According to documents from Microsoft’s recent case against the FTC, the Xbox Series S is more popular than the Xbox Series X
According to documents from Microsoft’s recent case against the FTC, the Xbox Series S is more popular than the Xbox Series X
It makes sense. It may suprise a lot of people on here but their biggest market is not the people who demand 4k 60FPS in all games and will riot if they don’t get it. Their main market is kids playing FIFA and Minecraft and other casual gamers who just enjoy fun games at a reasonable budget. For that they really got it right with the Series S.
I hope they don’t take this as a sign that physical media is dead. Personally, I still like to have the physical media, especially for single player games, so they can’t pull the rug out from under me if they decide to close their digital store, or lose the rights, or whatever. Digital only means you never really own your games.
While I agree with you, the fact that no game has released in the past 10 years without major patches and updates means what’s on that physical media is useless
It depends on how impactful those updates are. I have at least 200 hours in to Tears of the Kingdom, and I’ve been avoiding updates since very early days so I can use some item duplication glitches. I haven’t run into anything that makes the game unplayable, just some glitches that I have to put effort into doing, and I think make the game much better. But Nintendo is a company that would rather push back a release date than release a broken came “on time”.
I do think the ability to push updates has made companies pretty lazy when it comes to making sure things are really solid before they ship.
If I have to choose between a game with no updates, or no game at all, I’m going to pick a game with no updates. At least I have a sporting chance.
Nintendo understanding this market is a big part of how they’ve been outselling MS and Sony in the Wii and Switch generations despite being behind on hardware power.