This is fucking insane. Sony didn't just win the console wars...

What reason is there to even own an Xbox now?

what reason is there to own a playstation?

We’ll have to see what their plan is with the handheld and the next console supposedly having steam on it. I think they want to make some software ecosystem and the hardware is some optional buy in for further convenience like full parity with play anywhere + cloud saves

I assume the PS4 and PS5 outsold the Xbone/X in NA

microsoft got 5 games in the top 10 games sold in april on playstation

they are unironically making way more money ignoring hardware

I assume the PS4 and PS5 outsold the Xbone/X in NA

yes the graph is kinda misleading in that sense, I mean if you count by raw numbers xbox could never compete with sony due to 5th-6th gen hits, 7th gen they ended on par but ps4 and onwards was at least a 2:1 in favor of sony, even in US
the graph just shows that xbox is more predominant in the US than in other regions

nintendo can keep the walls up all they want, one good dataleak and an emulator will be up and running within a year

Yeah but that doesn’t solve the issue of an uncertain future for people who own xbox hardware. They’re saying to go to PC but in the end if you own a console, you bought it for a reason

Well yeah that's why the've all but abandoned the hardware race. They're full time publishers now. People can say "they lost" but at the end of the day if they're making money what do they care? After flops like Concord Microsoft is probably easily making more money than Sony is.

PC plus Nintendo is all you need.

Nintendo games are on PC, thougheverbeit.

Games.

If you have a pc powerful enough to play current gen you don't need a shitendo

did I miss something in the past six years?

That was always the case for them, both Xbox and PS were sold at a loss and software was the big winner. Now M$ just gave up any reason for anyone to ever buy a box ever again.

Sony didn't just win the console wars. They went full Soviet destruction of Berlin on Microsoft.

Congrats, second place is a good win for sony.

There is no uncertainty anymore, Xbox is just a Gamepass machine now. They aren't even pretending to care about the competition anymore.

I still think eventually at some point during the next generation Sony is going to fully give up on timed exclusivity to try and sell systems and make their own full PC client.

one good dataleak and an emulator will be up and running within a year

By the time another leak happens the next console will be out.

These threads make me realize how many people on this board don’t venture out and have seen the state physical media is in

What are you even talking about?

second place to pc right because sony and nintendo are neck and neck with console vs console victories

I have 0 interest in any slop sony pushed since Uncharted 4 and I have played at the very least 25 games for "free" since 2020, when I switched to Xbox from PS for the first time since PS1 (Vita included)

for example I am now contemplating whether I should play TESVIR or E33 for "free" first once I get back from holidays, and considering I was playing Atomfall hours before I embarked on my trip, that will be what, 30-40 USD for 300 hours of gaming across different games? and this is just one example

I love my xbox sx and I wouldnt change it for the world

What?

???

This guy was a Bernie Stolar tier fuck up, what the fuck was up with the cult of personality surrounding this guy?
It never made any sense

nobody is saying gamepass is bad, people are saying xbox has no reason to exist anymore (and they're right)

What was the point of buying activision?

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yeah. nah. I want MK World, Bananza and Prine 4 because I actually like games. All other games are on PC. Switch 2 emulation likely wont be a stable thing for years. Also portable upscaled Gamecube games will be cool.

King.

Their goal is clearly to combine PC + handheld + console + cloud + game pass but I’m just saying I don’t know how successful it will be. We already know they aren’t trying to compete in the console space with PlayStation now, until they get this huge multiplatform idea up and running it is really a game pass machine but price hikes undermined that

because sony and nintendo are neck and neck with console vs console victories

You can't count, can you.

the whole idea is xbox will be a gamepass hardware and you will be able to play xbox games for "free" while shelling out 30-70 USD for them if you are on PS
and why would I do that if the reward I get is another snoy action adventure game that follows the exact same formula

pajeet thread

Where is God of War 1 in return... If they put steam on Xbox but with Sony games blocked will be an epic fail.

ps1 won
ps2 won
ps3 lost
ps4 won
ps5 lost
ps6 will most likely not outsell switch 2 u less the gen goes on for a few more years than planned

i dont count the handheld war, we all know vita got destroyed

Gears was never good.

The future is going all digital. Microsoft is going all digital. These threads are always saying Microsoft is finished when they’ve been preparing for this shit for years now. Normies and zoomies don’t give a fuck anymore about console exclusivity, they just want to download the games they see on social media to their box. Give it 5 more years until we start getting articles from IGN saying how brilliant Sony are for finally going full multiplatform.

I doubt they can block specific games on hardware through the steam store. It’s just silly still since Microsoft would probably only get a small cut of people buying PS5 games through the next console

Give it 5 more years until we start getting articles from IGN saying how brilliant Sony are for finally going full multiplatform.

