I guess they’re alluding to both here, hopefully they get a Gamepass first treatment.
This is great actually, a chance for MS to support them indirectly.
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I don’t see how ABK deal would stop MS from doing Game Pass deals.
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Yeah, they have to continue as normal. I don’t see this being any sort of issue. It’s not as if Disney couldn’t greenlit shows or make movies when buying Fox.
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GoTG sold over 4 million units plus brought in cash from GP, so not exactly a flop but it didn’t do well in terms of it’s budget/profit.
I think its main issue was it’s marketing. The game itself is a masterpiece, won loads of awards and was a GOTY nominee.
It is licensed but so is Spider-Man, it was the talent behind it which made it what it was. Many people just look at the IP and not the talent which was on offer (which are arguably more valuable).
In many ways I actually preferred it to Spider-Man.
Imagine if next they decide to do another Marvel property (Iron Man, Hulk, Black Panther etc) to the same level but it is a huge commercial hit instead.
LoK is dormant but it’s definitely ready for a God of War style reboot, use to love that franchise.
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He means timed exclusivity for games by Embracer? Oh it sure can, KOTOR already is one of them. I can only hope MS will try to avoid that with the new Tomb Raider game. God this timed exclusivity nonsense really should just stop.
I really hope Phil has used CoD as some kind of leverage, like…Sony ceases those type of deals and they promise to keep CoD there. Just a wish of mine, probably doesn’t go down like that in reality.
I mean, after the deal with Sony ends for CoD, MS gets to set the terms.
Just saw a tweet almost saying the same thing but then someone said MS would be going against regulators and can get them in trouble. But I’m not exactly sure anymore what MS has said, lol.
Death to timed exclusives, for all parties. A deal made by Xbox for Game Pass or Sony for their service is fine, because the game then still releases day and date on the other platform too.
4m is nothing for GoTG license and multiplatform release. Marketing and the fact it was released after Avengers. It also had a bad original showing too.
No it won’t. Court will laugh out any regulator trying to sue Microsoft over COD mainline being exclusive when Warzone 2 exists and other titles are not removed from PSN.
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I still don’t even know Sony can even do their service similar to Game Pass and by that, I mean Day one. If anything, Sony is a bit worried to impress majority if it doesn’t meet demand. They didn’t have to worry about acquisition or service, but now that they do, I can’t help but think they are trying not to go overboard their limit. That’s how I feel until I see progress to be really close to Xbox’s moves.
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I think Microsoft has a plan for CoD either way, but I do half wonder if we could see something like that come into play if Sony were to ever pick up something of a comparable scale, GTA for example. Megafranchise mutually assured destruction where they agree to keep these games multiplatform.
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They’d have to buy Take Two because no way is TT letting go off Rockstar and GTA. And I doubt Sony can afford Take Two. But I see what you mean.
Honestly I would be fine if Sony were to get a big new game from Embracer (or anyone else) for their service day and date, but not timed exclusive or anything. And the same goes for Xbox, have it come to Game Pass day and date but also release for PS5. But we’re definitely not there yet where GP gets really big games day and date, a few exceptions.
The last reported figure for Miles Morales was 6.5m, I suppose that is a flop too?
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Miles Morales is the essentially the addon to a successful game and it constantly in charts and was released on a single (ok on two) platofrms. I don’t think it required that much of time and resources to make in comparison to the original Spider-man game.
Yeah, I dont understand what he’s trying to say here, why would gamepass deals effect an acquisition?
MS are already working with CD so gamepass deals might make sense for both parties
But I could definitely see more shitty moneyhatting from Sony
That’s actually a good point. Since Sony is just now getting into subs with BC. They could make a deal with Embracer and make all that huge catalog of games exclusive BC for PSNow.
At that point MS should probably weaponize Activisions crazy back log of Marvel games they used to make. X-men Legends, Spider-Man 2, the original Spider-Man PS/N64 game.
They’re doing quite good actually, and that’s with not having much major releases out lately and dropping turds.
They are certainly not in a “someone please buy us” mode… It’s just management being utterly stupid.
They sold “half of itself” because that half made no money as we all saw today. Makes sense to chop it even if a big reason is their own incompetence why those studios weren’t doing as good as they should have been.
I played both recently for the first time and yes, GotG was clearly better.
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It’s been the most consistent seller since the next gen consoles launched, wouldn’t really use that to prop up your case in defending GOTG lol.
https://twitter.com/matpiscatella/status/1492134547651108864?s=21&t=s6Y4x-2DLeggfvJrjRQQLw
Yeah I could of used a better example but I still don’t see how 4+ Million Sales & GP Money is a ‘flop’. Square Enix basically state all their games except FF are underperforming against their sales estimates.
Not all games are going to sale north of 10 million.
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