I am not sidestepping anything as I totally remember the PS3/360 COD days and a certain platform getting map packs 30 days early and such.
Keep fighting the good fight.
I think you’ll find it was Activision that accepted Sony’s money and not Sony holding them to ransom
CoD is the Trojan Horse. MS knows it, Sony knows it, most know it.
Ok so they are worried about people switching over the exact thing Sony is doing presently in hopes to entice Xbox players to switch
I think you’ll find it was Activision that accepted Sony’s money and not Sony holding them to ransom
I could've sworn there was a thread here somewhere about Jim Ryan saying the deal MS offered on CoD was inadequate on many levels.
Idk I’m entertained lol, I never thought we’d be discussing acquisitions like this on a daily basis. Sony & MS going at each other publicly makes it even better.
It's what they plan on doing after when the next systems launch is what I think the greater concern is with these statements. Once again, MS is free to do the same deals in the 3rd party arena, nobody will be when you take away the horse and a plethora of other 3rd party IPs that have been so for decades.
No. No it won't. They're looking for more right now.
But everyone is missing the point on this.
We can play a lot with the language, but in legal jargon what SONY is doing is definitely a demand to the CMA.
Why im sure there will be 3 years of cross gen games again. So if Microsoft is making a ps5 version for 120 ps5 users they will be making a ps6 version. Microsoft has no reason to remove a multi player game with cross play. Most Playstation gamers will just find another game killing the value of COD. There's a reason Minecraft is still on Playstation and Nintendo platforms they don't want to give another company an opening to steal that market. Microsoft wants it on gamepass with perks for ultimate and family gamepass membership. It is yearly content with a big following.
Meanwhile when Sony has acquired Bungie, Firesprite, savage game studios, haven studios, and lasengle this year alone while this acquisition has been running.
The offer that they gave to Sony, was their original marketing contract they have to honor plus three years which was to expire around 2027-2028 (estimated by the online consensus). Just in time to harvest all those CoD addicts from your competition's platform when you launch next-gen exclusively.
Sony would undergo the very same scrutiny and evaluations as MS is going through if they acquired two of the largest publishers in the world, one being the very largest.Meanwhile when Sony has acquired Bungie, Firesprite, savage game studios, haven studios, and lasengle this year alone while this acquisition has been running.
And are doing future acquisitions while blocking Microsoft for doing the same thing.
I'm quite sure not even Bungie are in the same league as Actvision (alone, without Blizzard).Meanwhile when Sony has acquired Bungie, Firesprite, savage game studios, haven studios, and lasengle this year alone while this acquisition has been running.
And are doing future acquisitions while blocking Microsoft for doing the same thing.
Now i wouldn't say the exact same thing but this in combination with potentially getting the game "for free" is definitely enticing people to both not buy the game and sub to GP. That's a very strong combo.
That's exactly what it is.
No company is going to give forever agreements. I say 3 years is about right to look at the deal again. By then sony might have bought a big publisher so a fair swap of games in that next agreement. Sony has the money to buy a publisher if they can spend 3 plus billion on bungie.
I repeat again, what Sony is doing from a legal point of view is literally and objectively a demand, petition or request to the CMA.The only reason anyone is calling Sony's statements to the CMA as "demands" or "requirements" is because an Xbox twitter account referenced it that way. This is what they said amount to "Sony's requirements":
Those are not a list of demands. Sony isn't in a negotiable position here. As you said CMA can simply ignore anything Sony says. So even if they were a list of demands, which they are simply not, they would be demands without any teeth. Calling them "requirements" or "demands" is simply Xbox console warrior rhetoric of the twitter variety. Nothing more.
You realize that isn't a factor when talking about what software is and isn't allowed on PlayStation (primarily because Sony were sued for blocking software before in Europe)
Yes no law, but, there's royalty licensing. MS is free to release all their games right in the here and now on PlayStation... but they won't. Why do you think that is?
I have repeated it once only in view of the fact that you do not know how to understand what is legally and juridically a demand, petition or request to an Official Institution with competence and power to decide.
They both do this. Remember your post?
They (Sony) are not buying up entire publisher(s) (yet?), and if they were, they would go through the same process, with a lot on here that would flip flopping on the ground like a futbol player in the first 5 minutes of a tackle, I'm sure.
Nobody was subpoenaed, the fuck you on about?
Keep up the good fight. There was more to it that just that.
There are social media pundits and fanatics that make a living off this type of clickety rage. And the simpletons that cult along like good little lemmings to the land of confirmation bias.
My fault falling into Twitter warrior stuff using the word demands before I actually read the wording.