Further proving that it's Microsoft that's retarded, not Sony.

Enthusiast gamers are the better market to cater to, average cookie cutter these days barely even buy videogames anymore and just play Fortnite or some MOBA.

Anon you are aware that you can have Gamepass on PC right?

Fuck

How are you counting that? If you're starting from the ps1 without including handhelds Sony would be one up but if you're counting the handhelds, not counting the gba since the PSP wasn't out yet then it would be Nintendo in the lead so:
Gen 5 - sony
Gen 6 - sony
Gen 7 - nintendo (handhelds: Nintendo)
Gen 8 - sony (handhelds: Nintendo)
Gen 9 - Nintendo

3:2 to sony
3:4 to Nintendo + handhelds
You can't get a tie.

Mr. Einstein. Where are the Sony exclusives. Even older ones on Xbox. I have an Xbox but this is a shame. Where are the new Final Fantasys? Even switch 2 have the 7 remake...

I presume zoomers still care about where their digital library ends up.

Gears of War 1 is the only good Gears game. Mainly because it was the only one that felt like a legit "horror" game, instead of a soulless "bro-shooter".

Basically Gears 1 felt more like Dead Space and Gears 2 ~5 felt more like your typical Call of Duty. Should note, I'm speaking entirely about the campaigns here. Gears 2 had the best multiplayer by far.

They did that with the geforce now...

No way, they actually did it. But it sounds it is not the collection I was expecting. But if they made it for the first, they will make it for 2, 3 and Judgement. What do you think?

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Nah just would further prove the age old mantra of “It’s OKAY when Sony does it”

Enthusiast gamers are the better market to cater to

What are enthusiast gamers playing right now as of May 2025?
I’m with you. I sold my Xbox last summer and have been mainly playing on my PS5. I just hate the disingenuous of Anon Babble and Sony dickriders when it comes to shit like this.

I presume zoomers still care about where their digital library ends up

These little shits nowadays are so used to having their account banned or losing their passwords that I wouldn’t doubt if they don’t care about their libraries getting lost cause they were never raised to have that personal attachment to physical like millennials did. They’d have a bigger issue losing their Fortnite or other skin accounts.

It’s been available on PC since 2007.

THIS IS FUCKING INSANE. SONY JUST WON THE UNIVERSE AND THIS IS CRAZY AND IT IS EVERYTHING (HERE'S WHY). THIS IS TRULY OUTRAGEOUS. THEY'RE GOING TO RELEASE A REMASTER OF A 19 YEAR OLD GAME ON STEAM. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

I don't know why you retards keep blaming Phil. He's pretty much all but outright said he's being overridden by Nadella to make shit multiplat so Nadella has more money to waste on AI. At this point he and Sarah Bond are just collecting millions of dollars to be internet punching bags for you morons.

Honestly hope they do, MCC getting a big bump in players would be great. Hell, by this point I'm fairly convinced that it getting a turn on PS+ would be one of the best possible things that could happen to the series because god knows a new Halo game being good is basically impossible.

How, you dipshit? We knew for an entire year that this was happening. It's also the third fucking remaster of this game that exists. How many remasters of Gears of War 1 will they make?

Stop, when will you come to the realization that Halo's multiplayer is dead. It's never coming back and Microsoft is already preparing to make it a singleplayer-only series. Main games whether they're remakes or new games will only star the Master Chief, spin-offs will star other characters, have lower budgets, and be only supervised by Halo Studios, Project Ekur may be the final Halo multiplayer ever made and if that multiplayer-only game from Certain Affinity fails, you better start kissing Halo's multiplayer goodbye.

Even if what you predict is true (which I doubt very much) it is completely and utterly irrelevant to the MCC.

You normie faggots piss me off. None of you juniors understand exclusives. Phil ruined the meaning of them. They are not meant to be locked down just to be locked down. They're meant to be something that can only work on that console to the point it would break on another console or even PC. Phil Spencer destroyed the purpose of the Xbox console when he threw that out.

the only reason for having an xbox is Gears of War

Are PStards and consoletards in general this retarded?

doubt

You're a retard then, COD is bigger, Overwatch is bigger, if Microsoft doesn't see any value in Halo's dying multiplayer, what makes you think it'll ever have any legs to stand again? It's over. PC could not save it, PlayStation will not save it.

Xbox normies are cut from the same sloth as Snoyroaches. Xbox becoming a locked down PC/handheld in the future will be only a benefit to cleaning house in the Xbox community.

what will they censor?

/ourguy/ Don would never

Free update for owners of the digital version of Ultimate Edition

digital version

For fuck sake, physical bros, we got fucked yet again

Nintendo has nothing worth playing thoughbeit.

