Halo Coming To PS5 Is The Beginning Of The End For Xbox – TheGamer

Once upon a time, the idea of an Xbox exclusive like Halo or Gears of War gracing a rival‚Äôs platform was unthinkable. It‚Äôs like when you boot up The Master Chief Collection on PC then decide to play with a DualSense controller; something about it just feels incredibly wrong. I grew up in a household where I owned a PS2 while two of my older brothers had the Xbox and Nintendo GameCube, meaning console war battle lines were drawn between us by our parents whether they realized it or not. It saw me grow up on a steady diet of games that in normal circumstances you couldn‚Äôt play anywhere else, but as one of nine kids, there was always a new game somewhere in the house to sink into. But favoritism remained as one brother cheered on the brilliance of Super Mario Sunshine while the other lauded Halo 2 over our heads, while I was perfectly happy with the masterful Final Fantasy 10 and the laundry list of other JRPGs that graced Sony‚Äôs platform. Like myriad other gamers from back then, we developed favourites, and with each generation to follow it was natural to gravitate towards a console where the games we loved the most called home. But those lines have blurred in recent years as countless classics from yesteryear are ported and remastered, while triple-A development has grown so costly and prolonged that keeping games confined to a single console limits sales and creates greater financial risk, and so you are going to end up porting things over to PC or going multiplatform. We‚Äôve seen this happen with major franchises like Final Fantasy, but otherwise, PlayStation and Xbox both stubbornly held the line. Nintendo is off doing its own thing, so let‚Äôs ignore it for the time being. Sony saw fit to release PC versions of Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Days Gone, and a selection of other modern titles, but months after the console experiences, safely knowing all of these games had already attracted sizable communities all their own. A PC version was a bonus, not a lifeline, and they were always marketed as such. The same goes for properties like Horizon suddenly appearing in Lego form on Nintendo Switch, a partnership which isn‚Äôt designed to take away from the pull PlayStation has as an exclusive powerhouse. Move over to the Xbox pastures and the story couldn‚Äôt be more different. Since the debuts of Xbox Play Anywhere and Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft has committed to providing all of its exclusives on Xbox and PC at the same time, a philosophy complicated by the arrival of the Xbox Series S and yet another technical SKU to account for. You weren‚Äôt selling additional versions of games on multiple platforms, you were giving them away as part of a service which promised to build an unstoppable ecosystem. As that vision fell apart however, Microsoft was left trying to pick up the pieces and again turn Xbox into a console that boasted games you wanted to play, either through pouring money into massive studio acquisitions or spearheading the return of fan favourite IP like Fable and Perfect Dark. Those games could deliver, but reports claim that conversations are already being had about Halo, Gears of War, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and other big hitters making the jump to PS5. NateTheHate and Windows Central‚Äôs Jez Corden reported last week that Halo is planned to come to both PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 later this year, likely in the form of the Master Chief Collection as a way to collate most major games in the series on new platforms. Other titles were mentioned, including Microsoft Flight Simulator and Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, all showing that Xbox has potential plans to bring large swathes of its back catalogue to other platforms. When Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Grounded, and even Indiana Jones and The Great Circle were announced for PS5, it felt like Xbox was deliberately holding its most precious IP back. All the games which make Xbox what it is being hoarded on Microsoft‚Äôs console alone, knowing that if you cross that line onto rival hardware there‚Äôs no going back. Once we reach the point of no return, there will be little justifying Xbox as a physical console anymore. It will be a service, a developer, and a publisher that is heavily present on other platforms with little interest in maintaining its own.This is a product of its inability to compete over two console generations and Game Pass reaching a plateau that is seeing it lose more money than it makes, so much so that porting to other platforms is a necessity in order to break even and justify the existence of countless experiences. This was always the ultimate destination for Xbox, and I‚Äôd argue it was set in stone after the underwhelming launch of Starfield that many believed would change its fortunes for good. It did the opposite, and now Xbox is staring down the barrel of a future where it abandons the console business altogether and continues as a service provider/third-party publisher similar to Sega after the death of the Dreamcast. That is a future that could still be lined with ample success, and perhaps it will put Microsoft in a position to make bigger and better games. Launched in 2020 in conjunction with the Xbox Series S digital-only console, the Series X is the disc version of Microsoft’s premier gaming platform.We want to hear from you! Share your opinions in the thread below and remember to keep it respectful.Your comment has not been savedPersonally, I‚Äôll wait for official confirmation, because this is just for clicks No, no its not. This is going to happen. You obviously don’t know a lot about the industry.The third most profitable division at Microsoft and is more profitable than Windows. I don’t see them abandoning gaming and Xbox. I think they are pivoting and seeing where gaming is going. You look at the sales of the GOTY winner and the award is nice and shiny but doesn’t translate to sales.Xbox brand is profitable. The console on its own not that profitable. They probably make more money just focusing on Xbox as a service and gamepass and not have a console.Finally someone who sees what I see. These PlayStation fanboys are praying for the death of Xbox, but I can GUARANTEE without Microsoft keeping Sony in check we will see PlayStation corner the high end console market. It’ll be awful for consumers because PlayStation can charge $100+ for games and $700 for consoles, why? Cuz there’s no competition for them.Luckily, I don’t see that awful future coming to fruition. Xbox is one of the most profitable divisions at Microsoft. You don’t spend $70 billion dollars acquiring Call of Duty just to quit. I’d also argue it’s console division is doing better now than it was 10 years ago. There’s more console players on Xbox now than ever before, a player base of more than 90 million is nothing to scoff at. We already know Microsoft is developing a new console as well as a handheld Xbox console that will be able to play 4 generations of Xbox games natively which will be absolutely phenomenal.Xbox isn’t going anywhere and I’m so sick of this click bait narrative. Thankfully more players like yourself see the bigger picture lol happy gaming This is extremely smart on Microsofts part. More consumers, more money for development. This is Microsoft antecipating what the future will be. There won’t be any physical consoles, the next generation will be the last.This how sad Sony fans are they are soooooooooooooooooooooo happy to get halo on ps5 hey news flash Sony users bungie doesn‚Äôt do halo anymore unless they decide to when it comes to Sony even if then it does it still wouldn‚Äôt make it better 343 ruined halo that‚Äôs why don‚Äôt think for a chance that this is a W for yall but its not a W its just wants more audience The collection is still good thank godüôèüèΩPut games on PS and Nintendo for sale and subsidize Game Pass on Xbox. Seems like a smart move.Larian has a storied history, climbing from near bankruptcy to one of the most critically acclaimed RPGs of all-time, but “the story ain’t over yet”. Not everything in life has to be Bloodborne. Here are other PlayStation 4 games we still wish we could play on PC or natively on PS5.Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gets better the harder you look.There are some fantastic skins in Marvel Rivals Season One.For the first time in years, I’m expecting to be making heavy use of my Xbox.Atlus RPGs are among the most popular in the world, but also consistently the hardest. Shin Megami Tensei tests your medal as a gamer.

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