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They're getting desperate.
Of course they're desperate. They can smell their death, and the sound they'll
make rattling their cage will serve as a warning to the rest.
Frick you.
I'm going to install Deus Ex again and IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT.
>Halo Infinite flopped
>Everwild in development hell
>Perfect Dark in development hell
>Fable confirmed to be pozzed and woke, also in development hell
>Gears Collection is nothing more than a rumor
>Starfield is Fallout 4 in space at 30fps delayed for an entire year
>Redfall is a soulless always-online open world co-op shooter made to meet diversity quotas at 30fps
>No Shinji Mikami kino because he left shortly after Bethesda/Tango acquisition
>removing emulators
>removing $1 gamepass
>miss 80% of all Japanese games unless Microsoft pays for a gamepass port
>goypass missing it's target every finacial quarter
>hardware revenue down
>dashboard littered with ads
>no offline achievement support
>storage upgrade only available through expensive proprietary solutions through selected vendors
>physical next gen disc games only contain the Xbox One version of games, requiring you to connect to the internet to download the Series X version
And they are spiking the Gamepass price again.
and Snoys are literally shidding and pissing their pants
as someone who plays on PC and hasn't owned an xbox since the 360 days, why should any of these bother me?
As long as it kills Snoys and the Shitstation, I'm fine with all those points.
For real though. What is sony even gonna do? God of War is over unless they reboot it again so what do they even have left?
They could have a bunch of shit, but they are afraid
Sony fricked up big time by not making any new games. Empty joke of a library.
Isn't Nintendo releasing that SMRPG remake on the same day?
Nope, they're releasing the new 2D Mario in the same day as Spider-man and the SMRPG remake on the say day as Persona 5 Tactica
Also forgot to mention that Spider-man and Persona 5 Tactics are guaranteed to hit the bargain bin like 5-6 months after they come out, potentially with some GOTY re-release with more content included, so there's no reason to get either game on release compared to Never-On-Sale Nintendo games.
I have both and PS5 sucks, its got no exclusive and the ones it has are pozzed shit.
>TLOU
>FFXVI
>Spider-Coon
>God of Soi
Exclusives have and should be dead once consoles switched architectures and just turned into glorified mini PC's, there's zero reason for a company not to port other than moronic competition.
>once consoles switched architectures and just turned into glorified mini PC's, there's zero reason for a company not to port other than moronic competition.
I'm pretty sure PS5 runs on it's own architecture again doesn't it? With the SSD BS? At least from what I hear developers constantly say its harder to get their games to work on playstation than Xbox.
Thats their storage structure it's x86-64 like everything else not even Nintendo has an excuse considering its just running on ARM and is basically a glorified android tablet.
All of those are on PC or going to be there soon
Starfield is driving the snoys mad they're making petitions and breaking down on streams, it's seriously broken them far more than the Activision buyout.
>x-xisters look transfield justifies us!!!!!
kek
Anyone who still uses a console at this point is an idiot, and that includes the switch.
You are a b***h
Your mom is my b***h
Stupid take
Sonygay detected.
Switch especially. Laughably easy to emulate the games week of release at double the performance. Unless you're the kind of weirdo to play one in public, but then even there's the deck.
Now this is cope
>30fps
I would happily buy a Nintendo console that wasn't made from decade old laptop parts.
You can take your frames autism and shove it up your ass, still need to deal with jank and lack of portability
>jank
Game is smoother than you will ever get on 30FPS, you literally play THE jank and pay $70 for it
>lack of portability
Steamdeck is 10 times better quality than you chinese console
He says not realising that the deck was made in China.
I just finished TOTK last week anon. There was shockingly little jank for a game that had just released. And by jank, I mean it occasionally dropped to 50 fps @ 4k. And I haven't owned a portable since the GBA. I drive a car and beyond riding a bus I have no idea why someone would want to play games on a 7" screen.
all you will get is Black person pandering for the rest of your life
>crime in progress
Haven't had a Sony console since the PS3, anon. Why would you even think that given my post?
That's literally what every sonygay says when they get caught.
Anon, I have PC. You can rest easy knowing I at least emulate your games.
>Anon, I have PC
Uh huh. If I had a dollar for every time I heard that one I would make Bezos cry.
>he had a PS3
your cucking is terminal
Listen anon, Kaz lured me in with his sweet little lies. I take full responsibility.
what's wrong with having a ps3?
free online
blue ray player when those where expensive
games?
all the good games anyone should've cared for where multiplats
I was PC back then so I don't even know exclusives from either side other than killzone, last of us, halo and gears of war
The PS3 had a very healthy library of exclusive software. It launched a year late, so it lost out on games by default, but the first part support was quite strong. The PS4 continued the downward trend and here we are at the PS5 with almost nothing outright.
>ToTK at 4K 60fps with graphics overhaul mods
>cope
PC fricking sucks now, hdr monitors are non existent, expensive parts and you still have to put up with shader stutter and console ports, hackers online...
>hdr monitors are non existent
How are you this stuipd? Do you even know what HDR is?
Microsoft is the only company that puts all their shit on PC.
If Sony Amazon or whoever gets a brand they make it exclusive to their shit hardware.
Do you think microsoft would do that if they weren't losing the console war so badly? They promised PC ports of all first and second party games back in the 360 days and again in the Xbone days and it never happened because they liked those sweet console bucks.
But they smelled an opportunity to become Netflix and lock people into a subscription pass that shut out Playstation and Nintendo forever and so it was very much in their interest to throw the console to the dogs and go full PC.
Since their gamepass business is not doing so hot, we'll see how long their PC promotion lasts. It's one thing to put all your games on steam, but another to give them away day 1 to subscribers.
Sony's putting all their shit on PC too.
As is Nintendo, albeit unwillingly.
based shrugger dabbing on the Gankertards with shit opinions
Based, console tards absolutely coping in the replies.
>and that includes the switch.
What is portability
inb4 muh deck
as switch lite and deck owner
the deck is nowhere near as portable
Same level of portability. Neither fit in your pocket unless you're wearing cargo pants and you'll just frick up your sticks if you try.
more to portability than just size, battery life mattters to, heat dissipation etc.
Yes, but the Deck is better at both of those things.
>Deck is better at both of those things
nice joke
switch last way longer even play its demanding games
stays way cooler
and is fricking whisper quiet
Steam deck literally has a better battery. It having a worse battery is a shitposter meme due to it being able to play far more demanding games than the switch.
Better image that cuts out the ally
i'd rather be playing non demanding games on switch, it's lighter, smaller and easier to hold with the only disadvantage being it's not as comfortable because it's just a slab with no handles
I only use the deck for the demanding games because most of them aren't on switch or run like absolute shit on it
the thing is that if you want to play the games while not being gimped you'll have a little over an hour
But even gimped it's still far better than the switch
yeah but I'm not playing the witcher 3 on the switch. the port isn't even that good to begin with
i have never in my life seen a person play a portable console of any kind
what sad shithole you must come from
i only do it in nature, like after that long ass hike up a mountain, you're enjoying the sunset, its finally dark, then you can eventually pull out the switch and game in the tent for a bit
pure frickin unadulterated natural kino
Come on anon, I'm sure if you think back far enough there were kids at school playing on portables.
we played sports during school breaks
TPBP. Paying for console and I will assume most pay for online, because they're idiots.
shader compilation stutter cope
Not only does it include the Switch, it goes extra hard for morons still using the Switch instead of emulating it for free and for a better experience.
They hate him because he spoke the truth.
Consoles are comfy
So why doesn't Microsoft use something like FF16 or Stellar Blade which was literally announced for Xbox only to then be turned into an exclusive as an argument for the acquisition by showing that Sony argues in bad faith?
I feel like they don't actually want to close this deal and are just using it for PR, because dismantling Sony's "arguments" is so easy a child could do it.
>So why doesn't Microsoft use something like FF16
Square Enix has publicly talked about how they tried to seek a deal with Microsoft, and that the exclusivity is all about technical difficulties with developing the game and how Sony was willing to provide platform expertise and Microsoft was not.
>and that the exclusivity is all about technical difficulties with developing the game and how Sony was willing to provide platform expertise and Microsoft was not.
In other words, Sony gave them a bigger bag
What the frick does Activision even have to do with Starfield? They're two completely different companies. It's like arguing that General Motors can't buy Jeep because Chevy makes SUVs.
Yeah, sure, they do, but they don't make Jeeps.
Not going to search for OP's article, but I remember Microsoft saying to regulators that making Bethesda games exclusive wouldn't be viable because of sales loss. Then they did it anyways once the merger went through. So its probably something like
>uhhh we totally can't drop PS support for games like Call of Duty, do you know how much lost sales that is?!
>yeah but you did it before, look Starfield isn't coming out
>well that is another matter....
>I remember Microsoft saying to regulators that making Bethesda games exclusive wouldn't be viable because of sales loss
No, Ganker said that. Microsoft said
>We won't make the games already announced for other platforms exclusive.
But Ganker was wrong.
It's basically "look, they bought a studio and now this big upcoming game is exclusive to their platform!"
I guess FFXVI doesn't count because Sony hasn't bought Square Enix, they just buy timed exclusivity of every new game out of the studio. Totally not the same thing where it concerns players.
No you morons, Microsoft lied to regulators when they bought Bethesda and said that Bethesda games would still come to Sony platforms, but now they are Xbox/PC exclusive after the acquisition
Same thing will happen if they can get their hands on Activision
Why shouldn't a first party game be exclusive? Is Microsoft going to sue Sony over the exclusivity of the next God of War or something? Or whatever turd Bungie puts out next?
Because it wasn't first party before they bought them
And they told regulators they weren't going to take the games away from Sony but still did
Microsoft lied and are lying again.
