@CrashMania
“I wonder why it is that MS always hide the profit numbers of their xbox division then, and only report on revenue, interesting.”
According to leaked documents from FTC *prior* ABK´s acquisition by Microsoft, Sony was the third most profitable company between Nintendo (Most profitable) and Microsoft (second most profitable).
Look it up
“This was due to COD exclusivity, Jim crapped his pants over this, appears it was for nothing I guess as MS clearly need the 64% revenue from playstation players as the floundering console sales and gamepass numbers weren’t enough to sustain it.”
Good for Microsoft they now have the Playstation player base as well as every other platform out there. Our day one games on Game Pass are secured.
“MS have done also done this while waving 80 billion expenditure in front of their faces, why does the biggest and most profitable gaming company publisher in your words need to lay off thousands of devs and shut studios also?”
No game (as far I remember) got canceled at XGS not even Redfall. Microsoft did f* up with Tango IMO. Most layoffs were due restructure as no game in actual development was affected.
“You know what I find funny, you zealots keep raving about cancelled live service games, but most playstation gamers were celebrating this.”
Then next thing they´ll do is complain whenever Sony decides and takes their games elsewhere, because those cancelled games took several years of dedicated developers lives and cost billions to produce to just end up in the trash.
You know that all that money and time won´t pay itself and the Playstation userbase will be the ones who will suffer the most with the inevitable game drought from Playstation first party output, which Microsoft will gladly benefit from.
“PS gamers completely rejected slop like Concord, and I imagine fairgame$ isn’t gonna fair much better, but xbots will defend crap like Redfall and ignore Hellblade flopping, still having no numbers for Indiana Jones, other than it charting lower than the 3 month old Astro Bot during it’s month of release.”
Nobody defended Redfall after the release. You´re making stuff up. Hellblade II is a great game 81 Metascore based on 100 critics review. The game definitely did not live up to the hype but its a great game nontheless. Indiana Jones is already a GOTY contender and highly praised for both critics AND gamers.
As for how much it sold MS won´t tell you or me as they don´t reveal sales for a long time!
But hey, since you´re brought up sales figures… how many copies sold for Horizon Forbidden West Remastered, LEGO Horizon and Until Dawn? Any official numbers from Sony regarding those games sales? No, I guess not! Those games are major flops but you´d just ignored it. And don´t even get me started on Concord.
“So who really wins? You can talk about revenue or whatever as much as you want, at the end of the day PS5 gamers are getting more and better games, regardless of who is publishing them, no amount of coping and goalpost moving will change that.”
Sony won the console battle. Microsoft won the war! Microsoft is the biggest and most profitable gaming company in the world and there´s nothing you can do about it.
As for Playstation you can wait for Xbox games to land on Playstation at some point in future. We´re getting those games NOW day one on Gamepass so we don´t have to pay as others are paying to fund our games!