Been reading through all of these posts, still haven't finished but wanted to reply to this. I feel like everyone(mostly) thinks this acquisition was mainly for CoD but King is low key the real money maker now. Candy Crush games pull in a insane amount of money and they nailed the casual market so well with their mobile games.
There are a lot of IPs that King could use to try get crossover mobile recognition with Xbox.
Studio gets bought/moneyhatted by Sony: games will only be on Playstation, maybe PC if they feel like it
Yup.
But Sony only got strong armed into charging for online play because MS did it, then they only got strong armed to release games on PC because MS did it. Then they only offered a subscription service because MS did it
not exactly a good thing like the others are
Ask them they will tell you you and all thier fans cheered for it.not exactly a good thing like the others are
This not even remotely how this works. Microsoft has money hatted games for generations. Purchasing entire publishers is much more egregious. They now very well that if they publicly declared that as soon as contractual agreements were up that they would stop supporting development on competing platforms that the Actiblizzard acquisition would immediately fall apart.
Let's say you are right.
They spent 70 billion only to put COD on everything, so... yeah
Much worse. It's magnitudes more impactful when you loose access to (not just one game) but dozens of the biggest budget titles released each year. Multiply this by all of the other major acquisitions Microsoft has made and making comparisons to Sony or Nintendo's investments is laughable.
Didn't Sony buy more developers than Xbox recently and still use thier marketshare to buy timed exclusives?
The size and resources of these Sony acquired developers pale in comparison.
Bulkshit.
I don't disagree. I'm not advocating for MS to moneyhat everything and purchase every single studio on planet earth. That's not how i roll. But, time and time again its been proven that when it's MS doing it over Sony the results usually tend to go to more platforms, and it's more favorable overall. When Sony moneyhats, it never comes to PC until like years later. When MS moneyhats, it's on PC and Xbox day one, and usually comes to other platforms later like in the case of Rivals of Aether, Cuphead, Ori, and Super Lucky's Tale. Even with outright acquisitons more gamers get to play.
pretty sure that was cuz the Xbox was a more powerful system overall, not because they moneyhatted games to look better on Xbox.
Don't need to ask about your bias, your insufficient logic was a dead giveaway.
Day one is where the majority of interest and sales are located, it still damages the platform anyways even if it's timed.
I'd say i'm entitled to spiderman seeing as how every game before 2018 came to PC day one with 0 kicking or screaming. And Xbox. and whatever nintendo platform was contemporary of the time.
But Microsoft has infinite amounts of money!!?
Exactly. And that's the reason why I root for MS and not for Sony. The former makes their games available on basically every device. The latter is chaining their games to their own DRM box. Thankfully, Jimbo is slowly changing that.
Halo is not on PS. On PC you have to log into Xbox when you go on it, it's terrible - talk about DRM, at least PS has games on disk.
Sony's been doing that shit since the first PS came out in 1994. Unless you've got some really good explanation for why Crash, Spyro, Klonoa, and Tomba all weren't on PC.
Sony didn't make the Spider-Man games prior to 2018 so what exactly is your argument? That you should have access to everything in the world that you are a fan of? Ok.
Not lately.
Because...? You don't see a difference between exclusive rights and blocking rights?
Let's not act as if there weren't some other company blocking those deals. As an example, REVIII not being in Gamepass is not a matter of Microsoft not wanting to pay more but of some other company removing that option from them. Microsoft would have to buy Capcom to avoid that happening.
Again, they can do it only with the games their biggest (and bigger) competitor allows them to. MS couldn't do CoD Gamepass deals even if they wanted to.
I don't believe that, I think it's just about money. If MS would've payed enough and if Activision Blizzard was okay with it I absolutely think they could've had CoD on Gamepass, no matter what Sony says.
Sony can't handle another Sony that has a similar exclusivity strategy.
Along with AMD/Intel, Microsoft supervises a unified multi-vendor hardware PC platform.
The main reason why I support MS is due to common hardware standard supervision with PC clones. Anyone can build a "Design for Windows" PC hardware that offers economic participation for multiple and diverse hardware vendors.
Let's talk about the RE8 case because that's the only one we have looked at the contract (although I expect all Sony's marketing deals to be almost the same). Do you think Microsoft could go and pay double the amount and Capcom would break that contract? Really? It's not only a problem with money. If Sony has recurring deals (like the CoD one) no amount of money would change that
Yeah would be silly to make cod exclusive.
You're wrong.
The question is, would people rather it was Meta that was the acquiring party? Would Meta making the acquisition lead to a more desirable outcome for gamers?
People labeling this as "Bad for the industry and must be stopped" are missing the point.
B...but...but we lose the little games in between says the same guy that thinks losing Sifu, FFVII remake and other moneyhat practices are ok, the latter has Z E R O benefits to gamers, it only benefits Playstation gamers whereas MS buying activision benefits us ALL.
Take a moment, analyze what you just said and apply it.
Nope.
It just shows when they were in a dominant position they cut the same deals. They obviously couldn't cut those deals without paying really big money last gen because PS was in the dominant position. That 1 year of exclusive Tomb Raider cost them a fortune. As the gen went on the harder it became to get those deals.
boom
