Yup. I stand by my prediction.
CoD Multiplat until end of contract + end of gen. Redetermine for next gen when install base is no longer “stuck” to a platform.
Diablo IV, Overwatch 2. Multiplat due to agreements.
Legacy Content: Multiplat to a degree.
Everything else (both New and Existing IP)? Exclusive.
Like I know it is business and all that, but still in the end the players are impacted by it as well.
Yup I agree with this, I think everything after the currently announced games will be exclusive except COD
“It’s just exclusivity” lol people just say anything. Sony doesn’t even pay to have it on their service, they pay to block it from being added to Game Pass. That is ultra levels of pathetic.
“I bet MS does it too” where? MS even allows some Bethesda’s games on Sony’s service.
He is literally saying MS must do it, without evidence so far, but for Sony there is no proof.
Just remember what happened when Microsoft did a Sony move and got absolutely ripped to shreds to the point it scared them to never to it again till this day, but you know two standards go for each of them.
I’m actually kinda shocked they haven’t done the same sort of reaction with Bethesda and ABK deals, it’s more neutral / slightly salty.
This can be anything, but brilliant? It is freaking disgusting and this pulls me off PS even more. Even from a business perspective this is a shitty move, shows how lame sony really is. Instead of hampering Gamepass they could actually create incentives to whatever is their strategy, is it device centric? So create all access ps5, for example or other ways to finance a console. But no, lets rise the price of games for the sake of “adding new quality skins to our 3rd adventures”. My arse, regardless how you see it, Sony PS is a company that exists to milk console players, end of story. They are luck they can count on a cult of loyalists and friendly press. It is also great they are finally getting some heat from ABK deal.!
It is hilarious, that’s why, to read people’s reactions online. Nothing more nothing less…
No bias detected!
I get very confused when people compare the PS plus numbers to gamepass numbers and say that plus is actually way bigger than gamepass. While technically true, are we going to pretend that most people use Plus because its required for online play?
Honestly, it’s a good thing because if the regulators do that too it means Microsoft won’t need to worry about being considered a monopoly in the subscription space.
Framed this way absolutely benefits MS the most during this process. Ignorance is bliss.
Although there are people who says it isn’t comparable. I thought it was really smart from MS to bring it up, a subscription is a subscription and you arent just going to let pass an “easy” argument in this space just because is not a 1:1 comparison
What are the guesses of Sony Multiplat moneyhats for remainder of gen? My guess from rumours are
Final Fantasy 16, Final Fantasy 7R2, some smaller Japanese games, some games from new AAA studios.
Overall, I am expecting much less 3rd party money hats this generation. The last generation Sony had a significant lead which made moneyhats cheaper and easier. They also had less competition in the industry, now more players are in the industry locking down exclusive content and more publishers are publishing independent studios games. Xbox updated policies that pushed devs away last gen. Struggling devs and publiahers are being bought out instead now. Finally, Playstation is now much more spread out with their investments, they are apending more on producing games internally, acquiring studios, keeping games off gamepass and marketing.
All these factors will counter Sonys ability to lockdown big exclusives.
As much as this list upsets me as I wanna play most of them I completely agree with maybe a additions
Aside FF7R I don’t see any other game being exclusive (I wonder why people remaster SH2R before SH1 but I guess it happened with RE?)
Because the install base outside Japan will be much closer this gen than last, I suspect we’ll see fewer moneyhats on games that sell well outside Japan. Obviously there will be some, but I have to assume it’ll simply be too expensive for Sony to do it as frequently this time around.
The caveat being that there may be deals in place that were signed last gen, when the industry wasn’t sure what exactly was going on over at camp Xbox.
I can see why the journalists would ignore the wider context of this (for clicks) but can’t understand why anyone else would. All of these statements were made by MS in response to Sony claiming CoD exclusive was anti-competitive.
So yes in the narrow context of RE 8 it was a sound business decision, but, in a wider view all they have done is weaken their own argument that MS/Acti merger and Cod exclusivity would be anti-competitive behaviour.
Effectively you have the market leader saying 3rd party exclusives are anti-competitive and should be blocked when there are multiple examples in recent history of themselves doing the same thing.
That’s a dumb play in my opinion. Made it easy for MS lawyers to trash their arguments.
Illustrative of Sony’s reliance on legacy business models and short term thinking.
Even funnier that the MS rebuttal is littered with Jim Ryan quotes to evidence their points.
Not sure if it was already included but I think it’s definitely revelant to this topic.
Edit: so this is definitely old, it’s from the Capcom RE8 clause, but it’s definitely relevant to Microsoft current response, specially because Microsoft could be providing a lot more examples of these sort of thing by Sony.