It's not like Sony's games aren't coming to PC. Nintendo won the console wars.

will halo go to playstation next? that'll be the final death knell of xbox as a console. Is this what sega fans felt when they first saw sonic on the gamecube?

Normalfag retard trying to claim that Nintendo has nothing worth playing

Call me when Microsoft stops making games with body types and sliders and Sony stop making hyper woke movie slop games.

Does it matter? Did PC help Halo? After all the rumors about the next Xbox being a locked down Windows PC, you're still talking like a console warring cunt?

Nintendo isn't normalfag central

I don't care about Microsoft or Sony either, faggot.

Xbox refers to software now you retard

I'm just curious, it's not a console war thing. I don't care too much if the xbox succeeds or fails. It'll just be a strange sight to see halo on playstation after all this time if that is what ends up happening

No. The first gears of war is pretty bad and everything that came after is better. UE did not make any gameplay improvements and this won't either. If you only care about the campaign I suppose it will be fine. I actually think releasing this is detrimental because the game plays very poorly. If I checked the game out with this, I wouldn't come back for e-day.

mfw as an xbro since the OG xbox.

literally zero exclusives at this point. game pass is ok but at this point i might consider ps6 over whatever the new xbox is

Gamepass+old xbox games.

the multiplayer is fun in my opinion, there is no other third person shooter that plays like it. However I am like . I don't know how zoomers will respond

PS6

You know you're going to be paying $1000 for that, right?

same here, i mean its nice that theyre serious about the Backwards compatibility and that theyre going to make another console next gen, but yeah, ive already accepted that the SeX is the last console ill ever buy, im too old and not into starting from scrach to buy a PS

ShitboX is dead, it will follow the steps of Sega and will stop making consoles.

I dropped Xbox and went PC, best choice of my life
Steamsales amd no paid online are great

You're not going to be buying any home consoles next gen whether they're Xbox or PlayStation. Next gen consoles are going to cost about $1000 or more. PlayStation handheld is going to be $700 at least. Only the Switch 2 and 2027 Xbox handheld will be affordable. lol, Microsoft knows what they're doing, lmao.

The sales are literally the same thing

Soviets didn't win the war, US did.

Thanks for re-affirming my suspicion many PC posters in the last few years are Xbox refugees who are incompressibly buck broken about their former Xbox console by taking it out on Sony and Nintendo. The platform warring is PC vegan fanboys. Phil did this to Xbox.

i kind of sense that, i mean MS have always had that appallingly-sinister-yet-very-far-sighted view of things, from Xbox One the digital transition to todays subscription driven game distribution, and even about the Series S in the beginning of the generation if you listen to the interview with digital foundry youll see that they predicted everything happening today correctly about silicon prices not going down and having a low spec SKU is important in the future, maybe even for future handheld even?

This level of mental gymnastics is a fanboy phenomenon. Point out the non-baseball Sony exclusives on Xbox. Xbox is effectively an exclusiveless machine now. Don't think you're coy trying to drag Sony and Nintendo into you coffin next to SEGA.

Gears of War multiplayer is coming back fuck yes

Nintendo and Microsoft are very good at predicting the future. Something Sony lacks. Nintendo warned Sony and Microsoft played and led Sony into a power war trap.

Xbox might actually kill consoles as a whole outside of nintendo

Don’t know if this is based or not

Microsoft's gaming division is outdoing the PC one currently, they are absolutely making the right call going multi platform like this.

Not him, this doesn't really mean much when you look at the skyrocketing home console prices and Microsoft moving everything Xbox to Windows. You're going to find out in the coming years that Sony lost to both Nintendo and Microsoft, big time.

Nintendo warned Sony and Microsoft played and led Sony into a power war trap

can you explain?

It's pretty based, I liked Xbox players before 2008. During that time, they gave me the same fun vibes I got from Nintendo players. Around 2008 on up though, it got taken over by Snoyroaches and thus became Xbots. This is going to force a complete cleaning of house in gaming that's needed.

I think you and your Indian marketing team are insane. In the real world the Xbox consoles are outsold 5 to 1 by the PS5 and 6 to 1 by by Switch on average on every country on Earth. Little bro here and his astroturfing Indian firm think Xbox raising their console prices and losing more exclusives is """genius"" and "future proofed". When Xbox hardware ends, all you digital games are on a timer to go out with it like Xbox 360 Marketplace shutdown.

PS - Hiding behind PC is still platform warring, PC fanboy (Xbox refugee).

It won't, Sony and Microsoft just have a different business model and a different client base than Nintendo. For Nintendo, software sells hardware. They sell to fans and to power users. You buy a Nintendo console to primarily play the Nintendo games that come out for it. For Sony and Microsoft utility sells consoles. They sell to tired casuals who just wanna come home after work, plug a game into their TV box, and chill out until bedtime. Multiplats serve this purpose. Sony just happens to try and have brand appeal too.