And besides Bungie is staying multiplat, so put your pitchfork down because you don't even know what you're talking about
>Bungie is staying multiplat
Destiny is staying multiplat because it would be criminal to just kick out every other platform that's been in the game for ten years.
And about Starfield going exclusive mid-development (according to the reputable source, your ass), how about we bring up Stellar Blade who did it first? Sony leading the market once again, huh?
You're once again being completely disingenuous and trying to frame buying exclusive rights to a single game as the same thing as buying a publisher
Marathon is multiplat too, all Bungie games are still going to be multiplat
>it doesn't count
have a nice day snoy
>buying exclusive rights to a single game as the same thing as buying a publisher
They are the same where the customer is concerned. Exclusivity = less games on X platform every time, no matter what the shady deal that was struck actually says.
So I see this as two corporations playing the same game, except one isn't being a hypocritical little b***h about it, keeping games hostage to their platform while crying that the other guy can't do it.
And yeah, snoys are annoying troony worshippers so frick'em.
>They are the same where the customer is concerned.
EGS's rapidly declining worth has shown quite the opposite.
moron. The "MS lied to the EU about Bethesda games" is the FTC argument. The EU regulators themselves answered the FTC saying MS did not lie to them.
https://gamerant.com/eu-contradicts-ftc-claim-microsoft-activision-blizzard-acquisition/
>abloo bloo bloo microsoft has exclusives now!
Oh no! This cannot be! Nobody has ever done this before, ever!
>corrupt company keeps trying to force a monopoly and buy up every IP
>cucks shilling nonstop and never shutting the frick up about it thinking this will be good for gaming
this is the most jarring thing about modern Ganker. the same site that tried to fight against scientology and the corruption of gaming journalist conglomerates is suddenly in support of a fricking monopoly that could destroy the consumer market as we know it (maybe not with this ONE acquisition, but there WILL be more if they get away with this one)
we have always hated Black folk and sony is acting like Black folk and is used by Black folk
hating Black folk takes precedence
Shut the frick up you larping zoomer homosexual. You came from that fricking donald reddit sub and your kind ruined the site. have a nice day.
been here since &Totse died you Black person
shutup Black person go back to soc or whatever cesspool freakshow board you started on
It's also the same site that harasses random people into hiding or committing suicide, what's your point?
Plus a lot of people see the industry as pretty fricking fricked at this point, and try to encourage a crash to hopefully revert it back into a niche hobby that passionate nerds care about. It won't happen, but seeing AAA burn is nice too.
>Im-fricking-plying this site has teeth anymore.
That's what people don't get. They never truly factor in the basic customer-facing sides of issues. To the typical customer, Sony simply buying just exclusivity rights is functionally identical to Microsoft buying a developer AND making their shit Xbox/PC exclusive.
That mindset doesn't seem to work to well for Epic Games.
So I very much doubt that's the case.
>implying this won't just push Sony to further increase its investment into japanese games and studios creating a new golden age of soulful next gen games with 0 trannies
moron
It won't. Sony's Playstation headquarters is in California. So any chance the brand will stray from mind rotting social politics is non-existent.
>0 trannies
Japan is already well showing symptoms of globohomosexual infection, you'll see a mainstream push for trannies soon enough.
A mainline FF game has an on-screen gay sex scene and you still think they're the bastion of BASED. You are a clown, a drone.
very wishful thinking, i wish it were true too
i dont even care about sony but MS, a company who has been to trial multiple times now for antitrust and shady anti-competitive shit should not be handed such an immense W (for them, and them only) just because of that
I'm a idort/sonygay but c'mon homie
I don't want any of these frickhuge corporations buying up devs. Acquisitions are always cancer unless the smaller company is for sure dead in the water otherwise.
I don't like hypocrisy. It's that simple. I don't like hypocrites and I don't like double standards.
So Sony, a company that liberally engages in exclusivity in order to hurt its competition, flinching and playing the victim when the competition strikes back with the same weapon irks me. They're rats, dishing out what they can't take in return, and even as they cry out they continue to do the same thing they're asking every government in the world to stop their competition from doing.
Basically, Sony are fricking around, and I want to see them find out.
Sony doesn't buy up who publishing companies bi-yearly to get exclusivity rights. They generally fund a single game's development and have it release as a timed exclusive on their platforms as a fee for financing a games development.
Microsoft buys whole publishers and their Devs so they have full unopposed access to the games they make and keeps them from leaving Microsofts platforms entirely.
This is a Steam vs EGS situation.
Can’t believe there are people like this anon that are still too stupid to understand why M$ is doing what they’re doing.
If Microsoft stamps out PlayStation in the west. Japanese games will effectively cease to exist on consoles. or entirely as the Japanese market do not buy Xbox. For any reason. As well as barely use PC for video games. They are all phone and Nintendo players. If Microsoft owns the entire Western Market. By proxy the Eastern Market dies.
>Japanese games will effectively cease to exist on consoles
Good. We'll just get them on PC.
Yeah because Japan realized that China are the biggest consumers of japanese games and the Chinese exclusively play on PC. We'll always get japanese games on PC now.
That doesn't sound so good. Japan doesn't have a good history when it comes to PC ports
>ports
It's not a port if it's developed for PC.
Get with the times grandpa, every Japanese game it's on PC these days
oH NOOOOOO these homosexual ass japs will have to learn to optimize for PCs instead of bruteforcing performance on consoles (which they still can't do as evidenced by fricking FF16, a PS5 ""exclusive")
If Playstation ever ceases to exist in 10 years or whatever, we'll have bigger problems to worry about by that point like Stutter Engine 6 or Unity being every game's engine.
They also don't seem to like a much larger conglomerate coming in and using financial plus infrastructural advantages that they can't possibly directly compete with. Gee, that sure must suck to deal with, huh Sony?
NOOOOO!!!
HOW DARE YOU MICROSOFT SHILL!!!
ONLY SONY HAS THE RIGHTS TO OWN EXCLUSIVES!!!!
ONLY SONY!!
SONY!!
SONYY!!1!
AAAAHGHHH!! I'M GOING INSANE!!!
HELP ME TRANNIES!!!
HELP ME JIM LIAR!!!! AAAAAAA!!!!
God you are such a stupid homosexual zoomer piece of shit. You clearly haven’t been around long enough to remember. Microsoft has been doing this shit since they entered the gaming market.
snoy
Have you considered that maybe Sony is worse?
Everything Microshart touches will rot, opening room for more competition. Based Phil, rebooting the gaming landscape.
Yes we hate Sony that much deal with it
>the same site that tried to fight against scientology
never happened you moronic newbie. project chanology was widely moronic as gay and was quickly chased off of /b/
ok so why is sony allowed to buy exclusivity deals for multiple games for year?
>monopoly
What are you talking about Black person? Microshit releases their games on PC. Keeping it off of a console is a win.
>fight against [...] the corruption of gaming journalist conglomerates
lmao!
>Anon doesn't understand what the word monopoly means
>Only care is if his goybox can play it
Yep we certainly live in a corpo wienersuckin nufeudalistic society.
Getting a new Hexen in exchange for Sony dying is kino
Between Microsoft monopoly and Sony I choose the monopoly.
It's very simple:
>MS is sending games to PC day one
>Sony is paying so that doesn't happen
>MS has an affordable platform for AA games, giving a space to stuff like HiFi Rush, Guardians of the Galazy, and Lies of P
>Sony is completely focused on AAA
>MS is woke and wrinkles their nose at sexy games
>Sony outright demands them to be censored
I as a consumer have no incentive to still stand by Sony.
And if you're American, Sony outright supported the destruction of your cities, wasting tax payer money.
>that could destroy the consumer market as we know it
Good. Frick the consumer market we know. The sooner the gaming industry collapses, the better.
lmao this. it's exactly why I want the merger to go through.
Schizo website
Activision is shit anyway
The buyout gets ~~*Kotick*~~ his golden parachute out of the company and maybe the company will be good again
right? how does anyone shill for sony still in this day and age is beyond me
>buy up every IP
I know, Sony is so fricked up.
First they try to close off FF from Nintendo and Xbox
Then DQ, then Deathloop and Ghostwire, not to mention SF back with SFV.
Alright we're up to 5 now. Want to keep going? Microsoft probably aquired that many IP's this year alone
>Microsoft probably aquired that many IP's this year alone
Ok then, go ahead and name them.
I found Fortix, World Traveller VR, Land It! and Ignite but my source has Actiblizz listed under 2022 so I wouldn't call the information reliable
Inb4
>wow see snoy's far worse. Microsoft only aquired 4 IP's this year while snoy aquired marginally more than that over the last two console generations
it's gonna run like shit on both consoles and get heavily refunded anyways
Literally who cares about Bethesda and Activision? When was the last time a good game came out of either of them?
Sony does. They're fighting tooth and nail for ABK.
Companies don't give a shit about good games, they care about sales and keeping people on their platform.
If MS gets all the big dudebro normieBlack person games as exclusives then those people will stop buying playstations in the future.
If Microsoft has so much money why don't they just lobby to get this shit through like Disney and cable companies.
its like, maybe they should've not screwed over their frickin studios for the sake of FRICKING MOVIE games
Why is bad for Microsoft to have exclusives and not for Sony. They are literally release a game they paid to be exclusive to PS this week.
The FTC will never win, they have never successfully stopped a vertical merger.
I'm not too bright but I don't really get why the FTC has a problem with buying a company outright, but no problem with paying for all their games to be exclusive to your platform.
>snoy wants the cawwadooty bro audience
>turns all their games into qta movies
>even the japanese stop buying their games
>be jelly little bug b***hes because you alienated your core audience (we're on this part)
always point and laugh at snoy
I don't see people complaining about Gamepass and giving a shit about PS+. Only Linux users b***h about Microsoft OS because they are too stubborn to ditch their DIY OS they constantly have to frick with to work half as well as even Windows 8. You also decided to conveniently leave out MacOS and Switch that a significant portion of people use Over Windows and Sony.
