Microsoft Reveals the New Xbox Series X, Arrives in Holiday 2020

[mestevo]

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Yeah, this isnt Minecraft. Expect them to honor current deals and developments and then everything is game pass/PC/Xbox exclusive.

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[Heat_Fan]

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If they push for PC too they could leave out PS5, will be interesting. You can't think they pay that much to keep things as normal

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Keep in mind that with this deal ALL Bethesda games will be part of Game Pass Ultimate so whether you have a PC or Xbox you can play them on release day.

I don't think Microsoft is willing to throw away bags of money after their investment by shutting out Sony because there's a much larger global Playstation fanbase vs the Xbox. Now if Microsoft made most of it's money like Sony from its gaming division then I could see Microsoft blocking Sony from Bethesda games going forward. I'm just not convinced they would do that.

However I can envision timed exclusives and a jump in price for those games on the PS5.

[Artman22]

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This is huge for Xbox wow. This announcement right before preorders is insane. Like others have mentioned if this makes its way to game pass it’ll be an even bigger blow to Sony. Glad to see Xbox is going all in this gen it seems.


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[XxGamerXx]

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This is huge for Xbox wow. This announcement right before preorders is insane. Like others have mentioned if this makes its way to game pass it’ll be an even bigger blow to Sony. Glad to see Xbox is going all in this gen it seems.


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It was already confirmed day 1 game pass for all the games from the studios

The question now is will MS let Sony fans eat or make them wait a year

[mgoblue]

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I'm soooo hyped for that back catalog on game pass! I haven't played Skyrim in at least 5 years

[Artman22]

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It was already confirmed day 1 game pass for all the games from the studios

The question now is will MS let Sony fans eat or make them wait a year

Financially it makes more sense to let them wait a year to come to ps5, but it helps the Xbox brand a lot more if they just keep it Xbox and pc only. That would be a big blow to Sony. I believe this makes 23 acquired studios for Microsoft now..


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[mgoblue]

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Financially it makes more sense to let them wait a year to come to ps5, but it helps the Xbox brand a lot more if they just keep it Xbox and pc only. That would be a big blow to Sony. I believe this makes 23 acquired studios for Microsoft now..


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Sony'd been making a bunch of exclusive deals lately, but this is a mic drop.

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1308062702905044993

Confirming that they'll honor existing deals and case by case in the future.

[dickey1331]

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So when does Microsoft increase the price for game pass. It’s gotta happen eventually.


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[RubberSoul]

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So when does Microsoft increase the price for game pass. It’s gotta happen eventually.


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One would think between this and including EA Play they will have to raise it at some point.


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[peter42O]

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Yeah, this isnt Minecraft. Expect them to honor current deals and developments and then everything is game pass/PC/Xbox exclusive.

This. Deathloop deal will be honored but how many people are really going to buy it now knowing that it will be on Game Pass a year later for both Xbox and PC? Not much reason to buy it now. Plus, who was really buying a PS5 for Deathloop? LOL.

Simply, a massive paradigm shift type move and I don't see Microsoft being finished yet.

[JayhawkerStL]

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So do y’all think fall out and elder scrolls will be Xbox exclusive since Microsoft bought them?


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What I suspected, and I saw that Spencer just tweeted, I expect the games to be wherever Microsoft thinks they can make money and promote Game Pass.

Game Pass costs $120 a year. Game Pass Ultimate costs $180 a year. It does not take many games before it is cheaper to play then via Game Pass AND you get access to every other game in the library. Sell them for $60 or $70 on PSN, and use the game to sell Sony users the advantage of Game Pass, and that with GPU they can play these games and more without a console.

I'm just gonna say, adding more subs without console sales is not going to make shareholders unhappy.

[mestevo]

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I'm just gonna say, adding more subs without console sales is not going to make shareholders unhappy.

Yup, that's long been my position on Sony providing a similar service. It's too much of an investment for my limited time to get into their ecosystem, I'd be perfectly happy to give them money without them first taking a loss on hardware if they provided some mechanism to do so.

Sony is still almost exclusively pushing the console paradigm, with a ceiling in the 10s of millions of users. Microsoft is targeting a market of 2 billion gamers globally and has only just now crossed 15 million (was 10 million in April... up 50% in 6 months).

[JayhawkerStL]

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So when does Microsoft increase the price for game pass. It’s gotta happen eventually.


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One would think between this and including EA Play they will have to raise it at some point.


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What I think you are missing is the value of a steady stream of income versus each and every game being an ultimate gamble. Microsoft knows they can count on X revenue, already built in, for every game they publish now.

The value of a subscription system is if you get the number of quality hours of fun for a decent price. The customer can look at the library and see it as a good gamble, for the price of two or three full price games you get access to every Microsoft published game the day it releases, and a large library of AAA and indie games.

And those indie companies probably get a decent hit on folks more willing to try out the full game for "free," generating more revenue than we think.

I think it is making everyone money.

[Artman22]

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Xbox keeping these games on the Xbox and pc platform hurts them initially, but will help their brand and console in the long run I believe. Only time will tell.


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[Skyboxer]

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As long as they're on PC.. I'm good