Bloomberg: Microsoft will keep publishing Activision titles on PlayStation
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MaxwellParrish
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Frankly, considering the terms of the survey's question, I am surprised that they have such an high percentace of negative responses, because asking which franchises would MOST make them consider subscribing require, to give a negative answer, zero; nterest in any of the franchises or a position anti Game Pass for principle, at least as I read it. I mean, I have no interest in a game subscribcion service, but I would have chosen one of the franchises
remember_spinal
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It's not like anyone here even cares about CoD. This will end up just like mlb. The people who actually like the game will just continue paying for them
Leyasu
Banned
Lol @ dipshit. Let the immaturity flow through you.
My point was that they have obviously crunched the numbers and don't seem as concerned as you and a lot of other forum dwellers are.
Even though on the surface, or looking at it from the outside, losing upfront sales does appear to be counterproductive or a straight up bad decision. They don't seem to be concerned though
Leyasu
Banned
It is not like the community here represents anything. Or am I missing something?
I care, still play cold war almost weekly
Trogdor1123
Member
Neat… I don't believe them of course. I have an idea, announce elder scrolls 6 for the ps5 and I will believe you!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Oh of course, now Call of Duty is *exactly* the same popularity as MLB The Show.
BRB drooling about Diablo IV on GP day 1.
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I love a good cod, but I no longer have to try my luck at which game is good or not, I can just play the full game on gp every year, and drop it or not if it is good or not. No longer need to risk $70Oh of course, now Call of Duty is *exactly* the same popularity as MLB The Show.
BRB drooling about Diablo IV on GP day 1.
a good cod is still fun, my fav devs are Treyarch, have a love/hate with the fact that we arent getting their game next year, sucks.....but might be better due to it
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
well that's is pretty much expected ...if you change game and for example put Fromsoft games Instead of Activision / Blizzard you will see the percentage of people who would NOT consider the service skyrocket even more
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Topher
Identifies as young
I did not expect Xbox gamers to be so ambivalent towards Game Pass if it included Activision Blizzard. Now I know.
Bernd Lauert
Banned
According to this community, Bloodborne has sold 50 million copies while the biggest games on the planet like Fortnite, CoD and all the sports games basically don't exist. Also Nintendo Switch is a bomba.
Topher
Identifies as young
lol.....I don't see think I've seen so much generalization and hyperbole in one post......ever.
Well done
MasterCornholio
Member
To be honest I've only seen you say that.
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"Nobody has ever said that."
Ok so I was right.
You really need to chill out BTW.
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Mister Wolf
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With Call Of Duty being day one on game pass Microsoft gets the best of both worlds. It effectively has the same draw as being an exclusive for potential customers frugal about their money and still gets revenue from the PS5 customers who don't mind paying full price for ownership.
also kinda makes it harder for Sony to launch their own competitive FPS before the xbox market split grows.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
SteelCurtain 59
Member
Day one Activision/Blizzard games on Game Pass, tons of Game Pass Ultimate perks, almost certainly exclusive skins and potentially timed exclusive modes and/or other features, every ad showing the Xbox logo, every esport tournament played on Xbox with heavy Xbox advertising. Having future Activision/Blizzard gameplay/games announced by Xbox.
Even with it being released on Playstation (for $70), there's going to be a dramatic shift of people switching to Xbox/PC once this acquisition finalizes and the massive Activision/Blizzard catalog starts being available on Game Pass
Even with it being released on Playstation (for $70), there's going to be a dramatic shift of people switching to Xbox/PC once this acquisition finalizes and the massive Activision/Blizzard catalog starts being available on Game Pass
TheGodfather07
Member
Some of you seem to be forgetting that a PS gamer needs to also buy a $500 or $300 console aswell. If cod continues releasing on PS, I think most of them will carry on the same way. It's just $70 a year. Instead of hundreds of dollars on a new console and than monthly fee for gamepass. Only a straight up exclusive to xbox would shift them over in mass but shockingly, Microsoft won't be making it an xbox exclusive.
Mister Wolf
Member
This move is directed towards the frugal customers for years to come who own neither console and are ready to purchase.
SLB1904
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Pair with the upcoming family game pass plan, this reads like a very viable strategy that will not have a notable effect this year, but will do so in the coming years.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
MS certainly appears to be playing the long game. The XSS is laughed at around here but is responsible for Xbox continuing to get sales even during a chip shortage. It's price and availability made it a pretty attractive offer. With Activision games and everything else going to Game pass its very clear things have changed since the X1 days.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
It's pretty weird how forums must find a winner and loser here.
I, a gamepass subscriber who bought Black Ops Cold War but sat out Vanguard, am not particularly exercised by the Activision purchase, but I would have welcomed getting to play Vanguard and seeing what the campaign was like and might have played a bit of Multiplayer too.
It doesn't make me sad to know that the game will be available on other consoles.
I'm still going to keep my Gamepass sub going.
I, a gamepass subscriber who bought Black Ops Cold War but sat out Vanguard, am not particularly exercised by the Activision purchase, but I would have welcomed getting to play Vanguard and seeing what the campaign was like and might have played a bit of Multiplayer too.
It doesn't make me sad to know that the game will be available on other consoles.
I'm still going to keep my Gamepass sub going.
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Makes so much sense.
