Minecraft continues to be an inconvenient truth. Not only did they continue to distribute that game to multiple other consoles but all the spin-offs too. MS also has a history of honoring its gaming contracts so anything MS in under contract to provide they will according to their past behavior right? No reason to believe they are not an honest broker here.
Elder Scrolls predominate community is on PC. I am certain PC will continue to get those titles.
Sure that's the 'hilarious' part in that post and not Jim Ryan's pathetic and desperate lie to regulators lmao
Fuck me Sony is going Level 10 Arse Licking here
"Call of Duty gamers are passionate, knowledgeable and sophisticated." equals to "Plz dont"
Sony cannot appeal. It is not their case. It's between MS/ABK/regulators. They can state their objections to the merger which they have obviously done, that's all they can do. The EU and CMA look to be on the side of MS.
Think they can appeal but it's alot harder obviously. I also think they are on the hook of the costs of the CMA at that point.
Nah MS will close the second it's possible.
Yeah, but who would pay $70 to play COD when you can play for $14 a month. At that point it might as well be exclusive.
I think they would, the hurdle for regulators get harder and you get that marketing started.
Well let's be real.
As long as Sony continues to make AAA games that routinely contend for GotY awards and smoke metacritic numbers, they will never have a problem moving units.
GHG
has covered that part a few times ITT in good detail.
I think people are missing sonys obvious objective of just justifying giant purchases of thier own down the line even though people are convinced sony can't afford a large aquisition. They will use this song and dance down the line for large "defensive aquisitions" which would have be hard as the market leader but Microsoft has opened the door for them.
Who would spend the cost of a console plus $180 a year for COD when they could keep their console and spend $70?
Game Pass doesn't even have CoD and it's already a tremendous value. I think a lot of people would find $180 a year + a console to be a solid gain for them. If you can find 3 games per year on Game Pass that you would be willing to pay full price for then you're already getting your moneys worth.
Sounds similar to MLB The Show where the Xbox version always gets more stuttering.
COD fans.
Section 47 does give them the ability but it's the section 3 of that bit that are the decisions that you can appeal it seems.
Sony doesn't really fit.
It depends. If the deal goes through and MS just up and pulls CoD the moment the current Sony marketing deal expires then yeah its gonna look bad for Jim when he was offered both a 3 year and 10 year deal but turned them both down.
Their call of duty position is absolutely that fragile. Sony itself is fine. I really don't understand why people think arguing worst case scenarios equates to the worst case scenario being real.
Sony is not going to the CAT. It's almost impossible to win and even if you win, you are just going straight to same CMA. Not to mention fact that merger can be meanwhile closed.
Plenty of people want to play COD for less than $168 a year and the cost of an XBox lol
Legit CoD campaign TBH
What's great is that with the Xbox architecture, you can play their catalog on a Series console. No backwards compatibility issues.
Probably because people lost their mind over the trailer to that game, for some reason it turned a lot of people off despite the game itself being one of the better series entries.
Jim is a bad CEO.Boy do I love Jimbo throwing their own first-party studios under the bus.
If people are gonna leave PlayStation in droves because of slight inferiority of PlayStation version of Call of Duty, shouldn't that glorious slate of first-party games keep those players in ecosystem and force them to not leave PlayStation in droves?
