It seems like only yesterday that Sony and Microsoft launched the PS4 and Xbox One consoles, but actually almost a full year has passed since then. The PS4 has been leading in terms of sales almost since the very beginning, however the Xbox One is not giving up without a fight even though it doesn’t appear to have made any significant progress as of late. Back in April, Microsoft announced that it had shipped more than 5 million consoles while Sony was saying that 7 million PS4 units had already been sold as of April 6th. Fast forward a few months and we can see that this gap is widening more and more with each passing month.
According to the latest reports, Sony managed to sell a total of 11.45 million PS4 units until now while Microsoft was only able to sell 5.79 million Xbox One consoles.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
The title sounds like a porno.
Pretty simple. If Microsoft wants to catch up, they have to start outselling the PS4. Phil Spencer has put a lot of emphasis on the holidays, but it seems that the Xbox One would have to sell extremely well in order to close that gap in 3 or 4 months... Thats not going to happen, so the best bet is to make every effort to keep from falling behind further. He said the real battle starts September (which isn't true) but I am pretty sure they got stumped in September so its on to October.
Lol it's not going to beat the ps4 but it will come in second.
Coming out in the same month of the ps4 and dropping the ball at E3 with hardware that doesn't preform better then the 4.
Yay nother article about this. It just makes my day /s
How are they doing that when xbox has better games lol. Halo: MCC, forza and Sunset Overdrive are all better than anything that is currently present on ps4. Inb4 butthurt ps fanboys.