The thing is that Microsoft would not do either of those because it would not make sense due to price and media backlash (RoTR level on steroids). Not this gen for sure.
For 5-6b you could acquire a publisher and it would be a better investment that COD exclusivity for a year for a game.
I don’t think making Sony leave the console race would affect any of those. Let’s be real - what benefit does Sony bring to gaming with their Playstation console? Microsoft offers stronger and cheaper consoles, Nintendo offers a portable. Sony? None of those.
I cannot get over the people arguing that it is now, not fair that Microsoft purchases a publisher because Sony can’t afford it.
We saw Take 2 spend 12.7 billion in a publisher. If Sony doesn’t purchase a publisher, it is NOT because they can’t. That would merely be their decision not to take a risk, and no one else should be penalized for another company being risk averse.
Not to mention that Sony themselves were a huge company that waded into the videogame waters and used their money and influence to push SEGA out of the industry (with some help from SEGA of course ). So, these people are and most likely always will be hypocrites.
We wouldn’t have the Xbox we have today without Sony as competition - game pass and all of these acquisitions are in direct response to Sony in an effort to compete with them. Equally we’ve seen Sony up their game in recent years and will likely see them take more steps to compete with game pass in time - overall the competition seems win win to me.
Whatever it is, it’s damn smart. Now they show these regulators that they truly are committed to bringing CoD to as many people as possible and it shows Sony being a…well…bitch.
Who? I mean no offense, but does everyone just comb twitter for any mention of this stuff? I’ve never heard of this person until just now, so why should anyone care what he thinks about any of this?
Im not sure Dr Serkan Toto and his animu consultancy are terribly relevant.
Uh…I Imagine in the sense that 3rd party games don’t sell on Nintendo and it could just be a CoD-Mobile like version of whatever years game. Microsoft knows theres no threat to CoD sales /Gamepass on their platforms from Nintendo. I think what he’s saying is that its just a token version of CoD to appease regulators…which it probably is.
Well that’s just blatently incorrect. This is not the Wii, third party games sell excellently on Switch, I’d even say CoD on Nintendo will sell better than any Crash or Spyro games would on it
And developing seperate “CoD mobile like” ports of each year’s game actually sounds more resource consuming than just scaling down the actual game for the hardware, the latter sounds far more likely to me, anyway.
). So, these people are and most likely always will be hypocrites.
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