DeepEnigma
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I'm still trying to get to that mountain to climb.I'm still waiting for those 200 endings on fallout 3 Todd. You fucker...
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Topher
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
DeepEnigma
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I'm pretty sure you do that as one of the first objective in Skyrim
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Don't think he's ever "lied". He's a hypeman that overexaggerates and twists truth. Certainly no Peter Molyneux though
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Todd Howard is a very sweet man, the slander against him is mean 
He just wants to dream and let everyone embrace their dreams.
He just wants to dream and let everyone embrace their dreams.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Todd Howard is a very sweet man, the slander against him is mean
He just wants to dream and let everyone embrace their dreams.
feynoob
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Banjo64
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He's talking about them name dropping Horizon as a free PS5 upgrade initially, then trying to charge £10, then reverting back after backlash.
They initially advertised it at a State of Play as PS5 exclusive;
Hating a corpo is pointless bro. Sony, MS and Nintendo all see me and you as one thing and one thing only;
People are going to bring receipts here too, gotta be prepared to back yourself.
Personally, I think your takes on 'Game Pass giving out shit games' and the Series S gimping the generation are pretty shit. But we all have shit takes occasionally. No biggie.
feynoob
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I wish Phil can be like that. Sadly, he is too corporate.
Kvally
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Off to my ignore list you go. Don't need to feed your troll desires.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
As to God Howard, blasphemy is punishable by death in some countries.
Luckily for you peasants, our Lord is merciful.
Meet me outside tesco bitch
feynoob
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You missed this.As to God Howard, blasphemy is punishable by death in some countries.
Luckily for you peasants, our Lord is merciful.
xHunter
Member
Which in return would leave Sony with a lot of marketing cash for other titles. So yeah, if you are worried about 2 loadout slots being exclusive, i guess you wont be ready for what sony will do once they have the yearly CoD marketing budget free for other moneyhats. Fun times ahead.
Topher
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From another thread, but this explains the point much better than I have.
Kvally
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Oops, Ansphn banned.
I would love for them to take that advertising budget towards a new SOCOM to compete against COD. How I miss the SOCOM days.
I would love for them to take that advertising budget towards a new SOCOM to compete against COD. How I miss the SOCOM days.
Kvally
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phil_t98
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feynoob
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That was an error on my part.
feynoob
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Both would be like x360 vs ps5.
COD marketing allows Xbox to do more marketing, and become more aggressive like x360. While Sony would use the free COD money marketing on other big games.
feynoob
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That is essentially what makes those consoles big. Those userbase are huge, and the more you advertise your console to them, the more users would join your ecosystem.
DarkMage619
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PlayStation has some pretty massive sales of their exclusive titles for them not to matter much. I'd bet God of War will be a best selling title even though it is exclusive. Again just because Nintendo has found a unique way of competing in the gaming industry doesn't mean they aren't. Their ability to adapt was one of the main points of the CADE analysis. It is about competition and whether or not Sony would be able to compete without CoD. That is undeniably true. In this regard Sony has far more in common with Nintendo than Xbox. I never said hypothetically missing CoD would have zero impact on PlayStation and that isn't the standard regulators should be looking at.
Kvally
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It should do well. It will be available on 140 million consoles. If it hits PC next year, I can see this being the best selling God of War ever. Maybe even by a large margin in the end.
Ass of Can Whooping
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Having half of their top 10 selling games every console gen including the title mario is hardly what you'd call adapting
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SportsFan581
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At RT? I find that hard to believe, but maybe.
feynoob
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Different companies.
PS/Xbox use amd, While the rtx is an nvidia product.
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Topher
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Nothing about the future of video games is "undeniably true" in this day and age.
DeepEnigma
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He's trying so hard to earn his pittance.
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xHunter
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While i have never really played a SOCOM title, i think not many people want a tactical shooter. I would even suggest that games like CoD and BF are dying. I would rather have them invest in a CS/Valorant type game. Something that is clearly missing from modern consoles.
DarkMage619
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That is an effect. The cause was their efforts with the Switch and Wii. A poster earlier explained Nintendo's multiple evolutions throughout the years. It's not like Nintendo found success by accident.
