This....its about money at the end of the day. consle war BS aside. thats a lot of money on the table. wonder what this inevitable switch port they promised will like? My guess is they are gonna make some specific version or cloud stream it.
They can in Japan.
Good thing I can purchase any game from GamePass that I enjoyed.
It would be sucks if that happens
No. Bad for both.
If Microsoft continues to buy all the big studios at this rate then in a few years there will be 15 big games a year in Game Pass + a significant portion for Xbox and PC only. And then Sony can try as much as it wants, Microsoft's offerings will exceed critical mass and Playstation will have a hard time surviving.
I thought consolidation was bad?
Why would they care. The point is competition and you're acting like Sony and even Nintendo didn't buy companies in the past. Sony whole rise was buying companies and one particular was a company out of the UK that had a 40 percent market share that turned into Sony Studios
MS knows Nintendo Switch 2 is right around the corner - and that will be able to run CoD in 60fps.
And Game Pass will cost $50 a month in that case.
Is there anything in Japan, besides outright purchasing Nintendo, that would be comparable in scope to a hypothetical Take Two (Grand Theft Auto) acquisition?
Ravensoft being reuinted with their old IP that I believe is currently owned by bathesda. that will be nice! can they pull away from being a COD support team, to work on that though? would be cool.....Since spencer had a Hexen shirt at the showcase that this mean they already knew because they did something to make sure of it.
That is not how good business operates at all. Some of you really need to cool it down with all the vitriol. You people are so caught up in fanboy/tribalism that you actually believe high up people make decisions like some scorned girlfriends instead of datacrunchers smh
Yeah it could be ... time will tell ... nintendo do their own thing and stay relevant, sony will have to do the same, the quality of their games will continue to surpasse the redfall like shit been dumped on gamepass .. so as long as they trive for quality over quantity they will be more then fine with what they have
Consolidation being bad won't stop it from happening.
Nope because is a rent, you own nothing! and if u play full price 3 games that are on the service day one. Since MOST of games are not. even with ABK deal.
Sony can compete with their services I don't see the issue now or 15 years. One of the very things the judge pointed out. They choose not to and tried to use the FTC and CMA as a tool because they see Gamepass as a threat.
That she will use effectively against a Sony acquisition.
No no you get it is wrong. It would be bad if my side did it. If Sony consilidate the whole Japanese console game market then they are the baddies
That was likely a business decision not a moral stance. It's biz afterall
Capcoms definitely getting bought
JP culture and way of doing business is different. It's because of that.
They don't have money to compete, they will need a JV with someone who has(amazon, google or apple). Only thing to put they back on the table now is EA or T2.
Exactly. If anything, I see Sony gamers getting a nice boost to PS+ in the very near future.
It's business, not a battle between good and evil lolNo no you get it is wrong. It would be bad if my side did it. If Sony consilidate the whole Japanese console game market then they are the baddies
If Microsoft buys EA and consilidate all of US gaminf market then they are saints.
To be clear, ABK is the largest 3rd party video game developer developer in the US if not the world.
Oh.....just remembered that @Riky predicted that the CMA would bow to "political pressure" and I vehemently disagreed with him. Looks like he was right as well.
I'm just glad I didn't make any avatar bets this time.
In that case, continue purchasing games that you want and use GamePass as a rental or play-before-you-buy system. I don't see the issue.
It should be clear that industry consolidation is going to be negative for the consumers.
Maybe it has something to do with the amount of people that plays those games on each platform, for example I read somewhere that only 1 million out of the 10 sold of FFXV were sales on Xbox.
I could just kiss you!
CMA says "not yet...."Sony bros... it's over.
Why would you even want to.
It's going to get so much worse now... buy hey i guess a few Twitter warriors can put lists out...
Cause that's why we all game and love gaming, because of list wars.
I've said it before but fuck MS for going full retard and setting this precedent, all bets are off now, it's open market in gaming...
But our competition right
Sounds like CMA just bent the knee. It's inevitable at this point.
Sony is about to be pushed out of the west and the east. Once Nintendo releases a more capable machine, the de facto exclusives they get in Japan will go away. Little 3rd party left scraps but at least Sony is going big on live service and Korean vapor ware.
Doesn't need to be that big, but it would be shit if they do it and the acquisition wars continues. Imagine Capcom games becoming exclusive, or FromSoft future games. It's why this Activision shit sets a bad example, it was bad enough with Bethesda and their future titles.
FFXVI encounter like surprise final phase.
