The respective launches of these two consoles saw versions of premier titles from Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI ) (NASDAQ: ATVI ) , Ubisoft (NASDAQOTH: UBSFF ) , and Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: EA ) offer better performance overall on Sony's console. Will this trend continue throughout the console generation? If so, will it have a significant impact on market share results?
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Developers have claimed that Microsoft's Game Pass subscription service has caused a behavioral shift that has led to very few sales on Xbox.
Less sales on Xbox. If the majority of developers want to secure finance for their game they'd best ignore the platform that is going to take it away from them or release on it much later.
Barlos
That doesn't work anymore, people on xbox only play what is on game pass.
This is why the series s is so much more popular than the x, because people just buy it as a game pass machine.
This is demonstrated by the fact that even when the two consoles were closer to each other in sales multi-platform games sell 80+% of their copies on PlayStation.
@Barlos
The complete article touches on this subject "How can the platform improve for developers who don’t have the advantage of a AAA publisher behind them? Proposed solutions were varied, but all came down to one thing: better discoverability and incentives for people to play outside of Game Pass."
@Jingsing and Einhander
If we consider the data of this article as FACTUAL then this should be FACTUAL too right?
"Something that was surprising in the discussions concerning effort versus value, however, was that some developers flagged the same concerns with PlayStation. After all, though it consistently ranked above Xbox in finding sales and players for games, it still trailed significantly behind PC and Switch."
Does this mean that ppl on PlayStation play too much Essential and PS+ extra?
Petebloodyonion
"Does this mean that ppl on PlayStation play too much Essential and PS+ extra?"
Yes, this is what PlayStation has been saying from the beginning, that's why they haven't put their day one games on the service and why they have largely tried to keep the service secondary to sales. Jim Ryan repeatedly stated that putting games on a service like Microsoft is doing wasn't sustainable.
When Insomniac was hacked one of the Sony internal memos showed that after they put Forbidden West on PS Plus sales of the game almost completely stopped, there was even a chart that showed how sales went flat as soon as they put the game on the service, and it's also why they wanted to delay the release of Ratchet and Clank onto the service.
/rolls eyes
@Barlos
From the article:
“Another developer said that if they release a game on Xbox without Game Pass, they miss out on the majority of the player base, which is essentially only playing games via the subscription service.”
Pretty tough spot to be for developers when xbox gamers dont realize that gamepass only offers a small ratio of available games. “Day one first party” translates to a couple of games per year, if that.
@ Einhander
Where in the article is it alluded to the day 1 game?
"Something that was surprising in the discussions concerning effort versus value, however, was that some developers flagged the same concerns with PlayStation. After all, though it consistently ranked above Xbox in finding sales and players for games, it still trailed significantly behind PC and Switch."
"Some developers also pointed to the deals regarding the PlayStation Plus Catalog or Free Essential Games as having a similar effect."
Should I remind you that Sony has been offering PS+ games since 2010? Don't recall ever seeing you complaining about how it impacts Indies Dev in the monthly offering articles.
But if you actually took the time to read the whole interview you would have understood that small studios understand that and accept Gamepass and PS+ money because it remove financial stress and they might get lucky with a winner by reaching a wider audience.
And you would have found that
"The bigger issue is that everyone is playing the evergreen games like Call of Duty, Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, etc. Each one is soaking up a small percentage of players who never venture further out," said one developer.
Others were more hopeful and optimistic. Said another: “As long as there are players to reach and deals that offer benefits, I try not to worry too much about what’s looming over the horizon.”
And ultimately – as exemplified by some of 2024’s biggest hits that seemingly came from nowhere – it’s often those untroubled and unaffected attitudes that foster those great ideas for unique games that keep the medium so exciting, even when we think it can't get any better."
Petebloodyonion
Holy crap man, you are constantly missing the big picture so much I can't even believe you say the things you do...
Yea, this one, of the hundreds of indies on the platform might get lucky and make 1,000,000 in revenue from Microsoft, but everyone else including the indies that don't get lucky, Microsoft and the big AAA is losing billions in sales combined...
Why do you think Microsoft is closing studios and putting their games on PlayStation and literally any platform that will have them, and force their way on to the ones that won't? I guess in your mind it's because I am a PlayStation fanboy, right?
I can't even believe I keep having these arguments with you...
Yup... I don't think it was something that needed to be predicted because it was very obvious from sales data.
When alot of us tried saying this the fans didn't wanna hear it. Instead spewing on about how gamepass helps with sales and all the bs. It was clear as day what was going to happen.
Who would have foreseen that the people using basic common sense and understanding incentive structures were right and the people parroting nonsensical PR talking points from the corporation were wrong?
Interesting how some of us have mentioned this with Xbox own reports showing this trend, but, Xbox fans kept disagreeing
To be fair...the outspoken Xbox fans on this site are a minority...many Xbox players actually do have some sense...they're just not on social media to talk about Xbox.
Exactly!
But, but tEh bEsT dEal In gAmInG...
Never understood that mentality when the best deal in gaming would be having all AAA third party games released day one on the service from ALL the big publishers like Rock*, Ubi, EA etc and not just a few so so games and the rinse and repeat MS 1st party games.
Yup, the “best deal” is actually not all that great if you want to play games.
They should have seen this coming, I think Game Pass was one of the worst things Xbox could have done as a brand, good for the consumer who want to game on the cheap (although you can also argue that it hurts consumers in the long run, seems to be bad for developers unless you're a small indie game, possibly).
If your game is good, I'll find it on gamepass. I often buy the smaller games that I discover, which I would have otherwise missed. I buy more games because of gamepass, not the other way around. I have stopped purchasing full price MS 1st party games though.
Important for Sony and very important to gamers who care about resolution and framerate.
Just wait 'till the PS4 exclusives start rolling out.
it depends your preference.
both have great exclusives...but that not the topic. as far as power goes it depends on if you except what u get.
pay $500 for a weaker powered machine.
or pay $400 for a stronger machine.
its importance depends the gamer who's buying the machine.
imo its a factor but all in all the games and features make a bigger impact than power alone...we all saw that with the wii.
i chose a ps4 for ps+..(outlast free today? yes!)
then the games and trusted devs like nd was my second reason.
third was remote play and a cloud feature i understood and made sense to my preference...(ms cloud for ai? or graphics? both? ps cloud allowing me access to the great games from past sony machines...trophies and mo compatible!? yes!)
lastly was the way sony put gamers above all else.
the power as far as seeing the gap in games so far just made me even more satisfied with my purchase.
both are powerful so power had little to do with my choice.
Huge considering it's a 100$ cheaper.
Not much at all really. Xbox has the franchises I like more. Ps4 will come down the road. If it were about resolution and framerate I sure as hell wouldn't be wasting my money on consoles. I'd build a PC and get the best experience possible.