If a guy already owns a PlayStation and mostly plays COD (typical definition of a casual gamer), to get COD on Xbox GP, he will first have to buy the Xbox console for either $499 (X) or $299 (S). Then subscribe to Gamepass month after month -- that's $180 per year.
So that's $680 per year if he buys an X or $480 per year if he goes for Series S.
On PlayStation, he just needs to spend $70 to buy the next Call of Duty.
I think once the dust settles and players are seeing things more clearly, they will come to the same conclusion that they don't need to shift entire ecosystems to get to that. I
n addition, (1) leaving PSN friends who play COD will play a major role, and (2) if COD continues releasing on PS as always, I doubt more than 50% of casual gamers would even know about the fact that COD is now owned by Microsoft.
Lognor
Banned
Yeah, that may be true, but what about the millions of people who have not been able to get a current gen console yet? It's still early in the gen and with the supply issues there are millions of people that want a PS5 or XSX today that can't get one. And there are likely countless people that will opt for the XSX instead of the PS5 because of this acquisition.
At that point, it's $500 for either a PS5 or XSX, but with the XSX you get to play all the COD games with your Game Pass subscription. You save the $70 for each year's version. And we can assume that COD will get exclusive content on Xbox, DLC first on Xbox, a shit ton of other perks for Xbox. Look at how that shifted the COD base from Xbox to PS before when Sony started locking down DLC months in advance of the Xbox launch. It matters to those folks. Xbox gonna move some units that would have otherwise gone to PS5 due to this acquisition.
TheGodfather07
Member
Yeah thats a good point too. The danger for sony is losing their PS4 customers to xbox. If they're in the market for a new system but are unable to buy a PS5, than xbox series is an enticing option. Sony are probably losing customers right now because of the stock situation. So sorting that out should be a priority to them.
I did previously share a yougov poll that said like 60% of uk consumers would switch to another platform in september if they can't get their first choice.
If shoppers can’t get the next-gen console they want, what will they do? | YouGov
The worldwide semiconductor shortage continues to wreak havoc on supply chains across many sectors, particularly gaming consoles. As we gear up for the all-important holiday season, a new YouGov Direct survey reveals what consumers may do if they can’t get their hands on a next-generation console.
yougov.co.uk
I do wondering if that % was higher going into xmas or if its higher now cause they are more frustrated.
Lognor
Banned
Well what about Starfield? That's not a Activision game, but it is going to be huge. And it is not on Playstation. So I don't think it's that simple.
twilo99
Member
Hm, yeah it will get tricky on how selective they are I guess but there will definitely be a good number of big games on PS..
SmurfMustard
Member
You mathemagicians are so weird. Depending on the time of day Game Pass is either 1$ for three years or 180$ for one year. Please make up your mind or are you confused?
Isn't CoD cross platform?
I suspect Microsoft to stick gamepass/xbox around COD wherever they get a chance, how well that works is another question.
MoreJRPG
Suffers from extreme PDS
It's not just $70 a year. If you're planning on buying 5 Activision games in the next six years you've got yourself a Series S with Gamepass. That's not counting all the other titles.
Hezekiah
Banned
Most of those Activision games are PC-focused games. Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, you think many console people are going to switch over for them (and for a Series S which is ultimately lesser hardware)? If you're serious about those franchises you'll have a gaming PC. Spyro, Tony Hall etc are basically dead franchises at this point.
And CoD will still be available on Playstation for the foreseeable anyway - and if we're talking about other titles you have Spiderman which is almost as big as CoD at this point (look at the enormous PS5 sales of Miles Morales), and all the other big name IPs - Factions/The Last of Us, GoW, GT, Horizon etc.
And of course Sony is pushing hard on the shooter front themselves - they'll have first dibs on any exclusive stuff related to Destiny, and they have second-party exclusives coming from Firewalk who are ex-Bungie and Respawn devs, and Deviation Games who themselves were set up by ex-Treyarch devs, and are continuing to recruit to their second studio in Montreal.
HeisenbergFX4
Member
I switched this year to solely playing MLB on Gamepass
I havent purchased a COD in a few years but will play it from time to time if it comes to Gamepass as well
TheGodfather07
Member
You don't just buy gamepass and be done with it though. You keep paying for temporary license to play the games. 5 years of cod on gamepass is 60 months worth of subscription. Playing cod on gamepass for a year costs more than buying a $70 copy. If you only play cod, than your better off just buying a copy.
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remember_spinal
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Because you already own both consoles
The majority of MLB's player base is still on playstation. Same thing with all the other sports games that end up on gamepass with EA play
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Andodalf
Banned
This is not true at all when you consider how that imaginary person was having to pay for Gold/PS+ to play online anyway.
Riky
$MSFT
The alpha and beta will be on Gamepass first, some of those weapons carrying into Warzone 2, some exclusive to Gamepass and Xbox. If you play COD then those things are important to you.
Exclusive modes for 12 months, all the marketing with Xbox and hardware bundles with Gamepass.
There is a lot they can do with it.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Praise the lord, mine was also going to continue even before the Acti-Bliz announcement.
This just makes it even more valuable with a couple of decades of back catalog of classic games coming to GP and all their newer releases day 1.
TheGodfather07
Member
Whats costs more? Playing cod through a subscription until the next release or buying a copy?
GHG
Gold Member
I'm fully convinced this man is a cat, not a rat.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
Where are you getting this from?
luckily the service will have games from Activision blizz. Bethesda ,Ms, EAand many others
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