Hear me out, corporate speech has no meaning. He also said only 4 games will go multi-platform. Nothing Phil says or said matters because the actions don't always follow the words. So we should stop reading too much into what one guy has to say when his actions are bound to his shareholders and not his beliefs.
@Questionable_Duck they spent that much developing the PC port, however, once a developer has made a PC port, the Xbox port is quite cheaper to make because all they need to change is the underlying API calls and defining what to limit based on the hardware. That is not easy and still takes time and effort, but is a lot cheaper than making a port for a completely different platform, which Xbox is not (wrt PC).
As @NishimuraX said, Game Pass has drastically changed buying habits on Xbox. Many game studios have backed up this claim, essentially saying it doesn't make sense to develop Xbox port unless they want to put it on Game Pass. Now the reason Sony has made this port is simple - they want the "whales" to buy this, and if these high spenders do, then Sony can earn large revenue from a small minority.
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Hear me out, corporate speech has no meaning. He also said only 4 games will go multi-platform. Nothing Phil says or said matters because the actions don't always follow the words. So we should stop reading too much into what one guy has to say when his actions are bound to his shareholders and not his beliefs.
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@Questionable_Duck they spent that much developing the PC port, however, once a developer has made a PC port, the Xbox port is quite cheaper to make because all they need to change is the underlying API calls and defining what to limit based on the hardware. That is not easy and still takes time and effort, but is a lot cheaper than making a port for a completely different platform, which Xbox is not (wrt PC).
As @NishimuraX said, Game Pass has drastically changed buying habits on Xbox. Many game studios have backed up this claim, essentially saying it doesn't make sense to develop Xbox port unless they want to put it on Game Pass. Now the reason Sony has made this port is simple - they want the "whales" to buy this, and if these high spenders do, then Sony can earn large revenue from a small minority.