I had a problem with all these acquisitions well before the Zenimax purchase. That just showed how out of control the spending sprees are getting. I would much prefer the platform holders to build their own studios organically.
SEGA really should have helped out and bought Lobtomy software and when CORE Design was looking for investment, SEGA should have bought them instead of allowing US Gold to buy the stake in corpHow awesome would it have been if Nintendo had acquired say, Factor 5, or SEGA Lobotomy back in the day, we'd have had such great games and expanded on their legacies instead of shut down studios with nobody stepping up to take their place
That happened for other studios that may not have continued to exist otherwise or have grown out of an indie hole that didn't allow them to really realize their dreams and visions. Sure, other times it went bad, everyone cringes when EA buys.
Still, acting as if all you play and enjoy is indie stuff and corporations, first or third party, that acquired this or that studio or team didn't ever actually grow to offer shit you enjoyed that otherwise may have never even happened, huh?
Please tell me how games on Xbox, Pc, Smartphones, Tablets, Tvs and so on are exclusives. Everybody can play the games without having to spend 500 bucks. The best case is that nobody buys companies, but better MS does it than Sony. Do you want to know why many MS fans are glad when MS buys a studio? Free games.People used to hate acquisitions, moneyhats and timed-exclusives until their favorite corporation started doing it out of desperation.
Then they switched overnight and it's now their biggest source of hype. That's after YEARS of downplaying exclusives.
there is really nothing to say by comparing the two situations and models. Sony keep developers out of the reach of the vast majority of players. Who could play Spiderman? and we are talking about a character who is worldwide famous who would not even have problems with sales outside the platform. If Sony keeps it closed to their system does it to force people to enter the ecosystem. Microsoft on the other hand abandoned this model (because obviously it couldn't win on console sales, but who cares why?!!) but from a user point of view one model lets the user decide how where and for how long to play a game the other forces you and surrounds you until you are tied up because of the money invested to the ecosystem. It is so obvious that I think you can understand for yourself which of the two favors the user the most. I know PlayStation users don't accept this reality but luckily for everyone Sony is slowly ditching that model too by releasing everything on PC by this gen.
Remember Blizzard used to be a small studio just like the Kena team. An acquisition can give you higher budget games in the short term, but in the long term it stops the company from turning into another Blizzard. Its almost always bad in the long term.
FTFY
Psychonauts 2, flight sim, sea of thieves on PC , MCC, Forza 4 on PC , Forza 5 , AOE4 gears5, the Halo infinite multiplayer beta all say Hi and are the living proof that what you say about quality is far-fetched. And again YES Ms are absolutely and objectively releasing games (or at least making them playable) on other platforms unlike Sony.
Poor take that rests on tired consistently disproven tropes.
i dont mind acquisitions if the games are not kept exclusive to one platform, however i dislike acquisitions because they sometimes ruin studios by stealing good artists and engineers to form other studios a good example is when some of the best code masters artists and engineers went to form playground games! you can clearly see similarities between forza horizon series especially the graphics and art direction to colin mcrae dirt 1-2 series exactly photo copy if you look at them and now the new dirt 5 looks artistically worse than colin mcrae dirt 2..
True, but sometimes the short-term good games might not have happened at all if not for this option. And even if it's usually bad, it's not ALWAYS bad -I'm just saying it warrants discussion because of the nuances that make these things hard to judge (and why Nintendo is so careful).
I respectfully disagree.
this!!!! and as i said before pushing users into your walled garden leaving dry land out does not prove that your walled garden is better. For this reason, as you said, I would prefer that the console manufacturers go to war by giving us hw improvements at the lowest price and services to which you cannot say no as gamepass. To me that a user of another platform may or may not play a game does not change anything.
Cause MS releases the games day one on PC, and Sony releases them in a slow trickle like an old man taking a pee
Brofist
Why should Sony care? you guys also don't care so i'm ok with that if the green side is showing their cards, that PS can acquire what they want. Let MS first show they can not make a mess with a flag ship game like Halo.
Nah no thanks I'm good. I just simply gave my opinion why if given a choice and a studio had to be acquired why I'd prefer MS. I'd rather it didn't get acquired and the game came to all systems in a perfect world though without moneyhats or timed exclusivity and the likes.
The benefits acquisitions bring for studios(security, stability, funding, marketing, technical expertise, etc.)
i don't care if a game is leaving ps to go open on basically everything else instead of being confined in Sony console. This is better for the great majority of gamers. theres no way in how you can spin it or look at itI don't believe that it suits better for game companies to only be under the MS umbrella. Sony has proven how good they are for their studios they working with. At this point, PS users shouldn't care if Xbox players can't play some third party games because well, you guys don't care that games are getting away from PS platforms.
The "it comes to PC" is only a excuse and nothing more.
The "These companies fits better with MS" is bullshit.
Well buy a PS5 then...
I'm with you,if someone has to buy it let it be MS, at least they release them on PC also, couldn't give two shits if people with only playstation doesn't get to play them. There are very few games that could push me to buy a console on purpose. GT and Bloodborne on PS and Forza on MS (if it was exclusive), so i just subscribed for PSNow for example,play what i want and be done with it.
This is basically it in a nutshell.
More funding leads to studio growth and more creative freedom (generally speaking). Why would you not want studios that previously struggled for funding to have almost unlimited money ? Ninja Theory being bought by MS was basically like winning the lottery for them, I've been saying for years NT are the best studio on the planet they now have the funding to prove it.
Which is pretty f hilarious when you read all those old 'xboys' messages claiming that exclusives don't matter
. Seems they started matter just few months ago
