen’ consoles on the market than they have games.
Eventually the other shoe will drop, where buying big 3rd party games, buying studios, and funding AAA games are gonna come with a way higher price. They are just playing the long game to where their fans are so deep in their system that they will justify away paying 20 dollars a month for it’; and once its gets to that price they may drop gold completely.
Microsoft will never get to a point where games on the level of Sony 1st party are regularly dropping day 1 on their service. Microsoft may have a lot of money as a company but they aren’t in the business of losing money for years in one division. Just like Amazon and Google weren’t.
