Sony believes Xbox owning Call of Duty could impact consumers console choice UPDATE: Microsoft Responds

This part is a goodie and when Microsoft said it being incoherent it made me laugh and think of this meme

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Yeah, I don’t consider it console war when you are right :wink:

These people are some of the worst people I’ve ever interacted with so I have absolutely zero problems with finding it funny when their world view crumbles.

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When you always call it a cult I cringe a bit because it is a bit extreme (you’re amazing though, extreme in the sense of I’m sorta thinking it but don’t want to say it haha) but you’re kinda not wrong :sweat_smile: it does really look like it from the outside. Good thing is that it isn’t the large majority.

This back and forth though is funny and seeing people lose their shit over it is fun to watch, I will admit that. I think it’s mostly down to people are now finally starting to recognize Xbox/Microsoft ain’t playing around this time, ABK is proof of that.

I’m just happy that it isn’t going to be so one sided in the gaming space, this should give everyone on all platforms more games and more new ideas as these comapnies fight over our time.

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I think Sony should be more worried about Starfield and the next Elder Scrolls.

PS5 is selling pretty well still and there’s nothing stopping that. So people will still buy every COD on PS just like they’re used to.

Starfield, on the contrary, will attract some new people. Bethesda games have that huge impact on lives that some people only play that kind of games for 100s hours.

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Probably the funniest thing is people trying to handwave Sony’s terrible tactics and comparing MS getting indies as exclusives for a few months and GTA DLC from the mid 2000s to Sony moneyhatting the biggest games from every genre.

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Also, MS buying publishers isn’t a form of moneyhat. They are taking on the financial responsibility of an entire company and adding thousands of employees into Microsoft. Playstation paying a few million dollars to keep Final Fantasy exclusive is in no way comparable.

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I think I will give another reminder that Nintendo seems to do just fine without CoD.

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I will forever hate when people say this company did the same thing a decade ago so this other company is ok with doing it. Two wrongs don’t make a right. It was shitty for MS to do that back then and it’s shitty for Sony to do it now. They both should stop doing that shit and spend the money on making new games and content instead.

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I think it’s cool Microsoft might try bring it to Switch, I’m sure Nintendo wouldn’t mind that.

They are not going to say no that is for sure lol.

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I find it a bit weird Activision didn’t at least try put COD mobile on there already, I’ll probably expect that to be honest not the full blown COD and maybe Warzone mobile. I can see the full COD only being on there via streaming.

Sony have been moneyhatting since before Xbox was even a thing

Moneyhatting big games like Tomb Raider is literally how PS got its start back in the day and that only continued into the ps2 gen, only gen they couldn’t do it was the ps3 and that’s only because of how of how they shat the bucket coming into the gen

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This will have a huge impact in Europe especially. The Cult here is doing its very best to downplay Starfield and completely ignore TES and what else is coming from Bethesda, but for many this is a bigger deal than CoD.

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Xbox coming back strong and with Gamepass no less

How good is it for gamers and there pocket

This is a revolution

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Or GTA or FIFA (well, it’s shit on it)

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Nintendo is a very different situation to Sony or Xbox to be fair. People are buying a switch for the exclusives while xbox and PS are multiplat mechines. Most people buying one or the other won’t even touch the exclusive games

It’s actually funny seeing the points MS are making are points we’ve been saying too lol

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While I think Sony is 100% exaggerating but I think their fears are well found since while MS has said they they want to keep CoD multiplatform they could easily pull out of it at any moment once the acquisition is threw if they really wanted and CoD is the casual game (it has rivals but non are really on the same level as CoD). The only thing that could realistically counter MS pulling CoD if they did is exclusive high profile sports games like FIFA or Nintendo…which Sony probably won’t get either (granted they might try and get fifa for the marketing rights). On top of that it could be a potential blackmail, like MS could easily force Sony to do what they want by threating to pull CoD which could fuck PS over and without PS it kind of fucks Sony over as a company

The best part Microsoft using Sony’s and their fanbase points and their bs against them

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