>You also decided to conveniently leave out MacOS and Switch that a significant portion of people use Over Windows and Sony.
mac is almost as insignificant as loonix
switch just makes xbox's portion even smaller so what does it matter?
>switch just makes xbox's portion even smaller so what does it matter?
They both matter because it actually reinforces the claim that being the Market leader doesn't mean you are a monopoly.
Xbox just sucks and nobody wants one. That's all there is to it. The fact they are buying up virtually all major western publishers and devs is a dick move to force people to buy a shittier and less sought after product just to continue buying and playing the franchises they enjoy.
You know who did this exact same thing? Epic Games. And nobody fricking likes or buys their shit in hopes the publisher ditches them and sells their game on a service people actually like.
>You know who did this exact same thing? Epic Games
paying for timed exclusivity?
that's literally all snoy does
snoy is the market leader in doing that
They straight up bought Rocket league and removed it from steam among other games.
Nobody goes out of their way to buy anything exclusive or timed exclusive on EGS because they know the exclusivity drops in 6 months to a year or the Exclusive devs get let go or leave Epic due to getting less than pennies from a service people refuse to use.
That is where Xbox is right now. A product or service people refuse to use if possible.
Which is why a majority of new Xbox games are purchased on PC over the console.
>They straight up bought Rocket league and removed it from steam
Sounds familiar
I don't know why you use this unreleased game that was never going to sell on Xbox or PlayStation to begin with as something akin or the entirety of Bethesda, Blizzard and Activation.
Or Rocket League for that matter that already released ages before EGS bought it a removed it from steam.
Sony bought Bungie for fricks sake and Destiny 2 is still on everything as well as Marathon Their newly announced game post acquisition from Sony being released for PS5, Xbox, and PC.
>i-it doesn't count
called it
That's their whole strategy, to say their timed exclusivity shit doesn't count. They won't even acknowledged this. If FFXVI was releasing on PC I'd 100% get it but it's not it's only on PS. Is this not trying to force to buy a Playstation?
And then when you point out Starfield is also on PC day one they say that's not the same thing.
To think it does is moronic. The company payed to get the game made. You saying they get no right to something exclusive for their money spent?
It's like you think you should Pay to get into Disney land but you aren't allowed to ride the rides.
They payed for the Final Fantasies? That's new, but if that's the case then what's the issue with Microsoft? Just because they bought the studio after the games were done? So, by logic, you're okay with having the games thus far being multiplat but every one going forward to be exclusive?
>thus far
There were previous starfield games?
For argument sake's lets say Starfield would be multiplat (it already is but Sony says it doesn't count). Would you be okay if Starfield 2 is Xbox exclusive? MS will be paying for it after all.
I wouldn't give a shit because I have a PC, and all xbox games are also on PC. What a dumb scenario.
They payed for the development of 16, yes. This is common knowledge if you pulled your head out of your ass for 15 seconds to catch a breath of fresh air every once in a while.
It's why it's got timed exclusivity on PS5 until it's released on PC later.
that's the same thing as paying for exclusivity moron. Like every other 3rd party exclusive. Just a sneaky way of phrasing justification for an exclusive, and you guzzled it up. Where do you think the money goes
It isn't though. Paying for exclusivity is shelling money out after the games effectively done to bribe a game into staying on one platform for a time.
Financing the actually fricking games development is an entirely different thing.
You have no idea when these deals are made
>It's like you think you should Pay to get into Disney land but you aren't allowed to ride the rides.
Yes? There have been many themeparks over the iterations of themeparks that have a fee for entry, and then once you've paid for entry you'd buy a ticket book with your tickets to ride the rides, with different levels of tickets corresponding to the individual ride price itself.
This homosexual doesn't even themepark.
I've been to multiple theme parks. The ones I go to you pay to get in and have free reign for the rides and only pay for food and arcade games if the park has such things. What dystopian part of the world do you live the you pay out the ass to get into a park to do fricking nothing in it? California? Florida?
That's literally the history of theme parks.
Most at this point did away with individual ride tickets to streamline the process at the main gate, make lines move faster etc, but the prices of admission have gone up and instead you're paying for the ability to access a bunch of rides you won't be able to ride on your vacation/visit, instead of just the rides you want to ride.
But even then Disney found a brand new way to wring as much cash out of the visitor because even after making single fee admissions they introduced paid fast pass options and they now get to double dip on both high admission fees and individual ride fees.
Pic related
Blood.
Borne.
Published, Funded, and Co-developed by Sony and From Soft. Like Street Fighter 5.
Like Bayonetta 2 and 3 is to Nintendo.
If you foot the bill. I don't see the problem. But if you buy out the Dev. I don't see the problem. If you buy out the entire publisher of multiple devs. Then you have a problem.
At most you should have 1 publisher. It get's fricked up if a publisher answers to another publisher.
>NOOOOOO STARFIERDURUU NOT THE SAME
Like clockwork
I couldn't give a frick about starfield or cod. I haven't bought or played a Bethesda game since oblivion let alone Cod since the first MW2.
It's the mere act of attempting to own a vast majority of the western market under a single publisher that makes me hate this whole thing. I fricking despise EA, Embracer Group, and Tencent too for this exact same shit.
The worst Sony does it buy individual developers every once in a great fricking while.
Microsoft has bought whole fricking triple A publishers several fricking times over the course of 4 years. That's fricked up.
it was inevitable, better xbox than tencent amazon or apple. might as well be madat the way the world works. Sony would do the same if they could
You know what. Microsoft can have Activision blizzard. But not before the CEO of Actiblizzard is relieved of his position.
At the very fricking least that would make sure his ass doesn't have a financial safety net like he would have if the deal went through when he was still in his position.
don't like Kotick, but there's no way he isn't paid for his shares
Yeah. Except we've got it on record that if he remains CEO until the buyout he will be payed considerable more money when stepping down. With the added bonus of no legal repercussions for all the shit he allowed to happen in the company.
So if he can just be pushed out of CEO before the buy out it will be beneficial to everyone. Microsoft pays less. Kotik gets legal ramifications and less money.
>It's the mere act of attempting to own a vast majority of the western market under a single publisher that makes me hate this whole thing
That's called a monopoly, and yes we should care more collectively as a group against monopolies. The only reason this is even cared about though is the person who bought the studio is Microsoft. Sony is a monopoly as well, but you don't see the same pitchforks come out if they bought one single gaming company.
This is all performance theatre. It's the one small irrelevant thing that the government/court systems etc have found to be able to blue ball Microsoft with, without pissing off the sleeping giant.
Meanwhile every telecommunication merger will continue to get greenlit and fast tracked through approval. But I guess to the average consoomer the company billing them for their Internet isn't important enough, but when it comes to what they can play on the hotboxes? Stop the international press we have an emergency.
Probably because Sony buys either one semi noteworthy dev ever few years or some complete fricking nobodies that make an artsy farts walking sim. Sony buys out one or two nobodies that get easily and quickly replaced with 10 more nobodies that make the same garbage.
While Microsoft buys out publishers with control over dozens of easily recognizable devs and franchises several times a fricking decade. Which will never be replaced by any new devs or publishers with remotely as much sway over the video game industry.
It's like picking players for a baseball match. And Sony picks one kid from the bleacher during his turn and then Microsoft picks the entirety of the fricking Red Sox team for his turn.
See the difference here?
Snoy already has great AAA developers, and they tried to slowly secure their position with acquisitions without poking the bear that is MS. Now Xbox is competing to make it a competitive market, get over it
So you are saying Sony was just better at handling their IPs and making games. So Microsofts only action against a company simply making better games with what they have is to buy up all the multiplatform devs and ruin the western gaming market so that the competition can only work with their internal IPs. While Microsoft just throws money at the devs they bought instead of improving their own business, Games, and IPs?
Is this supposed to make Microsoft somehow look better to you?
It's not a competitive market when you remove the competition.
Why cant they buy more developers? You already said they need to improve on their games and IPs. MS is last place and buying activision blizzard they will still be at last place competing against Sony which has taken every attempt to snuff them out in the gaming market.
It will never not be funny that Sony only has themselves to blame for this.
>PS2 Launch: Directly threaten Microsoft by making stupid statements about removing the PC from the home.
>MS enters console space
>Use exclusivity and MS incompetence to squeeze MS nearly out of the market
>Procede to proclaim that exclusives make the market, first party games etc
>MS decides to compete as quickly as possible by opening its wallet
>mfw it's the fricking HOWEVER meme irl
Probably because they don't have infinite Windows money to burn
People claim Sony is a fricking monopoly but the games division of Sony is probably one of 2 or 3 lucrative division of Sony while everything else hemorrhages money.
PlayStation doesn't have the funds to fling around money buying up publishers and devs. So they focus entirely on improving what they have available to them and financing the development of games they find lucrative to them instead of buying up whole developers and publishers to fill out a catalog they don't have.
While Microsofts games division has don't nothing but bleed money from Microsoft while everything else Microsofts makes and has it's hands it is what gave them the mountains of cash they can blow on random bullshit like a fricking stadium they don't fricking use anymore.
Sony is that talent person just trying to make ends meet but never catches are real break.
Microsoft is that spoiled rich kid that flaunts his parents money around to lord themselves over others for their lack of a personality or skills.
>Sony is that talent person just trying to make ends meet but never catches are real break.
imagine, if you will for a moment, step back and re-evaluate your life for saying a multi-billion dollar company is just "making ends meet"
See
Someone is projecting lmao.
