Microsoft Says It Didn't Need Halo Infinite To Be A Launch Title For Series X To Succeed

@psychomantisiii: Not necessarily true and I believe they do not really need Infinite to succeed. I am not burned up about it being delayed as I know it will come soon but I am more into the Game Pass Ultimate and getting to play new games. I also do not base my purchases on one game. However, I even if Infinite was delayed, I am not rushing out and buying an PA5 or XBone X Series as I like to wait for the bug test.

@khelandros: They have said a number of times they don't need people to buy the console and that's not the main goal. It's about giving people options to play where they want. Exclusives are great for consoles but bad for gamers as a whole, especially when the players game on different devices. As a PC gamer I really like that they are putting more effort into accessibility. Sony has also stated they would like more of their exclusives to go to PC which is more good news. Game where you want with whoever you want via cross play, that is what I like to see.

They never said that. In fact, she said it would have been tremendous if Infinite had released on time. But it would have been disastrously if it was a flop. The good news is, even without Halo, they still have thousands of games available to play on it, including all new ones as well as Series X exclusives like Gears Tactics, Scorn, Medium and more.

@khelandros: Their strategy is simply different than Sony's. Its OK if you don't like it. They're not expecting everyone to. The money is in software and services. If they can sell you that without having to sell hardware, they still make money. Both consoles almost have no value this launch unless you are a huge fan of Ratchet & Clank or are willing to spend $500 to play Spider-Man DLC. I don't see any point in buying either console at launch.

@kraenk12: The only way you could know that is if you and Spencer get together and talk on a regular basis and he's decided he's fine with sharing info with you that you will blab on the internet.

@kraenk12: Can you post a link to the source of Xbox sales?

I think THE WHOLE WORLD would like to know your source.

@johnny0779: Did you forget there was a Sony stream later today?

@johnny0779: There are Horizon 2, Ratchet & Clank, GT7. Spider-Man MM, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us part 2, Death Stranding...all coming launch window on PS5.

@andrewsqual: The X1X is discontinued because it would basically be competing with the Series S which replaces it at similar performance and price point once the Series X releases. Why would you compete with your own product, the Series S is basically an X1X but with an upgraded CPU and SSD, its discontinuation has nothing to do with how well it was selling (and most reports state it was selling quite strongly btw).

@andrewsqual: Microsoft indeed discontinued the Xbox One X as a business move to introduce the Series S...while Sony already told developers not to keep making games for PS4 neither the Pro....lol...might as well discontinue the entire PS4 brand already.

That's the difference, Microsoft making sure gamers have access to all their games they bought and beyond while Sony wants to keep charging you for what is rightfully yours.

@soulcrusher777: Halo will be on X1 and X1X as well as well as PC, why buy a new XBox for that?

@mooglestar: If Sony manages to make all 4000 PS4 games backwards compatible, they already have more games than XBox One/Series have overall, that's the hypocrisy here. "MS is better because their games are older yaddayadda. "

@mooglestar: There are way more factors at play that determine what people are buying, one of the biggest for example being what are your friends playing for kids. Exclusives certainly play a part but its not really as big as people like to make it out to be.

You can just look at the numbers for example, even the most popular exclusive games are lucky to be pushing 6 million units on a console with an install base over 110 million. Even if you take some liberties with things like not everyone buys all exclusives or some people are only interested in certain things, there is only so far you can puff out or inflate those numbers and it still wouldn't come close to bridging that 104 million gap.

Exclusive numbers are even so small in most cases, one could very easily argue a game like CoD (with its 10s of millions playerbase size making up a significantly larger portion of that 110 million playerbase) would have a drastically higher impact on drawing users to a specific console simply with their early access DLC offers.

@mooglestar:Arent there other promising NEW games MS has in the pipeline which could interest you?

Halo is big but not end of all games :-)

Sales of the Series X is expected to be less vs PS5 anyways as there are PCs as the other plattform on which you can play Gamepass games.

MS will likely use the numbers of subscriptions+hardware sales to measure their success.

But back to your comment,if MS reports strong subs around the time Halo Infinite launches then yeah,an exclusive can/should push the interest of gamers