After 20 years of dominance in this space I'm pretty confident Sony will absolutely be fine. If they can survive price hikes in the middle of a recession and the debacle known as the PS3 launch they have proven their ability to compete. Perhaps I have more confidence in their abilities than some of the fans here do.
Ass of Can Whooping
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What do you mean their efforts with the switch and Wii? What i've said has been the case since the NES.
feynoob
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You need to look this at a different angle.
COD is a yearly series, which has insane amount of sales. Here is all sales since 2013.
That is the released games so far. Sony generated their portion of revenue from those games. To put it simply, those total copies sold around 186.18m copies. That is not included vanguard on the sale. That is span of 8 releases. That is how much is at risk.
Now calculate the MTX sales, the DLC sales that those series generated.
Sony is set to lose all those revenue, should MS make COD exclusive. Even Sony entire first party dont bring that much money. and that is just 1 franchise. Not to mention, other Warzone, which is 100m userbase, and generates insane amount of money.
Edit: Sony is also getting money from those users, through PS+ subscription. Since the game is an online MP, they need to get PS+. Sony is set to lose 10+m potential ps+ customers.
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feynoob
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more info from Idas era.
Interesting part
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The thing is that the original articles (from mid and late September) had way more info that the one reported by Seeking Alpha:
- Most of the key issues had been covered during prenotification with the EC: The parties' impression is that there is not much more to discuss with the case team, this source said. "A lot has been discussed".
- The EC had not singled out major concerns and the EC's review was not expected to mirror the one from the CMA because for example the EC didn't appeared interested in honing in on cloud gaming.
- The CMA was always destined to go to Phase II with the transaction, according to internal sources.
- Agencies in general were delivering an enormous amount of scrutiny. The CMA was the less flexible one and had become even isolated, the source said. In fact, discussing behavioural remedies with the CMA had become complicated.
- MS believed that the CMA was way too speculative regarding the second theory of harm (MS leveraging its assets in other business areas like Azure and Windows).
- Jim Ryan met with EC officials on September 8th, following his public criticism of the transaction.
- Sony had been working with economic consultants to present evidence to substantiate its foreclosure concerns.
- Agreements for access to publisher content in the sector are usually short-term, often up to a year, and intended for parties to be able to withdraw from quickly. That's why MS believed that offering 3 years went beyond the standard.
- Google made a submission to Brazilian agency CADE as part of its review of the deal in which it flagged Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch and Diablo as games that do not have any close competitors (unless this was a redacted comment, it contradicts what was shared publicly).
The full picture is way more interesting: the CMA doesn't seem to care about behavioural remedies (COD 10 years on PlayStation, for example) but they are isolating themselves (in relation to other regulators) with their views.
After reading that, my guess is that MS is expecting to get clearance during Phase 1 with the European Commission. If they do that, that would pressure the CMA quite a bit because the European and UK markets are very similar, so, how would the CMA justify such a different outcome without any obvious horizontal issues in the local market?
However, sources from Reuters said that the EC was expected to go to Phase 2
Well, just a few more days to find out what happens with Europe.
Interesting part
So what is CMA angle here?
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Badlucktroll
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Call Of Duty Will Remain On PlayStation, Says Phil Spencer
During an interview, Phil Spencer clarifies that Microsoft wants to keep Call of Duty on the PlayStation platform.
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TwiztidElf
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It's really starting to seem like there is a gravy train culture in MGS.
Lots of passengers.
Like all these "tech millennials" showing their "day at work" on TikTok.
Lots of passengers.
Like all these "tech millennials" showing their "day at work" on TikTok.
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DeepEnigma
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That most definitely looks more engaging.
damiank
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From certain point of view they didn't. Question was about OG game and it's still on PS4. Remaster on the other hand...
Topher
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Yeah, just quoting another comment from Ida
This whole thing could get quite funny at the end if one of the regulators wants MS to divest the A in ABK but generally MS I think will be waiting to see each of the regulators concerns and then try to offer a single global deal across the board.
feynoob
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Still the same game. Its just that PC gets full edition, if there are dlc.
Ass of Can Whooping
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Yeah, well, that's just, like, your certain point of view, man.
yurinka
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I don't remember a single lie from Jim. Several times I asked for links showing him lying and nobody has been able to.
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