Basically Rare was the company that made a ton of incredible N64 titles like Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark…
MS pulled up and dropped an outrageous amount of cash to buy it when they launched the Xbox.
Last I heard about it, it was doing Kinect shovelware, and all the people that had made the influential, genre-defining games of the 64 era were gone.
So basically, we have to wait and see what exactly comes out of MS’s Bugthesda before claiming it was a good move. MS has a bunch of absolute busts to its name with that policy of “drop cash first, see if it works out later.”.
I’ve never played any of those games and we are almost literally the same age so I’m obviously just out of the loop lol
Still though, even if all the talent left Zenimax/Beth tomorrow those big name game are still going to influence console sales for at least a generation. I’d say at the very least it’ll make Sony look into their own exclusive deals.
I’m calling bullshit then. Making a few cents off a handful of popular games is worth $7 billion? Obviously I don’t know, but that seems like a high price for non-exclusive games.
To me it seems that ms strategy is to phase out from consoles gradually and become a subscription service accesible on multiple platforms.
I wouldnt be surprised when we see game pass on ps and nin tbh.
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Is also very likely that at least for some years is more easy to recoup the costs by having the games being multiplat than cutting their reach by forcing them being exclussives.
Specially at the beginning of this gen life cycle, where they dont have guarantees that they wouldnt struggle like this gen.
You can still be multiplatform and not be on the PS5.
They’ll have PC and Switch versions, I bet.
I’m figuring that MS doesn’t categorize Nintendo as a direct competitor, or at least not like Sony. The argument could be made that the switch fills a different role from a PS5 or SexBox
Is Gamepass actually worth it? Article I’m reading says it’s $10 bucks a month, which doesn’t look bad. But I don’t actually play a lot of games, and those ones I do are usually on sale or used.
The console wars are pretty much Xbox and PS duking it out.
PC is a somewhat different niche, even though it gets in the mix every once in a while and Nintendo is pretty much out of the wars because of how different it is from everything involved.
So far it seems so.
In my opinion this gen the best course of action (at least for me) is to have a ps5 and switch for the exclussives and fgs (in the case of the ps5) and a pc for everything else.
No point on owning a xbox when you can have everything they offer on pc.
