Onya Jim! You layed out all your concerns, dot by dot. Regulators ask MSFT to respond to said dot points. MSFT's retorts to these points will easily negate said concerns (some of which have already been aired in public). Easy peasy.
Nah, he has a responsibility to the company and shareholders to do what's best for Sony's bottom line.
Why not? Not like MS didn't get involved with nvidia's ARM aquisition and they're not even direct competitors.
Embarrassment if it doesn't go through and inconsequential if it does. You've got both bases covered
I'm not sure what's more amusing, the fighting over fake and misinterpreted tech from the eariler on in this gen's console wars, there were some HILARIOUS fantasy techs being produced daily there, or the members in this thread that learned everything they know about business from hearing about GameStonks and the other poorly informed posters in the thread.
PlayStation's biggest money maker is Call of Duty.
Lol. You shouldn't post about topics you have no idea about.
MS won't get full control over COD marketing until late 2024 anyway so this doesn't matter.
www.gamesindustry.biz
Microsoft is also profiteering billions from GTA, COD, Madden, Apex and Fortnite on their platforms. So what? Are you also angry that MS is doing nothing for that money?
Embarrassment if it doesn't go through and inconsequential if it does. You've got both bases covered
What are you talking about? What topic do I not have an idea about exactly?
list pls.
It's funny how the perception changes. When Phil Spencer was making public statements about this process (unprompted), that they'd offered Sony a deal for CoD back in January, I don't think you made a similar comment?
If it doesn't go through there's going to be one or two GAF posters who are financially devastated.
You don't half spew some shit always defending MS and putting Sony down. Make it difficult as possible and with as many concessions as possible. Why let MS breeze through?
I'm not angry, I'm simply stating facts. During the PS4 generation, Sony migrated virtually every first party studio to making single player third person cinematic action / adventure games. With the exception of GT, they don't make anything else. They left third parties to carry their multiplayer platform entirely, yet, still are quite happy to take the same 30%.
When you look at the top 10 MP games on both platforms it's basically the same besides Roblox and MS doesn't own that. 3rd-parties are the biggest driver for both platforms and MS is happy taking that 30% and free money too.
Microsoft isn't taking free money. As I explained in my previous post, they produce their own multiplayer titles to push their own multiplayer platform. Sony doesn't. Sony wants all the money PSN generates, without doing any of the hard work to promote it and make it competitive. They, effectively, outsourced that to Call of Duty. That's the real reason why Ryan is bitching: Microsoft isn't hurting competition, it's forcing Sony to actually compete - with is something Sony doesn't want to do. When Microsoft closes this deal, Sony will have to compete with COD. And Ryan doesn't want to, because COD was Sony's tool to dominate Microsoft.
Man if I was Microsoft, I'd port cod mobile over to switch (if that is possible)
Maybe if regulators don't look at the internet to factor public opinion in. But IMO the general gaming public that frequent gaming sites - that are knowledgeable about the potential fallout of this deal - are against this deal by majority. So, if regulators conclude that we are the market - just as much as the businesses, because we are the paying consumer most effected by the deal - MSFT's rebuttal to those points won't carry enough weight.
I'm just reposting what I found on 4chan
Thanks Bernd for putting smiles on everyone's face.
Maybe in other jurisdictions, but I still think here in the UK we will block it, seeing what happened with the nvidia arm deal and how quickly the European Super League (for footy teams) Man Untied, Liverpool, Real, Barac, etc was stopped here in recent years. IMO Amazon's impact to the death of our towns' highstreets in the UK and their appearances in front of committees making it quite apparent some companies need regulated pre-emptively has changed the tone to regulation in the UK in recent years.
www.videogameschronicle.com
The UK could go the same route that they did with Virgin and BT; spin off a department. I know Microsoft would be up for spinning the xbox division off in to a 'separate company. It gives them more flexibility to sell it off like they tried doing a few years before.
