It seems that Microsoft may be becoming more open to releasing their games on other platforms
Sweet, now PS5 owners will be able to dig through menus for hours and run around desolate landscapes achieving fuck-all!
EXCLUSIVE | Microsoft plans Starfield launch for PlayStation 5 - XboxEra
Submitted 4 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://xboxera.com/2024/02/04/exclusive-microsoft-plans-starfield-launch-for-playstation-5/
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TastyWheat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Eggyhead@kbin.social 4 months ago
You say this as if any other Bethesda game had been any different.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The ”2D" planes of Skyrim and Fallout lend themselves much better to exploration than the menu-driven travel of Starfield.
At least you felt like you were finding interesting things and places, instead of traveling to menu icons.
Shadywack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well with the PS5 having double the storage bandwidth, we’ll see slightly less loading. Enter ship, loading screen. Land on planet, loading screen, etc.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 4 months ago
Kind of a good description of our mars missions.
VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nobody is winning here long-term. Microsoft is growing its subscription service and every step is with that in mind. Getting people to buy their games now, like Starfield, is likely seen as closing the gap a little more towards encouraging that.
Like all of these things, it will be great and a value at first and then a squeeze for more money with less offerings. People en masse will say they won’t be a part of it, and then record profits (like Netflix right now) will be shown.
Not all is doom and gloom though. Indie games are rapid fire releasing, Linux is growing due to Valve and Chromebooks, and I found a ten dollar bill in my pocket this morning.
I’m mostly frustrated with always online games. They remain the enemy for longevity and nonsense outside of the MMO space.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Gamepass has already hiked their prices up, and is severely hampered on PC by offering “Xbox” versions of games that are often older builds with more bugs, fewer features, and if they’re multiplayer games, don’t allow you to play with friends on Steam.
Years after all the Gamepass hype and I still fail to see how Gamepass is really that much of a value. The only really defining characteristic of it is the day 1 releases, but more often than not those late disappointing on their own.
bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you’re pirating everything and want to play online then gamepass is your choice because trendy games switch so fast and buying new one every time is troublesome so you’re buying gamepass and have access to most of them in one go
squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How nice of Microsoft to let the PS community be as disappointed in Bethesda as the rest of us.
BudgieMania@kbin.social 4 months ago
It didn't end up being the system seller quality game they might have wished for, so why not get some more sales out of it. Nobody is gonna base their choice between Series X or PS5 on Starfield, but a lot of PS5 owners would indulge in purchasing the game out of curiosity. The maths make sense.
The problem is, you can extend this sentiment to most if not all of the XBox console exclusives that have been released for a good while now. They have unfortunately failed at producing a killer app for far too long at this point. Ever since Mattrick killed the momentum of the brand, they have never been able to recover it.
As much as I don't want a future in which PS5 is uncontested in the console space (Nintendo is too much its own thing to count as direct competition imo), it is starting to look like, from all angles, it just makes sense for Microsoft to focus on expanding Gamepass and their games as much as possible across all platforms because there's more money in that than in salvaging the XBox hardware brand.
slimerancher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As a PS5 owner, if Xbox stops giving them competition, that would be very bad for all of us.
BudgieMania@kbin.social 4 months ago
Yeah, at the very least it would result in a brutal deterioration of the value proposition of future Playstation hardware. The harsh truth is that a large majority of Playstation players would not consider moving to PC or Switch 2 as a viable alternative, and Sony knows that, and would price accordingly. We all saw what happened the last time they felt they were uncontested in the market when they unveiled the PS3 and its pricing, but this time there would not be a 360 to punish them for it.
There is not a world in which a hypothetical PS6 isn't at least 599 ( without the hardware to make up for it) if it doesn't have a direct competitor. And that would have its own domino effect on Switch and PC hardware pricing... what are you gonna do, go to the overpriced PS6? Pleaaaaase.KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Agreed and the space is now too expensive for an upstart like Lenovo
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Only one real reason why they’re doing this: Starfield fell short of sales goals
slimerancher@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If it’s only Starfield than yes, but if they are bringing other games too, then that could be different story. Let’s see what happens.
distantsounds@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Please, somebody, buy this crap. lol
slaacaa@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, thanks
Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social 4 months ago
Honestly, I'm curious to see if this rumor turns out to be true. If it does then I'm not really sure what that means for Xbox in the long-term. Putting just Starfield out on PS5 is one thing, but it sounds like they are thinking of putting most if not all of their first-party games on other platforms. If you're releasing your first-party games on other consoles then what exactly is the point of the Xbox? Is it just going to become a Game Pass box or are they planning on pulling out of the hardware business entirely like Sega?
Kid4today@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think that’s the plan. Rumour is that Microsoft want out of the console hardware business. They want to just be a game producer and subscription platform. They want gamepass on PlayStation and Nintendo and, well everywhere and then they can stop making consoles.
Who knows if that’s even possible though. It seems like hell would freeze over before Sony and Nintendo let gamepass on their platforms but, stranger things have happened.
any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I think it’s fair to see the Xbox as a Game Pass box in the short to mid-term, yes. Microsoft’s efforts have been focused on getting everyone on Game Pass, be it Xbox, PC or Mobile (and they would love for other console manufacturers to have it as well).
They are selling Xbox consoles at a loss and are only recouping money on games and Game Pass subscriptions, now that neither Nintendo nor Sony is onboard with bringing the latter to their ecosystem, might as well port their first-party games to competing platforms to make more money.RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thanks for being honest with us.
Eggyhead@kbin.social 4 months ago
I'll pick it up if it comes to PS5. I hope they'll be inclined to do the same for ES6.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Dear Video Game diety Todd Howard,
Please release The Elder Scrolls 6 on PS5.
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ms spent all that money on studios just to release the games on other platforms anyway lol.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
If the studios are profitable, it was still a good business decision. A bad business decision would be to tank a profitable studio to prop up a struggling hardware platform.
Besides, exclusives are mostly bad for the players, so if companies decide that supporting multiple platforms is the best strategy for them, it’s also better for us.
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It is no issue for me. I like people getting to play good games.
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Meaning they get money if those studios release a game that sells well on a rival console.
Reality_Suit@lemmy.one 4 months ago
And Microsoft can fuck off.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You are so brave to speak such truth.
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 4 months ago
Mecha-Bill Gates is en route to your location, prepare to be eliminated
bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean, Sony AND Microsoft started to do exclusivity only temporary, first year or few it’s exclusive and after that they both double dip to make some more money
pgetsos@kbin.social 4 months ago
This move makes me believe the rumors of them wanting out of the console buriness are true. May be bad for consumers initially, but at the end of the day, it's just a glorified PC at this point with better optimization from the developers. I'm not too worried for the future
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’d be really happy to play some Xbox exclusives on my ps5! I don’t see any downside to it as long as Sony still has some competition on the console market.
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In this case, the downside is that it’s not a very good game.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Yeah from what I understand it’s clearly a disappointment. But it’d be a symbol of more to come if it’s released on ps5.
I don’t care if we have to wait a few years after xbox exclusivity, it’d still be nice.
aciDC14@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Dead on Arrival.
Jaeger86@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lol cause it bombed hard and was boring as shit
Wodge@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It really didn’t bomb hard, it is pretty dull after you get through the main missions though.