How can someone type this with a straight face? No one remembers anymore what Sony and Square did to Nintendo to release the PS1? Imagine thinking Sony cares about games when they simply close off whatever is not making money for the at the moment. Japan Studio, anyone remembers them?
>abloobloobloo poor sony
Literal shill. Hope those playstation store cards are worth your dignity. Sony is hemorrhaging money because all they've been doing is splurging for exclusivity and marketing while putting out dogshit products.
>it's only okay when Sony does it
Bethesda isn't comparable to blizzard-activision and blizzard is really their only truly gigantic acquisition.
Furthermore you're still apologizing for a monopoly in the industry to buy up developers/studios. It's the same fricking shit. For the same purpose of exclusivity.
Sony has the bigger grasp of the market, Xbox cannot stay competitive against the playstation/Nintendo without doing this.
Your only Argument against it is "it's owned by Microsoft so it isn't fair" and " my monopoly bought less so it's fair!!!!!"
What fricking monopoly? Sony doesn't own major publishers. Sony only keeps its IPs and the games it paid money to develop to their platform like they should. Hell. They even recently been porting prior exclusives to PC.
Are you b***hing about Japanese games? Is that why you think Sony has a monopoly? Because the Japanese never liked or bought Xbox consoles or games?
What fricking monopoly? Microsoft made a undesirable product and then for 10 solid straight years made 0 Exclusives or incentives to ever purchase a Xbox. While at the same time constantly released terrible games and Cancelled shit people cared about.
And this is supposed to be Sony's fault somehow that people didn't want a product with nothing but terrible games, Multiplatform games they can play on anything else, and terrible decisions made by Microsoft themselves to push away their market.
Explain to me how Sony is a fricking Monopoly when every single fricking problem Microsoft faced since Xbox One's release were entirely Microsoft fault. Please fricking enlighten me how Microsoft buying up 60% of the fricking western market in 5 years isn't as fricking scummy as Sony releasing a product they paid to have developed on their console exclusively?
I didn't realize music labels were relevant to the gaming market
Microsoft isnt a monopoly on the gaming market if you want to go that route, but it doesnt work like that
Microsoft is a Monopoly
Sony is a Monopoly.
Microsoft isnt just xbox.
Sony isnt just playstation.
I'd give my left nut just to see Sony die off for shits and giggles
>microsoft can't buy exclusivity but sony can
>What fricking monopoly?
the one where they are buying exclusivity for multiple games for years. to the point where they turned games not developed by them at all from multiplts to exclusives
>Sony doesn't own major publishers
they bought bungie and insomaniac in the last 3 years
>bungie
>insomniac
>publishers
How dare Sony buy out Sony Interactive Entertainment. Just think of all the SIE games we could be playing on Xbox
the second squaresoft partnered with Enix was the downfall
>Sony Interactive Entertainment completed its acquisition of Bungie in July 2022, with Bungie remaining as a multi-platform studio and publisher.
also how is buying competent studios any different?
>oh we didn't buy any IPs outside of destiny we will just make capeshit games that we bought exclusivity to
I think you misunderstood me. I just said they aren't publishers after someone else used them as examples of publishers
bungie is their own publisher since 2019
>paid to develop
Lol you actually buy this?
>here, take some money, I want exclusivity
>sure
This is development now. This is fine, but
>I like your product, we should merge our companies, I'll pay for the rest of the development (literally happened with Redfield)
Is not.
>Microsoft bought AAA publishers
To compete against Sony. Another monopoly.
Also if you're looking at Sony as just a videogame company in SIE but then come at Microsoft instead of Xbox, you're ignoring the larger picture in the fricked up shit that led to Sony being a monopoly in the music industry as well. But that doesn't matter to the consoomer I guess because it isn't exclusive to their goybox
>Most all of the record labels you know are owned by three major parent corporations: SONY, Universal Music Group (UMG), and Warner Music Group (WMG).
What has Sony bought in the last 15 years that stacks up to even a quarter of what Microsoft got with the acquisition of fricking Zenimax?
I'll fricking wait. Don't claim Japanese games. It's not Sony's fault the Japanese never liked the Xbox since it's fricking conception.
Crunchyroll probably
A fricking streaming service for anime with dog shit subs? Just pirate your anime like everyone else.
>They straight up bought Rocket league and removed it from steam among other games.
if you have on steam you can still play it
they offered steam users refunds
and your other "games" is just fallguys
and they have the absolute right to do it because they actually OWN the thing
what nobody likes is timed exclusivity because they don't own the games, they didn't develop them they have nothing to do with them
>Xbox just sucks and nobody wants one.
What's actually wrong with the system, aside from brand loyalty?
I wouldn't buy one because of what the scouter says about their ESG level, but that has nothing to do with the hardware.
why would you get one when all their games are on pc?
also worse controller and os
>worse controller
lol
lmao even
moronic Black person hands typed this
only onions hands actually think PS5 controller is better than Xbox
PS is the Black person console anon
why not buy a pc over an xbox? I will always assume you're a poor Black person if you have one
especially with their cheap gimped edition with terrible performance
that just screams poor
lil baby hands over here
Xbawks controllers is objectively superior to Sonys
That has little to do with the Xbox itself.
>controller
Very divisive opinion.
>os
It's faster to access your full library on xbox. At least, it was. I don't know if Series fricked everything up.
People buy Sony for the logo. Xbox is trying, and failing miserably, to buy an audience.
kys
Simply less powerful. Shares it's "Exclusives" with a gimped version of itself so games always run like shit. The franchises owned by Microsoft are a mix of genuine dogshit, Cancelled games, and series riding entirely on past glory. Ads everywhere on the home screen. Constant frick up with it's online services leading from trying to pull fast ones on the consumer and making them pay more to underselling the one good game they released in 10 years and getting so mad about it they abolish a deal everyone liked to recoup costs.
This is just a personal gripe so take it or leave it but the controller is terrible, Those LB/RB buttons are just plain garbage. Who the frick thought it was a good idea to have a button that doesn't press? and Asymmetrical analog is fricked up.
Every word of this post is wrong, but I wouldn't expect anything less from a Snoy.
If it was wrong you would have to point out exactly how it is. Until then you just look butthurt I pointed out the easily glaring flaws that push people away from buying the console.
I didn't even mention the part where every single one of it's games is on PC so there is no reason at all to ever one an Xbox.
The morons buying a PS5 to play videogames aren't going to have a strong enough PC or the ability to PC game. So if they want starfield bad enough they'll buy a series s or a series x.
Imagine thinking consoletards are going to magically use a PC to game on. Even if they did their PC runs windows kek
They'll buy a gaming laptop that will barely run it. Because they know it will open up more games for them to play than just an xbox.
Stellar Blade was announced for Xbox, Starfield was never announced for PS
STOP
DON'T BRING THAT UP, WHAT IF THE FTC/CMA SEE THAT
wtf really? Not that I give a frick 2bh, Shit Up is a horrible and greedy company.
What really? that can't be legal
People are still waiting for this.
The most charitable explanation I can think of is that they're waiting for Switch 2. But I know better than to think that that's the most likely reason.
I guarantee no one wants genshin on switch.
I do
Which multiplatform IP's did Sony buy up? Try to come up with more than just Final Fantasy
>Try to come up with one except the one that I'm deciding right here that doesn't count
jej
get that tunnel vision checked, mate, got one right here
Feel free to mention Final Fantasy, it counts. I'm just trying to figure out what "every IP" means to you because just one isn't anywhere near every one but what do I know, I'm just a snoy right?
See answer A. I never said not to mention it you illiterate frick
Alright that's 3 IP's. Anyone want to add something else before we compare it with all the IP's Microsoft bought out?
>final fantasy also doesn't count
You people have no shame. I hope MS wins this shit and takes all Activision games from PS, it would be a just dessert.
>what's 2+2?
>and don't say it's "4", give me a REAL answer
Street Fighter
Last time I checked 6 is on xbox as well and 5 wouldn't have existed in the first place since Capcom was in financial dire straits at the time and the only people willing to foot the bill on the development was Sony.
It's like b***hing Bayo 2 and 3 is only on Nintendo when nobody else was willing to foot the bill.
>According to Capcom, the game is a PlayStation 4 console-exclusive due to both Sony and Capcom having "the same vision for the growth potential in the fighting game space".
sounds like some corporate bullshit speak for exclusivity deal
It's also to save face because Capcom was working functioning entirely on Monster hunter money during the "Capcom 7 years of Outsourcing hell" that Nearly made them go belly up. If Sony didn't foot the bill. We either wouldn't have a Capcom today. Or at the very least we would be getting Street Fight 5 instead of 6 right now.
>be bakery
>buy one of the biggest sources of flour to drive out competitor
>morons see no problem with this
This isn't analogous in the slightest this situation is more like there is an infinite source of flour and new flour producers can pop up overnight with no interference, there isn't a chokehold on devs here you fricking moron.
>new flour producers can pop up overnight
you're moronic
If flour is what you are using to describe video game development companies yes they can pop up overnight with no resistance from Microsoft, what are you talking about.
>food analogy
Go eat poop snoyjeet
>be bakery
>pay flour makes to send good flour only to your store for a fixed time to drive out competitor
>morons see no problem with this
>please judge look at evil Microsoft making starfield exclusive, an IP they own and are publishing in house since 2021
>b-but ignore our business tactics of paying 3rd party publishers to keep games like FFXVI even though we have nothing to do with the game
Snoys will forever ignore this. This didn't start recently either, they've been doing this for ages. Hell, the PS exists because Square thought it would be funny to frick over Nintendo with this same tactic.
Snoyzoomers are too young to know about the Nintendo beef.
