Deathloop and Ghostwire aren’t Call of Duty
Equally strange for people to bring up the shitty root kit fiasco when Sony is not the one under the acquisition microscope at the moment. Irrelevant and all that malarkey.
Question is would they have been desperate enough to pay the contract fine? Would it have been better than whatever sales they would have got from deathloop being exclusive? I would think not considering it only had 2M players after sales on both and being on a sub. It wasn’t that lucrative.
Looks at Brad Smith signed contracts.
Microsoft will bundle CoD with Windows
Yes, I had missed adding the other screenshots. I have now added those to my original comment.
I don't need to be certain they will break the deal to say I don't trust them to honor it.
Microsoft will bundle CoD with Windows
No where in what you've posted has the CMA made a decision on the 10 years for Sony. Their main reasoning is Sony hasn't signed it.Yes, I had missed adding the other screenshots. I have now added those to my original comment.
The CMA is not counting those 10-year agreements because (1) Sony hasn't signed yet and (2) CMA believes those are not sufficient. Therefore, those 10-year agreements, even if were signed, would not affect the Merged Entity's ability to foreclose.
You'll have to read those sections in their entirety. Those go across pages and pages. I can't post images of them all here.
I hope they update Xbox Game Pass app UI though. Leaked Windows Store UI looks impressive.They'll probably start bundling game pass for PC with Win 12 and guess what's gonna be on game pass day 1
Sometimes I feel that people treat Sony as some indie startup rather than huge conglomerate that failed to grow due to missing a lot of opportunities.
I took the leap of faith that they only wanted to make games first or better on Xbox, make GP more attractive, and expand the gaming audience when they bought Bethesda. I was wrong then. What changed so that I won't be fooled twice if I believe it a second time?
When did Zenimax say all future games would be exclusive?
okay, how is that any different from how people act about Xbox on here? they’ve been in gaming for 20+ years and have failed to grow due to missing a lot of opportunities and so that justifies their parent company which is one of the richest in the world purchasing the largest third party publisher?
Playstation itself came from their own parent company. So what's the argument here? It is not like SIE is operating independently either (granted these days SIE is best run Sony's company in a sense).
What does it has to do with this?
Explain.
just pointing out the irony that seems to be lost on Microsoft stans
they can’t/won’t
They said Microsoft and ABK are refusing to negotiate. They also said xbox would sabotage PS versions of CoD.
err, yeah? that’s been going on forever, what’s your point here exactly? Xbox does it too and still does (STALKER 2, etc.) + IIRC they started the practice of keeping content exclusive back on 360? do people not remember the whole play the new Call of Duty map packs first on Xbox 360 marketing?
The CMA itself said that MS refused to directly negotiate, and chose the public forum press releases, and only decided to when the situation seemed dire. And going by the timeline of events and what MS has been doing, that lines up.
This is a whole can of worms that regulators i suspect don't want to get involved in. They'd have to explain why videogames are special and why exclusive streaming deals, or network t.v. or any other type of media are allowed to have exclusive content. The problem seems to just be that COD in particular is too big of a franchise. Maybe it's burried in the documents, but it seems like no one really cares that Blizzard's games will also likely be exclusive in the future.
If the publisher agrees to accept what MS pays they can do it. But the chances of that happening with any of those specific games are very slim. Maybe one of the sports games without much competition in the wild, but in those cases MS would also need a bunch of other entities permission I bet. And considering MLB doesn't want to lose out on sales from the minority console base, I tend to doubt NFL says it's cool with Madden being exclusive at launch.
Changes in PR, not so much in end game culture. EEE is still alive and well with them.
Oh i see. I am missing the contexts of these arguments. Yes if Sony's arguments is that MS likes to break contracts, then yes this is relevant. I get where i was wrong.
