In the aftermath of rumours about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming to PS5 next year, former Xbox exec Major Nelson has defended Microsoft’s Phil Spencer on the recent strategy change over at Xbox.
With Indiana Jones potentially being the next big Xbox-developed game to launch on other console platforms, fans have begun questioning Xbox’s leadership - and the decisions that Phil & co. are taking right now. Major Nelson has responded to one of these questions on Twitter, simply stating that Phil is “running a business” for Microsoft, that’s all.
I’m a huge proponent of all games being multiplatform. But I’m worried only Xbox is going to do it, then stop making hardware, and leave all of us die hard Xbox veterans with 15+ year accounts hanging out to dry because"business"…
As long as the games keep coming, whys the hardware matter? Who needs the different consoles, a PC, and a phone to play a certain game?
Because when PlayStation has no competition, what incentive is there to keep prices down or make a better product? If consumers only have one option, Sony can make it cost whatever they want and make it as little of an improvement over the previous as they want. What’re you gonna do, buy an Xbox that doesn’t exist anymore?
Sure, you could buy a PC, but it will cost you about $1000 USD more than a PS5 or Xbox Series X for comparable performance. GPUs alone are like $600-$700 USD right now and dont seem to show signs of coming back down soon.
Nintendo shows no intentions of wanting to make powerful, competitive hardware anymore. As much as Sony fans might hate Xbox, they should be grateful it exists as a competitor, otherwise Somy would gain a monopoly over the home console market, and that would be very bad for all gamers.
I’ll admit, even as someone hating on Xbox recently this does worry me.
At the very least, Steam forms a decent competitor with the Deck. It’s a very high mark up in console convenience.
Xbox, PSN and steam accounts at this point have decades of saves and purchases tied to them. Some of these games are delisted and are not readily available elsewhere.
If either platform decided to throw in the towel that would represent a huge lose to a large number of people.