It's pretty fricking funny to see Sony seething at a company trying their chief strategy against them. And they were so sure they would kill Nintendo too kek
If we go by their own argument's logic of wanting Switch to not count as gen 9 hardware, that also means Sony hasn't won a generation since PS2 and Nintendo has beaten them back in the two generations after in a row.
This. Sony Playstation literally built their empire atop exclusivity.
Half the reason the 360 did so well was because of early Call of Duty map exclusivity
and when sony did that during the PS4 generation MS didn't throw a tantrum
it's always funny when they make final fantasies exclusive
because they defend them by saying xbox doesn't buy FF
if they don't buy it why pay to make it exclusive?
If you're the console that people buy FF on, then you want to go ham on the marketing. You want special edition consoles, adverts, billboards, fricking mcdonalds toys, and so on all with the Playstation logo on them to sell as many copies as you possibly can. And if you were Square Enix you ain't gonna do that for free, nor are you going to authorise it from Sony without a big ol' kickback. So sony has to pay for timed exclusivity on a game they were going to sell loads of anyway in order to boost the market presence of their company.
I mean it sounds like an excuse to maintain your control over that niche
well, yeah? These companies don't do this shit for the love of gaming and for the benefit of the consumer. Sometimes we benefit tangentially from their bullshit by getting games that otherwise would never be funded, but mostly it has little purpose other than to keep Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft Game Studios afloat.
If regulators stepped in and ended the practice, they'd just find new ways to spend money to tilt the market in their favor, and we can only hope they aren't worse than what we have now.
Because Square Enix are spoiled lazy morons who never bother advertising games themselves and depend on moneyhatting beneficiaries to do the work for them. This applies to both Sony and Nintendo timed SE exclusives.
>Caring about AAAshit
Post the actual text you dumb Black person. Headline only posts should be a ban.
Starfield isn't Call of Duty, Sony.
Should we start counting the PS1 and Ps2 exclusives?
Are you being a fricking moron on purpose? Just because Microsoft does such a shit job with every studio they own that nobody wants to buy their trash, that doesn’t mean they aren’t making predatory acquisitions at the same time.
Genshin Impact is still exclusive to PS at console level by the way. That Switch port they announced? Never arrived. I wonder why.
>That Switch port they announced? Never arrived. I wonder why.
Genshin is widely known to be "special" Unity. In that they have their own custom build and a pipeline to Unity HQ's best devs to keep the big cash-cow running.
To get this wonky custom engine ported to the ancient cellphone that is the switch would likely have been a massive undertaking. If sony was willing to give them a financial incentive to not even bother, I can see why they'd take it.
Yet they announced, not hinted, actually announced, so they must have had a build ready.
Not much chance. How many companies have you seen release pure bullshots of shit that's never in a month of sundays going to run on console hardware? And now how many times have the chinese been caught lying and taking stupid shortcuts to get money before running away with it? Yeah, when dealing with china, it's release code running on retail hardware or I don't believe it.
We're talking about Mihoyo here, not some indie backwater chink studio. They gross higher than Playstation these days.
But they're just a chang trash gacha shop
Trash Gacha shops eventually become recognizable franchises with money to back up actual games. See the Fate series. Gran blue Fantasy, and now Honkai/Genshin.
You guys seriously play this game ? Well, now i get why raid shadow legends earns money
Has Sony turned the FTC into their mouthpiece?
Nah, the head of the FTC just wants to look like they're doing something against Big Tech.
God of war.
Horizon zero dawn forbidden West.
Bloodborne.
Suck on my left nut and jump off a bridge Sony execs.
>FFXIII was the only mainline final fantasy that released without exclusivity to Sony
I never played it but all the bad press is starting to make a lot of sense now. Strangely, the game was well received in Japan, where the xbox marketshare was nonexistent at the time.
It was exclusive in Japan for the PS3. And the day it released it fricked Xbox hardcore there.
>It was exclusive in Japan for the PS3.
Ah that makes sense too. Strange since there were so few people interested in Xbox over there at the time. I wonder if Sony wanted it to stay that way.
It also ran like trash on 360. And arguably tanked FF at SE in general. They were working on a custom engine for a Playstation exclusive FF and it looked impressive.
And then Sony had that disastrous E3 where they told the world the PS3 was going to be fricking expensive and late. SE like every company panicked, and they pivoted to multi-plat, having to throw out large chunks of their custom engine work and retool on a new build that was designed to be multi-plat. This is hard fricking work, especially when you're dealing with 2 wildly different platforms with no knowledge about how to optimise for either yet.
God only knows how much of the game had to be discarded because there was no time to work it into the project that had basically had 2 do-overs already. And so that's why it reviewed badly. A business decision at SE caused by a business decision at Sony fricking over a long standing handshake agreement and ending the Japanese gaming market dominance for an entire generation.
>It also ran like trash on 360.
What a lie. I played it on the fricking 360 and it was fine. Only issue was no japanese language.
I'm playing it on 360 right now because I found it for $2 and I felt like it. It only runs at 720p (because the 360 hadn't enabled 1080p support yet in SDK, remember that?) while the PS3 was 720/1080 mixed framebuffer (high res text, movies, and such over upscaled visuals). The movies were compressed to frick, the sound and music also so it was swishy like a 90s MP3. The framerate in many areas drops to 15-20fps.
I mean it's playable, but you'd have had a better experience on PS3. And arguably everyone would have had a better experience had SE not shit the bed and demanded a simultaneous 360 port of a tentpole series on a brand new engine they didn't have the time or skills to make.
You're nitpicking. Game was literally fine. I remember a Sony game that ran 15-20fps in some areas too, and it wasn't even during the 7th gen. Every Sonygay said it made no difference. Some actually preferred it that way.
SNOYS be like.
>NOOOO YOU SEE THESE ARE ORIGINAL IPS SNOY MADE FOR THE PRAYSTATION THEY DUNOT COUNT.
>Starfield direct comes out
>NOOOOOO STARFIERDURUU NOT THE SAME
Kek
>How dare you have exclusives that can actually compete with our critically acclaimed and financially successful lineup!
They don't seem to be complaining about any of the other like 8 that were announced, or Redfall...
Why does the US government care about stopping videogame company mergers while huge companies like Blackrock are pricing people out of having a roof over their head with their monopoly?
Fricking moronic.
Blackrock (and other banks) literally bought the US government in 2008.
>its okay to take fricking SPIDERMAN but not the made up starfield game with 0 history
lmao Sony is going to burn in hell even if they don't get away with it
Sony only got spiderman because Microsoft turned down a deal with marvel, between that and mattrick on the same gen it feels like they were intentionally trying to kill xbox
you know insomniac games was getting funded and making games for sony before xbox even existed, right anon?
In generations prior to the 8th and current gen, Spiderman games were available on multiple platforms even with Sony's involvement through the Tobey Maguire movies. All SIE did was buy up a developer and make it exclusive and no one complained. Now SIE is using that same argument as a defense against the ABK merger. Essentially, they want their cake and eat it too. Sony deserves to burn!
Captcha: 0N0PP
Don't forget that Spidey 1 also took a whipping four years to hit PC, well after being a PS4 bundle prostitute. (I don't recall if either Remastered or Miles had official pack-in bundles with PS5s as well.) Whereas Microsoft's games now hit PC day one.
Has there ever been a greater concentrated moment of snoy seethe in the last decade than the culmination that will be 09/01/2023?
I can already see the intense cope fueled posts
This board would say this is based if it was Gabe/Steam saying this shit
Hypocrite morons
"Never ever" literally became a Sony meme. They fricking a LOVE exclusivity. When it's exclusive to them that is.
>thread has nothing to do with valve/steam/gabe newell
>homosexual comes along
>BUT GABE AND STEAM THO
frick off timmy
Microsoft releases all their games on Steam, there is literally no reason for them to say something like that.
They do, for now, they tried to make their shit exclusive on the past but people weren't using their store so they had to go to steam to push for a more consumer friendly image and get people off their backs
Nobody cares about what valve does because they aren't buying multibillion companies to make their games exclusive. What was the last thing they bought? The firewatch studio no one gives a frick about?
if gamers were smart, they would care about shit like this
microsoft is responsible for gaming becoming what it is today with games as a service
>microsoft is responsible for gaming becoming what it is
MS didn't prioritise graphics over gameplay
MS didn't buy exclusivity and threaten third party devs first
MS didn't popularise paid online. Hell they didn't even introduce it if you want to be technical.
MS didn't push for cinematic experiences.
MS didn't push for premium priced hardware with removed features
MS didn't start this buyout war.
MS didn't introduce microtransactions to the industry.
>MS didn't popularise paid online. Hell they didn't even introduce it if you want to be technical.
that's a fricking lie
original xbox had it
the ps2 didnt
the 360 had it
the ps3 didnt
even the frickers at ms/xbox didn't think morons would buy it
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What is the Sega Channel
Sonygays are too young to know about SC.
A failure? didn't fricking popularized shit, it existed for 3 years
Dreamcast had free online
Anon you said the Xbox invented paid online. It did not.
We've already established that he can't read.
neither can you it seems, because he said popularise
you know, to make something POPULAR
He said two things there anon and your post clearly doesn't make sense with the former.
please do point to the EXACT line where I specifically said INVENTED
No he didn't. He replied to an anon claiming MS didn't "Popularise" Paid online. Can you not read?
Look at the reading comprehension on this one.
Paid online services weren't anything new by that point, Sega even went all the way and provided their own ISP in addition to a paid online service.
Anyway, no one paid for online on xbox either and holds true to this day. It wasn't until the ps4 that a company actually made money from a paid a online service and that's because Sony popularised it
Look at the reading comprehension on you. Popularized doesn't mean invented shit for brains. It means making something popular. which Sega Channel and other online services prior to Xbox didn't manage to do. Sega channel was a financial failure. PS2's online was free but required a one time purchase of an adapter for the fat PS2. or just put a cord in the shitty flat one. Ps3 didn't require a paid service at all but eventually got a paid service to give out discounts and games tied to the active paid service.