By this nature Nintendo won the console wars, since Sony and Microsoft are only competing with each other now.

Have fond memories of playing it back then but I wonder about this too, will it still be as fun now

It just feels right.

Nintendo said to not push for graphics and power, keep focusing on smaller devs. Sony didn't listen, they went after Microsoft in the power race. Meanwhile, Microsoft were the ones to take Nintendo's advice to heart and focus on smaller devs, not push the graphic envelope, and make weaker affordable consoles while Sony stuck to making powerful consoles even getting rid of their handhelds at a time when they were needed. PlayStation is doomed. This is the endgame.

ps5 lost

lol?

For like the past 10 years now Sony has been riding on the same like 5 exclusives they made, they made no new IPs and barely release a movie game a year. That is dogshit exclusive output. They have been gambling on live service with Bungie and that has been a prolific fucking disaster. Concord, Cancelled last of Us 2 project, Marathon getting clowned on. Fairgames. They are struggling to escape expensive movie game hell. Switch 2 can actually run your fifa, cod, elden ring now. So it’s going to struggle to be the default choice now. PC is also becoming way more attractive and will consume the Xbros with the “Play anywhere” thing they have were if you buy a game on Xbox you now own it on Pc and can even move saves to PC

You're getting priced out of gaming, homie.

Who are these green niggas?

everything is an xbox.
xbros won.

all me

Austro-Hungarian Empire and Slovenia are green

What gives?

green - whites

blue - browns and blacks

For like the past 10 years now Sony has been riding on the same like 5 exclusives they made, they made no new IPs and barely release a movie game a year.

this is why im shocked ps5 is selling so well compared to xbox

more like tears of war

So this is a remaster of a remaster. Wow. Great.

Xbox's "next portable console" is just a generic PC handheld console and it's not even entirely made by Microsoft, but by Asus. And there are already plenty of options like the Lenovo Legio Go, the Asus ROG Ally, or the MSI Claw, among many other brands, without exclusives or any other selling point I don't see the point in buying the Xbox handheld console.

What's the reason to buy PS5?

Gaylo and Gears on Snoy

Killzone Trilogy soon

Bloodbourne neverever

Playstation

Timed exclusives

Xbox

No exclusives

at this point, who the fuck cares

Did your retarded ass really miss the news on the 2027 FIRST PARTY XBOX HANDHELD, not that ASUS shit coming this year? The 2027 handheld is the Series S successor.

Thanks for making me check Steam. It's there to be wishlisted, but I also saw Master Chief Collection for $10 and Halo Wars for $5, so I might actually get those. Sucks that Halo Wars 2 is still only on the Xbox app though.

This

What reason is there to even own an Xbox now?

I'm white. English is my first language. I'm straight. I'm not poor.

Gamepass >>>> Anything PlayStation can offer. Simple as.

says this when Gears is a latinx franchise

Kek

this is why im shocked ps5 is selling so well compared to xbox

Well Sony is a cult.

I don't play gears.

If you don't want a PC since. Now ps is the only viable powerful console with third and first party games

xbox main market has always been the US

it never had the outreach of nintendo and ps in other regions

As a Bong, there was a window from about 2007-2010 where everyone had a 360 but they squandered it with the Kinectshit.

It's because the PS4 performed incredibly well off the back of the Xbone's disastrous launch, and now all those players have enormous digital game libraries tied to their Playstation account - most of which are locked behind having an active PS+ membership. Players are pretty well locked into Sony's ecosystem now, Microsoft is right to try and pivot their gaming business away from the traditional console model because assuming Sony doesn't do some catastrophic, biblical, business-ending fuckup the 'console war' as we knew it is effectively over.

There is no point to the PlayStation. You're gonna find that out in 2028.

2005 video game that has been multiplat since 2006

what a shit thread lmao.
I didn't see this reaction when death stranding or MLB The Show got put on Game Pass

You're gonna find that out in 2028.

w-what happens then o_o

you would see a reaction if last of us, god of war, or spiderman came to xbox

Wow, a 19 year old game, old enough to drink even, has been ported to a competitor's modern nogames station, it's over, XBOX IS FINISHED
and at the end of the day, the PC port still remains the better option.

Playstation doesn't do exclusives. They're both on the same trajectory. First porting to PC and then other consoles. We've already seen Sony port games to Nintendo so playing any game on any console is the future.

I'm from a white country, what does that mean

Depends? Do you like shotguns? If yes, you will love it. If no, you will hate it

PlayStation becomes unaffordable.

Queers of Snore