Almost like the latter is the obvious choice. After all, if its just as devastating…might as well keep it exclusive. Then you have an exclusive too.
Now imagine if Microsoft came out and told all gamers that, how it might shape gaming. How it might rocket gamepass to 50 million in 18 months, how it would make Xbox so large that games that skip the platform…just wouldn’t…not ever again, imagine how much of a downhill battle that would be.
I’ve been away from console gaming for a while since I only use my limited free time playing on pc with friends, not much has come out anyway these past few months.
For what it’s worth, my opinion is that ms is downplaying the importance of cod in the console space way too much. I understand that it’s in their best interest but trying to say the reigning best selling franchise over a decade now probably (literally no.1 and no.2 now), has little or no impact on peoples choice of system is insane.
I’m an advocate of the idea that exclusives in general play little to no role in the choice that casuals made as far as platform goes, but cod really doesn’t fall into the category of halo fallout gow and the like. I’d even assume cod as a franchise alone, excluding mobile completely now which is a monster on it’s own, has sold more copies in the past decade than all of sonys exclusive first party titles combined, you can’t possibly downplay that.
I know for a fact if I owned a ps5 right now and not an xbox I’d have put my ps5 up on sale faster than you can blink, I’ve played call of duty since I was 11 and I’ll probably play it as long as I’m able to game and have an interest in it.
This logic does not work well because COD is not a single heaven defying IP out there, also because Xbox does not have stuff like Genshin Impact and FF14 (it impacts user’s choice) and especially when the market leader has marketing rights on those big franchises (on all of them aside NFL) with addition to pushing the exclusive modes and items.
Sony literally has no ground in their argument. Yeah, COD is big but it is not where near market of its own and them owning marketing rights on FIFA, GTA, NBA also influences the choice of the console.
Obviously a lot of things impact users choice, you can’t possibly name them all, some are more important some are less, what I’m saying is cods impact can’t be compared to anything you mentioned above, not ff14 which most people play on pc anyway, not genshin impact which probably has 99% of it’s playerbase on mobile, not fifa or nba because there is no exclusive content which I know of or timed exclusivity.
This is obviously just an opinion but in the slim chance that ms puts a timed exclusivity on cod or locks it down completely, the scales are gonna tip more than they have with any other move ms has made so far. And probably any move than sony can do from that point moving forward.
I agree that Call of Duty is a massive title that would move units if timed or locked down. Heck, it’s going to move units by just being Game Pass and Xbox marketing. However, I believe the point Microsoft was making was that the Call of Duty IP isn’t so unique that it can singlehandedly destroy a platform by it’s absence. It’s hard to argue that COD is so vital to the point that it would destroy Sony’s business when the Nintendo Switch remains a huge success without a single Call of Duty in sight.
I wish every MP game was multiplat, it’s lonely af playing Halo Infinite by your self.
I hope they’re able to leverage the COD IP against PS but still being able to keep it a multiplat.
Lack of community in Halo has little to do with it being exclusive though.
Harsh on nintendo. But stop supporting minecraft for ps
One of the things that I find fascinating is that due to Game Pass being too good to be true (and with Family Plan it will become even crazier), people go at Sony for blocking the access to GP (kinda normal thing I believe in a business world, albeit Sony’s being a market leader gives that anti-competitive flavor) and Sony and their following cannot even defend themselves ( “why people don’t want to pay 70$ for the games?”)
Yup, Microsoft moves this gen game pass, Series S, acquisitions, the expansion of rewards to new countries and family plans are making roads to make gaming more affordable for everyone, while still offering a premium version for anyone that can afford it.
I am reminded of when Xbox’s CFO said they wanted Bethesda games to be “first, better or best” on Xbox and everyone thought that was confirmation that the games would be multiplat and then literally none of those things happened as they are just permanently exclusive now.
Yeah, well the point is that Microsoft is doing whatever it takes to avoid any binding statements to have a full control over IP.
This. Personally, this is a brilliant business decision by Sony. If they’re paying for marketing deals and whatnot, there sure as hell don’t want to see the game going in Game Pass day one or anytime soon thereafter. I would do the exact same thing if I was Sony.
Because well, see MLB The Show the last two years.
And before anyone says that this was via MLB, it was done because Sony didn’t have any clause in the renewed contract that prevented MLB from going to Microsoft and saying, would you like to put this game in Game Pass day one?
After this happened, is when you saw RE 8 get mentioned in that Epic/Apple case that Sony paid to keep it off Game Pass which again, is a brilliant business decision by Sony. In fact, if you’re Sony, why wouldn’t you do this?
It’s not brilliant, it’s pathetic. They are spending money to - potentially - limit some value from another service instead of growing their own.
But why should they grown their own service when that’s not their focal point or direction? For Sony, it’s not about PS+. It’s about sales. For Microsoft, it’s all about Game Pass.
Is it just me or are medias trying to defend Sony as hard as they can. We can’t see evidence ? What is Resident Evil Village then ?!
Lol look at his twitter header
It’s like one said. Bethesda and coming soon ABK is different in terms of exclusive because financially speaking, Xbox is in charge of it and the price (no pun intended) can be hefty if fail. Paying to prevent only cost a purchase price and nothing more.
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