While on the other hand you could play online with Xbox without paying. They kept this up forever afterwards and eventually forced both Sony and Nintendo to adopt the paid online service model under the misconception that paying for online somehow made the experience better. When it was all the same P2P connection bullshit as everyone else.
>While on the other hand you could play online with Xbox without paying.
>could
Meant couldn't play online without paying.
They even tried pulling the same paid online shit with GFWL. It might have even worked had it been the only way to play online on PC.
No you were right the first time. You could play online without paying under specific circumstances like free weekends.
playing online on steam is free every day of the year
And how does that change the fact that paid online was popularised by Sony?
I was making fun of it when you can play better games for free
>was popularized by Sony?
weird way to spell Xbox but okay
no he meant sony. the ones that have the biggest online service
>they're the biggest so they popularized it!
you need to be 18+ to use this website kid, come back in 9 years
yeah that's exactly how it is. xbox made it mandatory first but it was never as big as the PS+. it only became widely accepted as ok when sony did it (like most things really)
Online gaming was pretty much adopted by the entire industry all around the same exact time, Sony and Xbox etched it into the gaming identity. This wasnt one or the other.
The point is that paying for online would have never become the standard for consoles if sony didn't follow microsoft's lead.
He's not allowed to speak unfavorably about the company, don't mind him.
>The point is that paying for online would have never become the standard for consoles if sony didn't follow microsoft's lead.
lmao, its funny you think this
great argument homosexualron you sure showed me
Do you see the state of monetization on videogames today?
You really fricking thing that if Microsoft didn't introduce paid online gaming it wouldn't have became a reality as the entire industry marched forward to DLC, cash shops, loot boxes, season passes, etc.
Yeah nah lmfao. This shit was bound to happen by the 2010s regardless of who introduced it.
So... Who caused it to happen? C
>who caused it to happen
greedy billionaire fatcats who saw an easy avenue for money?
The same excuse is always there "WE pay for the servers", consoles are a locked in ecosystem.
Im sorry m8, it was bound to happen to consoles. That's why you don't buy a console
Just say the company you work for's name, you can do it.
Sega
You work for Sony obviously if you're so willing to pin paid online entirely on Microshit when its blatantly fricking obvious its the console ecosystem that caused paid online.
You really fricking thing that if Microsoft didn't introduce paid online gaming it wouldn't have became a reality as the entire industry marched forward to DLC, cash shops, loot boxes, season passes, etc.
You must if you're this desperate to pin an entire industry doing something entirely on just one when everybody is.
So because someone hypothetically was going to do it eventually, then it's ok that your employers did?
>Muh employer
Microshit doesn't employ me. Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have to shell out the cost of the servers for those online services.
They were always, ALWAYS going to pass that cost along to the consumer in some way because you are beholden to their game platform to play videogames.
Microshit
Nintendshit
Shitny
are all guilty of the same crime. Passing the cost onto the consumer.
But it was whose fault
All of them, and the moronic consumer for buying a gaming console that locked them into a closed network.
And who started it.
Sega
>don't you see? Microsoft had to make XBL paid.
>future events forced them to do it
I didn't know they had a time machine
>puts words in my mouth
>lacks reading comprehension
>lacks understanding of capitalism
They're legally allowed to charge you for paid online services. They also spend money, that'd be a deficit without charging you. This is a corporation. They exist only to see the number go up, and to make the boardmembers happy number is going up.
It doesn't matter who started it, what matters is they're allowed to do it in the first place. What matters is their consoles are closed ecosystems they have full control over and as a consumer if you buy into it, you're at that companies whims. With the way Consoles work, and the way laws worked, and the way capitalism works, it was always, going to fricking happen.
Besides back in 2002 barely any game releases had some reason to be online, and most people didn't bother with Xbox live if they had an Xbox unless they specifically cared about shooters. Obviously as the industry grew online multiplayer became more prevalent and wiped in person couch splitscreen gaming off the map for the most part, but in 2002 when this shit launched that certainly was not the case. People didn't give a shit, they weren't looking to be in the call of duty online lobby for the most part playing a new game, they wanted single player stories, and gameplay. It was an optional thing that pretty much existed if you wanted to play a shooter against other people.
The only problem with this is the majority of console games were p2p matchmaking so its not like the company was shouldering some insane overhead.
Yeah, but if they were the only ones offering online play on a console, (They were), and they were losing any money on it at all no matter how small the cost, then there wasn't any reason for it not to be a paid service in addition to the game console itself.
Because again, capitalism, laws, and being a closed ecosystem locked consumers into the only console with online gaming, and Microsoft controlled the entire narrative.
But they weren't xbox360 era had ps3, xbox huge and ps2 also had online play
Do you seriously believe this shit there have been plenty of consoles with online capability pre xbox360 and fricking Sony was a direct competitor for that gen with online capabilities as well, even wii had online.
Steam offers the same thing as PSN and XBL and it's free so it clearly can be done.
People realized both were a scam so they had to add games to their paid online otherwise people would stop paying for it.
This if the servers aren't dedicated there is next to zero cost to the company that isn't already being covered by the online store front.
>Steam offers the same thing as PSN and XBL and it's free so it clearly can be done.
Steam came out in a free PC environment where they competed against direct launchers that had peer2peer connected player ran servers, so Steams own servers and being free was essentially a large advertising point to using steam along with keeping your gaming library in one place.
Xbox360 and ps3 had the exact same server infrastructure just with matchmaking with someone being selected as the host.
It was always going to happen because xboners are fricking moronic. PC chads didn't put up with it when microwiener tried robbing them.
If anyone's to blame it's the Xbox fanboys. Don't get me started about all the morons saying it's worth it because it's so much better than PS3 online.
They could have stopped this but they just couldn't resist Bill Gates' wiener
>It was always going to happen because xboners are fricking moronic
Lmfao and Snoys gobbled it the frick up when the PS3 came out, I don't think you're in a situation to be throwing stones in a glass house consolewartard.
>If anyone's to blame it's the Xbox fanboys.
Xbox didn't have fanboys when paid online launched, it was a brand new console into the gaming industry, if Xbox made fanboys it was because of what was on the original Xbox, where paid online was already a feature of.
>Wii had online
of course a console that came out in 2006 would have fricking online. Playstation 2 had an adapter and a limited number of games with online, but it wasn't the same as Xbox. Xbox was designed with online gameplay in mind from the start, with Ps2 it was an after thought.
Xbox 360 released in November 2005 you fricking sped you are acting like they maintained some crazy chokehold on the market for the entire generation.
I wasn't talking about the 360 though.
Im talking about the original Xbox, which its online functionality built into the system, their focus on FPS games to draw the online gaming crowd in, being the most powerful system of that gen and a built in harddisk drew a lot of consumers to using the Xbox. And it's online.
They had the best foothold in online gaming because the games released and focus online, as well as hardware.
Then PS3 turned it around the next gen with a blu-ray home entertainment system and jumped Microsoft after that horrendous Xbone launch
Wait you are trying to say that the original xbox wasn't in the exact same situation as the ps2 in regards to games made with online capability? Are you out of your mind the amount of games played online actively on the original xbox you can count on your fingers.
In terms of shit people actually played when that console generation was relevant? Yes
Yeah snoy's weren't much better but from their perspective they didn't have much choice but to lay back and think of England. Xbox was already doing it, Nintendo was fully committed to the casual audience at the time and PC is poison to the loyal consolegay
>You don't understand officer! Someone was gonna rape her eventually! I just wanted to be first!
>officer someone already raped her why can't I get a turn?
Who was the first console with a subscription service to use online for multiplayer games?
Sega Genesis.
Sega channel wasn't an online multiplayer service, it was an online content platform where you could download and play games. Not the same thing.
So again, tell us about how your employer started the online subscription trend in multiplayer games.
You work for Sony obviously if you're so willing to pin paid online entirely on Microshit when its blatantly fricking obvious its the console ecosystem that caused paid online.
You really fricking thing that if Microsoft didn't introduce paid online gaming it wouldn't have became a reality as the entire industry marched forward to DLC, cash shops, loot boxes, season passes, etc.
You must if you're this desperate to pin an entire industry doing something entirely on just one when everybody is.
>Sega channel wasn't an online multiplayer service
You stupid underage moron. The Sega Channel wasn't Sega's first attempts. Hell, it wasn't even their second attempt. It was their third. Both the Sega Genesis AND Saturn had paid online, you moronic Sony shill.
Again, they were not multiplayer services. They let you download and play Aladdin.
The Saturn was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Net_Link
Bullshit
What in the absolute frick are you snoyggers smoking? So let's see, Xbox live has been running for 2 generations straight, 360 was the most sold vs the ps3 until the near end of the gen yet somehow it's the people copying that made it popular because now it's the biggest even though it clearly wasn't before... Right
And apple popularized calling people because they're the biggest current phone manufacturer right?
I'm so confused about who's arguing what. You're calling someone a snoygger for not blaming Microsoft for paid online?
You call it blame but these frickers seem to be proud of it, they want snoy to be the one that popularized it because snoy is the greatest thing ever. They're ignoring reality and proudly proclaim it was snoy that made it popular because it's like an award to them
instead of pinning blame on one shitty industry for monetizing something all of them would've done you should be using this as an example against monopolies and supporting an open system like PC.
It literally does not matter, not then and certainly not now. What matters is regulating practices like it.
