one dude made a game on java with no budget and sold it for like 1 billion dollars after perpetual early access, i would say that at this point , yes.
Call of Duty Warzone is a Minecraft situation. It's a huge thing already on Sonys platform (MC came to ps4 a couple months after the acquisition was announced and had been announced for a long time)
I would call him a clown to his face if he was presenting these arguments to me. I'm sorry but if you can't handle someone that continually says things that are completely and demonstrably incorrect even after being proven wrong being called a clown then maybe the internet isn't the place for you.
Neither am I, but good work on trying to play that card lol. You were the one that interjected and had a go at me, so maybe you were actually the one that got triggered? Why else would you jump in?
and deserves to be called one.
Raven is probably my favourite dev on the list, can't wait to see what they'll make when they're not being forced to make CoD!
I played a ton of Raven shit on PC, OG Xbox and 360. They were among my favorite developers and I'd like to see them doing thier own thing again.
Don't see the great points at all. This idea of trying to make Sony seem like the bad guy is so tired and wrong. Exclusive deals happened all the time prior.
IndeedI mean, guys, seriously. Is this not the fucking heist of the century or what!? Some people don't have to like or fuck with Xbox, but you gotta respect Microsoft's gangsta. This is straight kick in the door and just take some shit.
With the shit Acti/Blizz has been in recently and the state of COD what if I told you a lot of people I have spoken to feel the very opposite and have hopes MS turns them around.
Right, but the self proclaimed lack of content on xbox is not due to the competition. It's MSs own doing by
Indeed
Fair enough but most of MS studio acquisitions and claims of next gen launch being the bringer of these games are from 2018 more than 3 years ago. Then when these games didn't come with the new gen launch people blamed Sony for lack of xbox content and an excuse for the Zenimax/Activision acquisitions as Sony forcing their hand due to this starvation of content.
Ahh no you don't get off that easy the talk of "Xbox has no games" got so strong in 2016 that Sony even started chanting you don't need a PC all you need is a Playstation under your TV. Also, their was the very real situation/talk that MS would exit the video game industry all together. You didn't hear Sony or anyone else begging MS to stay in the industry back then. MS at least wants to include Playstation in it's plans. Sony wanted MS completely out of the industry and was happy to trout they could even take the place of PC too. Nah you don't get a pass with the statement above. When MS tried and failed to play the same game with exclusives AKA the famous Rise of Tomb Raider time exclusive for example. The audience and the media were happy to hammer MS to the point to reveal all details of the deal. MS had to allow CD to tell how long the deal would last even though MS wanted those details under wraps. MS tried to add to their userbase but, everyone told them "that's okay I can play something else for a year. See you in a year ROTTR that way I don't have to buy a Xbox". What did that leave MS to do, because the field had to be leveled some how? The choices were 1) Leave and focus on PC 2) try more timed Exclusives (that would fail) 3) buy some studios to gain back market share. Sony was already talking to Bethesda for the exclusive on Starfield and we know this. Remember the famous quote Ryan made we're not just going to have Playstation content this gen were going after exclusive content from other area's as well. Sony knew it could get other content locked up just like FF why because Sony had done it before! This worked with Resident Evil, Street Frighter, Call of Duty, Destiny, Spider-man and FF for starters. Sony knew the gaming media didn't care and the audience wouldn't push them to release the exclusive details. MS knowing all this decided to go big or go home. They went big and you have a problem with it? Sorry man this is exactly what happened to Sega, so many years ago. Content is king and Sony muscled Sega (Got EA to stop developing for Sega) right into a 3rd party developer just ask Peter Moore.
If MS with all the money it has decided to exit the video game industry in 2016 (Due to what? FF and Street fighter weren't released yet) that was on them. What were they starved of? They were just doing a bad job.
To get almost an acquisition of a public company through you'll have to appease the shareholders by paying more.
It's kinda hilarious to see Crash, Spyro, Raz and Steve amongst all the tough guys, the masked/helmeted harbingers of doom, and the Strong Women.
Huge variety of games. No other company comes close.
May as well say future of Sony on there too though since you'll play them all on your PlayStation right? MS wouldn't want to leave money on the table.
Absolute classic!He will rise again...
Possibly. Minecraft has been there since day one and still humming in 2022. And Minecraft Dungeons even came out too in 2020 on PS. They didnt have to release that side game for PS.
You think the Switch will start getting COD etc now too? 100+ million consoles sold, that a lot of money to leave on the table now that MS need to recoup the $70bil they just lost. PS4 versions of all games incoming too? Another 120 mill user base. Realistically that means anything less than what, 40 million sales per Xbox first party game from here on out is a massive failure hey?
70 bn is a difficult amount to make back, let alone "easily"
Why do they need to make 70 billion "back"? Explain please.
the amount of units the switch has counts little when you look at the demographic, hardware and network infrastracture
never said they do, i was commenting on the post i directly quoted
Sorry i misunderstood your comment then. carry on
The $70B isn't something they'll be looking to immediately "make back." It's not a zero sum game. This is essentially Microsoft buying their way into a new kind of recurring revenue based games business with the goal of immediately being the market leader. It's a long term investment.
i agree, but i also wouldn't call that target easy either..netflix is still currently trying to actually make some profit as far as i know..and game licensing and making is probably even more expensive than the movie one
It's not something they need to make back though because it hasn't gone anywhere.
Netflix make tonnes of profit, but they reinvest it back into original programming etc. They're spending something like $9bil a year on original content now. You can't do that without profit.
People trying to put the blame on Sony for MS's shortcoming and incompetence is really amusing.