>that's a fricking lie
no it isn't. PS+ has more subscribers than the xbone sold consoles
>currently most popular consoles with paid online have more subs than the flop that nearly killed the xbox brand
great insight there bud
>currently most popular consoles with paid online
the switch outsold the ps4 and the amount of NSO subscribers is 30 million compared to the PS+'s 40 million
I play on PC and Sony is the only one denying me of games that would otherwise be on PC if they didn't go out of their way to make it not so.
god Sony is pathetic.
yes, its sony fans that are spamming endlessly like a liberal crying about trump for the 10th year in a row
I can't tell, are you trying to be sarcastic or just making a statement
because if it's a statement it's correct
if it's sarcastic
lol
lmao
>immediately starts spamming SNOY folder
Yup
yes
>gets called out
>instantly recoils
post nose right now
i always wonder what sort of cucks sit on Ganker all day shitposting about sony
i can only imagine some third world shit hole country where you are so poor you have to pirate everything
Change 'about' to 'for' and your post becomes way more accurate.
Yes?
>NOOOOOOOO YOU CANT JUST DO BUSINESS WITH WHOEVER YOU WANT WE HAVE TO GET A CUT OF YOUR MONEY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Fricking literal gay israelites and women
>we can buy exclusivity for everything and anything but others can't
rules for thee but not for me I guess
This whole thing was just about call of duty wasn't it? Forget about the acquisition for a moment - what's stopping ANY company (even Valve) from paying Activision a bunch of money to make the game exclusive to their Platform? Would this really be that much different from merging two companies? If Call of Duty is considered SO VALUABLE, why are so few of the call of duty games exclusive to a platform?
Also, doesn't Sony already do this? They pay companies to not do a simultaneous release with PC - only allowing a PC release a few years later. We always get the PC release but it always comes later. So it's pretty obvious Sony is doing that.
The difference is that COD sells massively everywhere and not just on one system like FF. It's harder to talk them into exclusivity when that's a chunk of money they're losing that Sony can't make up.
Sonygays tries to obfuscate this by trying to make it about every Activision game. It is about CoD, but since MS didn't go for that exclusivity deal they can pretend it's about all the IPs when they actively go around and say FF exclusivty doesn't matter because it doesn't sell on Xbox anyway.
They got a point though
it would've ran 4k 60fps easily on PS5, unlike the other joke of a console.
lmao
FFXVI is infinitely smaller than starfield in scope and can't even maintain 60 fps
it's a true next gen game, unlike jokefield that cannot even animate faces right in the year of our lord 2020 + 3
It's not though. Even that yoshi guy or whatever his name is said they had plans to port it to ps4 but in the end they didn't want to waste the time doing it. So he basically confirmed it can run on a ps4 if they were willing to put the time into it. A game that's fundamentally built around next gen hardware won't be possible on last gen hardware because there's a gulf in power between the gens from the SSD to the extreme upgrade in CPU power. Ign released a performance review of starfield today and confirmed it won't be able to run on last gen and gave reasons for why starfield is so demanding on CPU and GPU that even modern CPUs and the xbox consoles will struggle with it which is why it's a 30 fps game. And the IGN guy (nxgamer) is a known Sony fanboy so when he actually sides with Microsoft for once you know it's legit.
>SONY ISNT A MONOPOLY REEEEEEEEEEEEE
>two tv brands
>two Movie studios.
>one failing record label that hemorrhages money.
>compared to these other company's that have more successful movie studios, Tv brands, and record labels.
I don't see where you see a Monopoly here? Sony clearly isn't the dominant power in any of these three industries.
SONY IS A SMALL INDIE GAME STUDIO AND THEY NEED ALL THE HELP FROM THE FCC THEY CAN GET FIGHTING MICROSOFT
This deal is going through, isn't it anons?
Of course it is. What system do you think is running on their computers?
All politicians should be forced to use a government version of Linux.
Do we really need to give them an excuse to get even less work done?
Honestly, I might never get a Playstation console again. I've never gotten a Microsoft console, I don't intend to get one, and I hate MS for their OS BS, but Playstation has never seemed more pathetic than in this situation. That leaving aside the dearth of software they put out now.
I support anyone who challenges the Sony monopoly. MS are the little guys in gaming and they need all the help they can get to compete right now.
if sony is going to get so crippled for losing activision why didn't sony buy the company themselves? I ask this as a bystander, I don't play consoles and lately only pirate indie games on pc.
I wish they would all just die. who gives a frick about these has Ben game companies. they're all gay on both sides
whatever happens they will not be missed
Better question is why do you want an already ginormous company to own two more gigantic game studios? Yeah, sure, they'll probably dice Boby Kotick up into little pieces and feed the pigs once they get their hands on them, but that's about the only good it can do. Microsoft has always had a reputation for acquiring other companies to make themselves bigger and richer, and it has never done any good for anyone but the ones whose pockets are lined in the transactions. Microsoft does the same shit EA does: they buy up companies, gut them, then use them as brand names. That isn't good for anyone, and there is no reason you should be cheering for it.
Microsoft has a special reputation in the games industry for promptly destroying or squandering their IP purchases. Killing Activision would be the best thing they've ever done.
If by killing you mean parading the mutilated corpse. Just look at how much they've let 343 get away with
By killing any relevance Halo ever had? Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.
>it has never done any good for anyone
Putting games on PC is automatically better than Sony's exclusivity forcing people to buy a shitstation.
This moron over here really be actin' like Blizzard's and Activision's games aren't already on PC by default.
Pro Tip, flathead: Being against M$ living up to the derisive M$ moniker doesn't mean automatically jumping to wanting Sony to buy the companies. Your logic is severely lacking.
Why are you talking like a Black person? Lurk moar before trying to blend in, snoy shill.
this is called as competition. No wonder kids don't play competitive game anymore
Name 5 times a company has merged into a monopoly has benefitted me, the consumer
I can only think of negatives. Like Ticketek
>Name 5 times a company has merged into a monopoly has benefitted me, the consumer
You can't name any because there are no monopolies.
I literally just named one you moron. Name one other major online ticket sales company besides Ticketek.
I can name five games Sony didn't let me play at release out of their plataform. Hell, I'll can probably name hundreds if I go back enough.
You can't but our current form of capitalism combined with government is built in such a way to funnel companies into forming monopolies to please share holders for profit is the eternal driving king.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century we as citizens stepped up to bust monopolies, and trusts. Then they undid all that shit in the 70s and 80s.
Dont know if we've got it in us to do it again with modern day bread & Circus.
Microsoft owning Activision won't make it even close to a monopoly so this is irrelevant
they will control most PC gaming in terms of market share.
And who's paying to not have their games on PC? Is it really MS' fault if the other guy is checking out?
The Starfield argument is particularly ironic since Sony bought exclusivity for Deathloop and Ghostwire, and was trying to get it for Starfield too
Then MS got mad and just bought the whole company
Why was Sony allowed to try to snuff out Nintendo by pulling tricks to get licenses to all of Nintendo games or buying off exclusives from the Sega Saturn but MS isnt allowed to buy a developer to make more games?
Again, Sony Playstation built their empire over exclusives. It's no wonder their friend Tim went for the same tactic. No wonder gaming cancer like Denuvo has its roots at Sony Playstation. They are outright the most anti-consumer of the publishers and that's saying something in an industry where EA and Capcom exist.
It's just one game lol
Microsoft should deflect and say where is Spider Man
The xbox brand is a failure. All snoy has to do is make some fricking games. Dumb fricking Black folk
What you guys don't get is that by letting MS get this, it opens the door for more big guys to buy up everything (not just in gaming but in other sectors) until we are left with about 3 corps who own everything(and cooperate with each other behind the scenes to control everything) you guys who are "lol it will make snoys seeeethe" are the biggest morons imaginable
Man, I bet AAA's would turn to dogshit in that scenario. Luckily we still have many high quality games releasing in the here and now. Hold the faith, brother.
What fricking faith you dipshit? If Microsoft controls everything that means that you get no say in what you want to make.
kek I couldn't possibly care less. Most games these days are already shit, so might as well laugh while watching the industry burn. I've got more than enough good games to last the rest of my life.
muh imaginary what ifs
Damn Sony is literally the thread holding society together.
>it opens the door for more big guys to buy up everything (not just in gaming but in other sectors) until we are left with about 3 corps who own everything
Anon, the opposite is actually going to be what happens.
This will fail to go through and then Microshit buys up 10 more important companies to infrastructure, technology, farming, etc and nobody bats an eye or gives a shit because that's when microsoft brings out the real bribe money, not over some kids game in their entertainment division
I still don't understand why are we for big corporation consolidation now
it hurts sony and puts all games made by microsoft studios on pc which is the only thing that matters
sony will try to double down on exclusive bullshit but the only game they got worth playing is bloodborne so who cares
They have no one to blame but themselves
>Moneyhat Deathloop and Ghost Wire to be timed exclusives
>MS did nothing
>Sony tired to moneyhat Starfield
>NOW MS cares and buy the publisher so that it will never come to PS
LOL. I like to see them try to make an argue for Starfield, a game that was never announced for PS when PS have no problems making exclusive deals for games they dont fricking own ie FF
>you can't just do business with whoever you want because... you just can't okay?
This isn't just about gaming or businesses merging this is about preventing single entities from having far too much control over the economy and the world in general. There was a whole fricking trustbuster movement a hundred years ago to prevent the frickery that MS keeps trying to commit but idiots like you want history to repeat itself and live in serfdom again
>microsoft buying activision will le collapse society!
Take your meds, and I don't mean the estrogen.
>preventing single entities from having far too much control over the economy
they already do and microsoft is a small fish in that pond my dude
What actually benefits you people in the event that Microsoft pushes Sony out of contention? Do you think that Microsoft is just going to leave Nintendo alone? That they'll just suddenly stop predatory business practices? That they won't use their clout to dictate how developers are allowed to conduct themselves or produce content and that they'll just be hands off benevolent?
You morons literally have not given a reasonable thought on what happens in the future where Microsoft is in control of an entire industry.
>Do you think that Microsoft is just going to leave Nintendo alone?
Yes. The only reason why Xbox exist in the first place was to spite Sony. MS has never had any problems with Nintendo.
I want to know who you are so when Microsoft rears its head on Nintendo and starts crowding them out of the market that I can cut the word "moron" in your forehead.
Explain how MS is going to somehow destroy Nintendo when their entire success comes from 1st parties games, you stupid moron.
Microsoft will just fence in Nintendo and then scalp them for hardware and software deals to indirectly tax them. Then eventually they'll demand that Zelda be a multiplatform game, and if not they will literally put the screws to Nintendo up to and including legislation by government officials in their pocket. And nobody can stop this.
>Microsoft will just fence in Nintendo and then scalp them for hardware and software deals to indirectly tax them.
Are you fricking moronic?
Are you? They literally had a bunch of politicians from Washington state read the riot act in Congress on Sony keeping them from an acquisition. Do you think they'll just be more careful with more power?
>then scalp them for hardware and software deals
Right, because Microsoft, who doesnt own the companies that manufacture the hardware for Nintendo, the generation out of date hardware nintendo uses for all their consoles btw, so its easy to find in bulk to mass produce, will then gouge them on software they make inhouse
holy frick ive never read something more blatantly moronic
And what's stopping then from buying the manufacturers? morons like you will let them walk right in because you're so fricking stupid
>And what's stopping then from buying the manufacturers?
The manufacturers knowing they're a lucrative industry that Microsoft and other tech giants rely heavily on? Those same manufacturers located in Asia where the government controlling those companies absolutely wouldn't want the industry to fall right into Americas hands?
Nintendo literally owns Japan and has the most beloved IPs on the planet. The imaginary scenario where MS does anything to threaten Nintendo would result in MS losing hard.
When the alternative is Sony, I don't give a shit.
Yes and I'm asking after that. What else? Will it be a good thing when the only system is a Microsoft system?
"Microsoft system" includes PC so I'm all for a console being killed, especially the worst offender.
Might be better than Sony still existing. I'm taking that risk.
If for example Sony just gives up and quits console gaming forever. MS still has to compete against Steam which has 95% of the PC gaming market and Nintendo which has 100% of Japan's support. MS will never be in a market where they're alone because it's impossible for them to conquer the market after that point even if they have trillions to spend.
>MS still has to compete against Steam which has 95% of the PC gaming market
Yes by basically making it incompatible with Windows.
And so MS would lose billions of dollars by not offering games on Steam. What now?
That would be the Linux bros wet dream.
And everybody is forgetting China in this. Just one of their companies is already surpassing Sony in revenue. To think they won't grow into industry giants is moronic.
Sony being pushed out of the market is entirely a good thing.
Oh boo hoo grow stop crying over inconsequential things. People like you said MS spending 7.5bn on zenimax was going to make them a monopoly but fast forward 3 years and nothing much has changed if at all. ABK games won't even be exclusive because they're not allowed to be as per the regulators rulings (concessions). They're buying ABK for the tech and knowhow as opposed to exclusivity. It's just Sony buying bungie but on the scale of a trillion dollar company. Your average gaming experience won't change at all. Don't worry they're not going to remove your beloved call of duty from playstation. Because that's the only game you could be concerned about since that's the only thing activision actually fricking offers.
>People like you said MS spending 7.5bn on zenimax was going to make them a monopoly but fast forward 3 years and nothing much has changed if at all.
Other than a bad precedent being set and now we're basically in a monopoly war. How fricking stupid are you to not see the road this is going down.
>we're basically in a monopoly war
Do you even know what a monopoly is?
>Do you even know what a monopoly is?
Do you? Because I see you morons ask this every time you see the word.
Ok genius tell me what bad precedent has been set? What bad has come from the zenimax deal?
That we're having to sit through court meetings watching a notoriously anti consumer company buy it's way through every available company in a petty bid to try and crowd the competition out by being the fattest piece of shit in the room.
This is going to become a semi annual thing now where you morons say "well just because they bought out EA/Take two/whoever doesn't mean they're pursuing a monopoly." Whole we're very much watching them actively, and hostilely pursue a monopoly.
>a notoriously anti consumer company buy it's way through every available company in a petty bid to try and crowd the competition out by being the fattest piece of shit in the room
but enough about sony
>Sony
Do you fricks have like some type of non disparagement clauses written that you can't mention Microsoft and have to actively bring up Sony at every possible moment?
Why would you not bring up their competitor when talking about competition in the market?
No I'm asking why you legally cannot and will not mention Microsoft in an unfavorable light, you're simply obfuscating by bringing Sony up.
What the frick are you talking about you schizo?
I'm saying that it's abundantly clear that there are a specific subset of people posting in this thread that seem to be contractually obligated to not disparage Microsoft and to make the conversation specifically about Sony. Without fail, with such consistency that they use the same wording each time.
you have schizophrenia
Then why is it always the same wording, and why is it that when pressed a simple question: "Where does this lead when Microsoft controls the market?" Gets pushed under the rug immediately to talk about how Sony bought a year subscription to Final Fantasy 7?
agreed, somebody really needs to do something about sony's exclusivity deals.
>Anon finally gives a shit about companies buying out other ones when it effects [VIDEO GAMES]
you deserve what you get
I've always cared though? Why are you pretending I don't have concerns about this in other arenas especially since Microsoft's previous dealings are exactly why I don't want this to happen?
Microsoft are getting enough scrutiny as is from this deal alone so they're not likely to pursue another deal like this any time soon if at all. Until anything else happens you're just fear mongering for no reason. Also you completely ignore the circumstances which led to these deals happening in the first place. Microsoft aren't going around pointing guns at shareholders demanding them to sell their stake. Zenimax owners put the business up for sale and approached Microsoft on the recommendation of Todd howard iirc because they have a good long term relationship. As for ABK the shareholders literally want to sell because the FBI is breathing down their necks with all the scandals. All these companies you mention aren't going through anything like this and they've all made it clear they have no intention of selling. Sony allegedly tried to buy CDPR a few weeks ago but one of the majority shareholders told them to frick off.
And why won't they if this goes through? They'll basically have said that they are bigger than the law, and the US government isn't going to step in the way of their biggest developer.
Why won't they what?
Continue buying companies if they proved they can with impunity.
Ate you moronic and just ignored the second half of my post? Microsoft can't go around buying other companies. No company can. It takes two to tango and none of these other companies shareholders have expressed any intention of a buyout. You're fear mongering for no reason but all you've managed to achieve is to delude yourself while everyone else here is thinking you're a moron. Stop crying on the internet.
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MS is actually willing to fight to get the deal passed because by all means of the law this is such a safe purchase with every fact on their side that it shouldnt be blocked at all. MS knows that if the deal fails that means harder purchases where they have legitimately a stake in threatening the industries would have a harder time passing through like buying ChatGPT for example.
>snoys can't argue based on the game industry considering Sony's practices
>suddenly it turns into a discussion about preserving society and the good of all consumers
You have to be deranged to be a Sonygay at this point.
Snoys seething makes my day, but I dont think stsrfield will be good, at best it will be mediocre.
Skyrim is the dictionary definition of mediocre and it's still relevant 12 years later.
Thats why I say at best anon.
reminder the hearing starts tomorrow and there will be live audio, I hope one of you gays makes a thread
>phil and jim emails
>pettiness from sony
>gamespot fanboy reviewers
we're in for some kino
fanboy reviewers
someone post examples/make an example compilation
Do people even care about Starfield? More people are pre-ordering Cities: Skylines II, and its release is further away.
70 is israeli for a bethesda sandbox with radiant quests so im definitely waiting for some third party keyseller
They also said that if the deal goes through they will stop reporting info about the PS6 to Activision.
which is incredibly moronic and petty considering sony has mlb the show on xbox, and now destiny too
not to mention minecraft is on ps, fallout 76 and more
Starfield is 100 times more hype than FF16. Lets be realistic
Sure, but MS owns it so they have every right to make it an exclusive. Sony's argument is its ok for them to Money hat because they aren't taking "consoles sellers" away from MS. Basically they are saying FF16 nothing compared to Starfield, and while true, also spits in the face of SE.
>Playstation third party exclusive literally coming out tomorrow
Sony cries as it strikes you, it's incredible.
>MS vs Sony, when it's all Nintendo's fault.
If they hadn't pissed Sony off so much Ken Kutaragi wouldn't have gotten the go ahead by the big guy at Sony at the time to make the Playstation to snub Nintendo after they went with Phillips instead of Sony for a licensing agreement.
Phillips got some horrible Nintendo games on their CD-i, and Sony dominated Nintendo into third place behind Microsoft while Sega's infighting took themselves right out of the hardware game.
Sony would have got in the hardware game eventually, chasing the money as all companies do, but likely at the next console era or maybe not at all, who knows.
Someone at Sony had the monkey's paw that day, I swear.
who fricking cares about this deal? these threads feel fake
Because, remember, only Sony can have exclusivity deals
https://twitter.com/charlieINTEL/status/1671677508708626434
>Sony’s Jim Ryan said in a deposition back in April that if Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision happens, Sony won’t share any PS6 information with Activision developers, saying they will not be able to share relevant future console info to a developer owned by a competitor
How can they be so moronic?
You cant argue about a company having one exclusive when you are notorius about having multiple exclusives and making exclusive deals with third parties
Best case scenario is Microsoft killing Sony via ABK and then suiciding itself like we all know they will.
Microsoft is the biggest cancer in the industry followed by Snoy. If we only have PC and Nintendo left that'd be the best possible outcome.